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Thursday, March 23, 2006
We had a brownout last week.  And it was weird.  We woke up to a bunch of strange noises, which turned out to be two backup power supply alarms (for computers, etc.) going off and the computer speakers going berserk.  Some things in the house were just completely lacking power and some, like our alarm clocks, showed the time but very very faintly.  And at separate moments each of our alarm clocks spontaneously started making a noise that was either staticky or radio-ish, despite the fact that they were both off.  No amount of button-pushing would shut them up, so we had to resort to turning the volume all the way down.  Eventually the power went out completely (thank goodness) and not too long later came on again in full.

We figured this was all from the thunderstorms we had overnight, but it turns out it was something completely unrelated: a stupid squirrel had gotten into... something electrical, I can't quite remember what, and fried itself along with most, but not all, of our power.  It was seriously an odd experience.  Glad we don't live in California.
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Wednesday, March 08, 2006
Apparently sports are all I care about these days.
Congratulations to the Iowa State women's basketball team on their huge upset over Texas in the first round of the Big 12 Tournament yesterday. I am currently watching them inevitably get creamed by waaaaay favorite Oklahoma. But, hey, ISU's currently up 5-4, so at least we'll be able to say they led at one point. :-)
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Friday, March 03, 2006
Oscar the Grouch.
Yup, that's me. There is such oversaturation where the upcoming Academy Awards are concerned that it makes me not even want to watch this year. It's just the same thing over and over and over and over again... and I just can't take it anymore. Entertainment Weekly alone, which I subscribe to and usually love, has had in the last month-and-a-half: "The Oscar Race Begins" issue, the "Oscar: The Ultimate Viewers Guide" double issue, and the "Who Will Win?" issue, all with Oscar cover stories. Still to come? Of course, that oh-so-special Oscar Wrap-Up Issue! Ugh. Just kill me now. Take one of those stupid statuettes and clobber me over the head. Because I'm so done.
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Wednesday, March 01, 2006
I'm getting really tired of these sports-related freak-outs...
First the Cubs traded Corey to the Orioles (grrrr... I'm still mad about that one and probably will be all baseball season). Then the LPGA season starts up again a few weeks ago. Each week that there's a tournament, I go to lpga.com to look at the field and see whether my favorite players are competing. Probably my favorite player after last season, Heather Bowie, wasn't listed for any of the first few events of the season, but I didn't think much of it at the time. Then I looked at the Rolex Women's World Golf Rankings, and she was also nowhere to be found. Huh? The only explanation I could think of for such a thing was that (gulp) she wasn't playing this year. So I went to the 2006 LPGA roster and found this horribly frightening page. Ack and NOOOOOOOO!!!!! She's not on the roster. She's not playing. And of course the LPGA site is worthless for giving you the reason for a player's departure or hiatus unless she happens to be a superstar or supercute. My last chance for finding out anything about why she's not playing is to Google her. One of the results is Heather's LPGA bio page, which I figure could still easily exist even if the link to it is gone because she isn't playing. So I go there and find this. And yes, I felt an amount of relief that was deeply ridiculous.

Stupid girls and their name-changing.
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