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lets see. Yesterday Peter hit the big 25. What a geezer!

I had a dream last night that I was one of those cute tween girls with a pony tail reading ‘teen people’. I was out with some friends at the mall or something…and my cell phone rang. On the other end of the phone was cutie Rupert Grint (aka Ron Weasly)… and he was my boyfriend. He was very sweet and cute on the phone. And then I woke up. alas!

I had a job interview today. I think it went really well, but I didn’t get to meet the others interviewing for the position. I just hope that I’m a better fit for the job. I don’t want to get my hopes up too much. Either way I’m sure that I was meant to have this interview…to either 1. get the job or 2. to get practice interviewing. let’s hope it’s numero uno! If you are trying to find a job, a good way to pass the urine test is to use fake pee and if you want to pass in 24 hours, for more information visit urinedrugtesthq.

phew!

Lowe Reunion

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Becky and I were at the Lowe family reunion today in Chelmsford. Had a nice time there seeing assorted family and friends. For those who are interested, the ***pictures are online|http://gallery.prwdot.org/lowe_reunion*** for all to see.

Also, congratulations to the Red Sox for winning tonight’s ALDS game against the Oakland A’s!!! Becky and I watched the whole game. It was tied up at 1-1 until the bottom of the 11th inning, when Trot Nixon belted a two-run homer to win the game. Game four of the series will be tomorrow at Boston, and if the Sox win tomorrow, the sixth and final game will be in Oakland. If Boston wins the next two, and the Yankees win tomorrow against the Twins, there could be a Sox-Yankees faceoff in the ALCS.

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I am never right about these things…But, amazingly, I was right about last nights ‘er’. Last summer when the rumers were flying about a cast member not returning this season we (jenn peter and I) were able to narrow it down to two possibilities John Carter (Noah Wiley) and Luka Kovach (Goran Visnjc). I remember a conversation when I said, “They’re going to make us think that Luka won’t leave the Congo…he’ll want to stay there and make a difference instead of coming home to Chicago…BUT I think it is going to be Carter. He doesn’t want Gamma’s money and he’s sick of the ER, I bet he goes back to the Congo and stays or gets killed or something.”

Can you believe that I was right!?!

In other er news… I have been watching alot of the older reruns on TNT daytime. It’s fun to watch all the old shows and to see how the writers weave stories in and out over time. I am also constantly surprised at how many guest actors that are on… ones that I never would have recognized years ago, but now have gone on to have careers of their own now. The two most recent (and the only ones I can think of at the moment) are Shia LeBeuf…he played a kid with Muscular dystrophy…who has recently been seen in the movie Holes and on the Disney show “Even Stevens” … and Liza Weil… Samantha Sobricki (yeah, the psycho’s wife) is also Paris Gellman from Gilmore Girls! It’s just been fun 🙂

Cut-ah, cut-ah, cut-ahh!!!

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In no particular order, here are some of the things we did this weekend:

Saw a fantastic movie, ***Lost in Translation|http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0335266/***. Bill Murray stars as an American movie star who has traveled, away from his wife and kids, to Tokyo, Japan to shoot a $2 million dollar commerical for whiskey. He finds himself alienated by Japanese culture and language. While at his hotel, he meets a young newlywed, played by Scarlet Johansson. She is in Tokyo with her husband, who is doing some photography work. The two bond and form a close friendship. It’s a wonderful movie, with lots of great shots of Japan, accurate insights into the Japanese culture, and enough weirdness to keep you interested. Two thumbs up!

Took a trip on the ***Thomas E. Lannon Schooner|http://www.schooner.org/***. It was a free 1.5 hour trip, courtesy of the Essex National Heritage district’s “Trails & Sails” weekend. The weather was very foggy, so the views from the boat were not spectacular, but it was a lot of fun to be on board a sailing vessel. Becky got to help hoist the sails, and I took ***some pictures|http://gallery.prwdot.org/schooner_lannon***.

Went to the ***40th wedding anniversary party|http://gallery.prwdot.org/joan_errol*** for my aunt and uncle Joan and Errol Ethier. We got to see some relatives we haven’t seen since our wedding, and even one (***Scott|http://www.scottethier.com/default.shtml***) who Becky had never met. The party was great and it looked like everyone was having a great time.

Did a large-scale apartment rearranging. We switched around furniture from our living room and our bedroom, cleaned up lots of stuff, and generally made things much more cozy. Becky is a die-hard TLC junkie (Trading Spaces, While You Were Out, Clean Sweep, etc), and I’m not hard behind, so I think some of those shows were starting to rub off. If you happen to be in the Beverly area, feel free to drop by and check it out!

Got the computer back up to full operating status. Well, almost. One of the RAM chips I had ordered was bad, and so I sent it back to ***OWC|http://www.macsales.com/***. I should be receiving a replacement some time this week, but for now I only have 384 megs of RAM in the machine. Other than that, it’s running great. The new GeForce 4 MX video card is fantastic, especially since it enables ***Quartz Extreme|http://www.apple.com/macosx/jaguar/quartzextreme.html***, Apple’s technology which sends 2-D graphics processing off to the graphics card, rather than the system’s main CPU.

That’s all the news that is fit to blog!

It’s Here!

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The Sawtooth is here!

It arrived today via UPS and I finally got to see it this evening when I got home from work. It’s a very nice machine. Tomorrow, another shipment is supposed to be arriving, which will contain some more RAM and a better video card for the machine. For now, though, the machine is set up and running Mac OS X 9.2.2. I’ll upgrade it to Mac OS X 10.2.8 some time within the next few days.

For those interested, you can check out some ***pictures|http://gallery.prwdot.org/sawtooth_arrival*** pictures of the unpacking, setting up, and booting up of the new machine.

The official time of first boot-up was 6:15 p.m., September 24, 2003.

Hooray!

but he had an accent!

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and an M.D. but he was no Luka Kovatch. I spent another evening at the Beverly Hospital Emergency Room. While cooking what would have been a very delicious supper I made a nice clean cut in my left middle finger. It wasn’t deep but the blood was definately making a run for it.

Peter took me to the hospital and without too much delay I was admitted to the fast-track. My er doc was of middle eastern decent and had a nice accent. He “glued” my wound up (with something called Dermabond) and left to get some paperwork for me. While he was out my body decided that it was no longer in “emergency” mode and that it would be okay to pass out. So i fainted. The nice nurse put a cold, wet cloth on my head and offered to wheel me out to the car. Fortunately I got better pretty quickly and was able to walk out on my own power. Alls well that ends well, don’cha know?

i promised

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to tell when i got word from a prospective employer… The Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Ma wins the award for the first recipient of my resume to officially reject me. Actually, they “considered [my] application very carefully but…decided to offer the position to a candidate whose skills more closely meet the job requirements.”

C’est la vie. There are other jobs out there. Better jobs.

New Mac Coming!

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Well, new to us, that is. 🙂

Today I purchased a ***PowerMac Sawtooth G4/450|http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/powermac_g4/stats/powermac_g4_450.html***. This is essentially to replace our SuperMac S900 FrankenMac, which died recently. I bought it from a used Mac dealer, ***Mac Of All Trades|http://www.macofalltrades.com/*** for $499 + shipping and handling. It’s a great deal on a great machine. It has a 450 MHz G4 processor, 256 megs of ram, a 10 GB hard drive, ATI Rage 128 Pro video, Zip drive, DVD-ROM, mouse and keyboard.

Now, the Sawtooth is not the latest machine, and certainly doesn’t compete with the new ***PowerMac G5|http://www.apple.com/powermac/***. In fact, it’s almost three years old. But it is a very capable and expandable machine, and for our budget right now, the price was right. It can be expanded to 2 GB of RAM, up to a Dual 1.4 GHz G4 processor, and can use AGP video cards. All in all, it leaves plenty of room to grow if necessary. I will definitely be upgrading the RAM and Video card without delay. I already have an 80 GB hard drive which can go into the machine, and our Firewire CD-RW can easily hook up to it.

The system will run Mac OS X 10.2 (Jaguar) like a champ, and from what I’ve heard, should have no trouble running the upcoming Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther).

It’s supposed to ship out by tomorrow, and should arrive some time next week.

Hooray!

Updates

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Howdy. I’d like to tell you all that my poison ivy is healing nicely. It still itches like crazy, but it isn’t blistery and oozy like it was before. (Aren’t you glad I told you that?)

The job hunt is going as well as can be expected. I have some resumes out and I am continually looking for more options, but I still haven’t heard from anyone yet. But trust me. I’ll let you know if I do!

Being extreemly astute readers I’m sure you have noticed the new ORANGE link on the right. That is our new little survivor fan site. Whether or not you can come over to watch with us you should check out the site 🙂