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Hey, anyone know of anywhere here in the seattle area to get a pocketwatch cleaned and adjusted?  it seems to be running slow, it is a 1911 Elgin pocketwatch.  

 

I participated in a beta program for a fairly well known virtualization software company. shortly after the beta ended, i get an email from someone at the company offering me a free key for the latest version of the virtualization software, and asking me for a quote or review of the software. I sent them a quote and wasn't sure what I could say in a review as I was NDA'd for the beta period.

it's been more than a month now and no answer to my emails, I can only assume that their offer was not in good faith. At this point, they might not like my review, as i was underwhelmed by their company's attitude toward beta-testers and the fact that they released their software with some serious flaws that could cause corruption of BootCamp partitions on mac computers.

their software is also incompatible with the #1 File System software for Macintosh computers and they do not seem in the least bit interested in fixing that issue, their support just tells those running that software to turn it off.

got my Phlew Shawt on phriday.. ugg.  I haven't reacted badly to one of those in a while.  I had an area about the size of a dollar bill swollen nost of the weekend (some swelling still) and had fever and chills on and off all weekend.  

I currently still feel as if someone worked up one side of me and down the other with a fish bat.

On Tuesday, Sept. 29, the actor will sign $53.95 bottles of his quadruple-distilled vodka at Washington State Liquor Store #101 in SODO, the first Washington store to carry Aykroyd's Crystal Head Vodka.
Aykroyd, 57, is scheduled to sign bottles at the SODO store from 4 to 6 p.m. He'll visit the U-Village liquor store Sept. 30.

Wench is off for the week with halflock at a locksmith convention so I'm here watching the kids and generally working from home... i'm looking forward to her being back sunday, I don't sleep well by m'self... (or even if she isn't in the house, since she's upstairs every other night)

Hey, is there any of my fiends out there that have MS store privs? I need to try running some software under vista and discover what security changes I need to make to get it to work properly. I'll be doing this at home on one of my own systems, as trying to get an exception here at work for any serious phiddling of OS settings is an exercise in misery (the joys of working at the original evil empire, not the upstart MicroSoft.....

Local seattle times blog article on how E&J Gallo are suing a local store because he carries a pasta out of spain made by the Gallo company

yet another example of how the patent and trademark system needs a major overhaul.

THE BIRTHDAY DIRGE
tune: "Volga Boatmen"

Happy Birthday! {thud!} Happy Birthday! {thud!}
1. Now you've aged another year
Now you know that Death is near
Happy Birthday! {thud!} Happy Birthday! {thud!}

1a. So you've aged another year
Now you know that Death is near

2. Children dying far and near
They say that cancer's caused by bheer

2a. Children dying everywhere
Women crying in despair

3. Death, destruction, and despair
People dying everywhere

3a. Doom and gloom and dark despair
People dying everywhere!

3b. Doom, destruction, and despair
Grief and sorrow fill the air

3c. Doom, destruction, and despair
People dying everywhere

3d. Death and gloom and black despair
People dying everywhere

3e. Pain destruction and despair
People dying everywhere

4. Typhoid, plague and polio
Coffins lined up in a row

5. Now that you're the age you are
Your demise cannot be far

5a. Now you are the age you are
Your demise cannot be far

5b. When you've reached the age you are
Your demise cannot be far

Other Common Verses:

6. Black Death has just struck your town
You yourself feel quite run-down

6a. Pestilence has struck your town
You yourself feel quite run-down

7. Birthdays come but once a year
Marking time as Death draws near

8. Long ago your hair turned grey
Now it's falling out, they say

8a. Soon your hair will all turn grey
Then fall out (or so they say)

The Viking/Barbarian Verses:

9. Burn the castle and storm the keep
Kill the women, but save the sheep

9a. Hear the women wail and weep
Kill them all, but spare the sheep

9b. May the women wail and weep
kill them all, but save the sheep

10. Burn, then rape by firelight
Add _romance_ to life tonight

11. Indigestion's what you get
From the enemies you 'et

12. May the candles on your cake
Burn like cities in your wake.

12a. May the cities in your wake
Burn like candles on your cake,

13. May the children in the street
Be your barbequeing meat

13a. We love children, yes we do
Baked or broiled or in a stew

14. May your deeds with sheep and yaks
Equal those with sword and axe

14a. May your deeds with sword and axe
Equal those with sheep and yaks

15. They stole your sword, your gold, your house
Took your sheep but not your spouse

16. This one lesson you must learn
First you pillage, then you burn

17. While you eat your birthday stew
We will loot the town for you,

The SCA Verses:

18. We brought linen, white as cloud
Now we'll sit and sew your shroud

19. You're a period cook, its true
Ask the beetles in the stew

20. Your servants steal, your wife's untrue
Your children plot to murder you

Other Verses:

21. Fear and gloom and darkness but
No one found out you-know-what

21a. Just be glad the friends you've got
Haven't found out you-know-what

22. I'm a leper, can't you see
Have a birthday kiss from me

23. It's your birthday never fear
You'll be dead this time next year

24. Now another year has passed
Don't look now they're gaining fast!

24a. So far Death you have bypassed
Don't look back, he's gaining fast

25. Now you've lived another year
Age to you is like stale beer

26. Now your jail-bait days are done
Let's go out and have some fun

27. See the wrinkles on your face
Like the pattern of fine lace

28. Were I sitting in your shoes
I'd go out and sing the blues

29. So you're 29 again
Don't tell lies to your good friend

29a. Tho you're turning 29
Age to you is like fine wine

30. You must marry very soon
Baby's due the next full moon

31. When you've reached this age you know
That the mind is first to go

subject says it all.

I'm nowhere near as flowery as some who post on passings. The world just lost a great author, Michael Crichton passed away from cancer. I remember being in 4th or 5th grade and reading Andromeda strain and doing a book report on it, the teacher was surprised that I was reading college level material....


-Raises a shot of patron , quaffs it and shatters the glass in the fireplace.