yes! okay to re-re-iterate, on a non-crappy browser this time.

two bits of news for all you loyal fans who have been worrying yourselves sick and lying awake long sleep-less nights wondering what calamity had befallen yours truly in order to cause such an uncharacteristic lack of obsessively frequent blogging, emailing, IP stalking, and generally lovable telnettiness.



1. com-pooter troubles

the decrepit hamster-wheel-powered machine known as our home desktop computer may have finally kicked the bucket after six long years. its old-age senility is causing it to hallucinate "invalid system disks" on every street corner, making it insufferably irritable and uncooperative. as such, i managed to impose upon the dimpmeister's growlin pile of microchips for a brief two hours last night but today alas i am stuck at the parsipp public library typing this post for the third time because its two previous incarnations (and some blasphemous diatribes as well) were consumed into the vicious hellhole known as the netscape browser. still no telnet, but this is at least something akin to methadone. nevertheless it still causes me unbearing suffering to wonder what wondrous messages of untold import are languishing gathering dust in my dark and distant andrew inbox. alas my poor wee ones, dont give up hope, i will rescue you soon!



2. silver lining

a small beam of consolation in the long hours i now find on my hands to do non-digital things. i've got crabs. okay well not yet, but i will. at this moment they are still freeze-dried in their little vacuum-sealed package awaiting my expert restitution. yes i finally gave in and splurged on the pseudo-science kit at work which promises "prehistoric sea creatures" on its brightly colored, cartoonish box. the aforementioned crabs are actually called "triops" but they look exactly like horseshoe crabs in ridiculous miniature. there are also some critters bearing the (trade-marked) name "Shrimp-Pets." excitement, yes. so once i get ahold of some distilled water and uniodized salt to pamper the little bastards, the fun will begin.



and as always, my thoughts are with you, dear readers so until my hardware situation is amended, please take some time and do fun stuff like updating your webpages and blogs for my entertainment. until next time, sometime in the indeterminate future.