Apparently technology rewards sweet-talking and expensive lingerie. Yesterday, my Happy Mac came back into my life, a week early, with an upgraded operating system and a smile on its digital face. The only problem was the networking with my PC was out of whack, so I had to restore that. Which I did all by myself! Sort of. Almost. A little. OK, with a lot of advice and IM/phone hand-holding from Wendy, Dean and the tech-support chick, but since I was the one who pushed all the buttons, I feel it's my accomplishment.

I'm actually quite busy with real work, so I haven't had as much time for necessary activities like web browsing and napping. But I did manage to come up with some sweet links, courtesy of other blogs I read:

• Via Jeremy, a scientific breakthrough of staggering proportions -- turning crappy alcohol into smooth, good-tasting spirits! I may try this at the next Jersild Day.
  
• Via Little Yellow Different, things to do when your co-worker is away. Makes me glad I work from home, and my cat has thus far decided to confine her displeasure at my absence to retaliatory puking.
  
• Via Eric, who doesn't post enough, Whiplash, the monkey cowboy!
  
• Via LLCoolP, my very own spot in Hell. See you on the Second Level!
  The Dante's Inferno Test has banished you to the Second Level of Hell!
  Here is how you matched up against all the levels:
  

  Level	Score
  Purgatory (Repenting Believers)	Very Low
  Level 1 - Limbo (Virtuous Non-Believers)	Moderate
  Level 2 (Lustful)	High
  Level 3 (Gluttonous)	Moderate
  Level 4 (Prodigal and Avaricious)	Very Low
  Level 5 (Wrathful and Gloomy)	High
  Level 6 - The City of Dis (Heretics)	Low
  Level 7 (Violent)	High
  Level 8- the Malebolge (Fraudulent, Malicious, Panderers)	High
  Level 9 - Cocytus (Treacherous)	Low

  
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