Miss Otis Regrets. . .

Spike: Are we feeling better, then?

Drusilla: I'm naming all the stars.

Spike: You can't see the stars, love. That's the ceiling. Also, it's day.

Drusilla: I can see them. But I've named them all the same name.

Not sure how long the current Lucas and Odessa will be up -- and it would take seconds to find out, I'm sure -- but even without context, I'm sure you'll understand. Not sure you'll laugh, depending on which side of that sitch you've been in, but you'll understand.

And if you don't, you can easily get more background by reading the older strips, by subscribing to Girlamatic. $2.95 a month. I'm sure there's some crap magazine or comic you buy that costs that much, so drop that shit and get with the 21st century.

See, this is why I don't work in the marketing department. . .

Got the laptop back from the shop. Turns out the processor died, but the gent worked on it didn't realize that until after he'd ordered a replacement motherboard. So, I also have a spare Gateway Solo 2150 base thingee, sans keyboard, screen, processor, battery, cdrom drive, hard drive and power cord. But if you manage to assemble those bits from eBay or something, you can have it. Be cheaper to just break down and buy something else, I think, but if you have entirely too much free time and disposable income. . . then you should give me money, subscribe to Girlamatic and kick some cash to Scarleteen. Particularly the latter, seeing as:

Half of all young Americans will get a sexually transmitted disease by the age of 25, perhaps because they are ignorant about protection or embarrassed to ask for it, according to several reports issued on Tuesday.

The reports, publicized by two nonprofit sexual and youth health groups, said there were 9 million new cases of STD among teens and young adults aged 15 to 24 in 2000.

They said the U.S. government's policy of preferring abstinence-only education would only increase those rates.

From the invaluable feministe.us; go read the entry and the article. And make with the donation, or volunteer to spend time with the kids on the boards.

You'll have to do something other than read this, as I'm about to do something Very Silly Indeed; despite not losing any data during the repair process, I've decided I'm tired of Windows taking forever to boot (and running out of space), so I'm backing up everything and reinstalling from scratch.

Doing the same for Debian, which boots up much faster, but also is running into space problems, possibly because the idiot who installed it partitioned the drive badly, or installs things and forgets to remove them when it turns out he doesn't need them.

So there's a very good chance I won't be able to access the 'net with either OS, and you'll have to find other ways to amuse yourself. I suggest

But I always say that.