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Well, I did promise to let on the good news. I'm sure all my adoring fans are past the brink of insanity from the long suspense, so here you are: She wot makes me smile. It just snowed here, and she's been scampering about licking and biting at it. You'd almost think she was part malamute or something. I adopted her from a shelter a few months ago. I like her. She's fluffy. And she smells like pina colada at the moment. Tropical snowdawg!

In other good--or at least hopeful--news, it looks like I may well be trading off some of my infrequently used photo equipment for a new toy. Hopefully it'll be used a bit more than the old stuff. Feel free to take a peek at some of the pseudo-artsy crap I've been scanning and uploading in the meantime, if you're bored enough. (For those upon whom I've already foisted my images, there's nothing new there yet.)

Today's annoyances: Neither my laptop nor my desktop currently have sound working. FreeBSD doesn't seem to like the nice Fortissimo II (CS4614) card I bought it, OpenBSD is being unhelpful with the ESS Solo-1 in my laptop, and I don't have the focus to deal with either setup right now. No mp3s for me.

More annoyance: Pretension, false friendships. I'd also somehow managed to forget how much I hate the holiday season. The boys of the NYPD choir still singing "Galway Bay..."