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Feb 28, 2007

HEY!! If you got directed here from Thursday 13 on or after March 14, go here instead.

It's my fault. I didn't clear out the form before submitting my comment for the week. Technology made me its cat toy yet again.

Thursday Thirteen 82:18: Chaos Theory

...also known as “a completely random list of thoughts whose primary qualification is that the number of the counting is thirteen.” (Fourteen is Right Out.)

1. I'd almost swear that today is actually Monday. I've got a nagging headache that just won't go away.
2. The mountains around the valley all have snow on the tops. It looks lovely...but I'm glad I don't have to drive over them.
3. Especially since when I stopped to refill my tires' air, I discovered that the rear tire is nearly bald. I sense an expense in my future.
4. I chose the name Iterations for the meme-portal because that's what these things are: variations on a theme. (That, and creating the header graphics gives me a chance to play with the fractal generator.)
5. The output of the fractal generator looked a whole lot more interesting once I started zooming in (wa-a-ay in) on the rendered images.
6. I wish I could sing better. I've toyed with finding a vocal teacher, but I don't know how they'd react if I just told them that I want to be able to sing without worrying if I'm going sharp or flat — purely for my own satisfaction, not because I yearn to try and break into the entertainment biz.
7. I wish the Lisa Gerrard concert tickets would go on sale, already. I want to know if I'll be able to go to the show close to me, or if I'll be travelling a bit.
8. One of the venues is in Los Angeles. Others include San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, and Vancouver.
9. Since attending any of the concerts would mean staying overnight — even the one that's relatively near me — I don't want the expenses to go too high. Any way I can combine trips, run errands, visit friends, or figure out how to write off a portion of the trip as a business expense would be most welcome.
10. The company who makes the billing software I use is having their annual event again this year. I'm debating on whether or not I should go: now that the new version is actually out and stable, I want to corral one of them and demand some assistance in configuring this. (And their documentation is hideous...so I really need some facetime with a developer.)
11. It's too bad Lisa Gerrard isn't playing in that city around the time of the conference. :D
12. I wonder if Jericho will be picked up for a second season, or if they'll stop after one year? The coming weeks apparently see Marines show up, and people start thinking about how things will be as order is restored — so possibly there are plans afoot to wrap this up relatively neatly, in a season or two, before stretching credibility ridiculously. (I'm only guessing. I'm fairly sure that, with some dedicated trawling, I could find out all kinds of information about the show. But in some ways, I'm having fun just watching and waiting for whatever happens.)
13. I'm torn between watching it this evening, in ten minutes; or waiting until tomorrow night when it will be available through OnDemand (with five minutes of commercials, instead of 15.)

For folks looking for more reasons to write, or more content to read, check out Iterations. This first week will close Sunday (leaving it open extra-long), so stop by and add a link to your list.

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