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Stucco Screen & Friday Five Friday, Jan. 11, 2008 - 1:34 a.m. John said I skipped something in my previous entry, and that was to mention that he went to the grocery store for us on Wednesday night and was there for an hour and a half, looking for all of the weird stuff we ran out of all at once, which is why we had dinner so late. There's your mention, darling. I apologize for not thanking you in public for doing that. --- So. I discovered something on Thursday evening that made me wonder exactly how blind I am. --- As you know, I've been grunching about my various maladies since right around Christmas. I've had this extremely annoying cough for right at two weeks now. It's been punctuated by sneezing, too. Anyway, the laptop took a dive off of the tv tray it's been sitting on, and when I picked it back up and pushed restart to make sure I hadn't killed it -- it felt funny. Like, the screen had ... a texture. --- I moved my head at an angle and looked at the laptop screen, which did reboot and the computer is fine, thanks. Remember those first pictures of Mars? From, like, thirty years ago? All those rocks? Yeah. The screen was covered with phlegm rocks. Hundreds of little pebbly crusty gobbets of sputum. And I'd been coughing for two weeks. Bleah. --- I finally worked up my nerve and got the spray cleaner and a dinner napkin and attacked the screen. The napkin actually made a noise as it traveled across the screen. And now, WOW, the colors are BRIGHT again, and the screen no longer has that stucco feeling! --- Okay, I haven't done a Friday Five in awhile, so I went back and dug a set of two up from about two years ago:
What was your first fave song? Which song gives you that "funny nostalgic feeling" everytime you hear it? Name the first concert you ever went to. What do you consider the worst song of all time? Name your fave song at the moment. What is the most recent album/CD/Cassette you purchased? Which song will you never get sick of hearing? What is your current fave music video? If you could be a famous music artist, what type of music would you produce? Whew. That was a ball-buster, for some reason. There's meme links to the left. --- All right. Take care, and have a good Friday. ---
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