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It took me about two hours to get to work today; I finally arrived at about 9:30 after leaving the house about fifteen after seven. Looks like power was out in Grayslake. The light at the intersection of 45 and 120 was out and traffic was backed up to Hunt Club Road. I usually do that leg of the trip in fifteen to twenty minutes; it took me a full hour this time. Even worse, the Mercury has a broken antenna and I couldn't pick up NPR without huge amounts of static. I got so bored on the way that I started eating my lunch. Amazingly, we had power at work once I got there.

Driving in stop and go traffic in bad weather takes a lot of energy out of me. At least my work day is about an hour and a half shorter.

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I had to send my Kinesis back to the factory for repair. That row of keys stopped working again and reseating the keywell didn't fix it. Man I miss my keyboard. If it weren't for the car expense coming up, I'd buy one for use at home too.

I think I may put in an order for a USB foot pedal today. I can find them for thirty bucks, so that's not a huge expense. I'll map shift onto it, and then map the shift key to something like tab to take some strain off of my left pinky finger. I think it's overextension of the pinky that causes a lot of the soreness in my left hand.

After going to the arcade auction and playing some of the pinball tables there, then playing the Captain Fantastic and Monte Carlo tables that my grandparents have a few times, I'm starting to obsess a little bit on pinball. I was out on the internet reading wikipedia articles on pinball and poking through the Internet pinball database at the different tables I know. The next time I visit my grandparents, I have to look and see whether their Captain Fantastic table has the stars on the backglass (they put them there on later production runs to cover the 'risque' parts of the art) or not. I know it doesn't have the super rare orange rollover switches, but I don't seem to recall seeing any stars on it.

I was listening to The Who's Pinball Wizard last night, and today I've been poking through pinball skill sites off and on. When I get stuck on something, I really get stuck on something.

Pinball and stuff!!

Would anyone like to go to this with me?

http://www.midwestgamingclassic.com/

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Shoot, I guess I'll be in Michigan that weekend. But you all can go without me!

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I have to catch up on my financial ledger now that I have Quicken on my laptop. I don't want to do that. I really have to do my taxes too. I really don't want to do that. But I really, probably, should.

Now that I've put new brake pads on serinthia and todd_riverden's car, I'm going to start on those wonderfully unpleasant tasks, when what I really want to do is install City of Villians and start playing with the character generator 'cause my parents keep telling me that it's really nifty. Ah well, someday soon.