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I took a leisurely 16 mile, two hour ride with my friend Andy today. Leisurely for me anyway; he had to stop a few times. We looped down through Winthrop Harbor on the bike path, went east to a marina and got some water, then pedaled back north along Sheridan Road into Kenosha. It was nice. I think I'll do something shorter and fast tomorrow.

Danae will be here tomorrow! *tailwags*

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I think I'm finally just going to throw out these 15000 volt, 1 MFD capacitors I have. Plus one that's 13500 volts at .5 MFD. I haven't managed to find anyone who wants them. I don't know if they work or not.

I also have a bunch of old laptop chassis that all have various hardware issues that I'm going to give to Freegeek in Chicago. I'm feeling like I need to clean up tonight. More stuff needs to go away.

....Damn, these things are heavy.

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Does anyone have an OEM Windows Vista Home Premium disc? I've got an old laptop with an OEM sticker and key, but I need install media. (I"m speaking techie again. Be afraid.)

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I picked up Jill Sobule's self-titled album at the thrift store last week and just got around to listening to it again. I'd forgotten how deeply depressing Vrbana Bridge is....

It's a song about a young couple shot dead during the siege of Sarajevo. Calling Romeo and Juliet to mind, the two young people's families were on opposite sides of the conflict. They had friends on both sides and thought they could make arrangements to safely leave the besieged city of Sarajevo. Their bodies lay on the bridge they tried to cross for four days before POWs were forced to retrieve them under cover of darkness.

But the album also has Trains on it, full of the romance of the railroad and of daydreams of living other lives and being other people. It connects with me somewhere deep.