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And now I need a Kiss Kiss Bang Bang icon with Кто тебя научил математике?!? (Who taught you math?!?) on it. Seriously.

And that is exactly why I hate modern OS's. And by modern I mean almost anything after Windows 3.1. I don't know what the fuck's going on backstage. My Win7 computer started up after sleep mode with a DOS window saying it was running something involving checking geometry and Directx and ... drive integrity? I don't even remember, I wasn't awake enough, but if it happens again tomorrow morning and you, dear internets, have not provided me with an answer I'll see if google knows. But it still unnerves and irritates me.

Mmm. I had an interesting revelation coming out of a moment of petty earlier today. The moment of petty was rolling my eyes at a person of my acquaintance who wants the new latest thing and, while I'm pretty sure everyone I know wants the new latest thing in a particular field of their interest (and look at me, I'm not one to talk, my laptop screen started down a fiery path of doom and instead of going out and getting it fixed like a thrifty person I went and bought a new damn computer), this person has a history of just going out and getting it in a spendthrift fashion. Even more spendthrift than me. Ahem. But today instead of indulging in pettiness I actually took a second to poke at why it bothered me, and then it didn't take but an actual second of poking to realize why: this person didn't seem to me to be grateful for what this person had.

(I say seem to me because my perception is, by necessity, limited. I'm not that person. I don't know what that person is thinking or feeling.)

So, if I can stick with it, here goes a week of listing off things I am grateful for, in no particular order, every morning. Because every now and then such things should be contemplated.

1. My job, my financial state (in debt at the moment as I am) and my ability to go out and buy a damn computer on credit because I can, and because I can reasonably say I can pay it off in a shortish period of time. It's a first world advantage. And I love it to bits. Not only is it a first world advantage, it's a first world lower middle class advantage. Lower class? Going by my financials I'm probably on the lower edge of middle class if not lower class, but I keep thinking of myself as middle class. Possibly because I budget. Which brings me to

2. My parents. And my grandparents. And what they taught me about the importance of things or the lack thereof, the importance of choosing your debt carefully and staying out of it as much as possible, and the importance of choosing your indulgences so you don't feel like every penny you spend should be spent carefully and with much consideration. Being able to at least feel like you can indulge in something takes away a lot of the tension of living non-wealthy, and tension is never fun to live with.

3. Speaking of living, living where I do. It is absolutely gorgeous here. We don't have too much in the way of weather extremes thanks to the mountains, and more specifically I live right near an absolutely gorgeous park I can go and walk in whenever I need exercise.

4. Speaking of exercise, my ability and perhaps need to get only 6 hours of sleep a night. Which gives me two more hours of productivity than I guess most people would have, even if it's just reading a book while things cook or taking a walk in the park. I love it good.

And finally 5. My relatively new-learned skills at time management. I get so much more done now than I did a couple years ago, and it is fucking awesome.

And now I am not only in a ridiculously good mood, but full of energy to boot. Which is good because there's probably a fuckton of unpacking to do.

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I think this is a combination of routine adjustments working hyper, new computer hyper, and having little enough to do at work that I can sit around and think about things like this, suddenly I have this urge to learn C++, Visual Basic, Perl, re-learn Php... Ai. No! I do not need to learn all the computer languages in addition to all the human languages. I really do not. I'm already living with six human languages in one head, and while I can code with a fair degree of proficiency in the couple languages I learned, I do not need to spend my time coding widgets and doodads when I have a writing list a mile long, an apartment to keep clean, my daily routines to keep up with, my guitar to practice, and RP and TV and things to noodle around on. Plus crafts. I do not need programming languages to noodle on.

(Some people impulse buy. I impulse-study.)

(And apparently check my German by translating it into Spanish. Whoops. Come on, brain. Right language.)

I'm having one of those moments where I realize how many variables I'm juggling at any given moment, how many things I do, and it confounds me how the hell I keep it all straight. It's not quite caterpillar brain but it's damn well leading up to it. Better head that off at the pass with keeping busy somehow. Which is probably how I get into juggling twenty variables at once. It used to be the only thing I juggled that much of was writing projects. Now it's writing projects and everything else.

My terrible, terrible facial scar remains in effect. Still no idea what that random DOS window was, maybe just the fact that I installed a bunch of things the other day and the computer was all "Wait, what? Really? What?" Maybe something else. We'll see what happens over the next day or so, I guess. My days of taking the pocket ninja home and keeping it just in case are certainly coming to a middle. I can't find a damn thing on the subject on the internet so I'm guessing it's just something that happens normally, although since usually that stuff happens "behind the scenes" on bootup, or has in the last couple editions of windows I've worked with, I'm very confused. Eh. If it happens again I'll write down what it says and try and figure it out from there.

Edited to add the icon of awesome.

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Ohhh, that's right. That's what I was going to blog about earlier. I think I figured out what I want to do for my desktop background. Basically, a picture of (so far) Silk Spectre, Sweet Pea, and Aisha (Zoe Saldana from The Losers) on some suitably explosive background.

Anyway, so. I completely forgot to set up my Japanese review plan, so I'm doing it now instead of actually doing the review 'cause I don't even know what I need to review oops. These will be the first four days of the review, which is to say, ( tomorrow through Friday. )

Write or Die has become my new best friend. I mean, I loved it back when I first learned about its existence but now I'm really enamored. I couldn't even explain to you why playing obnoxious noises at me if I don't type works, but somehow it does. Now what might happen is I might poke VLC and see if I can record some really obnoxious or berating quotes and put those in to play if I slack. Or just lots and lots of Gilbert Gottfried. My god that man has an annoying voice.

Still haven't reached a decision on Office or Dragon yet. Possibly I will continue to dither about this until I get my birthday monies or the sure knowledge that I'm not getting birthday monies, at which point I'll make another decision. Debate debate. The debate rages on.