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What a boring day. Got up, went to school, had lunch, dropped off a couple of books at the school library, came home, spent time on the internet, and watched TV.

I'm really starting to enjoy one show in particular. It's called The Tube, and it chronicles the day-to-day events that occur on the London Underground. One day it's training a new employee, the next day it's track maintenance or catching fare dodgers. I can safely say that I will never get a job with the LU or any other subway system. One of the steps in the training process is to learn how to walk on a rail line and avoid the electrified rails, which have about 600 volts running through them. They start with a dead piece of track, but to pass the lesson you have to do it on an in-service line and not step on the electrified rails or get hit by a train (the latter seems common sense, though). I don't think I'd ever be able to do it and not electrocute myself.

Going down to Windsor on the weekend for Canadian Thanksgiving. While I'm there, I'll hopefully stop by Fort Malden, a War of 1812-era fort. Not sure what I'll be learning there, but I imagine it will be useful.

Good night and good news.

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I hate Dells. Not all Dells, just the one sitting on my lap right now. I have had to restart it no fewer than six times today. It's been de-virused, de-spywared with six different programs, and firewalled within an inch of its life, but there are still problems with it. I only formatted it five months ago, and each of the other two times I reinstalled it had problems. First it was crashing on hibernate, sometimes crashing coming out of hibernate, and twice today it froze in the middle of class, and I was just hitting Save in WordPerfect.

I am sick and tired of this. It keeps doing this, no matter how many times I format it. I tried Linux, but that was over my head. So that leaves Macs, and I can't afford 1800 dollars for a new laptop right about now.

And to make it even more peachy, our router keeps fading out and getting stronger, disconnecting me and reconnecting me, and sometimes just not broadcasting a signal. And the one we used to have stopped working altogether. Return it to the store, you say? I'd love to, but my father lost the receipt!

Don't you loooooove computers?

This is hilarious!

On the University of Guelph campus, we have an old War of 1812 cannon that was used years ago for training by a militia founded by one of the colleges that merged to form my university. It is now fixed in place and filled with cement, and it is tradition to spray paint messages on it (birthdays, dorm hall advertising, and I think they said a couple of marriage proposals). Anyway, this time the turf grass major students in the ag science program decided to take a different approach.