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Let me tell you a little something. If, heaven forbid, you’ve used the same laptop every day for three years, and that laptop up and dies on you, when you do get a new laptop, the thing that will make you want to slam your head against the biggest piece of cement you can find is the fact that this laptop does not contain a single ounce of the stuff you lovingly collected on your hard drive over the past three years. No bookmarks. No photos. No applications. Especially no applications. I have backups of my bookmarks and my photos (thank you Picasa! I swear to you, go download it right now from Google. I’ll wait. Then click the link that asks you if you want to back up all the photos. It will tell you how many CDs or DVDs you need to do so. This is A GOOD THING. This was one thing I didn’t freak about when I realized the laptop was dead. I know I had copies of all my image files.)

If you are guessing that I replaced my laptop, you’d be correct. A week of research and I decided to go with the HP dv4030. Look up the reviews for the DV4000 (the 4030 is just the retail flavor – right now you can’t even get them from HP, and custom designing one will take weeks.)

Okay, so anyway, it’s taking me hours to rebuild this thing. I guess there will be things I never add back. But I have to try to figure out if I have copies of some of my registration info for stuff like mailwasher. Ugh.

Google must have some ultra-double secret algorithm they use to figure out what ads to put on a page. I don’t know what on the page spawned these ads, but over on the right I see the following as the headers in the Google ads:

• Prostatectomy
• Hobby Engineering
• Lego Sets
• God loves you
• BugBrain Robotics Kit.

The hell?

If God loves me, he will not allow anyone to do a prostatectomy on me (ha!) using Lego sets. Period. I had something else really super important that I wanted to add here and now I can’t remember what it was. Must be my new bug brain malfunctioning.

Oh, I remember. What do Funyons taste like? Are they worth trying? Also, pork rinds…

Still no laptop. There will continue to be no laptop until I buy one, by the way. I’m just saying.

Okay, update on the burning urge to go to Disney again. One of the interesting things about Disney is that I regularly have dreams about going to the park. I have not sat down to evaluate them in any way, but I can tell you that there are times I have the same or similar dreams about the park(s), except the parks in my dreams do not resemble the real ones. Sometimes they are more like a Six-Flags type amusement park. They are the Jody version of WDW. Last night I had a dream that we were in this section of Epcot that is nothing like any other part of Epcot, except I’ve dreamt we have been there before, so in last night’s dream I was actually saying “Let’s go back to that restaurant over there!” The main focus of last night’s dream was making phone calls to my family to try to convince them to meet us at this restaurant.

I had a Disney dream last week where we were first in line to go into an attraction (i.e. the park had just opened) and we were so excited (I think it was Tower of Terror)…we walked all through the queue only to walk through a doorway that put us in the middle of the park. So it wasn’t an attraction at all, it was just the entrance to the park.

Last year I had a dream where we were with the whole family and there was some sort of problem with the plumbing or something and suddenly the whole park (remember, Jody Park, not what one really looks like) was flooded and we had to get the kids into boats, but my sister wouldn’t leave one of the gift shops. There was a big pipe all this water was bursting out of, but I can’t say for sure if it was clean water or dirty, if you catch my drift.

There isn’t anything scary about these dreams, I just suspect it’s my burning desire to go on vacation – specifically back to Disney. But I find it very amusing to have dreams like these over and over again.

Like I said to Mr. Dump as we turned off the television early to end our suffering, “This is good because I prefer spending the season as the underdog. I don’t want to be “them”. I don’t want to be swaggering and cocky because we won last year. This sets the tone for the season, and then we can be the little engine that could.”

Or not, but the pressure is certainly off right now.

I am also having a hard time finding people who are happy we picked up Wells. Last night didn’t help, but I don’t like him. I don’t like him as a person, and I don’t think he embodies the kind of guy who should be offered the privilege to wear a Sox uniform. I was horrified when I’d heard we picked him up. It’s embarrassing to say he’s on our team, not for his playing (although, last night…) but for his politics and social skills. He’s a punk, and Boston fans don’t cotton to punks.

Okay, cozied up on the couch, got the popcorn ready…

And UPN 38 comes out with a GRADE A FIRST CLASS intro to the season.

And once again, I have chills watching the highlights from the series from last year. Big honking goosebumps. And now that the game is on, I’m already stressed. I’ve got this feeling to look forward to for the next 6 months or so. Sheesh.