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I'm in Redmond, Washington. Home of Microsoft.

I'm typing this on a Mac.

I feel so naughty.

Crash -- last time I was in Redmond, the sign at the town limits said "Home of the world's largest velodrome." No mention of Microsoft yet. So I just prefer to think of it as that.

And ufez, we're not talkin' about that game. Nope. Didn't happen. La la la. (I predict a season of denial. *sigh*)

I've been camping. I feel dirty, too. It's actually more than a feeling.

That's what we've always said!

tizzie, when did you acquire that bear?

In a strange turn of events, I am going to see the Roger Waters Dark Side of the Moon Live concert tonight at MSG. Too bad I don't smoke pot. Nonetheless, I am excited.

Nota male: This isn't going to be fun. (heartbreaking old-skool phonecam pic from a year and a half ago here). Anyone have any advice?

Ufez, askme is down - e-mail me.

Boy, somebody really broke Metafilter.

I was nowhere near it, honest.

Oh really? Then what's that blue on your hands?

I was/am:

A) playing with the funny water in the bowl

B) strangling smurfs

C) refuse to answer the question on the grounds that it may incriminate me.

D) a zombie

I don't know what any of this techno-mumbo-jumbo means, but I think it exonerates tj:

Just a note to people looking for *.metafilter.com -- this morning there was an OS-level software problem on the web server, which required a total wipe and reinstall of the drive. The database server is fine, and I am getting all the data off the original web server drive, so everything should be back up and running by this afternoon or tonight at the latest. At the moment stuff is just being reinstalled and will take a few more hours.

(Hey guys -- how're all y'all?)

Pardonyou!! Hi there, old friend! How are things? Do you still visit Wright-Patt every now and then?

Hey, tizzie. Although I was spending some quality time in Dayton, it wasn't Wright-Patt -- the company I work for just has five manufacturing facilities in the greater Dayton area (at least it does as of today -- the times, they are a-changin). I do still get down from time-to-time, but not as frequently as I used to.

How are you? How's the family?

The times are indeed changing! I'm going to take my big kid out to dinner tonight to celebrate - he will be 25 years old tomorrow.

I can scarcely believe it, and hey, I was there.

Pssst, Aine. I saw them live at Lebowskifest two years ago and they were brilliant.

Did everybody [err, anybody?] know this?

Best wishes, jonmc and pips!

Wow, how incredibly inappropriate to take that thread and try to make it about oneself.

You can say that again.

FWIW, I had announced it elsewhere and it came up incidentally, whether you want to believe it or not. But, thanks for the well wishes.

Dejah's comment in that thread made me proud that she's one of us.

Tizzie -- Thanks for the concert tip. With my luck, that will also be a hockey night. Every damn time there's a good concert during hockey season, it's on game night. I swear they're doing this to taunt me.

aine, it's good to know that someone has their hockey priorities straight.

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