Memory Gain

I just purchased some new memory for my computer (256 mb) and although I've done it before and am comfortable with installing it, it is an amazingly complicated pain in the ass to find out which kind to buy! I mean, everybody obviously knows the difference between DDR PC2700 and DDR PC3200 memory (duh), right? Oh good, I hoped not.

I woke up to 6 inches of snow tonight. Yes, I woke up tonight - I worked a midnight shift last night, and tomorrow I work at 9:30am. This means that I had a day off, but not a FULL day off, because I had to come home and sleep some, and tonight I have to sleep before going back to work. The problem is this - I went to bed at 8:30 this morning, set the alarm for 2:00; woke up at 2:30pm (2 snoozes); snuggled with the dog and cat(s) for a bit, and fell back asleep. So then I woke up at 6pm. A whole day wasted. Anyway, there was snow when I woke up - quite a bit of it - and I don't have a shovel yet. The average kitchen broom doesn't do a very good job on sidewalks.

Okay, so this is basically a crabby entry. We've all stepped in dogshit, right? Is there anything worse? I'm not talking about stepping BAREFOOT in dogshit. I mean, that's bad too - but a foot is easily washed. But when you step in canine fecal matter with a heavy-soled shoe, life is a bitch. Because I did it right before work last night, and I wanted to wear those shoes because they are my best ones, so I had to clean the shit off. And that is no easy process, no matter which way you cut it!

Anyway I had a quick discussion with Eddie (my dog) and told him to shit somewhere out of the walkway area. Yes, I should clean it up better, and I do clean it up. But this was fresh dog poo, obviously, because otherwise it would have been at least semi-frozen and wouldn't have squished its way so beautifully into the tread of my shoe.

Another blurb about snowstorms - I don't like them, in general. The only kind of snowstorm I really enjoy is one that is a whopper - 12 inches or more. And I have to be able to watch it snow. I slept through today's mini-blizzard, and so I didn't enjoy it. And any kind of snowstorm that is 3 inches or less is not fun - it's just an unpleasant pain in the ass.

I do have some fond memories of snowstorms. There is not much in life more pleasant than going outside at night, during a snowstorm that involves heavy snow but not a heavy wind or cold, cold temperatures. The gently falling snow, the darkness offset by the reflection of white snow, and the mysterious calm and silence of that kind of snowstorm - it's just so tranquil and, for lack of a better word, cool.

And of course, those heavy snowstorms cover up all that dogshit, so you can't step in it. One more plus...............