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I'm normally not one to believe in the improbable, but someone has laid some serious ju-ju on me. While away at my fabulous geek-cation, my computer bit it, my furnace at home died, and....(God, I can hardly type it...)...MY DSL WENT DOWN!!!1!
Just in time for the launch of my brand-spanking-new blog, just in time for me to share all of my insightful thoughts from ScienceOnline09, my tech life imploded.
So please, dear reader, give me a few days to try to fix everything (meh, the furnace can wait...it's above zero. But the computer and teh tubes...NOOO!!!)
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Congrats on the new blog.While I dont't believe in juju of any kind(my cousin's *creole* wife might debate me on this),the furnaces have a way of expiring in January, as mine did a few years ago.Probably more to do with senescence and workload than kismet,still it *feels* like bad juju....Be that as it may,I left you a comment during your recent exodus about Ornish as woo-enabler ("The War Has Begun..."),if not full-tilt Chopra blunderer.
Posted by: Denice Walter | January 19, 2009 11:17 AM
Um, would you mind keeping the juju to yourself? I left NC with a dying hard drive on my laptop and got home to discover a bookshelf had detached itself from the wall to land on my desktop (which somehow still works). If I find that something's happened to the thumb drive where all my writing is backed up, we're going to have to have a little talk.
Posted by: Stephanie Z | January 19, 2009 12:40 PM
We're patient. Well, not really, but we like you, so we'll wait. :)
Posted by: ctenotrish | January 19, 2009 4:00 PM
Ugh. Sorry to hear it!!
Posted by: ehoffman | January 19, 2009 5:51 PM