Gail Borden is closed next Sunday and Monday, so I picked up the first season of Fringe and have nine days to work on it. Looks like it was a popular strategy based on the amount of media missing from the TV section. They had 3 Dr. Who DVDs left out of a couple dozen.

Got the dishwasher repaired with @dragonjaze's help. Or she did with my help. Or she did with my observation.

She is still playing lots of Civ 3, so I dug out an even older game (Tony LaRussa Baseball 3) to keep myself occupied. VirtualBox isn't providing a compatible SoundBlaster interface for it, but that's OK. I downloaded DOSBox but didn't feel like getting too far into setting it up just for that.

I need to publish a positive experience with Amazon's customer service. I accidentally did a one-click purchase of an MP3 that I didn't realize wasn't free. I immediately began looking for the way to contact them (way too hard) and they did take care of it. While I did delete my saved payment information, I'm glad I don't have to take my business elsewhere. I already can barely use eBay, since I refuse to use PayPal any more, and after those two the markets for used goods are far more fragmented.

There is a reason I don't mention much about work here, but it's busy. Just busy in different directions than I'm used to, so I don't have canned solutions ready. I don't mind it, but it's going to take a majority of my time for the next three weeks. Next weekend should be an exception, but the following weekend will be packed.

@extrapremium just got her apartment repaired after the earthquake in time to be hit by the hurricane. I hope to hear from her tomorrow. Meanwhile the Chicago region's weather has been unnaturally fantastic for weeks, making a mere two days of upcoming 90ish forecasts look painful instead of completely normal.