Well, my mail account stopped working, so I had t call tech support, .because the error message it gave me indicated a problem that I could not help solve. The TEch Support Agent I got on the other side asked me what my problem was, and undoubtably knew the only solution was erasing the .lock file on my account, yet kept me on the line, asking me such useless questions as what mail client I was using. I know he was only wasting time so he wouldn't have to answer calls from people who weren't quite as aware what their problems were. I don't hold it against him, I would have done the same thing in my day. Especially considering the types of calls one was likely to get roped into for hours and hours.

After a 10 minute wait on hold, I was told to wait 15 minutes, after which the pop lock would expire. I already knew that, but in my day, we had a script to delete lock files, and could resolve similiar situations within minutes. Damn kids these days.

Today was Kris' bIRTHDAY. I got drunk with hiim. thus, update will be delayed somewhat. or as Gus would say...

MORE LATER

For Kris', we went to an italian place in town called "Beppo" (Beepo!!), er... Buca di Beppo, to be more complete. Beppo has pictures hanging all along most of its walls, at least the ones not taken up by the Frank Sinatra shrine (which is bracketed by lava lamp ceremonial torches). I can't possibly remember them all, but a short sampling:

• A picture of an elephant with its trunk stuffed into another elephant's butt.
• An article about a female midget wrestler ("Bronco") who tried to wrestle a baboon (which mercilessly snapped her neck in seconds)
• A photo of a random hoochie from the rear, right next to a 1600% enlargement of her butt.
• A photo of a glamorous annoyed-looking woman whose dining partner is putting noodles on her large bosoms.
• Lots of naked people in bathrooms
• Some sort of Vicar
• A really fat dominatrix with riding crop and (lots of) leather lingerie.

The menu also included items such as "Pocket Protector" and "A Handy Refrigerator Magnet". Kris actually got a pocket protector, too. The waiters seemed to be in extra-spilly mode, spilling beer on Sara (a friend of Julie's) and water on Kris. It may have been intentional, as one of the other staff remarked "You don't have to have an ATTITUDE about it" to Julie, when she told her we had already checked in (without any obvious attitude as far as I could see). I am told that the men's bathrooms feature many pictured of naked men peeing on the walls ("How European" - Sara) ("You're a-peein! Ha! Ha!" -Kris)

"Who ees Judy? I am Eduardo." -Judy, circa 1995

I made banners, for some reason or other. I guess for people to link to me? It was a Dev-L thing, kay?