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Friday, January 21st, 2011 06:58 pm
1. Facebook won't let me post this link, so I'm posting it here.  I think maybe facebook won't let me do anything, but since the only thing I wanted to do over there was post that link, I'm not interested in pursuing the matter.  I did try about six times over the period of twenty minutes or so.

2. I tried to send a note to Bill O'Reilly but the only way you can send him a note is to be a premium member of his site.   Here's what I wanted to say: "please cover the Shawna Forde trial."  Becuase he's so concerned about the media not paying attention to murders.  And he said so many nice things about the Minutemen and has never corrected them.

3.  Generally a frustrating day.  I have a cough, which wrecks me every time, and I was supposed to go and fill out a new W-4 (tax) form for Foirst Five for the stipend for the class I took, but I drove all the way out to their office and it's not there anymore and they didn't tell me over the phone.  I don't know where the new office is but I have a feeling it is in Watsonville.  Because she offered to do the whole thing by mail instead of having me drive out to their office.

4.  After four or five false new starts I think I finally know where to begin with Yanek.  I've been composing the first chapter in my head for the ast couple days and I think as soon as I have a couple hours of full competency to write it I will be happy with what I get.

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Sunday, April 25th, 2010 09:29 am
Okay, this is really really creepy. I just got an error message in Czech from facebook. It said that I must be logged in to continue. I was logged in. I wasn't doing anything with facebook. When I hit cancel I was still logged in. But really, facebook? Every single aspect of that was wrong. Why Czech? what did you think I wanted to do? Who did you think I was, to not be logged in?
I know exactly enough Czech to recognize that it is Czech and not Polish.

I tried to post this there and got another error box labelled in Czech. But the actual error is in English: "There was an application error. Please try again later."

I was able to fix it by logging out, switching the login page from Czech to English, and logging back in. But why did it think I was logged out when I was logged in? And who told it I had become a Czech speaker? I didn't. I mean, I do have a Czech textbook and an ilustrovany slovnik next to the computer, but I only poke at it desultorily, since I don't have the money to visit Frank this year.
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Monday, February 8th, 2010 07:47 pm
If I remembered my high school trigonometry I'd be having a lot easier time figuring out the wall mask cutouts I'm trying to make for the Sims 2. I keep getting numbers for the angles that feel just wrong to me. Also, curves. Damn it.

I think I will break out my mother's triangles and french curves, eventually.

Also: facebook has completely changed its layout, and is no longer useful to me at all. It was already annoying, though I got a laugh out of the offer to switch over to Cestina (Czech language). Please. I probably know a hundred words, if I remember them all at once, which I never do. And the grammar is a nightmare, as Frank will tell you over and over again.