Really good stuff from Bob Geldof and callers today on TOTN.

If you didn’t click on TOTN, here is a link to the interview today. Bob sounded incredibly schooled on Africa, he had both anecdotal and statistical knowledge to fully pique my interest. And I love a TOTN like that. When you have to listen, instead of wondering if you should be paying better attention.

Thanks, OPB, and other members, for supporting 91.3FM. I enjoy it greatly.

I just actually struggled to login to my own blog. Guess that shows I don’t post enough….

Good news on the laptop front. In case you don’t read all the comments, I spilled Twilight Ale on my Compaq Evo N115 at “band” practice on last Sunday night. Awesome. Anyway…

I took the keyboard out and soaked it in hot water for about 30 minutes. I figured, since I has basically decided I needed to buy a replacement keyboard for it anyway, that trying to rinse the beer out of it using water wasn’t too bad an idea. At the worst, I would completely ruin it. Which is not much worse off than having only about 60% of the keys working. Well, I dried it on the dish rack overnight, and voila! Hooking it back up, it worked just fine. I haven’t actually tested each individual key, but all of the ones I knew were not working off hand now work. So there’s more testing to be done, but all is looking good. Hell, if there are still some that don’t work, I’m putting the keyboard in the dishwasher. What the hell, right?

I was saved hours of work today by a competitor of my company’s. The previous agency that did the last couple of years of boat catalogs for our client actually sent me the disk of all the working files. We’ve been asking for this for months and months, and now that a lot of projects are due in very short order, the disk landed on my desk. I estimate at least 10 hours saved not having to start from scratch. That fully made my day.

However, my blood pressure is still high. My wife and I are trying to buy a house, and I don’t think there’s anything as stressful. Taking to mortgage lenders about borrowing an INSANE amount of money just to be able to own an entry-level house is not fun. Watching the real estate market here is not fun either. It is my opinion that $200,000 should buy you more than a tiny, 1,000sq/ft starter home. But if we don’t get in soon, we’ll never have a chance to buy one before they all cost a half-million dollars. Maximum suX0r.

At least I have a family that loves me, and smiles at me when I get home from working for the man. That is a lot more than I could ask for.