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Good: A link I suggested has been posted to Boing Boing. If you're like me and frequently find yourself on the verge of a psychotic break while trying to fold fitted sheets for storage in the linen closet, I suggest you give it a look. I'm making civilized life better for all of us. Go me.

Bad: My white cotton socks get dirty. This is a normal thing that occurs during day-to-day sock operation (note: if you wear white socks all day long and they do not get dirty, I can only surmise you're an alien with technology far in advance of our own and I desperately want to join your society on Buugan-Selta-Three as an emissary of my people). What's abnormal -- and bad -- is that they never come clean no matter how many times I wash them. I'm not completely compulsive about having my whites their whitest, but it still irks me when the bottom of my socks are grey-brown even after being laundered. When I take a pair out of the drawer and find that funky ground-in dirt I feel like I'm scavenging socks from the bedroom floor rather than putting on a clean pair like all the rest of us upright-walking apes. These socks... they vex me with their dirtiness. I've washed them with regular detergent. I've washed them with bleach. I've washed them with detergent and bleach. I've watched them with detergent and bleach and OxiClean but still they do not come out remotely whiter on the bottom!

Different: I put up a curio shelf today, then I put a scented candle on it. I believe this is 65% "domestic" behavior.

And as a special Friday bonus, I give you an additional "D" for no added charge!

Disturbing: Buying 5.1 speakers for my PC and then testing them by experiencing the Ravenholm chapter of Half-Life² in surround.

needs a headlight fixed

Good: I got to do some freeform roleplay today, and I actually held up my end of it! I really enjoyed the chance to get out and give this new character a test-drive. More of his background has revealed itself to me, so I'll probably be scribbling bits and pieces of it down on notepaper for the next two days.
Bad: It was ten dollars to get a replacement access badge from our HR department. Ten dollars for a simple proximity badge? It's a ten-year-old piece of technology from Honeywell! Come on, this is extortion!
Disturbing: The new picture for my badge is worse than my old one. Now I look like I'm asleep, with a gigantic head and have some sort of degenerative skin disease that turns my face a sallow color of yellow.

The water was rising so damn fast we thought it'd drown us all

... as summarized by g/b/d:

Good: I completed construction of the headboard for my new queen-sized bed tonight, and my final product looks just like the picture!
Bad: Leaking bypass valves on water conditioners that weren't leaking when you did final walk-through just before closing.
Disturbing: My security system talks.

Tomorrow morning I get to sleep in for an extra half hour or so, then its down to Addison for class. I suspect we'll have a quiz first thing... What a way to start the day; a quiz, then 4 hours of lecture and 2 hours of lab. Oh well, I can't complain too much... After this Saturday it will be 2 down and 6 to go, roughly 1/4 of the way through the course and that much closer to finally having my degree. Perhaps the best of all this is that I'm not paying one red cent for my education outside of books and gas.