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Its 1 30 AM Why am I still up

Ill tell you why!

First of all, it started with a certain 4 year old who needed to use the bathroom at midnight, right after I finished watching "Whats Eating Gilbert Grape" on TV, and layed my head down on my pillow. On cue, I hear bare feet padding down the bunk bed ladder.

45 minutes later, plus 2 more bathroom trips, 6 times up and down the ladder, a few sips of water, 7 denied requests for chocolate milk, 3 monsters vanquished, 1 fan adjusted 2 times, and some stern words, he is asleep. Or so I thought.

I wait up for 10 minutes to make sure he is fast asleep. Satisfied, I climb back in bed, pull the covers up, set my alarm, and close my eyes. Immediately I hear the footsteps again.

"WHAT is it NOW?!?!?!?!"

"I just wanted to say sorry,"

*sniffles a few muffled sobs* (Not me, I dont cry until later in this story.)
*lots of hugs*

"Thank you for apologizing, honey. Its OK. I just want you to stay in bed so I can sleep."

"Oh, ok. Goodnight. Love you mommy. Sweet dreams mommy."

That was the last of it. My brain, though, had been tricked into thinking it was going to get to sleep one too many times. Not anymore! I have passed that point of being sleepy tired, and gone into the zone of insomnia. I am tired, yes, but my body has to torture me and make me stay awake until I am a walking zombie.

I got online, looked at some blogs, searched for some scrapbook inspiration, and edited some pictures. Somehow, I ended up on YouTube. I am going to embed the video that I saw here, because I will need to see this again. Some day I am going to be depressed or stressed, and if I can just pop over here and watch this, Ill be OK.

Once in a while, something strikes me so hard that I just crack. It doesnt necessarily have to be really funny- once it happened because I saw a dead deer on the side of the road. (Which usually makes my cry). I laugh so hard that I dont even know if Im laughing or crying anymore. My eyes are blurry with tears. I snort, I squeak, I gasp, I choke, I hiss, I make the weirdest contorted faces. I literally cant breath sometimes, and I laugh without making a single sound, until my face turns blue, and I gulp in air like I had just been underwater for 20 minutes. It is uncontrollable, and at times extremely inappropriate. (Try church, during a long solemn prayer). I just cant help it. Rather embarrassing!

This video did that to me. I was worried I would wake the neighbors up. Seriously. Something is wrong with me. Doesnt it feel good to get all that emotion out, though? Id rather have a laugh attack than a good cry (only because a good cry requires something bad to happen, usually, and Id rather die laughing than find out my cat had been ran over), and I end up feeling equally better after each one.

Without further ado, the one that almost killed me:

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Its 2006 and MS has still learned nothing about installations!

Due to a contractor job, I need to get some Visual C#/.NET/MSSQL experience. So I was going to install Visual C# Express (or as it is called Visual Studio 8, or other). I got the 3 mb installation file and started the installation (I hoped). The installation program did what they always do, Greetings&Saluations, Accept eula, Install MSDN and MSSQL?. Sure I could go for those as well. The program told me that I needed 1.7++ GBs of hard drive for this installation. Fine, I have plenty of space on my D-drive (data&Programs), which I told the program.

But wait a minute! That isnt how Ms wants it!

If I choose to install everything onto the d-drive, it would install 60 MBs on the D-drive and a whooping 1.7 GBs on the C-drive. But I thought I told VS to install on the d-drive and not onto the c-drive. Of course, I understand that VS requires some files to be installed on the c-drive. But 1.7 GBs, that is ridiculos.

Ok, regroup. Lets just choose the VSC# package, and I still want to install on the d-drive. Now it still wants to install 60 MBs on the d-drive and only 314 MBs on the c-drive.

When I left the MS development environment for six years ago, they still had this idea that I as a user shouldnt be allowed to make decisions like this. Still, they order me around and forces me to install everything on the c-drive. (The c-drive is already packed as every other program/driver wants to install onto the c-drive). I guess I can solve this the MS-user way, do a re-install every two years.

At least with Java, Im old enough to choose where to put things.

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