This is who I am

Dominic informed me that my files *should* be safe, but the database on his server which manages the files and blog is pretty much toast. He is now shopping for a new server and may be purchasing one soon through a friend who has connections with a certain very large PC company. The nice thing is that all my treasured musings are probably not lost and will be up on the www in the reasonably near future, I hope.

In other news, yesterday was a load of fun, and just what I needed. I left work at about 3 in order to do some much needed shopping for the office. I had no luck finding what I was looking for, so will be out in the rain again this weekend hunting for frames and an area rug.

Dominic called me when he got off work and asked where I was. I was at the new Home Depot on Mopac and Braker and I actually saw him drive past it on Mopac while I was sitting in my truck. Yes. It’s a truck. Dominic calls it a truck and I like the sound of that so even though it is a car-based SUV and not a truck-based SUV, I’m calling it a truck anyway. Deal with it.

We ended up meeting at Fry’s because did I mention? Dom’s hard drive on his superfly Powerbook croaked this week too. Apparently, on the model he has, the hard drives die after two years. He learned this after much internet research. Anyway, he needed to pick up an external hard drive and a connector so that he could attempt to retrieve the data off the dead drive, and we had plans for later in the evening, so it made sense for us to meet up and hang out.

As usual when I’m at Fry’s, I made an impulse purchase. I picked up the DVD edition of Jim Henson’s “The Dark Crystal,” a childhood favorite of mine. So I was glad that I was there. I love that movie.

After making our purchases, Dom and I headed to dinner at It’s Italian where we filled our bellies with delicious food and gossiped with the wait staff, whom we’ve now known for several years.

We were in separate vehicles so we both drove to our respective casas and I changed and then went to get Dom. He wanted to drive my truck downtown because it’s smaller than his Dodge, thus easier to park. I let him drive though. I hate driving downtown, and I was pretty tired by this time.

We went to see Elizabeth’s play (http://ohiotrip.eventbrite.com/), WHICH YOU SHOULD ALL GO SEE, and it was, of course, brilliant and beautiful and wonderful, which is why YOU SHOULD ALL GO SEE IT. There are more shows in April, so don’t vex yourself over having missed most of the shows.

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Another neat side effect of her play was that it was in an art gallery and we got see crocheted garments on stuffed (as in, by a taxidermist) animals. It was a glorious end to a glorious day. We went back to Dom’s and then I went home. I was going to go to bed, but alas, “The Dark Crystal” was calling my name, so I hunkered down in bed with my laptop and my headphones and watched the entire 93-minute long movie.

It was a great day.