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Woke up to a fire truck's siren this morning. Turned out, there was a fire four houses down the street from us. It wasn't a big fire (thank goodness). They said some old, stacked wood at the back of the house caught fire. Inhaled a bit of smoke, though, but it wasn't overpowering - just tickled the back of my throat, that's all. And just like that, it rained a couple of hours later. It was a welcome shower (with a bit of thunder too) and it is quite cool right now. I am savoring this weather - ahhh... On a bad note, there's no water. I guess they shut it off just before noon, probably to do some cleaning. Hope it comes back up soon. Phoned the online computer store Saturday. When I ordered last Friday (see previous post), I expected a call about the shipping cost and if my order was in stock (as said on their step-by-step ordering guide). When I didn't get one by five o'clock, Saturday, I called them up. Apparently, they were out of what I originally ordered

Our desktop's wired optical mouse is acting up. I am mouse-less right now and it's been interesting. A lot of tab-pressing and shift-tabs going on. Just have to keep my eyes on where I'm tabbing to though. It is workable but of course, I can't work as fast. We did get a lot out of that mouse but I guess its time has come (or is very near). I think we've had that for what, maybe four years now? It was free too so we did get A WHOLE LOT out of it. Back when this ISP provider was advertising and getting people to sign up for their wireless service, they gave optical mice away. They were basic wired Microsoft P2 mice and they've customized it, painted over the body with their brand name. I just sent someone off to the store to get a new optical mouse and I'm waiting for them to send me a text message on what they find. I also had them bring the (nearly) busted mouse too. So I am just waiting and am a mouse less. :) Update: 9pm Turns out, computer accessories are

The temp's at 35 degrees right now. It's a scorcher. It's muggy. It's hard to breathe, really. I want to turn off the power supply for the modem and router right now, actually. I don't want the hardware to overheat. I want to but I can't because someone's online on another machine, playing a game. Had a bottle of cold water beside me. Had to put it back in the fridge because it became lukewarm pretty quickly. When will this heat break?!? My sticky notes are starting to fall off. Maybe the glue's melting? Haha.

Cranberry juice with ice is a proper muggy, humid day drink. This was so good that I forgave the fact that it's sweetened. Notice the frost on the side of the glass? So refreshing. Last week, I anticipated the 10th (that was two days ago) because I had to send something by a certain time. I got ready for it - double-checked data, fixed the file's title. In my head, I told myself not to forget to send this file on the 10th before 7pm. So on the day , I was on the computer for about an hour and in my head, I reminded myself to send the file before 7pm. At that moment, I looked at the clock and saw that it was a quarter before 7pm! I did send the file on time but that was a close one. I was so sure that I wouldn't forget but I almost did. Short of having important schedules on my mobile and have it ring an alarm for each of them, I've always been schedule-aware (for the most part). I do prefer to put sticky notes up but the computer monitor can't hold any more notes. T