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I won the Lottery!

Um, no. I am so unlucky, in fact, that I didn't even get a single number right. Additionally, simply because I played, my bad luck was spread throughout the state like a virus, and it even infected the lotto number selecting machine, and because of that…. no one won.

In more unlucky news, I will not have Cable Internet restored today as previously told. Joann from Verizon Entertainment called me very early this morning to inform me that she made a mistake and that a technician would need to be sent out in order to reconnect my service. The soonest possible date a technician can make it out here is Tuesday between 12pm and 4pm. Isn't that nice? Hey Joel… can I borrow that modem now?

In even more unlucky news, my CD burner at work is busted. If I futz with it too much, I get excesive kernel messages (which slow my system to a crawl) screaming this:

Jan 31 09:19:39 djlpc kernel: SCSI host 0 abort (pid 1674) timed out - resetting
Jan 31 09:19:39 djlpc kernel: SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0.
Jan 31 09:19:39 djlpc kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 1674, scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0 Prevent/Allow Medium Removal 00 00 00 01 00

And if I don't mess with it, and just try to burn as I have ALWAYS been able to do I get this:

/usr/bin/cdrecord: Input/output error. read disk info: scsi sendcmd: no error
CDB: 51 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 04 00
status: 0×2 (CHECK CONDITION)
Sense Bytes: 70 00 03 00 00 00 00 06 00 00 00 00 02 00
Sense Key: 0×3 Medium Error, Segment 0
Sense Code: 0×02 Qual 0×00 (no seek complete) Fru 0×0
Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
cmd finished after 150.079s timeout 240s
/usr/bin/cdrecord: Cannot get disk type.

Bah… I guess I need a new burner.

In additional unlucky news, I am considering cancelling on the camping trip this weekend. Mike is calling the State Park today to get the rest of the information we need, but secretly I am hoping they tell him they are closed for the season or something. I have been way too busy this past week to even consider being ready to leave for a camping trip Saturday morning at 10:00am. Not to mention that tonight and tomorrow night are completely booked solid, giving me no time then to prepare. Additionally, I forgot that the bottom zipper on my sleeping back is busted (won't zip up) which is normally not a big deal. But in this cold weather I need it to zip. Otherwise all of my warmth will leak right out the bottom.

In even more unlucky news, my apartment is a mess, and I refuse to let Sarah come over unless it is clean. It is possible that she may come over tonight after the Breeders show, so that means I have to clean my apartment before I leave to make doors at 8:00pm.

I think I have some majorly bad Karma right now… but I really don't know why I should. I kinda figured Karma and I had finally broke even, or that I was perhaps even a little on the positive side.