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I think I'm a target for broken things — broken anything. From techology, to things bought in various stores, to that too-emo-for-my-age feeling that even most of my relationships are broken in some way.

I go into a Starbucks with a simple purpose: get some Caffiene before going back to work so I don't fall asleep on the job and, while I'm at it, update my website. 15 minutes later and I'm finally online. I had to wait for Vista to "Switch Users". Then I had to wait for it to log me in. Then I had to wait for it to get all booted up. Then I had to kill a few processes because it wasn't coming up. Then I had to wait longer. When it finally came up I had to wait an eternity for the AT&T login page on the Starbucks wireless network to appear. It never did. I eventually gave up and slapped in my Mobile Data card. 15 minutes! So, here I am, finally. I'm so frustrated I don't even remember what I intended to write about.

Our house has one room that's about 10 degrees hotter than the rest. I guess it's built wrong. I have no idea. Of course, we never really started using that room until our new home warranty was up. Even better, I've now selected it as my office. So, instead of trying to figure out what wrong with the ducts, I just decided to buy a window A/C. Of course, my windows (seemingly the same windows as everyone else in the world) don't quite cooperate with the type of window mounts provided. So, my office is still 10 degrees hotter. But now, I'm $150 poorer and there's an air conditioner taking up the floor in the corner.

I bought a water proof camera bag in order to take photos underwater while at the lake. Of course, the only sizes available are too-small for $20 and way-too-big for $120. So, I opt for way-too-big since the description says the the bag has some srt of bellows to accomodate lenses as small at 3cm. That's a lie. A big lie. So, I have a bunch of photos that have the corners cut out of them thanks to the bag getting in the way of the shot. Didn't really matter anyway since none of the photos came out. I have no idea why.

I upgraded the LiveJournal Crossposting script that I use on this site and on my photo blog. Of course, something changed and now, my other plugin that formats my photo posts all pretty like doesn't work leaving the Crossposted LJ entries looking more than worthless. I'm sure I can figure out what's wrong, but I really just don't want to.

I could go on and on, but I think you get the gist. Nothing works for me. If there's a way something can go wrong or a point that should never fail can fail, it's happened to me in some way and, most likely, at the time when I was relying on it most.

And, of course, I'm sure this griping all seems trivial. But it's just one more straw on an already overloaded mind burdened by what seems to be a heavier and heavier heart. I need a break.