WANT

Best. Alarm. Clock. EVER.

I want to be awakened by the respectful, soothing voice of Stephen Fry! Oh my god, it's pure delightfulness in clock form. Just listening to Fry deliver the 90-second relaxation almost knocked me out right here in the comic store.

Plus, read the FAQ. It's so very British and Fry-ian.

HELP!

EDIT: Huzzah, problem solved! Oh "Customize Address Bar," you sneaky bastard with your drag-and-dropping ways...

Question for Mac users.

The address bar on Safari has vanished. Now, you may be thinking, "click View and go to 'Show Address Bar,'" yeah, I thought of that. No, see, the back, forward, reload, and add buttons are all still there. It's everything else (including the address bar and the google search bar) that's all gone. Nothing but a whole lotta silver blankness.

I've been having some troubles lately away... things have been taking forever to load and process (I've gotten stuck with that damn spinny rainbow thing for minutes on end!), and at some point today, I was trying to go from one tab to another, when... poof. I mean, literally, poof, there was a cartoon of little poof of smoke at the bar, and then everything at top (save for the four buttons to the left) was gone! Now I'm kinda stuck.

If no help arises here (for this seems damn weird), I can always try the Mac forums. And hey, I do have that extended warrenty protection plan thingie, which I may need to address concerning the frickin' long loading times of late. I can't imagine why it's so slow. Sure, Bloo pumped a lot of music into my iTunes, but I didn't think it was that much!

Par-tee down?

Heck, I just realized that I'll be missing Turkeymas this year for the first time in... well... maybe ever!

Yeah, I'll be up in Chicago with Bloo, celebrating... well, a number of things. Christmahanukwanzaafestivus, for one. The completion of her accursed Autocad classes, for another. And, of course, our one-year-anniversary.

Now, she sort of takes issue with me making December 15th our one-year-anniversary, but the thing is, I'm frankly not sure when the hell else it might be. I mean, on December 15th, she "hotlisted" me on The Onion Personals. Shortly thereafter, we started IMing, but it wasn't really romantic or anything. How could it have been? She lived in frickin' Pittsburgh, for god's sake. Nothing was going to happen, right?

Then a few months pass, we rarely IM each other, then we start picking it up again, and around my birthday, I drive all the way up to see her, but I'm sick as a dog so there's pretty much no flirting or anything, just a good-bye hug and that's it. And then later we actually do start flirting over IM and a couple months later we finally see one another again to spend more quality time together... but honestly, at what point was that the "start"? This is a rather unconventional relationship anyway. We've still only seen each other in person for about two weeks altogether.

So the heck with it. The day of the hotlisting shall be the anniversary, so say's I. I bought her the complete "Legend of Zelda" animated series on DVD. Yes, that's right, the ones they showed with "The Super Mario Brothers Super Show!" Mondays through Thursdays they showed Mario cartoons, but Fridays, we got "Zelda." It's pure goofy fun, especially with the lascivious, horny Peter-Venkman-esque Link to his sitcom-like catchphrase, "Well excuuuuuuuse me, Princess!"

There will be more Rudes parties. For that matter, I should host one sometime. Mom loves hosting company, and we haven't had you guys over since Oedipus (good times... oh wait, not really). I wonder what party I could host? New Year's? Pre-New Year's Party Party? Hey, we still haven't done the CLOSER cast party!

C'mon, guys, it's be great. I could even tend bar for three seconds before fiveseconddelay gets fed up with me and takes over!