Okay...here's the scoop: I have given up. After becoming wayyy to embroiled in family politics and ending up physically ill over it, I and the sorta-cousin, sorta-pregnant, sorta-girlfriend girl have mutually decided to give up. So there ya go. I am now searching for new love interests once again, there's no turning back this time. :)

Weekly Recap(tm): Because enquiring geeks wanna know!

Well, I'm back online after the notorious Blackout of 2003. As a computer expert, I've been speculating on another cause of the blackout other than the 'official' stories running around. I'm not trying to sound like a conspiracy theorist here, but let's consider one possibility for a moment. When the Kevin Mitnick story was going around, there was a lot of speculation about 'hackers' (I hate that word, I prefer 'crackers' myself, but then the all the white people in Detroit go 'huh?'

I've lived a rather uneventful life. Maybe I don't take many chances that would get me close to death. Or maybe I'm just lucky. I dunno. :)

The only time I've ever been close to death was a traffic accident I had.

Because Enquiring Geeks Wanna Know!

I'm not an economist, but here's a some possible reasons:

I think we oughta have a Taco eating contest. :) Well, maybe a Taco crushing contest.

Taco's at it again. The Slashdot T-Shirt contest, while kinda cool, is exactly what I thought. A ploy to get the users to do the work that the VA Linux employees that make up the Slashdot editorial team should have been doing all along.

She used those three magic (or magick, depending on how you look at it ;) words ... "I love you."

I have no cares in the world today. The sun in shining, the trees are whistling in the breeze, birds are chirping.

Yet, who knows what tomorrow has in store? And -- yet -- isn't that the point? :-)

I know you ALL LOOK CONFUSED NOW. That's okay, though. :)

Little techno-side bar from the usual gossip today. I promise, the gossip returns tomorrow. ;)

Favorite pickup spot. Or for married/committed people where you met your sweetie:

This is gonna be fun. I hope. In Weekly Recap, I'm going to highlight some of my favorite journal entries from the past week, and put them in the format of -- GOSSIP! Yay! Note that the gossip spread here may or may not be completely true, it is an exercise for the READER to pick out what is real and what is not! Hehe. This oughta be good!

Okay, she's not playing games. She's really not ready for a relationship. I talked to her about it, and she really is not ready for any kind of relationship at this point with anyone. Her LJBF move was not a rejection of me, just a rejection of any sort of relationship at this point.

I've found that she's really matured in the last year and a half, and that she's really at a place in her life that right now, she knows what she needs to be concentrating on.

This isn't a Cosmopolitan poll, but it should be. ;)