What a week this has been.

My hair.
It's long and getting longer and I like that. I changed the colour and I really like that. It's back to my own dark reddish brown and I love it.

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The miserable world.
A week of almost endless cold drizzle that stops just long enough for me to leave the house and starts just as I've gone slightly past the mid-way point of wherever I was going so I can walk back wet and chilled.

The US Mail.
My important letters have gone astray - 2 checks sent out 5 days ago.
Our postman delivers the mail at 4pm; the post office claims they rotate the route but it's over a year and I haven't seen us chamge from last delivery position to first yet.
The mail carriers are lazy, arrogant, often just don't deliver and there's an attitude problem.
I think there's a direct relationship between the sort of people working for the USPS and the sort of people working for the US Army in Iraq who recreationally torture people.

Crappy software
AOL - bloatware, controlware supreme
RealPlayer -spyware, controlware - AOL forced insall
ViewMgr/mediaplayer - (starts to sound familiar) spyware, controlware, - AOL forced install

Basically I got tired of my computer which used to be a clean quick responsive and stable machine turning into the digital experience fro hell. So I uninstalled AOL and all the programs they forced me to install that I never wanted in the first place. Ran spybot to make sure everythng was gone and cleaned up.

Voila! My computer is back to its normal pleasant to use stable state again.

Wait a minute! It's stopped raining! (to quote Alan Sherman)

I'm outta here! The sunshine is calling me....