{"id":36,"date":"2003-01-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1970-01-01T07:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.deepsicks.com\/blog\/?p=36"},"modified":"2022-02-27T14:28:11","modified_gmt":"2022-02-27T20:28:11","slug":"joy-rage-and-adventures-in-interlibrary-loan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/2003\/01\/09\/joy-rage-and-adventures-in-interlibrary-loan\/","title":{"rendered":"joy, rage and adventures in interlibrary loan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Greetings. The holidays were great. I’m still on vacation until the 21st, yay. Been busy working and trying to nurse my sick computer back to health. If you have the piece-of-junk MSN Messenger tag-along program “loadqm” running in the background of your Windows, kill it, now.<\/strong><\/p>\n

At least I’m pretty sure that’s what’s been giving me the business for the past few weeks. I’m far from a technical genius, and I hate to be frontin’ by seemingly giving advice, but whatever. Here’s a cool site<\/a> if you ever wondered what-in-the-crap is<\/em> that crap running in Window’s Task Manager, and whether or not murder’s okay. So… yeah, Windows sucks. Especially when you’re still running 98 (lowers head in shame). I’ll be rocking a Mac for my electronic art class next semester… provided my head doesn’t explode, perhaps I’ll make “the switch” (tee hee).<\/p>\n

For Annual Gift Giving Day I got a toaster oven (thanks Sam!) and as the best Boxing Day gift ever, a new bike!\u2014a 2003 Specialized Sport. I haven’t had a bike since I was 14. Know why? The last one I had, I didn’t lock up one time. Leaned it against the steps in front of my home in West Fargo. It was a red Trek 700, beautiful, good fun. It was stolen within the five minutes I was inside.<\/p>\n

I felt so stupid\u2014terminally senseless, and embarrassed, and irresponsible, so I never got another one. Until now. I brought it back to Minneapolis. Thick cable lock, which I was nervous about. Planned to get a U-lock very shortly. I rode it to work on Tuesday. It was my third time riding it. And it was stolen.<\/p>\n

Someone pulled the bike rack out of the ground (which wasn’t difficult at all\u2014not seeing any cut cables, I investigated, aw hell, this thing isn’t even cemented in). I was and am so pissed. Looking half hobo, half hiphop, feeling one hundred percent punk rock ready to destroy, I stalked the West Bank idiot-hopeful like someone would leave it in the open for me to rescue. Riverside to Cedar, I choked on guts all over, stupid and scared and bikeless, turning home I cried.<\/p>\n

Wah wah wah, but christ, it meant a lot. I am several thousand dollar (debt) springtime piece of paper privileged, things things things but I don’t take them for granted. Computer, stereo, car, apartment, the food I eat and the music I pour in, I work hard and I feel lucky, and I will forever be mad but I’d mind a lot less if I believed the thief was some kid who needed a bike, too, and so stole it, and is riding it, and appreciating it… and not some professional asshole making killings lifting bikes, chopping them up and selling them part by part.<\/p>\n

I reported it to the campus police and explained the busted bike rack, which was called in immediately but still isn’t fixed. So. I am without a bike once again, damned to rollerblade like I’m twelve years old until I get over the asinine-but-real-enough guilt and the fear of this helpless feeling. Another eight years should do it.<\/p>\n

Site News:<\/strong> I planned to get a lot done, but my ‘puter problems (in addition to deepsicks’ unavailability due to a new firewall in Fargo) have cut up time. Ooo, and Don DeLillo’s Underworld<\/i>, which I’ve been reading like a fiend. But um… yes. I’ll be poking around, tweaking content. Probably nothing huge. I’m going to sit on the guestbook and Bored awhile\u2014they don’t seem to be in high demand, anyway; if anyone knows of any *free, bannerless (or with only very unobtrusive ads), not highly technical services* contact me. Oh yeah, and there’s a new hit counter below. Yep. Thanks for the tip, Bree.<\/p>\n

Current Music Selection:<\/strong> On Tuesday at First Ave I’ll be seeing Interpol<\/a> and a band named Calla<\/a>, the latter of which I was recently introduced to. I like them muchly. Check out Calla mp3s here<\/a>. I don’t know how to describe them… good? Intriguing? Intriguing’s good. Ha. I definitely want to know more. New album out on the 21st.<\/p>\n

Work News:<\/strong> Looking for an interlibrary loan item concerning conquistadors (<\u2013what a great and horrible word), I reach behind a row of books on a bottom shelf\u2026 and feel something odd. So I move the books. And find some boots. Pretty nice boots. With a paper towel stuffed inside one of the toes. Of course I have to look.<\/p>\n

Wrapped in the towel is a little glass tube with some kinda, uh, substance. I don\u2019t know exactly what this is\u2014I don\u2019t hang out with the cool kids\u2014but I\u2019m not completely stupid, either. Huh. Fun stuff. There\u2019s a handful of transients who spend sizeable amounts of time in the library. Harmless, always. I return everything back into hiding. The boots were my size, but they were made of leather, and had a crackpipe in a napkin in the toe\u2014and well I know the pain of pilfered things precious. Karma, man. Karma.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Greetings. The holidays were great. I’m still on vacation until the 21st, yay. Been busy working and trying to nurse my sick computer back to health. If you have the piece-of-junk MSN Messenger tag-along program “loadqm” running in the background of your Windows, kill it, now. At least I’m pretty sure that’s what’s been giving…<\/span><\/p>\n

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