Also the battery is dying and the keycap letters are wearing off.

Another example of why I will never have a times subscription again.

Though of course bread and butter are eaten all over, the buttered roll (or roll with butter, as it is known in parts of New Jersey) is a distinctly local phenomenon. Mention its name outside the New York metropolitan area and you would very likely be met with blank incomprehension.

The Air's fan is now developing a faint high pitched squeal that, were I 20 again, would probably be nerve wracking.

Six years old. Eight plus hours of daily use.

Do I let it grind on to the end of finally get off my lazy butt and let it retire with dignity?

…and with the barrier to entry so low now for journalism (or what passes for it these days), the quality has suffered tremendously.

Ever since CNN first hit, I had misgivings about it. There simply isn't enough of import happening in the world to justify 24/7 coverage. They'd either have to invent news or over-inflate it.

Seems like forever ago that reading the New York Times and Wall Street Journal were on my daily to-do list.

Pointless to do this with their online counterparts since the news cycle is so short that the first take of anything is invariably wrong. Also, a lot of the writing looks like it was done for a high school paper. Sets my teeth on edge.

Now, when I get to the office, I sip a cup of coffee and hope someone doesn't blow something up.

Software development & support: Grinding the excess off of auto trim that was re-chromed a little too thick. shrug

We're next to inseparable. Where ever one of us goes, the other is there. Kind of a batman/Robin thing :)

My wife.

@kdfrawg People are increasingly trading their humanity for their politics. I've been jettisoning them from my life as I encounter them.