It's World IPv6 Day. Google worked fine when I tried it a half hour ago, but it's not working now. I probably had a cached connection to the IPv4 connection when I tried earlier, or something went wrong with their setup. Facebook still works.

I'm not sure if any of my clients will call for emergency repairs because of this. I already have two emergencies today, and I know that one will take several hours. I'm not sure if I can fit the other one into my schedule. The emergency is for a new restaurant that is opening soon. The last time I was there, I had to endure chaotic energies and horrible construction noises. I expect it to be the same situation today.

Also, the expected high for today is 95F.

I checked all my pockets before dumping my clothes into the washing machine, but I somehow missed a blue marker. After the wash phase finished, I still didn't notice it. I'm not sure if the ink was neutralized/diluted or if it had not begun to spread significantly yet. The marker was still part of my laundry when I dumped it into the dryer. I noticed the blue stains at the end of the dry cycle. I could have started another wash cycle to try to eliminate or reduce the stains, but I just didn't care that much, and most of my clothes were already blue.

China in Your Hand was a hit in Europe but not in the United States.

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I had a backyard full of grass and weeds for 8 years. I never had any desire to mow the lawn, nor to remove any weeds. It looked just fine to me. I also didn't have a lawnmower, and I have always hated the sound that they make. I am hypersensitive to some types of noise. That isn't the worst, but it's definitely high in the list of noises that mess with my brain function.

A few weeks ago, a client of mine asked me to help her set up her new lawnmower. There seems to be a common assumption that I must be an expert in all machinery if I am a computer technician. She was willing to pay me my usual fee for this service, so I agreed to help. Assembly was very easy. I only needed to attach the bag. The first challenge was dealing with the oil and gas. I have chemical sensitivities, and breathing in those fumes messes with my mind in very bad ways. It activates my latent autistic tendencies.

I fought against the vapors to the best of my ability, but the situation got worse when I had to start the lawnmower. Never having operated a lawnmower before, I did not realize that it would be easier to start it on flat terrain, or to at least tilt the lawnmower. I had it on top of dense grass. The starter is directly attached to the motor. Pulling on the starter spins the motor, which turns the blades. Having grass underneath meant I had to pull extra hard. I was cutting the grass using muscle power, and I had to get it to spin fast enough for the engine to start. The intensity of that required deeper breathing, which resulted in inhaling more gasoline and oil vapors.

My mind was beginning to drift away from reality when my client came over and tilted the lawnmower. At this point, my brain was already too poisoned to think of a simple solution like that. I got the engine started on the next pull after the lawnmower was tilted. I immediately went upstairs to the office at that point, leaving my client to mow the lawn. I escaped the fumes by going upstairs, but the sound was inescapable. The sound coupled with the exposure to the fumes made the experience almost unbearable. I sat in a trance for a while and tried to meditate. I couldn't do it. When my client finished mowing, I told her that I was ill and I left.

I will never operate a lawnmower again.

erdos:	This is the last slide.
client:	It can't be. We must have forgotten to delete something?
erdos:	The last item will remain last regardless of what you delete in the middle.
client:	No. We must have forgotten to delete something.
erdos:	How does deleting something stop this slide from being the last one?
client:	Let's just review and see where the mistake is.

This discussion occurred while creating a 136 slide Powerpoint presentation for a 90 minute talk.

Blogstalk has a television show. I am in the series finale. We discover that Amortentia is a cyborg alien. Some members want to kill her because of this. John decides to save her by killing himself. This should work in television show logic, because only one person needs to die. His life has gone downhill due to tendonitis, and he decides that his life isn't worth living anymore. As angry crowds come toward Amortentia, John jumps in front of her and stabs himself in his kidney. He then grabs Amortentia's hand and guides her to stab it in further, which she does. John dies and the angry crowd disappears. The closing credits show and I wake up.

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