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I just finished my first week at my new job. I work for a company called PlayFirst and our thing is casual games. For those that don’t know, casual games are small, fun games that are played either in your browser or downloaded to your computer instead of played in a console like a Playstation or a XBox. Go check out SpongeBob Diner Dash, it’s a lovely combination of our hit “Diner Dash” with the hijinks of SpongeBob Squarepants. You can read a short blurb about it at GameZebo.

If you’re using my favorite browser Flock then make sure to upgrade to the latest version as there was a security update. Flock has worked flawlessy for me since I installed it and in fact I’m using it right now to post to my site. I had what I thought was a bug or something with it but it turned out that Flock’s Mac guy was right, I just had a large imported page file and everything is totally fine. Damn my impatience. Here’s my tip to you if you’re on an “older” iBook G4 (I’m on a 1.2 Ghz machine with 256 megs of RAM) - if you go to “Tools” and then “Clear private data” it might take a few minutes. I thought the browser was sitting there doing nothing but just let it sit for a few minutes, there isn’t constant feedback so you’ll just see the little beach ball spinning. THAT’S OK. Let it do it’s thing. If the idea of running a developer-release doesn’t appeal to you then just hang tight, the beta release is supposed to come out this month sometime with enhancements to the usability and what sounds like improvements all around. Rawk \m/.
I have finished physical therapy although I will need to continue doing exercises and stretches for the rest of my life, as should everyone! Just a little stretch every now and again helps. Do one now. Don’t you feel better? While I am still in constant pain it is not nearly at the level that it once was. I have sustained some nerve damage that is causing radicular pain in my leg and ankle but I’m confident that my nerves will heal eventually (yes, it will take a long time as nerves are slow at this sort of thing) and that once again I’ll be able to run marathons and jump out of airplanes. No, I’ve never run a marathon or jumped out of an airplane. Yet.
The Lady has graduated! She now holds a MFA in Creative Writing. This doesn’t mean that she’s through with school yet. She is in a class that is still in session but that should be ending soon, next week or something like that. She then has a couple of weeks to prepare for her trip to Ireland where she will be for six weeks studying Irish Literature through the University of Iowa. The University of Iowa has the most prestigious writing program in the country so naturally I’m very proud of her. Alas, I will not be joining her in Ireland.
That’s about all, I’m on deadline for a couple of articles so I’m hunkering down over the keyboard and won’t emerge for about 85 hours. Have a great weekend everybody, see you in the funny papers. 

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