[The Longest] Smorgasbord 006.

1. MY BOYFRIEND IS SUPER. I gave up on my laptop after I tried my hand at multiple Linux and Windows installations. Brian’d been saying, “Oh, I’ll take a look,” but he’s just so goddamned busy [twelve-hour day, more work at home, squeeze in dinner and a little bit of relaxation time, try to sleep by ten because he gets up at five, repeat cycle] that the computer was relegated to bottom priority. However, once Brian embraced his inner formal IT, he worked some tricks and installed Ubuntu! We called lights out at that point, but he’s going to try and mend the hard drive. Honestly, I am so excited because I would be so much happier with my repaired baby than a new laptop.

2. I like getting to the bottom of the bag of something crunchy and eating the little broken bits. It’s little-person syndrome. I also love the baby keyboard on my possibly-revived laptop [the Dell 700m, they don't make it anymore, bastards] that has critics crying for something larger.

3. Dog is like a lion. Lions sleep twenty hours and hunt for four. Except Dog doesn’t hunt. She cuddles.

4. Brian, E [roomie], and L [the gf] took me out to a lovely, lovely dinner last night for “my birthday.” I’m still stuck in a food coma. How awesome is that. Merriment!

5. Visiting friends from Japan brought me a Henckels santoku to replace my deadened Henckels nakiri knife. I opened it today and disassembled fruit needing barely any pressure and orgasmed. It is that awesome. I forgot that my old knife used to be that sharp; I should ask the roomie to sharpen that one.

6. Maki’s unpredictably binging bukkake [Thank you, Aileen!] book club:
In the past several days, I’ve read “Boomsday” by Buckley and “The Sex Lives of Cannibals” by Troost. Both were super-fast and I might buy more from Buckley, but I wouldn’t shell out another thirteen bucks on Troost. I’m working on Chabon’s “The Yiddish Policeman’s Union,” but it’s welcomely taking a lot more brainpower. On deck, I have “The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid” by Bryson. Also, I purchased a guided anthology including “All’s Well That Ends Well,” name that author! B and I are going to see it at the Old Globe in another week, so I’ve got to switch my reading priorities.