Tristan and Isolde 5/5

You Say More Than You Think
Janine Driver

Breaking Out of Beginner's Spanish
Joseph J. Keenan

Dead Snow 3/3

03/14 7.28 h
03/08 7.40 h
03/07 6.98 h
03/06 7.86 h
03/03 7.00 h
03/02 7.53 h
03/01 7.00 h

Soldier's Girl 4/5

Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa 3/3

Memento 3/5
2/12

Doubt 3/3

2/13

Beowulf 4/5

Avatar 5/5

Quarantine 3/5

02/28 6.45 h
02/27 7.40 h
02/24 7.00 h
02/23 7.30 h
02/22 7.08 h
02/21 6.88 h
02/20 8.00 h
02/19 7.63 h
02/17 7.?? h
02/16 7.10 h
02/15 7.?? h
02/14 6.96 h
02/13 7.48 h
02/10 7.?? h
02/09 7.31 h
02/08 7.?? h
02/07 7.?? h
02/06 7.?? h
02/03 7.?? h
02/02 7.?? h
02/01 7.?? h

Got a new computer after my 6 year old one has gone dead.

disaster
calamity
catastrophy

cancel acount on CR

I finally fixed my computer after three days of weird problems showing up.
The problem - CMOS battery failure. I would have been easier if it was just a matter of changing the battery but then the CMOS configuration was reset and it spawns other problems as well.

CMOS battery - replace battery #43 CR2032
mouse and keyboard not working - Check onboard USB configuration
monitor turns off suddenly - check onboard graphics configurations

Easy, but it has been years since I've last tinkered around computer tech hardware problems.

dystopia
An imaginary place or state in which the condition of life is extremely bad, as from deprivation, oppression, or terror.
sloven
-a person who is habitually negligent of neatness or cleanliness in dress, appearance, etc.
-a person who works, acts, speaks, etc., in a negligent, slipshod manner.
hermeneutics
-the science of interpretation, esp. of the Scriptures.
-the branch of theology that deals with the principles of Biblical exegesis.
:Beginning as early as the third century, Christian hermeneutics began to split into two primary schools: Alexandria and Antioch.
pastiche
-a literary, musical, or artistic piece consisting wholly or chiefly of motifs or techniques borrowed from one or more sources.
-an incongruous combination of materials, forms, motifs, etc., taken from different sources; hodgepodge.
hodgepodge
a heterogeneous mixture; jumble.
:Her house was a hodgepodge of antiques, collectibles, and junk.
ineluctible
incapable of being evaded; inescapable
: an ineluctable destiny.
putative
-Generally regarded as such; supposed.
-commonly believed
epistemic
of or pertaining to knowledge or the conditions for acquiring it.
bowdlerize
to expurgate (a written work) by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable.
expurgate
-to amend by removing words, passages, etc., deemed offensive or objectionable: Most children read an expurgated version of Grimms' fairy tales.
-to purge or cleanse of moral offensiveness.
:The history editors expurgated from the text all disparaging and inflammatory comments about the Republican Party.
Antonyms: proven, real, true

My 6 year old desktop system is starting to have problems. I'm really getting tempted to buy a new system, much more powerful and actually cheaper than the one I have now.

Sanctuary 5/5

Still watching episodes. I'm enjoying this one so far.

Blood test
s refund incomplete

Call DR overcharge

01/11 6.75 h
01/12 7.26 h
01/13 7.xx h
01/15 7.76 h
01/16 7.76 h
01/18 6.81 h
01/19 7.00 h
01/20 7.13 h

Function / BPI / Percentile
Speed 1640 (99%)
Memory 1574 (98%)
Attention 1531 (99%)
Flexibility 1641 (99%)
Problem Solving 1427 (90%)

Overall 1562 (97%)

New High Scores:
Word Bubbles - 3870

Earth 4/5

Push 5/5

Function / BPI / Percentile
Speed 1640 (99%)
Memory 1574 (98%)
Attention 1531 (99%)
Flexibility 1636 (99%)
Problem Solving 1427 (90%)

Overall 1561 (97%)

Function / BPI / Percentile
Speed 1640 (99%)
Memory 1574 (98%)
Attention 1531 (99%)
Flexibility 1624 (99%)
Problem Solving 1427 (90%)

Overall 1559 (97%)

New High Scores:
Penguin Pursuit - 228870

It seems my Spatial Orientation is at Max score.

aplicc

63 wpm
65 wpm
70 wpm
72 wpm
71 wpm

Today is laundry day. Yay!

Bunkum Also: Buncombe
1. insincere speechmaking by a politician intended merely to please local constituents.
2. insincere talk; claptrap; humbug.
claptrap
1.pretentious but insincere or empty language: His speeches seem erudite but analysis reveals them to be mere claptrap.
2.any artifice or expedient for winning applause or impressing the public.
hokum
Meaningless nonsense with an outward appearance of being impressive and legitimate
:Enjoyable hokum, worth seeing if you want some laughs without taxing your brain too much.
:It was pure theater by a master and you could see it as marvelously sincere and spontaneous or absolute hokum.
artifice
1.a clever trick or stratagem; a cunning, crafty device or expedient; wile.
2.trickery; guile; craftiness.
:In McKellen and de la Tour's consummate hands, the play is strangely affectionate beneath the artifice and bruised facade.

Random Words from reading books

apostasy
a total desertion of or departure from one's religion, principles, party, cause, etc.
Mex: My apostasy from Christianity was unexpected for my family
ingénue
the part of an artless, innocent, unworldly girl or young woman, esp. as represented on the stage.
penultimate
next to the last
: the penultimate scene of the play.
: As usual, Dean talked a mile a minute, in rapid, rippling, pyrrhic lines whose only stress fell on the last or penultimate syllable.
boreal
1.of or pertaining to the north wind.
2.of or pertaining to the north.

The 4-Hour Workweek
Timothy Ferris

Seneca
Letters From A Stoic

10 Days To Faster Reading
The Princeton Language Institute And Abby Marks Beale

Function / BPI / Percentile
Speed 1640 (99%)
Memory 1574 (98%)
Attention 1531 (99%)
Flexibility 1635 (99%)
Problem Solving 1427 (90%)

Overall 1561 (97%)

New High Scores:
Word Bubbles - 3450

Function / BPI / Percentile
Speed 1640 (99%)
Memory 1573 (98%)
Attention 1531 (99%)
Flexibility 1624 (99%)
Problem Solving 1427 (90%)

Overall 1559 (97%)

New High Scores:
Brain Shift Overdrive - 7275
Top Chimp - 163

peremptory
1. leaving no opportunity for denial or refusal; imperative: a peremptory command.
2. imperious or dictatorial.

King Arthur 5/5

I posted something about this on my main blog.

For The Bible Tells Me So 5/5

This documentary had made some dormant emotions in me resurfaced.

corroborate
to make more certain; confirm
: He corroborated my account of the accident.
indubitable
that cannot be doubted; patently evident or certain; unquestionable.
:The indubitable effect of the potion convinced many unbelievers.
presentiment
a feeling or impression that something is about to happen, esp. something evil; foreboding.
:The lawyer had a presentiment that the judge would dismiss the case
perspicacious
having keen mental perception and understanding; discerning
: to exhibit perspicacious judgment.
incommensurable
1. not commensurable; having no common basis, measure, or standard of comparison.
2. utterly disproportionate.

Call overdraft protection

I'm angry about this $40 coffee!!!

Hello 2010!