Vortexia's Secret

ok, so does anybody know how to fix a noisy ceiling fan? the one in my bedroom keeps squealing. it isn't quite sqeaky, it's more graty (grating-sounding). like something rubbing against the raw edge of a piece of glass almost. very annoying and hard to sleep through. i feel like i've called maintenance a million times already because they aren't keeping me in the loop as well as they should be on the couple things that weren't perfect when i moved in, so i hate to call the guy out again, but i don't know how to fix it myself. any suggestions from handy men or women in the audience?

i just had a weird realization about today. my body was hyper-sensitive to tactile senses today. it was bizarre. maybe it's how guys feel on a daily basis. in which case, you all have my sympathies. i felt like my sense of touch was heightened the way they say it is when another sense has been removed. but i still had all my other senses. it was strange. i won't go into detail because i'm sure people who talk to me in person don't want to be preoccupied with that the next time we talk.

tried to play a simple CD on my computer just now. i was told that iTunes was the best choice, so i decided to try it since i have it on my computer already. well it needed an update already. now i know that no updates are a walk in the park, but it was a pain in the ass. and it apparently did quicktime at the same time, and it had trouble writing to the correct place. in my experience, quicktime has been that sickly child that just can't get it all together well enough to thrive. it's finicky and always has some sort of "quirk" problem. so tonight was no exception to the rule. and it's a little scary when you see the status bar saying things like "deleting from registry" and other such things. yeeps. but i am finally listening to my CD now, so i guess it was successful.

on that note, i heard a little part of the song "they can't take that away from me" today, and fell in love with it all over again. i absolutely adore that song. so yay it made me happy :)

onto other things... i hired matt earlier tonight, and our fledgling company is quickly skyrocketing into the fortune 500. all i can say is look out trump! i can't go into much more detail without risking the success of our big products, but this is big people. BIG. sadly, we have already lost one of our employees, but you may visit his memorial next to the koy, coy, koi... fish pond in the meditation garden.

ok, enough delirium for tonight. glad i got to talk to so many of you tonight! yay for that. and also yay for having a not-stale granola bar out of this box. i got the box of granola bars last week at the grocery, and the first several that i ate were already stale. i was mad, but lacked the motivation to take it and the receipt back to the grocery and get it exchanged for a fresh box (or to demand a refund of $1.50). so now i'm glad that i got a fresh bar out of the stale box at least. so that's good. and sleep is also good. so g'night! hugs and kisses and all the best wishes :)