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It’s an amazing world we live in. Last night I helped a woman in Tehran rid her computer of the latest Internet worm/virus. It was a little bit of a pain because apparently Microsoft’s Windows Update software doesn’t work with pirate versions of XP, which thanks

I love Sinfest

My bounced-paycheck woes still have yet to be resolved, So I sold my guitar so that I could get food and even more importantly kitty litter. Pawnshop gave me $50 for it (as a sale—it would have been $40 as a loan), which is not too bad. I bought

plus someone stepped on my $120 sunglasses. Hopefully they can be fixed, and I’ve had them for three years now (making them a better buy than the $5 sunglassses I used to buy every couple weeks), but still annoying.

I have a passport! It arrived in the mail today. Took less than four weeks for it to arrive, not bad. Where should I go first?

Last night Y. reported that she received the care package I sent her. Pretty good, actually: San Francisco to Tehran in 7 days. So now I’m a conspirator in transporting restricted goods into another country. The copies of Cool Beans include material the Iranian government would definitely not approve

All the time I see guys in my neighborhood walking with their girlfriends and instead of holding hands or having their arm around the girls waist or shoulders, they’re dragging this poor girl around by a hammerlock, their arms around the girl’s neck. WTF? Do some girls think