Twas' The Night Before Solstice....

by James Finn Garner

Twas the night before solstice and all through the co-op
Not a creature was messing the calm status quo up.

the children were nestled all snug in their beds,
Dreaming of lentils and warm whole-grain breads.

We'd welcomed the winter that day after school
By dancing and drumming and burning the Yule,

A more meaningful gesture to honor the planet
Than buying more trinkets for Mom or Aunt Janet,

Or choosing a tree just to murder and stump it
And dress it all up like a seasonal strumpet.

My lifemate and I, having turned down the heat,
Slipped under the covers for a well-deserved sleep,

When from out on the lawn there came such a roar
I fell from my futon and rolled to the floor.
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and you should - on another holiday note -
check out wooferstl's Christmas Hat Day Collage. It Rocks!

change!

Corporate Entercom announced this morning that we will be moving to Office 2007 and Outlook 2007 in February. In their email was a "video introduction" to both products - OMG - they've totally blown up the office suite and redesigned it. but will it make me more productive? that remains to be seen.

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I also - need a new laptop. My current model is slow and I've had to upgrade her multiple times. I have nearly 4K in windows software (most adobe suite plus adobe video editing) and while I'd like to go Macintosh at home - I think I will be looking for a great new Windows laptop. So here's the question - most if not all new laptops come loaded with Windows Vista. I would be taking my old laptop to say - Best Buy - and asking them to move the current harddrive on there - to my new laptop so I don't lose all my software packages. Any advice on this? can they transfer my software to the new PC? (thing is - I have no idea where a couple of the source disks are - so the copies (while legal) are not replaceable) I know I'm a bad computer owner - but with four moves in three years? some things didn't make it.