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[juldea]

Jason and I went out today on a short run around town... we originally just went to Walmart to get Dr. Pepper, but didn't have ANY (the northeast isn't as Dr. Pepper-core as the midwest is) so we went instead to Shaw's, the local grocery store. They had one little column of 12-packs... compared to the 20 columns of coke. Anyway, we left there and went to the Radio Shack across the street because we're geeks... and Jason found things to buy! A nifty button that lets him switch between speaker sound and headphone sound, and this COOL Virtually Indestructable Keyboard. It's the COOLEST THING, and almost silent. And I got Jason's old keyboard out of the deal ;)

Things Massachusetts needs more of:
Dr. Pepper
left turn arrows/lanes
Papa John's

Did I mention that Jason's sister's senior prom was today? She had a pretty nice dress. Luckily she and her friends are being pretty quiet downstairs.

Comments

[ex-dervish821.livejournal.com]

oklahoma's the best dr pepper place i've ever been. in illinois it's around, not rare, but not at most fast food places either. oklahoma, you can't walk into a store without finding some... heaven. :)

[vambot5.livejournal.com]

dr. pepper is based in waco, texas, so I would assume texas to be more friendly than oklahoma. but I really don't know if that's true; just a guess.

I had always assumed that coke was a southern thing, and that northerners drank pepsi. I had a teacher from like maryland that said this also. I would be much happier with a coke place; when I can't drink doctor pepper, I'll drink coke, but pepsi is still gross to me.

[ex-dervish821.livejournal.com]

right on. i'm with you on coke.

[juldea.livejournal.com]

Yeah, at restaurants and fast food joints I'm having to make do with root beer, if I absolutely want something carbonated. However, the lack of DP should probably be a catalyst for me trying to phase icky soft drinks out of my life... mostly ;)

[juldea.livejournal.com]

Actually, now that you mention it, I see Pepsi more than Coke in restaurants. Jason prefers Coke, so I see it here, but at Domino's yesterday the drink choices were Pepsi, diet Pepsi, and root beer.

[ex-dervish821.livejournal.com]

you mean icky for your health and teeth and waistline, right? not for your taste buds?

PC

[reyjadan.livejournal.com]

Just so this isn't completely off-topic: Bummer to be without DP, kinda reminds me of being on-campus.

Now, to help answer your question about Floppy Drive ID problems:

A link to a (hard to find) MS NT doc about the error:
http://ftp.ist.utl.pt/pub/windowsnt/mirror-microsoft/kb/Q130/6/27.TXT

This may or may not be relevant, and I am leaning toward the latter. The context of this error for most articles I've found lead me to believe that this may be a problem with the Floppy Controller.

[juldea.livejournal.com]

hehe exactly right.

Re: PC

[juldea.livejournal.com]

yeah, that page didn't help, because it says it happens after you do a quick format and we did a full half-an-hour format on one of those disks as part of our troubleshooting.

I removed and reinstalled the floppy controller, and still got the same error. However, it could definitely be a problem with the controller, so if you find out more let me know.