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Only in Chicago
In the span of less than a week, we will have experienced two decent snow storms, a thunderstorm and another snow storm. I’m getting a little sick of seeing the white crap falling from the sky. After tomorrows expected snow storm, maybe I’ll start skiing to work, instead of driving. God knows, I could use the exercise. You’d think in a city where the standard line is “If you don’t like the weather, wait 5 minutes, it’ll change”, I’d be used to it. Year after year, the weather keep getting stranger, pretty soon it’ll be snowing in June and sunny and 85 degrees on Christmas morning. Now to wait and see what comes next.
Johan Santana: By The Numbers
It just came across the news that MLB starting pitcher, Johan Santana, whose trade from the Minnesota Twins to the New York Mets was contingent on a renegotiation of his current contract just signed a brand new 7 year - $150 million contract. A contract which surpasses the contract Barry Zito signed (7 Years - $126 million) with the San Francisco Giants, last year, by a measly $24 million. Beyond the outrageous dollar amount as a whole. The breakdown per season comes to roughly $21,428,571 per season.
Technical Difficulties
As if I didn’t already know tech support as a whole, is a complete waste of time.
Saturday evening, I had to replace my wireless network card in my desktop computer. I got home and did the smart thing by checking the D-Link website for Windows Vista drivers, then downloaded them from my laptop onto my portable hard drive and then brought them over to the desktop. I proceed to install the network card and get online … for about three seconds before Vista locked up completely. I reboot and back into windows, and it stalls out again. I’m well on my way to pitching the card out the window and calling it a night, but I checked some forums and some other places and found that this seems to be a common occurrence for this D-Link wireless card. After trying a few different things I ran across and it still not working, I just gave up.