The missing hard drive

Thursday: Woke at 9. Slept a little more. Strange dreams about falling into a library. Up, email, shower. Sitting in the dance room. Brief cat nursing. At 10:35, headed out.

To Watertown for an eye exam. My first. Strange little office. I'm in good shape. Stopped for an egg sandwich on my way back to the office. One of my eyes was dilated. This put me in rather an odd state.

At my desk: My laptop, back from being repaired. On booting it: Horror the "I'm a brand new computer" routine. They had replaced my 120 GB drive with a 60 GB drive. Calling in dismay I was told to call back on Monday. Decided that wasn't good enough and called back. "If you can prove to us the computer had a 120 GB drive in it, maybe we can do something for you." was one thing I heard. Also "Installing the 120 GB drive voided the warrantee." and "It was a non-conforming part, so it was replaced." Good god. I had only returned the computer for a minor cosmetic repair. I actually became pretty angry. The anger left me feeling yucky for the rest of the day. Finally talked to a supervisor two levels up the food chain, and at least felt like I'd been heard. Got back to work. Got the vari-speed stuff working pretty well by the end of the day. Mom called. Pretty good news about her knee. Probably doesn't need an operation. Deposited my check. Coffee. Ate some of the chocolate that had been given to us by happy beta testers.

Left at 7:20, and over to Union Square. Spent some time making notes from the Yoga Nidra book. Led an interesting class to three people. Biggest challenge for me leading Yoga Nidra was going slow enough. Then some stretching and movements. People seemed happy, saying they'd come back.

After closing up, around 10:10, headed to Wang's for some Chinese food. Talked to Wnd about her upcoming workshop. Back home. Leo's not doing so well. Looks sick and vomiting. Ate food watching The Wire. Email. Printed out some receipts so I could at least prove I'd purchased a 120 GB drive, even if I couldn't prove it was actually in the laptop I sent in. MB returned from an adventure to a coffee house. Watch this to get the gist.

Later, as I was heading out to drop a check at Third Life, I noticed that the copper trellis for the climbing hydrangea along the driveway had gone missing. MB said she had read that people were stealing metal. Creepy. Drove to Third Life and dropped off a check. Down basement. Changed strings on my acoustic guitar, trying Mike Doolin's winding technique. The high G string kept slipping as I practiced.