I am wearing the wrong socks today. I changed my mind about which pants to wear so I’m wearing black pants, black shoes and khaki socks.

Dear Windows, why do you suck so much? No love, johnmc.

I’ve been spending a decent amount of time recently over at The Sixty One where I can discover such amazing things as acapella covers of Journey songs, mashups of Emimem & Enya and Celtic/Bhangra fusion.

One of the fun things about the site is that you earn reputation by saving and “hearting” songs. As the songs gain popularity, your reputation on the site grows. There are also quests to complete, such as listening to a certain number of songs from a particular section of the site or at a certain time of day. My current task is to listen to at least 20 times more songs than I give hearts to in a particular day, with a minimum of 5 songs awarded hearts. I have about 10 songs left, but my laptop is insisting that it can’t connect to the network. This is the same network to which my iPhone has happily attached itself, despite having a much smaller antenna than that of the laptop.

I’m definitely not feeling any love for XP right now. I have a feeling that a complete reinstall will be happening soon. Who knows, it may actually get a real OS installed instead.

Well done Entercom. You killed the only good radio station in Sacramento. Dumbasses.

American Idol is over for another year. I’m thrilled!

Things I’m avoiding tonight: American Idol and a No Doubt concert in Fresno.

Today’s Top Tip – Don’t sit your laptop on your sunglasses. Brought to you today by Foster Grant and around $20.

A few weeks ago, I decided that I had finally had enough of my expanded waistline and decided that it was time to do something about it. I read about the slow carb diet and figured it was worth giving it a shot. I tried it for about 3 weeks and it worked quite well. My biggest problem was discipline and how to get something quick and easy for lunch. Pretty much everything that I don’t make myself contains bread or rice (and often comes with a side of a potato product). Mexican and Mexican style food (Chipotle, El Pollo Loco) is pretty easy to modify by replacing rice with beans and forgoing the tortillas. The biggest pitfall in this case is the chips, which I have a very hard time resisting. I lost a few pounds by doing this, but have decided to change tactics for a while. There’s a good chance that I’ll return to this in the future, but for now it was a successful experiment.

The trees at the airport are coming along nicely. The last one and ground cover for the latest round will be installed in a couple of weeks.

Heading for some food and escaping Dolores Cranberry looing like a stuck pig.