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The Pulse of Kato Whip: 11

Excerpt:
“You are Lady Dusk, aren’t you?” he said, stepping further into the firelight.

She stared at him. “Have we met before?”

“In a dream.”

She remained puzzled. Then, seeing the steed, which had followed him, she exclaimed, “Why, you have my steed! But what is wrong with him? He looks pale — downright transparent, in fact!”

“It’s not exactly your steed,” Kato Whip tried to explain, “but a version of it dreamed by the tarantula. It became mired in reality when it tripped and snagged itself on a web. I have to admit it was the fault of a good friend of mine, a baby earthquake, but I assure you it wasn’t intentional.”

“This is all very confusing,” she said, studying him intently. “What particularly perplexes me is how you remain awake so near to me — though I’ve noticed this in others of late as well.”

“Your reign of pure goodness is at an end!” he proclaimed with a fanfare wave of his hands. But this seemed only to confuse her more. “Uh, you see, I woke the spot of bad that had fallen asleep inside of you, and now you need not fear being such a bore.”

The adventure continues…
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How I Work

A pair of 21-inch monitors dwarf my desk — old monsters, boat anchors. I had to build extra supports into the desk to support them. Both monitors are hooked up to my tower. I’m running XP. Here’s what I have open right now:

  • Windows Explorer (4 instances — one window shows a folder named Wells Fargo Sucks)
  • Microsoft Word (showing 4 files)
  • Microsoft Excel (showing 3 spreadsheets)
  • Firefox (two instances, one on each monitor)
  • Sony Vegas Pro 8.0 (for audio/video editing)
  • Adobe Acrobat Pro (showing a pdf on shading techniques in Photoshop)
  • Photoshop (showing a sketch I’m trying to paint)
  • Calculator (to help with payroll)
  • Internet Explorer (to invoice — the company I work for won’t allow Firefox)
  • Notepad (showing a small datafile of passwords/usernames)

In the two instances of Firefox, I have 15 tabs open: Yahoo Mail, Facebook, Tech-CU (a credit union I’m switching to), a tutorial on Photoshop Advanced Concepts, a Google search on “Do I need a business savings account?”, a website on Best Health Plans for Individuals & Families, a website on Free Instant Healthcare Quotes, a Tech-CU subpage on health insurance plans, Netflix (Don’t Look Down is coming next), Health Savings Calculator, BBC News, and Paycycle (to run payroll). Actually, this is only one of my Firefox instances. The other one seems to have crashed.
I wonder why.

P.S. At my side is a laptop running Quickbooks.