How many peanut M&M's is a handful?

I say 10, plus or minus 1.

This is how many you get for quarter these days in the vending machines that take a quarter and you turn the knob and open the little flap underneath. I've been keeping an eye on how many come out, and depending on size and random chance you get 9, 10 or 11 90% of the time.

And it turns out this is usually enough to quell the Peanut M&M craving you have.

And furthermore, it's a better deal than the bag in the vending machine down the hall! That bag probably costs you 75 cents, and it has about 26 M&M's in it.

And one more reason to buy 'em by the handful: face facts. If you buy the bag, you'll EAT the whole bag. You've just spent enough to quell three M&M cravings and only taken care of one. Now you're a little bit poorer and a little bit fatter.

The moral of this story:When it comes to Peanut M&M cravings, pass up the bag and go for the handful.

Reasons to hate Gateway

I have two reasons to regret buying a Gateway Convertable laptop. First, the external video port does not have any screw terminals. If you try (as I did) to put a cable on it and move it, the cable falls out. There is no way to hold a cable securely to the external video port. There's no good reason I can see why they left them off, there's room on the chassis for them. Too cheap?

Second reason: the laptop developed a mysterious blue-screen-reboot problem today. Googling the problem led me to consider and accept restoring from recovery disks. But when I tried to recover from the provided CD, it gives two options: R for recover, Q to boot from hard disk. If you choose R, it tries to access the recovery partition on the hard drive, and then blue-screens and reboots. The solution would be to fdisk or format the hard drive, but how do you do that if you can't boot? Well, what you do is press the hidden option F when given the choices of R or Q. And voila, you can format the hard drive and the recovery from CD commences. Now why, why, why didnt' they just add the F option to the recovery screen? Just to raise revenue when you call support?

Gateway... Gateway... how far you have fallen!!

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New bike

Trying out a new bike. Bacchetta recumbent. Now I need to figure out where to put the seat to get comfortable.

And no, I don't ride in jeans and tennis shoes. I'm working with the company to find the best "fit" for me.