color me skeptical

the ONLY thing working is im and internet?? i find that a little fishy . . . if you added solitaire to the list of mysteriously working programs, i'd have to not believe you at all ;)

so, i'm on the fast computer. with the $80,000 machine. it sucks up some sample and looks at it - it does this at three speeds lo, med, hi. so, i was starting to look at my samples today and it wasn't working. it would for work a couple of seconds and then step. it turns out "lo" is just randomly not working - which sounds like a machine problem. and it was doing this all day yesterday too. but did anyone point this out? no. i had to discover it on my own today and almost have a heart attack because my samples were getting sucked away but the machine wasn't reading them properly. scientists are socially dysfunctional annoyances.