That is damn funny...

Do you ever wonder how Prudence spends her weekends? Probably not. When I'm not busy reading poorly written opinions from the 1800s, I get to work on my legal writing assignments. We pretend we're associates in a big firm and write memos. The professor gives us hypotheticals as if he were the supervising attorney. "A potential client came in and related these facts. Go research the applicable case law and evaluate whether or not we should take the case." Usually we're told to limit our work to certain aspects of the case because we are but 1Ls and easily confused. So I spend my weekends doing this in the hopes that some day I'll get a job that doesn't suck.

And in other news, spent part of the evening at the 'rents celebrating my dad's birthday. We played a card game. Ever played Pit? You pretend you're trading commodities. After a few hands, my dad thought it would be really funny to hold one of each kind of card so no one could win. And so he's laughing hysterically and the rest of us are really annoyed. And so he starts to trade again and we assume he's given up this game. But no, he's still doing it. He's having a hoot because he's making some point about corruption in the market and oooh, we all assumed we were playing the same game but he's demonstrating market control. No, we assumed we were playing a game as a family. And we're all mad, and my mom's so embarrassed she's crying, my husband never wants to go over there again, and my dad's just laughing and laughing about how he manipulated us. I just don't get it. I'm not conveying this well -- he's say he was going to play for real, and then manipulate again just because he thought it was funny to watch us try to trade and realize we couldn't. After he done this several times, the whole party just got up and left as a group, just fled the house without the usual goodbyes. We like to get together as an extended family and play board or card games. He's never done anything like this before. He wouldn't let us play. Now no one wants to do it again. I'm mad for me and mad that he humiliated my mom and just floored that "Mr. Ethics" would think that was funny.

And I can tell that it's way beyond my bedtime.

I've got a fix for that: (Mine was doing it as well)

1. Right Click on "My Computer", select "Manage"
2. Head to the Device Manager (Mangler)
3. Find your CD/DVD-ROM in the list, should be under CD-ROM/DVD Drives
4. Double Click it, to open the Properties window.
5. Hit the Properties tab.
6. Make sure the slider is all the way up, as well, make sure that "Enable Digital..." is checked. If it was set this way, uncheck the Digital option.
7. Try to play now.

This belongs in the "Hell" thread!

Next time you see your father, will you smack him upside the head for me?

Been there, done that - repeatedly
The thing still plays DVD's without a hitch, just won't do CDs.

I got back from Lake Tahoe last night. Awesome, awesome, awesome Spring skiing this year...the best ever!!! :cheers: :snap: :cheers:

I also finally got lucky...I played $20.00 on a quarter slot machine before I left yesterday and a won a $318.00 jackpot. I cashed out and collected my money...woohoo! My sister, who usually never gambles, won the $653.00 progressive on a nickle slot (of all things) at 2:00 AM two nights before. The only reason we were playing the nickle slots was to take advantage of the complimentary casino drinks. Lots of Lemon Drops...I paid for it the next day. My April fool's joke was on me, I couldn't get out of bed all day! :rolleyes:

Congratulations on the loss of your virginity!

I'm bored

Thanks -- it was worth the wait!! ;)

But, you're funny today!