When was it that I complained about my work laptop dying? The hard drive died and they had to get me a new one. Well, now I’ve had it a week and IT’S DEAD. Well, not completely dead, but when I try to log in it tells me that there aren’t any passwords set and it turns itself off. I’m guessing it’s not a hard drive problem, but then again what do I know?

One of the gym old-timers (she started last year when the gym first opened) moved to San Diego and was back in town today. We all went out to dinner and she looked great. She’s on the 5-workouts-a-week schedule like me and I think she’s lost more weight than I have.

Thing is, she’s doing the Zone diet and I’m still eating fairly awful cheeseburgers like the one I had today at the Twin Oaks Bar & Grill for lunch. It was almost good but certainly not worth breaking my month and 10 day streak for. There was no menu there, just three specials on the board:

• cheeseburger, fries, and clam chowder,
• bacon cheeseburger, fries, and clam chowder, and
• fish and chips and clam chowder.

On the plus side, the clam chowder was great. The burger was OK, as were the fries. The Diet Coke, however, tasted like detergent and hair tonic and, being a bar, the place smelled of stale beer and cigarette smoke. It wasn’t quite worth the 8 mi drive but it is Hillsboro after all. The really good hamburgers are all back in Portland.