> I was bored

I'm bored, too. Yawn!

> Trying to reach the end of the rainbow.

Did you ever see a double rainbow? I mean, a big coloured bow and another smaller inside it?

> The sound of your A:\ drive booting up.

Oh, I remember when I was in high school and the top machinery had two 8'' floppies... :)

> Just about everything in Journalism.

Are you into journalism? Recently I worked for Italian newspapers as an editorial software technician (by the way, sometimes I send articles to a local weekly magazine; I like a lot writing).

> "Dial phones."

What do you mean, the ones with the rotary device?

> The annoying sound of a hamster running in its squeaky wheel.

As my hamster did... when he ran on the wheel, always looked out, like to be sure of where he was going (best of all, when he kept trying to climb the wheel from outside)
Have you never seen a baby hamster climbing the cage walls and walking upside down on the roof? :)

AP.