Almost everyone has experienced the phenomenon of forgetting everything you wanted to pick up when you actually walk into the store. The easy solution is a shopping list, of course, but shopping is not always a planned event. This happened to me Friday when we went to Half-priced Books. We had a few coupons... I couldn't think of anything I wanted ( Read more... )

I have a time frame for the macbook upgrade. If I haven't done it by June 25th, it will happen that day. The fact that it is going to happen makes me hate the loud fans and uncomfortable weight of the Dell even more. I don't actually hate the Dell, it's had a bunch of good years, but it is time for the upgrade ( Read more... )

Reviews:

Watchmen. I read the comic book graphic novel on the Monday before it was released and saw the Movie on the following Sunday. I will say, first and foremost, that the movie captured most of the visual style and the mood and tone extremely well. I liked the realist take on what superheroes might actually be. ----- SPOILERS ----> The ( Read more... )

Sundays at the front desk are really boring. Common activities include: Reading a week's worth of Boing Boing and BBGadgets. Checking the balances on all the gift cards in my wallet. Trying to update my wishlists. Posting a twitter message, if I remember. Browsing old friends' social networking profiles to see if anything awesome is going on... ( Read more... )

• made it through a Friday the 13th without once thinking about it.
• watched my first blu-ray movie.
• used soap that sounds too much like food.
• replaced the battery in my car. Three years isn't too bad for a battery, right?
• prepped the new staff and ourselves for the next season of work.

In conversations with my coworkers, I said/predicted that we'd be having a snow-heavy winter. I had no basis for this prediction, other than I thought it was likely and I like to be right. I almost hoped that we'd have a lot of snow, so I'd be correct. We've had enough snow, now. Even if it didn't snow again until next winter, I'd still be right ( Read more... )

My car's thermometer read -5 this morning. I'm pretty sure that's the lowest I've ever seen it display. I dunno if it was really that cold, but it was impressive. Winter's starting off strong. I'm kinda glad I don't need to go out to work, every morning, during this season. I think most of my shopping is done. I went kinda big for the family, so I' ( Read more... )

It started at the beginning of the month, when I parked my car in a way that was eerily familiar. Then a couple weeks later, the christmas trees arrived, and another familiar scene unfolded. I got my phone out again and tried to snap a similar picture. Then a scene/memory [/event?] from Thanksgiving of 2005 reappeared. That may have been the last ( Read more... )

I found a plugin that's supposed to crosspost from my wordpress blog to myspace. That would cut down on a lot of copying and pasting for each blog entry. There may be formatting issues. We shall see. This entry is mostly a test to see how well it works.
[Update: didn't work at all]

First, I should mention that I entered this shot of Penny into a ( Read more... )

Looking back, I could've used my time to do some cleaning around the house or do my paperwork for adventure ed or sort pictures from camp for the poster/collage or decide on pictures for a calendar. Let me recap some of the things that the boredom has made me accomplish instead of all those useful things ( Read more... )