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Tonight was fun. I slept in, went for sushi, hit the store for BBQ supplies, and then we had some friends over for BBQ and it was alot of fun. It’s a friend from college, he is from Africa and now lives in the states. He just got married and his new wife is terriffic. We pigged out, talked, laughed, played cards.

Catching up on Tivo: a ton of Tech Tv shows to watch.

I need to get an oil change for my car.

I also need to make new categories for this blog. Most of my entries are under the “babbling” category. Hmmm, what categories should I create….

Allergies are killing me. Claritin is hyping me up and then knocking me down. I say this all the time, but I AM so tired! Today was a day of errands: sushi, eye doctor (got groovy new frames w/ magnetic clip on sunglasses that flip up), went and saw Mom’s new condo, then came home and went back out to go cruisin’ in the new Z. Watched Phone Booth tonight, it was good. One of those I can only watch once though, like the movie Enough. I found out tonight that I can rent Bollywood DVD’s w/ Netflix! I’m stoked! Now it’s late and my eyes are burning and heavy and I should be in bed. Bye.

Fun night! Just got back from the Yanni concert. The seats weren’t where I thought they’d be, but they sure were close!

I almost brought my D60 but am glad I didn’t cuz there were signs everywhere “no cameras, no video“. I woulda had to walk all the way back to my car (in Tumbuktu) to put my camera away.

I SHOULD have brought the pencam. But I have no brain and so never thought of it. It’s higher-res than my camera-phone and much more stealth: doesn’t light up, beep, or anything.

I also left my binoculars in the car like an ass, but thankfully they had big screens up so u didn’t really need them.

The concert was much more upbeat and fun than I ever would have expected.

I did take pix w/ my camera phone, but they are not great.

On the way out, we saw some of the people from Yanni’s orchestra, signing autographs, and got their pix w/ the camera phone:

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We got the Z! We got the Z! We got the Z!

EEEEE!

Today is the Festival of India, one of my favorite events of the year. Watch my moblog for pix. I am also going to bring my D60 w/ me to hopefully get some really nice pictures.

So M and I went car shopping yesterday. (see moblog) M’s car is great but is now out of warranty, and we’re eyeing the Nissan 350z.

We’re also looking at the Mazda RX-8.

I think we both like the Z better, but my Uncle owns the Mazda dealership so we know we won’t get screwed going there. But we really like the Z but to get the Z we have to go to my Uncle’s competitor who most likely is not honest.

Not sure if we’ll buy at all. It seems as though we really want the Z, but if we can’t get the price down (and if we can’t avoid last-minute sneak-in fees) we’ll probably just skip it for now.

Four-eared kitten finds home

I’m so depressed. I just got off the phone w/ M who told me that on Slashdot they are saying that Comcast just bought TechTV and Leo Laporte is no longer going to host The Screen Savers (!) and they are going to Merge TechTV w/ another network! I AM SO DEPRESSED! I fell in love w/ TechTV a year ago when we got satellite, then we turned it off, and now a year later, we got it hooked back up JUST for TechTV and not even a MONTH after hooking back up they are going to RUIN IT! FUCK!

URL to story:
http://slashdot.org/articles/04/03/25/1838233.shtml?tid=126&tid=129&tid=149&tid=188&tid=99

I got this email from my mom today. She works at a car dealership. This is an exact quote except I cleaned up the grammar and typo’s:

“This old guy just came in, complaining that he bought
an ’03 Mercury Sable with CD, but there’s ‘not one in the car‘
so the salesman goes out to the Sable & says ‘there it
is, right there‘. the man says, ‘It is? But when I push
the button, it says: ‘No CD‘…salesman said, ‘did you
push the button AFTER you put the CD in?‘ old guy says:
‘Oh, do I have to put a CD in there?‘ (HAHA &he was
Dead Serious!!!!)”

Ran a million errands today. I don’t know if it’s the biking, or that the stress is over (no more cleaning for company, no more company), but I had a TON of energy today (or it coulda been the Mocha from Barnes and Noble). [White Chocolate Moca w/ added Toffee Nut, mmmmmm!] I ran ALL over creation, even to stores where all I wanted to do was LOOK at an item and not buy. Normally the constant running around kills me, the traffic stress, the in and out of the car over and over. But today I have lots of energy. I wonder if it’s cuz I biked alot yesterday. I bet it was the coffee.

As you know, I just LOVE my Fujitsu Lifebook P1120. I found a great bag for it. It’s a Samsonite travel bag and I can’t find it online to give you the model number, but I can tell you I got it at Office Max by the luggage and computer bags. (I’m going to keep looking, and/or if I go to Office Max I’ll write down the type of bag and let you know). [[see update below.]]

It’s one of those bags that can be worn w/ the strap across the chest so it can’t be grabbed easily, and it’s unisex. It’s a great bag: it has lots of pockets and zippers as well as slots for business or credit cards.

Here are some pix of just how well that bag fits this laptop:
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This bag is black and on the front it says “Samsonite” in white lettering, but I put a Hello Kitty patch over that part. You can leave yours black or put your own patch over the logo.

UPDATE: Ok, I got the info on this bag. For those of you who have this laptop, this bag is GREAT for it. It’s a Royal Traveller EXCUSRION BAG “by Samsonite”, Model number RT0063BK, bar code number 21276 98263. Like I said, I got it at Office Max although I did not see it on their website, but they had it in the store today. Here are photos of what to look for in the store: http://www.laserblog.com/gallery/00shared/p1120bag/
Oh yeah, and it’s only $20.00

Sh*t. I wrote this whole post, then Mozilla froze up so I did an Open In New Window in IE which didn’t open a new window, and when I hit Back, my post was gone!

Sh*t!!! Ok, try again:

I am SO FREAKING TIRED! M’s parents have left and I am always wiped out after company. Then I got a new bike so I went for a bike ride after they left and it killed me. I guess I am more out of shape than I thought. I took a 2 hour nap and I still feel like the walking dead.

My new bike is just like my old bike but more comfy. I love my “old” bike (not old) but bending over far on a mountain bike hurts my back and hands. My new bike you sit more upright. They look very similar.

My old bike is a (awesome blue) Schwinn Mesa GS mountain bike (I think 2000 model year) and my new bike is an (awesome blue) Specialized Crossroads Sport “comfort/hybrid”:

I tried to get a longer stem and new handlebars for my “old” bike but had no luck. My new bike, the handlebars are really high, even higher than in the picture, so it’s great on my back. I think I am becoming an old fart. I’m getting old. My back and hands never used to hurt when I rode a low-handlebarred bike! Ugh.

While I was surfing for links and photos for this post, I came across this bike (below), it’s too neato!

It’s the Schwinn Stingray.

I can’t label ALL my posts “tired”, although it’s tempting.

Yes, I’m tired. What’s new.

M played tourist w/ the parents. I bowed out to spend time w/ my mom, and she got sick, poor thing. Hope you get better ma!

I want to go to this place M went, it’s a kind of zoo. Great photo op.

I am tired. It’s stressful for me to have company. I’m a control freak and a privacy freak. I feel very violated having company. I can’t do what I want, when I want, sleep in, have privacy.

I was journalling today in my journal. Whenever I do that I wonder why I bother. Nobody will ever read it. I would not want anyone to, and I’m not going to reproduce, so it’ll just end up in the garbage when I die. I guess I have to remind myself that journalling is cathartic and theraputic, and that’s the main reason to do it. I’m so technology-dependant now that if I write so much as two paragraphs, I get a wrist cramp.

I’m tired and I don’t want to go to bed. I want to watch the tivo’ed shows that I have not had a chance to watch. I want to surf, and blog, and chat. I have to get up early. Oh well.

On tv now in the background: Sliver.

Oh yeah, Crystal seems to be ok after eating string. I want M to talk to the vet. She’s not acting sick but took a long time to eventually poo, and when she did there was drawstring in it. Probably another trip to the vet just to be sure.

Got one email from the vet lady re. the owl and he was doing ok, but still had to have an x-ray. Hope she writes back.

I am going to go now, and either watch tivo or go to bed. Wonder which it’ll be.

Goodbye.

So… more horrible-but-true stoires?

How about a man who does not wear anti-persperant. He sits in the front seat of the car, holding onto the Jesus Handle the whole time. This opens up the arm pit nicely. Then the A/C is blowing on him full blast, blowing that stank back to me in the back seat. And the window lock is on (see last post).

How about arriving at our destination and the group (3 vs. 4) decides to eat outside in the heat. I sit, unwittingly, downwind from said armpit. I could barely eat!

[vagueness to protect the inncoent (ok, not innocent)]

In the next issue: one leans to fart loudly in fine restaurants, while the other drops SBD’s that kill.

And if you’re really lucky, one day you’ll get to hear my “one time when I was sick and had diarrhea and the water in the apartment went out” story. >:p

M’s parents are here and so I have no time. No time to think. No time to do what I want/need to do. I bowed out of a day playing tourist, missing a photo-op at a zoo type of place. But I needed some time for myself. Plus, they’re… gassy. On a recent trip, I was in the backseat and one of them farted so bad I almost threw up. I tried to open the window and it was locked. I asked them to unlock the window and I was told NO. “You don’t need it open.” (as if I’m a fucking child) I said, no, I NEED it open just for a minute. I was told NO, “you don’t need it open, we have the A/C on“. I almost threw up. I should have opend the car door at 60mph. If I wrote up half the horror stories from these visits and tried to sell them, nobody would buy them because a), they’re too disgusting, and b) it’s SO bad it sounds made up.

I’ll save the B/O stories for another time. (here)

I am SO happy w/ this software I found: VeriChat, which is like Trillian
for the Palm Pilot. I got it at download.com:
http://download.com.com/3000-7242-10221365.html
It works REALLY well, and I can use either WiFi or use Bluetooth and use
my cell phone as a modem (using my cell phone internet provider).

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M’s parents are in the next town. Today we are running back and forth to the vet as Crystal ate some string.

I keep having aspects of dreams come true. Not “oh wow, my dream came true!”… I mean, things I see in dreams I then see in real life: A girl in pink scrubs, a yellow puppy, and now waiting inordinately long for “fast food”. Like, three times in a week. Now all I need is to dream the winning lottery number and I’ll be ok. Last night I dreamed I got a wifi-equipped Canon SLR. So far I think only Nikon makes an SLR that has wifi built in. But boy, the day Canon EOS SLR’s do, I’m jumpin’ on it!

Might go to some zoo type of place today. If so, photo-op!

Patrick Norton of the Screen Savers Quoted Arthur C. Clarke on a recent episode, I love it:

“Any technology significantly advanced enough is indistinguishable from magic“

I’m SO tired of this! I have two, TWO! external firewire hard drives for backup. I use Cobian Backup for the Western Digial one (it does LIVE backups which I prefer) and a Buslink one for what I call “Drag Backups”. I keep all my files in certain folders and so periodically I like to drag-n-drop them to the Buslink drive.

Well, since day one it’d periodically just lose the connection halfway through a large backup. MONTHS of research showed that it might MIGHT be a firmware problem. This does not happen in windows ME but ME sucks and caused more problems than I can list, so we tried xp and that’s when the problems started, so then we put on 2000 pro and it’s still happening. Now today, I got an IO error dragging a large backup to the Western Digial drive!

I swear, I am SO anal that I have TWO backup drives but NONE of them work!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAACK!

/pull hair out

I ran to the deli for a sammitch. While I was getting back in the car I saw this huge pine cone. Only it wasn’t a pine cone, it was an owl! I took his picture:

… and realized that something must be wrong. He seemed asleep but then he looked at me and started rocking back and forth.

There’s a vet in that shopping center, so I went in to tell them, and a vet tech came out to get him:

The vet tech is going to splint his broken wing and try to nurse him back to health at home. I hope he will be ok. I gave her my email addy and phone number, and she said she’d give me updates.

I hope he will be ok!

(I moblogged this as well here and here. Thank goodness for camera phones!)

UPDATE: One more image:

M’s parents stayed in the next town over night so I could sleep in and I am going to just veg all day, watch techtv, and surf. I want to go for sushi but I don’t want to drive in traffic, so I guess I’ll just fry up a Sabrett’s in butter.

Yesterday was St. Patrick’s Day and I didn’t even realize it until it was too late to do anything about it because of having company. There’s this kick-ass new Irish Pub in town that was surely having one helluva shindig. I don’t like crowds, but I would have liked to have seen the party and had one drink. I rarely drink, but I’d'a had one on St. Patty’s Day.

A friend had a baby. So glad for them. No matter how hard I look though, I can NOT find a new-baby card that says “better you than me” inside. They’re really hard to find!

I want to scream. It’s like a bad dream. No matter how long I work, the house continues to be a pig stye. I have 4 hours left. If anyone says ONE thing about a pile here or a dust bunny there, I am going to go ballistic on them. Seriously. I’m about to snap.

M’s parents get here today. For a week I won’t be able to blog much. When I AM home I’ll be so tired I feel nausiated. For a week or so I’ll probably moblog more than anything. Thanks god for moblogs!

My house is still a mess. Thing about a nice big house is there’s more to mess up and so there’s more to clean when u have to! Argh! Also w/ a nice big house, people want to stay with you instead of getting a hotel.

I’m so tired I feel sick as I sit here, and I have lots more work to do b4 their plane lands.

ech. sick. blech. ugh. whine.

I feel sick. Sometimes coffee makes me feel sick. Blech.

Heard from my friend who is a Barnes and Noble employee that “The Barnes And Noble Cafe Which Proudly Serves Starbucks Coffee” (NOT to be confused with an actual Starbucks Cafe), should have WiFi by September. I don’t know if this is nation-wide or Florida-wide or what. But I’m happy. There’s not enough wifi in this town.

Oh my god I’m so tired. In-laws get here Wednesday, cleaning, errands, cleaning, ugh. Tired. Must sleep. Gah! I have nothing witty to say. Next 7 days or so will be moblogging more than anything.

My moblog was an EDITOR’S PICK today on the front page of textamerica.com!

The Textamerica T-shirt that I ordered the other day showed up today. It’s great!

That website rocks, I wish everyone had a moblog. What a wonderful world it’d be!

M’s parents are coming Wed. and the house is a mess so we’ll be doing nothing but cleaning and trimming the landscaping until then. Whee… And once they get here I won’t have much time to blog. I’ll moblog alot though while they are here though. Today it’s clean clean clean, make a late lunch run and go to Office Max for a new computer desk chair. M wants one of those metal mesh ones. I think we are going for Philly Cheeeeese Steak Sandwhiches today. =:D