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Within probably 15 minutes of M receiving his “That Was Easy!” button in the mail from Staples.com, we taught The Pug to tap it w/ his paw for a treat. Most of the time he taps hard enough that the button says “That was easy!”.

WE DID get video of this, but I have to download it still. Will do that on Wednesday, I promise!

kw: that was easy button staples staples.com office supplies

I finally found that statue I was looking for! It was total coincidence how I found it. I had been all over the web and all over town in stores looking for it, and at only *one* store did I ask a sales lady about it, and when I described it she said it was in a catalog that she had at home. So I gave her my card and she just called me w/ the url and item # and now I have two on the way! I’m so excited! Hee hee. It’s here by the way.

They say there are no coincidences.

I want to get one for myself and one for my sister’s grave.

I have a wild hair to mess around w/ the MT structure of this blog. So if I disappear, it’s just because I f*cked up, and I’ll be back when I can get M. to rescue me.

Oh BTW Nala, M is packing up your crack for you right now!

I ate too much dessert and now I wish I could throw up.

I took a road trip today and I’m so tired now. Road shock. It was a lot of fun tho’. Went to a p|anetarium north of here that burned down a couple years ago and is now rebuilt and SUPER MEGA cutting edge tech! I was salivating, remembering my 10 years at our local p|anetarium which is now in the stone ages in comparison. *sigh* “Back in MY day we didn’t have all this fancy schmancy stuff!”

What the hell were they thinking when they named this!?!?

Happy Turkey Day!

We are taking “the boys” (the dogs) over to Mom’s for Turkey Day. Watch the moblog for camera phone peeks.

Wow, just now realized that my Kanguru Audio Flash…

…looks very much like the Iriver iFP-800 series:

As I just said on the TWiT website in a comment field, I’m doing an Arbitron radio ratings survey this week and my listening diary is conspicuously blank. I did tell them to “watch out for podcasts” though, in the comment section, and explained why, LOL. That’s all I listen to in the car anymore. Radio here sux, it’s all car commercials, and really, really bad music. The only thing I DO listen to sometimes is talk radio on the local public radio station.

As I wrote on the blog my family reads  -
Podcasts (auto-downloadable audio shows) are the wave of the future, as is “I.P. tv” – downloading tv shows via the net, either network shows or INDEPENDANT shows. There are SO many really good independant “tv shows” right now, mostly on technology topics, but as this thing grows, you’ll have shows on ALL topics, as is already happening w/ Podcasting.

That’s what’s so neat about the Net now that more people have broadband. While a TV show dedicated to only didgeridoos or learning the Language of Zimbabwe would NEVER last on network or cable television, they not only exist, but THRIVE in the podcast world!

This is an amazing time, folks.

“Podcast” just means automatically downloadable internet audio. You can play it on the computer, an ipod, any mp3 player, burn it to CD, etc. You download a “podcatcher”, software to automatically download podcasts, such as Juice Receiver, and then go to iTunes or PodcastAlley.com to search for podcasts of interest.

This is the funniest thing I’ve seen in a LONG time.

Make sure you have your speakers on -

http://media.putfile.com/WizardsofWinter-SM
(Original article here, via digg.com.)

Seeing as how I’ve stared at similar displays for ten years running laser light shows, I find this HILLARIOUS! As I said to a former co-worker, do you think this guy works at a planetarium?

kw: funky christmas lights timed to music trans siberian orchestra video wizards of winter house

I want this statue:

(photo copyright Ian Fraser of ianfraser.com)

Can’t find it anywhere.

I went to the library to look something up on google. I forgot to email myself the link. I come home, do the SAME search, and it’s not there. I wonder why. Does it change search results based on the browser? The originating domain? The history/cookies? UGH! I can’t find it now!

Oh my freaking GAWD! It’s not even Thanksgiving yet!! TWO people on our street already have their christmas lights up!

My new computer purse! Pink!

Went to see Harry Potter at the matinee today w/ a friend. Then went for sushi w/ her, then shopping for Coffee Mate, then home. After hanging out for a bit, M and I went for Indian food and then to Wa1 Mart Hell.

M is building a small computer, all the parts came today, it’s to run our home security system. We got a kick-butt custom pro security system, but we are going to add motion-detect floodlights/cameras and this will be the controller/recorderfor it, a small cube case, portable style, kinda like a shuttle pc, but blue, w/ blue lights, and a 4 line input video card. This will run Linux.

Tonight I watched ghost shows on tv, played Mario Kart DS via the internet, made flavored coffee, and am thinking of going to bed “early” for a Friday night.

Oh, tomorrow we are going to a paranormal group meeting. I went to one a few weeks ago, and this is a second group.

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Pumpkin Spice! New holiday flavor of Coffee Mate! That and Gingerbread (which is really great), egg nog, peppermint mocha, and I forget.

http://www.coffee-mate.com/products.asp

I can’t find the Pumpkin Spice yet, but the Gingerbread is great and I special ordered the Pumpkin Spice. By the way, it’s by the milk, refrigerated, not the coffee isle.

Not much is new. Nothing new.

Went to the dr. today and he told me that I have rocks in my head, literally.

Went to lunch and had the best Carrot Cake in the world.

Then took a long nap on the couch, didn’t get enoug sleep last night. Now I’m up late cuz I’m not tired, so I won’t get enough sleep tonight either. Vicious circle.

Tomorrow (Thursday) is my only free day, Friday I have plans w/ a friend, Monday I have plans w/ a lady to help her w/ her computer, Tuesday I might have Jury Duty.

The dogs are great, the cats are great.

Not much to say. Not sure what I’ll do w/ my day off tomorrow. At this rate I’ll probably sleep half of it away (3:11am) It’ll probably involve videogames and starbucks.

If you want friend codes to play Mario Kart DS against people online, I have some links so you can find some. You don’t need friend codes to play online, just use the “worldwide” or “regional” search when going online w/ the game. But last night the only part of the online network that was working was the friends part of the network, so it’s handy to be able to get your hands on some friends codes.

* gamespot.com “Nintendo DS” forum, various topics there.
* The MKDS union at gamespot.com
* Someone started an IRC channel to exchange friend codes:
     it’s on DAL NET, #MarioKartDS.

UPDATE: more…

* The comments of this post have friend codes and friend code source links.
* This yahoo group was created to exchange mkds friend codes:
gamesource.groups.yahoo.com/group/mariokart_ds_friends/
* The new Nintendo Wifi Clans Union at gamespot.com is new and they exchange friend codes.

(signup at gamespot.com is free, then join the two unions listed above.)

UPDATE: More still…

* A Frappr Map w/ Mario Kart DS Friend Codes!

kw: nintendo, nintendo ds, mario kart ds, friend code, friends codes.

We had steak two nights in a row… now I have the “meat sweats” and am so hot. Now tomorrow I have a doctor’s appt and you know my bp will be high, that and coffee and diet coke two days in a row. Last time I was there my dr. told me that caffiene has a HALF LIFE of 10 hours! Yikes.

I’ve been playing Mario Kart DS all day, and tonight the nintendo wifi network is down but if you add friends into your ds you can play against them. Over at gamespot.com under the Nintendo DS forum you can find ppl sharing their friends codes.
http://www.gamespot.com/pages/forums/…….

Somehow it’s a lot more fun knowing you are playing against real ppl, and the ppl on the gamespot.com forums are pretty cool, so it’s fun.

I got Mario Kart DS today, wanna race online?

kw: nintendo ds, nintendo wifi, mario kart ds, friend code, friends code.

What’s wrong w/ me that I haven’t been saying much?

derrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Went to 0rlando this weekend, on Saturday. M’s bro was in town so we went up to meet him. We drove thru hickville on the way there and back. We were only there for the evening. It was good to see him, and in that short time I realized I had more in common w/ him than I knew. I wish M could spend more time w/ his bro. Family is important and we all had a nice talk and I wished M could have more of these great chats w/ his bro.

My arm is bleeding. Why do I keep picking at it?

Today- sushi, iced tea w/ mom, shopping, pumpkin spice latte, drive thru pharmacy for kitty, home.

The lady on tv right now is thin as a stick and has a HUGE HEAD.

Sunday we did nothing but sleep, or, well, I did nothing but sleep. I can’t sleep too well, my allergies are worse and I can’t breathe thru my nose, making sleep impossible. That + road shock = I slept a LOT. I have nothing to report from Sunday.

I need to be in bed.

3:22am, I hear M is up upstairs, is he just up to pee or did he get paged for work?

Recent movies watched:

Phantom of the Opera (totally frickin’ obsessed)
Dear Frankie (Gerard Butler, helLOOOO!?!)
Devdas (I love Indian films)

I guess I’m just not feeling very talktative lately.

Let’s see….

Here’s what I’m “digging” (bookmarking) at digg.com – click here.

You can peek into my daily life via my moblog.

I joined a local paran0rma1 group. It was really neat, I ran into an old friend I had not seen in 15 years so that was really cool. I look forward to future meetings. 2 days after the meeting I got an odd phone call talking about how it was a “cl0sed group” (avoiding g00gle w/ the misspellings) and that I was “invited by accident” but that I’m welcome to keep going since they like me but not to expect to go on any investigations any time soon. Fine. No problem. But WTF!? Sounds like a really strange disorganized and heavily political group. *sigh* So these people from another paran0rma1 group who were at the same meeting liked me so much they’ve officially invited me to join. So I’m pshyced.

I’ve always been very interested in the paran0rma1 but have experienced NOTHING. NOOOOoOthing. It’s like I’m in this isolation box. That or there is NOTHING. No ghosts, no demons, no psychic abilities, no afterlife, no god. Which is it? Idunno. So I go into this as a “hopeful skeptic”.

Have any of you had any paran0rma1 experiences? I’d love to hear of them. Email me, addy on sidebar, as comments are still down due to comment spam. (!!!)

So then last night I have this long involved dream that we’re at a restaurant w/ my dead brother and he asks if I want to see my dead sister (yes I’ve had a lot of loss). I said “sure, but” and I can’t remeber what I said. But I remember saying somethign to the effect of it had better be convincing. I rememebr banging my arms on the table to make sure that I wasn’t dreaming (*), and I could FEEL it so I was convinced it wasn’t a dream. So later on in the dream I meet my sister. She looks the same, is dressed like me, and it’s wonderful. But later on I realize it is not her voice, it’s a different voice and also has a bad southern hick accent. I get angry that once again I’ve been denied a real visit with her.

I wonder if this dream was trying to tell me that the reason I “see nothing”, have had no paranormal experiences, is because I’m so science minded that I’d doubt it was real even if it happened.

(*) Lately I’ve had a lot of dreams where IN the dream I say “well, that’;s ok because this is just a dream” or “wow I wonder if this is a dream or not”. How odd is that?

My pug is asleep against my foot. I love him so much.

Strange life.

The pug woke me up too early today so then I got tired later on and slept on the couch WAY too long. Now it’s late and I’m surfing w/ no bra on (*) (*) and have accomplished nothing.