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Friday, November 28, 2008
Day 28

Nothing to say today. Sorry. ;)

Probably won’t have much the next few days, either.

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Thursday, November 27, 2008
Happy Thanksgiving

Hope everyone had a good day. Too tired to write. Wish I could sleep on planes…

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Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Day 25

I need to stop procrastinating. I should be packing, because tomorrow night I fly to NY for Thanksgiving. Instead, I’m watching TV, playing Rock Band, writing a post… I should really get to it already.

I think I’ll go watch last week’s 30 Rock now.

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Friday, November 21, 2008
hello, world

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Thursday, November 20, 2008
Day 20

Well, it looks like that trip to Fry’s may not be necessary. I’ll have to wait a little longer for a bunch of my stuff, but Futurlec has prices on a lot of this stuff that Fry’s won’t be able to beat. Specifically, their Value Packs are a great deal. I ordered a bunch of stuff from there, so hopefully I will have the random components I will need for the near future.

Tonight could be a very long night, or a very short one. It’s the softball playoffs. We’re in second place, so we play the third place team. If we win that game, we have to beat the first place team twice to win the league. I’m really not sure what I want to happen. Three games in one night is a lot, but it’d be fun to win.

I guess that’s it for today. Time to go play softball…

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Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Day 18

My sunglasses broke this morning. Annoyed. They were just fine last night, and I picked them up today and it just came apart.

Dammit

A while ago, Sandisk and Adorama had some great prices on their Extreme IV CF cards. They required rebates, but I generally don’t mind those and don’t have problems with them. So far, this time seems no different. This rebate, though, was in the form of a Visa debit card, that expires 3/09. That’s really not too much of a problem for me. I immediately used it to buy myself an Amazon gift certificate which will just sit in my account until I decide to spend it. Amazon credit is as good as cash for me. I placed two orders with these rebates, so I should have another $160 card coming, too.

Maybe I’ll spend some of that money on a new pair of sunglasses. Dammit.

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Sunday, November 16, 2008
Day 16

Damn, almost forgot to post today. Not really much to say, though.

Woot has a Blu-ray player for only $140. Only blu-ray 1.1, but so tempting. Dammit.

Yesterday, went to the bay area. Played some board games, Rock Band 2, Gears of War 2. It was fun.

Yeah, really nothing to say. Maybe it’ll be more interesting tomorrow.

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Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Thank You

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Monday, November 3, 2008
Day 3

I woke up an hour early today, because my alarm clock was the only clock in the house I forgot to change back to standard time. It’s a good thing, too.

I apparently forgot to pay my water bill (the only one I still only get in the mail, not electronically… I wonder if there’s a connection there) for the past few months, and had a note on my door last week that I had to pay by noon today or it would be shut off. My plan was to go there on the way to work to take care of it.

As I was getting ready to leave, I got an IM saying, “if you havent left for work yet, don’t bother.” There was a gunman on a freeway overpass, and part of the 101 was shut down. Traffic was terrible on all the side roads. I’m sure, due to the situation, a phone call could have given me a few extra hours to pay the bill, but I got in my car and started driving there anyway. Google says it should be an 11 minute drive (and really, it’s not even that long), but it took over an hour this time. I made it with almost an hour to spare, though, and the situation on the overpass was resolved shortly before I got there.

So, water bill paid, and I made it to work not too much later than I normally would have.

Tomorrow is election day. If you haven’t already voted early, don’t forget to get out and do it. If you’re in California, vote No on 8.

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Saturday, November 1, 2008
Day 1

One day into NaBloPoMo, and I’m already feeling unmotivated about writing every day. I may have to make a minor change to the rules for myself and only commit to doing it Monday through Friday. Those days I sit at a computer at work all day, often with nothing to do. Not that I’m don’t sit at a computer most of the rest of the time, too, but…

Halloween was yesterday. In addition to the pumpkins that I already posted about, I actually had a costume for the first time since… I don’t even know when. It was a last minute thing, so I needed something easy, but I didn’t want to just go and buy a pre made costume. I decided on Frank West, from Dead Rising. Everything I needed was bought at either Costco or Kmart, or I already had it.

frankwestcostumeFrank West

The blood on the shirt isn’t great in this picture. I added more later. The whole thing was really just an excuse to carry around my camera and a baseball bat.

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