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So I came into work today as usual. I’ve been here for a while and I’m still the only person here. I don’t expect anyone for another good 45 minutes. Four-wheel drive is awesome, btw. While I hate the snow, it was fun to have something slippery to drive on for a bit. Now that [...]

We’re supposed to get a bunch of snow tonight. Hopefully something happens and this changes. Why can’t the forces of global warming do something useful? I’ll take rain. At least if it’s particularly snowy I can just work from home. I’ve been having odd dreams the last few nights. Nothing bad, scary or otherwise disturbing [...]

My new “thing” is getting up earlier for work. I’m fortunate in that my job just requires that I be in work for 8 hours and that the exact 8 hours aren’t too important (within reason). Since Corinne gets up a lot earlier than me, I would go back to bed and not really fully [...]

I’ve hated Fedex for some time, and I doubt my opinion will be changed for quite some time… if ever. My DVD player arrived yesterday and it was being sent via Fedex. It arrived without incident, but when they dropped it off, they left it on my front step. Now, this isn’t a big deal [...]

I mentioned how I’ve spent a ton of money lately on stuff. I decided to up the ante a bit and went ahead and bought a new TV (well, technically a monitor, but the difference is moot for me), a new receiver (technically a “HTIB” setup without a DVD player) and a new DVD player. [...]

I wish I could sleep in like I used to be able to. These days, Saturday rolls around and I’m up at 8:30. I guess it’s not that big a deal. I’m sitting at my computer with a nice view of the large yard that’s next to our place. There’s squirrels climbing all over the [...]

I purchased a laptop today… hopefully this experience will go better. I should also be purchasing tickets to Hawaii either Friday night or sometime this weekend hopefully. In the “shitty customer support” bucket, my credit card people are horrible. Every time I call them I’m told that there’s a world of inconvenience that I have [...]

Where to begin? The holidays were nice, though we ended up having to drive a lot on Christmas. It was far from ideal, but the end of the world. Over the break, I didn’t do a whole lot. Corinne was very busy with work and I mostly just played a whole lot of Zelda on [...]

For a day off, today’s been busy, but in a good day. I got up early (about 7:15) shortly after Corinne left. Just couldn’t get back to bed. So I got up and finished off fixing my computer (it’s chugging along at 100% now), did two loads of laundry, did the dishes and confirmed a [...]

I got my hands on a PS3 (60G) and won’t need it since I have a Wii (I’m a one-console-at-a-time sorta guy). Hit me up with an offer if you’re in the Boston area and interested.