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I fly out to Portland tomorrow. I’m far from being “packed”, but I’m “very organized” right now since I did all laundry-related work earlier in the day and there’s nice piles of clothes ready for me to pack up.
I don’t depart tomorrow until 4:45, so I should be totally fine as long as I don’t [...]

I just downloaded a wordpress app for the iPhone and seeing how well it works. So far, it’s pretty slick.
Later, if this goes smoothly, I’ll figure out how it works with images. Definitely neat!

I just left negative feedback for an eBay seller for the first time. I’ve had the same account on ebay since 2000 and I really like buying things, so I’m not stranger to eBay.
All-in-all, I tend to prefer buy-it-now “auctions” since they’re almost always simpler, faster and you don’t have to deal with other [...]

New England is known for having crazy weather. Being a weatherman up here has to be one of the easiest jobs because nobody really expects you to be right the majority of the time.
That all said, in the past couple of months we’ve seen some really huge temperature swings. Today flirted with 70 degrees [...]

My birthday was great. Despite not being able to spend as much time with Corinne as I’d have liked, it was still good. Got plenty of well wishes and talked to a bunch of people that I don’t typically talk to.
Been doing some pick-up IT work the past couple of days. It’s good to be [...]

My experience with “getting older” has basically been making fewer mistakes over time. I don’t find this to be a bad thing at all!
I’m happier than I’ve ever been and I don’t have anything to really complain about that’s not weather or climate related.
If that’s all the real bitching I have, then I’d say I’m [...]

Today I received an order of Power Functions components from Lego and the order was a bit messed up. I had ordered two of the following:

Power Functions XL-Motor
Power Functions M-Motor
Power Functions IR Receiver
Power Functions IR Remote Control
Power Functions Extension Wire 20”

Instead, I received the following:

0x Power Functions XL-Motor
3x Power Functions M-Motor
1x Power Functions IR Receiver
2x [...]

We ran to Target yesterday to pick up some kitty litter and other random household necessities. While heading to the cash registers, we happened past the rest of the pet stuff can saw a section for “pet costumes”. There were plenty dumb ones, and I had no intention of getting any, but then we saw [...]

Corinne just sent me a link to the World’s Largest Gummy Bear.
Holy. Fucking. Shit.
The commercial is even kick-ass…

Just a note – my birthday is coming up. Surprise me.

I just placed a quick call to a vendor to check up on the status of a repair that’s being done. All-in-all, very mundane and basic.
The interesting bit was that when I hung up the phone, I received a message saying that I had 4 new voicemail message. Four. Seriously. And I was only on [...]