To explain the subject line…. someone once said my birthday’s not over until I get all of my presents. Well, Missy got me a $30 gift certificate to Amazon, and I just spent it. So, now that I’ve chosen my presents, my birthday is officially over. :-)
I ended up buying three CDs: Stevie Nicks’s Timespace, Linkin Park’s Meteora, and the Immortals’ Mortal Kombat: The Album (just for pure cheese factor). They should arrive sometime late next week.
Ah, well. Thanks again, Missy! :-)
In case you’re one of those wondering, my Amazon wish list can be located here.
For the record, I expect nothing and only put this up because more than one person asked. I WAS going to keep my Christmas low-key this year. :-) Or, rather, as low-key as a Christmas in Vegas can get…
My friend JRF just pointed out this image to me.
As if my respect for Best Buy hadn’t hit an all-new low, they pull this stunt. As MrWhitefolks of TNL just put it, “That’s the biggest croc of shit since north korean propaganda papers”.
*sigh* The sad thing is they’re now building a Best Buy near my home. I’ll have to make sure to avoid it, for the most part…
If anyone would care to see the first new Doctor Who (mini) episode since the first season finale, follow the link below to catch a special scene done for the Children in Need charity, starring David Tennant and Billie Piper. (For reference, it takes place immediately following “The Parting of the Ways” and leads into “The Christmas Invasion”.)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/pudsey/appealnight/doctor_who_special.shtml
Yep, it’s my birthday today… turned the grand old 32. Fun fun. All things considered, it’s been a very very good birthday for me. :-)
I didn’t go out to dinner tonight, mainly because Mom and Dad took me out to dinner on Saturday night. We went to the Cheesecake Factory, which was excellent as always. As for lunch today… my coworkers and I went to Todai’s, which is a Chinese and sushi place at the Marq*Q Plaza at I-10 and Silber. I had a hankering for sushi, and I figured it was the one place where everyone could agree on. Unfortunately, the CFO didn’t show up and Mike (my IT coworker) got caught in a project that he was given literally at the last minute, so it was just four of us. Still, I enjoyed myself.
As for presents, I got from my parents this morning:
I still need to import the BMG CD into my Powerbook’s iTunes and get it replicated over to my main PC and my iPod. I did get the Logitech Cordless Desktop operational; that took a bit of doing, as the software CD-ROM was missing from the box. I did manage to locate the drivers on their FTP server, after unsuccessfully trying to get them on their website. It’s working nice right now, as the mouse is more responsive than my old one, and the keyboard is working fine. The LCD display on the keyboard’s neat, as it displays information from the system. Right now it’s showing info about the track currently playing in iTunes… heh.
All in all, though, it was a great birthday, and I’m grateful for everything I’ve gotten. :-)
Well, it looks like email posting is fixed on the site. I ran a couple of test posts this morning using my Blackberry, and the new post-by-email functionality is working. The only thing that annoys me is the fact that the new software will only post under the Administrator account by default, and will not allow you to post from individual usernames. I suppose that can be fixed later on down the road, however. For now, I’m just glad it’s working properly.
I did a bit better than usual at poker last night; I walked away $121 richer as a result. Unfortunately, I also didn’t get home until 1 AM, which means I didn’t get much sleep last night. If it wasn’t for the fact that I have a barber’s appointment tomorrow, I’d be looking forward to sleeping in. *sigh*
Anyway, enough rambling here… I need to take a fileserver to the datacenter. Fun fun…
Well, I ended up needing to correct a bug in one of WordPress’s files, but other than that, the post via email thing went off without a hitch. I should say, almost without a hitch; apparently it won’t replicate over to LiveJournal unless I edit and save the post in WordPress itself. Oh, well; when I’m on vacation, those people who want to read my posts will have to just watch the main D’Arque Cathedral site instead of keeping an eye on the LJ friends pages. :-)
Today should be a relatively quiet day all told, up until this evening. It’s poker night with the usual poker crowd, so hopefully I can earn a little extra spending money tonight. :-) As for this weekend, I’ll probably get into Quake 4 and spend some time with it. I’ve played Bloodlines quite a bit over the past couple of days, and I’m really enjoying it. It’s too bad the company who developed it went out of business; I certainly wouldn’t have minded getting an expansion pack for it.
Finally, for your amusement, my new desktop on the main PC. Yes, it’s a Quake 4 wallpaper with a WindowBlinds theme. :-)
Anyway, time for me to check on a few things here…. fun fun.
Well, this should be interesting.
This particular post was done via email. Apparently WordPress has the
capability to do posts via email, so I’m giving this a brief try
before I bother implementing it full-time. I have no idea whether or
not this will synch to LiveJournal as well, but if it does, well…
even if I had felt like paying for a full LJ account for this access, I
don’t need to now. Oh, well…
Now I just need to figure out how to post from the Blackberry, and I
should be good to go when on vacations and the like. :-)
Well, today was going to be a standard day, with not much of note happening… until it was time for us to head back to the office from lunch.
We had decided to hit Zydeco’s (a Cajun cafeteria in the middle of downtown) for lunch. We got the only parking spot available, which was right in the corner of the lot, and went in to eat. When we came out, we got a hell of a shock: some inconsiderate asshole in a red Dodge Ram 1500 had parked perpendicular to Cherry’s Tahoe, not four feet behind it. He had perfectly made a T out of the two vehicles… and as a result, Cherry’s vehicle was trapped.
We went back into Zydeco’s, and Cherry tried to find out whose truck it was. However, nobody owned up to owning it. On the other hand… one of the people waiting in line to pay was a wrecker driver, and he gladly came out after paying to tow it for us. :-) Unfortunately, the way the truck was parked meant that the tow truck couldn’t tow it out. On the other hand, seeing as the parking spot to the left of Cherry’s vehicle was open, Cherry let the tow truck driver drive, and he managed to maneuver it out.
I wish I could say I couldn’t believe someone would be such a fucking asshat, but unfortunately I can all too well. I have an utter lack of faith in humanity in that regard. I guess all I can do now is hope his/her utter selfishness bites him in the ass later down the road. Karma is a harsh mistress…
Jenn is right. This IS the coolest image ever. :-)
EDIT (10:53 AM): Turns out it’s a poster and that the name/artist was cut off. Thanks to one of Jenn’s friends, here’s the image in its entirety.