I have love/hate relationship with Winter...

I do love winter.  Don’t get me wrong.  But there is something serenely peaceful about winter.  Sounds are muffled, so when you are walking around in a city, it sounds like you are the only one there.  I love to watch snow falling.  It’s very claming to the nerves and to the soul…

But on the other hand, I hate winter.  I can really get TOO cold (like today).  I hate the ice that forms on my windshield – especially the ultra thin ice that take forever to scrape off.  I hate having to wait 15 minutes before moving you car.

And I also hate ice.  Mostly black ice.  I was taking some laundry to a friend house, and while I was walking to their door, I didn’t realize that there was ice completely covering their driveway – at least not until I slipped, saw my feet in front of me and then landed with full force on my left arm. So right now, I’m in a bit of pain, but nothing some ibuprofen can’t fix…

I love my job

I love my job…

7 Above and Beyond awards in a year.  3 raises.  Unofficial Lead clerk for my group. And paid holidays.  I love my job.  I have a 3-day weekend and I’m planning on enjoying every minute of it.

Heading over to my friend Phil’s to play D20 Star Wars, and then back home to do some needed tidying up of the place.  Monday is an relax, play video games, watch movies day (although I am watching Raiders of the Lost Ark as I type this), and this Friday is Payday.  Lotsa overtime this past couple weeks, so I should be able to play some of my rent, pay on my car, and pay my last insurance installment this check as well.  And I MAY pick up World of Warcraft.  My friend Jeff and Ben play it and want to suck me into their evil plan of getting me addicted to it. I’ll think about it for a while.

Blogger without logging..

Blogger without logging…

Well.  Here I am trying out the new “Blogger for Word” that Blogger is offering.  Also signed up for Yahoo 360 today.  They have a blog on there as well, but all my post are at blogspot already, so I made one post – “Check out my active blog at geekbearinggifts.blogspot.com”  Sorry Yahoo, you’re a great site with some good products – but I’ll keep my blogger.

Ugh, yet Yay!

First off - ugh... I'm sick, and I'm not feeling great. Was up all night with a sore throat, coughing and sneezing, and I feel like crap.

But also - YAY! I'll have my car on Monday - Insured and registered. it'll be so nice to get back on the road again.

VACATION! Hoody-Hoo!

Yep, another fantastic week of vacation, with a couple of cool things happening.

First - I finally got my license back. After getting the runaround from DMV for the last 2 weeks, I finally got the money to renew my license. Now, all I have to do is get insured and registered, and I'm back on the road.... Just in time for winter.... grr....

And in my never-ending quest for Trivial Pursuit games, I struck card-reading gold out in Oxford - I got the Silver Screen and Young Player's Editions today.

Life is good...

Talk about quick!

My glasses broke during "Lost" on Wednesday. I was cleaning them, and the frame snapped. So I'm freaking out - I don't get paid until this Friday, and I need my glasses to do anything.

So I call VIP eyes, and they said a replacement pair will cost abvout 140 bucks... but I'm leary of purchasing glasses through them again - considering the frames only lasted a little over a year. So I call my friend Mike at Pro-Vision in the mall, and he says he can get me a pair of glasses for $130-$150. I'm thinking "That's great, but I can't pay for them until next Saturday". He says it's ok, and will just set the lenses aside, and he'll take care of them for a week.

So then I get a call from my friend Chuck - and he tells me that he can set aside $160 for me so I can get my glasses. At this point I'm nearly in tears - Not many friends will just say "Here's 160.. pay us back when you can."

So I call Mike up again and tell him I have the money.. and he tells me he'll order the lenses, and they'll be in next week.

Flash forward to Saturday. I ws over at my friend's house, and when I get home, my message-flashy-thingy is blinking. Turns out my Mike got my lenses in lens that 2 1/2 days! I call a cab, and rush over to the mall... 45 minutes and $140 later, I'm in new glasses.

Talk about fast - and I wouldn't have happened without my friends.

And I thought I'd have to buy a new drive...

Tried burning some episodes of 24 to a DVD today. So I crack open some Imation DVD-R disks, and start to burn. Or rather NOT burn. I figured it must be a bum disc, so I popped another one in. Again, it wouldn't burn. Now I start to get worried. Well to make a long story short - I flashed my BIOS with an update, and also flashed the DVD drive with a Firmware update, and I've decided - Imation makes crap discs. My other discs work like a charm. Oh well. Live and learn :)