Monthly Archive for November, 2005

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not so black friday

I already ruined that fasting all of Friday thing… cause someone who’s awesome did all the dishes when they came home and I simply couldn’t resist the urge to dirty one and have a bowl of cereal. Maybe I should walk to work to burn off all this over-eating. That would only take …hours and hours, in the cold; No, that’s not gonna happen.

More food tomorrow… but not before I go work for a while, then stay in Dudley tonight, then get up early in the morning to take my Mom and my grandfather to the Nissan dealership to pick up their new minivan. YAY! A reliable car for mom, and one that Dad can’t ruin! Then, once that’s safely home, we can start preparing for her side of the family to come over for dinner. I think she said she was gonna do pork, since everyone had Turkey yesterday…. mmmm, pork.

There were two years in the past where I worked a retail job on this day of the year and it’s not fun… you think shopping is hectic, today? Try being the guy who’s supposed to keep the shelves stocked. Especialy when your shelves are actually stacks of VCRs, TVs, computers, stereos, etc., in the middle of the aisles. I believe the wheels of my two-wheel dolly were actually warm to the touch a couple hours into the shopping day. If I can help it, I’ll never work retail in this season, again… of course, we have yet to see if the teen center hours will cover my expenses. It’s kinda nice to not even consider shopping today, since I have no money :)

testing livejournal sync

had a request from to sync my blog with my livejournal. I knew I’d seen a plugin that mentioned this possibility, so here is my initial attempt to see if it works. I think it does! Woo!

I should be sleeping

I am full of food. I think I may be able to fast all day tomorrow, after all. That was a lot of really good food. My family can cook, I should try to cook for myself more so I can contribute in the future. I kind of went moBlog crazy, yesterday. I hope you guys enjoy(ed) it. I like taking all the crappy pictures with the camera-phone. It satisfies the urge to take pictures all the time without the pressure of making them superb pictures because of the quality the equipment is capable of.

I thought I had my lagging problem figured out, after I completely reinstalled the sound drivers… even the boot was going nice and fast… and then, out of the blue, while playing a winamp playlist… bam! super-lagged. I managed to make it go away by changing everything to the internal sound and ignoring the external sound device… and then it came back on the internal sound. Something is really fucked up. It definitely doesn’t happen unless I’m playing sound/video. General web browsing, picture editing, code editing, FTP, eMail and such don’t do anything to it… but play one video on a website or a few songs in winamp and it suddenly freaks out.

oops.

The bag of yummy leftovers broke before i even got it out of the car.

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refuel for the journey home

Got some gas on the way home…
First time i’ve seen it dip back below $2
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Cakes and pies and chocolates…oh my

I almost forgot to save room for dessert!

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full of scraps

Even my cousin’s dog, Snickers, is feeling the tryptophan sleepiness
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The spread

Mmmm… Loads of yumminess.
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Still at the kids’ table

This has been the spot where i’ve had thanksgiving dinner almost every year of my life
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I didn’t order this

White Christma Thanksgiving? I certainly didn’t order this. I gotta drive to Plymouth, I hope the roads aren’t bad. Tyler wants to come. We made up; he’s curled up next to me staring at the keyboard (thinking about what he did hopefully).

Here’s some genius for you: YMMV Radio Episode 404 – a special holiday episode of the “Sick, Savvy and Twisted [show] With Intermittent Hot Deals” which clearly goes over the steps you need to take to properly argue with a cashier. Enjoy




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