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#4951 – 650

so i wrote 650 posts in 2007. not bad, not bad.

yesterday i went to work, but after a few hours they said that they’d start letting people go early if they wanted to use any last personal days they had, or any vacation time, or leave as an excused unpaid absence if they wanted. i thought about staying, but in the end i decided to go since i wasn’t feeling that great…

coworker: “are you going to stay?”

me: “i thought about going, but i think i’m going to stay.”

coworker: “are you sure? you’re going to be almost the only person on our team here…”

me: “yeah, but see, i like money…” *SNEEZE* “…ugh… on second thought, maybe i’ll go early.”

so i ended up leaving at 1 (my lunch is now from 1 to 1:30 pm, a half-hour earlier than last quarter).

at least leaving a few hours early let me take a dose of medicine, heat up some chicken soup out of a can for lunch at the apartment (allowing me to save the campbell’s soup-at-hand thing i have for lunch at work), and i was also able to call fedex and the maryland ez-pass folks about an invoice i received and my ez-pass account:

i had received a fedex invoice for $4.17 for a shipment made that was billed to my fedex account and sent to san antonio, texas, but looking up the tracking number didn’t turn up any information other than the shipment was sent to san antonio. then a few days later i got a letter that they had tried to bill my credit card for the shipment but the credit card company had denied the transaction for some reason and that was why they invoiced me. i thought it was really weird, especially since i hadn’t tried shipping anything in months or years, if i had ever tried shipping something with my fedex account at all. so i called them up, they couldn’t see anything more regarding the shipment, and they just credited the charge on the invoice.

the ez-pass call was about a month or two ago they sent me a bill for $2.00 for going through a toll with my ez-pass out of funds and expired, so i sent in the $2.00, and they cashed the check and sent me another letter saying that i failed to make the payment so now i owed not only the $2.00 toll but a $15.00 violation fee. checking my ez-pass account online seemed to show that the $15.00 fee ended up being credited to my account, but i wanted to be sure, so i called them and verified that my account was a-ok. nice thing to start the new year with no concerns over those.

i had to make a run to the grocery store — i think the reason why my medicine didn’t seem to be working was that i realized it had expired back in may, and since my stuff was either expired or empty it was then time for a medicine run. the pharmaceutical companies are a big racket; i got bread, a 12-pack of coke, a stick of deodorant and everything else was either cold and cough medicine or an ointment i needed. cut for TMI

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#4950 – happy atchoo year

so how was your christmas? i’ve been busy this past week and haven’t had time to do a proper post about it.

for christmas i got (in no particular order):

  • two rolls of tri-x 400 film (now i can do some more film photography, yay!)
  • a AA-battery recharger with 12 AA batteries (for my flash and its add-on battery pack)
  • a 3-dvd collection of 9 alfred hitchcock movies
  • dvds of “red dwarf” seasons 5 and 6
  • the lonely planet guide to travel photography
  • an r/c helicopter
  • the first “postsecret” book
  • a tie with old-fashioned cameras on it
  • prescription sunglasses
    Mom got me prescription sunglasses for Christmas!
  • a jet-plane display (it’s a bit hard to describe, it’s like a giant desk ornament thing)
  • a renewed AAA membership
  • a mr. beer home-brew kit, and a second refill pack (dad said that my great-great-great-grandfather (something like that) was put in jail for 6 months during prohibition for moonshining, hah!)
  • an awesome cozy sweater and a t-shirt that says “this is not a photographic opportunity”
  • pancake mix
  • various gift cards, checks and cash moneys

    and last but not least…

  • a cold (*atchoo*)

    we got feisty_fitz a macbook laptop for christmas to replace her emac so she doesn’t have to haul that big computer back and forth to school, so her emac went to anne, dad got anne’s old g4 tower (which used to be mine), and i got the family’s old imac that dad had been using. i don’t mind, in fact i kind of like having this old mac now, mostly because now i can play all of my old games on it that are outdated and won’t run on my powerbook.

    i gave mom a marx brothers dvd box set since she really likes the marx brothers and kept talking about some of their movies recently, but she didn’t have it on her list so i was going to surprise her. i didn’t think i’d have any trouble, either, since it wasn’t on her list and i doubted that anybody else would think of the same thing. she unwrapped my present, and then a few presents later dad had given her the exact same thing! mom ended up giving one of them to me as an extra gift since i was doing so much work getting everybody’s “new” computers fixed up with their files.

    i also did some thinking about my post-graduation excursion for late august, and i’m thinking about going on a cruise. have you been on a cruise before? how did you like it? what cruise line did you take? how long was your cruise, and where did you go? i only hope that my coworkers who took august 24 off of work release that day so i’d end up getting it by being on the wait list… it’ll really make things a whole lot easier with this figuring-out. or maybe i’ll fly somewhere tropical. i just want to relax on this trip. is being able to relax for about a week on a beach in the sun with banana-flavored drinks and getting to look at girls in bikinis too much to ask?? sheesh!

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    #4947 – a 'book with bad spelling

    apparently someone who maintains the apple store online isn’t very “shure” of their spelling:

    😛

    while at work i was messaging cynicalscribe about how after work i’d cook up some burritos and kill some time before going to pick up zenmetsu from the airport, and she said that roxy would probably want some attention since dan’s been away the last few days and i’ve been in and out for family-related christmas activities. anne got a laser pointer for her cat for christmas, so i figured maybe i’d try to find the same one (it’s nice, it uses AAA batteries instead of the little button-sized batteries, so it’s easier to swap out when necessary).

    i went to compusa after work since they’re going to be all closed up in about a week and have a clearance sale going on now, and though the laser pointer was on their webpage they didn’t have that (or any) models in store. i picked up a stack of 50 cd-r discs since i was all out. carrie told me they had laser pointers at target, and so i went a few stores down to target but i didn’t see any there either. as i was leaving i noticed that there was a staples in the shopping center too, and i ended up finding the same model on display there (for all of their laser pointers you’re to see a sales associate for assistance), but when they checked in the back they didn’t have it in stock anymore, and the next one up was twice as expensive at about $30, so i figured i’d skip that since it’d just be to play with the cat.

    i found a 2 gig memory card for my phone, though… i had been using a 128 meg card that i had with the phone i had before the phone i had before this one (2 phones back), a motorola v710. the card was something like $50, and it’s on clearance at staples for $30 — not even compusa had memory cards like this that cheap, and now it’ll be much better for me to save photos and load some tunes on to my phone.