Holiday Week Recap

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I could say that I took the week off, and that is why I haven’t posted in a few days. That would not be true, but I could say that. I worked all of last week. I even ran to the office on both friday and Saturday. I had off both days but I had some quick stuff to do so I ran down there for about an hour each day.

Christmas eve I did some rewiring of my TV and computer. I bought RCA cables to hook up my computer video card to my TV and stereo. I can now use Beyond TV on my TV like a Tivo. It actually works really well. More news on that as it develops. I ended up down at Outback with Jayson and Gretchen for dinner. It was empty because it was Christmas eve, but the place was open till 10:30PM. I made it down in record time. The cab powers that be have been kind to me for finding cabs in the freezing cold. Gretchen knows I cannot pass up Outback. Dam her! That was the third time in recent memory that I have dropped what I was doing and went down to Outback because of a phone call. She is not helping my diet. Since I don’t have I diet, I shouldn’t care:) I did have a bloomin onion for the first time in months. It was a good day!

I went to my parents friends house for a Christmas party. it was ok. My family is friends with a bunch of crazy people. I should learn not to trust my mom when it comes to time or how far someplace is. The trip to the party was LONG. traffic was bad. Coming home it was not as bad, but my sister got into a small fender bender. As she was pulling over to the curb to let me out to the subway we hit another car. Some dumb-ass was stopped at the curb, so my sister went to pull in front of them to park and let me out. The dumb-ass begins to move and hits us in the side of the truck. I could see no damage to my sisters cherokee, but the other car had a nice dent and paint off of the bumper by the front headlight. After some “nice” words between the group of us, we exchanged insurance and off we went. Not sure who will be blamed by the insurance company. I think we will, even thought this ass-whole was not moving when we were moving into his lane. At least morgan slept through the whole thing.

As for commuting on the subway on a cold holiday, I was surprised by how quick most of the trains came on Christmas. Maybe I got lucky, but 3 out of the 4 trains I had to catch came quick.

Today I hung out at home. I had work to do on my laptop (see another post on that) and I had to update my checkbook in quicken. What fun. I just got back from seeing meet the fockers with Jayson and Gretchen. I went down to their neck of the woods and we saw it. That movie was stupid but funny.

Lets hope this week will be a calm and q—t. I won’t say the “Q” word. But I am probably wrong about it being “Q”. Why you ask? Because I am thinking it will be.

The Office Holiday Party

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Last Thursday we had our company holiday party. OK I am late on writing about it. So sue me. It was on a boat. Dan had the crazy idea of having a holiday party on a boat sailing around the east river in the middle of December. It was probably not the best idea he has had, but we did have a good time. It goes to show you that you can party anywhere. It was rocky, cold, and did I mention rocky? I am cranky thinking about the party because I got a head ache. It was actually a good time had by most. I had to take a butabital for my head ache so I was in no mood to drink. I also tried to eat, but had nothing. The rocking of the waves, the lights on the dance floor and the loud music did not agree with my head.

The view from the river was fantastic. We mainly sailed in circles by the South Street seaport area of downtown, and then by the Manhattan and Brooklyn bridges. It was nice. It was more choppy in the Hudson river by Chelsea Peers than it was where we cruised most of the night.

Kai came down. He had a good time but I didn’t see him most of the night. Jayson got really drunk. Danny got drunk but I could not tell that he did. He said he had a decent amount. Linus got so drunk he didn’t come in the next day. Like I said fun was had by all. I missed last years party because I felt sick and went home early, so this party was catchup for me. Figures I missed the year that I won an award at the party! I did make the company top ten list. I think that was a good thing?

Next company party will be the we are profitable party. Hopefully sometime in February!

Only Good Thing Today

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I forgot to mention the only good thing that happened today. Last night I went over to Jayson’s and we hit the Bed Bath & Beyond by his house. Sounds exciting right? Well actually it was. I got 2 sets of chocolate filled alcohol. If you haven’t had any I suggest you get some. It is bite sized chocolate in the shape of bottles with different alcohol’s in them. Very tasty. You can only find them during the holiday’s. Jay, Cari, AJ, & Danny ate a box today after work. I have another one at home to savor. Danny is getting another box so we can have more later in the week.

Hanukah But Late

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Went to my sisters today for a Hanukah brunch.  If you are Jewish, or if you keep track of holiday’s you may be saying "wasn’t that last week"?  Yes, yes it was.  My sister was in Jamaica (the island, not queens) for vacation so we had a get together when they got back.  Morgan had tons of presents, and wanted to play with all of them.  That kid is too cute for her own good.

I got a bottle of Gentleman Jack (Daniel’s) out of their trip.  It is my favorite, but I am not a shot drinker like I used to be.  Whenever anyone in my family goes somewhere I always end up with a bottle of alcohol.  I may have done too much spin on my drinking habits with them, because I have a full liquor cabinet of stuff from vacations.  I am not complaining.  I actually just finished off my last bottle of Gentleman Jack, so this new one is now in my freezer.

After my sisters I went over to Gretchen and Jay’s to hang out for a bit.  It was a nice weekend day…

I Am A Bad Parent

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I don’t have kids, but I am a bad fish parent. I have a confession to make. Last week when Jayson was away in Baton Rouge selling his condo I was really neglectful of our fish. I totally forgot to feed him for an entire day. The crab too, but I feel worse about the fish. He never does anything wrong and I was a bad parent:( I think I made the situation worse when I realized what I did and over feed him. I wanted to compensate for my lack of feeding. In reality I did feed him on both thursday and friday, but forgot to feed him on Friday morning. So he went a full day (thursday night to friday night) without food. Poor little guy. He just swims around and when we walk over to the tank and open the lid he is all ready for feeding time. I let him down.

I got laughed at by someone at work (i think it was brad) for talking to him the other day. Crusty (the fish) needs attention too. So if you have a problem with me talking to fish, get over it.

Jayson and I are both bad fish parents because we said we were going to get Crusty a friend for weeks and we still haven’t. We need to soon. The only problem is that Crusty had 2 fish friends before and they both died. Not sure if he had anything to do with it, or if it was the water temperature. Either way we have our eye on our killer fish, but we still love him anyway.

Get Into The Holiday Mood

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I found some crazy stuff online. Check out the Gingerbread laptop. Or the Gingerbread desktop. Both functional and tasty.

Other fun links, but not related to the holidays are Gretchen’s new goofy site. And if you are wondering that is not really G-Dog! G-Dog is not that hot, so she put that picture up there:)

Today was a goofy day. I got tons more of weird funny links that Jayson and Danny found, but I need to figure out where I am going to dinner, so I will get back to this at some other time…

Holiday Party

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My companies holiday party is tonight. We are getting ready to go to it in a few minutes. Details to follow (after the hang over is completed)!

In other news Kai is in NYC to visit for the party. We had a good time. No wait, it was work so we did not have any fun what so ever.

Pocket PC Vs. Treo 650

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Gus is trying to convince me that I should be looking at the new Pocket PC on sale from Cingular. It is branded the Siemens SX66, but it is basically the same PPC phone that HTC is making for several vendors. Gizmodo had a comparison of Audiovox’s variant of the phone for use on Sprint’s network. I am not impressed. The Treo 650 is smaller and from this review still better than the PPC. I am going to wait. Gus on the other hand may actually go buy that beast and use it. To me it looks too close in size to the HP Pocket PC that AJ got from T-Mobile a few months ago.

Patiently waiting for the Treo 650 for T-Mobile…

UPDATE: Gus got the SX66. He wants me to goto the Cingular store and check it out. I am going to go, but I think I will still wait for the 650.

Do You Want A House?

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Do you want to buy a house? Jayson is selling a house in Baton Rouge. It is nice. Lots of space! If you buy it and mention finding out about it via this blog I will get $1,000! I doubt that anyone will follow up on this, but for a grand I will make a post!

I just hope he can sell it so he can have spending money again.

A New USB Flash Drive

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I am on the market for a new (bigger and stronger built) USB 2.0 Flash drive. I have a Sandisk 512 meg one now. It is ok, but I ran out of space on it. It also does not feel well built. I like Sandisk as a company and they have many good products, but their low and mid level flash drives are not good. I don’t want to shell out double the going rate for a titanium coated high end drive of theirs that only can hold up to 512 megs. I am looking at the Lexar Jumpdrive Secure. They look secure. They have encrypted volumes that work on both Mac & PC’s. They also support up to 1gig. What is not to like about them? For $100 I will give them a try.