you know, i had high hopes for tru calling. i guess i had hoped that eliza dushku’s show would be a great hit…something worthy to replace buffy. but no. instead we are assaulted with this ridiculously bad show whose only goal seems to be worse than its previous show.
how many times does tru knock something off the bedstand and break something? when will she learn? seriously. bad, bad writing. it’s painful to watch.
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the new thing i learned today is that “cossie” is australian slang for a swimming costume…or a swim suit…or a bathing suit. this valuable bit of information from [url=http://www.miramis.org/larissa/]larissa[/url].
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i went home last night to wish my mom a happy birthday and i gave her her birthday present. at first she didn’t know what it was, so i explained to her what the roomba robovac was. after she learned how to use it she was thrilled. no more worries about vacuuming, just let the robot do it. i’m glad that she liked it, hopefully it’ll save her from the chore of vacuuming.
she was saying how handy it was and how it would be even better if she had like 5 of them so that all of the house could be cleaned at once. i was like…uhhhh, just one is really expensive =P
hopefully it’ll help out around the house. the vacuum works surprisingly well considering that it runs off a battery.
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i placed an order with dell yesterday and was disappointed to see that the expected ship date wasn’t until december 29th. then i started to get paranoid because i never got an order acknowledgement. usually dell is pretty good about these things and they send the acknowledgement right away.
this morning i was pleased to find out that my order has already shipped and it’s on its way out. there is a revised estimate of shipping date and it seems all perfectly normal.
then later today i got an email informing me that my order was shipped.
then even later today i got an email confirming that they received my original order.
those wacky guys at dell, what are they thinking?
now, i am not a big fan of dodge cars and trucks. but you gotta give the advertising execs props for having the courage to sponsor the [url=http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=816&e=1&u=/ap/20031210/ap_on_fe_st/lingerie_bowl]LINGERIE BOWL[/url], a pay-per-view event during the halftime of the super bowl where 14 models will be playing football in their lingerie.
tacky? maybe. offensive? possibly. entertaining? you betcha!
seriously, those guys at dodge crack me up. if you thought last year’s playmate fear factor was bad…
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i forgot to mention that my volleyball team on monday advanced past our first two matches but finally got eliminated in playoffs. it was our first season together and i think that we did pretty well. it was fun playing with them and i look forward to the next season. altera had sponsored two teams and we played the other altera-sponsored team and beat them in a very close match. all in all a pretty fun monday. i didn’t play as well as i had wanted, but oh well.
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ann made me some mint chocolate bricks topped with m&m’s the other day. i brought it into the office and started snacking away on them. i ate brick after brick without realizing how much i had eaten.
well, i think that i had eaten way too much because while i was at volleyball, all throughout the first game i felt very jittery and nervous. i was just a wreck. i couldn’t figure out why, but i think it’s because i had a sugar overdose.
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i take back everything bad i said about pMachine. it’s my own stupidity that couldn’t figure out how to customize the look and feel more easily. sheesh. that’s what you get when you know too much…you over engineer the problem and you don’t find the simple, obvious solution.
well, i guess that’s just the way that it usually is. i end up not finding the easy way out and instead go through great pains to try and figure out how to do something the hard way.
oh well, at least i get it now. hopefully the page looks better. we’ll see though.
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dell has these crazy deals all the time. it sort of makes me wonder why anyone would try and build a machine themselves. anyway, dell currently has this insane deal on their 20″ LCD. i saw the deal on the 3rd and so i ordered it immediately. and then a few days after i ordered it, another deal came up…it was the same price, but a newer model! i was so sad. i was upset that i had gotten the older model only a few days before the newer model’s deal came out. i thought for sure that i wouldn’t be able to cancel the order and reorder it.
it turns out that there was a delay in the shipping of my order and so after jumping through quite a few hoops i was able to cancel my old order and get the new LCD for the same price. ahhh, happy days are here again. $800 for a 20″ LCD…you can’t really ask for more than that, can you?
definitely…must…stop…spending…
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it’s raining now…and i left my umbrella in the car.
i hope that by the time i have to go back to the car it will have stopped raining…but i don’ t think that that will be the case. looks like i’m going to get wet tonight.
i had a salad for lunch. i really do want to try and eat a little bit more healthy. i haven’t been eating very healthy lately. there was a discussion about various types of diets today, but i think that the most beneficial one is a balanced diet…not one of these crazy crash course diets. now, if only i could cut out all the crap in my diet…