i do use sprint for my cell phone business, but i can imagine something like this happening and i think it’s great that somebody has finally stuck it back to ’em.
[url=http://www.wxyztv.com/wxyz/ys_investigations/article/0,2132,WXYZ_15949_3570184,00.html]a not so apologetic sprint company[/url] getting what they deserve.
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i called home yesterday to check up on my brother to see how he was recovering from the operation he had last week.
me: hi, how are you feeling?
bro: fine.
me: so are you able to walk around, ok?
bro: yeah. hey, i have to go. american idol is back on.
*click*
yup. things are pretty much back to normal. =)
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today i had to make the difficult decision of doing a lot more of the big ground work for my project or to do a lot of fluff-type stuff so that the perceived progress is greater. i guess it’s all about perception these days. is it better to look like you’ve got a lot done or is it better to do all the real hard work and then fill in the details later.
i’m usually a broad strokes kind of a person, so the little details to me have always seemed kind of trivial, but i guess the next few days are going to be spent working on the little details just so my bug list doesn’t look so big.
speaking of which:
total number of bugs in my project: 141
total number of bugs resolved: 97
total number of bugs left: 44
total number of times i’ve sworn at the bug tracking software today: 5 (and counting =P)
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as soon as i got back into the office from lunch it started to rain. the rain started as a steady downpour and then started pounding down on the roof like a jackhammer gone wild.
the raging rain appeared to have no qualms with beating down with the fury of a hamster in heat. it just get going on and on, relentless, with blatant disregard for the poor souls who were caught unaware on the streets.
but then a rather unexpected turn for the worse happened. hailstones the size of foam pellets found in cheap carnival stuffed animals started to plummet from the sky. it isn’t THAT cold here today, but for some reason the hail started to fall and man…it’s been a while since i’ve seen it hail.
the storm came almost as quickly as it left leaving behind cold, wet tidings.
man…i hope the sun comes back…i miss sunny weather.
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[url=http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=dhs&cs=19&sku=320-4111]proof that i am weak[/url]. i don’t know what happened. well, actually, i do. i was talking to my co-worker and he was telling me about how he wanted to get a new 20″ LCD. i told him about the GREAT deal dell is having right now. $507 for a 20″ widescreen LCD. how can you beat that?
and i went on and on about how great it is and he ended up buying one. i ate lunch and all i could think about was how great the monitor really was. it really is GREAT. and then i started thinking about why i didn’t have one. and then i started thinking about why i shouldn’t get one.
and i couldn’t think of a single good reason.
not one.
nope.
and so i got it.
the big question is…what am i going to do with it?
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[url=http://www.dusitathaicuisine.com/]dusita thai cuisine restaurant[/url] is a new thai restaurant that i decided to try out this last friday. it’s across the street from my favorite korean restaurant, korean house, in santa clara so it was hard for me to be in such close proximity to it and not go there. but i did have a craving for thai food, so i decided to try it out.
i was pleasantly surprised at the food served here. my favorite curry, panang curry, was actually quite good…better than my favorite thai place, krung thai. the pad thai was only ok, but the fish dish we had as well as the angry pork dish we had was also quite good. i’d definitely like to go there again some time.
i was just looking over my [url=http://www.ocliw.com/things/wilco50food/]fifty favorite foods[/url] last night and i was getting really hungry. this morning commenter ann asked me a few music questions so i thought i’d answer the friday music three:
1) The CD you last bought?
i’m not positive about this, but i think the last CD i bought was Dido’s Life for Rent. heh…it’s been a while.
2) What was the last song you listened to before reading this message?
i think it was howie day’s collide.
3) Write down 5 songs you often listen to or that mean a lot.
at work i always have this dilemma in our kitchen. while i was working on the ramen project, i needed to wash a bowl. the problem with our kitchen is that there is a sponge there to do such a task, but the sponge is disgusting and gross. it smells bad, it looks bad, and who would really want to use it in their right mind? so the problem is that there were no clean bowls and all i had left was this ramen that was to be eaten.
so i used the dirty sponge to first clean the bowl and then i ran the bowl through another cleaning process with my fingers to clean the bowl from the sponge. *sigh* lunch should not be this complicated.
i don’t know why i’ve been baking so many cookies lately, but i’ve been baking them by the dozens. i think i made something like 6 dozen cookies last night. i made a double batch. they seem to always disappear so quickly, i don’t know why, but they just fade so fast, so i thought that a double batch was in order. oddly enough when i doubled the recipe, the dough seemed too watery so i had to add some more flour to get it to the consistency that i expected. very strange, i thought.
i’m going to make dinner tonight. i’ve been craving a good dinner at home and i think that i’ll have that chance today to do it.
my brother was admitted to the hospital earlier this week due to abdominal pains that he had felt. it turns out that he had appendicitis and had to have an emergency operation. when they operated, they had found that his appendix had burst. it was supposed to be a fairly routine operation, but it appeared that his recovery was not so routine. his white blood cell count had skyrocketed and there was fear that there was some infection.
when i first visited him earlier this week he was too weak to stay awake for very long and he looked very frail. i went to visit him earlier this morning and the color had returned to his face and he was able to carry conversation quite well. he is being discharged right now.
despite however much my brother and sister bicker and fight, my sister has been in constant touch with him while he was in the hospital and has done everything she can to keep tabs on him and make sure he is doing well.
you know, it’s easy to take family for granted. i mean, they are always there when you need them and you never really suspect that anything would ever change that. i’m glad that my brother appears to be getting better and i hope for a speedy recovery for him.