it was a completely unexpected surprise. though, i suppose that one cannot have an expected surprise…in fact, one could say that the phrase unexpected surprise is redundant. but then one would realize that we are straying from the point.
and the point is that at 3:06pm my bundle of joy came into my life. she was just too eager to come out and play with her daddy and despite all of the indications that she wasn’t due until next week, she came today.
when i first laid eyes on her, tears of joy were welling up in my eyes. we don’t have a name for her yet, but soon enough i’m sure that something will come. she is, of course, my new 20″ LCD!
one of the weird things about my office is that late at night, the office, for whatever bizarre reason opts to turn off all the lights in the hallways. so whenever i leave work, it’s really, really dark. in fact, the stairs are quite treacherous territory. as i was walking down the stairs carrying a big box, i had to tread extra carefully to make sure that i didn’t trip over myself.
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.
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].
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.
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.
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…
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.
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.
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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