Gametime

03.11.2003

I came across a link to preview the Trivial Pursuit 20th Anniversary Edition. I actually bought the game about a month ago (and trounced Gina's butt!). I generally suck at traditional Trivial Pursuit, but with this edition I've been around for all of the questions. I do ok until it's time for the sports questions. Then I still suck.

Gina's Mom got me the multimedia edition of Mad Gab. No, it's not a computer game. The phonetic clues are hints to movies, tv, and song titles. For example, "Leaf it to beef her" is "Leave it to Beaver". I've been gradually getting into a board game mode, and this makes a good addition.

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Operation Couch Mover

03.10.2003

Saturday Jerry and I moved couches. Out with the old, in with the new. To make life easier, I rented my first U-Haul to move the couches. Sure, it was overkill, but it seemed easier in the long run than trying to figure out how to strap a couch into my truck when I know it's not going to fit.

It's at this point when people tell me that I should have gotten a bigger truck. I got a small truck so I wouldn't be called upon to help people move. So far, it hasn't worked. I should have gotten a bigger truck anyway.

Saturday afternoon I go to the local storage place (ie across my backyard) and ask about getting a truck. 25 minutes later, I have a truck. It should have taken 5 minutes (I could see the truck from where I was standing), but it took 25. The people behind the counter seemed amazed when I told them that I would need the truck "for about an hour" because I was only going 6 miles. Round trip. But finally I got the truck and went off to get my new couches.

... where we had to wait about 10 minutes to load up the couches. Finally they were loaded, driven to the house, and promptly unloaded. Jerry told me we probably spent more time waiting than we did any actual moving. He's right, but it sure did go easier.

The last time I bought furniture the delivery charge was $50. After taking the U-Haul back, the charge was just under $40 (I got the $15 insurance for my 6 mile trip). Since I didn't havethe truck too long, and it took so long for them to do the paperwork, the people I rented it from told me not to worry about the gas. How much gas could it use in 6 miles? So in my mind, I still came out a little cheaper for the convenience.

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The Joy of Sci Fi

03.07.2003

Being a collector of movies, along with being a nerd, I have theatrical posters decorating my bedroom. Usually it's movies that I like, regardless of how well the movie did at the box office.

One such poster I have is of Johnny Mnemonic. I was looking at it this morning and noticed part of the tagline was "320 Gigabytes of stolen data wetwired directly into his brain." Back in 1995, 320 GB was a huge chunk of data storage. Yesterday, Steve was talking about a 320 GB Drive being available. Now the movie won't be nearly as exciting and futuristic for me.

Yeah, I know, me and 2 other people are all that ever watched it...

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Coming In Later

03.06.2003

I've decided to start coming into work a little bit later. I've been working 6:00 - 3:00, but things start to break around 2:00 (when they do break, that is). So now I'm trying to do more of the side and personal stuff in the morning by still getting up at 5:00, and then comingin to work around 9:00.

Day 1. I remember why I usually come in early. I get to work and some prices aren't what they should be (because I never got them in the first place). In addition, my really cool black box has a glitch in it (stupid Subase and time stamps). Follow that up with another batch of sql where I forgot a column in my where clause. Nice'n'hectic.

Maybe I should go back to coming in early?

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Nerding Out Star Trek Style

03.05.2003

Rambling on about birthdays yesterday made me notice something a little quirky. Jerry shares his birthday with DeForest Kelley, Dr. McCoy for those of you that disn't know. While I don't share an actual birthdate with them, March is also the birth month of James Doohan (March 3), William Shatner (March 22), and Leonard Nimoy (March 26).

Whew, now I need to go watch a sporting event and talk to a girl, make sure the nerd factor hasn't gone up too high.

Hi hottie, hows'about joining me in a mind meld!. Nope, that won't work.

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