I am SO going to Nick’s tonight, if anyone is up for going…

I took a picture of myself with my digital camera… Notice the sexy pose (oh yeah, you might as well notice the new glasses too).

During the (first) power outage, Adam, Rory, and I headed over to The Good Life for a few drinks and some air conditioning… The power stayed out from 10pm until around 12am… It was still on at 2:15a when I went to bed, but around 4:30am my UPS started beeping and the power once again went out for another 45 minutes to an hour..

I am working from home today so I have a chance to do the laundry and packing that I couldn’t do during the power outage…

Power just went out…. On UPS power, time to shut down… :P

Hopefully it will come back on tonight so I can prep for my trip tomorrow.. :P

My headphones have filters to keep nastiness out of them… These filters eventually need replacement over time, and when I sat down at my desk after lunch I noticed that it seemed that the right phone was muted… I initially blamed my head, I mean, I have had to lay out a grand or so fixing my eyes and teeth, why not my ears next… But after switching ears with the phones it was evident that it wasn’t me… So I changed the filters and now everything sounds great! I am always amazed that how over time you don’t notice slow degradations like this until you hit some magical point where it is just “shitty”. I am sure it has been sounding bad for a little while now….

I am leaving work a bit early today to pick up my new glasses in Harvard Square… I will try and get a picture up sooner or later… :)

1. The Magnetic Fields - Let’s Pretend We’re Bunny Rabbits
2. Momus - Coming In A Girl’s Mouth
3. Dead Kennedys - Too Drunk To Fuck
4. The Vapours - Turning Japanese
5. KMFDM vs. Pig - Fuck Me
6. David Bowie - Velvet Goldmine
7. Lovage - Stroker Ace
8. Nine Inch Nails - Get Down Make Love
9. Tom Jones - Sex Bomb
10. The Rolling Stones - (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction
11. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Suck My Kiss
12. Prince - Gett Off
13. Faith No More - Epic
14. Pigface - Suck
15. The Magnetic Fields - Come Back from San Francisco

Once upon a time someone shoehorned a mini IP stack into a Commodore 64 and used the serial port for comm. I was in awe… Then they shoehorned a ethernet adapter into a C=64’s cartridge (named “The Final Ethernet"1)…. I was slapping my own face in awe… Next thing you know someone creates a hardware-based VNC server and shoehorns THAT into a C=64… What the hell is going on?!?!?

1 A clear play on " The Final Cartridge”, a fast-load cartridge from BITD, which was later replaced with " The Final Cartridge II" and " The Final Cartridge III", which had people ROFL for many moons…

I have been kicking ass and taking names today… First, I got a revised spec (well, honestly, a spec for a part of the product that was heretofore undocumented, so there was no real spec) document regarding one aspect of my product… I really thought it was going to be a killer 3-day type dealie but it ended up being more like a 2-3 hour dealie to whip it all together… My opinion of Outlook still remains, however.. =)

Then I recieved a few more spec tweaks for things that were ill-defined in the spec, and my interpretations of them were different from the original intent… I can’t complain too much, because a hair of ambiguity in the spec is a ton better than no spec at all… =) Anyway, these tweaks were mostly just visual stuff, usability type things that took no time flat to fix…

After that I fixed another few bugs as well….

47 Days and Counting until the Season Premiere of The Sopranos….

Amy took off this morning and I rolled into work a few minutes ago… To elaborate on this weekends events:

• Dentist’s office informed me that my OLD dental insurance wouldn’t cover the porcelain on the two crowns, so I am out another 600 bucks.. Suck.
• Dentist’s office also informed me that the lab that makes the crowns suspected that the mold taken last time wasn’t correct so they didn’t put porcelain on either crown so the dentist could verify if they were correct. One was, one wasnt, so a new set of molds had to be taken and both crowns sent off for finishing. So I have to wait another 3 weeks… re-suck
• Picked up the following CDs:
• Big Black - Songs About Fucking (to replace the copy that disappeared while living at CSH)
• Ween - The Pod
• Ween - 12 Golden Country Greats
• Múm - finally we are no one
• Spent another \$400 on the eye exam and new glasses… Went with a different look… I hope I don’t look like an ass…. ( Update: I have to wait until mid-week for the new glasses to be finished)
• Saw Blue Velvet and Lost Highway at the Brattle. Blue Velvet is one of my favorite films, but I was never able to make it thru Lost Highway awake… This time I made it, though, and it wasn’t that bad…. Definately not one of David Lynch’s finest films, but not that bad either… The soundtrack was weak…

So all in all, I spent too much money on my head this weekend.

Amy arrived Thursday night and we didn’t do anything terribly exciting other than grab some snacks and talk… Friday I went to the dentist and she got a haircut while I was in the torture seat. We did some record shopping and watched some movies that night… Saturday I bought new glasses and we saw a David Lynch double feature of Blue Velvet and Lost Highway… This was the first time I made it the whole way through Lost Highway awake… =)