I feel like i’ve been sick all week, but it started Tuesday. I had a sore throat until today, when that exchanged for coughing and the runs. I’m finally starting to feel better…. I’ll probably be congested for another two weeks, but whatever.
I had tickets for last night’s Dresden Dolls show and totally forgot about it… I’m a douchebag.
My father, , and I were talking about the November election this weekend and we started talking about how great a John Edwards vs. Dick Cheney debate would be… Thankfully this possibility is now going to happen. I think Edwards is a fantastic choice for Kerry, and I think ultimately he will make a fine president 8 years from January.
First off, before I forget again, my “cousin” Dave mailed me telling me about this product, which seems to fulfill what I was looking for in this post. Still a bit pricey, and I think I’d like it more if it held more than two drives, but still, moving in the right direction.
The trip back to Boston was pretty uneventful yesterday…. We hit some traffic crossing the Tappan Zee because there was a broken down vehicle in the slow lane, but other than that, and a bit of congestion when we first crossed the MA border, things were pretty straightforward. We listened to the audiobook of Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris. I had heard the book was funny for awhile, and planned on reading it, but to be honest, since it was read by the author and was a collection of anecdotes and short stories from his life, I believe the audiobook was a better choice…
Thursday night and I came down to NJ to hang with my fam for the holidays… We made really good time on the way down and just pretty much hung out once we got here. Friday was spent lazing around until the Firework Extravaganza on the lake… I did get my hair cut finally. Friday night was awesome, watching the town fireworks off the boat is just such a fun time… We had 11 people on the Party Barge Regency Edition, and we all had a blast. And boy, did I get drunk.
Yesterday we just kinda hung out for awhile until around 1pm, and then Corinna joined Dad, Johnny, Chuck, and myself for the Stellafane “Planning Session” on the boat (which really means we were looking for an excuse to get out on the boat). We grabbed lunch on the lake from this pizzeria which wasn’t good but wasn’t awful… We just dropped anchor in Byram Bay and chatted and swam and chilled… It was a great time. Then at night Corinna, Dad, and I went to see Fahrenheit 9/11 (He hadn’t seen it). A packed show, even in a pretty rural part of NJ, and everyone seemed to appreciate it.
Today I’ve just been chilling out, we took Buster for a run up at the Civic Center earlier, his first leash-less romp out in the wilderness. He behaved fine and had a great time. I think tonight we will watch The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra on DVD.
I was thinking that a cool product idea would be an external hard disk housing that connected to the computer via Firewire (400 & 800) and USB (1 & 2) (and maybe even Ethernet?) and inside had a Serial ATA bus and did hardware RAID. So I could have this portable little RAID box that I could bring to different computers as necessary, not having to worry about setting up RAID on each machine, etc. It’d be great to just have a couple hundred gigs lying around that I could access reasonably fast but that was also “safe”.
Played some poker tonight, \$2/4 Limit Hold’em over in Cambridge… I am finally starting to feel decent about my play… There was one hand I beat myself up over for staying in, but I definitely learned my lesson and played better for the rest of the night. I am still not quite comfortable short handed, but I held my own. I came out up \$62.50 for the night.
I am so ridiculously on edge lately… Tonight I feel all nervous and claustrophobic, like i’ve done something terribly wrong (even though I’ve been pretty saintly lately). Eh, I’m sure it will pass, I just hope it’s sooner rather than later.
I have to go to the dentist for lunch tomorrow for an emergency patchup on a small chipped tooth… It’s the same tooth, i think, that I had “emergency” work done on a few weeks ago, when the filling fell out. I probably weakened it somehow before he patched it up, or something.
A bunch of things have happened since Wednesday, although I doubt any of you will find them interesting. Friday night, after work, i went to the dentist to have two ultra-small cavities filled. I didn’t even take any Novocaine, that’s how small they were (not that Novocaine dulls my pain at the dentist, I have been known to still feel much pain after 5-6 novocaine shots; I have been thinking about skipping even at the next serious cavity filling.) He also took some X-rays which show another cavity, so I have to go back again in a month or so to get that patched up too… Neverending cavalcade of dental torture.
Friday was also the 4th Anniversary of my LiveJournal. That’s right, 4 years of meaningless posts like this one.
Saturday just mostly hung around, I’ve been… Not down, but uninspired to do ANYTHING lately… It’s only been the past week, so hopefully it will pass. Corinna made some awesome food last night, so that definitely improved my mood. :)
Tonight we are going to see Fahrenheit 9/11 with the film club. Should be an interesting time!
The Múm concert last night was fantastic…. It was in the courtyard at the MFA, and we went to the later 8:30pm show (there was also a 6pm show). It was just starting to get dark when the show started, and it was so awesome sitting in the grass looking up at the stars, and hearing beautiful music… While the last time I saw them was fantastic because it was in the tiny 608 Club (Don’t look for it, it’s not there anymore), I have to say that the open air definitely wins in the cage match.
I signed up for some SharePoint training this morning, but it was pretty unnecessary for me… I should have just skipped the training and played with the software for awhile. It wasn’t a bad class, it’s just I could have explored my way to that knowledge in about the same amount of time.