June 23, 2007
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It’s amazing how busy a person can be. Several interesting things have happened during this week so here’s a review:
- The Department of Defense had to shut down their computers due to a hacker. Does it not surprise you that Gates doesn’t use email let alone any “old timer”? I was astonished when I learned my mom was using AIM.
- How old is Harrison Ford anyways? It seems like all these old time actors are trying to find work so why not make a sequel? Even still can’t wait for Indiana Jones 4 to come out.
- What does AT&T buying BellSouth give you? $10 DSL. Well that’s if it’s available where you live. Seems like they are giving people the run around. I checked their website and couldn’t find it and yet from what I’ve read you’re supposed to be able to order it online. *wink* *wink* *nudge* *nudge*
- The IRS is funny. I get jokes …
- Miguel Tejada ended his 1,152 consecutive game streak because of a fractured wrist. The sad thing is I saw it happen on TV. Hopefully, he becomes a better player because now he can actually get some rest and start driving the ball out of the stadium like he used too. No, I’m not bitter. I just want him to be the player he was a few years ago. Is that too much to ask for from a fan?!
- Yet, another reason to hate these type of amusement rides. Some would say it was a nail bitter.
- They finally released the Botcon schedule and the guest list. I’m somewhat disappointed at the guest list. I could have sworn in the past they’ve gotten some better known people. Especially the various voice actors from the different generations of the show and more comic artists. Oh well. I still can’t wait!!!
- I just thought this was an interesting article about Dell. Some of it I had already heard of but still. I’m slowly becoming a fan of the Consumerist.
- Even if it’s a red state, I’m glad I’m not a Virginia resident. Reading the article, the fines seem pretty stiff but I like the comparison of arguments. One favors the fines to help discourage people from breaking the various driving laws and potentially create safer roads. Then the other viewpoint of the fines are too high, which the less rich couldn’t pay so they won’t pay and then they’d lose their license which then leads to them losing their jobs. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! My brain hurts after hearing people say stoooopid stuff like that. If they’re willing to break the law then they should be willing to pay the price for doing so. If you don’t break the law then you don’t have to pay the fine. (yeah, yeah, yeah there’s always the case of potential abuse and one should stand against that but still, it’s a small percentage of the whole deal)
- I wonder if it would look weird if Sharka was riding in one of these.
- Whoa. The Caps got new jerseys. Mixture of old-school with new-school flare. I miss the away blue sweaters with the eagle (It was retired a few years and replaced with the then alternate black sweaters with the Capital dome.) but the new home red sweaters look pretty nice. The away whites still look a little bland too me.
- We had one person show up to Bible study last night. That makes a total of two people in the house (myself and this other person). Even still, we had a good discussion and I think we both grew from that evenings study. God is good.
- Not that God isn’t good. It’s just that sometimes all these responsibilities seem to get in the way. I say that because my best friend is having his bachelor party this weekend up at Atlantic City. I couldn’t make it because of Friday night study, having to work today and then various church responsibilities on Sunday (the bachelor party event is the whole weekend). My buddy isn’t a Christian but he knows how much my faith means to me. It just seems like these responsibilities curb my ability to continue to witness to him on a more personal level rather than in this remote, distance way.
Hopefully, we’ll be able to hang out before he gets married in a few weeks. - After work I had to go to Giants to pick up some groceries. We keep a cloth bag in the car just so we don’t need to have the groceries bagged in plastic bags (or we ask for paper bags). During checkout, there was a bagger dude and I tell him he can just put the groceries in the cloth bag. He gave me this blank look and then proceeded to bag stuff in their plastic bags. I know I started to make odd facial expressions but apparently that didn’t matter since the dude kept on using plastic bags. Weird.
- Besides the weird bagger dude, the checkout lady didn’t understand the concept of a “Buy One Get One Free” coupon. The coupon was for Pepsi products of which I did have two scanned through, as I gave her the coupon she first read the coupon, paused, read the coupon again and then said “But you bought two of them.” Odd facial expressions ensued again. Eventually she got it to just subtract one of the items off of the total price.
- While all this was happening, another shopper had put his stuff on the belt and proceeded to stand extremely close to the little checkout table where the credit card reader is at. I don’t know if it was a personal space issue or not but literally there was very little space for me to swipe my credit card because he didn’t move. I figured he get the hint once the lady gave me the receipt to sign but he didn’t. He held firm to the space he was occupying until I said excused me so I could slide over to use the table to sign the receipt. He basically took one step back to give me just enough space to squeeze in, sign the piece of paper and get right out. That was just a weird time at Giants.
- The Department of Defense had to shut down their computers due to a hacker. Does it not surprise you that Gates doesn’t use email let alone any “old timer”? I was astonished when I learned my mom was using AIM.
