Category: Life

Sometimes, I feel the need to talk about me (imagine that).

I’ve done my fair share of complaining in this blog and recently 2 companies have done me some good; so I figure I’ll spread a little praise for once.

Company #1 is
Amazon.com. I recently ordered some books from them and they said the expected time of arrival was between November 10 through November 12. I had one of the books in my hands on November 6 and all of them by November 9. Good job!

Company #2 is Westport Touchless Autowash (WTA). They’re local carwash company. I’d been busy/lazy/tired this summer and probably haven’t washed my car in months. I also frequently drive out to visit some friends who live in a small country town, which means my hood was covered in dead bugs. For extra fun, yesterday I parked too close to a tree and well… let’s just say some birds in that tree really could have used some Imodium AD. My car was flithy and over lunch today; I drove up to WTA and had them wash it. It wasn’t cheap as I went for the full package wash ($10) but my car came out of there spotless. Every dead bit of bug and every little present from my bird friends was gone. My car is currently all clean and shiny! 😀

So, I say thank you for the job well done.

*UGH* That was a looooooooooooong day. The night before, I’d headed to bed around 11 (slighly early for me) thinking I was bit a head of the game. Boy was that ever the wrong thing to be thinking. I layed down in bed and then tossed & turned for the next 5 hours without ever falling asleep. Finally around 4am, I got out of bed and dinked around on the computer until it was time to get ready for work.

I got to the office and after an extra strong cup of coffee1; I started hitting the program hard-core. I setup a spreadsheet to list off all the possible things I wanted to look at while testing this particular part of the program and went to town getting it setup. It was slower progress in the morning and I was still fairly out of it when my phone rang. No, no, no. You don’t understand. MY PHONE RANG!
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This evening after work Ariesna and I headed up to the World Theater in Cedar Rapids to attend an early Halloween Party.

Err… that’s not strictly true. We’d heard from AWelkin about said party being a mascarade and that it would start off by showing Shaun of the Dead. This is a British horror/zombie flick that was released here in the US not all that long ago and it had looked mighty funny, going by the trailers. Having now seen the movie, I can safely …. but that’s getting a head of myself.

We were running a bit behind schedule when we left (movie scheduled to start at 5:30, left house at 5:10, drive is ~30minutes) but we hurried along as best we could. Narrowly avoiding getting lost in downtown CR, I had to drive around the block a couple of times to find a place to park. We hurry inside –the time is now 6:00– and there’s no sign of a movie screen or a movie playing. We stumble around a bit confused when AWelkin waves us over. Apparently, we weren’t the only ones running behind schedule. *shrug* So we sit and chat1 until nearly 7 o’clock!

Finally the movie started and it was flippin’ fan-tas-tic! Sure, some bits had crude langauge and there was a bit of excessive gore but overall; 4.95 stars out of 5. Definitely, a must see and leaps & bounds better than the last movie we saw together.

1 Well, we tried to anyway but they were blasting annoying music at a near deafening level at us.

Just I had another night were I stayed up far, far too late dinking around on my computer getting some stuff setup on my local test server. This means when my alarm went off this morning; I was still in the deeper levels of sleep and it awoke me out of some dreaming. As I usually do I just kept hitting at the snooze for as long as I knew I could get away with. Finally though it was time to get up and when I did so I could still remember bits of what I had been dreaming. Those bits were enough for me to discover that my dreams had been changing each time I smacked that old snooze button.
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