posts about things that happen in real life
Apr 14 2007
ATM line
Here is where being a local pays off. I just walked over to the bank and there were like 10 people standing in line for the 2 ATMs in front of the bank. Since I live 2 blocks away, I know that there is another ATM in the drive-through lane, so I walked over there, got my money, and walked back and it didn’t look like the line had shortened any. Im on my way to contact my Upminster Locksmith so i can pay him for his services.
Apr 4 2007
Believe it or not, it’s kind of important to spell things correctly when giving instructions. I took “blaack paper” to mean I was supposed to print something on black paper, which we don’t have, so I was like WTF?? It turns out that “blaack paper” actually says “blanck paper”, AKA, “blank paper”. Someone just wanted 10 sheets of paper.
Mar 23 2007
This is happening across the street right now!
It is very loud, yet not sounding all that great.
If you’re interested, come on over!
I don’t know who any of these people are, but some kind of hot girl with nasty teef axed me if I knew if John B was over there. I guess John B is kind of a big deal.
Mar 14 2007
I just received preliminary good news from Apple. It’s not the official good news I have been waiting for; that should be coming later today, but good news none the less.
Soon. SOON, I say, I will once again be able to whole-heartily recommend all things Apple.
You know, it’s really hard to talk someone into dropping a couple Gs on something when the one you own is sitting in its box, dead, in the middle of your apartment.
I think I can now stop pulling my hair out with frustration.
Mar 6 2007
I hope you like how my blog looks because I don’t. I miss my pink and green! As soon as I have some free time, am in the mood and HAVE MY iMac BACK!! I will get things back to looking how they should.
10 or so days ago I said I bought a 500 GB hard drive and I said I wished I could find a couple 120 GB drives. Well, some good and not so good things have happened since then.
First, there was an issue with my credit card I used to order the 500 GB drive. After a couple of days of talking with computergeeks.com I ended up giving them a different number over the phone. The woman I spoke with said she would just cancel my old order and create a new one with new cc number. I thought all was well until today, when the drive showed up. IT WAS A SATA DRIVE!! I needed an IDE drive. So I called them up and said “HAY U STUPIT FHUKS SENDED ME TEH WRONG DRIVE!!11111” except it was a little more civil than that. The dude I talked to said I ordered a SATA drive and I didn’t really push the issue since he was going to give me an RMA and in house credit. But then I looked at the RMA and it said I needed to pay shipping to send the drive back, AND my credit didn’t cover shipping. So I’m thinking to myself… I paid $9 shipping to get the drive to me, and I’ll probably have to pay at least another $9 to send it back. PLUS another $9 to get the correct drive sent back to me? I DON’T THINK SO!!
So I called computer geeks back and explained the situation a little better and now I’m waiting for a new RMA that covers shipping the wrong drive back. And I got the seekrit kodez to get free shipping when I re-order the correct drive. That made me feel better. I was hoping for an amazon.com type experience where I say “You sent the wrong thing!” and they say “srsly srry d00d! We’ve just sent the correct drive to you. You can send the wrong drive back to us whenever you feel like it and we’ll take care of that shipping.” but I’m not going to bitch too loudly about the thing with computergeeks.com. In the end, I guess I’m happy. It just means a week or 2 more with this crappy drive in my PC that keeps making my computer reboot thanks to FAULTY_HARDWARE_CORRUPTED_PAGE. I so can’t wait until I don’t see that again.
Along the same good news – bad news – ok news lines of hard drives, I happened to be at Office Depot on Sunday, and I saw that they had 100 GB Maxtor drives for $29 after a $50 rebate. Now, I pretty much can’t ever deal with rebates, but small (relatively speaking) drives like that seem to be harder and harder to find, so I scooped one up. I was expecting the bits that I needed to mail in to be printed with my receipt, but all I got was a thing saying I can get $10 off my next purchase of $25 or more. I figured I could just find the rebate online once I got home. But when I got home I found out that the rebate had expired on the day before; on the 3rd. OH NOSE!!1 I hopped back on my bike and rode back to Office Depot. When I was there I took a look to make sure that I hadn’t made a mistake in reading the sign about the price. I had the right drive, but it too said that the rebate expired on the 3rd. I was a little bummed that I would have to keep looking for drives, but I was glad that I hadn’t opened up the drive that I bought. I decided to act a little facetious and asked a dude that was working there where I could find the rebate. He said it would be printed out with my receipt. I told him I just bought one of the drives and I didn’t get a rebate. He looked at the sign and made sure I had the right item and then did a little computer hacking and looked it up online. Then he said he would take care of it and just give it to me for the price with the rebate, but without the bother. So I bought a 2nd drive! The 2 drives at the reduced price were actually about $22 less than the single drive without the rebate. And to top it off, there were actually 120 GB drives in the boxes, instead of the 100 GB labeled. H00ray!!
On the down side, my iMac is STILL dead and I haven’t heard anything after several voice and emails. I should probably try calling Apple again right now. I am so over that computer!
Feb 26 2007
Recently, Brandon and I have put our bikes on a diet. Here is a list of parts I plan on purchasing this week. $900+ is a bit of a tough pill to swallow, but you have to pay to play, I guess. PLZ advise if there are some things on the list that you think are shady, and please suggest alternates. I’ve actually already ordered a different wheelset and the brake. They should be delivered later today. Also, I don’t necessarily want to order from Uncle Dan, so I’m open to suggestions there too. Especially if a 15%+ hook-up is included! Pay attention to how my Pork (somewhat updated pic) looks now because before too long I think the frame will be the only part on it left the same. I hope to get it down to around 25 lbs. I think it’s close to 35 now! I guess buying all of those parts means I won’t be going to the Seattle Supercross this year. I’ll still try to go if a butt-load of money falls into my lap.
In other spending money news, I purchased another 500 GB drive this weekend. Now I can take the 250 GB drive out of one of my firewire enclosures and put it in my PC. The new 500 GB drive will go into the then vacant enclosure. I’d still like to be able to find 2 or 3 120 GB drives for a reasonable price to use up my older Firewire enclosures. It kind of sucks that I can get drives with 2-3x as much storage space for the same amount of money, but they won’t work in these enclosures. I’d like to use 1 120 GB drive as a backup for my iTunes music, and another for my iPhoto backup. I don’t know what exactly I would use the 3rd one for, but I know I could fill it up really quick.
I will be super unhappy if Apple doesn’t call me back at some point today. We are nearing 2 months since my iMac died. I really miss it!
Feb 2 2007
Yesterday I took a long lunch and walked over to Ocean Drive to see New Found Glory. These are some pictures I took.
This is Access Hollywood’s Maria Menounos. She’s making that face because she’s wondering if what I just told her was a joke or for real.
…and then I showed it to her!
New Found Glory’s frontman, Jordan Pundik!
New Found Glory’s Steve Klein
I am totally forgetting this dude’s name, and I have no idea what he did with Chad Gilbert. Also, I think I failed to get any good pics of Ian or Cyrus. Sorry!
This is a Miami Dolphins cheerleader.
…and this is her walking away. =(
These people are celebrities. How many can you name??
I took 400+ pictures today, but I’m a little too lazy to put them on the net. Plus, as usual, a lot of them were overexposed/blurry. If you REALLY want to see them it is possible that I could be persuaded to put them on the innernets.
In other words, just ask.
Jan 30 2007
This weekend is usually one of my favorite weekends on the beach: VOLLEYPALOOZA!
Except… last year there was no Volleypalooza and this year it’s at some place called Shulaville. Where is Shulaville? I hope it’s just some made-up area of the beach. Because, Volleypalooza without South Beach is like… Ham without burger! It has to be some part of the beach. I just wish the website wasn’t so vague. I’m guessing that Shulaville is somewhere near 8th and Ocean.
Also happening on the beach on Thursday: NEW FOUND GLORY!! NFG is pretty much my favorite active band of all time!! I got to see them for the 675654654654564th time back in November in Ft. Lauderdale and now, according to their website they’re playing in Lummus Park during halftime of the Directv Celebrity Beach Bowl, and I MIGHT be able to see them again. I mean, look how close they will be! The only problem? 1PM on a Thursday? Yeah, I’ll be at work. We’ll see how that works out.
Oh, I almost forgot… I’m going to see the Red Hot Chili Peppers tomorrow night.
Jan 30 2007
So… I have ANOTHER new cousin: Her name is Whitley Frances and she was born at 4:03 this morning. I don’t have any pictures yet… I JUST got off of the phone with my uncle, but he said he’ll send me some.
When I was at home for family Xmas there was a baby shower for cousin Scott and Uncle Tim and their respective families and there was a money pool deal where you’re supposed to pick the birth day/weight of these two new kids wearing Dress For Girls. I didn’t win either pool even though I think I bought the most squares. I know that I had the most at the time, but someone could have usurped me after I made my choices. We had fun in one of the most comfortable gazebos i spent time in my life. Get yours from BestHardtopGazebos.com.
Jan 26 2007
You know it’s colder than a witch’s tit in South Florida when I’m wearing pants. Especially to work! ESPECIALLY with a long sleeve shirt!!
Or maybe I just didn’t get my laundry done and I wanted to wear a Slednecks shirt in honor of last night’s freestyle snowmobile competition at the X Games?
Either way, I still think 52-58º is cold.
Cold day!
Jan 25 2007
Dear innernets,
Why is it just 57º at 1:30 PM here on South Beach? It was like 70 something this morning.
Must be global warming.
Damn you, car owners!
You’re wrecking my winter!!!
May 3 2007
zOMGz C MONGST0R!!
Remind me to keep out of the water.
Also, here is a news report about it.
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