I got a…huh?
I ordered a new set of GM keys for my car earlier this week since I lost one of my door keys. (Which I’ve since found. =P )
And last night I stopped by the post office and they put one of those little yellow slips in our PO box letting you know you got a package. Oh giddy day for me! But the office is closed, so I come back this morning. I tell the postal worker my box number and he retreats back behind some shelves full of packages and shuffles them around a bit. Soon he emerges with a box almost big enough for a small child’s head. (Sorry it’s the only reference I could think of.)
So right off the bat I’m suspicious. There’s no need for a package that big for four car keys. But maybe they just have a good deal on boxes like that, hell I dunno. All I know is I nor Andrea have ordered anything else. Once home I tear into the box to lay my eyes on these extremely well packaged keys. But I open the box and there’s a letter from Westar Energy on the top. HUH? I skim the paper and it says, “As a special thanks for enrolling in paperless billing, here’s a free compact fluorescent bulb. It’ll save you money in the long run.” Apparently part of their Go Green campaign. After digging throught he rest of the packaging. Sure enough it’s a light bulb.
Go figure. I’ve been getting my bills online for a good year and a half now. But its nice of them to still think of me I guess. Just an odd thing to show up in the mail…out of the blue…a lightbulb. Weird.
Are you ready?
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I’m ready! I didn’t know it was coming out so soon. I’m gonna have to sit down and watch all three on DVD and start getting REALLY pumped!
It’s creepy, but I’m facinated…
This has been around for a while within the last couple days, I’ve been messing around with Google Maps Street View. In a few major cities, they sent a van out running around with a 360 degree camera on top and started taking pictures. The result is you can pick a street and zoom all the way down to the street and pan around as if you were almost there.
Here’s a guy’s house on Oldspower.com, haha.
To use it you just go to maps.google.com and click on the “Street View” button in the top right. Then the cities available will have a camera icon on them. Zoom in and any blue outlined street you can double click on and it will show you the view from street level. Pretty crazy!
I was checking out Las Vegas Blvd. earlier. Heck one of these days you’ll be able to take a trip without even leaving your house!
Hey, this is kinda cool!
I was messing around on the internet today and did a Google image search for “1985 Toronado” (sans quotes) and my car is the first result! If you use the quotes it ends up like the 3rd result. LAME!
Nothing special. Just one of those “whoa” moments. Too bad it was from before the paint job.
02.5.08New toy
Well it’s been a while since I posted. Been busy with remotes and Grandma in the hospital and all. I’m feeling pretty drained.
So maybe it was just feeling like I need to reward myself or something, I dunno. But at some point we’re all allowed to make ridiculous purchases right?
So we bought a 47 inch LCD HDTV.
The picture doesn’t really do justice to how ridiculiously big this TV is in such a small room. Ha ha. But I figure my next place is hopefully a little bigger, and I plan on this TV lasting a while. I payed a little bit extra to make sure it was full HD 1080p. So it shouldn’t be obsolete in the immediate future. We had to get HDMI cables for our cable box and the DVD player that Andrea picked up today to get the digital picture. And we had to get the HD package from the cable company. But it looks great if you ask me.
On the other hand, regular TV looks kinda gross now. You ever take a small picture and stretch it out on your computer screen? Know how it gets all blurry? Yeah. Even PS2 games look pretty antiquated when blown up this big. We debated getting a PS3 or Xbox 360, but I think we’re going to hold off on those for a while.
So I have two 27″ TV’s laying around now. haha. One Stooks gave me a while back and if he has a use for it, he can sure have it back whenever. If not I have two TVs that I’m willing to GIVE away. You…someone you know…want a TV? Come get it or catch me on a trip close to you, and its yours.
I’m pretty excited though. I’ve had a nice sound system for a while now, and always said I just don’t have the TV to go with it. Now I do. I see no need to buy a movie ticket ever again.
01.30.08Go figure!
I had to work tonight and since it’s gotten cold again I decided to wear my K-State sweatshirt. Little did I know, tonight was the KSU vs KU game there in Manhattan. The bartender is a big, BIG KU fan so it turned out I wore KSU garb and he was in KU duds.
They made such a big deal about it being ALL THOSE YEARS and KU always wins in Manhattan, blah-blah-duh-blah!!! Well, I guess we showed them! I didn’t rub it in too much, but I did have to say something!
Be careful making fun of people.
Well Andrea decided to get the cable TV going again at our place. She called last week to get it set up, and they said it would be turned on by Monday at the latest. Monday came and went so we stopped by Cox and said what’s up? They said they’d send someone over Wednesday to find out what the deal was, but it showed that they already turned it on.
Well we’ve had cable before and I knew it worked. “Did you hook it up right?” I asked her. She said she was pretty sure, so I got to looking. The cable box was hooked to the TV. But I looked at the cable outlet on the wall and there was nothing plugged in! “Well there’s your problem!”
I gave her some jabs for a while and then I went to go take out the pizza I thew in the oven for her when she headed home from work. She looks at it and says, “You forgot to take the cardboard off the bottom before you put it in the oven!” DOH!
I guess we’re even, eh?
Caption these.
We need a couple more computers.
Andrea decided to do some upgrading to the server the other night. It involved a sort of Frankenstein operation taking parts from her old computer, my old one, and her sister’s all stitched together into one. Come to find out, the only spare video card we had was too old to be compatible with the new motherboard. So everything had to go back the way it was!
I get a kick out of that picture though, because there’s a total of two working computers, three monitors three disassembled computers laying around. And she’s on the laptop of all things!
Just another day in the life of a geek.
Sick people annoy the hell out of me!
The main reason I detest cold weather is the flu season. All kinds of germs and bugs are out there and for some reason I seem to find them!
I’d managed to catch something a week and a half ago. Miserable! Temp, sore throat, blah-blah… I spent my money, went to the doctor, got medicine and got better. Stayed home til the doctor said I wasn’t contagious, then went back out into the public.
Now, less than two weeks later I get sick again! Back to the doctor, more medicine… I woke up at 4 a.m. tired, but wide awake. THAT is frustrating. I laid there for an hour talking to the cat. And she looked up at me like she understood my misery, precious thing!
All of this because sick people don’t stay home. Now, I understand that being in a bubble is impossible. But have you ever walked thru a store and there is a person coughing and sneezing and no concern over covering their mouth? Dragging their sick kids out in a restaurant with snot running down their face, cheeks flushed and even a perfect stranger like me can tell they don’t feel good? Oh, my favorite… People who leave their used kleenex in the shopping cart!? WHAT is all this about?
I realize I am a germ-a-phobic. But it’s freaking ridiculous! And after spending $150 on medicine and dr office visits in the past ten days, I think I have a right to bitch! I’d rather walk into a place of business and see a sign telling me they are under-staffed due to employees’ being gone with the flu than walk in and have some sick fool coughing all over me, my purchase or whatever!
Fuzz and I talked about this at 4 a.m. and she agreed with me! I love that cat!!!!