07.13.08
Posted in My Life at 5:19 pm by Kelly
Knew I wouldn;t get it on Friday, so figured I’d cruise in on Saturday (liek I did last year) to get the new iPhone 3G. Got to the mall, and there were EASILT 300 people in line. Um - no. I’d try Sunday.
Picked up Sydney Ellen at 7:45 in the morning from a friends house after the Jonas Brothers concert (in her words “The best concert I’ve ever seen in my entire life”), had breakfast at a luxurious Denny’s, and headed to the Northridge mall. Only 11 people in line - but this was 2 HOURS before the store opened at 11am. Since Sydney was getting my old iPhone, she was all for waiting. So we waited.
11am the doors open and….nothing. No movement. Turns out they were letting people in that were turned away at midnight Saturday night - about 10 of them - and then started letting the rest of us in. One at a time to not just buy, but “activate” the phones in the store. I assume this is to keep people from getting a phone without a contract, and then Jailbreaking it to use with another provider. Whatever. It was a major PITA.
Finally our turn came, and the whole process to 15 minutes. Time to play with the over 500 apps available and more coming every day.
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06.29.08
Posted in My Life at 12:06 am by Kelly
Having a tattoo myself (a heart with “Sydney” in it), I know what a commitment it is. You have to be sure - absolutely SURE you’re not making a mistake.
Absolutely NONE of these people were.
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06.26.08
Posted in My Life at 9:23 pm by Kelly
91%DRUNKARD
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06.18.08
Posted in My Life at 12:22 pm by Kelly
Tiger is out for the season getting ACL surgery, which immediately creates all kinds of comments and discussion about golf, which I want to address:
Statement: Tiger is too dominant, so it makes golf boring.
Response: Stop being an idiot. We’re watching history. Nobody complained with it was Jordan, or Gordon, or Nicklaus, or PELE for fuck sake. Seeing someone that dominant is inspirational.
Statement: How did he get injured when golf isn’t even a sport.
Response: Shut the hell up. Either that, or define “Sport” for me in a way that doesn’t EXCLUDE car racing (because it’s not full contact, or involve running) or INCLUDE chess (because it isn’t one-on-one) or for that matter - in a way that makes any sense at all.
Statement: Tiger isn’t the best who’s ever played until he beats Nicklaus’ record.
Response: You’re a numbskull. While it is certainly important to show that you have longevity to be the best, Tiger has already done that - and dominated at a higher level than Nicklaus ever did. To be clear: Tiger currently has over DOUBLE the World Ranking Points that the second place player (Mickelson) has, and over FOUR TIMES the points of the number 3 player. It’s not even close. Another way to put it is this: where do you draw the line? On the 17th hole of the last round of his 19th major, he’s NOT the best player in the world, and 10 minutes later he IS? Go away.
Statement: Golfers aren’t althletes.
Response: You’re a moron. Take a look at Tiger’s exercise regimen, and the strength it takes to do what he does. End of story.
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06.16.08
Posted in My Life at 10:53 am by Kelly
All in all, it couldn’t have been more fun. Friday to the recital for Sydney dancing at LABA, then all day Saturday doing the same. That’s about 20 numbers for Sydney (including her insane hip hop number), and 3 for me and the Dancin’ Dads. Song this year was from Dreamgirls - “Steppin to the bad side” - and was a great number.
Sunday morning was golf with the Dad, then back to the house for food and the US Open. Then gifts (got a great watch, and better than that - cards from Sydney that I will keep forever), and lots of laughs.
Yes. Really, really great weekend.
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06.09.08
Posted in My Life at 4:13 pm by Kelly
Announced. Must get. Check it out.
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05.21.08
Posted in My Life at 2:35 pm by Kelly
Ok - so Sydney’s friend Ava asked if we could adopt her pet guinea pig. Her mother is allergic, and her father already has enough animals. So we took it. We fed it what we thought was the appropriate amount. It got fat. VERY fat.
Like, PREGNANT fat.
Had two babies last night. Fantastic. Just what I wanted. A whole PILE of guinea pigs.
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Posted in My Life at 2:32 pm by Kelly
Bill has done it again. Finalist for the MTV video awards. Third video listed. He is funny. Fuh. Knee.
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05.09.08
Posted in My Life at 10:43 am by Kelly
Porter Valley started a contest about 8 weeks ago called “The Spring Shape Up” - so I entered. Plan is to pick a target number of day to work out (I picked 3, but actually go in 6 times a week minimum) and a goal - either to lose weight or bodyfat %. I am of the opinion that everyone would be trying to lose bodyfat, buty whatever. I picked bodyfat, and measured at 19% for starters. Not bad considering I was 33.5% about 2 years ago.
My own goal was to lose 2% over that 8 weeks. 2% doesn’t sound like much, but it is when you are my age, and already working out pretty hard. So I ramped it up. More cardio, more intense, full body weightlifting.
Results: 2.5% bodyfat lost (down to 16.5%), 3 pounds GAINED on the scale from 215 to 218. What this means is that I lost about 8.5 pounds of fat, and gained 3 pounds of muscle. Not too bad. Next stop is 13% - where most people agree you can really start to see your abs. David and Josh are on track for the same.
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04.18.08
Posted in My Life at 9:40 am by Kelly
That’s right. Having gone from Ubuntu to Vista (because I need to test my killer construction management software in IE), I have decided it is time to truly upgrade for speed and stability.
Hello Windows XP!
That’s right. I’ll say it, and I’ll say it loud: VISTA SUCKS. It is a bloated, slow, buggy, unstable, over-complicated piece of CRAP that illustrates how bad a product can get when a company loses site of its mission.
My niece Kristin, who is doing some web design work for me, brough her Toshiba Satellite over last night to do some work, and I was ASTOUNDED at how slow it was running Vista. This is a dual-core machine with only 512MB of RAM, but still - how powerful is a machine supposed to be. I finally told her that she should put XP on it, and went ahead and spent last night doing it. The thing SCREAMS. Now there is the downside of the lost functionality by downgrading - features like…wait…no. Never mind. There is NO downside. Vista does not do ONE thing better than XP.
I still like Windows Server for many things (stiffs.com runs on it, for example), but none of my software is using it - it’s all CentOS 5. The beginning of the end for Microsoft? Perhaps.
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