The organization of any complex arrangement hinges on the interplay of seemingly haphazard individual events.

Wednesday, November 23, 2005

Avoiding Death

I watched someone die last night. I'll fill in the details later... ...and still even later. I've been busy.

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Thursday, November 17, 2005

(Disfunctional) American Family Insurance

Becki calls me today and tells me that I have a letter from American Family Insurance with the phrase "Payment Enclosed". This means only one thing. Someone somewhere screwed up my insurance again and now it's cancelled.

I call up AmFam and speak to Anthony who tells me they haven't received a payment in two months. I check with my US Bank's online banking and sure enough it shows the checks as sent and paid. I ran into this problem once before. So now I have to go down there on Saturday and show them the check.

Here's where the problem comes in. I thought I paid them already. So naturally, I thought the money was gone. I don't have enough to cover both months right now. Plus this gig I'm on now (for Dell) doesn't pay until December 18th. I have to be in New York on the 18th. I'm screwed.

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Wednesday, November 16, 2005

First Class

Hi Justin, I had reserved two classes in December for you, but you're not cci yet, so I'm finishing out their year. On the week of the 19th I'm doing the first CCEA 4.0 accelerated track. Problem is I had a tentative 1256aI in NYC that same week of the 19th. Will you be a certified instructor by then, and are you available, the rate agreed on was *$$$$ per day plus travel. Charlie Looks like I'm hitting the ground running. I finish taking the "train the trainer" class on December 16th. *Edited for tact.

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TV Barn

[W]e learn that the huge spike in indecency complaints lodged at the FCC in third quarter 2005 came as a result of one organization: yep, the Parents Television Council. The PTC filed 23,542 of the 23,547 complaints the FCC received in July, mostly against the same two programs

Tuesday, November 15, 2005

So far, too good

So this business idea I've had has taken off. Business plan is finished. Funding will come through by the end of the week (hopefully) and I already have 2 customers and 2 very interested parties. This means that (aside from the initial start up capital) we'll be breaking even after the first month. Damn I'm psyched. No Becki. You can't mooch. ;) We both know you're too independent for the house wife gig. It's one of the reasons I love you so.

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Wednesday, November 09, 2005

Dell sells AMD

Dell Computers now sells machines with AMD processors. When I say "with" I mean "outside the machine in a cardboard box".
Instead, Dell is selling six, standalone Athlon processors. The chips perform well, which is nice, and could be seen as a plus for customers. Only, you can't buy a Dell system with the chips installed, and you can't upgrade existing PCs because they use Intel-only motherboards.
This is Dell's way of helping Intel out of their soon-to-be-filed anti-trust lawsuit. Read more

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Saturday, November 05, 2005

The early bird gets to die.

Why is it people feel the need to call me at 8am on a Saturday? Why? These people aren't strangers. They're two of my closest friends. They should know I'm going to be asleep. Windy called me at 8am and then Greg called me at 10am. Is it a cooperative effort for a psychological break? What did I do to them to deserve this?

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Wednesday, November 02, 2005

Hot linking is bad mmmkay?

Lindsay Lohan - News, Pictures, MP3, Videos and Gossip Note: Take a look at the site and take a guess at what image they tried to swipe from me. (NSFW)

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Tuesday, November 01, 2005

How the Irish get down!

This is from two weekends ago when I went out with Claire and Greg on a much needed night out. I had a such a great time. I can't wait to do it again. The girl in the video is dancing to Aerosmith "Walk This Way" .

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Super Sexy Geek Action!

I came up with a great idea.

Let me rephrase that, I took a great idea that myself and Rabbit shared a while ago (but let die) and turned into something I could use with my site. My blog will now be simulcast back to my old blog on Blogger. It seems I miss out on alot of people actually reading my blog because I'm no longer in the random loop that Blogger provides. Behold! I now harness the power of Blogger! Let me show you what I'm talking about. Go look. Pretty cool huh? Now I just need to get back to supplying my blog with some genuine personal content.

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