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a_bit_of_wit_2A relaxing 3-day weekend, all in all. We achieved what we wanted to do over the weekend--clean the apartment up, do laundry, and go out and do a little shopping, seeing as it was a pay week. Yay State holidays. I don't know why NYS considers Columbus Day a holiday...I don't know why the Feds consider it a holiday, since we kinda debunked the long-held "fact" that Columbus discovered America. Ah, well, can't complain--one of the benefits of being a State peon is paid holidays, so...not complaining.
The past week was relatively uneventful, but we did have a visitor--Dan H was here for the night on Thursday. He was heading back to Clarkson and stopped by here. Rather than let him continue on to Clarkson (to which he'd arrive by 1 AM) because he was tired, we put him up for the night. This week I have also been doing what I've been doing since before I was a teenager--listening to the baseball postseason on the radio. Our diehard Yankee fans in the office were hoping the good ol' overpriced Yankees blew over the Tigers...alas, it wasn't meant to be. On Saturday, we were at April's parents for dinner, and we caught the last game of the series. While her family wasn't enjoying the scene, I was internally revelling in it. Nothing like seeing the high-and-mighty $200 million-payroll fall in defeat. It's quite nice. While I fully admit that the Yankees are a great team, full of talent, the main reason for my dislike of them is the fact that they know that they're the highest-paid team in baseball--and they flaunt it. So much so. All that money makes that team extremely cocky.
Example: I listen to the Yankees radio (because around here, that AM station is the best reception for baseball), and it gets a little annoying every time I hear John Sterling (great, great radio announcer) advertise. It seems that every pitch, every out is sponsored by such and such. Every inning sponsored by the official ice tea, the official beer, the official toilet paper, the official airline, the official water, the official vitamin supplement, the official home improvement store, etc...you get the point. I just want baseball, without the ads for every foul ball. When I came home last Saturday night, tuned into the Mets game on their own station--I heard not one ad during the play-by-play. People are always making a big deal about the high-and-mighty Yanks, with their bajillion-dollar payroll. Every other team plays to play, have fun. Not the Yanks--it's a corporate business. So yes, good team, a lot of talent and excellent players--but play to have fun, and don't let all that money go to your heads.
Yesterday, we went to Rotterdam Mall, window shopped for a bit. I purchased a new toy--a 1 GB USB flash drive, on sale at Radio Shack. I take music off my computer and plug it into my computer at work. I can only fit 2, maybe 3 CDs worth of music on my 256 MB flash drive, and by the time lunch comes around, I've already listened to everything on it. Now with 4x the space, I can fit 12-15 CDs worth, have music for a whole day and then some. I've used it today already to get most of the video game soundtracks I have downloaded off my laptop and burned to CDs. I also purchased the $50 GameStop gift card to mail out to the winner of the most recent character battle contest, gets mailed out to Illinois tomorrow. Magus and Joshie, your prizes will be on its way in 2 weeks, but you have to decide on what you want. April purchased Volume 10 of Mystery Science Theater 3000, so we've been watching/listening to the quips of Mike, Joel, Servo and Crow all weekend. Also threw Lionel Ruland some money--for those of you who went to the RenFaire with us during the summer, Lionel is a.k.a. Dr. Crossbones McCoy. In his spare time when he's not performing or traveling with the RenFaire and/or Crimson Pirates, he runs a games and collectables store--Bad Moo Games and Collectibles. Carolyn turned us on to the pointless fun game called Apples to Apples when we were in Ramapo last August. Couldn't find it in any department store, and sure enough, it was on Crossbones' store. So it's on its way.
Speaking of Carolyn, we are in the midst of making plans for me to visit her in Ithaca come November. Her anime society is doing an all-night marathon either the weekend before Halloween or the second weekend of November. Either way, it looks like I'll be going to Ithaca in November anyway. I've wanted to visit the college since high school--it was among the colleges I wanted to go to. Forgot how its English/creative writing program was, but I know they have an excellent music program. Since I was going to be receiving no financial help at all from my immediate family, I had to nix Ithaca purely for financial reasons. All turned out for the good, though--I have April. And all the friends I made in New Paltz, both online and in real life. Still, I look forward to hanging out with Carolyn. Now I've got to save up money for bus fare, which isn't too bad.
Finally, I scored a desktop computer. Apparently, the IT department at the Salvation Army in Suffern is donating some of its older computers to sell in its thrift stores. Annie works (or has connections to) the SA, and managed to yoink a computer for me for $50. It has Windows XP Pro, 60 GB hard drive (triple my current lappy's hard drive), 256 MB RAM (double my lappy's), full versions of Microsoft Office 2003, Norton Antivirus Corporate Edition, Photoshop 9, CD burner, and is only a couple of years old--as opposed to my laptop, which is designed for Windows 98, but can handle Windows 2000 at the very max. I don't try to throw XP on here...it may kill it. The only other thing I need to purchase for said compy is a monitor, so I'm looking to invest in a flat-panel monitor.
That's about it, I suppose. April's making me drool with her baking--she's bringing in a couple more baking samples for the office tomorrow: pumpkin pie and chocolate chip cookies.
April's baking/price list: Clicky.
Mad Squirrel Stuff--CafePress is doing Halloween discounts!!! Support local photographers! Support squirrels:
And also, voting for the next contest theme continues:
Nighty night, all.
The past week was relatively uneventful, but we did have a visitor--Dan H was here for the night on Thursday. He was heading back to Clarkson and stopped by here. Rather than let him continue on to Clarkson (to which he'd arrive by 1 AM) because he was tired, we put him up for the night. This week I have also been doing what I've been doing since before I was a teenager--listening to the baseball postseason on the radio. Our diehard Yankee fans in the office were hoping the good ol' overpriced Yankees blew over the Tigers...alas, it wasn't meant to be. On Saturday, we were at April's parents for dinner, and we caught the last game of the series. While her family wasn't enjoying the scene, I was internally revelling in it. Nothing like seeing the high-and-mighty $200 million-payroll fall in defeat. It's quite nice. While I fully admit that the Yankees are a great team, full of talent, the main reason for my dislike of them is the fact that they know that they're the highest-paid team in baseball--and they flaunt it. So much so. All that money makes that team extremely cocky.
Example: I listen to the Yankees radio (because around here, that AM station is the best reception for baseball), and it gets a little annoying every time I hear John Sterling (great, great radio announcer) advertise. It seems that every pitch, every out is sponsored by such and such. Every inning sponsored by the official ice tea, the official beer, the official toilet paper, the official airline, the official water, the official vitamin supplement, the official home improvement store, etc...you get the point. I just want baseball, without the ads for every foul ball. When I came home last Saturday night, tuned into the Mets game on their own station--I heard not one ad during the play-by-play. People are always making a big deal about the high-and-mighty Yanks, with their bajillion-dollar payroll. Every other team plays to play, have fun. Not the Yanks--it's a corporate business. So yes, good team, a lot of talent and excellent players--but play to have fun, and don't let all that money go to your heads.
Yesterday, we went to Rotterdam Mall, window shopped for a bit. I purchased a new toy--a 1 GB USB flash drive, on sale at Radio Shack. I take music off my computer and plug it into my computer at work. I can only fit 2, maybe 3 CDs worth of music on my 256 MB flash drive, and by the time lunch comes around, I've already listened to everything on it. Now with 4x the space, I can fit 12-15 CDs worth, have music for a whole day and then some. I've used it today already to get most of the video game soundtracks I have downloaded off my laptop and burned to CDs. I also purchased the $50 GameStop gift card to mail out to the winner of the most recent character battle contest, gets mailed out to Illinois tomorrow. Magus and Joshie, your prizes will be on its way in 2 weeks, but you have to decide on what you want. April purchased Volume 10 of Mystery Science Theater 3000, so we've been watching/listening to the quips of Mike, Joel, Servo and Crow all weekend. Also threw Lionel Ruland some money--for those of you who went to the RenFaire with us during the summer, Lionel is a.k.a. Dr. Crossbones McCoy. In his spare time when he's not performing or traveling with the RenFaire and/or Crimson Pirates, he runs a games and collectables store--Bad Moo Games and Collectibles. Carolyn turned us on to the pointless fun game called Apples to Apples when we were in Ramapo last August. Couldn't find it in any department store, and sure enough, it was on Crossbones' store. So it's on its way.
Speaking of Carolyn, we are in the midst of making plans for me to visit her in Ithaca come November. Her anime society is doing an all-night marathon either the weekend before Halloween or the second weekend of November. Either way, it looks like I'll be going to Ithaca in November anyway. I've wanted to visit the college since high school--it was among the colleges I wanted to go to. Forgot how its English/creative writing program was, but I know they have an excellent music program. Since I was going to be receiving no financial help at all from my immediate family, I had to nix Ithaca purely for financial reasons. All turned out for the good, though--I have April. And all the friends I made in New Paltz, both online and in real life. Still, I look forward to hanging out with Carolyn. Now I've got to save up money for bus fare, which isn't too bad.
Finally, I scored a desktop computer. Apparently, the IT department at the Salvation Army in Suffern is donating some of its older computers to sell in its thrift stores. Annie works (or has connections to) the SA, and managed to yoink a computer for me for $50. It has Windows XP Pro, 60 GB hard drive (triple my current lappy's hard drive), 256 MB RAM (double my lappy's), full versions of Microsoft Office 2003, Norton Antivirus Corporate Edition, Photoshop 9, CD burner, and is only a couple of years old--as opposed to my laptop, which is designed for Windows 98, but can handle Windows 2000 at the very max. I don't try to throw XP on here...it may kill it. The only other thing I need to purchase for said compy is a monitor, so I'm looking to invest in a flat-panel monitor.
That's about it, I suppose. April's making me drool with her baking--she's bringing in a couple more baking samples for the office tomorrow: pumpkin pie and chocolate chip cookies.
April's baking/price list: Clicky.
Mad Squirrel Stuff--CafePress is doing Halloween discounts!!! Support local photographers! Support squirrels:
And also, voting for the next contest theme continues:
Nighty night, all.
