I’ve been fighting a cold all this week. I guess I’m mostly over it, but I had a really sore throat today. I think I drank about 9 cups of herbal tea today. I think I picked up the cold when I was in the city last weekend. That seems to be the pattern now; every time I get a cold, it’s right after I’ve been in Manhattan for something. Maybe I need to start taking Airborne before I go into NYC from now on. Or maybe not.
Category: personal
many miles
My car hit 123,456 miles this week. I wasn’t actually looking down at the odometer when it happened; I just noticed it was a bit past there after I got to work. It would have been cool (in a very geeky way) to snap a picture of the odometer reading “123456”.
under the weather
I’m feeling a bit under the weather today. I’m hoping I feel better by Monday, since it’s likely to be a hectic week at work. I guess it was a good day to feel a bit bad, since the weather was pretty bleak anyway.
I finished watching the first season of 24 today. I bought the DVD set off eBay a few weeks ago. I’m kind of hooked on it now. I have the season two set waiting, and I’ll probably pick up season three at some point. (I’ve seen the last two seasons on regular old TV, so I don’t think I’ll pick up any DVDs past season three.)
I had been thinking about going to Wizard World Philly today, but just didn’t feel up to it. I walked across the street to the local comic book store instead. I actually didn’t buy anything, but I was seriously thinking about picking up the first few issues of Warren Ellis’ new Marvel series Nextwave. I’ve heard good things about it.
Tomorrow is the Somerville Street Fair. I’ll probably have to avoid the gyros and other tasty treats, if I’m still feeling off. I’m hoping at least that it doesn’t rain, so everybody else can have some fun, even if I’m mostly lounging on the couch drinking herbal tea.
Well, it had been a while since I blogged, so I let this entry become a bit of a ramble. Hope I didn’t bore anybody.
Good Friday
I took my “floating holiday” today, for Good Friday. I managed to get a few things done around the apartment. I ran out to Staples and bought a shredder. I’ve had a pile of old credit card bills and whatnot that I intended to take into work and shred on our big shredder, but I kept forgetting to bring them in, so I decided to just get a small shredder and take care of them. I had credit card bills going back to 1988 in there. Looking at them brought back some old RPI memories — eating at Holmes & Watson, picking up CDs (or casettes) at Music Shack, stuff like that. But they’re all confetti now. Goodbye 1980’s!
Meanwhile, I sent off two DVDs through Peerflix. Both were DVDs I’d gotten for free anyway, so if I can get a couple of good DVDs in return, all the better.
work
I worked late pretty much every day this week, so I was really looking forward to getting out on time today. I did manage to get out just a few minutes past five, but then I hit all sorts of traffic problems, so I didn’t get home until after six anyway. Arg.
Exercise
It was such a nice day, I went out for a long walk after dinner tonight. I walked for about an hour. That’s probably the most exercise I’ve gotten since Wondercon in February. I’ve got to try to keep this up. If the weather cooperates, maybe I can get in the habit of doing this every day or so.
spending money
My new mattress is mighty comfy. Definitely worth the money.
I ordered a new iBook today. Basically, the current standard 14″ model, with the RAM upped to 1 GB. I’m getting almost $500 for my old one, which pays for a bit under half the new one. Good deal.
Mattress shopping
As I sit here waiting for my new mattress to be delivered, I thought I’d check out the Wikipedia article on mattresses. Really, I should have checked this *before* buying a mattress, but heck, I think I made a good choice anyway. I guess I’ll find out after I sleep on it tonight.
The wikipedia article recommends spending about 10 minutes on the mattress in the store before committing to it; I’ve seen other articles recommend an hour. I just can’t imagine spending more than a minute or two on a mattress in the store, though. Anything more would just seem creepy.
Jamie and Sue’s Anniversary
Well, I just posted the pictures from Jamie and Sue’s 10th Anniversary party. They came out OK, but not great. I didn’t do much image processing on them; just rotated a couple of sideways pictures, and cropped a couple of them. I should probably go back in and do some red-eye reduction, at least. I’m really not motivated to do that right now, though. I also noticed that, somehow, I don’t seem to have gotten a single picture of Gene. Oh well. Maybe next time!
Meanwhile, I’m hanging out here watching the Giants lose to the Eagles. At least T.O. hasn’t gotten any points yet.
Real Estate Stuff
I’m still trying to figure out whether or not it’s a good idea to buy a house. This article has some good thoughts about buying in a volative market.