Category: personal

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.

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.

Mix CD for Pat

1. Manowar – Blow Your Speakers
2. Metallica – Fade To Black
3. Voivod – Astronomy Domine
4. Metallica – Damage, Inc.
5. Jimi Hendrix – Castles Made of Sand
6. Warren Zevon – Knockin’ on Heaven’s door
7. Tori Amos – Thank You
8. Bad Brains – Sailin’ On
9. Charlie Parker – Bird of Paradise
10. Beach Boys – I Just Wasn’t Made for These Times
11. Golden Smog – Glad & Sorry
12. Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here
13. Trespassers William – Vapour Trail
14. Warren Zevon – Don’t Let Us Get Sick

I created this CD in memory of my brother Patrick. Some of the songs are by artists he introduced me to, such as Voivod, Manowar, and Metallica. We were both into that kind of thing at about the same time, although he was always a bit further ahead of the curve than I was. There are a couple of songs that I was listening to a lot while he was in the hospital: Vapour Trail, and the Zevon songs, specifically. Then, there’s some stuff that just seemed appropriate, like “Wish You Were Here”.