the time that there were way too many magazines in my office
– DISCLAIMER: Any misspellings in the above e-mail can be blamed on the fact that my iPhone thinks it is smarter than me.
the time that the miniature dog attacked me
— DISCLAIMER: Any misspellings in the above e-mail can be blamed on the fact that my iPhone thinks it is smarter than me.
the time that i needed something to say
i’m increasingly getting annoyed with the frequent calls from the UT alumni association. i have a strict policy of not giving a donation until all of my student loans have been paid for. i thought i made that clear the last time they had some poor little college girl call me and ask me for money.
yesterday was the first softball game in almost a month. i can’t decide if i want to do it next year or not. it’s a great deal of fun but i’m kinda horrible, so i’m thinking no. it’s no fun when you’re the worst one on the team. yeah, methinks i shouldn’t play next year. must try and maintain the little dignity i have left.
summer in chicago is here and i couldn’t be happier. the weather has been so wonderful lately. i just wish i had the opportunity to get out and enjoy it. i’ve had the opportunity to attend two cubs games and get to hangout at one of the rooftops and i’ve had to turn them both down! between work and everything else i just need a vacation. as soon as i get done planning this massive national print campaign i’m going to take a week off and do absolutely nothing. or maybe i’ll figure out something to do or somewhere to go visit.
i am counting down the days until the 3G iPhone comes out. i’m still not 100% sold on it but i’m warming up to it. i think i can make it work for what i need it for. that blackberry bold is looking rather tempting though.
okay enough for now. i must return to this mess of completed RFPs that i must get back to going through.
the time that i returned to life
for some reason i seem to always get the cab drivers who want to talk. tonight it was about the weather and if i worked downtown. awkward. one time a few months ago (october 17th to be exact, how i remember this is a complicated story) i was going home and the cab driver started talking to be about god and how he was convinced that that there was and that there wasn’t a good. i was really confused. it was a good story nonetheless. it was also really awkward.
wow how time flies. so my birthday totally sucked. i did get to see avenue q the evening prior which was great. but yeah, the actual birthday was just terrible.
work has been crazy busy. crazy busy indeed.
i got mario kart as a birthday gift from joe. best game ever. i can’t stop playing it.
that’s all for now.
the time that ?
i’m around here somewhere, i swear. check back tomorrow.
the time that I took the train to Indiana and a slightly intoxicated woman sat next to me
So I am on the southshore train on my way to Indiana and I swear it’s a freaking hilarious journey everytime I get on the train. There’s always someone drinking an getting the weekend started early which I fond rather odd. First of all, I have serious issues with people consuming food and/or beverages on any form of public transportation. Secondly, who really needs to drink that badly that they have to bust one open and go to town on a commuter train? Nobody, that’s who. Today’s interesting journey centers around this woman who sat next to me. She got on wreaking of vodka. She passed out shortly before the train got out of the city. It was horrible trying to not want to throw up because of the horribly strong vodka fumes. Well as the train pulls into the Gary stop she wakes up suddenly and realizes she was so past out that she missed her stop. Hilarious. Now that I have finally had a few opportunities to see Midwest life outside Chicago, I am just amazed. It’s as crazy as rural Texas out here. Good times. Okay my stop is coming up …
the time i pondered what show to catch up on next
i am finally almost complete with my project of catching up on seasons 1-3 of battlestar galactica. i have seven episodes on dvd to go before i can start watching the 6 episodes of season 4 that i have on my TiVo. as i near the end of this project, it’s time to start considering what the next show i should take on will be …
so many choices. my new rule, however, will be to ensure one of my three movies out from netflix is an actual movie and not a tv series.
i have returned from my trip to nyc, which turned out to be three insanely productive days. this upcoming week is upfronts week which is sure to keep things busy.
that’s all i’ve got. i’m too tired. off to read some.
the time that i finally finished packing
we’re barely one week into the month of may and it’s already starting to look like it’s going to be a crazy month. last week was full of finishing off presentations and client meetings. i’m off to new york tomorrow morning for three days filled with meetings with mccann & client with a grand finale of a big presentation on wednesday before heading home that evening.
the week after that is the network upfronts which will make that week go by rather quickly.
that’s all i’ve got. i had more but i need to get some sleep so i’m well rested for the flight in the morning.
until later.
the time that i made a diagram of my home environment
so i’m sitting there working on some random things and i suddenly come to this realization that i am sitting amidst a multi-taskers dream environment …
okay, now i really wasn’t pulling reports for work (it was just out for e-mail checking) but it adds to the nice effect.
so yeah, a site redesign is in the works. the hope is to make everything a bit more visual and turn this into more of a photo-oriented blog. here’s to hoping the next 3G iPhone sports a 5 megapixel camera. if not then i suppose i might have to buy a decent digital camera.
on to more exciting things … i totally kicked ass this sunday during softball. and by “kicked ass”, i really mean that i was able to hit the ball and still have it be fair. 3 hits. 2 runs. just so we’re all on the same page … these weren’t great hits, i won’t lie. one of them only went three or four feet (i kid you not). the thing that matters is that i actually hit them and the were all fair (something i couldn’t do during the two previous practices). i only struck out once and that was during the second game when i was called in to be someone’s substitute at the last minute. i’m chalking that screw up to not being in a softball-playing state of mind (yeah, i can come up with an excuse to justify pretty much everything i do). all in all, it was a rather good sunday morning of softball. we lost our first game, but only by one point which was rather great (they were a pretty good team). the only bad thing is that i’m beyond sore now. i could barely move today. my legs aren’t cooperating much. i can’t seem to lift them high enough to even set them on the coffee table. i knew i was out of shape, but i didn’t think i was this out of shape.
after much work i’ve finally figured out the best way to get the HD content off my tivo and cropped and adjusted to look normal in flash. yay for fancy macs being able to do everything so easily … the file is a bit large, i still need to work on adjusting some more settings to get it down a bit.
the time that i played softball and was horrible at it
today was the first day of softball and whoa did i suck. i mean, wow. what an embarrassment i was. my glove is all stiff and i throw like a chimp. plus i can’t swing a bat and hit a ball to save my life. i left practice and all i had was a broken ego and a bruised hand:
besides the softball it was a rather enjoyable weekend. joe was in town and we went to see forgetting sarah marshall, which was pretty freaking awesome. yesterday we ran around town doing my errands, getting my glasses fixed, taking a trip to ikea, etc. good times overall.
more later.
Democrats Thinking the Unthinkable: Voting GOP (NPR)
hmmph, apparently i’m not the only one considering it …
the time that i didn’t have much to say
it was super crazy at work this week but it’s almost over. yay for the weekend!
i don’t have much to say but i will say - 1. high definition is pretty much the best thing ever and 2. i had one of the best sandwiches i’ve ever had in my life today. it was ham and typically i don’t even like ham.
that is all.
the time that i wish i knew what i had written
sometimes i wake up in the middle of the night and wander my apartment drinking orange juice and do some random thinking. i’ve been doing this a lot lately and have been coming up with funny things to write about so i jot them down so that i can remember when i wake up the next day. the only problem is that i totally can’t read the page of ideas that i wrote down. damn.
the time that I realized you can buy anything you could ever want on amazon.com
i have been trying to tidy up my office and i am starting to realize that maybe i shop online too much … this is just from this year so far and it doesn’t include a couple of bigger things that i had delivered at home. yay for not having to go to actual stores 
the time that i had a serious addiction to tivo and hdtv
i have a confession … i have a serious addiction to my TiVo, HDTV, and cable.
i subscribe to every channel my cable company offers except the international ones (who needs television in spanish?) which totals to 273 channels. because i have so many options i’ve discovered that my TiVo makes some amazing suggestions when it comes to movies, especially since i have all the premium movie channels and there are some great things on there.
although i only have 91 items saved on there right now, which is a lot less than i had imagined. the problem is that at least a quarter of those are movies that are two hours or longer. if i watch five hours of tv a day it will take me three weeks or more to get caught up and that doesn’t include any shows that would be recorded between now and then. i need to come up with a strategy to make a dent in this.
and now, the list …
the time that i was just freaking awesome (one of many)
so the new shoes that i have are awesome. i laced the shoes up in a very skaterish way (”props” to Joe on that one). i think i have to buy they grey one’s so i can wear them with everything.
i have a couch now. so the couch and the tv just make my place normal for once. the tv alone is amazing. i can’t get enough. hd television is pretty much the most amazing thing ever.
bleh. i’m sleepy and need to get to bed. i just can’t think. more later.
the time that i made it so i don’t have to tie my shoes
pure laziness and wanting my shoes to look neat and organized …
the time that i got a ginormous tv
omg this tv is amaaaaaaazing. 46″ of wowness. the picture quality is beyond words. it’s a bit crazy going to a tv that’s twice the size as the old one. it’s taking a bit of adjustment but i think i can manage. getting the damn thing was a journey in and of itself. i had requested dhl to make another delivery attempt so i decided to work from home so i could be here for that. of course they still had it on hold at the station for pick up so my friend andrew and i had to rent a zipcar and journey down to the southside to pick it up. that was just grand. as we were walking down broadway to pick up the car it was sleeting and i was trying to have a conference call with work. good times. i finally got the tv and it was sort of worth the battle. especially the one i had trying to set it up. it ended up being a lot heavier than i had expected. i tried lifting it out of the box only to realize that it wasn’t happening. so i had to lightly turn the box over on its side and slide the tv out and drag it into the living room. at this point i had to muster enough strength up to pick it up off the floor.
good times.
after reviewing my most current cell phone bill i have determined that i have enough rollover minutes saved up that i could talk on the phone for five consecutive days and never hang up and still have a bit left over.
bleh, what is up with me having even less to talk about than normal?
the time that i finally figured out how to get videos exported correctly
this year is just flying by. it’s already the end of february and summer will be here soon (wishful thinking). i seriously can’t take much more of this cold weather. it’s great in small doses, but after it having been freezing outside for almost two consecutive months i’m about to go crazy.
of course monday was president’s day. we didn’t have the day off at work but i took it off anyway (at the persuasion of joe). we ended up going to the field museum and had a freaking great time. so many fun moments. while we were in the pacific northeast section of the historic americas area there was this video of native americans doing their thing … all of a sudden we spotted this man sitting down on a bench, he looked very transient-esque. anyway, he was wearing something that resembled a track suit and underneath it something that looked like a scout leaders shirt, but it really looked like it was native american in style. anyway, we ran into him like five more times as we wandered around and it was all rather coincidental as though he had just walked off the screen. hmmmm, yeah … that was supposed to be funny. i guess you had to be there. THAT GUY FROM THE FILM!
and the most exciting part … i finally figured out all the exporting and conversions that needed to happen to get this to work finally. i have transferred content from my tivo, converted it to .mpg and then to .mov and then to a flash video file, and i finally got it uploaded, posted and steaming correctly. the goal is to make this video posting a regular thing, depending on how much of my alloted bandwidth i use up. although, i have a significant amount of bandwidth so i should be okay. it’s a medium-sized file (1.5MB) but it’s so worth it (i’ll work on optimizing compression quality & file size soon) …
the time that i couldn’t remember all i wanted to say
i have made the ultimate purchase! a 46″ HDTV. i’m beyond excited about it. i didn’t have plans to get one for a few months but i came across an amazing deal and i just couldn’t resist. this could quite possibly be the best purchase i’ve ever made (right after the HD TiVo). as if i wasn’t addicted to tv now. i can’t freaking wait to watch nat geo & discovery channels in HD.
saturday was a lazy day. and then today was filled with trying to walk around in the slush/ice that has covered all of the sidewalks. i went to the grocery store earlier this evening and i stepped in what i thought was just snow but actually turned out to be a pool of ice water covered by snow. this weather needs to disappear as soon as possible. i’m so very ready to bust out the shorts.
i thought i had more to write about but i’ve clearly since forgotten everything temporarily. later perhaps.
the time that i settled on a couch and started considering the possibility of getting a cat
hooray! so my tax refund is set to be deposited on 22 Feb. this means if all goes as planned i’ll be able to buy my new couch next weekend. i’m now officially 98% set on the couch from crate & barrel. i’ve ordered the fabric swatches to inspect and everything. getting it will be a whole other issue though. i haven’t decided if i’m going to go with the stock fabric or custom fabric, so who knows how long it will be before i actually get the couch.
i finally finished and sent out my 2007 summer promo recap deck at work today. the never-ending campaign is finally behind me for good. what a relief. i finally feel like i’m getting some items completed off of my to-do list.
i’ve been wanting a puppy really badly for quite a while now. after a lot of thought i’m considering a cat. the ex had a tabby american shorthair that i absolutely adored and actually didn’t have a very much of an allergic reaction to at all. i think if i got an air filter and had a place with hardwood floors and just kept up with changing the sheets rather frequently i could actually live with a cat and have no problems. i think i need to visit an allergist to get tested and see if the immunotherapy would be of any benefit to me. i’m trying not too get excited about it, it’s at least 5 or 6 months from happening anyway.
okay that’s all i’ve got.
the time that i almost convinced myself to brave sub-zero temperatures to go get some ice cream
so more important than anything else, my cable crisis has been solved. it was something silly and a potential solve i knew would probably fix it but i was too lazy to do it. i got bored earlier today and sure enough running guided setup again and setting it to the new channel lineup fixed it.
i’m really craving ice cream right now. tons of ice cream. i am really tempted to go get icream right now but it’s -2°F outside and with wind chill it’s like -17°F and i’m sure as hell not that desperate for ice cream. or am i? i keep getting so close to convincing myself to go do it. yeah, i’m that crazy and spontaneous sometimes. i’m hoping i’ll soon just be tired enough to forget about wanting something yummy to eat. i just need to hold off until tomorrow, then i can also get everything i need to make broccoli and cheese tater tot casserole (i’m taking up cooking and baking as a new hobby).
as if i wasn’t super nerdy before, i’ve taken a turn towards for being even more nerdy. along with my addiction to reading the wall street journal online, i’ve become addicted to npr. between online streaming and the podcasts, i just can’t get enough. well, except for the mid-day crap that is reeeally boring. on a related note, my iPhone is out of room AGAIN and i’m having to decide what to unsync from it in order to make room for newer, better stuff. this is seriously starting to concern me as when the sdk for the iPhone is released later this month, i will then have to clear off even more space on my iPhone for applications that i might want.
i have nothing else, for now.
Live via iPhone
You would think my scary saber-toothed tiger would keep people out of my office, but you’d be wrong.
