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) …

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.