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Thought I’d write a little before I head into work this evening…

I had the morning and the afternoon off. So I stayed in bed for a while, until about 1:00. It felt really good to snooze and just relax. It was also quiet (all loud, rude neighbors being at work) and it was nice to take advantage of that peaceful time.

I finally got up, made some coffee, surfed and here I am. I know, exciting, right?!

I went to ivan.com which is in the exact same state as the last time I went there, about fourteen years ago. Most of the links there go to Geocities (remember that?) or 404 broken link pages. I hope he’s not paying monthly to host that account. It’s a good example of what web design (if you can call it that) was back then.

I’ve missed a couple of days of blog posting in my 2012 Initiative. I work. I’m tired. Sometimes I sit on the couch for a few hours when I get home. I can’t be in front of this computer all the time.

Here is a list of some tweets that, for some reason, didn’t get sent:

Why does my neighborhood look and feel abandoned?
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Sweetie it’s fucking McDonald’s. Stop doing special orders for your five children. #holdinguptheline
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Loawd give me 2x patience today!
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I’ve dribbled on myself. #vietnamesefood
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Looks like I should start hanging out at this bus stop more often. #mayor http://moby.to/d5d1kq
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Next up in the shuffle: Grace Jones, Erasure, Housemartins, Lightning Seeds, MJ, Beloved, Kylie, Matt Alber, Interpol, ABC, Fischerspooner.
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Picked up my new iMac!
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Street preachers are funny. #andscary
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Every song on this playlist at Noodles & Co is a prime example of what is wrong with pop music today.
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My email isn’t working. The personal email that I’ve had for over eleven years. I talked to the hosting company and they say “Yeah, there’s something wrong with that User. I’m going to open a Ticket and get back to you.” Great.

So what else is going on?

Let’s see. Nothing really coming up for this week… not really much going on for next week… not much the week after that. Well there you go.

Oh, here’s something. I still haven’t billed for those two freelance jobs I did in December. I guess I should get on that because that’s about $630 that I could have in my pocket. I’m always the worst when it comes to billing for my freelance gigs. I do the invoicing manually and maybe that’s the reason for the delay: taking 15-minutes to fill out the template I’ve created.

#lazyass

I had a lot of apps crashing on my iPad. The biggest culprit was The Sims Freeplay. But Safari too. And my Videos app too. So I made the appointment during my lunch break to have it look at. It turns out that it had some software corruption. Which means that I would have to do a Restore that completely wipes content back to its factory settings.

Now, little things like photos, music, contacts and calendars used to be a big deal but now with iCloud I don’t have to worry about that kinda stuff. What I do have to worry about is apps that don’t back up to the cloud yet: developers that have not fully implemented such backups. I guess it wouldn’t really matter much in this case anyway, as I couldn’t restore from a backup because that would put the corrupt software right back on.

So I have to setup as a new device.

Although I’ve lost the hours already spent building my town in Sims I haven’t re-downloaded the app and started again. So daunting. Sigh.

I’m finding that owning a new iMac means a lot of time spent in front it, playing around and investigating around. I guess these are things that I hadn’t done too much of recently maybe because it was a chore or things just weren’t as zippy (read: fun) with a six-year-old computer. RIP Elroy II, you will be sorely missed. But now that things are zippier and whoosh and wow I’m spending some time here instead of pinchin’ & swipin’ & zoomin’ on my iPad. It’s all good.

Right now I’m blasting Kylie’s “Fever” album in its entirety from my iTunes. Partly because I’m sitting here (as stated earlier) and partly because I’m trying to give the inconsiderate neighbors a taste of their own medicine. As I’m listening, I’m realizing I haven’t listed to this album in a long time because of the boyfriend that I (sadly) associated this music with. All the songs had a certain meaning at that time and now it’s nice to listen to them in a new light. And Cathy Dennis’ production in this album is totally top notch. It’s nice to hear her influences in here. Maybe next on the decks will be a little Miss Dennis? I’ll have to check and see which songs of hers made it into my iTunes library, as I have yet to unpack all of my boxes which contain mostly CDs. #sigh

Update: “Why” and “Touch Me” were the only holdovers.

Today is a half day off.

I’m enjoying my new iMac, for after six years my old G5 gave out. I think I definitely got my money’s worth on that one. So I’m running this new one through its paces, lots of apps open and testing its limits. Haven’t reached them yet, it’s nice.

Just received some insider information. Can’t spill quite just yet. But I think it’s good.

it’s hard to me to close this window

I’m off at 4:00 today and I walked over to Chevy’s for some of their $3.25 margaritas. LadyFabolous231 is going to join me when she gets off at 5:00.

Having such a crazy (read: abnormal) work schedule this is a little semblance of normalcy. In that manner, I mean getting off at a normal time and doing things that normal people might be doing.

She just texted me: “20 more minutes. Drink slow.” She don’t know me.

LF231 is off for the next seven days, I think. She’ll prob go see her people in NJ. (She a Jersey Girl.)

What else?

Oh, Pippin came into the store today and finally got the iPad he has been wanting. I hope he enjoys it. If I had an iPhone 4 I would FaceTime him and find out but, alas, I do not. It’s on the list though.

What else? Can I keep typing for the next fourteen minutes?

I’ve come to Chevy’s for lunch sometimes when I have an hour lunch break. The food’s not bad and it’s nice to get out of the mall and away from all the people that visit the mall. But this is the first time for an actual “after work drink” situ. It’s not bad for the price and a corporate chain restaurant. They have music playing like KQQK played: tejano mixed with Hispanic techno. Love it.