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Burn It - Summer 2005 Edition Delay
I totally suck.
The latest Burn It CDs were supposed to be mailed this week, but I haven't even got the lists together, much less sent them to anyone so they can mail them out.
Tomororow, though, I am totally going to send them out. This means the date will have to be moved, so the new date to mail your CDs will be Monday, September 19th.
I'll mention all this in your e-mails, but if you've been wondering what's up, yeah, I just have had all this other shit to do (read partying like a rockstar and then going to bed the next night at like 6:30 to make up for it), but I swear we're going to get caught up.
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Happy last day of August from your Secret Blogger! I'm glad to see I'm not the only procrastinator.. uh.. ... person who's way behind in the house ;-) Anyway, a goodie box left from somewhere (althought I'm not sure from where) via post for you yesterday, & is on its way as fast as those little men in blue shorts & knee socks can carry it. I had lots of fun tonight shopping for you for later, too -- hope you like it! (um.. them)
Posted by Secret lil' ol' me at August 31, 2005 10:35 PM
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Doesn't Anyone Want to Help Me Out?
Okay, people, I only need one more completed sign up over at MP3Players4Free.com and then I can claim my $275 in cash. There's even tons of instant credit offers!
Doesn't anyone want to help me out? Pretty please? I'm so close!
Update: woot! Someone did an instant offer, so it looks like I should be good to go! For some reason it's not allowing me to pick my bonus gift, but I've e-mailed their tech support, so hopefully I'll hear something soon. Yay!
So, does anyone want to sign up for DS4Free.com now? I only need two more - one for the regular gift and one for the bonus. ;-)
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Long Time No Tiara
Tonight is another Tiara Happy Hour down at The Flying Saucer.
They're always fun, so if you're in Houston and own a tiara (that you don't mind trading for a different one) come down and join us. Boys are welcome, but you must wear a tiara too.
Now if I could just wake up enough to get ready. So very tired. *yawn*
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How did the tiara night go, Kym?
Posted by Thomas at August 28, 2005 12:02 PM
I think I will be able to make either the next trivia night or the next, next trivia night.
I am studying up right now and don't want to show up until I am ready.
Posted by Thomas at August 28, 2005 11:45 PM
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Movable Type 3.2
I'm proud and happy to announce that Movable Type 3.2 has been released today.
It's a free update for any licensed user of Movable Type 3.x. Personal users will also be happy to find that the Free edition now offers unlimited blogs. Best of all, personal users who want a multi-user license and access to our famed technical support (That includes me! I love working for Six Apart!) can now take advantage of a special $30 discount on Basic and Unlimited editions.
Here's a list of some of the new features:
- Vastly improved installation and upgrade
- Unlimited blogs for all
- Special $30 discount for Personal Edition
- All your blogs in one place
- The best community management
- Find what you need
- Smart new styles
- A new generation of plugins
- The best support in the business (Again, this is me! woot!)
- Professional backing
You can get more information on these features and more here.
I haven't upgraded yet, but it's in the works for either this weekend or early next week and I'm very excited about it.
If you're a Movable Type user who hasn't upgraded in a while, now's the time to do so. 3.2 is so awesome; it makes an already incredible product even better!
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I see your "kills spam dead" text in the MT badge, but I really don't see much at the six apart site. Other than moderated trackbacks (which I've only heard about, I didn't see that there) I don't know much about anything new in it. Can you share more info or point me in a direction...?
Just wondering. I already believe that MT is one of the greatest CMS out there for what I've been using it for (I don't even have anything in second place).
Even MT 3.1x with MT-blacklist, pretty much kills spam dead. In the last 4 months it's killed over 50,325 pieces of spam and had me moderate a mere 713 messages (most of which were spam but I keep them a little loose so I don't miss anything). Hopefully MT-Blacklist with integrate with the new trackback moderation...
Nice price too!
Posted by Gary LaPointe at August 26, 2005 10:49 PM
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For All the Cool Geeks in the House
I love P22 Type Foundry. They have the coolest fonts in the world. I was even a member of their font club for two years until they changed the format.
Their latest addition is the Caslon font family and while it's definitely a great font, what really caught my attention is this CD.
Since the font is based on type designs by William Caslong, an eighteenth century type designer, they've taken music by The William Caslon Experience, a downtempo (my favorite music genre, btw) musical duo, and made a CD that contains a "remixed" version of the font that's only available on the CD.
You get the CD free if you buy the entire font family for $99.95 (and considering how many fonts it contains, it's really not a bad deal), but you can also purchase it seperately for only $15.95. I listened to some of the samples on the page and the group sounds good.
$15.95 for a downtempo CD and a remixed font? I'm getting my credit card out right now. What a great combination of cool (downtempo music) and geeky (a font).
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Even More Free Silver Jewelry
I have been watching Silver Jewelry Club like a hawk lately. They've added a ton of new stuff - including lots of rings in my size, finally! - and so much of it is just gorgeous.
I've gotten this lovely triple stone blue topaz necklace, a silver celtic band ring for my thumb, a really pretty trillian cut amethyst ring, and a garnet and citrine ring that I can't wait to get in the mail.
If you haven't visited them lately, you should go take a look. It's the best $5 you'll spend today, I promise you.
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$6 you'll spend, you mean. (It is $5.99 each time. Ask me how I know...)
Posted by Christine at August 25, 2005 12:42 PM
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Trivial Matters, Damn the Man, and Out and About Town
I've been meaning to blog this week, but I have been either running out the door on my way somewhere else or asleep within fifteen minutes of my shift ending. Oy.
Tuesday was trivia night at The Flying Saucer, so I went to pick Kendall up over in Rice Village. Thanks to taking the back way into town, we were even early enough to be able to stop in at Sambuca for a happy hour priced apple martini.
I must go off on a tangent for a minute because within the last month or so, I've become one of Sambuca's regulars and all my drinks and, also importantly, all the drinks of my friends who are with me, are now happy hour prices. That's right. Instead of paying $8.00 for an apple martini, I pay $4.50. And those martinis - they are mighty tasty. So, with cheaper drinks and live music every night, Sambuca's in way beyond my favorite downtown place to hang. I just love it there.
After the drink, we met Melissa at The Saucer and got ready to play trivia. I was a little nervous when it was just us (the last time that I went to trivia it was just Melissa and me and we got our asses beat; normally, our team places, so it was humbling), but figured I'd have some bacon cheese fries (Mmmmmm. Cheese fries.) and it wouldn't matter.
The format of the game changed, but it's way more fun in my opinion. What was really cool is that we got all of the questions right in the first round except for one (the one we missed was how many verses does Don McLean's "American Pie" have. I thought it was six, changed it to five since it was a better sounding number, and missed it because it was six. Damn!) and we were the leaders at the end of the round so we got a free round. Seth got lucky and walked in like two seconds after Rita, the trivia girl, announced it, but she was sweet and let him have a free drink anyway. Yeah!
The second and third rounds sucked since we only got one question right (Where was Rudyard Kipling born? India.), so going into the final question - where you can bet up to twenty points - I was slightly discouraged. We figured we didn't have much to lose, though, and went ahead and bet the full twenty.
Discouragement quickly turned into despair when we hear the question: Within ten years, guess the combined ages of Sandra Bullock, Tom Hanks, Marlon Wayans, Shannon Elizabeth, Denzel Washington, and John Lithgow.
I couldn't believe it, but thanks to some superior guessing skills on our part, we came up with 263 and the correct answer was 264. Since we were the only team to get it right, we catapulted into first place for another $30 win.
Irfan showed up pretty soon after that and Marc called, so we all took off for better drinks and live music at Sambuca. Carol Fran was singing the blues, so we all laughed, drank, danced, and had a fabulous time until closing time.
Never ones to go home early, we then retired to Twelve Spot for more merriment until they closed. After that, I was starving so we all headed to Katz's for breakfast. Finally, the night was over and it was time to go home.
The next day was the day that I chose to fight my bogus parking ticket. Long story short: parked in an area where parking after 6:00 is permitted, but I got a ticket - the only car in a line of about six to get one. I even stopped a cop and he said he couldn't figure out why I had one. Needless to say, I was pretty pissed.
Since it was only $35, I was just going to pay it, but then I saw on the ticket that you can get a hearing within a half hour of requesting one, so I figured what the hell. I'd taken pictures of the other cars without tickets, the parking sign, and even the cop that we stopped, so I figured I didn't have anything to lose.
I headed down to Lubbock Street, finding the building easily enough (my internal map of Houston is finally becoming complete; I'm so proud of myself). I went down to office in the basement, found the place, and there was only one guy in front of me.
After about ten minutes, I got to see the judge and I explained my story, showed him the pictures, and, remember advice that I've heard on like a million television shows, resisted the urge to babble at him and shut the hell up.
He asked a couple of questions ("Is this the sign post in the picture? How far were you away from it?"), but after about five minutes, I was out of there with the ticket dismissed. Yeah! Damn the man! Take that, you shitty ticket system!
The El Orbits were playing at Sambuca, so I headed down to listen to them, have a drink, and chat in the Technology Bytes IRC channel since the show was on at the same time. Whoever Matt is, his wireless connection is still unsecure, so I can totally get online from the bar.
Have I mentioned lately how much I love The El Orbits? My god, they rock. I can't wait for them to resume their Monday night gig at The Continental Club the first Monday after Labor Day. An Evite will be going out soon. If you live in Houston and want to come, leave a comment or something.
After Technology Bytes ended at 9:00, I went over to The Flying Saucer to meet Sat, philktid, Barrett, and Marc.
The Saucer was having some kind of birthday party and between that and the people from The Astros game, it was completely packed. We managed to get a seat outside, but it was hot as balls. I should have lost like twenty pounds, I was sweating so much. Nothing like it being a million degress outside with 1000% humidity at almost 10:00 at night.
After a quick drink and some cheese fries, I made the executive decision that it was back to Sambuca since they had both air conditioning and The El Orbits. We (minus Barrett) headed back over there, just in time to snag seats at the corner of the bar.
More drinks were drunk, more songs were sung, another arguement over whether or not the song playing was Telepopmusik's "Love Can Damage Your Health" was had (It is, damn it!), and basically we just talked about random shit as we're all prone to do.
Next thing we knew, it was closing time (or rather the bar had been closed for thirty minutes, but the bartenders - the lovely Lara and the cute Carson - didn't make us leave) so we headed to Twelve Spot again. We're party animals, I tell you.
Again, more random conversation, another drink (or half a drink, in my case), and again it was closing time. We wanted to hang downtown for a little bit more, but nothing was open. We ended up in front of Kaveh Kanes since my car was parked there. Pete, the guy who works there, was just locking up and he confirmed that nothing was open, but he happened to have a bunch of pastries. Did we want them?
Hell, yeah we wanted them! So for about forty minutes, I sat on the hood of the car, Sat and Marc stood on the sidewalk, and we people watched (I swear, those girls were making out in that limo) and talked some more. Finally, it was time to call it a night. Or rather a morning since it was almost 3:00 am. Oy.
The next night it was out with Nermine and her friend Deanna to Tumbleweeds to do some country dancing. It's so weird, but whenever I start thinking that I need to go dancing, Nermine e-mails me to ask me if I want to go.
OMG, I had so much fun. I haven't been dancing on a Thursday in forever, but I still knew half the bar. Lots of good dancers were in attendance, including Adam and Buelle, so I got to dance pretty much the entire evening.
I had forgotten just how incredible it feels to dance. I took lessons for years and kicked around going into competition last year, so I'm pretty good. It's an absolute joy to dance. Nermine, Deanna, and I had such a blast, I hope it's something that we start doing at least a few times a month. I wish more people in our cirle of friends enjoyed this; I would love to get a huge group of us going regularly.
Friday I was going to meet Elaine and some others down at Onion Creek, but I totally crashed from all the late nights and was asleep by about 5:30. I woke up around 9:00, but just couldn't muster the energy to get ready and go down there. I hate living a million miles away from everything.
So far, the rest of the weekend was spent with me working yesterday (I work Tuesday through Saturdays now), catching up on a lot of stuff on the TiVo since I haven't watched television in like three weeks, I finished the latest Stephanie Plum novel, and just took it easy.
Anyway, this is why I haven't blogged in a few days - too damn busy being a social butterfly! :-D
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Oh! We need to make a QaF date! The stuff will be off the cable box soon, so we don't have much time. Let me know what you think. We could split it up over a few days, and I have the last 2-3 episodes on the TiVo!
Posted by Christine at August 22, 2005 07:18 PM
When did they start having trivia night there?
Posted by Thomas at August 25, 2005 07:11 PM
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You Are Nothing Without Your Robot Car! Nothing!
I love Glarkware's t-shirts.
I bought "Lawyers do it in front of a jury of their peers" for Katie and "Don't @#$! with Tubey", "Oceanica Airlines: Getting halfway there is all the fun!", and the swordman (which has the best t-shirt description ever) for myself. I also have "In Soviet Russia, shirt wears you", which is currently my favorite t-shirt ever.
You're probably thinking, "So? What's your point?"
Well, I'm definitely getting this shirt (I have been looking for a pink maneki neko forever; seriously, if you ever find one, buy it for me and I will buy you a gift in return) and I can't pass up anything that says NARM, so I'm getting it too.
The thing is, though, I can't decide if I should get "You are nothing without your robot car. Nothing!" or not. I don't have any abiding hatred for David Hasselhoff, but that shirt really tickles my funny bone.
So, I'm asking you. What do you think? Stupid or cool? Should I get it or not?
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I adore those shirts, OMG, thanks so much for sharing the link. I am gonna get a few for my family. ^_^
Posted by Becka at August 17, 2005 12:04 PM
eBay, m'dear! So far I've gotten orange, yellow, black, standard white and a beautiful frosted blue glass maneki from sellers over in Asia. Surprisingly, shipping was not all the expensive.
are my favs!
Or how about a coffee mug instead of a figurine? :) (Crap. I think I may buy that for myself!)
Posted by Lisa at August 17, 2005 02:41 PM
Get the robot car one, even though the car shown is a LeBaron and KITT was a Firebird. The shirt's still too awesome to pass up!
Posted by Lisa at August 17, 2005 06:36 PM
That Pink one will look great on you!
I would get the car one its Kinda cool!
:)
Posted by Terry at August 18, 2005 07:22 AM
Uhm, what is NARM? I don't get it...
If I ever see a pink cat, I'll be sure to hook you up. Along with getting one for myself...
Posted by Christine at August 21, 2005 02:49 AM
Oh - forgot to add - not big on the car shirt. I like all of the others (well, I don't get the NARM thing, but you know) but I don't like the car. I wouldn't have known what it was even about if you hadn't clued me in.
Posted by Christine at August 21, 2005 02:52 AM
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Spoil-A-Blogger Answers
I'm participating in Spoil-A-Blogger (Who can't use a little spoiling, after all?), so here's the answers to the questionnaire for my secret pal to use:
- What is your favorite color? It's a toss up between purple and blue.
- What is your favorite scent? Vanilla and buttercream.
- Where is your favorite place to vacation? Las Vegas, Philadelphia, New York, and any place with a beach.
- Do you collect anything? Jewelry (I have tons of earrings and bracelets), nail polish (I love bright colors - blues, purples, pink, glitters), DVDs, books, and fish stuff (statues, toys, ornaments, etc.).
- Do you have a favorite tv show? I've got lots. lol CSI, CSI: Miama, Without a Trace, Survivor, The Amazing Race, The Dead Zone, The 4400, Six Feet Under, Queer as Folk, Lost, Desperate Housewives, Smallville, Rescue Me, 24, Medium, Numb3rs, and probably more. God, no wonder I have to own so many TiVos!
- Are you crafty? If so, how? Probably like that Beastie Boys song, but otherwise it's limited to making stamping projects.
- Do you have kids? Nope.
- Do you have pets? A beta fish named Spike.
- What kind of movies do you like? Pretty much anything, but especially dark comedies, suspense, cult movies, and romantic comedies.
- What kind of music do you listen to? Again, just about anything, but my favorite genre is downtempo. You can see what I'm listening to here.
- What kind of books do you like to read? Everything! I love to read! As a matter of fact, I have a (neglected but I swear I'm going to catch up) book review blog. I love horror, suspense, and chick lit the best, though.
- Do you have a favorite magazine? Card Player Magazine.
- What is your favorite weekend activity? Usually meeting friends for dinner, drinks, and/or seeing a band.
- What kind of work do you do? I do tech support for Six Apart for TypePad and TypeKey.
- What do you do for fun? Read, play poker, play at Pogo, listen to live bands (especially The El Orbits), go to bars, skydive (just once, but I'm going again soon!), watch movies, and listen to music.
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So let me get this straight... you blog and people/someone is going to buy you stuff? How cool is that?!
Posted by groovehouse at August 17, 2005 09:30 AM
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The Best Neurotic Fishbowl Bracelet Ever
OMG. I am totally in love with this bracelet.
It's like it was made with me specifically in mind - blues and greens, a gold star, and a hand carved goldfish!
Maybe if I successfully beat that stupid parking ticket (I'm going to go request a hearing on it Wednesday), I'll put the $35 from the fine towards the bracelet and buy myself a nice "you don't suck, you rock" present.
(Link courtesy of C.)
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Free iTunes Download From Wells Fargo
If you've been interested in starting a new checking account with Wells Fargo, now's the time. When you open a new account, you're entered to win one of 125 Apple iBooks.
Not really interested in starting an account? You can still get a free iTunes download simply by requesting more information.
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Ha! I think we were already planning on signing up with Wells Fargo... and I didn't care who Deputy went with, but this perks my interest!! :D
Posted by susan at August 15, 2005 11:00 PM
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Failure
You know what's a good way to measure how much people think of you? The contempt and hatred that your father feels towards you.
Yeah, that's a good measure.
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Someone's not sounding too happy. That's not so good. Here's to a return to happiness. :)
Posted by LittleKenny at August 13, 2005 05:44 PM
Only because he apparently can't see how well you're doing in life. :p to him then.
Posted by Lisa at August 13, 2005 06:49 PM
Actually, from what you've told me over the years, I don't think that is an accurate measure at all. I've known you for over 5 years now, and *I* think you're fabulous. So does Mike. Heck, even my Mom likes you. (And we know she can be hard to please sometimes!)
Call me if you need to talk. I'm here for you, baby. *mwah!*
Posted by Christine at August 14, 2005 08:15 PM
What is going on? Email me. ;)
Posted by Chica at August 15, 2005 12:26 PM
Oh honey, I'm sorry. It sounds like heavy stuff going on. You want to know what I found out? The older I get, the less my father's opinion matters to me. As my kids get older and I learn to deal with their changes, I realize that my father was never equipped to be a good father. It's not even his fault. And I've learned that I don't need his approval. My sadness about him, it has occurred to me, is not actually about him but is a sort of mourning for something that never actually existed. I've "known" you a very long time now (damn, it really is a long time, isn't it?) and I know that you're absolutely fabulous and if you take a moment to think about it, you'll realize that that is the truth. Great big, comforting hugs to you. Don't let the bastards get you down sweetie.
Posted by Christine at August 21, 2005 01:35 AM
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88 miles per hour!
Looking for something to do tonight?
If you are, River Oaks Theatre on West Gray is showing Back to the Future tonight as their midnight movies.
My brother, his friends, and some of my friends are going, so come out and join us if you're free. It should be fun.
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Wait. I didn't get an Evite for this! ;)
I went and saw that movie in the theater on the date that he sets on the car - just a fluke that we were there that day. How cool is that?
Posted by Christine at August 14, 2005 08:16 PM
how was it?
Posted by irfan at August 20, 2005 12:46 PM
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Konfabulous
After listening to Dwight talk about how much he loves Konfabulator (especially now it's free), I jumped on the geeky bandwagon and downloaded it.
However, there are almost 800 widgets available, so finding the ones you can't live without is a little daunting.
If you run Konfabulator, which widgets are the ones you have to have?
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I never used it to its fullest potential, but when I used it (back when we had to pay for it), I used mini-weather and the mini-calendar the most. Yeah, I know. A whole two widgets. Heh.
Posted by niki at August 12, 2005 12:21 AM
I have just downloaded it myself. I have the weather, scribbler & picture frame setup at work. I have a calculator loaded up to quickly load in - it is quicker than going through the Start button. If I had something shipping I would use the shipping tracker, but the nice thing with widgets is you can easily hide the ones you don't need immediately.
The one thing I would like to see is a favorites list so I could drop in the calculator and a few others that I don't use that often but I want quick access to without any worry of them falling off the recent list.
Posted by Howard at August 12, 2005 06:56 AM
Downloaded it, tried it, ditched it. It just felt like one more thing to clutter up the pc with. Eh.
Posted by LittleKenny at August 12, 2005 06:40 PM
I installed it, loved the idea (I love widgets on the mac) ... couldn't work out why their CPU meter said I was using 50 - 70% usage when idle, when I know it should be much lower ... task manager agreed with konfabulator.
Turned Konfabulator off and suddenly cpu usage wasn't a problem any more. Oh dear :( It'll stay off for now.
Love the idea though, I really want to love it :)
Posted by smeg at August 12, 2005 08:27 PM
I use the widgets on my mac for this purpose and my fav things that you might be able to find on konfabulator: weather for any city (I have 3 screens right now, Vancouver, Portland (to see diff across river), and Loma Linda (in-laws) - I swap that last one with whatever I'm watching at the time.) My very fav one is a TiVo now playing list that tells me everything that's on my TiVo w/o me turning it on. And there's a del.icio.us poster that detects the webpage I'm on and fills in the info to post. Oh, and some clocks for diff time zones. :) Helps when working with people in all areas!
Posted by kristine at August 15, 2005 10:36 PM
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Date Lance!
You know, maybe I should get all of my friends to do this for me.
At least it would be interesting.
(Link courtesy of Thomas.)
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I saw the "Returned Missionary" and "BYU" in the header and I immediately thought, "Oh no, you *should* not date Lance."
There is a "Date My Ex" site that is a lot like Match. I just found it last week through The Knot, and I thought, "I should set up a Bio for Kymberlie!" I wonder if it has to be an ex or if it can just be a friend. You are my heterosexual life partner after all...
Posted by Christine at August 14, 2005 08:19 PM
Now there is a website for those who have dated Lance. http://www.idatedlance.com You can post comments about how your date with Lance went. I thought it was funny.
Posted by Sam at August 16, 2005 09:29 PM
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More Random Stuff
- I am almost completely hives free. My face is peeling like I got the world's worst sunburn (or stood next to a nuclear blast) and the right side is still a bit puffy, but I am definitely way improved. I didn't realize how shitty I felt this weekend until I started feeling better Monday night. How on earth did I complete the Blogathon?
- For some reason one of my credit cards that I paid online had dropped the 0 off the beginning of my bank account, so I got dinged with a $35 returned check fee (basically) and a $30 late fee. I called and bitched and they said they would reverse the late fee, but not the other fee. I hate places like that that don't verify your bank account info when you put it in for you (like PayPal or Capital One does). It's just an easy way for them to make money off of you. Bastards. I will be highly pissed if after updating my account information it doesn't work AGAIN when I try to pay it a second time on Friday.
- I cried through just about the entire last episode of Six Feet Under. How are they going to wrap that whole show up in two episodes? I still think I'm going to buy this shirt. NARM!
- I currently have over 1,000 e-mails sitting on my webserver - stuff I haven't even downloaded and added to the other thousand unread messages in Outlook. When the hell did it become so hard to get through all of my mail?
- I need a manicure in the worst way. My work schedule has shifted to a Tuesday through Saturday week, so I am going to take advantage of the empty nail place and go in the middle of the day Monday. Yeah!
- I just noticed that this picture is probably the only picture of me in my glasses on the Internet. Hmmm.
- I love this picture that Jay took. And I love that Jay now defends my mix CD position to the death. Ha! Another person who'll do my bidding! ;-)
- Thanks to looking nasty from those hives, I missed trivia night at The Flying Saucer for the first time in over a month and my team came in second place. Suxor.
- My new favorite cussword is one that I made up: fuckola. Has a nice ring to it, no?
- Must go shower so I can proof read something for my brother. He's such a great kid.
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Yay about the hives being almost gone.
Which product do you work on for 6A?
The pic by Jay is a good one.
Happy Thursday!
Posted by Lisa at August 11, 2005 10:49 AM
Dude, I've been all about the "fuckola" for years and years. It is one of the best words. Well, that and jackmonkey. I love jackmonkey. ;)
Posted by Christine at August 14, 2005 08:22 PM
By the way - when are we going to have our QAF date? Do you want to come watch some of it tomorrow?
Hey, who is that guy in the photo with you on Jay's site? He looks familiar...
Posted by Christine at August 14, 2005 08:27 PM
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Hives and Blogathon Thoughts
Wow. What a last two days.
As you can probably tell from my last Blogathon posts, I ended up getting hives very, very badly on Saturday and Sunday. Like so bad that I couldn't open my eye because it was swollen shut. Like so bad I thought I was going to go crazy from the itching and that my face would never look normal again. Yeah, lots of fun.
I slept almost all day Sunday after the Blogathon, so apparently it is exhausting being the elephant man. I woke up this morning and went to the doctor's office, convinced the whole time that he was going to chide me for not going to an ER on Sunday (I did call the twenty-four hour nurse helpline on the back of my insurance card and she said if I wasn't having problems breathing, then I could wait until Monday) and that now my face was going to be permanently fucked up. Yeah, I'm not neurotic or anything. *rolls eyes*
Luckily, they were able to see me pretty soon after getting there since I showed up without an appointment. My doctor was concerned that there was going to be a problem with my eye since it was completely swollen shut, but after having me hold it open and track his finger, he said it looked fine and that there didn't seem to be a problem with it.
I then got a steroid shot and he gave me some allergy and steroid pills and a steroid cream to help with the itching. Since I'm still housesitting for Elaine, I drove back to her side of town to find a pharmacy. It's unbelievable, but I could only find one CVS over here and they were out of my medicine. I swear, on my side of town, you can't drive more than a block without hitting a CVS and/or Walgreen's, but I was having no luck today.
After about an hour, I finally remembered that there's a Super Wal-Mart not too far from her house, so I drove back that way. Sure enough, they had a pharmacy and had my medicine is stock, so I was able to get my stuff and head home.
I've spent most of the day napping, so I'm not sure if it's from the medicine, feeling crappy, or just a combination, but at least I can open my eye now. I think I'm going to grab some dinner and then go to bed early.
Aside from the hives and the last few hours of posts sounding really whiny (but I really did have a reason to whine, I swear!), Blogathon went really well.
Despite the fact that I only started raising money nine days before Blogathon started, I managed to raise exactly $400 for my charity, Heifer International.
My goal was to raise $500, but I would really love it if I could break $403, the amount I raised last year. Donations are being accepted until tomorrow evening, so if you could spare any money, I would really, really appreciate your donations. Remember, too, that for every $5.00 that you donate, your name goes in a drawing for a set of my Burn It mix CDs, four in total.
I also wanted to say thank you again to the people that have already sponsored me: Mac, Laurence, Wendy, Howard, Mie, Elaine, Ealasaid, Elke, Kristine, Ken, Luka, Brenna, Don, Groovehouse, Karel, Shawn, Lilith, Terry, Naubionna, Jaime, Katie, and Heather. Y'all truly rock!
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oh holy heck! i'm glad you're not gonna die! :) :) :)
Posted by Luka at August 9, 2005 12:51 AM
I'm always so worried when somebody mentions hives, even though one in five people will have an acute case in their lifetime. But because I am one of the lucky few to be afflicted with chronic hives, I have a unique perspective and I'm always scared when a friend mentions it! I'm so glad you're okay, I really am. Believe me, I know exactly what you went through.
Posted by Meredith at August 29, 2005 02:30 PM
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The End of Blogathon 2005
It's hard to believe, but the 2005 Blogathon is now officially over.
I'd like to thank all the people that sponsored me so far this year, raising a total of $371 for Heifer International. Since I didn't begin fundraising until a little over a week ago, I am pleasently surprised by the amount that we were able to raise.
My sponsors are as follows: Mac, Laurence, Wendy, Howard, Mie, Elaine, Ealasaid, Elke, Kristine, Ken, Luka, Brenna, Don, Groovehouse, Karel, Shawn, Lilith, Terry, Naubionna, Jaime, and Heather.
All of these people are getting their name entered into a drawing for a set of my Burn It CDs, four discs in total. We'll be accepting sponsors until Tuesday, so I won't do the drawing until then. If you can spare a few dollars, please go sponsor me. Keep in mind that I put over fifty songs up for you to download for free within these posts, so if you liked a few of them, sponsoring me would be a lovely thing to do.
I's also like to say congratulations to all the other bloggers that participated. We've managed to raise over $55,000 for many different charities to help lots of people in need. Fantastic job.
Here's the last download of the Blogathon. It should be pretty easy to see why it's the one I chose.
Alanis Morissette - Thank U (Like it? Then buy the CD.)
This is one of forty-eight posts that I am making, every half hour for twenty-four hour straight, to raise money for Heifer International by participating in this year's Blogathon. Please sponsor me if you can.
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Man, I didn't know you were doing this I would have tried to be better company in the 24 hours. Congrats though :)
Posted by C at August 7, 2005 08:30 AM
End of Thon Monitor Haiku
blogathon ended
insomnia to insane
fun for the much good
Posted by Luka at August 7, 2005 08:40 AM
I just added $29 so you'll break $400!!! V.V. cool. Good job yo!
Posted by katie at August 7, 2005 09:50 AM
Woo!! Good job, darling, I'm glad you made it through the night!! :) Now I hope you are sleeping soundly and making those hives go down too :P
Posted by kristine at August 7, 2005 11:26 AM
Congrats! It's a great thing you did. :)
Posted by Lisa at August 7, 2005 12:34 PM
Congratulations on surviving the 'thon! :)
Posted by Daria at August 7, 2005 05:12 PM
Yup well done. You rock, all I had to do was survive a 30th b-day party. Not mine thankfully. What you did was actually tough.
Posted by LittleKenny at August 7, 2005 05:23 PM
I'm sorry I couldn't sponsor you this year. considering I just had to beg my mother for money, I didn't think it was a very good idea to be giving that money to anyone but the charity of Boy & Girl.
Posted by girl at August 7, 2005 10:56 PM
Kymberlie, need your help badly.
please check email. Thanks.
Posted by kat at August 7, 2005 11:27 PM
Stupid question - where do I go to pay the donation? Straight to the Heifer International site?
Posted by cybertoad at August 17, 2005 02:25 PM
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The Next to the Last Post
It's hard to believe, but it's actually almost time for the Blogathon to come to an end. I was beginning to suspect that I was stuck in some kind of an alternate universe where time went by really slowly. Happily, that's not the case.
Out of all of my mp3s, this one's probably my absolute favorite. The El Orbits are really incredible and you should definitely buy one of their CDs. The prices are very reasonable and the money will actually go to them instead of some big record company.
The El Orbits - When I Fall in Love (Like it? Then buy the CD.)
This is one of forty-eight posts that I am making, every half hour for twenty-four hour straight, to raise money for Heifer International by participating in this year's Blogathon. Please sponsor me if you can.
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ABC
Some people will critique anything. Interesting opinions, though.
I don't know if I've blogged about him before or not, but I love Chris Botti. There's just something about a trumpet player, especially a hot one.
Christ Botti - Ever Since We Met (Like it? Then buy the CD.)
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Sorry I missed the blogathan. (Though it looks very suspicious when people show up after the period to donate money is over.)
Posted by Thomas at August 10, 2005 02:54 AM
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Sunrise
The sun's coming up, so it's definitely getting closer and closer to beddy bye time which is good since I almost fell asleep sitting up just a minute ago.
You know what's fun? When you get hives for no reason you know of, your eye swells mostly shut, and you're forced to sit there blogging without your glasses even though you're blind as a bat.
Next download is one of my favorite songs ever. It just really makes me want to sing and dance, usually accompanied with extragent gestures like jazz hands, often even done in the car.
Simply Red - Sunrise (Like it? Then buy the CD.)
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Home Stretch
We are finally coming into the home stretch for Blogathon. I cannot wait for this to be over. The hives and my swollen eye is making it increasingly difficult to stay on the computer, but with only four more posts to go, there's no way I can give up now.
I'm going to go take a shower and see if that helps. Calgon take me away!
Motley Crue - Home Sweet Home (Like it? Then buy the CD.)
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you can do it! :) Oh yes you can! :)
Posted by Luka at August 7, 2005 06:01 AM
WE'RE ALMOST DONE!!! WOOOWEEEEEE!
Posted by Betty at August 7, 2005 06:14 AM
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Drum Machine
Finally! A cool link worth blogging about! Check out the drum machine. (Link courtesy of Lewis.)
Juno Reactor - Tetsujin (Like it? Then buy the CD.)
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LOL I clicked the link but my dogs started barking and I had to close the window. hahaha I'm so tired. How are you holdin' up? :)
Posted by Betty at August 7, 2005 05:41 AM
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Anybody Here?
I haven't gotten a comment in hours. Is anybody here?
Naomi - Anybody Here? (Like it? Then buy the CD.)
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I'm here, surfing around to stay amused. Hang in there.
Posted by Mel at August 7, 2005 05:35 AM
Sorry, I was discovered at the party doing intarweb things and was justly chastised for not socializing with those that were there. After that things got hazy, but the hot tub was nice. I think.
Posted by LittleKenny at August 7, 2005 05:12 PM
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Blogathon Time
I don't know how it's possible, but it seems like it's always time to post (thirty minutes between posts isn't really anything at all, especially when you have to upload files, get the links to them set, etc.) but that we're always a long way from being done.
We're down to three and a half hours which is good, but I'm pretty sure that the rash on my face (which is spreading just about all over now) is hives.
I'm thinking about going to the doctor for a shot on Monday, but since I'm housesitting through Tuesday, if I'm allergic to something here, I don't know if that would help. Man, it really itches.
Let's see if something fast paced might help with the flagging energy levels out there.
DJ Johnny Budz - Time After Time (Like it? Then buy the CD.)
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Shots would help make the swelling, etc manageable even if you stay there again.
-She with bunches of allergies
Posted by Lisa at August 7, 2005 12:32 PM
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The Brighter Sides of Breaking Up
You find yourself answering the question "How are you today?" honestly and at great length.
Truer words have never been spoken. As a matter of fact, I would like to apologize to all sales clerks and random people that asked me that question about two years ago.
Sting - Ain't No Sunshine When She's Gone
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