Yesterday I got up about 15 minutes earlier, left a bit earlier than I normally do, and I dropped my car off at the dealership to have the scheduled service done on it. Normally I would just take it in to someplace local to have the oil changed, but since it’s a factory-certified used [...]

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Last week I came across a deal online where Dell was offering substantial savings on its line of laptops. Now, normally I wouldn’t want to spend that much for a laptop (and indeed, I’ve been pricing laptops for the last year and a half at around $1500), but since the quarter was coming to [...]

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Complete and total overload.
I think that would best categorize my weekend, sadly. I wanted to take the opportunity of an enormous amount of free time in order to play my game City of Heroes and accomplish several goals, but I didn’t pay attention to time and I found myself lost in the game Friday [...]

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I realize that I’ve been awfully quiet lately, but it just boils down to me not having a whole lot to say. This past week my mind has been elsewhere, and despite my plans to the contrary I just never got around to writing. When you’re distracted by something else, you just can’t [...]

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Today I test the limits of my iPod’s battery. I plan on finding out just how long I can listen to it in a row as I work today, and with my boss out of the office I don’t have to be careful about being seen with it. It’s not that I’m breaking [...]

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I was quite disappointed to see that Christopher Reeve died this past weekend. Superman is probably the first superhero movie I can ever remember seeing, even though my memories of the second and third are probably stronger since I saw them later. But given how I turned out in life–that is, a movie [...]

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I was accused yesterday of writing depressing blog entries. What can I say? I write what I feel.
This past weekend I was happy to see that TNT was airing the “From the Earth to the Moon” miniseries, all 12 parts of it. This series was first aired in about 1997 or 1998, [...]

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