Tag: Asides

When Jamie and I were coming back from my brother’s wedding, we were looking at the pictures that I took when we were on the plane. Somewhere between the time when I took my little camera (Canon SD400) out of my carry on and when I got home, the camera was lost. I am fairly certain that I left the camera on the plane. It is very uncharacteristic of me to leave things where I don’t remember them to be or even to lose items. Needless to say, I’m bummed.

More bummed that I lost the photos than anything. But, I’ll get over it and move on. I can’t let this bother me too much. It’s just a camera. Maybe, if I’m lucky, I lost it in my room, but the chances of that are pretty slim since I’ve been looking around for it and I can’t seem to find it anywhere. Usually by now I would have thought of a place to look for it, but I’m pretty positive that it was either left on the floor or in the seat pocket and I forgot about it. With our flight being a night flight and the camera case being black, it is pretty easy to see how I lost it.

I guess this can be seen as a hint to me as well. I have this digital SLR that I don’t shoot with very much and maybe this will get back shooting photos with that again. Who knows. But, I think I’ll hold of on getting a new smaller digital camera until later on, right now I just don’t need it, no matter how much I miss it.

It’s been quite a year and I’m ready for 2007 to begin. I’m not good with year in review stuff and I’ve not been doing a good job keeping this space up to date. I’d say that I’ll try to change that in the upcoming year, but I can’t honestly say that I’ll be any more successful at that as I was this past year.

At any rate, here’s to 2007 and what will become of it in the days to come.

Happy New Year!

Yesterday I went back to Costco to return my busted XBOX 360. As I expected, the return was painless and my refund was put onto a Costco Cash card. After that, I went back into the store, grabbed another bundle and I was back out the door. It didn’t take very long, but…

So, there’s this Asian woman two people in front of me. I see she has a cart and all it has in it is a plastic jar of peanuts. That’s it. She is pushing around a cart with peanuts in it. Since I am standing in the return line, I am a little preplexed why she would be in this line as well. After the returns in front of her are finished, she bellies up to the return counter. Yup, she returned the peanuts. The guy in front of me just about lost it. Seriously. She returned peanuts. Bah.

Anyways, I got my 360 setup and all plugged in, but all of my game saves lost. Which brings me to my next point. Xbox support is worthless. I called with one question and I had to be routed to three reps to even get an answer. It’s tough dealing with a call center that is in India. They don’t understand what I am trying to say. I can understand why they do it, but I was given misinformation which lead me to losing all of my saved game information. So, I’ll have to start over in Tiger Woods and the couple other games I had game save information for. I’m kinda upset, but it’ll be OK.

I’m just glad that the console is back in my living room. The last one died almost six months to the day when I purchased it. So, let’s hope that this one doesn’t break. *crosses fingers*

*sadface*

The Ring of Death has been bestowed upon me :(

Edit: I booted it up this morning and it appeared to work just fine… let’s see how long this lasts.

Edit #2: As anticipated… it didn’t last long. I’ll be returning it to Costco tomorrow and getting a new one :/

I’m heading back to my parent’s place in Minnesota for the Thanksgiving weekend. It should be good times, as always, and the weather looks to be better than what is in Seattle. So, that should be a nice change. I’m currently sitting at my gate getting some work done before my flight leaves at 3:15p PST. Some observations from today:

• The airport seems to be as busy as a normal day.
• I went though security in 5 minutes… tops.
• I’m glad I reserved a parking space at the lot since it was full.
• I got free wifi by accident.

Overall, today seems to be like the other days when I traveled back to Minnesota for Thanksgiving. There is a lot of hype about the security lines and whatnot, but I never seem to get stuck in them. I guess I can consider myself lucky. I know one day I’ll have it coming my way real bad.

At any rate, I wish all of you a Happy Thanksgiving and I’ll see you after the break.

Sometimes I just run out of time in a day. I do not really know where it goes, but it just manages to disappear. This is mostly because of my new role on a new Microsoft project with the Windows Server group. I am the lead Business Analyst and Test Lead. That puts me in charge of all requirements gathering, and supporting a team to turn those requirements into functional specifications. We have six specifications to write by the second week of November. So, crunch time for me has begun. But, coming from the last gig I was on this is much better than just sitting around all day.

When I get home in the evening there is still stuff that needs to get done. I have found that if I am not making a list of things that I need to do, things fall through the cracks. So, I have recently been using TaDa List again to try to keep myself organized as far as tasks go, but that seems to be hit or miss. But, when I do get tasks into it, I find that I am getting them accomplished. It has been tough though since I just got a new HDTV and I just recently upgraded my cable subscription to take advantage of my TV purchase. So, needless to say that when I am not working at home I am enjoying my purchase… a lot.

Having all that said, I have been healthy for almost a month now (yay!). Starting tomorrow I have a feeling that things will be kicking into high gear for the next 3 to 4 weeks. I look forward to the challenge it will provide, because I know for sure that there will be one there (think: laying train tracks as the train is running full speed down the tracks). All I can do now is execute, not completely loose my mind, and do the best work that I possibly can. Oh, and make sure to continue enjoying my HDTV. That will be a must.

It’s nice to be back to my normal self. I think I am finally done being sick. I’ve been able to drink and eat normally again and it’s so nice after being sick for about three weeks. So, yea, you could say that I’m more than happy to be back. At any rate, here’s a shot from our weekend camping trip to Deception Pass Park.