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In the never ending saga of me being sick, a new chapter has been written. It is titled “Week 3: Strep Throat”.

Since Labor Day I have basically been sick. If it wasn’t the cold, it was something else, if it wasn’t that, it was the cold. Now, just when I thought I was getting better, it got worse. My throat had been feeling funny since about this time last week and I thought it might just go away. But, after a week of it not going away, it was time to see my third doctor in three weeks.

While doing the strep test in my throat, the doctor said he didn’t even need to wait for the results. I had strep. Yea, it was that bad. So, now I’m on penicillin for the next ten days. I can already feel my throat improving, but I know that it will be a gradual process. I just hope that before my 5 hour meeting at Microsoft on Friday my throat is better than it is now. That, and I don’t want my throat to be a huge issue this weekend when we go camping.

So, here’s to penicillin and hoping that it makes me better in a short amount of time.

Nuff Said.

I think that this might be the first time I’ve taken sick days since I started working at Avanade. My body is just not up to doing normal tasks today and after spending a couple hours at Microsoft today, I decided that it was best for me to head home and get better. So, I’ve been drinking lots of water and trying to relax in order to help my body heal. Hopefully tomorrow I’ll be back near normal and can actually put in a full working day.

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So, I’m reading my blogs on NewsGator Online, when I get to an entry by Robert Scoble titled “Flickr Analysis Tool Released“, which leads me to Thomas Hawk’s blog entry about the tool. This then leads me to the actual tool, which is really neat. I enter in my user name and this search result comes up. Way at the bottom there are various links to see who might have linked to some of my pictures, I click on all of them that point to Technorati, and I am looking at the one for “Ryan Prins”, when I see that the top link has my name in an online survey. Curious, I click the link and find out it is the MySpace page of my first girlfriend, Kelly.

Phew, so, yea… how random was that.

Today I had purchased my Xbox Live Gold Pack and in it is a rebate for $20 off an XBOX 360 game. So, I figured that I would use it on Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter. I get home and look at the receipt and see that it has been 31 days since I purchased it; one day too many. Now I need to decide if I plop down $50-60 on a new game to save $20. It sure does not make much sense right now. I guess I will have to think about it tomorrow.

This past weekend was Avanade’s West Region Fly Back in Las Vegas. As usual, it was a good time and it provided an opportunity to see some friendly faces that I have not been able to see in a while. But, being that it is Vegas, I told myself that I would take out as much cash from my checking as I was willing to lose. So, before we left I did that. I tried pretty hard to spend only the cash that I had on hand, but soon I needed monies for my non-gambling expenses (buffets, drinks, etc..). That left me two choices: debit or credit.

Before I left I decided that I wanted to make all of these vacation purchases come right out of my checking account. So, I decided early on that I was going to use my debit card for all of my purchases while in Vegas. Seems like a good idea, right? This was working out fine, until I got home. I had a credit card statement waiting for me and it was exactly what I wanted to see first thing when I got home… right. I opened it up and to my surprise it was freakin’ huge. Probably the biggest one I’ve had, ever. Not only that, but about $1200 of that was airfare for Weddings this summer and Jamie’s fly back ticket (which she had already paid me back for). I was pretty shocked to see the bill. I guess I shouldn’t have been surprised, but man… it adds up. So, I went to go pay the bill on line, but there was a problem… I was short the money in my checking. *doh*

Since I thought it was a good idea to spend on my debit card in Vegas I inadvertently shorted myself the cash needed to cover my credit card bill. So, off it was to my ING account to move some money. The only downside is that I have to wait a few days before the cash will show up. So, really… I should have just used my credit card all along and saved myself the hassle of moving money out of savings to cover my bill. *sigh*