Author: Andy Scheffler

Since when did the post office not take unused postage as payment for stamps?

Let’s hope this doesn’t turn into something I have to do on a regular basis.

Remember when I stayed up all night to get my sleep schedule back on track?

Here I go again.

Yes, I know this is from last week, but… Best. Strong Bad Email. Ever.

I got to play DDR Extreme on Saturday. Uhm…. yeah.

Yesterday was fun. Everyone was talking about Apple’s new stuff. They still are. Yeah, the new Powerbooks are great, but I don’t think this iteration’s for me, I’m happy with my current one. I think it’s a Goldilocks thing… the 12″ is too small, the 17″ is too big, the 15″ is just right. Maybe in six months, they’ll update the 15″ model.

But the real treat that I found was the quickly mentioned official X11 for OS X public beta. Yes, XDarwin’s been out, but this one just looks nicer because the X windows have the standard Aqua interface. This prompted me to figured out a bunch of X11/ssh issues and get my setup working again, so I can pass X windows between my home machine and work machines all nicely now.

I also just bought Quicktime Pro so I can export DV Streams from MPEGs and Quicktime Movies and play with iMovie.

Last night, I swear that the person in the next house over was doing some sort of carpentry in their kitchen. AT THREE IN THE MORNING!

This might have something to do with the moving van that was double parked outside this morning… (It’s a good thing I wasn’t parked on the street today, or I would have been trapped.)

Yay. We possibly have new neighbors who build cabinets in the wee hours of the morning.

It’s become a more common phrase that I’ve found myself uttering. Someone will ask me to do something, and I’ll say “but I’m in the couch!” With my laptop on my lap, a blanket over my legs, and the remote control within reach, there are few reasons why I ever need to get up.

Monday at work was another weird one-day-work-week sort of day. I took my CDs out of my car and double-checked to make sure I had all of them encoded into MP3s. It turns out there were a few albums that I hadn’t encoded yet, and I ended up encoding about 10 or so CDs while I was working, bringing my collection up to 4595 songs (12.89GB or 9.9 days of continuous music). I still have to rate them with iTunes, though.

Getting my NES games out of storage stirred up an odd urge to play Zelda II, so I’ve been playing that off and on the last few days, just finished it now. For some reason, though, I couldn’t find it in the box of NES games, (along with a few others I know I own, like Super Mario Bros. and Final Fantasy. There were two games I owned, Guardian Legend and The Legacy of the Wizard, that I bought used when I was in college, and my brother lent out to a friend and never got back, but other than that, I don’t know where they could have gone. I would say they might still be in a box in my mom’s attic, but I’m pretty sure I got all of my boxes out of there a few years ago. But I’ve got the ROMs, and I did pay for them at one point, so I feel no guilt.

These last two weeks have been very disorienting. Between the off days at work, I have trouble telling what day of the week it is. It’s a good thing that Fox isn’t running new episodes of 24 during the holidays, otherwise I’d have missed both of them, because I thought they were Saturdays, not Tuesdays. I’m not as bad as bigdumbthing, though. His concept of “the weekend” is “that time when the other people are around more often.”

Yay, Christmas. It’s weird, I think it might have been a gradual process, but this year I’ve gotten less into the “spirit” of the holidays. I used to like the whole holiday season, but now it’s gotten really saccharine and annoying. The shopping, the advertising, the music… it’s so artificial.

But anyway.

ign.com is one of those random webservices that I actually pay for, and they have a nifty feature. I now present… my video game collection. Well, minus a few Japanese games that weren’t in the database and the Apple ][ games, which I haven’t bothered inputting yet.

And for some reason I’m watching The Net right now. Why am I watching The Net?! Can’t.. resist… Sandra Bullock…

How is it possible to be bored and productive at the same time? I’m sitting here at work, and I think I’m bored, but I’m actually getting work done?

I want it to be tomorrow afternoon, because we’re having a group party at work.

I want it to be Saturday, because I’ll finally get to see The Two Towers… I mean “TTT” and everyone’s been talking about it nonstop for the past two days.

I want it to be next week, because no one will really be doing anything on Monday, and, being Jewish, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day are two obligation-free vacation days for me.

I want it to be March 22nd, because that’ s when the new Zelda game comes out.

I cannot eat these pretzel rods without holding one in my mouth like a cigar and thinking “I love it when a plan comes together!”

Someone just blew chunks on the bus, we’ve got 20 minutes to go, and there’s no ventilatlon in here. As long as I don’t breathe deeply…