I’d like to give a shout out to Val, whom I hope is having a very
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Yep, I’m a little miffed. I owe this year. But, thankfully, it’s not that much at all; only a fraction of a paycheck amounting to only about $10/mo. That’s not too bad, I guess. But, it sucks in any case. The state of Alabama also owes me $2. I’d better not spend it all in one frelling place.

In other news, I went out with Carrie again on Friday nite. We did dinner at Chili’s and saw Sideways, which has apparently been nominated for a few Oscars. It was a pretty funny movie about these two guys to tour the wine country in California. It didn’t really star any big names, which was perhaps one of its strengths. The plot was very rich, and definitely quite humorous. If you haven’t seen it yet, shame on you.

Anyhoo, I’m taking her out to dinner again on Monday for V-Day. I’m not entirely sure where yet, but I have a few ideas. I guess I’d better hurry and make up my mind since tomorrow be the day *GASPs and runs around in panic*

So I was listening to “Ramble On” by Led Zepp today, and I noticed that there is a Lord of the Rings reference in it. I have heard the songs many times over the years, but never really noticed it:

Mine’s a tale that can’t be told, my freedom I hold dear.
How years ago in days of old, when magic filled the air.
T’was in the darkest depths of Mordor, I met a girl so fair.
But Gollum, and the evil one crept up and slipped away with her, her, her….yeah.

This was just one of those songs where i knew how to hum/whistle the melody, but I never really knew the lyrics. Very interesting.

The Cubbies report to spring training in about 2 days. w00t!! It’ll be awesome to see them take the field again; there are going to be two new broadcasters on WGN, so they’re going to have a bit of a new face. Instead of buying a season pass to listen to internet streamed games, I was pondering getting XM radio. I’d be able to hear every Cubs game, and I’d also be able to listen to radio stations across country.

So, here I am, chillin’ at the parents’. I almost forgot that today was Super Bowl Sunday. How on earth could I forget such a hallowed American activity? I’m vaguely aware that there is one today, and that it’s the Eagles and Patriots. I could swear that they were going to run an Episode III trailer during the game sometime, but I think it was just something out of the rumor mill.

I’ve had a fairly relaxing weekend. I caught up on some sleep, went out with a few friends. It was nice and mellow. I fixed a neighbor’s computer; I swear, I should open my own little computer shop–at least to make a little moola on the side.

Carrie is in San Francisco. I’m pondering what I might do for her on Valentine’s Day. We’ve only gone out twice, with definite intentions for a third date. What would be a perfect gift to get someone you’ve relatively just met? She’s a chocolate fan–a big chocolate fan. Perhaps something as simple as roses & chocolates would be nice?

I’m watching Taken again; it’s such an awesome little mini-series. I think there’s going to be a trailer for War of the Worlds during the Super Bowl, which also just so happens to star Dakota Fanning. She’s a very awesome young actress. She seems to have a thing for sci-fi/horror, because that’s all that I’ve really seen her in–although I think she’s been in a chick flick or two.

Anyhoo, off to watch a little more..

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PETE!

Enterprise is cancelled 🙁 *goes into geek mourning*

I agree with garibaldicu; Sometimes computers really do suck. I’ve been migrating an old web server to a new one at work. Fortunately, it’s just ours (the Center’s). Still, it’s been a major headache–broken links here, broken apps there.. All because we’re going not only from IIS 5 to IIS 6, but also because we’ve created an AD. It’s not all that tough, but I’m having to deal with the caveats as they come–at least I’m learning a good bit in the process. I’ve just learned to be a firefighter and put out the little brush fires as I see them *groan*

In other news, I’m going out with Carrie again tonight. It should be quite awesome. We’re just doing dinner and a DVD, which should be really nice *imagines Tracy getting her beak ready for pecking*

Hard to believe January is gone already. This means about 2.5 months until Episode III *drools with geek happiness* There’ll be other geek movies–before and after–but there will most likely not be a Star Wars movie ever again. Geek history in the making 🙂

Anyhoo, have to go get ready to put out some fires *sigh*

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So I was sleeping. And I wake up, thinking I’ve had a nice whole refreshing night of sleep. And it’s only 1am *bangs head on coffee table*

I had a really vivid dream, and it seemed like it had a really long playing time (like all night).. but, that’s what I get for thinkin 😛 And it was a really odd dream, too. A bunch of us were chilling at garibaldicu‘s place and, for some reason, Cristine had a bunch of birds. Really big birds–like the size of a Mini Cooper. There was more to this strange dream, like we were all actually staying in the same hotel as the president, but the entire cohesive plot is already fading fast.

Ahh, well.. Back to attempt the sleep thing.

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Yesterday was just your typical blah Monday, but I think it ended really, really well. Not only did it end in the Vortex, but I actually avoided playing WoW for one night. lol.

I can’t believe it’s the 25th of January already. Wowsers. Before I know it, it’s going to be February and stuff. This year is totally flying by.

Nothing much else going on, really. I’ve pretty much finished rebuilding my laptop; how exciting. hehe. I put XP Pro on it because the limited abilities of XP Home was getting kind of old.

I saw a trailer for The Ring 2 the other day. Not only does it look freaky, but it also looks quite disturbing–perhaps even moreso than the first. I don’t even remember why I saw the first; it was a rather trite story with rather shallow characters and a pretty predictable end.

Penny keeps eyeing my empty cereal bowl–she’s been licking it a couple times over the last couple of weeks and, after she’s finished licking, she usually throws up because of that little intolerance of milk that cats have. What a dingbat 😛 Better go put this away before she makes with the puking thing again.