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Bored, So Very Very Bored.

Valentine’s Day, and a DejaVu-iness.

Well, I have been doing nothing for about an hour now in boredom, so I figured I would blog. Not much to blog about though.

Valentine’s Day went well. I gave Jenn a dozen lavender roses and a teddy bear, she gave me a CD, a belt, and a meat thermometer (no, those don’t sound like romantic gifts, but they are ones I wanted). We went to Applebee’s for dinner. That’s about all.

Hmmm… What else.

I guess we could look at what I wrote a year ago.

2/15/04
I got a webcam from Suchyta (that I need to post on eBay)
Was being lazy (what else is new)
Tax refund and fin aid weren’t back yet (at least I have refund this year)

And that’s about it. Apparently 2/15 is just an uneventful day.

Before I go, I want to point out I modified the poll, so it will be a bit easier.

nick

Huh?

Uhm, I Ran Out of Titles Again

Poll, Taxes, NDA, Bowling, Bro, and Delta.

Well, lets see.

I have a new poll up.

My federal income tax came in.

I can not tell you why I was sad last time, because I had to accept a non disclosure agreement, hence I can not disclose any information.

Jenn, Todd Stevens and I are going bowling tonight.

My brother and his roommate came for the weekend. He only has 2 weeks to go.

I AM going back to Delta in the fall, for a real major this time. Mechanical Engineering Technology, followed by Manufacturing Technology Management at SVSU. Yes, it means it will take me 8 years for a BS, but ohh well. At least I finally figured something out (for now).

OK, hasta lasagna,

nick

“It’s just like the story of the grasshopper and the octopus: all year long the grasshopper kept burying acorns for winter, while the octopus mooched off his girlfriend and watched TV, but then the winter came, and the grasshopper died, and the octopus ate all his acorns – and also he got a race car! Is any of this getting through to you?”
-Fry, Futurama

I Sad

No more fun, Taxes, and thats all.

So my really fun and exciting thing I had to do ended, it’s so sad.

My tax refund was supposed to be in yesterday, but it never arrived. Now the IRS says the 11th, and if not wait till the 18th.

Hmm…

Well, due to a lack of anything else to write about, I guess I will go.

See you Saturday,
nick

Pffffffffft Is this salt water?
It’s salt with water in it, if that’s what you mean.

Various Stuffs

Superbowl, TV shows, Pic, and SnowFest.

Well, we watched most of the Superbowl, with the exception of while we were cooking. I pretty much knew New England would win.

We made jalapeno poppers and buffalo chicken fingers for dinner. Too much fried food I think.

The very hyped Simpsons was decent, but not great. American Dad was good, but not Family Guy.

I found a cool pic.

Is from a highway opening, bridge goes from right to left lane. MDOT set it up. I thought it was funny.

Jenn and I went to SnowFest in Frankenmuth on Friday. It was ok, not all I hoped.

OK, go about your lives.

nick

Wow, hi, if I knew you were coming I would have gone and got some donuts or something, about 30 seconds ago.

Untitled 7

Lots of reformatting, and Taxes.

My computer was running kinda yucky, so I did a reformat. It has been over a year, so it needed it. Notice that I saved the blog this time though, so no 1 week downtime, yeehaw!

I need to reformat the iMac too, since I finally figured how without needing it’s broken CD-ROM.

I received my state tax refund, federal should be in my account on the 8th. Yeah for money!

OK, thats all for now, have more sorting and back-up to do.

nick

There’s no reason for fighting if it’s not on a Hockey rink, but then again I’m a figment of your imagination, so do what you have to.
– your inner frat boy

Diet Vanilla Cherry Dr. Pepper?!?

Dr. Pepper, Library, Poll, Gloves, and Apple x2.

Yes, the longest name of any soft drink I know of. And redundant too, since Dr Pepper is cherry anyway, even though nobody knows it. ( I didn’t know till I realized the similarity between Dr. Pepper and Jolt Cherry Bomb).

Ohh no, my Library card is going to expire soon! Well, 2016, but that means I’m, like half through. The website lets you check fines and such, and request books. You can say “I want this book” and it will be at your local library soon, even if the nearest copy is at the UCLA library across the country! It’s cool. (I kinda feel weird, endorsing the library, like a commercial on PBS.)

New poll is up. Kinda sad, only 4 people. Used to have like 6. Ohh well, at least I have my hundreds of googlers.

I mailed my gloves today, back to Dockers. The stitching came apart between the fingers, and Kohl’s doesn’t have them in stock anymore.

iTunes/Pepsi starts back up today. If you find a winner, and aren’t saving them, I want them.

Also today, new PowerBooks came out. Faster processors, 8x DVD burners, drop protection, and scrolling trackpads. And a price drop!

OK, I’m off to do more nothing. Back Thursday.

nick

Police spent several hours attempting to save a fish trapped under the ice. Despite their efforts, it died shortly after.

A bit late

Trip, Ketchup, and Poll.

OK, so I’m late, not the first time.

I just got back from Warren, because my brothers keyless entry wouldn’t work. He stopped at his friends house last night and was coming home for the weekend. So he is at ABC Warehouse now trying to get it all fixed.

Funny thing, the trip back always seems shorter, unless you don’t actually go anywhere, then it all blends together into a long boringness.

I learned that Heinz produces 10 billion packets of Ketchup every year. Thats insane.

I think it’s new poll time. Will work on that before next update (Monday).

OK, thats all.

nick

… we sadly announce that the Year Of The Monkey is about (on 2/9) to be superseded by the Year Of The Rooster (or the year of the Green Chicken if you use the Five-Element Systems). Oh joy. Nothing funnier than a green chicken. In better news, it’s going to be the year 4702 in China so they’ve probably already engineered time travel. Perhaps they can go back in time and change 2005 to the Year Of The Jedi. Patience we must have…

I Really am a Geek!

Downtime and Geekitude

Well, the website went down last Wednesday as I attempted to post the NAIAS pics, and took 2 days to get it all back. Now, yesterday morning, it happened again. Thankfully Apple restored my data on their own. It isn’t particularly great to fear your $99 a year backup server can magically delete your files on a whim, but at least its all fixed.

Anyway, what else…

I took a geek test. They gave me a little graphic for my score, but it wont work in blog, so I have to just say it – 97% – whooyah. I retook and managed a 100% with some cheating, but the 97 is all me. You too can take said test here.

Think thats it for now.

…Friday…

nick

“Because your waste is a terrible thing to mind…”
Rothchild’s Sewage and Septic Sucking Services

Maskafagino

Poll, News, Nerd, and VH1.

Hey all.

If you haven’t voted yet, please do.

I have really big news, but the NDA says I can’t tell you. Too bad.

I have been watching alot of VH1’s I Love the 90s lately. Is fun to remember.

OK, till Tuesday.

nick

If you die in a game, will running defrag bring you back?

Saginaw, Part Deux!

Saginaw continued, Chinese, and Little stuff.

So, back to where I left off…

So I was looking for a connection between Apple and Saginaw, and still haven’t found much. I did come up with a few possibilities though. The first is that some Apple employee is from the area. The second is they threw a dart at a map, or some other coincidence. The third (and favorite) is that it could be a sign of the future. There are currently 101 Apple Stores worldwide, 99 in the US. After some looking, I found a list of the 500 largest metro areas in the US, here are Michigan’s part of the top 500:

12 Detroit-Warren-Livonia, MI 4,452,557
31 Warren-Farmington Hills-Troy, MI 2,391,395
38 Detroit-Livonia-Dearborn, MI 2,061,162
87 Grand Rapids-Wyoming, MI 740,482
127 Lansing-East Lansing, MI 447,728
132 Flint, MI 436,141
169 Ann Arbor, MI 322,895
175 Kalamazoo-Portage, MI 314,866
201 Holland-Grand Haven, MI 238,314
217 Saginaw-Saginaw Township North, MI 210,039
248 Muskegon-Norton Shores, MI 170,200
260 Niles-Benton Harbor, MI 162,453
263 Jackson, MI 158,422
285 Monroe, MI 145,945
305 Battle Creek, MI 137,985
312 Traverse City, MI 131,342
367 Bay City, MI 110,157
385 Allegan, MI 105,665
405 Adrian, MI 98,890
450 Midland, MI 82,874
491 Owosso, MI 71,687

And, if you add up Bay City, Saginaw, and Midland, you get:

140 Bay City – Saginaw – Midland 403,070

thus, we are top 150 nationwide (in theory, there is likely an overlap between Saginaw-Bay City, etc…). Now, consider that in Michigan, we have Apple Stores in Troy and Novi, and the one in Grand Rapids is coming this year (they are currently hiring actually). Between those three, the Detroit and Grand Rapids areas are mostly covered. This leaves Lansing and Flint ahead of us. Granted, there are other considerations other than population, like major colleges and universities (Lansing of course has MSU, Flint has Kettering and Mott, and Saginaw has Delta and SVSU).

OK, so we probably have a while, and Saginaw was probably a coincidence, so what.

Anyway…

Jenn, Scott and I went to Old Great Wall buffet on Friday, was good as always.

Room is still going.

Poll is back, vote or die.

Jenn and I are going to NAIAS Tuesday (and maybe Apple Store), Tim might be coming too. Info Wednesday.

Thats all.

nick

If everybody was weird, then nobody would be.