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iTunes, Mill End, RV Show, Arby’s, and Site

It’s a strange thing. I use iTunes for all my music on my computer (like 99.9% of all mac users) and like many jukebox programs, it allows you to rate songs. I have a problem with this though, It allows you to choose from between 0 to 5 stars for each song. Why would you even have a song though, if you only thought of it as a 0 or 1 star? Hell, anything under a 4 should probably go. So, you need to totally rethink the way things are categorized when you rate your songs. It really screws with my head to do it.

Mill End is now at 70% off everything, right down to the racks and lights. I need to get over there and see what’s left.

Jenn and I went to the Birch Run RV show. It was pretty cool, some neat stuff.

We also ate at Arby’s. The gyros are good, but lamb is better.

I have currently spent $0.15 on bandwidth/storage. Not bad really. I figured like $3 a year, and $0.26 a month, so we aren’t too bad yet.

All right, See you Monday, with more than this I hope.

Nothing Really

No sewer, Brandon, and that’s it.

So, the LiquiForce people are outside working on our sewer, so we haven’t been able to dispose of water. We can use it, we just can’t let it down the drain. Kinda sucks.

Brandon totaled his car out a few days ago on Woodside bridge (liberty? or independence? Think Independence). He hit the center median to avoid some car that cut him off, and rolled the car over the median, then slid across the oncoming lane. Pictures are not good looking. Luckily though, he is fine except a bump on head and sore neck from when he took off the seat belt and fell out of seat.

Uhm…

Not much else.

I want an iPod nano.

OK, bye.

It Was My Birthday

Birthday, and other nonsense

So my Birthday has come and gone, and was overall a good one. Jenn got me a practice chanter, so I can begin learning to bagpipe. I also got some money that is always useful. Good gifts. Jenn took me to Genji on Thursday night for dinner. I had filet and scallops and a tuna roll and a piece of octopus sushi. It was all very good. I love their soup. We got 1/2 off my meal (not counting sushi) because it was my birthday, and I got a little cake. As I said, very good.

SciFi is having a Bruce Campbell marathon. His new movie Man with the Screaming Brain is on in a few minutes.

Apple no longer lists the iPod mini on their store, and it’s not in the “sale” section yet either. I suspect it will show up their soon though, if anyone is looking for a deal.

I guess that’s it. bye.

Ooh, look what WP lets me do — 🙂

Because Mini Was Too Big

Apple, School, Interview, and Birthday.

Apparently, “Mini” is too big for Apple, as today the iPod mini was discontinued in favor of the new iPod nano. Along with being smaller, it also sports a color display so you can view pictures and such, as well as swapping out the mini’s 4 or 6GB HDs for 2 or 4GB flash ROMs. It keeps the old price though of $149 and $249 respectively, or $129 and $179 for students (like me). Also (it was a big day for Apple) they released a new version of iTunes to support the new iPod and the new Motorola ROKR (rocker) cellphone, which supports iTunes songs. I am not totally sure on all it’s specs, but know it only works with Cingular in the US.

School is going well still. I had a Pre-Calc quiz today that went well. I have some homework for Man. Tech to work on when I am done here.

RadioShack interview went, well, whatever. The whole commission based thing I wasn’t real happy with, so just winged the interview and didn’t care much either way. We will see, whatever happens happens.

Not much else.

Haven’t worked on entry conversions, because of homework and such.

My Birthday is tomorrow. Woohoo to 23!

I guess that’s it.

Will let you know how birthday went on Saturday.

What was that?
A flaming burp.
Does it always do that?
It’s not always a burp.

301st Time's the Charm

Edits, Posts, Whopper, BBDB, and Sickness

So, I am now up to around 115 edited posts. That’s pretty impressive I think. After I have finished editing all 296 posts, I will return to work on the gallery, and try getting polls back up.

I am strongly considering changing my posting method. Rather than the “every 3rd day” that has honestly served me quite well, I am considering moving to a more willy nilly method. Instead of every 3 days, I would post as I wanted, as things happened. This means that:

  1. I could post things right away, rather than up to 3 days later when they are no longer as fresh in my mind
  2. When posting, I would only write on a single topic, making it easier to categorize them. If I had multiple topics, I could make multiple posts at once. This means no more reading about Apple’s new mouse to find out how my job interview went.

The downside, of course, is that I may slack off. The only reason I post sometimes is because for over 2 years, I have always just posted every 3 days. We will see I suppose. Maybe the first new poll on this site.

I noticed the old blog is at around 5700 visits. I checked in SiteMeter and it is expecting, based on the last month, another 300 or so visits this month. That means there is a chance the old blog will make it to 6000 visits before being deleted by Apple of Oct 1.

I looked up the new Triple Whopper with Cheese. Around 1500 calories, and 45 grams of fat. Add in fries and you’re maxed out for the day.

Remember the BBDB? My great idea to sort and enter all my Baseball Cards into a database? Yeah, that never happened. Just wanted to let you know.

Jenn is now sick. We had thought she got me sick, but now we think it was my Brother, then me, then my Mom, then Grandma, and now Jenn. It is odd though, because if my Brother brought it in first, my Mom and Grandma should have been sick before me, as they have weaker immune systems. Guess not. Who knows.

OK, I think that’s it for my 301st blog. Enjoy your Labor Day weekend.

Three hundred!

300, School, WP Perks, Oldies, Dinner, and Addition.

Yay! My 300th post. Granted, it was really a few back, since I deleted some, but this is the official one. The one that really counts.

School is going well. None of my classes seem too horrible. Though, I am out of Fin-Aid money for books and supposedly will still need 1 more, but that’s how school goes.

One of the very cool parts about having Word-Press is, I am at Jenn’s, on her computer, and can post a blog. I love that.

All the old posts are now on this blog, but around 60 of them got screwed up dates. I am working on fixing that, along with deleting incorrect line breaks that were carried over somehow. Want to have it all fixed over the weekend, but probably not. My goal is at least the mis-dated ones.

I made mussels for dinner. It was OK. The pasta and sauce were real good, the mussels were just scary. Like I told Jenn, worst case scenario is we die.

Notice that now, under (or over, I forget) the counter in the blog sidebar is a word counter. I will of course have a special entry for my 100,000 word, but that’s a ways off.

I think that’s it. Enjoy the now-official new blog, and have a good weekend.

Poll’s will return when I get all the old posts straightened out. I have enough to work on for now.

The End

Goodbye, Sick, School, and some Misc.

For the second time in 2 years, I present my final blog of a particular address. Two years ago it was the final at blogger (which is actually still up) (and oddly, I was sick then too), and now I present my final blog with iblog on .Mac. This blog will not stay up, and will disappear on October 1st, 2005.

So, I am almost better, just a stuffed up nose mostly. My mom now has whatever I had though, so it is most definitely not an allergy.

I returned to school today after 486 days off. It sucked, but wasn’t that bad. They still only had the 1 book, that I don’t need until tomorrow anyway, so I didn’t get that. Went to CAD, and that seems like it will go fine. Pre-Calc was odd, because I have gone up through Calc 2, so should be easy as everything goes by, but since I haven’t had a math class in 2 and a half years, I needless to say am having trouble remembering some “should be easy” stuff. So after that, I went back to the bookstore and wow! They now had a second book! The line was long as hell though, so I walked out anyway. Maybe tomorrow.

So, I came home and took a nap cause I only slept like 4 or 5 hours last night, and made some steaks for dinner (which were awesome).

They just showed the Jeopardy that was the first with Ken Jennings. Yeah, he kicked some ass, huh?

What else…

You see that new Triple Whopper? Talk about a heart attack waiting to happen.

I guess that’s it. Wish it were a little more interesting, for being the last here, but then again it will just continue in 3 days anyway.

OK, so long, and see you Thursday at the new blog. I may or may not have all these posts up there by then, we will see.

nick

Sick

Sick, Stuff, and School.

Yup, late August and I’m sick again. Today I’m not too bad, not now anyway. At least I can breathe. Wish I knew what the hell caused it.

So, this and one more. Scary stuff man. It seemed so far away when I announced the move, and now it’s creeping right up.

Due to being sick, I haven’t accomplished much outside, or with the website, or anywhere really. Mostly just slept on the couch, or in my bed, or anywhere I can curl up in a decently comfortable ball.

School starts Monday, just 3ish days away (being 11:40, its 2 full days, plus 10 hours in the morning). So that’s something to not look forward to.

OK, goodnight all, I tired.

nick

I Want to Play the Bagpipes

Bagpipes, Move, BDay, Job (Maybe), School, Camping, Site, Fishing, and Yard.

I do, sadly, I really do. I think it would be cool. Nobody would like me while I learned, especially my family and neighbors and anyone else I practiced around, but who cares, in the end I would be able to play the bagpipes! I mean, how hard could it be, really?

Also, in researching all this, I found a band called Enter the Haggis. Seriously, a scottish bagpipe rock band. Some of their songs are actually really good, to me anyway, but I want to play the bagpipes, so what do I know.

So, to get started I need to get a practice chanter, which is basically the part of the bagpipe that goes from your mouth to the bag, looks kinda like a flute. This is what your supposed to learn on when your first starting out, and to practice new songs even when your an old vet. I have seen them on eBay and the sorts for $35ish. Also, I am going to ask some people at the river of time for suggestions. I have no intention of jumping right in after all, since I am poor, and I am afraid of the horrible sounds I will make.

In other news, There is this post, the 26th, and the 29th, thats it, in case I haven’t warned you enough.

Thursday is 2 weeks to my birthday.

Two weeks from today I have an interview for RadioShack. Hopefully I get an interview this time, instead of just standing around waiting then being told to go home, after being told 3 times that the store I am applying for isn’t hiring despite me having talked to the store’s manager just 2 days earlier and being told they were.

I still don’t have books for school, they weren’t in yesterday when we went to look. I will try Thursday, and if not go early for call Monday. Is scary I have only like 5 days left, especially after 481 days off (as of today).

Tomorrow will be a year since Jenn and i went to Mackinaw. We are trying to work in a camping trip the week after Labor Day, and I would like another one during fall colors. We will see.

I have the gallery up , as well as an online status indicator on the new site. Gallery is pretty much as it was on this site. I will be making modifications to it over tonight though.

Today Jenn and I went fishing at State Park, and I caught the biggest weed I ever have. Really, this was a big weed, like 4 foot long, and weighed a metric shitload too!

Also today, I installed our back screen door, and yesterday we finished the fence.

OK, I think that is it.

Till
Friday,

nick

Darkmatter, each pound of which weighs more than 10000 pounds!