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I love vacation.

I’ve never felt so guilty leaving my pets. Posting will be lighter than normal (which means it will be non-existant) as I’m on vacation. Ta.

“No, I think there’re only about six lists.”

*head to table*

Overhead at home:

“… then there’s the Mejer’s list at work which may or may not contain things on the first Meijer’s list…”

AAAAAAAHHHH!!!

Man, what a boring ass day. After a morning of repetitive edits, I got a string of repetitive meetings. Then, when the afternoon finally arrives, I get another, monumental, repetitive task. All in a days work (well, two actually, since I’ll be finishing the mind-numbing edits in the morning) for this little slave to higher education.

I’d log on to WoW, but I’m afraid I’ll just wind up farming $MINERAL. Less than 3 days until I climb into the Jeep, J– at my side, and head for the East coast. Oh, did I mention that the main road into the area we’re staying passes over a river that’s currently 8 ft (that’s 2.4 meters) over flood stage?

Ok, upbeat frame of mind (note, I will try to avoid using “positive” as anything other than a math operator from here on out): my current ToDo list consists of:

• Reassemble cousin’s computer
• Pray parts aren’t FUBAR‘d again
• Complete a butt-load of mind-numbing work for work
• Prep the Jeep
• Load the Jeep
• Pack
• Unpack
• Repack
• Tire of packing
• Complain about money
• Curse iPod (can’t find accessories for a damn 3G iPod. WTF?!?)
• Burn CDs
• Avoid capital expenditures above $40 until shellfish is on the menu
• Complete any tasks assigned to me on J–‘s list(s)
• Stop using parenthetical pluralisation on words
• Come to grips with realization that cabin (to be home for over a week) has no Internet access
• Google WiFi hotspots at destination and strategic locations on the way
• Suppress Canadian jokes (love you guys!) as we’ll be traveling through it
• Find passport
• Enjoy vacation

All in all, not a bad list. Of course, I haven’t seen J–‘s list.

This post brought to you by Ménage à Trois Red; I’m aware it may be the new White Zin.

Skype has announced that, until the end of this year, all calls to US and Canadian landlines and mobiles will be free. No credits to buy, no sign-up fee, no strings. It’s an old marketing move, but it’s got 4752 diggs and climbing.
Link to Official Skype Blog

My weathered camera, an HP c610, finally started to have ghosts. It would randomly shut off on fully-charged batteries, constantly forget the date (which means that I’d have to set it up every time I started the camera), and generally was taking more and more time to get “quick” snaps. With vacation rapidly approaching, J– and I talked about getting a new camera.

Keep in mind that the last time I was shopping for digital cameras, I was on the bleeding edge; 2 Megapixels, built-in flash, auto focus with a bright LCD display ran around $500-600. Big cash for me back then.

But now, with the purchase of our new camera (which we independently chose), less than $200 gets us a pretty nice camera. We bought the Sony DSC-600, a 6 Megapixel unit that is half the size and weight of my old camera, takes clear photos and videos (which my old camera didn’t), and draws less power (two batteries have last through well over 6 hours of on-and-off use). All in all, pretty happy. With a 1 Gig expansion card, we can take over 300 photos in one go or almost 45 minutes of video.

Vacation will be the true test. I’m geeked just to have a new toy. (Stop rolling your eyes J–).

The dance for the new race in World of Warcraft has made it onto the web. Thanks to Les (again) at SEB for the video and for feeding me more (relevant) news than almost anyone.

Link

This site now runs on WordPress. Goodbye Movable Type, you freakin’ slow-ass software.

Pearl Jam has a new self-titled album out. Get it, listen to it. Do it now. If you liked one track off of Ten, go get this album. It is not the Vedder-centric crap of Vitology or *shudder* No Code. I gave up on Pearl Jam years ago; this album brought me back. It’s also not whiny emo crap, just straight-up rock and roll with a touch of that old Pearl Jam vibe.

Get it on iTunes or Amazon.