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The Past – Wednesday Mind Hump – Week 35

Posted on September 8, 2004 | Leave a comment
01. Can you remember where you were in life ten years ago? If you could travel back in time and whisper something to yourself ten years ago, what would it be?
I do regret not being married and not having kids. So it would probably be to work on marriage and/or adoption. I was pretty happy at the time so I might not listen to me…
02. You inherit a large piece of land and decide to build a theme park a la “Disneyland, Sea World, etc.) What would you name your theme park and what would your mascot be?
GeekWorld and the mascot would be Techie the Turtle.
03. Okay, let’s have it! What’s the craziest, most impulsive thing you’ve ever done. Remember, we have insane youngsters amongst us so if it’s risque, clean it up.. *wink*
Climbing on the windowsill from one room to another on the 10th floor of the dorms at the U of British Columbia, I was probably 15 at the time.
04. We all have them … bad days. If you were having a bad day what or whom would you turn to for comfort?
A female friend or ex-girlfriend, they’d probably fix me food and make me dessert.
05. According to the song White Rabbit, “one pill makes you larger and one pill makes you small”. If you were offered these pills today, which pill would you take and why?
Larger. Why not? Bigger is better isn’t it?

From Wednesday Mind Hump – Week 35

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Mildly Scary

Posted on September 8, 2004 | 3 comments

So my friends know so much about the people whose blogs I read, I’m sure they sometimes forget these aren’t people that I run into daily (ever).

These aren’t the only ones I read, they’re just they ones I think my friends have enough info about to recall who they are when I bring them up.

  • Sarah – Srah in Texas AA.
  • Melissa – Detroit area, extra funny and whom I (and others) was afraid might give up blogging.
  • Dean – Also local and who I mention every time I pass the Kitty Chop Suey sign (and it was really a post by his better half!).
  • Alfie – From AA who sent me a BurnIt and is coincidentally the sister of Sarah
  • Lisa – With the Audrey Hepburn photo on the blog (who coincidentally also sent me a BurnIt CD)
  • Sarah – Sassypants, a Texas ex-blogger (where it seems like most female bloggers are from)

    These folks are WAY more than this little definitions that I have here, but these are the key phrases that make my friends realize who I mean…

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    TGFT – The Screen Savers are Back

    Posted on September 8, 2004 | Leave a comment

    tss.g4So it’s the return of The Screen Savers! I haven’t been paying attention much since it’s been reruns. But they’re in the new studio in LA and raring to go. Patrick’s gone, and I’m sure the new guy, Alex, will grow on me. But Sarah :) and Kevin and Foo (Dan) and Yoshi are all back. I’ll miss Patrick, but he’s supposed to still have some kind of connection and he is in some of the promo photos still. Supposedly a few guest appearences from the old staff and other visitors…

    I’m excited about getting my daily dose of tech news, that’ll be nice to have, I usually like the stories that they pick as being the good ones to share.

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    FutureBoy! The game…

    Posted on September 6, 2004 | Leave a comment

    A new adventure game, coming out for just about every platform (Windows, Macintosh, Linux/X11, BeOS, Palm OS and Pocket PC). Be sure to check out the site and the trailer.

    This won’t be out until September, what really excites me is the multi-platform deployment all at the same time. If we start seeing more of this in the future it’ll really level out the playing field in computer OSes

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    What I do (and don’t) post about.

    Posted on September 6, 2004 | Leave a comment

    I generally don’t post about dating, I assume all my past and present girlfriends read my entries. No my Ego is not that big, I just post with such an assumption so that I can stay out of trouble. I won’t leave out if/when I get engaged/married. And once I’m married I’m assuming I’ll post more about the relationship. I will not complain about the wedding planning process publicly until after the wedding (assuming I do go through with the process). They were talking about this at SpiralInSpiral but my thoughts got too long for the comments.

    Watch out when I have kids though, I’ll give you every little detail. (Can they sue for embarrassment when they get older?) Not today’s laws, but with the laws of the future…

    I also try not to complain to much (although many times when I post facts people think I’m complaining), I want the complaining to be a very small percentage of my posts, I think my (few) readers prefer it that way.

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    How not to spend your time.

    Posted on September 4, 2004 | Leave a comment

    If you spend half of your time complaining aren’t you just wasting half of your life (and the time of those you are complaining to)? I’m assuming the other half of your life isn’t so great either (if you’re complaining so much). Wouldn’t time be better spent doing some things to fix the other half? Or ignoring it? At least go get a ‘blog! :)

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    My New Tempurpedic Bed

    Posted on September 4, 2004 | 632 comments

    tempurpedicSo I finally got a new bed. I got one of those squishy Tempurpedic mattresses. It’s also larger, I went from a full to a queen size. I don’t really have a good opinion yet, but I don’t have any complaints yet. Actually I have a minor one, I had to put different rails on my bed frame and besides the fact that they aren’t the right color (I bought them four years ago) they are lower so now I can’t get the under the bed boxes out from under the bed (but that isn’t a Tempurpedic Mattress issue).

    In the morning I felt like I didn’t feel like I tossed and turned, I’ll see more after a few more days….

    UPDATE: This post has a huge amount of comments (400+) so feel free to read through them for more info. They definitely start with negative comments but I think it evens out as you read on. People talk about their sheets sliding (I have no problems) and other temperpedic models (like the rhapsody).

    I’ve also added various comments through the years.

    I do not know what model I have, I’m not sure if there were more than one or two available at the time. Anyone know how to check?

    2010 update: I’ve checked and it appears there was only one model available at the time of MY purchase, they say that it is now designated the Classic (now there are 11 versions). I purchased the mattress and the foundation directly from Tempurpedic over five years ago and I’m still very happy with it.

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    Frances

    Posted on September 3, 2004 | Leave a comment

    And people complain like that have real problems (I only got a three day weekend, it’s too humid, etc.). spec_trop6_277x187 I thank God that those are the only things we have to complain about. I hope things go well for families that have to go through such disasters as hurricane Francis.

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