I was pleasantly surprised to see the FedEx “we missed you” doorknob paper slip this morning with “office” written in the “we left your package at ____” slot. Yay! So before driving out of the complex, I dropped by the office and got my iPod. I grabbed my laptop on the way out as well so I could sync my music with it at work. So now I’m jamming to my tunes on it and it’s pretty nice I suppose. No more lag caused by the hard drive spinning up when going to the next song. =)

I wish I had my camera here to take pictures of the awesome engraving on the back, but that’ll have to wait until after I get back to the apartment. I am looking forward to testing this Nike+ thing later today. =)

One thing is that it is so light and small that it feels a little cheap, especially the wheel portion… mmmmm… oh well, I just look at the back and it makes me happy. ;)

“So I’m saving all my love
Yes I’m saving all my love
Yes I’m saving all my love for you” - Whitney Houston

Edit: here are some pictures! =)

Yay! =D

DotA until 6:45AM. Man, I’m tired. Was fun, guys. =)

Participants: Mark, Paul, Sam, Viraj, and me.

Now I just need to wake up in time to do Vox Veniae stuff “tomorrow”…

“Baby Beluga in the deep blue sea,
Swim so wild and you swim so free.
Heaven above, and the sea below,
And a little white whale on the go.” - Raffi

This is my doggy… he’s awesome like me.

And Oriana made banana bread… mmmm… yay!

“I wanna run to you (oooh)
I wanna run to you (oooh)
Won’t you hold me in your arms
And keep me safe from harm
I wanna run to you (oooh)
But if I come to you (oooh)
Tell me, will you stay or will you run away” - Whitney Houston

iPod is in Austin, but stuck at the FedEx place because it isn’t “due for delivery” until Monday. Poo. They won’t let me to pick it up either. I hate it when that happens.

Well, I hope I’m allowed to talk about this (I’m thinking yes, since it’s public)… Freescale’s been bought out it seems and is buying all shares for $40. That’s crazy!

Ah, hindsight is 20/20. I should have kept all of my ESPP stocks. Well, I still own some and will be making over $2k from this, but if I had kept it all… awww… man… over $5k. sigh

“Watch her on the floor tonight
feel the crush she will incite
the spark of hope she will ignite
a beautiful sight
Softer than the lightest snows
watch her as the moment slows
in my face the door will close
and there she goes.” - Five Iron Frenzy

I think I’m on a roll here. Andrew’ll be so proud of me. I think pictures will do:

Haha, when I bought it, I got Tetris DS too and the guy said “you sure you don’t want Super Princess Peach?” Then, I went to check out and the guy there said “this isn’t for you, I hope.”

“Yes, yes it is.” =)

Before picking up the pinkness, Mark and I went to Mangia’s and ate a whole medium deep dish by ourselves. I’m quite stuffed…

“Feel the burn and the fury of my pen
feel the fire, as I fan the flames again
brace yourself for the mediocre
Hail the king of the almost good enough
nothing bold, nothing’s flying off the cuff
things might change, but don’t hold your breath yet” - Roper

I went through my photos in Aperture again (well, mostly just the shoots that had over/nearly 200 photos) to filter out the bad pictures to free up some disk space. I think I deleted a gig or two worth of pictures I would never use. Man, RAWs (especially from the 5D) can be pretty massive, haha.

Posted two pictures from the Florida trip that I didn’t process/upload the first round through:

I had this strange dream that made me wake up 15 or so minutes later than I intended on. Apparently, I was supposed to walk down this model runway thing and show off… something… it wasn’t clothes, but something I was holding, I don’t remember what but it seemed like piece of paper. Anyways, I was dreaming I had to use the shower, but I was in this strange house that had a bajillion doors and lots of people all over the place and I was trying to find a place I could shower in private. I found this one shower in the kitchen, but seeing as it was the kitchen, it was pretty exposed. There was one in the laundry room, but full of tons of random stuff, so I went outside to this one cabin looking thing but got stuck trying to figure out how to lock all the doors… it was kinda weird… I woke up around then.

I was really looking forward to running with a new nano and using the Nike+ thing today, but now I gotta wait for the engraving and for it to ship. Oh well, at least my iPod is Andrew Approved, and I can try out my new shoes.

“Wouldn’t think I’d fall for it
Wouldn’t think I’d lie
But I think I’d do anything
For that tiny bit of pie
I would sell you out
I’d give you all away
A life of treats might do me in
But I gotta get another taste
Turkish Delight” - David Crowder Band

Well, apparently the “available today” means you can order today but that the Apple stores don’t actually have them. Oh wells. I will be ordering my iPod nano online now… so now I need to decide if I want to put an engraving on it and if so, what. I have two lines with 23 characters each. Ideas? Mark and Brook suggested:

“You’ve got the touch,
you’ve got the power!!!

But I’m not sure if I really want that…

Edit: it is done:

And I got these shoes:

I saw this and was pretty impressed that the Yahoo! folks (Flickr’s parent company) started to support Blogger (a Google company). I always thought it would be really nifty if Picasa (Google) had some kind of integration with Flickr – it seemed like a great match (even though I don’t really use Picasa anymore), but thought it was pretty much impossible because of the rivalry the parent companies have. Well, seeing as how Flickr has extended signs of friendship to the Google camp, maybe they’ll return the favor and integrate with Flickr a bit in Picasa? That would be pretty sweet… I liked Picasa a lot more than iPhoto.

Oh yes, and I’m decking myself out in the Apple/Nike gear if new nanos come out today (I’m thinking yes). Barton, here I come… =)

“Riffraff! Street rat! Soundrel! Take that!”
“Just a little snack, guys”
“Rip him open, take it back, guys”
“I can take a hint, gotta face the facts
You’re my only friend, Abu!”
“Who?” - Aladdin & Crowd (Aladdin)

There are things I’d like to talk about on my blog, but I have to hold back cause I remember how public it is (no, I’m not getting married… I know everyone was wondering). I’m not even sure what makes me want to blog, but it’s kinda fun just throwing out random ideas/thoughts, eh?

I’m digging the cooler weather. I’ve been checking Weather.com before I’d take off work to see how cooked I’d get in the heat, and sometimes stay a bit later for it to cool off more. It feels oh so nice to see 78° instead of 98°. Speaking of 98°… this is dedicated to Andrew, haha =) …

“You are my everything
Nothing your love won’t bring
My life is yours alone
The only love I’ve ever known
Your spirit pulls me through
When nothing else will do
Every night I pray on bended knee
That you will always be
My everything” - 98°

Ok… that was a little too much…