Stuff

[susandennis]

I just noticed that my wall calendar here at my desk has the last two days of October up at the top of the grid. So the top row reads 30, 31, blank, blank, blank, blank, 1. Those whacky Kiwis. It's actually my only New Zealand calendar this year. I used to get 4 or 5. But only one of my Kiwi friends remembers my love of these things. But, this one is a great one. It has the obligatory wonderful photos of New Zealand plus ALL of the holidays of New Zealand and Australia. Those people have holidays for everything. If the queen farts they declare a holiday and take the day off from work. In October there are 7 holidays. And this calendar also points out that some of Australia starts Daylight Savings Time on the 30th and some on the 31st with New Zealand.

My timing is a bit off but I do think I'm going to have to make the Annual LastCostcoVisitBeforeChristmas trip this weekend. I think I'm a little early but the Christmas madness might not be as impossible with the new store that has much bigger aisles. But, I need several products that I can't get anywhere else - store brands. Bath soap and toilet paper. And I need steak and a bunch of other stuff. So I guess I'll bite the bullet and be there when the doors open on Saturday.

Hopefully the workers will come today and remove all that horrible machinery out of my condo. I left a bottle of 409, a rag and note asking them to wipe down those track light fixtures while they are up on the ladder, please. Wonder if they will do it.

I did not turn that blower on last night and slept peacefully.

I tidied up the address book on my Treo yesterday and then did a sync so that the tidied up version would be on my desktop where I can capture it into a csv. However, when I went to sync it, I managed to bungle the rest of the apps on the thing. I went to tune in NPR on the way to the bus and my Pocket Tunes was all fucked up.

BUT, there is a wonderful little piece of software that I bought some time ago that not only backs up everything every night to the SD card, it provides you with a restore function right there on the same card. So, while walking to the bus, I just restored everything to the way it was the night before and had NPR back in my headset before the bus even pulled up. Now that's some nice software action. Thankyouverymuch.

I will resync the tidy contacts list this morning and do it the right way this time.

I'm having a hard time getting interested in the baseball playoffs. It's just disconcerting to see so many Mariners playing in playoff games- I wish they were playing in Mariner uniforms.