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11.07.2009
 
My brother was on the news! They show him designing parts and it's pretty awesome.

(...just look for the kid with the beard. ;)



link to the article

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11.06.2009
 
Today was an awesome, awesome day.

The Droid, the phone with the Google software, came out...today or yesterday? So since I wasn't working, and Tom didn't go in until 4, he decided it would be a good day to go get one. He has been dyyyying for this phone to come out. It's like the iPhone, except Google instead of Apple, so it's not locked down within an inch of its life. Tom's actually been toying around with writing an application for it for the past week or two.

Nearest Verizon store is in Jamestown. Sooo, we make the half hour drive down there, through all of its crazy streets that make no sense, and enter the Verizon store. Staff was all super-friendly, though we did have to wait maybe ten minutes or so before a sales rep was free to talk to us. Tom decided he wanted the more elaborate model (with a pull-out keyboard, which I can actually type fairly reasonably on), and, THANK GOD, there was an unlimited data plan available.

Now, going back in time a couple of years, shortly after 9/11, Tom's name got on the no-fly list. He happens to share a name with a mass murderer from Connecticut or somewhere. First name, last name, and maybe middle initial? Not *remotely* a birthday, and certainly not a social security number. But now and again, his ss number won't register. He actually can't use paypal normally because of this. He *has* the ss card, with his name, and his number, but when he punches it in to paypal, it says it's wrong.

Neither Tom nor I has ever had an account with a real phone company. I have barely any credit history, and I'm pretty sure he has none, or close enough to none. The friendly saleswoman entered his information, and it spat out his social security number. Tried it again, and no-go. She had to fax a copy of his license AND social security card, off to God knows where, and wait for the higher-ups to approve it.

This did not make Tom a happy camper. Every time he's tried to fix this issue, whatever office he calls refers him someplace else, nobody will actually try to fix it.

So, since the woman told us to come back in like fifteen minutes, we decided to run Melissa's errand of the day: BUY SWEDISH FOOD!!!!!1!


Every year, my grandparents trek down to Jamestown to buy 1) korv (sausage) and 2) Bond-Ost (pronounced something like "boond-ust") cheese. Traditional Christmas-ish food by this point. I found Bond-Ost ONCE, but it was plain, without the caraway seeds. It's pretty wimpy without the caraway seeds. So! Since we were actually in Jamestown for once, I called my grandma.

"Oh, Peterson's! Peterson's Market. It's a little ways outside of Jamestown, it's not in the city itself, it's on Fluvanna Road... oh, as you come into Jamestown, the road is off to the right, it's about a mile outside of the city..."

Tom, who could hear every word of this from the other side of the car (I hadn't talked to Grandma on the phone in awhile...I forgot about the volume issue), was cracking up. Eventually, Grandma found something with the street name but not the address, though it did have a phone number, which I scrawled onto our Dunkin' Donuts bag with one of the (at least two, probably 3+) Sharpies Tom leaves laying around in his car.

So, I called the phone number. The nice lady on the other end started giving me directions... "I'm... not very familiar with Jamestown, but I actually have a GPS. Can you give me the number of the street address?" "Sure, uh.. hold on a minute." And I hear her call out to somebody across the store. Then she gives me the number. "Thanks... and how do you spell Fluvanna? I have a guess, but..." "Yeah, it's F-L-U-V... hold on." And she calls out to someone again. "Okay, V-A-N-N-A."

And then the GPS tells us this place is literally like five minutes away, on a road parallel to the one we were on.

But! We get there, and it's a farmer's market style little barn of a place. Brief moment of panic as we tried to figure out if they'd take credit cards (since nobody in my generation, least of all Tom and I, ever have cash on hand). I spotted a credit card machine, and then a woman came up to the desk. "Can I help you with anything?" "Yeah, do you take credit cards?" "Yes we do." "Oh good. Do you have Bond-Ost cheese?" "Yep, it's in the dairy case, right over there..." "Yes! I'm so glad, I've been dying for some for like a year!"

I made a bee-line. And found both plain and caraway! So I snagged and rejoiced. And then started poking around. There was an awful lot of pickled herring (which I'm sure I'll try someday, but...), but then I found more goodies. All kinds of rye bread, and cookies, and mixes, and... Tom watched me for a minute as I bounced around spazzing at everything. "..you want *everything*, don't you?" "Uh-huh!!!"

What I ended up with: Bond-Ost with caraway, lingonberry jelly, rye flour (Heidi has a recipe for Swedish Rye Cookies that I've been dying to try - and Mom just bought me large-grain sugar, too!), rye crispbread (super-crunchy dry cracker things that I adore), some maple sugar candy just because, aaaaand! A spice mix for glögg! Which I was always "too young" to drink at Lucia every year, but which always smelled amazing. Just holding the little ziploc bag, you can smell the spices: cloves and cinnamon and cardamom and orange peel... it smells amazing. The packet included a recipe for glögg: spice mix, quart of water, 2 cups sugar, 2 quarts port wine, and a quart of vodka. Mix and heat.

I see now why I was never allowed to drink it, but that sounds AMAZING. Mom pointed out that I will need to have a party if I'm going to make a full batch, which is true.

I've been bouncing all day thanks to my Swedish food. And! First Saturday in December, they do a Swedish food expo, where they make all the foods and you can eat it. (Plus, I forgot to look for korv, which Mom suspects is seasonal, since the grandparents always called ahead to ask for.) I'm thinking we're going to need to go back for that one. (Plus, I found out via both parents, that there is a Swedish bakery like right up the street from there. That makes fresh donuts!!! And Swedish breads!)


So, after a super-successful bit of shopping, we went back to the Verizon store, where it turns out, why yes, they were willing to take Tom's money! However, most likely due to the lack of credit history, it was going to be A LOT of money - a $400 freaking deposit that we had not at *all* anticipated, which they hold until you've paid your bills on time for a year. But, after some discussion, we decided we were going to run into that with pretty much any first-time phone... Tom had enough money to do it... and, as the woman so intelligently pointed out, the 3% interest on that deposit when it's returned is more than a bank's savings account gives you. Thankfully, Tom is super-attentive about paying bills on time, so no worries about that.

It was with a rather sorrowful wallet that Tom walked out of the store. Buuut, ten minutes later, as he was driving and I was playing with the phone, he perked right back up. We installed the Pandora app and cranked up some Jpop, and I linked up his Google account - which automatically added all his contacts from Gmail into the phone, so the only delay in calling his dad was...uh, to be honest, finding the "phone" button. We took some video, watched some youtube, looked at some websites... the thing is SERIOUSLY fast. The screen is *unbelievably* sharp, website text was tiny but *so* freaking crystal-clear I had no trouble reading it. The screen is huuuuge. We had internet all the way home, and 3G for probably 10, 20 miles around Fredonia.

Unfortunately, when we got home... 1) It was 3:30, and Tom had to work at 4. 2) We discovered that, while we had the plug for the charger...THERE WAS NO WIRE to connect the charger to the phone. Thankfully, all it is is a usb on one end, and mini-usb on the other - something Tom can pick up at WalMart - but... really people? I know it was launch day and you had bags of stuff everywhere, but... really?

Tom's going to a LAN party at his buddy DJ's after work tonight, and he's so psyched to get to show off his phone. I have a strong hunch he probably forgot to eat on his dinner break, and just played with the phone. The funniest thing was watching him be good and listen as the sales rep walked him through the basic interface on the phone while we were in the store. It was soooo tempting to point out that he's been RUNNING AN EMULATOR OF THE PHONE on his computer for like, two weeks. WRITING SOFTWARE for it. I think he can figure out how to scroll on a touchscreen. But Tom was very good and patient and attentive, and I kept my mouth shut. Probably not the best thing to tell the sales rep that you're going to find every software loophole the thing contains the minute you get it home...


When Tom left for work, I left for campus. The first meet-up of Fredonia NaNoWriMo'ers was tonight, and I met three of my fellow novelists. More details on the NaNo blog, but to summarize: what an awesome feeling it is to meet people you have things in common with. It was a very nice little writing session, I had a very yummy chai to drink, aaaand I managed to crank out basically 2000 words in a bit under three hours, with lots of chatting. *Awesome*.

Tomorrow, I work 1-9, and at 9 I'm heading over to Tim Horton's. Most people are meeting in the afternoon, but it sounds like I'll have a buddy or two there in the evening. Tom works until 1, so I may even get ahead on my writing! Though it's going super-duper well right now, I know toward the middle of the month I'll be banging my head against the wall trying to think of ideas, and something will come up to keep me from writing one or two days, or I'll get sick... so I'm determined to work up to being at least a day ahead, while the inertia of the beginning of the month lasts!

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11.05.2009
 
You know what is super-exciting? For all that coding webpages has changed since I first learned - and a WHOLE FREAKING LOT has changed... basic html, I've got, but you pull up the source on any website, and it's a giant beast of... well pretty much every language but html. I know how css works in theory, but only remember a little off the top of my head. I'm incapable of doing the new style blogger templates. This layout, I managed, but... barely. And you will notice that there are no blogger widgets on it. (Which I don't mind, actually.) The code is a pretty disgusting mish-mash of bits I snagged from elsewhere, and super-basic html that's totally inefficient.

BUT.

Looking at my NaNo blog, I realized the copious amounts of text were getting hard to read. I decided I wanted more space between the lines - not quite double-spaced, but something more than single-spacing. So, into the code I went. It's all nice and neat and prettily organized...but there are A LOT of things in there. Every detail of the thing is laid out in the headers, and I have to figure out what's what. Thankfully, people who provide templates do things like put in comments to mark where different sections of the page are. So eventually I found the chunk that sets up how the posts are viewed. And I spotted "line-height:1.4em;". Line height! And ems are measurements! That might be it! So I arbitrarily doubled the number, refreshed the blog, and lo and behold there were vast amounts of space between the lines. I WIN! I may not be able to code to save my life, but I can still work out juuuust enough to get an idea of what's going on, and fix what I want.

+1 confidence.

And another +1 for cranking out the day's writing ration before midnight. woo! Tomorrow is a day off, so I'm running to campus to hang out with some other NaNo'ers (which, oddly, I have neverever done in all my years of NaNo'ing) and drink copious amounts of coffee and hopefully get some writing done.

...what do you mean, my fridge is empty and my sink is full of dishes?

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11.02.2009
 
So you know those tiny little packets of flavored powder mix, designed to pour into a bottle of water? I tried a few out last year for NaNo, since drinking and nibbling are what I do what I'm writing (and what I do to keep myself awake). Worked pretty well, cheaper than real juice and better for me than, say, soda. So when Mom was picking me up goodies at WalMart the other day, I poked around the shelves of powdered drink mixes, and was psyched to see so many new and yummy sounding flavors.

Crystal Light. White tea with blueberry.

AMAZING. Almost a little too strong/sweet, but that's easily fixed. But it actually tastes like white tea! and blueberries!

...and I want to get my word quota in by midnight, which is technically the end of the day, and when Tom comes home anyway, and apparently he feels kind of neglected when I have my noveling months. (I'm not sure what's so different about me typing and listening to music than me crocheting and listening to podcasts, but... I suppose the fact that I'm totally wrapped up in another world might be an issue. I can see that.) I'm at nearly 2600 and need to get to 3385. crap that is so not going to happen.

Oh NaNoWriMo, you lead to more posts on this blog during November than the rest of the freaking year combined...

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11.01.2009
 
Halloween at the store was fun and exciting and full of loooong hours. We had one exciting arrest of someone stealing a costume. We sold out of: vampire teeth (surprise surprise), cat ears, handcuffs, nerd glasses, V for Vendetta masks, afros in normal hair colors (i.e. not pink green blue etc), bumblebee and butterfly wings, and were down to three mustaches last I knew. Not sure why the run on mustaches. I had a customer specifically ask for "the girl in the sailor dress" (that was Thursday's outfit), because "she knows EVERYTHING". I win!

Thursday: last year's sailor dress, worn over jeans.
Friday: Rainbow Brite costume from a few years back, worn over jeans, with ridiculous eyeshadow and my hair in a side ponytail. People knew who I was dressed up as and it made them smile. yay.
Saturday: 80s rock star, somewhere between Jem and Cyndi Lauper. I forgot to get a picture before work, but Ann took one of me and Sam, which will find its way to the 'nets sometime. Black tanktop with a mesh-y glittered shirt overtop, a waistpiece with two belts, short black capris, aaaand the most amazing skirt ever: a little tutu-style thing, neon pink tulle under a layer of poofy black lace. I added: pink fishnets, two layers of socks (scrunched down, of course), a flowery tattoo sleeve on one arm, a mess of bangle bracelets, THE most amazing lacey glovelets I designed myself and crocheted, giant heart-shaped ring, chain'n'crosses'n'coins necklace, star necklace, aaaaand I teased my hair and sprayed it in place. And crazy eyeshadow again. It. was. AWESOME.

(It also took me at least fifteen minutes to comb my hair this morning.)

I made a general invite to my place for snacks and drinks and Wii games after work... but nobody came. Which was a little sad, but I had a really nice night anyway. Tom and I watched movies and ate snacks (my dip was kind of a fail, but the Twinkie sushi IS AMAZING) and had some drinks and then sleeeeept. Sleep felt amazing.

Today was nice and quiet. Mom came down for a visit, and brought me a re-released "Boy" LP - ORIGINAL COVER ART omfg. I staaaared at everything for a good long while. The cover picture is beautiful. The booklet... I'm so glad I didn't grow up with records. Because I would have been SERIOUSLY angry over how small booklets have become since. There's so much visual real estate in an LP booklet it is positively mind-boggling. And this one had Bono-drawings in it! And the original lyrics, aaaand some of the contact sheet shots from '79 that Megs and I spent probably weeks in total studying every detail of. I think a few of these were new to me though, AND! they used Kodak Tri-X film! That's what I used, all through photography! eeee! I don't (currrently) have a record player around but I so don't even care, it's such a beautiful thing.

There are also food goodies, and a WalMart trip got me a few more.

...which brings us to the import of today. NOVEMBER FIRST! NANOWRIMO begins! Approximately 7oz of trail mix and one Snapple raspberry white tea later, I have met my word count for today. It was only a little painful. And my main character still lacks a name, but at least I have some ideas.

Tom, in trying to get me to stop nagging him to NaNo with me, has declared he is going to write a program this month. It is a little consoling to see him throwing words at walls too... or what passes for words in coding. I know enough about the theory to have a vague idea of what he's spazzing about, but, uh, not enough to remotely help.


I am so sleepy. Was up too late last night, and now that the insanity of Halloween is over work is going to feel very, very boring, which makes me feel the tired more. I have some dishes I should wash, and definitely need to make some food sometime today, but... we shall see. There is a Wii with Super Paper Mario on it.

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