We did laundry at this place called Wash Wold the other day and I wish I had a washer and dryer as big as this place did. It was fantastic to be able to throw EVERYTHING in one load of laundry and not have to worry about the washer overflowing. The place had a machine that gave you a credit card that you used in each of the washers and dryers and then you had a card with more money on it than you could use and they get to keep the extra. It seems like a good ruse but it was a good deal for all of us. It cost $5.50 to wash one load, but at that point we would have paid just about anything; after all, we can’t be smelling in the office.
On one of my flights over the past little while, I got bumped up to first class because there weren’t enough seats and the airline had made us miss our previous connection. That’s the first time I’ve ever been in first class (at least the first time that I remember) and I am amazed that those people have so much room up there! I’m kind of a tall guy and sitting in coach is a little bit uncomfortable (read: impossible to sleep) and those people are sitting up there sipping as many free drinks as they want and stretching their legs out as far as they can reach. They have their own bathroom for pete’s sake!
I got a great new belt that I need to find the right occasion to wear. I don’t wear pants or shorts that need belts very often, so I’ll have to have a special occasion that will get me out of my usual athletic shorts and a t-shirt. I’ll make sure we get some pictures.
I have been buying an inordinate amount of books lately and I’ve come to decide I need to get a Kindle. Then I look at the price of a Kindle and realize I don’t really need one that badly. If the books that you bought for it were a LOT cheaper than the paper versions, it might be worth it (and I’m sure it’s worth it in the VERY long run), I just don’t know that I’m going to hit that magical peak sometime before the next revision or three of the Kindle comes out. I’ve really been buying them a lot lately so I have something to read as I go out and about, but I don’t have a whole lot of time to crack open a good paperback but two or three nights a week when I’m sitting in my apartment.
One of my pet peeves is not having a website that redirects you to the www. version of the page if you simply type site.com in the address bad. I mean, how lazy have website administrators gotten that they can’t redirect a single subdomain (the blank subdomain) to the www. subdomain. It’s simply a matter of people who aren’t doing what they are getting paid to do and they see no reason to change that until they no longer reap the benefits of going to a site. If you have no idea what I mean, try typing www.nrfirth.com in the address bar and see what happens; I’ll wait.
Did you see that? When you tried to go to www.nrfirth.com, you were redirected to nrfirth.com because I took the eight seconds it takes to configure a server to do that. My job has me dealing with system admins that have no idea what they are up to each and every day, so I’m starting to see that laziness really affects the way people do business. Get your act together, people!
And to all my friends in Rome, NY this summer; I hope you are having fun!
It turns out my bills are really low when I rarely spend time at home anymore. Between working all day and not leaving my AC on and just being okay with my apartment being a little warm when I go to bed (I like to sleep in a warm room), I cut a huge portion of my bills out of the equation. My monthly bills aren’t that big to begin with, but saving money is saving money no matter how much or little it really is. Let’s be clear. When other people are over at my place, I keep that AC cranked all the way down so it’s nice and cool for them, I just have no reason to keep it that way if I’m going to be on the road.
My credit/debit card allows me to accrue points so I can turn them in for various items. The items range from the fairly crappy (a book light) to the extreme (a cruise vacation) but I’ve noticed one thing from all that; you have to spend a LOT of money with a bank before they will even think about giving you something back. I didn’t expect free hand outs from them, but it wouldn’t kill them to raise the return rates a little bit. I would have to spend around 6,000 dollars over time to get a scale. A SCALE! You know, the kind that you stand on to find out how much weight you’ve gained? That’s a freakin’ expensive scale if you ask me. I would much rather just not know how much I weigh than have to invest in a scale that’s worth that much. It had better also come with a person fitness coach that will get me out of bed in the morning and make me run at that rate.
I think I’ve finally gotten to the point where I need to take the doors off my car. It’s going to take a quick trip down the street to the store so I can buy a wrench, but those doors are coming off before I have to drive around for another week in the warm weather we have!
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