Archive for the 'Life' Category

Thursday, March 1st, 2007

So, hopefully today is the day, after actually owning the decal for a year plus, that my Mini Cooper will finally get its Union Jack.

Last night I got 2 hours of sleep due to writing an 8 page term paper. I am about ready to pass out, but unfortunately I cannot enjoy it too much as I have a midterm at 7 that I also need to study for. Sleep deprivation — not just for kittens anymore.

Hopefully Pzizz will at least restore some of my sanity.

Friday, January 12th, 2007

I find throwing away an empty trash bag box into the bag you just pulled out of it to be a disquieting sensation.

Monday, April 10th, 2006

Ottoman Turkish Empire Settlement

I had the very same question when filing with TurboTax…

Monday, February 27th, 2006

Today I had my first visit to the Student Health Center here at UCI. The parking, like everywhere in Irvine, was terrible. The nurse was really nice, and I got a med student and a real doctor to look at me, so hopefully they caught everything!

I went in cause I had what I thought was a pus blister in the back of my throat. (Ewww.) Katrina thought it was strep throat, so I went in to have them look at it. The med student took a look first and agreed that I needed a strep culture test. Then the doctor came in, took one look, and started going at the back of my throat with a cotton swab. I started gagging, but she gets done and says, “Okay, all gone. You just had some food debris stuck to the back of your throat.” Kind of embarrassing…

But they did prescribe me some migraine medicine for my headaches, so that’s cool. I also have to go in next Monday to get my mole removed. It will be way exciting.

In other news, World of Warcraft sucks. I pay $15 a month to wait an hour for 500 people to log off to play my level 30 Shaman! Arggh.

Friday, February 24th, 2006

You know you’re living in Irvine when you get a letter from your housing office asking your roommate to take down her curtains. Why? Because they’re not white.

Here’s what I posted on the UCI LiveJournal community:

Dear Berkeley Court,

Thank you for asking my roommate to take down her red curtains. I know the community will be that much safer once we have eliminated all color and life in the community.

Signed,
Your Resident

Friday, February 24th, 2006

Yep, it sure was a lot of fun. Not only did we do Universal Studios, but we saw a lot of the landmarks in Hollywood thanks to my GPS navigation system. It makes doing things on a whim loads easier.

You can read about it on my iWeb blog page at http://web.mac.com/tdale2/.

Saturday, February 18th, 2006

I don’t need to spend $100 a month on cable when I have this for free.

Tuesday, February 14th, 2006

Last Thursday I had a lot of fun when I went down to Leisure World in Laguna Woods to present an overview of System Preferences.

Katrina came with me, and I’m glad she did because I have to admit I was a little nervous as there were more than 100 people there! I sat down in front of their bright new projector and gave an hour long talk on the ins and outs of configuring a Mac.

I think I covered a lot of information and hopefully I didn’t talk too fast! I think some of it may have gone over some people’s heads, but with 100 people every one has a slightly different expectation of what they will learn. All in all, though, I think everyone left there with at least something new they could take home and try out.

Here’s a page from the LWMUG website that I archived for historical purposes.

Thursday, February 2nd, 2006

Basil has a crazy love affair with our printer. When it runs out of ink, it flashes this LED, and he sits there for minutes at a time, completely transfixed.

When the thing actually starts printing… he goes nuts trying to figure out how the mysterious device operates. If he hears it from across the room, he will sprint as though his life depended on it.

Sorry about all the cat posts…

Sunday, January 29th, 2006

I’m at Angus with little else to do so I thougt I’d post an update from my blackberry. I spent all day updating the site with a little nicer look. Any comments and bug reports are appreciated. It’s still a work in progress but I can’t work on it now because Katrina is giving me a dirty look.


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