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Friday, October 3rd, 2008
This email arrived in my inbox overnight:
Oh noes! Is it already time for me to be pissing and moaning about getting a haircut again?
I should write back and ask her to send me a sports almanac.
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Monday, September 22nd, 2008
I needed to look up a coworker's phone number, and then this happened:
This has certainly been one of those days.
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Monday, September 22nd, 2008
Here's what they don't tell you when you calculate the total cost of ownership of an iPhone: if you're stupid, it'll cost you more. But thanks to the Apple Store's emailed receipts, I have a virtual paper trail of my stupidity.
On October 9, 2007, I bought my iPhone, and immediately ...
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Sunday, August 24th, 2008
Yes, Ikea sells frozen meatballs. Yes, they are tasty.
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Monday, August 18th, 2008
Three day weekend WIN and FAIL:
WIN: Meaghan came to visit and see the new apartment. Meaghan weekends are the best weekends.
FAIL: Ikea in Brooklyn. Our experience basically mirrored this, and we were so extremely frustrated that I just grabbed a dresser, a closet organizer, a couple of rugs, and got ...
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Saturday, July 26th, 2008
Good news: the loft question is settled, option 3 wins. In the end, I hate hitting my head on things. Bad news: new indecisiveness.Now, to ease the pain of moving into such a small space, I'm allowing myself the small comfort of a flatscreen television. The footprint of my current ...
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Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
Starting this evening, I'm between Time Warner accounts until we move into the new place on the 31st. No cable, which is a minor inconvenience, but no Internet, which already has me twitching. No open WiFi nodes, either. Lousy neighbors.
I'm laying on the couch, where we barely get ...
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Saturday, July 19th, 2008
What I'm writing about here is something that has caused me a great deal of acrimony in my everyday life and relationships. People are walking away, rolling their eyes, telling me to shutup, all at a much higher rate than usual. Even my dear sweet beautiful bride-to-be does not want ...
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Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
Dave and I signed a lease on a new apartment this morning, on the same street we are now, one block to the east. We are understandably excited. Please enjoy these crummy photos I took with the iPhone while I was looking at the apartment.
Here is the view from a ...
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Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
I almost forgot! I changed my own air filter in my car! Oh, how proud I was of myself. I could have sworn I had it done at least once along with an oil change, but apparently not — it seemed to be the factory original filter in there. I ...
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