She arrived last night around 12:30AM. I was at the airport to greet her and everything went as smoothly as it possibly could have – considering her plane was 2 hours late and in the middle of the delay it was erased off of the Status board altogether and didn’t come back. This particular delay got me thinking. Buy build a very large-scale international airport in a city that is right next to a lake and who’s weather is known to be worse than even Omaha’s? I don’t think we will ever find an answer to that question, but we will be able to expect any flight between Chicago and here will be severely delayed. I will be thoroughly impressed the day that a Chicago flight arrives on-time.
Regardless, Lisa’s back and I’m excited. I was ‘that guy’ in the airport last night, you know, the guy with the flowers waiting for someone to get off the plane? Yep, that was me…and it was pretty fun too. She loved the flowers that I got for her; she thought they were very pretty. I was surprised that they even lived – they had been without water for going on 6 hours by the time she got them – but there they were, still red and pretty.
Last night while waiting for the evening to come I decided to cook some random meal from scratch. I pan-fried some Pork and then made some potatoes. It turned out OK, it could have been a lot better had I baked the Pork – that and the fact that by pan searing the Pork it filled the living room/kitchen with smoke. I’ll probably try baking next time. At least it gave me something to eat today! Well – I will try to post some pictures of some of the things that Lisa brought back from China for me soon!
Until then…再见 (zàijiàn)
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Excitement!
I’m excited, and many of you probably already know why. Lisa comes back in a little over 6 days – that’s less than a week! I talked with her on Skype last night and the next time I talk with her we will be face-to-face and I can’t wait. I’ve waited a little over 2 months now and this is the home-stretch.
I picked up an interesting movie yesterday called ‘Kataude mashin gâru’ (The Machine Girl). No, this is not a weird, sleazy porn – come on guys, get your heads out of the gutter – but instead a very tacky, campy, gore-fest from Japan. See, I was watching popSiren (a show on the Revision3 internet TV network) and ‘Kataude mashin gâru’ was their movie pick of the week. Once I saw the trailer I knew I had to own it and, lucky for me, my local Best Buy had it in stock.
In other news, I recently paid $9.95 and updated the firmware on my iPod Touch to version 2.0. With this update I got the mail, notes, stocks, weather, and maps applications as well as the app store to download and install additional content. This was well worth my $9.95 because I got this remote application that makes my iPod Touch a remote for my iTunes library and that alone was with the update for me. I know, I know, I’m very easily amused.
Microsoft announced a new dashboard for the 360 last week at E3. It uses an avatar system that looks pretty neat. Not only did are they changing the look and feel of the dashboard, but they are also adding support for Netflix. Now that might actually give me reason to pay for Netflix – we will have to see how well it works this fall when the update goes live.
I got my own copy of Wii fit this week. I happened to be at work and on break when the truck brought 12 Wii Fits with it to my Best Buy store. The 12 were gone in a matter of minutes but not before I was able to purchase one for myself! Now I have a balance board for the newest, coolest, most cutting edge games. In regards to the Wii Fit game, we will have to see if I lose any weight. I will try to chronicle my adventures on this blog when I decide to actually start.
-Tony
I picked up an interesting movie yesterday called ‘Kataude mashin gâru’ (The Machine Girl). No, this is not a weird, sleazy porn – come on guys, get your heads out of the gutter – but instead a very tacky, campy, gore-fest from Japan. See, I was watching popSiren (a show on the Revision3 internet TV network) and ‘Kataude mashin gâru’ was their movie pick of the week. Once I saw the trailer I knew I had to own it and, lucky for me, my local Best Buy had it in stock.
In other news, I recently paid $9.95 and updated the firmware on my iPod Touch to version 2.0. With this update I got the mail, notes, stocks, weather, and maps applications as well as the app store to download and install additional content. This was well worth my $9.95 because I got this remote application that makes my iPod Touch a remote for my iTunes library and that alone was with the update for me. I know, I know, I’m very easily amused.
Microsoft announced a new dashboard for the 360 last week at E3. It uses an avatar system that looks pretty neat. Not only did are they changing the look and feel of the dashboard, but they are also adding support for Netflix. Now that might actually give me reason to pay for Netflix – we will have to see how well it works this fall when the update goes live.
I got my own copy of Wii fit this week. I happened to be at work and on break when the truck brought 12 Wii Fits with it to my Best Buy store. The 12 were gone in a matter of minutes but not before I was able to purchase one for myself! Now I have a balance board for the newest, coolest, most cutting edge games. In regards to the Wii Fit game, we will have to see if I lose any weight. I will try to chronicle my adventures on this blog when I decide to actually start.
-Tony
Thursday, July 10, 2008
New Widget
As you’ve probably already noticed, I installed a new widget today – it can be found on the right panel below the Twitter widget – to help get this blog interesting again. It is called Skribit and it serves only one function: asking the question ‘What should I write about?'
Basically, it is your job to vote on what my next blog will be about. Give me ideas, lets make this fun. Just click the question within the widget and start suggesting! I’m interested to see what happens with this – even though I know probably nothing will come of it.
-Tony
Basically, it is your job to vote on what my next blog will be about. Give me ideas, lets make this fun. Just click the question within the widget and start suggesting! I’m interested to see what happens with this – even though I know probably nothing will come of it.
-Tony
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