Absurd Singularity

just a quick one to get it out of the way. =) Hope everyone had a great holiday season and best of luck in the new year! Big changes for me in this first month of the year so I'll be busy. That's all for now.

Spent the morning upgrading the hard drive on my Powerbook to a Seagate Momentus 5400.2 120GB drive. That's 40GB (theoretically) more space than the 80GB that I have already and which I had basically filled up (RAW images and MP3s being the primary culprits). Was surprisingly easy to get up and running again.

It's been awhile since I laughed so hard that tears came to my eyes. This is a video of a Japanese girl group wearing meat on their heads as a giant lizard is released on them for a Japanese game show.

How long till we see this on Fear Factor?

As mentioned in my previous post I've been attempting to clone the 2 partitions in Erin's existing laptop hard drive to the 80GB hard drive I had just swapped out of my Powerbook. I had high hopes for this software that I found, DriveImage XML, because it was a free (bonus!) program that seemed like it could do something similar to CCC on the Mac.

Exchange Place is just so dead on the weekends.

12mm, f/8, 1/125s

but I must resist! I think I can afford to wait for version two. ;-) Now if the industrial design was new, that'd be another case entirely. =)

Well, the minor remodeling that we had scheduled was finally completed along with the new carpet for the master bedroom and second floor hallway. Unfortunately, miscommunication between us and the contractor led us to having all the walls in all the rooms painted an off-white instead of the four different colors that we had originally wanted. Kinda pissed about that but Erin doesn't mind so I guess we'll be adding color via furniture/rugs/accessories/etc. All that's left is to have our new shades and blinds installed and our furniture delivered. Still missing pieces but those we can fill in over time. Gonna spend the upcoming extended weekend cleaning till it's sparkling and attempting to patch some holes in the drywall. Hope my back and knees will hold out. ;-p

I rarely get sick but I've been battling it out with a rather persistent cold for the past week or so. Sneaky bastard. Manifested itself as a sore throat and progressed from there. Sore throat was gone within a day or two to be replaced by a constant mucus pool that regenerates rather quickly no matter how often I clear my sinus passages. Now a sporadic cough has been introduced as well. Damn thing just won't go away. There were a few times already where I thought I had turned the corner but it just lingers, annoying the hell out of me. Grrr.... I guess it doesn't help that I have tons of stuff to do both work-wise and moving-wise so haven't been able to get enough rest. *sigh*

Looks like we won't be entirely moved in to our new place till this weekend. Which means an entire week without TV cause I just sold our 2 old ones yesterday. =( Ah well, for the better probably since I don't have the time for it. At least we have most of our moving done. Most of the stuff left to bring over are our clothes and kitchen stuff.

On the cold front, was still plagued by mucus until last night when we went out and bought a bottle of Mucinex. This shit ain't cheap but none of the normal "severe cold" and/or antihistamine medication we were taking seemed to be doing anything. But I gotta say, Mucinex seems to be pretty darn effective. No longer plagued by that batch of really sticky mucus that sorta sits at the back of your nose/throat and won't come up enough to get blown out or go down enough to get swallowed. I can't believe I'm talking about mucus on my blog but I promise, this will be the last time. =)

On the work front, I'm swamped. Tons of things going on from many different places. Of course, being in the middle of a prolonged move as well as being inflicted with an annoying cold doesn't help. Gotta get crackin'!

Forgot to mention that I caught The Lion King on Broadway over the weekend. I'm not entirely sure why they had to make a musical out of the movie but some of the costumes were great. The elephants and giraffes were impressive and Scar's costume was very, very clever and well-executed. Anyhoo, probably not worth the $110/seat that we paid (although they were good seats) but a nice afternoon spent nonetheless.

Also grabbed lunch at the nearby John's Pizzeria which was quite good. The mozzarella that they use on the pizzas is quite tasty and their desserts are very good as well. Definitely a good place to go for a pre- or post-show bite.