Life Stories: November 2005 Archives
Been working like mad on the last phase of my dissertation, but I think I'm finally getting close. My advisor wants me to finish by the end of the (calendar) year, so I'm really pushing it. I spent most of the weekend neglecting my wife, buried away in my office writing, and I expect much of this week will be spent likewise. It's kinda sad, but my first thought upon having a three-day work week (due to Thanksgiving) is that it'll give me more time to work on my dissertation. Sigh. I can't wait to be done with the thing.
I just wanted to share that I've bought six 20-ounce bottles of Diet Coke over the past couple of weeks and won three free 1-liter bottles! Supposedly the chance of winning is 1-in-6, so it looks like I'm beating the odds. Since three liters is over 100 ounces, I've gotten 220 ounces for the price of 120 ounces -- a spectacular 45% discount! This really makes my day.
So now that Jessica and I are married we're trying to donate our RV to charity for the tax write-off. Yay. The towing company was supposed to haul it off yesterday between 11am and 1pm, but the guy brought the wrong size tow-truck, apparently not realizing that a "Dodge Sportsman RV" is not a sportscar. Fine. So they rescheduled for today between 12pm and 2pm, but when 2pm rolled around there was so sign of the truck so I called the towing company again. Their tow-truck got a flat tire. I'm not kidding. Supposedly they're going to actually show up to tow off the RV today between 4pm and 6pm, but I'm not holding my breath.
I've mentioned before that I'm not a geek because despite my degree in computer science I'm not really an obsessive technophile. Even though I'm proficient, I don't really enjoy digging around in my computer, and I'm never the first one one the block to adopt new technology. Part of it comes down to my cheapness frugality, but I also get really frustrated when things I buy don't just work right.
Over the weekend I finally purchased a Firewire card and ordered an external DVD writer, the Sony DRX720UL/T, which got good reviews everywhere and came with some bundled Nero software. I resisted buying a DVD writer for so long because I was too lazy to figure out all the different DVD formats and so forth, but now that I've got a digital video camera and a family to record I suppose it's about time I figure it out.
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