Had a very good vacation at the end of December in North Carolina with my family. I took a ridiculous number of pictures (1786 pictures (3.5GB)) which I'm still in the process of sorting/filtering/labeling/fixing. I also got to see an old friend who I hadn't seen in around a decade (kind of a trend lately). Our parents were sharing a duplex when we were born and I went to his mother's day care for a while. We were good friends for a long time but drifted apart during high school and especially college. He's a river guide in the summer months and winters in North Carolina now.
I finally gave up on the beard a little while ago. I missed my cheeks. I keep thinking of just shaving the rest of it off, I haven't seen my chin in a few years.
I'm doing pretty well on the resolutions. I've been making it to the gym very regularly (although travel tends to cause problems) and I've been eating better than I was last year. I think avoiding snacking is one of the more important parts of the whole eating better thing. I was up about one pound after vacation (possibly due to the double meat white castles of new year's eve) but now I'm down about seven and a half pounds from the beginning of the year.
I accomplished one of my Resolutions this weekend when
I'm doing okay on the "waste less money" front. It's a hard resolution to gauge. I have managed to watch all of the Netflix movies I currently have. Watching more Netflix movies will definitely reduce the amount of money I waste.
I've done a little new car shopping the past two weekends.
TiVo showed off their cool new series 3 boxes at CES. Very tempting (HD support, dual tuners and cable card support) but we'll see what sort of pricing they have in mind.
Links:
- Lots of Prius Info
- Learn To Be An Omnivore
- Xanadu- (from
monstersocks)
- Quick and easy vibrating lockpick
- Telemarketing Counter Script- I'm amused by things like this but usually feel too much pity for the telemarketers to actually hassle them.
- The World's Best Quotes in 1-10 Words.