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Saturday, March 8, 2008

5:36 - from the birthday dept:

The earth has made it around the sun about 26 times now since I was born. I didn't really have any plans for the day, but I have to thank my friend Steph for insisting that I should do something. We ended up meeting up on the north side with Karl for some pizza and bowling and a good time was had.

Now that I am 26... I am no longer 25! Hmm...

Thanks to anyone that sent a happy birthday wish or a gift via any media. :)

There are a few things of note I think:

For some reason my iPod Mini had long ago stopped working or charging correctly. When I dug it out from my boxes of belongings, I couldn't even get it to be detected as by the computer, but then I left it plugged in for 10 days and it magically started to work again. I don't believe iPods can heal, but this one seems to. Now that it works again, I can take my music along with me again on planes, trains, and in automobiles!

My sister gave me a PSP game called "Atari Classics Evolved" for my birthday. I am really enjoying this game so far because it includes Pong, Centipede, Lunar Lander, Super Breakout, Warlords, and a number of other amazingly cool Atari games in both original and "evolved" (modernized) forms. The modern forms are a lot of fun, as are the classes, but I have one complaint: The D-Pad does acceleration when you hold it down. This makes the place a paddle stops when I try to move it back and forth frequently difficult to time properly, and in the classic versions of the game, nearly impossible to control stop in the middle of the screen. I am getting the hang of it though and enjoying the results!

I just finally got the last of my utilities switched over (or I should say that I "applied" to have switched over). My power service with ComEd apparently has to go through about a 5 step review process. The first two steps happen in about 10 minutes, then the third step automatically fails, and has to be processed manually, which takes up to 5 days. Step 2 is the "acceptance" of the order and step 3 is the "processing" of the order. After step 3, you get a confirmation email, and in mine I've been told that my account number is a string of 9s. This seems wrong. Supposedly I will find now that my account will become active and I will then be billed, but I am not yet convinced this will happen. How can an electric company (or any company) be this disorganized and slow?

Finally and somewhat to my glee, John McCain is now the Republican nominee for president of the United States. He's the most acceptable viable candidate I saw on that side, and I am content to vote for him. Now all that remains is to decide the Democratic nomination. I do not think I can vote for Clinton, so I am pulling for Obama to win, and the numbers seem to strongly suggest that he can clinch the nomination with only a few modest wins and that it will be nearly impossible for Hillary to do so unless she wins big in several. If this race turns out to be McCain vs. Obama, I'll be very excited. I have a feeling that we can look forward to some very honorable campaigns with real ideas, interesting and thoughtful debates, and a generally high level of discourse we're owed from presidential candidates. I don't think Hillary knows how to do this and I don't know that she's level-headed enough to carry the country in the new direction she claims to intend to take it.

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