Oh, that Merlin Mann cracks me up!
5ives ' Five Favorite Things on Your Blog hits the nail on the head.
Five favorite things on your blog
1. The kitty photos (especially that fourth set)
2. That one post where you were really drunk in Devan’s room
3. The time you ate that amazing pot pie but then got totally sick
4. Your series of charcoal drawings of Jonathan Frakes as a sword-wielding furry
5. That post where you promised to update more often
My company has changed cell phone providers.
Again.
When I first started nearly four years ago, we were with Nextel and I had the gigantor Zach Morris-like phone that got me mercilessly teased.
After about a year, we switched to At&T, now Cingular, and I was set with my itty bitty Nokia.
I traded up 6 months after we got that for a Motorola with Bluetooth capability.
Our company's office manager called me a couple of weeks ago letting me know we'd be switching to T-Mobile, and that I needed to select a new phone.
A new phone! At the company's expense!
I headed to the closest T-Mobile store the same afternoon.
I chose a modest Blackberry, an older model, that wasn't more than $50 after rebates and new service activation.
I called our office manager to let him know which model I chose, but all he heard was "Blackberry," and immediately said, "Oh, you can't get the most expensive model! It's too much!" Do you believe the jewels on this guy?! That just pissed me off and made me want to get the most expensive model. (If you recall, this dude and I have butted heads on more than one occasion.)
I told him I changed my mind, and needed more time to select a model.
Once I heard which phones everyone else was getting, I made my choice.
Emmy nominations are out today.
One word.
Huzzah!
Comedy Series: "Arrested Development," Fox; "Curb Your Enthusiasm," HBO; "The Office," NBC; "Scrubs," NBC; "Two and a Half Men," CBS.
Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series: Will Arnett, "Arrested Development," Fox; Jeremy Piven, "Entourage," HBO; Bryan Cranston, "Malcolm in the Middle," Fox; Jon Cryer, "Two and a Half Men," CBS; Sean Hayes, "Will & Grace," NBC.
Thursday was one of the best days I've had in ages.
Wednesday afternoon my father called me up and asks if I wanted tickets to Thursday's Giants game. Of course!
The catch? It was a day game. Since he was giving me the tickets, I (rightly) assumed I had the afternoon off, too. The other catch was that I had to invite my sister to accompany me to the game. I invited her, but she was insistent on going to work (!), so I called her, and she was more than willing to come with.
Game time was 12:35, and I figured we'd head up about 11:30 and get settled with plenty of time to spare. That plan quickly went out the window when the guy installing the new ice machine at one of my locations took over two hours to install the damn thing. He told me, "Easy job -- 40 minutes" when he arrived, so needless to say, I was running a tad late by the time I went to pick Tara up.
We stupidly stopped for lunch on the way up (Toxic Smell Taco Bell) instead of buying food at the park, and we had to stop at the office to pick up the tickets, so by the time we finally parked our butts in the seats, it was the top of the sixth inning.
I was ticked that we wasted so much time when we had seats like these:
