Office Dry Erase Board

I put up a black dry-erase board in my office. It had previously just been sitting around so figured I'd put it to use. Then I went through all the papers on my desk, filing some, trashing others, and sticking a few to the board. Felt good to get my area cleaned up a bit. I also cut up a fridge magnet and glued it to a letter opener so that I could stick it to the dry-erase board, and that worked well.

Houseboat Weekend!

We spent this weekend on a houseboat with some friends, which was wonderful. Normally those things are super expensive, but one of our friends works there and they were hosting so we just had to pay for food and gas. We left on Friday and got back on this afternoon. We left the dock too late on Friday to really do anything in the water as by the time we got to our little beach area it was starting to get dark. But on Saturday we went out and floated in the water, and later on we took our very first spin on a wave runner. We also had our first spill on a wave runner, but I actually enjoyed that as well. The rooms were tiny and the beds were so high up that you actually had to walk up a couple steps next to it just to get it. And don't try sitting up or you'll hit your head against the ceiling. On the way back to the dock, Treese got to drive the houseboat for a ways, so she was giddy about that. Overall it was a great weekend.

Sticky Ass Glue To The Tree-Trimming Rescue

Yesterday I went out back to do some tree trimming with a pole saw that I got from my dad. I've used it before, and it works well except that the screws tend to loosen which causes the saw part to disconnect from the pole. So when that happened again yesterday, I broke out my Sticky Ass Glue. Well, it seems to have done the trick because I finished up the tree trimming and it never once separated. I totally love that glue!

Gallagher's Heating and Air Conditioning

Gallagher's Heating and Air Conditioning gave us a call today to offer a free tune up because the lady said she had in her notes that we had requested a refund last year due to the guy not doing what he was supposed to do. I said thanks but no thanks. I don't trust those people and don't want them in my house again. Last time the guy said our heater was totally breaking down and we would definitely need a new one and that there was no point in doing any more tuneup to it. We we called someone local to take a look, he said that everything the Gallagher guy said was complete bull. I showed him the write up that the Gallagher guy gave us, and he said some of the stuff on there didn't even make any sense for the kind of heater we had. So yeah, I don't trust those guys.

Farewell Dinner

We went to Logan's Steakhouse with Lisa, one of Treese's friends. It was a big farewell celebration party for Lisa's ex-roommate who was moving out of state, and there were a lot of people attending. We were hungry when we left the house, and it took over two hours before any food was actually delivered to the table, so by the time it arrived we were ready to chow down. I ordered the nachos, and even though I was pretty famished they still weren't all that great. So that was a bit disappointing.

Lightning

I saw a whole lot of lighting out of my office window, though it must not have been very close because the thunder wasn't very loud.

Contagion

We went to see Contagion, and we both enjoyed it. Definitely felt like something that could really happen.

Racist iPod Touch

My iPod Touch arrived today, so I had to figure out how to transfer the app to it. Once I did, I found that sometimes things do indeed work differently on a real device as compared to the emulator. For instance, scrolling a list that contains Arabic text tends to scroll quite slowly on a real device. If I replace that text with just ASCII text then it scrolls just fine, so I think my iPod may be racist.

NetFlix Price Hike

As many of you are probably aware, Netflix hiked up their prices recently. Today was our last day at our old prices, so today we cancelled the DVD plan. We'll probably keep the streaming for a few months, but if they don't get some new movies on there we'll probably end up cancelling that as well.

Gamma Correction

Finally got around to finding and downloading software for my laptop's video card. Not that it wasn't working, it's just that like many laptop screens mine did not seem to like showing certain colors quite properly. For instance, form fields on web forms were really difficult to see as the gray outline of the fields didn't show up, so a white form field on a white background made the field practically invisible. On on web searches, sometimes ads are show above the search results in a box with a light background color, but unless I was titling the screen at a weird angle that was somewhere between 120 and 180 degrees, the background color of the box looked white, just like the rest of the page. So installing software specific to my videocard allowed me to adjust the gamma, which helped correct these issues. It's still not great, but at least it's better.

No More Braces!

Treese got her braces removed today! She's had them for something like four years, so she was ecstatic to finally have them off. She even brought a box of donuts to her appointment to say thanks. I bought an iPod Touch off eBay, not because I actually wanted one but because I now need one to test the iPhone app I'm working on.

Turtle Bay

We visited Turtle Bay today, this time just Treese and I. We headed over to the animal show to see that again, then afterwards we went to Grossology. This time we took our time, looking at and trying everything and reading every sign. Afterwards, we went over to a friends and hung out for a bit.