Wednesday night I finally played hockey again. It seems like I had a whole month off. It was good to get back out there again.

Last night I went over to the Granfalloon on the plaza for happy hour with our friend Mike from Kim’s office. It was good to get out again. Kim was out to dinner for work and met up with us afterward. The walk home was not very fun though. I swear it wasn’t that cold after work but after the bar it was freezing outside. When I woke up this morning it was 5 degrees outside with a windchill of -8 or something ridiculous.

Tonight we are planning to go to Wichita to visit stevechristy and to see a Pomeroy show. I think the weather should be fine for this, a little cold but no precipitation.

Tomorrow we have appointments all over downtown for new apartments. Our latest kick has been talking about moving to a loft or something. We still haven’t heard back about the bigger unit across the hall. We’ll probably call on that soon.

I still haven’t got the free iPod, but I’m already signing up for more offers. They announced new products earlier this week and you can get them for free now. This first one I’m doing is for the new iPod shuffle, an even smaller version than the iPod mini. Click here to sign up for yours!

Remember the free iPod deal from a long time ago. Well today I got an email that my free iPod has shipped! I’m still leaning towards selling it, especially since I hardly use the Nomad that I already have (besides for recording). The best part is that I just got done selling my old Canon Elph battery charger. I got $30 dollars for the charger, looks like I need to start searching for more junk to sell. The positive feedback I get form the sell should convince people to bid freely on my auctions. We’ll see what I decide when it actually gets here though.

I also finished up the sonic website today. Check it out at www.northlandsonic.com!

I guess the talk of San Diego before pushed Doni & Phil to book a flight so Kim is also working on ours. We still have a voucher to use from Delta, so we have to drive out to the airport tonight to use it since we do not have any ticket offices here in town. Guess I should narrow down the hotel decisions…

The first week of 2005 is almost over, moving quickly so far! Let’s see, Wednesday night I took some time to work on the sonic website. It is now complete and we are working on buying a domain name and some hosting space. It should be up in the next couple days. You can see the page here. As always feedback is welcome…

Last night we had finally had enough of being cooped up all night so we headed to the Brooksider and met up with Todd, Phil and Doni. The bearcats had a big win, so that was a nice surprise. It was only the second or third time I’ve seen them play this year. Now with replaytv I should be able to record them all the time though! By the way, I am growing very fond of it already. I have not tried to take a movie from the unit and put it on my computer yet, but maybe sometime this weekend I will do that.

Tonight Kim’s sister Bobbi and her boyfriend Chris are coming to visit for the weekend. Hopefully we can show them a good time while they are here!

I almost forgot, here is something to cure your boredom. Incredible pictures from the Hubble telescope.

Remember that free ipod thing from awhile ago? Well I have 4 confirmed referrals and I only need 1 more to get a free ipod. Someone please complete one of the offers, if you do I’ll accept it as a Christmas present from you. :)

FREE IPODS!

Sorry about the lack of updates yesterday but I got infected with sars24 (what the OAR message board calls the illness that everyone seems to get when we get together). I took a sick day yesterday and slept for most of the morning. I woke up feeling a little better but still wasn’t ready to head into work. I mostly took care of some computer stuff that needed to get done. I got a little more done for the sonic site. Joe wants to get it all finished by the end of the year, and I should be able to do that. I just need to figure out what we should do for the menu. As always feedback is welcome…

Today I feel 100x better than I did the past couple days, so I’m really glad I took that day off. I can now go to Denver feeling good and enjoy our time there! I had my first job review today with my boss Steve. It went well, nothing too unexpected. He is pleased with the work I’ve done, and we basically talked about my goals for this next year. The financial meeting will come later in the month with the head honcho, let’s keep our fingers crossed for a raise!

We are off to Denver after work, so have a good weekend!!!

I did get a couple things done over at sonic.edpaffjr.com. I need to change the font colors for the site text, but that will have to wait for a little while. Next up is probably putting in an application form. Shouldn’t be that bad…

Last night we actually took a run outside. It seems like it had been forever since we did that, and it felt like it too. The hills wore us out pretty quickly and so we only did 2 miles around the track, which I guess is really only 1.6 miles. We then thought about going to the vaco and pomeroy show for awhile and decided not to go. The show wasn’t going to start until 10:30, and with it being an hour away we wouldn’t have been home until 3am at the earliest. We will be going tomorrow though, and the show is a little closer this time and earlier. Steve Christy will be going to the show as well, so it will be more fun than last night. I just realized that the two bands are playing in St. Louis on Friday. I’m gonna think about maybe stopping there for the show and spending the night as well. It would break up the drive, and we will still get to Cincy in time for the wedding.

Speaking of which, if you didn’t already know my cousin Jeff is getting married this Saturday. I’m sure it will be a really good time with all of my cousins there. The reception is right down the road from my parents house, so it couldn’t be more convenient. Kim and I will then be spending the entire next week in Ohio (well I’m going to nyc next weekend) so we should have lots of time to catch up with everyone. As I just mentioned, I will be heading to nyc for the annual Thanksgiving OAR shows! I’m sure I’ll have lots of good times in the next week and a half, I’ve only got to get through 3 more days of work…

Edit: I lied. We cannot stop in St. Louis on Friday. We already made plans to be at Kim’s brothers soccer game on Saturday morning. I’m sure it will be just as much fun! :)

Last night we though about doing spinning, but found out Jeff wasn’t teaching the Monday class. We then decided to try and hook up the stereo in the car. This has been a never ending battle, but at least we actually have the stereo now. So I wired the two adapters together and connected the finished product to the car. Amazingly it worked, but now the problem is that the trim on the outside of the stereo is missing, so I can’t get it mounted very well. The mounting sleeve that came with the stereo does not hold it in place and it does not look very pretty. I guess that means I still need to find one more piece, this is so annoying. I will never buy another used CD player. Maybe I should just sell the stupid thing and go buy a new player.

Firefox version 1.0 released today. I strongly suggest that everyone switches over to this web browser from whatever else you are using. I haven’t touched internet explorer since downloading this program months ago, I love it!
Here is a link to download: Get Firefox!

Someone from work must check my blog. I complain about Websense blocking too much, and the next day I can get to most of the same places that I could before. Woohoo! Work went by really fast yesterday. :b

Yesterday I got my pimp Halloween costume delivered to me here at work. I was afraid to open it the entire day, I figured someone would see it and make me try it on or something. Then knowing my luck the boss would walk in, point and laugh at me. Thinking back I should have just put it on to see what would have happened. Maybe I’ll wear it tomorrow.

I’m having major issues with the person I bought the stereo from on eBay. This is truly the first problem I’ve had with someone on eBay. Anyway, I went ahead and filed a complaint through paypal. Sounds like I’ll have my money back in a week. In the meantime this must have scared the crap out of this seller, because they attempted to send a tracking number to me. The tracking number doesn’t go anywhere though, it doesn’t appear to be valid. My biggest complaint is that I still cannot play CDs in the car! Edit: I just checked and now the number appears to be working. The package was shipped yesterday, unbelievable. I won the auction close to a month ago, and they are just now shipping it. I’m gonna keep the paypal complaint open for now just to be sure that I don’t have any more issues.

So I guess we are going spinning tonight. I also need to paint the shoes I bought for my costume. Nothing like waiting until the last minute. We leave tomorrow to fly back to Ohio. Should be a great weekend, and I even have Monday off of work!

Friday night we met everyone up at the Brooksider for a little bit and then went over to Doni & Phil’s for some pizza and cards. We started off playing Texas Hold’em. Todd taught most of us how to play since most of us had only seen it on TV, if anything at all. Funny thing is, he was one of the first ones to be out of the game. I was one of the last 3, and the last guy left. Kim ended up winning the whole game. I guess we are going try to go up to the Brooksiders poker night this week. Maybe Kim can win a free CD player or whatever it is they give away.

Saturday we tried to find some white pimp shoes for my Halloween costume, but didn’t find anything for a cheap price. We finally just bought a pair of black shoes from goodwill for $4 and a can of spray paint. We’ll see how well this works. After a full day of shopping we decided to head to the rodeo. We paid $10 for the cheap seats, but I think we had one of the best views in the place. After the bullriding was over we were treated to an Uncle Kracker concert. Man that guy sucks. I think we lasted through about 3 cover songs and 1 of his own songs, and then left. At least the rodeo was good.

Yesterday I spent a couple hours working on the Sonic website. It’s coming along, and I’m probably going to show it to Joe soon to see what he thinks. Feel free to give any feedback: sonic.edpaffjr.com

I’ve decided not to play hockey on Monday nights. That league is falling apart, and they are basically having open hockey but you have to pay upfront, $100+ for 10 weeks. I’ll probably miss a handful of those weeks anyway. I’ll just stick with Sunday and Wednesday for this session. So tonight we are going to make our return to spinning. I hope Jeff is still instructing the class.

I’m still waiting for the stereo that I won on eBay a long time ago. It was almost a month ago, and I still don’t have it. I’m gonna start looking into filing a fraud report or whatever through paypal so that I can get the money back. The worst part is that I just want a CD player in the car, I really don’t even care about the $50.

I ordered my Halloween costume yesterday, well the big piece of it. I’m going to be dressed as a pimp, but more importantly the emoticon pimp that is on the OAR message board.

Here is the suit:

I need to go searching for some shoes this weekend. It’s all coming together!

We really don’t have much else planned for the weekend, but I’m sure we’ll find something. I just realized that bullriding at the American Royal is this weekend. We had so much fun last year that we are thinking about going back…