The Aerie
Just spent the evening setting up my birthmother's blog at http://capekaren.albatross.org She's been bugging me about it, although I don't know if my blogging services are the best thing for her - I maybe should have pointed her at Blogspot or something. This tool is a bit complicated.
Still busy these days. Met with an interesting firm today. They take young bucks like me, groom them, train them in interviewing and negotiation skills, and turn them loose to become corporate executives. It costs more than my car, but it gets one into the solidly pointy-haired management realm. I'm considering it but won't decide right away. I'm not sure that this is what I want to do.
Still looking for work in the meantime.
Helped the Professor buy a new Sony 40" Tv and a new Mac desktop computer. Much of his recreation is in TV and computers these days, so I used all my influence to convince him to drop some real coin for some real quality.
The TV is a rear-projection LCD, but it's only a foot deep. When helping him shop for TVs I was amazed at the quality. not necessarily the good qualityof the rear-projection LCD, but the poor quality of the LCD and plasma TVs. Frankly I don't believe they're ready for prime time yet - too shadowy, to terracy, too non-sharp in the pixel density. But I was pleasantly surprised by the sharpness and clarity of the rear-projection LCDs. The quality is very good.
It's so good that upon hooking it up to the cable, it was clear that the cable was full of noise. I urged him to have the cable company come out "and replace the cable all the way back to the pole." That latter part was a joke, but that's exactly what they did: was over there today and the TV looks crystal clear. Apparently 25-year-old cable-TV coax can be pretty crappy!
Tonight we went to Izzy's Ice Cream which is world-renowned for its quality.. and the "izzy" on top. I had Soy Chocolate Banana with Banana Nut Fudge for the izzy.
And tomorrow is High School Open House for the twins. Very exciting!
And then, looming over everything, there's New Orleans. I don't know about you guys, but I'm not looking forward to next year - I just get the sense that the economy and the nation are going to be spiralling into the crapper Real Soon Now.
And on that note, I spiral off to bed! I still have to blog my high school reunion and my trip to the Ren Fest, but honestly the days are just too busy!