I scheduled a comp day for today a couple of weeks ago so I am off work and pleased.

I got hit with some sort of freak cold yesterday. I had to blow my nose twice before I left for work but was feeling fine. About two hours after starting work though… sneezing, ridiculous runny nose, itchy and watery eyes, just miserable cold.

Magically, my nose started clearing up about an hour after work, and by this morning I am feeling almost 100%. Either I got a really bad, fast moving cold, or I am suddenly allergic to work. Wouldn’t that be something?

Today’s plans are simple. Wrap Christmas presents, clean up the house to start the preparation for our Christmas Eve party, do some laundry, go to lunch with my wife who now works about 6 miles away from home, and then this evening go to my step daughter’s first ever school chorus Christmas concert. She’s really excited. I don’t blame her. I remember my first school band concert. It was very cool. It was also the first of about 2345235632 of them before I finally gave up on music school.

Okay, off to get some food and get back to the wrapping. The music is playing loudly, the cat is hiding, and the gifts are heading to the tree!

Happy Wednesday.

I like Tumblr a lot, but it’s so damn unstable it pisses me off more often than not. I have the Tumblr page that I set up to be a sort of Flickr highlights sort of thing. Now I’ve been using Hipstamatic and Instagram on my iPhone, both of which integrate with Tumblr… so there are a lot of iPhone pics going that way… and that wasn’t the idea when I started it.

So…

I think I’m going to use Posterous as the Flickr iPhone highlights kinda page. Yet another blog for muah! WOOOHOO!

Here’s the link, kiddies.

That’s my lovey in the window.

Please tell me the Yogi Bear movie ends like this. Please?

There is finally a dedicated Google Latitude App in the iTunes App Store. One of my friends has had a couple of different phones running Android and he’s been playing with Latitude. I set it up a long time ago but rarely use it because the web app included in the Google App had to be in the foreground for it to update automatically. Now I can use the Latitude App and it auto updates in the background. Cool!

My phone’s battery was at 99% when I left the house this morning. When I reached work it was at 82%.

Ahhh… so that’s why Apple doesn’t want true multi-tasking with applications running in the background. I seeeeee.

Here is pretty much all that’s left of the snow.

Today stands as a landmark occasion for us.

Today is the first day as home owners that included a noticeable amount of snow on the ground.

I would take a picture, but while it is noticeable, it isn’t THAT noticeable, and it’ll probably be gone when I go outside in 10 minutes or so.

Happy (friggin’) Winter (I guess).

Hey Highlander fans! Guess what we got tonight!

Glenmorangie!

Just like the drink Connor MacLeod ordered after following Brenda into that bar.

We’re going to try it!

We have to have it on ice. Lots of ice. This is going to be friggin’ rancid, so we have to have it on ice.

Jenny pours out a couple of glasses.

I’ll have mine Irish. Well… if there were coffee in the coffee cup it would be Irish… but there isn’t so it’s not.

Jenny takes a sip…

AND IT’S VILE!

Robbie doesn’t drink. Ever. He never drinks alcohol at all. He had a sip of champagne at his wedding a year and a half ago, but that was the last time.

Robbie takes a sip…

AND IT’S UBER VILE!

I will not know my opinion if I am the first one who’s heard it.