iTunes says that I have 10411 songs, 32 days and 103.67 GB worth of music. A 400gb drive arrived today putting my total storage at ~1.5TB. I am a media whore. But the good news is that if I keep this up I will exceed the storage of the SAN at work.
I’m a big video whore too – all of my films and then some have been ripped to DivX (700 GB worth) and then those are all converted to iPod video (120 GB worth). Having every movie I own on demand is pretty awesome.
Over the last few weeks, I’ve had personal information stolen as part of the few “accidental” losses you’ve heard about in the news. I’ve finally gotten off my ass and done things like check my credit report and keep an eye on things. And today, I found out that my personal information (along with everyone in my building) was lost because of our cable conversion in our building. She had the information in her car and her car got stolen. Oops.
The scariest thing I’ve done in quite some time is actually look at my credit report. It’s frightening to see what you have done with your past when it comes to money and I’m pretty ok, surprisingly. I screwed up some when I was younger but was able to rebound and get to the state of saying – wow, I’m not a complete fuckup. I had something on there I was able to dispute and get it removed, so I’m happy that it’s done.
If anything, do yourself a favor and take a peek at your credit report. Make sure nothing is out of the ordinary and keep up this as a yearly habit, much like shaving or voting.
If you’ve been paying attention to sports, then, then you know that the US is sucking ass in World Cup action as well as Ozzie Guillen, the Manager of the White Sox, got in trouble for dropping the f-bomb (well, the other f-bomb) in reference to a reporter.
Ozzie swears like a sailor. He belongs in a Mamet play. He’s crude, hilarious and entertaining. And he was also wrong for labeling Jay Mariotti as a homosexual. Don’t get me wrong. Jay Mariotti sucks as a columnist and a reporter. He’s awful. But Ozzie still needs to apologize, get a fine, and learn the art of not making ethnic/racial/homosexual slurs.
And you know you suck when you have a blog dedicated to how bad you suck.
Last week I ordered a badass camera bag from Crumpler to be delivered on Friday. I thought, awesome, I’m going to have a pimp looking bag to tote all my gear in. Well, UPS must have had a mixup with delivering the bag. Our receiving room signed for it but it wasn’t in the lot that was delivered. Apparently, UPS only has you sign once for a large building, so I’m thinking that it was tagged but delivered somewhere else.
UPS won’t help because since it was signed for, the trace has to be initiated by the sender of the package, which is strange. I’m sure that as far as they’re concerned, it was delivered to my address and paid for, so all is good on their end. But I don’t have the bag, which is sad.
I suppose that this is an accident but I sure hope that it can get resolved. I just want my bag so I don’t look like a gypsy carrying small bags of camera gear everywhere.
Nothing new is exciting in my life, well, at least that I can talk about. I did get a Macbook, which is pretty neat. I’m still learning to get used to a one-button mouse as well as OS X, which isn’t too bad. You know you’re a cheapskate when you live two blocks away from the Apple Store and you decide to order it online to save paying taxes.
1) You can tell you’re getting a bit older when places become “too loud” for you to go to. One of my coworkers mentioned that your body compensates for this by losing your hearing. Awesome.
2) I get a lot of blog hits looking for the White Sox Grinder Rules. If you see any ones that I don’t have, let me know.
3) I really think that I broke my wrist in China when I took a fall and broke the fall with my wrist. It still hurts intermittently.
4) I’ve gotten multiple friends hooked on Veronica Mars. Awesome.
5) Expedia doesn’t have any hotel listings in Baghdad. What? How am I going to get Pizza Hut in the Green Zone or Camp Victory?
6) I just bought a MacBook. It should arrive on Monday. I still don’t understand why they charge a $150 premium for a black one. Or $500 for a RAM upgrade to 2GB when the RAM itself is $170 from Newegg.
7) World Cup starts today! GO TEAM USA!!!
7a) Oh, and I get a lot of blog hits for Cat Osterman, which is funny. I found a link pointing to her Myspace profile but she is not allowing new friends.
Tomorrow I will get out of bed early to watch England vs. Paraguay.
Since I have been throwing obscene amounts of money into photography gear, it’s important for me to find a bag that works. And every manufacturer seems to misstate how much crap you can get in a particular bag. Behold Cambags.com, which is so simplistic but brilliant in terms of what it shows.