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I was in Home Depot over the weekend- part of wild errands-running event – and I needed to buy a utility knife, some electrical tape, and a can of spray paint. I went to the self checkout since I only had three items and there was no line there. Utility knife, no problem. Electrical tape, also no problem. Spray paint – problem.

I was watching a video on Youtube and found comment as a parody of the Old Spice commercials:

I got a new watch recently. It’s pretty fancy for me – $34! Timex Ironman (no, not that Ironman, though that would be pretty cool). It’s got a split time setting and figured I’d try it out while swimming. I forgot my trunks last Friday, so I went to the pool on Saturday. I didn’t really get the split time to work properly – I may need to read the instructions – but it forced me to think and pay attention to my time. If I got this right, I did a mile (36 laps) in 38 minutes and 42 seconds. Which is not too bad for me.

Sunday we got up early on the island and had breakfast again in the hotel. Then we carried the luggage back to the ferry, loaded up, and headed back to Mackinac City. Once in the car we drove to nearby Petrosky to looked for the fabled Petorsky stones on the beach – but really had no idea what we were looking for. We found a lot of smooth round and flat stones that were kinda cool and some stuff that might have been petrified wood – but mostly we just walked on the beach barefoot, though it was really too cold to spend much time there. We tried another beach, but there wasn’t much there as well – so we ended up going on to our next destination: the Bayshore hotel at Traverse City. We hit the pool for a bit, then went to a “hip and trendy” restaurant that served food on “small plates”. I got some sushi that was pretty good.

An early breakfast at the hotel and we were off. On foot. We decided not to rent bicycles or a carriage and instead began a self-guided walking tour of the island. The first stop was the Grand Hotel – which, living up to it’s name, charged $15 just to enter the building and walk on the porch. We declined. Instead, we continued on past the hotel and found a couple of neat walking trails through the woods. The next stop was the historical reenactment at the fort. I was a little less than impressed, but the muskets and the cannons were cool.

My friend and I took a few days off from work and took a trip up to Michigan. We got a pretty good start on Friday and – despite some arguments with the GPS – we drove on up to Cheboygan to get a picture and then on up to Mackinaw City.

In conversation, I tend to exaggerate wildly when I don’t know the specifics of something – as an amusing clue to the listener that I don’t really have any idea what I’m talking about.

I played and beat a couple of games recently. Prince of Persia: Forgotten Sands (good gameplay, but the story was weak) and The Darkness (great game, amazing story, really cool). I’ve moved on to Uncharted: Drake’s fortune – which is also, ironically, one of my new favorite songs by Sara Bareilles.

I made a necklace for my room-mate’s niece (more hemp knotting) – just sort of a fun little project and I’m hoping that it passes the muster of a teen-aged girl. If there’s a harsher critic, I don’t know of one.

I went to the doctor last week as a follow up from my septum un-deviation surgery. I think both the doctor and I were both a little disappointed that I didn’t have a more massive improvement. I may be breathing a little better, but it’s really tough to tell. I’m still snoring, though maybe not quite as bad. He did tell me that the inside of my nose looks “awesome” – so, I’ve got that going for me. He gave me a sample of Omnaris (Omnaris! To the nose!) to see if that helps and gave me additional options for more surgery. This would include deliberately scaring my soft pallet to reduce vibration or implanting something in there – or removing part of my uvula or the back of my tongue. None of it covered by insurance. Ummmm… no thanks. So, I’ll see him again – maybe – in a few months for another checkup.

In other news… the magic code seems to have reduced the problems with my phone. I still don’t have a great signal at home, but it’s enough that it doesn’t kill my battery.

I try not to write much about work since complaining specifically about your job is a dang good way to get your ass fired. But, I had a rough Monday that was mainly about processes that got in the way of getting things done. I ended up in a sort of ‘cold war’ with colleagues to help our clients. Very frustrating. I got a little more information today and I’m going to have to jump back into the very-polite-but-also-kinda-tense fray to see if I can make some progress.

I also haven’t been sleeping well. Just sort of restless. Which is odd cause if there’s one thing I’m good at, it’s sleeping. I fall asleep easily, wake up only if I have to pee, and then wake fairly easily in the morning. Not sure what’s going on – maybe it’s the new pillow?

Better get back to it – got a long day ahead of me.

One of my co-workers and I went to an Adobe CS5 training session last week. It was an all day thing and I had other things going on at work that day, but we sorted things out and spent the day at a hotel conference room in Fairlawn. I left in what I thought was plenty of time that morning, but traffic turned into a big, steaming pile of crap. I did what I always do in traffic jams, turned on AM radio. Partly for the traffic reports, but mostly for the misery. People on AM radio are, generally speaking, having terrible lives. Helps put things in perspective.