I had a lot to talk about, but once again I’m too tired at the end of the day. We had a very long and late-running seminar today.
One thing of note is that I added some subscription buttons for the major aggregator sites to the right-hand side of the blog. Here are the stats:
| Sleep | Water | Exercise | Coffee | Alcohol |
| a mere 6 h | 2.061 L | 18.08 min | 1.5 cup(s) | 3 drink(s) |
Goodnight.
Tonight we went for sushi, and decided during dinner to go see the new Harry Potter movie. It was a bit suspenseful, and in a way kind of like seeing the story again for the first time. It’s been several years since I read any but the most recent book (lost that one in the flood).
My water consumption for today is an estimate, as I had several glasses at dinner but didn’t really count when the waiter refilled.
| Sleep | Water | Exercise | Coffee | Alcohol |
| 8 h | 2.5 L | 0 min | 1.25 cup(s) | 1 drink(s) |
If you haven’t switched from Internet Exploder to Firefox yet, here are 13 good reasons to switch. Some of them are more good than others.
The site appears to be part of a campaign in which one is paid to refer people to Firefox. However, I have not signed up for this campaign. I think you should get Firefox for your own good and the good of humanity. Don’t know where to find it? It’s right here.
Let me show you an example of how important it is to use Firefox. I love Weather Underground. However, they have some of the most obnoxious ads I’ve ever seen. Let me show you the difference between Mozilla 1.7 (basically, what you’d see with IE) and Firefox with Adblock installed.
With ads:
Without ads:
Isn’t the second one much more pleasant to look at? That deranged clown creeps me out. There are tons of other benefits, some of which are outlined in the linked article. If you haven’t tried Firefox yet, you’re missing out on a way better browsing experience.
My freshman year of undergrad, I spent a fair amount of time in Jordan and Dan’s room playing Tekken Tag on the PS2. Tonight I had the pleasure of playing it once more — and it’s just as addictive as it was then. Sam, Jason, Hermenegild, and myself played for about 4 hours, and they’re still playing. It’s past my bedtime, so I’m going to bed just after this in spite of their protests.
It’s nice to unwind a bit. I worked a lot this week. I even worked nearly four hours today. I know that grad students are never supposed to get time off, but I have been getting a lot done during the week, so I feel that I’ve earned a little R&R on the weekends.
Right now I’m feeling a little buzz thanks to a couple of glasses of “Luna di Luna” white table wine and a glass of Hermenegild’s (I think Dewar’s?) scotch. I also just drank 1.500 L of water, and I should probably have another glass before I go to bed.
Tomorrow, I’m going to get a ton more done — I know it. I need to start my laundry first thing, before the other people in the building do. They use ‘our’ dryer. I put it in quotes because it is connected to our hookups in the basement, but we didn’t bring it. The laundry facilities included with the lease are limited to the hookups. We have to fill the washer with a hose on the rinse cycle.
Anyway, here are today’s stats:
| Sleep | Water | Exercise | Coffee | Alcohol |
| 7.75 h | 2.480 L | 0.0 min | 0.5 cup(s) | 3 drink(s) |
I can’t wait to go back to New Orleans. I’m getting settled in here, and it feels wrong. I didn’t want to move there in the beginning, but now it’s my home. Soon. Very soon.
Fed-Ex told me this past Monday that they were putting a trace on my package and that I should hear about it within about 48 hours. It’s been nearly a week now, so I called back.
A very pleasant and helpful customer service representative told me that the scans on my package didn’t make sense. I’m glad it’s not just me. Their records, which are more detailed than those on the tracking page, indicate that the package was delivered at 00:00 on Thursday to an address other than mine, and signed for by one J.LARKEN. It was then scanned at around 05:00 (yes, after it was ‘delivered’) when it was loaded onto a truck for delivery. Later that day, at 16:19, a delivery attempt was made, and the delivery person left a door tag saying that I should come pick up the package. The rest I have already posted about. Briefly, when I went to pick up the package, I was told that J.LARKEN had signed for the package, and that I needed to find that person.
This is very bizarre.
I was advised today that I will need to speak with the distribution center manager, and to call on Monday first thing in the morning, since the distribution centers are not open on the weekend.
I just want the package that I ordered over two weeks ago. Is that too much to ask?