Y2 D267

I'm better today. Remember my stats about suicide and Valentine's day? It's only fitting that I should mention how Mondays have the highest rate per day of the week. Seems we all feel like shit on Mondays and Tuesday but by Thursday things feel better. What a concept, eh? Death by sarcasm, that's my goal. Worked all day yesterday including a couple of hours from 9-11 last night. I had to work at night because the stuff I am doing for the client was pretty load intensive and we needed to see how performance was without everyone else on the system as well. Including driving time that meant I worked from 6am until 4pm, then from 9pm - 11pm. I don't get to count all of that time unfortunately, but it certainly made it hard to think about anything else.

While I was waiting for things to load and run I started going through the Kindle store in detail. Seems they have HUNDREDS of books available for free from classics to stuff that just didn't sell to old textbooks. Oh and free games too. I ended up getting like 25 more books and 5 games. I am really loving this thing. I honestly can't wait until I am stuck in an airport for 5 hours with nothing to do. I am going to bury my head in my Kindle and never come back out. I am still reading Breakfast of Champions by Vonnegut as it was one of the first books I decided to put on the Kindle. I figured I would get something from an author I knew to see if I liked this thing or not. I do now see in some respects the allure of a tablet, but the one I want is Motorola Xoom and pricing was just announced yesterday - $800. Um, bite me? Let's see $140 versus $800. Hmmm... Yeah, no Xoom for me in the immediate future. That's the 4g version, I think the wireless only will be slightly less, like $600, but that's still not in my range right now. Nor will it be for a while. Too bad as they will have a Kindle app for it which means I could merge things. Of course, it's bigger, heavier, etc. The Kindle has a browser app built in, I should test it today to see if I can connect to email with it. If I can, then why do I need a tablet? If I can use it with Google docs then what's missing? It plays music too, granted it doesn't do video, but I am not a big video on a device kind of person anyway.

Speaking of video, while I was doing my timing tests last night, finished up season three of Eureka. 10 episodes left to watch in season 3.5 and I will be almost current. Like most shows of it's nature, it's kind of flat after 30 or so episodes. I am hoping these remaining 10 are better.

Made Joe's special last night for dinner. Still feeling fat though. I tried to not eat any carbs, but for dessert I had a piece of toast with honey. I know I don't need the bread, it just tasted good. I have too much crap food in the house right now because I haven't gone to the grocery store. I am holding on tight on money since it's almost payday and I am on the wire. I am late on one credit card bill and my cell phone by a day right now. I am going to stay up until midnight tonight to see when my paycheck posts so I can pay them and only be 25 hours late. Hopefully they won't ding me late charges.

Still raining. It actually hailed here yesterday during the day. I was too far away to see it, but the rain was bad where I was. Hydroplaned a little bit on the way to work in the morning. Freaked me out a bit. I am still thinking about going to look at cars this weekend. I have a feeling I can save $50 if not more a month by getting a new car. It's all up to the dealer, my credit, and if they are willing to let me walk out with nothing out of pocket. I may end up with less features than I am used to, but if it means saving money, I can deal.

Dealing. It's what I am learning to do more and more...