Utterly Profound Last Post of 2009

Hmmmm...

Pondering...

How does one do "profound"?

Maybe I'll think of something tomorrow...

Oh yeah, that would be too late...

Okay... ummm...

Happy New Year!

...

There ya go. 

Now go get a drink and celebrate!

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This and That

Was on Amazon today to track a package.  They put various lines of items on my home page with titles like "recently browsed" and "recommended for you".  Today they had a line of items, several electric toothbrushes and a few electric razors that were titled "gift suggestions"...

It's the gift that says:

Merry Christmas! Clean your teeth or scrape your face.  Even Santa can't stand you.

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A Visual Headline

I've been working like mad all day today. Finally took a few minutes to get online and see if I was missing anything important.

I saw this:

Obama presses heads of largest banks to lend more

I have this picture of Obama in the board room standing behind these guys with his hands on either side of their heads...

How I wish I could draw! 

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Whew

Finally finished cleaning out the office closet today.  Had to work myself back into the frame of mind to finish it up.  I didn't think I'd be able to do it before Christmas, but...

I was putting away my earmuffs in the coat closet upstairs, the bins I have to hold things like gloves, scarves, hats, etc were overflowing.  I really really hate it when I try to put my earmuffs in the bin and they bounce back out at me.  So, I pulled all the bins down, pulled out the old stuff I never wear, put things back in the bins they should be in... that got me going - ready to clean the next closet space.

Bonus: I found the disks for my current computer! Woot!  I KNEW I hadn't thrown them out.  Nope, I put them away carefully so I wouldn't lose them - then I forgot where I put them.  Turns out it was one of the boxes on the bookshelf in the closet.  Now they are in a labeled box.  Not that it matters too much, the computer is pretty old and a new one is in the offing.  But at least I have them.

Two more closets to go.  I may or may not get to them before Christmas.  I think tomorrow will be the day I put out some Christmas decorations.  I don't do too much because I hate putting it all away again.  (I think I need Patti to come decorate for me... heh)  However, since the kids are going to be here for Christmas, I want to at least get some of the stuff out. 

At the rate I'm going I may even get my cards out before Christmas.  That would be news indeed!

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Observations

- It's never a good idea to anticipate a quiet weekend.  This will certainly ensure you end up working for at least half, if not all of it.

- I very nearly sent an email to someone that I might have regretted.  This person was waiting for a job to finish.  There is a tendency for this person to send me emails saying "is it done yet?" "is it done yet?" "is it done yet?"  At which point I want to respond as I used to do with my kids.  "No, and if you don't stop asking right now, I'll stop the car and make you walk the rest of the way."  Somehow, I don't think that would go over so well.

- I have pics of the snow covering we got the other day.  Very pretty, but I've had no time to even download them to my computer.

- Meeting early in the AM.  I'm pretty sure I won't be able to sleep because I know I have to get up and be somewhere early.  Happens every time.  Luckily it's only half a day.

- I need to get my Christmas cards going, but I have zero ambition for it.  That makes me rather sad.  One of those things I could do in short order if I just sat down and did it. My brain is strenuously resisting.

- There is too much Google lately.  They want not only your mail, your contacts, your calendar, your paper work info via "cloud computing" apps, your medical information, your browsing information... And now they want to feed you your DNS (so they can direct exactly where your computer goes online).  

Their motto of "Don't be evil" creeps me out.  It makes me wonder why they feel the need to explicitly say it. 

But this little quip has got me rethinking google as a company and how to move away from their offerings:

Google boss Eric Schmidt has said that internet users who are concerned about privacy shouldn’t be concerned if they have done nothing wrong.

That statement should make everyone pause for a moment and consider... do you want this company watching EVERYTHING you do?  While I agree that there is no privacy on the net, that statement really makes my skin crawl. 

- Okay that's it for now.  I need to try and get some sleep before "morning".  heh.

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