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(Almost) Daily How-To #25

Kiel — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 03:34:47 +0000

Watching: Inside the Actors Studio with Daniel Radcliffe as guest.

Thinking: The Iraqi journalist that threw his shoes at George W. Bush has a lot of guts.

How to Annoy Me: Drive under the speed limit. Seriously people, the speed limit in Carmel is already too low, go a little faster please!

How to Make Me Laugh: Use the art of Gingerbread making to create a “Gingerbread Victoria’s Secret Girl.” Way to go Chad!

Quote of the Day: “If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey that catches his heart, which, say what you will, is the great high-road to his reason, and which, when once gained, you will find but little trouble in convincing his judgment of the justice of your cause” – Abraham Lincoln

Weekend Update

Kiel — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 03:58:30 +0000

It’s been a fairly productive weekend and one that’s been somewhat relaxing. I apologize for the randomness of this post, but for those who know me, it fits me well.

Lemonade Stand on the iPhone

I’m sure that many of you may not know about this game. But back in the Apple II days, this game was used in a lot of classrooms. I remember spending a lot of time in the computer lab at St. Luke’s playing this game, it was simple, yet also presented challenges. As soon as I found this game on the iTunes Store, I looked for Oregon Trail… Oh Oregon Trail… if that was on the iPhone, I’d be a happy man!

Picture Frames

I was shopping at World Market the other week when I came across these boxed frames. Essentially they have three panes of glass: the front pane, middle pane, and back pane. I was able to come up with some pictures to put in these frames and I’m pretty happy with it.

Christmas is Coming!

Christmas is by far, the best of all the holidays. So please don’t judge me for the fact that I found holiday cookies on sale at Target…

Straight No Chaser makes it into iTunes!

I was pretty excited to log into iTunes and find that in the “Holiday” section, that Straight No Chaser‘s album is featured on that page. Woo hoo!

So overall, it hasn’t been a bad weekend. I got the apartment cleaned, went and saw my friend Clayton while he changed the oil in my car, watched Elf with Chad and then watched Kung Fu Panda with some other friends. I’m hoping that I’ll have time to take off towards the end of the week to relax. I have a few things due this week, so it’ll be nice to relax after I’m done writing those papers.

As for next semester, need to decide what I want to do, since the college isn’t offering anything that will really help my degree. I’m considering going to Ivy Tech for the semester to get some classes out of the way. Well, that’s all for now!

I now know why they call it Black Friday!

Kiel — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 11:45:33 +0000

I often heard of the madness of Black Friday, but never believed it. Well, I finally experienced it today. I was up at 5:30 AM for no reason really, I probably got too cold. So I decided, “hey, I’ll go to Target since they open at 6 AM!” I have to tell you, it was crazy. A parking lot that is normally empty at 6 AM looked like it was 6 PM… it was pretty full! And the entrance to the store? People were streaming in like ants, grabbing carts (I can still hear the “clacks” as people separate the carts and run off into sales nirvana.)

It was mostly women… and they were grabbing all the DVDs on sale. Perhaps the busiest part of the store was the electronics as people were aiming to get whatever was on sale: DVD/TV combos, digital cameras, gaming systems, DVDs, if it was on sale, people were clamoring for it.

As for me? Well, I bought a couple of the DVDs that were on sale, but mostly went to buy some food. Now I will probably pop in one of those movies and rest for a while… dreaming of my first Black Friday experience. I hope my future wife doesn’t partake in this madness… I don’t want her to be one of those women that are normal 364 days out of the year and then goes crazy the day after Thanksgiving! Ha ha! Well, that’s all for now!