Ah. These new long posts I swore to write are pretty few and far
between. The good news is that the site got a sweet redesign, complete
with my 43 things and 43 places feeds.
I've been obsessed with travel recently (when am I not?). I just got back from Miami and AJ and I were supposed to hop a plane to Vegas but he bailed on me. Now one of my coworkers is in San Fran for a business trip and blogged some photos of the area. This only makes me realize how much I miss California.
"This nutcase is a serial baby killer."
I'm watching Law and Order: SVU while I type, and just when you think television can't get any more retarded, they have the lieutenant say shit like that.
Watching L&O only makes me want to visit New York. Watching Boston Legal only makes me want to visit Massachusetts. Watching The O.C. only makes me miss Newport Beach. Watching Alias makes me wish I was a world traveler (they are seriously everywhere). But watching The Office just makes me glad that I don't work in one anymore.
One of my favorite shows (and AJ will cringe when he reads this) is Grey's Anatomy. It's like ER in the sense that it takes place in a hospital, but it's also like Melrose Place because it's mostly hot doctors and their crazy relationships with each other. My favorite movie of 2004 was Sideways. I loved Sandra Oh is that one. I'm so glad she won that Golden Globe for her supporting role in Grey's a few weeks ago. Her character, Christina, is just like me: highly professionally motivated, quirky in a funny slash cynical way, and unapologetic and oblivious to anyone who takes offense to the words that come out of her mouth. But in every episode, her resolve is tested by some crazy patient or her boyfriend that only half understands her or her friends or family... And the way the writers on that show mold her character... Grey's is my Monday morning tradition (just like Best Week Ever better be on my TiVo for every Saturday).
I actually have a website to recommend this week for all y'all. I stumbled on MP3Tunes sometime last week. I'm sure that the music downloading part of the site has been there for forever, but I discovered something really interesting: a music locker. What it does is have you upload your music (mp3 files) to the website and then you just log in and listen to your tunes wherever you have an internet connection! I tried the free membership, but there's a $40 a year plan where you can actually back up your entire mp3 collection (I've got about 25,000 mp3s but I've seen on their top users stats that someone was over 30,000 so I think I'd be safe if I upgraded). I like this because you know for $40 a year that your music is safe. I love it because I don't have to log into my server at home to listen to my 25,000 tracks. But here are a few flaws I found with the site: 1) If you make a playlist, you can't navigate away from the page. If you move to another tab, you must make MP3Tunes the active tab before the next song will start to play. 2) You can't burn a playlist. Maybe this is different for paying members, but I didn't see a way to get the music off of their server and onto an MP3 CD so that I can listen in my car. These are my two biggest annoyances. Maybe they'd no longer be a consideration when I finally decide to pony up the $40 a year to backup everything, but I've got some Valentine's Day Vosges to buy first.
PS - Today's pic was taken with my Christmas present to myself, my Canon PowerShot SD550. I was at the SouthPark mall in Charlotte, NC and found myself in an Anthopologie store, getting creative with padded letters. I almost bought them for AJ but decided that he wouldn't have hung them up so I'd take a pic instead and put the pic in a rhinestone frame which I knew he'd succumb to. But I never bought the frame. But I liked the picture.
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