Posts wherein I let my mind spill out all over the page. Usually lacking focus and quite possibly whiny.
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Just booked my tickets for DC, I got an amazing deal. Independence Air is offering 20% off all flights with a valid college ID! Even with taxes and a fee for a shuttle and/or gas for a friend (I’m flying into Dulles which is farther from the hotel than Reagan would be, but IA doesn’t fly there), it still costs me less than even Amtrak would. (Stupid Amtrak!) At a fraction of their travel time, too.
If you want the 20% off, just use this link, also listed on their homepage:
According to Forbes via Newsweek, Pittsburgh is the worst city in the nation for singles. Three years in a row now! Gives me an excuse for singlehood I guess.
And I’ll gladly keep the $218 the average guy spends on Valentine’s Day.
I do wonder what criteria goes into determining the worst city for singles though.
Google Maps debuted today, and has a very excellent interface.
Interestingly, it even displays the route of the ferry across Lake Ontario between Toronto and Rochester. Known as “The Breeze”, it went out of business last year just eighty-something days after opening. But that’s a rant for another time. I’m just surprised a map would list that route even if the ferry were in operation.
CIL 2005 has a 50% student discount! Still expensive (~$200), but suddenly in the splurge realm of expensive rather than the impossible realm.
My brain’s wheels are spinning…
I got my first ever chain letter in the mail today, to my address but labeled for ‘Ashley’. I’m on the strangest mailing lists.
It’s 58 degrees out and I’m having a most excellent day!
I was doing my laundry this morning down the street at the laundromat, appropriately enough.
Walked in around 10:30, and there was a guy asleep on one of the folding counters. Strange, I thought, perhaps a homeless man looking for shelter from the cold. He wasn’t in my way, so I went about my business. Shortly before 11, he woke up.
This was not a homeless man; this was a hopelessly lost drunk frat boy. Yes, he was still drunk at 11 a.m., and had no idea what time it was or where he was.
He stumbled around, asking incoherent questions of the ladies emptying the change from the washers, who happened to be near him. He fumbled with his CD player, gave up trying to plug in the headphones or push buttons, and wandered out the door. There, the sunlight almost knocked him down. I looked where he’d been sleeping later, and it seems he was using a plastic bag containing other plastic bags as a pillow. I also noticed as he left that he inexplicably was carrying a spindle of blank CDs.
The change ladies and I looked at each other, shrugged, and went back to what we were doing.
Oh, my wacky neighborhood.
…that it almost makes me want to take up drinking coffee. All the way up to 11 at the moment, wind chill still well below zero.
I watched the bus drive by my apartment this morning 10 minutes early, unfortunately. So walking to work was the backup plan. Even so, I was planning on taking a picture of the Cathedral of Learning on the way to work this morning for the Flickr project. I brought the camera, but somehow forgot the batteries. Oops.
Now I’ve gotta come up with something good to take a shot of; I’d rather avoid another interior apartment entry.
My laptop randomly decided it didn’t want to play sound anymore tonight, and that Norton would not work anymore. I fiddled with it for a few hours just now, restarted a few times, all to no avail. Couldn’t even remove Norton. Then in despiration I restarted once more while I dug out the XP cd, ready to reinstall XP. Of course, this time it booted up just fine and dandy.
So much for sleep at a reasonable hour…
As a result I didn’t get to start on the photo project today unfortunately. Coming soon though, I swear.
