Crumpled Notebook

Yes, we all know I’m looking more forward to Christmas, but this year I’m going to Seattle for Thanksgiving, so thats rather cool seeing as how I’ve never been.

I’m thinking though that I may not go home for Christmas. I mean, I want to, but it may be more feasible to wait, seeing as how I have a reason for wanting to go home in say, Feb/March for a visit. We shall see. I guess I’ll decide in the next week.

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Heh, I got a story on the front page of Digg. It was a review someone did of the Flock browser.
Here’s the link.

I love it. I truely do. It’s one of my greatest loves…Gmail that is. However, this is the second time in the past 9 days (i checked the date) that the servers have been down for more than a couple minutes and I haven’t been able to check it. It is rather annoying. I have not plans of leaving it anytime soon…but grrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

So it was brought to my attention that apparently I have
quirks. Yeah, me. Who knew? So here is the list I have so far taken
from a couple different people and a few of my own: updates
Jeff: Oh, and she likes to call random people at 2 and 3 in
the morning talking like Grover on people�s answering machines,
making religous people cuss. Comment by Jeff 11.16.05 @ 6:20 am 1.
I like to eat bananna baby food–just bananna, thank you. 2. One of
my favorite foods is macaroni with Tomato Juice (preferrably
homemade TJ). 3. I have a lot of pants with string ties (in
addition to the buttons). I don’t seek these out to buy, it just
happens that way. 4. I call Franny on the phone from my office to
her’s, sometimes even after just leaving her office. Apparently
most people think the fact that we call each other when our offices
are 30 feet away is weird anyway…even the YC kids. 5. I get
extremely anal about the equipment in the game room at work if its
not taken care of, put back properly or cleaned. This is weird
because its about the only thing in my life that I have to keep in
such an organized fashion. You should see my office some days (and
my bedroom). Thats all so far. Feel free to comment and add any you
wish. I’ll be updating after Keva sends me her complete list–some
which will NOT be publishable : ) More quirks (Keva’s list) (my
comments in italics) Melissa’s quirks: 1. She
thinks it’s “fun” to peel paint off of walls–I did this like
twice…it was already peeling 2. Keeps stats of visitors on
virtually every part of her website–I’m a geek, I don’t argue
it 3. Likes to eat peanut butter quesadillas–mmmmm
4. REMOVED FOR SECURITY REASONS 5. Thinks people she
doesn’t know (like “BLEEPED OUT“) gives her weird looks
and doesn’t liker her. 6. Doesn’t like meat on her tacos
–yeah, I’m a mexitarian 7. Doesn’t like goddess dressing
–yuck 8. Once posted her profile on “geek2geek.com” (or
something like that)–yep, I did. 9. Almost dumped Elijah
in the trash once (yea….funny joke…whatever…)….–It was
the offering at church, not a trash. 10. Doesn’t like Turkey
and thinks Thanksgiving is “dumb”–AMEN! 11. Once gave me
a “-2 points” in “coolness” because I said I liked Clay
Aiken–of course! Almost as bad as Celine Dion 12.
Deliberately selected a shirt she felt was “ugly” when we once went
shopping at Target (that was a long time ago, like a couple of
years ago)–Can’t remember this, but I had an “ugly” shirt, as
I called it, in college I wore all the time. Must be a pattern for
me. 13. Brought back melted snow from Kentucky last Christmas
to taunt us Californians–that was freakin’ awesome! Oh,
speaking of Turkey, what are your plans for Thanksgiving, “Miss
Melissa”? (ha! Yet another quirk, since Melissa seems to expect the
teens she works with to address her this way). Not the teens,
just the YC kids.