Resolution Addendum

I resolve to eat more food this year, and less food-flavored products.

Also, must pick up "Food Rules" by Michael Pollen from the library... looks like an awesome book :)

Insomnia pays off!

Being awake at this ungood hour meant that I got to see the update on the ECCC Website early; two INCREDIBLE and COMPLETELY UNEXPECTED guest announcements! George Clayton Johnson, and Hal Sutherland!

Who dey?

Hal Sutherland... He's a CARTOON GAWD. One of the founders FILMATION, the studio that brought us most of my childhood (Masters of The Universe, Fat Albert, Star Trek cartoon, etc)... and that's really awesome and I can hardly wait to meet him... BUT...

GEORGE CLAYTON JOHNSON! HOKEY SMOKES!!! He... he's the really cool stner grandad that everybdy wishes they had! Wrote the original pilot for STAR TREK! Wrote classic episodes of TWILIGHT ZONE! Co-wrote LOGAN'S RUN! Counter-culture pop icon! From what I've heard, talking to him is like... it's like talking to a crazy homeless guy on the bus, and then realizing that the crazy homeless guy is actually really cool and you just want to keep listening to him make up stories and then all of a sudden you find out NO FRIGGIN' WAY ALL HIS STORIES ARE TRUE!!!!

Really, this just came out of nowhere and I don't know if i should even go to shake the mans hand because I just might get trapped in to listening to him for hours and hours and hours... a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, sure, but I've got a THE REST OF THE CONVENTION to do! He's one f those people who are just so... I can't... I think that meeting him just might make me cry, I admire him so much...

Good... Better...Dang :(

GOOD: Found a mint-condition, sealed copy of the Iron Chef Board Game at Value Village for $3!

BETTER: Only a few copies on Ebay, and the sellers are all asking for opening bids of around $80!

DANG: None of those games have any bids, and an advanced search of all completed auctions shows that NO COPIES F THIS GAME have ever sold :(

Dell

So instead of continuing with the charade of "There's been another delay and you have to contact us within 24 hours or we'll assume you want to cancel your order", Dell decided to just go ahead and cancel the order for our Black Friday Netbook.

No e-mail, no phone call, just... it appears their strategy was to just let the NEW peojected delivery date come and go, and if anybody remembered that they had ordered a Netbook and not gotten it, they would then say "Oops! Sorry! Oh well."

It was pure chance that Crystal decided to call them up this evening and give them some hell about how long it was taking to receive our Netbook.

Also lucky that Crystal is TEH MASTER of getting what she wants... it took 2 hours of being transferred to various departments and gathering the personal information of each and every phone rep she spoke with, but they will now be sending us the next level up computer (better processor, bigger HD, WinXP, better screen) for the same price.

Because my wife ROCKS!

Of course, I fully expect that when she calls in tomorrow to get an update on the order, they will tell her that whoever promised her the Netbook was not authorized to make such a promise, and we'll be going down the exact same road again...