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Day: December 7, 2005

Year in Review meme (ganked from geodyne)

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On December 7, 2005

This is a neat meme – it’s a review of the year, as seen by your LJ. Take the first sentence of the first entry of each month of 2005. There’s your year in review. Now, I cheated somewhat in that if it was a meme, I took the next entry. :)

January: Fireworks have been going off since 7 pm.

February: I’m not dead yet!

March: So this morning, as usual, I have eggos for breakfast.

April: I was going to post this huge entry about how Rob and I were pregnant, but then I realised I’d never be able to be convincing.

May: So after the debacle last year, we decided not to go to Scarborough for our anniversary this year. (This post was much more upbeat than the first sentence seems to imply)

June: Whups, it’s been a while. It’s just been my plain ‘ol boring life, but gosh it takes up time.

July: O’ Connor is retiring.

August: Nichols said the toddler ran for the bong.

September: You know, this was a hurricane.

October: This has been a really fun, geeky day.

November: Thought I’d dust off the LJ posting client for a moment to say that Batman Begins is a seriously fucking awesome movie.

December: Does anyone know if there’s a way to convert Impulse Tracker files to MP3? (I ended up using winamp on a windows box to convert it to wav, then I was able to convert it into iTunes.)

Note to everyone: The Blenders are FABULOUS. I’m completely enamoured of this Christmas album, and I’m getting one of their non-Christmas albums as well. Great stuff.

Dear Cthulhu…

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On December 7, 2005

Oh Great Cthulhu!

I have been an extremely industrious devotee this year.

In August, I made a burnt offering to the Dead Dreamer (100 points). In November, I wore an Elder Sign (-10 points). Last week, I sacrificed '[info]'icecelt to Cthulhu (500 points). In July, I stopped '[info]'geodyne from defiling Lovecraft's grave (-20 points). In March, I prepared an ocean voyage to R'lyeh (200 points). When the stars were right, I bombed a cultist gathering (-100 points).

In short, I have been very good (670 points) and deserve to get hooked up with one of those cute Innsmouthers.

Your humble and obedient servant,
jenbooks

Submit your own plea to Cthulhu!

SQUEEEEE!

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On December 7, 2005

I got an early Giftmas present last night. See, pre-ordered Animal Crossing (DS) for me as a Giftmas present. I do the bookkeeping for the family1, keeping track of bank accounts, credit cards, etc., which means that I get receipts. Around Giftmas and birthdays, he keeps the receipts, but tells me the amount and what card it went on (credit or checking). The amount doesn't matter, because we agree on spending limits before hand. So had gone to GameStop to buy a new controller, and pre-ordered Animal Crossing. He looked at the receipt, and saw the controller, and an item that said “Store Charge: $5.00”. He did not see the item that said “Animal Crossing: $0”. So he gives me the receipt. I look at it, see the Animal Crossing item, and exclaim “Animal Crossing?!” I didn't even think about the DS game being pre-ordered, I just couldn't figure out why it said Animal Crossing and no charge.

So now is pouting, but I get to play Animal Crossing on my DS. :) Now I just need to figure out how to get online with it. I can't at home, because it can't handle WPA encryption. Pooh. Silly security conscious . (Not really, I totally agree with him. Even if it cramps my game.)

1 Mac program plug: Moneydance. It's a great little program, almost as good as Quicken, and way better than gnuCash. As a bonus, you don't have to use Intuit software. Ooh! I just discovered they've got Windows and Linux covered as well! Cool.

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