Roblog

Some random, short, and unrelated notes:

Delaware: Home of Tax Free Shopping. When a Pepsi says it costs $1.25, you actually pay $1.25. My brief taste of that this past weekend reminded me how nice that is.

Quote of the day: "I feel calm. I feel ready. I can only conclude it's because I don't have a full grasp of the situation." - Mark Adler, deputy mission manager at NASA for the Mars Sprirt rover

Donna is now an official "author" on this blog. She will add entries from time to time. This way, she'll be able to blog about our family (as opposed to her CFG blog) if I neglect to mention something cute the girls did.

I'm looking forward to tomorrow. It's one of the rare chances Donna and I have to spend a night out with just the two of us. We'll be using a gift certificate my sister and her fiancee got us for Christmas to the Melting Pot. That used to be my favorite restaurant. It's still my favorite "restaurant event", but since a dinner takes so long there (about 3 hours), it's not the place I would eat at every chance I had.

My ex-coworker Eskander and his wife Betty will be baby-sitting for us. They always offer because they love spending time with the girls. We've been trying to oblige them for a few weeks now, but the timing just hasn't worked out. As the girls are in relatively good health, I expect it will be a fun but otherwise uneventful evening for them.

I have some new twins pictures uploaded! Only 2 weeks late.

The batch of pictures is momentous because I was able to use my new Applescript method I mentioned to get the pictures up on my website. Read on to hear all the technical and gory details.

I had some errands to run today, but completed them all 30 minutes before my hair appointment. I decided I wanted a Pepsi, so I went looking for a Pepsi bottle that had an iTunes cap on it.

Diamond Shamrock didn't have any regular Pepsis with the iTunes cap. Target didn't have any Pepsis. Stop N Go didn't have any Pepsis with the iTunes caps. Eckerds wasn't open yet. Walgreens didn't have any iTunes caps. Neither did Amoco or Randalls. Finally, I went into a H.E.B. where I found one lone Pepsi (warm) with an iTunes cap.

I have heard about how you can cheat and ensure you don't select a losing Pepsi bottle. I usually look under the cap only to the extent that I don't feel conspicuous. I cheated. It was a winner. I bought it. I might have bought it anyway, but, honestly, I might not have.

I now have 4 song credits in iTunes. I'm hoping to build that up to about 10 or so I could get an entire album if I wanted. As it is, I am most interested in Dido and Radio K.A.O.S.. I have to convert my credits to songs by mid-April, since I'll be in India when the contest ends.