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March 25, 2008 in the late afternoon | 
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This is such a good idea. I just added it to the Swank blog: http://www.savethedevelopers.org/index.php
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March 22, 2008 in the early evening | Tweet Tweet
This 140 character limit is really hard for me.
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I just organized my bookmarks, files and did my taxes (the only thing that sucks about being self-employed), nothing left to do but work.
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March 14, 2008 in the late afternoon | Rants
I finally got my Scarlett fiestaware today. For the record, I like the color, but as with the rest it’s not what it looked like on Amazon. It’s a much more subdued red instead of the crazy bright color it was on the website. But that’s not what this post is about. This post is about the fact that the mail carrier hates me. I know this because I’m pretty sure he broke my feistaware on purpose. Yep, that’s right, I opened my package to a broken red plate. The really crappy thing is Amazon is saying they don’t have the color in stock anymore, so I can’t even get a replacement. Total suckage. 
But here are the reasons why I think the postman hates me:
March 10, 2008 mid-afternoon | Stuff I'm obsessed with, The outside world
Our trip up to Savannah for the Ben Folds concert was this past weekend and it was fantastic. Seriously, it’s the best concert I’ve ever been to. Brandon agreed with me except he had to put it at number two behind Pink Floyd which I can’t really blame him for.
It also helped that I was just really happy that we actually made it to the concert. I was stressed out the whole way up there. Brandon was supposed to leave early from work, but wound up being late. It was pouring rain the entire way so everyone was going slower than normal, plus we kept running into traffic at random places on the interstate. Both of us were starving from not eating anything all day so we had to make a detour and stuff greasy food in our mouths as fast as possible (which is always great for the digestive system). Then we wound up running out of gas about 5 miles from Savannah (less than an hour before the concert) so we had to make another detour to get gas. But our hotel wound up being closer to downtown than I thought (we couldn’t afford $200 a night to stay in one of the downtown hotels, so La Quinta it was), so we checked in, threw our crap in the room, rushed back to the car and rushed downtown where, thankfully, there was a (free!) parking garage a block away from the theater, otherwise finding parking would have been a bitch.
We got the concert with about 30 minutes to spare, so I could finally relax after that. We were in the third row, so the seats were great (We were on the right side, I would have preferred the center–Ben’s piano was closer to the left side of the stage–but I could still see him really well).
March 5, 2008 in the late afternoon | Home is where the heart is, Rants
I have a beef with you, Amazon. If you are going to sell products where color is a REALLY important factor in choosing which product you want, then you might want to try to use photographs that at least approximate the actual color.
Case in point. Fiestaware. I finally decided to bite the bullet and purchase some “real” dinnerware. We’ve been using hand-me-down Walmart plates for past 6 years, which do their job but aren’t very pretty or exciting. I like fiestaware because it has a reputation for being durable, but also it’s fun! and colorful! Yay!
It took me entirely too long to pick out the colors I wanted. I’m just obsessively crazy like that. I guess I could have just chosen one color and got a whole set of it, but that’s no fun, so I got multiple colors. 5 to be exact. Cobalt, Scarlet, Persimmon, Shamrock, and Sunflower.
With the exception of Sunflower (and possibly Scarlet since I haven’t received it yet) none of the colors look like they do on the site. The green is much darker, the orange is much lighter, but those I don’t really mind because they are at least close to what I thought they looked like. The issue is with Cobalt.
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