Friday night, after wanting to break the Arduino Uno in half, I met up with Emily, Catherine and cahterines roommate at Founding Fathers. I think I ate three things of nachos including one to go. So gross but so good.

The furnace is fixed, we won't freeze to death!
last night (e:paul) called 72 Degrees Air Conditioning and Heating who claimed to do 24x7 repair. Not only did they want to charge $90 just to come out, they promised a visit in three hours and never called or showed up.

Since (e:Paul) knew it was the induction blower from the last repair and what he researched, we were able to call around for the part. First I called Seneca Heating and Plumbing, who didn't service York anymore, but were nice enough to direct us to Johnstown Supply out in Depew. Amazingly enough they had one blower left in stock, not so amazingly it was $260.

Paul and I drove out through some crazy snow and picked it up just before they closed. we got back, ate (e:Terry)'s delicious egg cheese thing, and replaced the blower. It was pretty easy to replace, literally involving 10 screws and some tubing connections.

While we were down there Paul and Terry capped the dead end duct full of asbestos. You definitely can notice how much more air flow there is through the other vents now its closed.

We also did some crazy cleaning and rearranging of the dining room. The buffet is now against the window giving way more room to nerd out and program in front of the fire. Now we won't piss off Terry by laying in front of the door.

Yesterday at work I had to open up Internet Explorer to get to the company time sheet. I noticed a big ad on the MSN page saying "Don't Get Scroogled". When I visited the site, it was this bizarre blog from Microsoft saying Google Chromebook sucks because its not a "real PC" that you could get for $250. I don't really think they were marketed as a desktop replacement. Plus are people even buying chromebooks? I feel like android tablets and iPads are probably bigger competitors to Windows than chromebooks.

The best part is the page couldn't even render correctly in IE 8.

Also related is yesterday (e:paul) and I found out you can download Chromium OS for a live USB installation. I still don't really see the point having an Android phone.

I'm pretty sure I broke my personal record for grocery bills at Trader Joes and Target last night. $86.58 plus another $10 or so at Target. admittedly a lot of it was unnecessary - I ended up getting these fancy German waffle cookies, eggnog, and then these chocolate covered juice drops. They're so crazy good and blueberry flavored. Although looking at the ingredients, there are so many other juices they can't be more than a few percent acai maximum.







Also food related I opened up this tangerine today and it had this weird black spot. Is it some sort of blight? I couldn't identify it through Google and have never seen anything like it before.It smelled so gross.

Winter beers that weren't too great but as usual the night was awesome. I ran straight to goodbar after working out at work - I ate so much popcorn. the mac and cheese soup smelled amazing, (e:terry) tempted me with it. Too bad it had bacon.










Handwriting practice - how can I shave your boss?