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Wow, it's really cold out. I didn't know it was supposed to get this cold because I rarely pay attention to the weather reports. My car was sort of growling for a while until it got warmed up after work today.
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J and I have a short-term CD at the bank that is about to mature. We wondered what would happen if we put it back into another short-term CD and the person at the bank told us we would earn 0.50 percent interest. Now that banks don't have to pay for money any more they don't care about people with their piddly little accounts. I don't have any coffee cans around the house, but if I did, I'd take our CD money and stuff it in there. Then I'd bury it in the yard.
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I am going to get a new phone soon. A super-fancy one I can use to check my email and browse the web. Neat, right? Not exactly. The phone will belong to my company, and they'll use it to notify me if there are any problems on our servers. It might ring in the middle of the night, or during dinner, or on a Saturday. So you can imagine I have mixed feelings about it. It won't be that bad, the servers generally are reliable and any problems that come up are usually easy to take care of. I'm also going to try to trade weeks with another team member, so I won't have to worry about it all the time. We'll see how it goes, I'm not used to being support staff.
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I'm finishing up some software I'm writing to help some people at school who are organizing teams for next year's Science Olympiad. Last year there were over 100 students who signed up, many for multiple events, so I thought some software to keep the info organized would be helpful. (I hope it will be, that remains to be seen.)
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Top Two Worst Christmas Songs Ever
1) Little Drummer Boy - Because the greatest "gift to bring" to the family of a sleeping newborn is midnight drum-clobbering.
2) The First Noel - this song wouldn't bother me so much if the lyrics flowed with the music. By the third verse, the syllables that span a measure and a half start to get old.
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A few links for this week:This is a site that you can use if people who should do their Googling ask you a dumb question. You can send them a link that shows them how to use Google themselves next time. Helpful if you have coworkers who don't think for themselves.
A while back I posted some links to some abandoned buildings and subway stations. Today, some links to new, vibrant, and very active subway stations.
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