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Sunday, July 27, 2008

The Return of SBM

You had me several years ago
When I was still quite naive
Well, you said that we made such a pretty pair
And that you would never leave
But you gave away the things you loved
And one of them was me

You're so vain
You probably think this song is about you
You're so vain
I'll bet you think this song is about you
Don't you? Don't you?

- You're so Vain, Carly Simon

Friday was an eventful day at work. We attended a hearing over the phone. That was interesting. My office is going to get worked on this weekend. I had to move my computer out. It will be awesome to have a much larger office, but I am just happy in general to have an office that is mine. It sure beats a cubicle. The more I learn the more confident I get in my job.

Here is a reflection for that person who keeps making this blog part of her morning routine after people.com on her Mac. There was one time when I was leaving DC, I had plans to see a friend before I moved away forever. I didn't really want to agree to these plans, but after much coaxing, I did. Then I was stood up. I wonder if that type of thing can happen to a person twice? Nothing sucks like looking forward to something and then having it not work out for arbitrary reasons. Some people don't ever learn. All will be forgotten with a Diesel gift card. Really, that is all I have ever wanted.

The other night I was up late and I got a call from my sister asking me about a movie. I knew the answer was Along Came Polly, but I had never seen it. It was the next movie on my netflix queue when I moved out my first time in Virginia. I finally decided to see it. I don't think there was a more fitting time in my life to see the movie. I thought it was good, really liked the salsa part. Some fun Corny snippets: "When you least expect it, something great might come along, something better than you even planned for." -- "I'm not gonna marry you Ruben." - "I don't want to get married." -- "Thank you for everything Claude."

Saturday morning Rino and I went shopping for our BBQ. We hit up SAMs, the liquor store and HEB. We had a good BBQ. Friends came over, we played beer pong and I had my usual conversations where I try to learn things from people. I lost my first game of beer pong badly, but I was able to come back later and win one. I was denied from playing the champion even though the only person he had not beat was me. My transitive property arguments were not as persuasive after a few beers. We have a lot of leftover food and beer, so the next week should be fun.

Fine, you win, you can have the last word.

3 comments:

  1. Anonymous6:07 PM

    Just out of curiosity and because I'm just too lazy to find out the answer myself but, what kind of info do you get when a person visits your blog.

    I always assumed it would just tell you an IP address at most.


    But this part of your blog got me thinking.

    "Here is a reflection for that person who keeps making this blog part of her morning routine after people.com on her Mac"

    That is more info than I would expect this blog to give you. Or are you just throwing a friendly jab at a female admirer that backed out of a meeting at the last minute?

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  2. You have to admit that having an Anonymous poster makes you curious on who they might be. Are they someone you know, knew, or don't even know, but who takes the time to read anyway. Either way, comments usually make my day.

    I wish I had the magic powers to know that kind of information. Your take is closer to the latter option. It was a friendly jab at a person who actually told me that I was part of her morning routine after people.com. ironically, the post's theme was about it not being about her.

    At the bottom of my blog is sitemeter, it tells you how many visitors total you get. When you look at details of a visitor you get an ip and general location. This information is usually wrong in a lot of cases. you can click on the number to see the details.

    So the most I can know about a visitor for example is that the person is from San Antonio and uses windows vista. Hope that covers your privacy concerns.

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  3. Anonymous5:53 PM

    Thanks for the info...I wouldn't call it privacy concerns, just mildly interested on what kind of info Blogger gives you.

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