Office Morale

Is a tad low lately. Times are hard. But Julia sent me a cool link that, if I had 10 extra hours, I could totally do to lift everyone's spirits, at least for 30 seconds. Here is the how-to.

Lauren rules

Perspective is great. I feel much better now.

TMobile Fraud

Just found $200 bucks of fake charges on my Tmobile bill for May. Some number in California, Santa Barbara - googling reveals that these may be 'charges' for calls forwarded to voice mail, which is actually a service included in my plan. Not to mention no one calls me every minute between 7:21 and 7:26am. Except telemarketers maybe. This is really disturbing and confusing and adds to my totally awful day! Lovely.

T-mobile customers, check your statements - in the US the fake charges are at 99 cents.

Date Destination Time Number Minutes Total

Kenya (Safaricom)
5/15/07 California 9:45 PM 805-637-7249 4 19.96
5/15/07 California 10:00 PM 805-637-7249 2 9.98
5/15/07 California 10:01 PM 805-637-7249 2 9.98
5/15/07 California 10:04 PM 805-637-7249 2 9.98
5/16/07 California 7:21 AM 805-637-7249 1 4.99
5/16/07 California 7:22 AM 805-637-7249 2 9.98
5/16/07 California 7:23 AM 805-637-7249 1 4.99
5/16/07 California 7:24 AM 805-637-7249 1 4.99
5/16/07 California 7:25 AM 805-637-7249 1 4.99
5/16/07 California 7:26 AM 805-637-7249 1 4.99
5/16/07 California 8:24 AM 805-637-7249 2 9.98
5/16/07 California 8:25 AM 805-637-7249 3 14.97
Sub Total 43 214.57
TOTAL 56 227.44

Dentists suck

My dentist found cavities with a laser (not his eyes) and drilled on my teeth, and now he says one is fractured and probably needs either a root canal, or extraction.

Extraction. Like they will take out my tooth.

And have to put in a new tooth.

And how much is this going to cost? No one can tell me.

So much for a new laptop.

Greens

I ordered a salad last night. Good for me. This morning, because I have a haircut after work, I drove. Immediately I was struck down with a lightning bolt in the form of road closures downtown and spent 30 minutes stuck at the end of the freeway. Serves me right for not riding my bike.

Check out these lugs

Lots of good shit on the old ebay today.

Coolest color scheme ever?

Today is a slow work day

Mostly because yesterday was really productive. But check this out: December 1949, Von Bueren's cycle desintegrates as he wins the Swiss Championship in Zurich. Siegenthaler finishes second, but intact.

Victoria! Put that away!

In the DR:

And in PR:


Also - in the DR:

And in PR!:

Stupid Mac

I'm trying to upload some great pics from past trips, but a) my current laptop is a dinosaur b) Safari's picture uploading doesn't work so I have to use Firefox which takes FOREVER, literally, which is why I'm not posting. This forces me to blog from work tomorrow and inches me closer towards caving and buying a new laptop before OS Leopard comes out in October.

But I won't because practicality wins out so seldom and this is a big enough purchase that I actually will listen to that voice of reason that says 'don't spend an extra 500 bucks on a computer you don't need before the $130 OS upgrade even comes out'.

Anyway - look forward to the posting tomorrow, especially you Victoria.

Victoria!

I'm at home organizing my photos, see, and I run across a couple of coincidences. See for yourselves:

weekend update

I've spent 6 of the last 7 days in DC and boy it is nice to be back in Charm City. Last week I had a meeting with three presentations for a lot of really smart M&E folks and I did ok - met a couple awesome climbers at the meeting which is definitely a plus! Our database project is moving along and there was much less politicking about it than before, so now we just have to get our butts in gear and build this thing over the summer.

We had a very nice BBQ at Jason's temporary pad (an extremely beautiful house - functional, spacious, fantastic kitchen, yet laid back in a way only 2 million dollar homes can have) and bored the non-Gabon RPCV guests with more of our stories. Oh, la nostalgie. Sunday we went for brunch at an Irish place that had too many spoiled children and slow service, but excellent food. JCo dissed the bloody marys and nearly sent a 4 year old flying over the veranda, but the conversation was lively and we even managed to escape the rain...

I've ordered a new stem and bars for my fixie to make it a little more comfortable - the reach is a bit short but maybe that's just because I've been riding the Nishiki lately. Sean seems to think the teal color scheme is uncool but he's wrong. It is the pinnacle of cool.

I almost, almost, finished this really hard climb I've been working on for a long time last night. Which is not bad for having two weeks off. Coming up - trips to W. Va and more biking.

Spontaneous Combustion

Here's the tree that burst into flames on our recent climbing trip.