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My first
NAIAS without the Senator since
2006 was focused entirely on Lila.
Her initial shock from the crowd and lights wore off quickly, and she was more than accomodating with me placing her in inappropriate and irresponsible places. Eventually, I made the mistake of
letting her linger in the back of a pickup truck longer than I should have and she got comfortable. Moving on involved an extended tantrum that was only quelled by introducing her to the Fiat
display where the cars were just her size. After she fell in love with a green couch occupied by a creepy sleeping teen, another tantrum convinced me it was time to go, but not before using her
siren wail to beeline for the basement. There I found the disappointing Focus ST Shelby variant, which had no performance changes whatsoever.
A physical letter arrived in my mail today notifying me of a new upgrade for the Sync system in my Focus ST. Suddenly giddy, I hopped on my computer
to find a 1.5GB download required for the update. While it downloaded, I actually read the letter that said I had to order a physical SD card replacement before the upgrade or my nav wouldn't work.
It took me 10 seconds to decide to upgrade anyway, blinded by upgrade excitement. The letter also said "up to an hour" and "keep your engine running during the upgrade" which turned out
to be good advice, as it was almost exactly an hour before the upgrade
completed, and then another 10 minutes before it
really completed.
Aside from yelling about the wrong SD Nav car everything seems to be working fine, but no major changes other than the exterior temp now shows up at the top. Hopefully the
replacement SD card will show me a world of wonder with the new nav system.
The ups and downs of the giant snowman have been well documented this past week, but it seems todays wind finally scored a victory I'm too lazy to rectify.
After inspecting the webcam footage, the southwest mooring line looks to have de-anchored, which created the initial instability. Shortly afterwards, we can assume the northwest line buckled as well, eliminating
all counter to the westerly winds. The Snowman then wanders east, until the remaining lines keep him flapping like a fish for freedom before I told Lisa to put it out of it's misery and unplug it.
Hopefully there is no permanent damange and it can rise again for it's 11th year of terror.
Ever since my
first windows phone, there has been at least one new Xbox LIVE game released every week.
That means every month I have the potential to be 800 gamerscore richer just by playing on my phone.
Today marks almost a full month of no new games, and
rumor has it this may be a permanent drought.
Meanwhile, Nokia keeps releasing exclusive games that I'm not allowed to buy. I managed to play
the first of these exclusives
before I
sold my Lumia 900, but now I'm locked out of 1200 cheevos because Nokia went exclusive to AT&T for 6 months.
Sadly, I can see myself buying an old Lumia 710 off eBay just to get these cheevos now instead of waiting another 3 months for the Verizon debut. The 100k milestone does not appear to have
affected my sad cheevo obsession, and the allure of
FC Rocket,
Blobster,
Parking Mania,
Picnic Wars,
Trivial Pursuit and
Spy Mouse may be too strong for my insanity.
Having survived ground zero of the flu, I decided my superpowered immune system might be indicative of an overall power of healing. I put my theory to the test by
actually inspecting the disabled snowman only to discover a blown fuse. As you would expect, a spare fuse was located right next to the blown one for maximum eyesore uptime. A quick fuse swap and
my
10 year old snowman is back in action, obnoxious as ever.
With Grand Rapids trending as the
highest flu concentration for the season, I decided it was high time to
visit my sister. Despite shopping at a gas station, visiting a local park, eating at Yesterdog and enjoying some frozen yogurt nobody
showed any signs of flu-like symptoms. Disappointed, we decided to stay an extra day in hopes the virus might not have taken hold yet with no results. Either Google Trends is full of crap or
we are immune to the latest flu supervirus.
Today at approximately 1:49pm, my proud eyesore
deflated. My initial check confirmed the power is still connected, which led me to the conclusion of
sabotage. After suffering with the giant snowman for more than 8 years, it was only a matter of time before someone snapped. My guess is a localized EMP similar to the
Planetside event.
Sadly, my 8ft snowman never received the commercial success it was due and I'm unable to secure a replacement. I can only hope the damage is reversable and it will once again frustrate everyone that passes by.
One month into my
Snapshot program, I learned that driving between the hours of midnight and 4:00am is the "Danger Zone," so I've programmed my Focus to play that song continuiously if I'm driving between those times. Fortunately I'm an old fart and so far haven't driven during what Progressive refers to as "high risk" hours. Aside from the time of day, "hard brakes" (which seems to register if I stop faster than a downshift) is the only other factor I can see that affects my discount. Driving 95 for hours isn't flagged as any kind of danger, and taking onramps at 60mph is also acceptable. Even with my excessive number of "hard brakes" I'm still getting an 8% discount, so once I master the art of stopping without using my brakes I'll hopefully be able to double that.
Less than a month since my last
Google check I've received
yet another one.
My internet millions are piling up faster than I can spend it on useless crap, which means it's time to cash them all in for $1 bills and roll in it like a boss.
Amazingly, the views on my
video of might are still growing, so a check a month might become a reality for me.
It's high time I started exploiting Lila and making videos to scar her when she's older.
Our Christmas extravaganza began today, with Lila learning how to rip off wrapping paper efficiently. She got through 2-3 presents before focusing exclusively on her princess castle which effectively ended
the opening of presents. Then it was off to Pennsylvania where we arrived before the great snowstorm of 2012 for some cousin-on-cousin action. Lila enjoyed all activities except the snow fort and sledding,
which was a clear indication to me she wanted to move far enough south to never have to deal with snow again.
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