I don't know if I told most people, but I still haven't taken my computer in for service. Why? Because they don't backup your data in store anymore. I had to find someone outside to do it. But the "outside" wanted to charge me $80-120 per hour to back it up. So I went to the Apple store yesterday, paid $20 for a firewire cable, and drove down to ( Read more... )

Monday:

I didn't feel good all day. Work was insane. Too much to do, very little time to do it. Only made it through about 25% of my list. This is mostly because I had a meeting at the Biltmore Hotel in downtown LA to book a room for our company holiday party.

Tuesday: Was home sick. All day. Puked Monday night and basically didn't get out of ( Read more... )

 Today  I have officially lived in the state of California for one year ( Read more... )

So the beauty of my new apartment is that they allow dogs. Any kind of dog. No fee required, no size or breed restriction.

And since the entire building is hardwood floor apartments, basically everyone has one.

I've been looking at petfinder.com pretty much since I moved in (ok, and before then). Today I asked for an application for this fellaI ( Read more... )

My brother is in town. Its nice when he's here. Its a sense of normalcy in a town that is otherwise foreign and chaotic ( Read more... )

So to get everyone up to speed I shall speak in bullet points ( Read more... )

Dear allison,
Here is your horoscope
for Tuesday, August 7:

Your good energy helps you glide right through the day, no matter what's going on. Obstacles won't matter (much), and you might just find that a thorny work or school issue vanishes -- never to return! It totally did. So we're buying a property at work. But we don't plan on keeping it ( Read more... )

someday I'll write a real entry ( Read more... )

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Jason : you know girls, find me one
Allison : the only ones i know there are either taken or married
Jason : can you import one?
Jason : I have a spare bedroom
Allison : try craigslist
Jason : isn't that for hookers?
Allison : beggars can't be choosers, jason