Dilemma

Recently I purchased a new publication from someone I know professionally and usually see about once a year.  I was reading this a couple weeks ago and something about some of it felt very familiar.  Today it dawned on my where it might have come from and I looked it up. 

The pages I was wondering about are pretty identical to a magazine article published in December 2004.  The article is not long available on line without paying serious money but I have a copy of it.  Some of it is copied word for word and what is even worse that part of the article is describing another person's methodology which was properly credited in the magazine article.  There are a couple people who worked on this publication so maybe the credit got removed during editing or something.

So I am not sure what to do, but I need to do something.  Any ideas?

Humble, lovable shoe shine boy?

Am I the only one who likes Underdog?  I keep seeing this ad for the new Underdog movie and whenever I mention it, I get blank stares and/or silence.  Surely someone other than me (and my brothers) like Underdog?

The Great Walk Challenge

Congratulations Jack on winning the walk challenge !!!

Thanks Laurie for walking with us and being our fabulous scorekeeper! The final scores are below.

Based on my rough calculations Jack averaged over 6 miles/day, Laurie over 2 miles/day and I a bit under 5.4 miles/day. All in all a good showing for each of us considering the physical stuff like Laurie was not a walker, Jack did it in spurts, and I broke a toe during it. Then there was the stuff happening in our lives during the challenge like my place of work making a mad dash not to go under and then going under, Laurie's becoming a grand fabulous mother and Jack's, ummm..., life.

Before we started, I was walking about 5 miles most days, now that the challenge is over I hope to start walking for about an hour every morning, and then maybe a short walk in the evening around dinnertime. I am working on having the proper equipment so I can walk everyday. I have the hot sunny days worked out, poncho for the rainy ones, wind pants and yak trax for the snowy/icy ones but I still need new hiking boots (mine bit the dust last year) and winter clothing. I have some power dry, lots of fleece, wool for trousers and ultrex to play with. I lost a few mittens last year so I need to make some of those. I am most excited about the polar dry and wondering if it could also be used for dance work out stuff too.

The Walk Challenge

Total Steps to Date

Jack...768,422

Susan..683,181

Laurie.260,768

Week 1 (5/13/07 - 5/19/07)

Jack....67,568

Susan...69,357

Laurie..38,634

Week 2 (5/20/07 - 5/26/07)

Jack...150,501

Susan...77,752

Laurie..41,081

Week 3 (5/27/07 - 6/2/07)

Jack....74,037

Susan...54,750

Laurie..37,247

Week 4 (6/3/07 - 6/9/07)

Jack....48,759

Susan...79,352

Laurie..33,308

Week 5 (6/10/07 - 6/16/07)

Jack....50,869

Susan...86,242

Laurie..31,791

Week 6 (6/17/07 - 6/23/07)

Jack....61,615

Susan...54,828

Laurie..16,644

Week 7 (6/24/07 - 6/30/07)

Jack...129,251

Susan...67,949

Laurie..19,618

Week 8 (7/1/07 - 7/7/07)

Jack....82,199

Susan...72,986

Laurie..19,065

Week 9 (7/8/07 - 7/14/07)

Jack...103,623

Susan...93,653

Laurie..23,380

So I am beginning to recover

from CONvergence.  I was going to put some of my pics up and I can't find my camera!!!  I hope it turns up soon. 

For those of you who can't wait for me to find the camera, C. pointed me to this blog, http://rubyd.livejournal.com/306444.html that has some nice tame pictures, even one with me in it! 
Based on what I am wearing I believe it was taken at about 2am on Sunday morning, after a mere 19 hrs at con with about 5 hrs sleep between Friday and Saturday. 

I am still keeping relatively late hours but I plan to be wide eyed and bushy tailed at 8am tomorrow, and at 6am by Monday morning.

Hopefully I will find the camera soon and can post my pics.  Perhaps it is hanging out with the library book I lost called "getting unstuck."  On the plus side, I do know where my favorite necklace is, Jack ;-)

I could have danced all night, I could have danced all night

oh wait...I did. At least some, and I didn't want to stop, but but was 4am and was invited to a tea at 11am.
So its 5am now and I am home in one piece.

I won a Canadian trivia contest and Sci Fi video bingo!!!!! Neither of which I am an expert on by any stretch of imagination, but I won!!!

Since Friday I have been at CON, more later and even perhaps pictures. I really ought to go to sleep soon.

So I have my Sunday's free again

so I join my brother in his frequent Sunday activity which is rebate shopping. 
I am not very good at this, I pretty much have to fill out of the forms and everything right after we shop or I forget.  Usually its just sport unless there is something you really want, then its deadly serious.

I really wanted a new hard drive for backup since I am getting my life organized. Jack showed me what he was doing in Quicken when I was down there visiting and it seemed like a good idea esp as I am unemployed now. I am also going to organize a bunch of stuff and want to use my current back up drive for that.

So we get to the store at 9:40 and there are 4 guys sitting in 4 cars, 1 guy standing in front of the store.  We get out and wait with him.  I try various things to see if I can get my pedometer going while we wait, the only things that works is pacing and I could have lost my space in line if I did that. More guys show up, store employees slide themselves into the store and carefully close and lock all sets of doors afterwards.

My brother and I discuss strategy.  He will go for the drives and I will go for the free after rebate things. This was Office Depot and they have been changing a bunch of stuff. he tells me where he thinks they are.  We are not sure about the drives so he will find and ask the manager. 

In times past sometimes he would go early, load up a couple carts and then call me and friends to come help check out.  These things are usually 1 per address.  I am a bit out of practice, I have forgotten my office max coupon so they can match it and we are not working like the well oiled machine we were in the past when we got ourselves every freebie (including a car tv) plus the rebate items.

I can't find the free after rebates things, so I find him at the drives, there are 3 of them, we grab the two best looking ones.  They are listed at $199, marked down to $89, we have $40 rebate. Its a 250g seagate external UBS2 drive, a bit slower than firewire but not bad for $60. We found the freebies too. There were also a hardware and an auto parts store with stuff.

I just finished filling out the rebate forms. We got each a drive, 3m glue stick, two side repositionable roller 3m tape, 3 pk of energel pens, box of 4x6 inkjet photo paper, 2 gallons of antifreeze, 2 gal of prem bug wash window washing fluid, a microfiber towel, elmers polyurethane glue, 2 pks ge softwhite 4pk light bulbs, a utility lighter, an assortment of 3 plastic funnels, 16oz murphy oil soap, tech stain remover, and black tire wet protectant.

Cost for the above after rebates- $68.53 including tax and stamps to mail in the rebates.  Not bad, not bad at all.. 

Oh except for a kid who was some nerd's daughter, I was the only female doing rebate shopping this morning, another place to pick up guys for your list Laurie!  One could just find the best thing on sale & rebate and hold it ransom until a cute nerd wants it. Today everyone was going for the drives and some inkjet printer that was too infer by our standards so we left it.

Anyway if anyone wants to play this game, just email me and I will try and forward any decent deals I hear about and you too can do it.