Chip's Spynotebook

I feel like I have been productive today although I haven’t done much to feel that way.

I went for a walk today and it was REALLY cold. Yes, I know that some of you are reading this from colder places but it has been 70 here in the past week so today is really cold for Athens.

The Sunday brunch plan is working out nicely. Today I had lunch at the Grit with :hannah:, :jenny:, and :carrieoke:. I think that :carrieoke: and I nerded out a bit too much for the blondes with talk of MT-Blacklist and which versions of MT we were running. But hey, when I have the chance to geek out, I’m going to take it.

After lunch, I went to my grandparents house for a while and heard about my sister’s wedding dress, some wine with a UGA label they sell at the Krogers, and how I might go about fixing my lamp post.

:jenny: called me as I was leaving there and offered to sew up where my sweater is coming apart but I felt like coming home and reading my books and possibly taking a nap.

Two day weekends are the devil.

• If you are in Norway trying to get from Haugesund to Trondheim (and who reading this hasn’t?) then don’t ask Microsoft’s Map Point for
  directions.

It was a very short list.

Kate and I hung out yesterday. We had lunch at the Grill and dinner at Thai of Athens. We watched a lot of Coupling (Series One) and also watched Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle.

I am having brunch at the Grit today and then I need to read the PHP/MySql books.

First off, thank you person in my neighborhood with the “linksys” network that is letting me online right now. it looks like my provider, Snappy DSL, is no working right now. I thought it was my home network at first but now that I have logged on to someone else’s network, I can’t get to Snappy. I guess they are down? That seems kind of weird but we’ll work under that assumption for right now.

I went to Border’s and spent $100 of the school’s money on computer books for the help desk. Two books on PHP/MySQL, one on CSS, and one on A+ Certification (for Dummies. That’s me!). So, my weekend is going to be full of internetty fun. Or rather, it was going to be before the system went down. Let’s hope it comes back.

:hannah: and Kate came over tonight to watch “Point Pleasant”. It really really sucked. I don’t even feel like writing about it for :culture:. Maybe someone else will. At first I thought Jack Wagner was in it but then I realized I was having some weird kind of Melrose Place Dyslexia and it was actually Grant Show.

20 Questions to a Better Sense of Humor

Sunny/Dark: 6/10
drY/Gross: 4/10
Traditional/Offbeat: 2/10
Active/Passive: 4/10

You are a DYT–Dark Dry Traditional. This makes you a Cynic.

You’re a realist. You’ll take the piss out of anything, and do it with style and a skinny gray tie. You find humor in the mundane. When the mundane is thousands of working class families watching their retirement savings get snarfed by unpunished white collar bandits, that REALLY gets the larfs.

You bring humor with you, and can flip over any situation to find the tender funny underbelly.

Incidentally, you’re better equipped than anyone else to shake off the bad things happen to you. Mysterious lump? You’ve seen scarier lumps in your garlic cheesey grits. It seems like nothing makes you truly happy, but nothing really upsets you, either.

Your comic sensibility was more in tune with the eighties. But cross your fingers — another coupla years of Bush and maybe we’ll work up a nice Reagan-era national bitterness again. A sardonic orange cat will once again rule the newsprint, and Springsteen’ll write more righteous Jersey retro-cock-rock anthems for the progressive pols of 2024 to cold gank. What’s past is prologue!

You might like David Letterman, or maybe stay up to see if Conan has another “Pierre Bernard’s Recliner of Rage.”

Of the 2849 people who have taken this quiz, 10 % are this type.

Your Active humor score of 4/10 means you’re a yellow dash of comedy down the middle of the humorous road. You prefer to listen than to be the center of attention, inserting funny observations and comments rather than driving the herd. That’s cool. Just remember that the quantity of funny you provide tends to make people think you’re up to something.

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Thanks :amym:!