It's ALIVE

at least right now, my computer has come back to life.  My old home windows box which is going to be retired soon, Imac here I come, is back alive.  The video card was having all kinds of troubles this weekend so I thought it was pretty much dead.  Somehow it came back to life today as I was going to start backing up the hard drive onto an external for the move after MacWorld in January.

It's amazingly cold right now.  It's a whopping 12 degrees with a wind chill of ZERO.  I might have to try out my condo's fitness center's treadmill today.  I'm not sure running in this weather is good for the old lungs.  Since it got so cold last night I had the head on...I know SHOCKING!  The weird thing or maybe the cool thing about my heater is it rarely runs the heat element.  Most of the time it just recirculates the air which keeps the thermostat right at the desired temperature.  I guess probably all home heat does this but sometimes it pisses me off because it just seems like it's blowing cold air around.  I guess it probably wouldn't be so bad if I actually put the temperature at like 70 rather than 62. lol

I found out this weekend that Maryland is more of a dry state than Oregon.  It seems that you can't buy beer or wine at most grocery stores if not all grocery stores.  I guess Whole Foods has an exception or a special license but Safeway and Giant don't.  I had to walk to a liquor store to get a bottle of wine.  Lame...that's the best part of California is you can buy all liquor, beer, and wine at a grocery store.  However, this tells you how sad I am as I hadn't attempted to buy such things since I moved here last year.  The wine was for a little condo association get together.  I met some more neighbors so that was good.

I watched quite a few DVDs this weekend as Elena was at her house nursing her cold/cough.  I saw Tropic Thunder and it was way out there.  Funny but so wrong.  Tom Cruise dancing was hilarious and probably the best part of the movie.  I saw Fred Claus and it was a pretty good movie but not enough humor.  I think the Santa chase was the best part of the movie.

It's only 3 work days til Xmas...JOY!