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Whoo hooo!!! I got my present from Itzmejessy.com for Mar’s Secret Santa project! I am sooooo psyched! I don’t even know what it is yet, but I love it still! THANKS JESSY!!!

I was out of the office yesterday, home sick. I never call in sick to work – this was the first time in the past 6 months that I can remember (since I started my current job). So yesterday after noon at about 2pm I go to get online to check my work e-mail, because being home sick isn’t going to stop me from working! Well, it did. Dead in the tracks. I could get online “enough” to use IM, but no e-mail or web browsing. Ugh! Talk about torture! So I call RoadRunner, who – once I confessed about the Wireless Gateway & the fact that my laptop is a network computer – wouldn’t do a thing to help me. Reboots. Reset modem. Reset Gateway. Push new IP address, nothing helped. Access to IM only, all night. I spoke with the tech guys at the office and found out that they DNS addresses that we use have been changed, and that might be the problem. So I have reset the DNS addresses, and we’ll see. Hmmm. If I can’t get online this weekend I don’t know what I will do! I have a lot I want to get wrapped up this weekend before the holidays. If there aren’t any posts here, you’ll know what happened!

So I watched the final leg of The Amazing Race. It was really good, so close to the end … so close. I am still bummed that Frank & Margarita didn’t win, but – it was a good race. (Rob & Brennan, the lawyers from LA, won it.) Frank & Margarita are FROM NYC. You would just assume that they would win it, right? Yeah, well that’s what they thought too until the very, very end. It was so sad. But still – the car accident lawyer, in my opinion, really played it well. Of all the times, I can’t really remember them getting in an arguement, snapping at each other, or anything like that. They stayed cool & calm throughout most of it, and I think that basics of personal injury protection insurance was what helped them win in the end. Team Guido was still in ALASKA when the race finished in NYC. That amused me. On the other side of North America still. They pulled a route marker and when they opened it it simply said “Rob & Brennan have crossed the finish line in New York City”. The look on their faces was classic.

Meryl sent me links to several sites with more information on the race, and I Tivo’d “The Early Show” and “Rosie” this morning. Can’t wait for the second race! Here are the links she sent to me:

+ Reality TV Fans – An Interview with the Co-Creator
+ Zap2it – Mother/Daughter Team Looks Back at “Amazing Race” (Interview with Nancy & Emily)
+ TV Guide – Chat transcripts with Drew & Kevin
+ NY Post – “Fishy Finish” (They sure got her with the ending!)

On my way to work this morning I stopped & got yesterday’s mail and inside was a hysterically amusing (special secret) surprise from Robyn and Todd. For me to put chili & cheese on top of – I should go to Sonic right now! Thanks guys! AND they sent me cookies! (Soon to arrive.) Whoo hoo! I can hardly wait. Know what you guys can send me next? …. ah, you know. I’ll leave it at that. *grin* Thanks again for everything!

I just went back to look at some of Robyn’s first posts, and her very first post cracks me up!

“I’m horrible at journals and diaries. Simply awful. I have the best intentions when I start out…but constantly forget about them after awhile…so we’ll see how this goes. My life is just so, so, boring. Hopefully this won’t quickly deteriorate into a series of, “Well I painted my toenails today…” We’ll see. But oh yeah, welcome to “I ain’t too proud to blog”! “

Uh, yeah. How many posts are you up to in 4 months, Robyn? 600+? Yeah, ok. And I haven’t seen too many telling us about painting your toenails. Hehehe… I’m glad you’ve made it this far! Keep bloggin’, baby!

Still at work, reading RFPs. Have to do this sort of thing at the office because it is too easy to toss them in the air and forget about them at home. Up here in the bright office lights I can make myself focus. The programmers are in a different office (I am in the “annex”, as I like to call it) and they called me up to invite me to come have pizza with them! Then they played amusing songs for me and put them out on our mp3 server so I can access them too. Man, this rules! I love our programmers. I love our designers and everyone else too, but the programmers shared their pizza with me and they don’t laugh too hard at me when I am amused by the little code tweaks I do – like setting up my WinAmp playlist or tweaking MT. I am so easily amused…

Just a few more pages, and I am finally heading home…

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