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Yes, that really was my first blog post in a very long time. My only excuse is that I've been busily tweeting, once I discovered how easy it was to use my Twitter posts to update my Facebook status. I wonder if I can wire that stuff to here. Granted, the posts will be short, but short is better than nothing, right? True, that claim didn't do much for my dating life, but maybe this'll be different. Or not.

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It's the little things

For the next couple of weeks I'll be driving a rental car, while my Camry is having the crunch taken out of its left side. (No one was hurt, and the damage was relatively minor if not exactly inexpensive. Thanks for asking.) I accept that I'm a creature of habit, and I like my little conveniences. But is it ridiculous that I hate a rental so much based on the lack of a plugin for my iPod, or that I keep looking in vain for the navigation screen? I even resurrected the iPod radio transmitter I used with my last car, only to discover that this particular vehicle seems to lack a working power adapter. At least I assume that's the problem. Maybe the transmitter is the piece with the fault.

It's gonna be a long couple of weeks...

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09:54	Because everybody needs a hobby: http://www.modelmayhem.com/nothisdayjob
10:20	RT @donttrythis: Hey! 3 days left to buy a piece of Gen-U-Wine piece of Adam and Jamie built hardware for yourself! http://bit.ly/THGej
12:20	MN Supreme Court agrees at last: Al Franken is certifiable. As a Senator, I mean. http://bit.ly/OoM28
17:48	My TomTom arrived! So is it true that a man with three GPS units is never sure where he is?

11:09	This has to disappoint the conspiracy-minded: looks like Billy Mays died of a heart attack. So no blame to US Airways for a rotten landing.
11:16	@stephenson1987 Not to worry, Toni. I mentioned Ed in a tweet about Michael and Farrah a couple of days ago.
12:22	Watching Where Eagles Dare while I wait for the laundry to dry. Exciting no matter how many times I see it!
13:38	@ScaperSuse because you got me hooked, and then you cut off my supply!
14:04	@ScaperSuse I mean the collective you, not you personally.
15:25	@ScaperSuse Exactly! What's with this "leave 'em wanting more" business? Hence my fury at (almost) all things Canadian.
18:25	In today's snail mail, a card offering phony college wear with my name. Why would I, or anyone, want a sweatshirt from Shiffman University?
18:34	@_Rayna Could have been worse. At least they didn't give him life!

09:29	So the guy who made a fortune selling useless crap to people who didn't know how to say no is dead at fifty. American tragedy? Or karma?
09:44	@alwayscoffee More than annoying, Ali. He succeeded by preying on the weak willed. In a prior era he'd have been selling patent medicine.
10:28	@alwayscoffee Pitchmen are a special case, their products more useless than most. Great story on NPR's On The Media: http://bit.ly/LJcA0
11:22	From iPhone Alley podcast: "Semper Gumby - Always Flexible"
12:13	A beautiful day at Fort Baker. http://bit.ly/EjX4z http://yfrog.com/0xu8qj
16:29	@Emeraldcity3 Just finished a drive up to Sonoma. Felt good to get out.
19:04	Just finished watching the very last episode of Corner Gas. I am very sad. snif* (Also mad at Canadians. Except for* @ScaperSuse.)
20:02	Thanks to John Oliver and The Bugle podcast: http://thingsthatlooklikecocknballs.com/ Really.

06:45	@DaveHamilton I had enough of John. The information is good, and the podcast is entertaining, but John makes me grit my teeth way too much.
09:33	Shooting this afternoon but in front of the camera this time. Be afraid... (I know I am...)
13:17	Just signed my first Model Release. Suddenly I am very frightened...
14:53	@richcirminello Something new for the calendar. But I keep my clothes on for this one.
15:19	Crap! Citibank called: they're canceling my card and issuing me a new number. Second security breach in three months!
18:15	My latest shoot. As Ozymandias said, "Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" http://yfrog.com/0zho6jj
20:08	Just applied for a model profile on Model Mayhem to go with my photographer profile. Is this taking a joke too far? Or just far enough?
20:37	@renatojr_rj Sushi twice in one day isn't bad. Now Brazilian barbecue twice in one day; that's excessive!

08:53	I'm honored by these new people following my tweets, but wonder why they're doing it. Trying to sell me something?
11:59	Out of cash this morning. At the ATM, I discovered that he last user had forgotten her card. Lucky I caught her before she got to her car!
12:01	@renatojr_rj Are you sure they weren't on their cell? Either way, I think I'd back away slowly...
12:02	@mikefulton Naw, Mike; these people have what look like real tweets.
12:17	Listening to the latest Reduced Shakespeare podcast, an interview with Weird Al. References to both Michael and Farrah. But no Ed? snif
13:10	Now I regret missing Comic Con. They're going to do a live reading of the unfilmed thirteenth episode of The Middleman! http://bit.ly/RW3SZ
13:49	Just dumped Mac Geek Gab podcast from my iPod. "I've had all I can stands, and I can't stands no more!"
14:36	@ScaperSuse Hotter still would be pics in just* your new glasses.*
16:47	From TPM, joint Russian/Nigerian energy deal has the worst name ever. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8118721.stm
18:09	Playing with Wordnik. Sesquipedalian was disappointing, but Defenestrate is much more entertaining. http://bit.ly/YYxmY

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It's the little things

08:18	Supreme Court rules strip searching a 13 year old girl was excessive. Only Thomas disagrees, proving he's a bigger asshat than even Scalia.
08:30	An intelligent and insightful analysis of the situation in Iran. Has to be The Daily Show. http://bit.ly/vlKIC
09:44	Oh, MacBook! Is there anything you can't do? http://bit.ly/dQVud

11:36	@lomara FYI, that first shot in Weird Al's Craigslist video is of Monument Valley from Highway 163 on the way east to Mexican Hat, UT.
11:50	Whadayathink? Will "hiking the Appalachian Trail" join "jumping the shark" and "nuking the fridge" in the Euphemism Hall of Fame?
12:37	Just got the new version of my iPhone IM app with push notification. Good thing they haven't done that to the Twitter app!
13:45	Sayeth Valleywag: In all fairness to his aides, "I'm getting some Argentinian tail" sounds a lot like "I'm hiking the Appalachian trail."
13:57	Fox News claims Mark Sanford's a Dem. Innocent screwup or partisan asshattery? We report, you decide. http://bit.ly/11KxQf
17:49	I love this: modern social media meet wartime mindset! http://bit.ly/EcKyA

07:07	Man, that would* be terrible! http://bit.ly/cAnn9*
07:10	What a maroon! John Dvorak in 2007 on why the iPhone is a terrible idea. http://bit.ly/ehsnm
07:13	Spammer pleads guilty, faces 7 years in jail. What, no death penalty? http://bit.ly/3bkwKD
08:10	Now that was weird. All of a sudden, the Finder icon disappeared from the Dock on Mac OS X. Never saw that before.
09:14	How far have we come? An obsessive writer compares the iPhone 3GS to the Commode 64. http://bit.ly/1kJovJ
10:26	RT @JustaSunGod BWHAHA RT @voteforgrant: LOOOOOOL RT @wilw SFW picture: http://is.gd/1axvl giggle snort
12:38	@alwayscoffee D'you mean it's a good thing that you sometimes have self-control? Or it's sometimes a good thing that you have it?
13:27	Joy - Season 6 of Corner Gas is here! Sadness - After this, there will be no more.
18:27	It's stuff like this that make me want to take more road trips! http://bit.ly/1780fK
19:50	Just ordered my first batch of MOO Cards. Like so much else, this is all Rich's fault.

13:28	Guess I'm doing another road trip. Just booked the flight (and screwed up the return - twice!), the car and the first couple of hotels.
15:29	Gotta get a TomTom GPS for my road trip, so Homer Simpson's voice can keep me company. "Turn left! No, I mean right! Not there! D'oh!"
15:32	@sandrift Man, that would totally suck!

10:23	Done with breakfast. Now some room photography before we head to the airport.
13:56	A little Memphis barbecue before we drop off the car...
15:26	Sitting in an Irish bar next to our gate. Mmmmmm... Guinness...
17:24	On the plane. First flight: Vegas → El Lay.
18:32	Just landed at LAX. Can we go now?
19:46	On plane #2. Next stop: SFO!
21:09	Just landed. Now to head for BART and my car...
22:31	Home! So many pictures to go through...

00:36	Just finished shooting with Jody on the Strip. And the crowd goes crazy!
01:21	@Fawnnee Yep. Just finished a late shoot on the Strip.
09:50	Breakfast done. Now to find some bacon chocolate...
11:28	A question for Jillian: where do you find raw vegan beer?
12:20	We're all set. Ice, tequila, margarita mix. Cups? Who needs cups? The cooler has a spout...
18:33	A good day shooting among the red rocks. Now dinner at Bellagio, followed by another shoot on the Strip.
19:14	On line for the Bellagio buffet. At the moment it winds through two other hotels.
21:08	Just finished dinner. It was all good, but as buffets go, I think I'll give the nod to the Wynn.

08:37	@elkit Everybody habs, Elke. It's when the hab doesn't take that you have to rehab. It's like a second coat of paint. Or not.
13:00	Lines at Apple and AT&T Stores. Sony, not so much. Good thing they've discouraged me from upgrading my iPhone.
16:41	At the gate at SFO. Way too early as usual. Threat level orange - so what else is new?
16:48	Guess who just got tethering to work!
17:01	@elkit When will you make chocolate bacon ice cream? With chipotle...
17:07	@renatojr_rj See you at the gate!
20:13	Just landed in Vegas. Hungry and thirsty...
22:33	Jody says we're all nerds. This tweet is my denial.
22:34	At the Carnegie Deli, anticipating hot pastrami and a knish.
22:44	Jody: "That's a lot of meat!"
22:54	Jody is texting Rich, pretending to be RJ.
23:17	Jody: "My ass is starting to hurt."

08:20	This morning's lesson: triple shot lattes are not conducive to a good night's sleep. Who'd 've thought?
09:24	Ran into the ex-VP of Marketing for a bubble era startup disaster. All the old outrages are flooding back. Sad, infuriating & funny...
10:05	Car repair still not finished. Now they're promising by 4PM today. This time for sure!
10:35	This is why having a good editor is so important: http://bit.ly/dYW3W
11:25	A spammer who tried to get on my writer friend's forum can't. Why? Our automatic email bounced; their email host thinks we're* spammers!*
13:13	I want it on the record. Obama did not commit murder. It was merely a case of insecticide.
13:24	@_Rayna Sebastian Chebal? Didn't he play Mr. French on Family Affair?
14:12	@_Rayna Nope; I was talking about this guy: http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0001982/
14:18	@_Rayna Different guy. Although the beards look pretty similar.
14:48	@_Rayna Yes, Rayna. I know. I was making a little joke. (Darn Kiwis with their sense-of-humor-ectomies...)
15:57	Got my car back! "Reunited and it feels so good... Reunited and it's understood..."
18:37	My bags are packed and my boarding pass is printed. Tomorrow afternoon I'm off to Vegas, baby!
19:10	@Fawnnee Yep, another photo shoot. Oh, and some eating and drinking and maybe a little gambling.
19:10	@Emeraldcity3 Yeah, Jean, put me on that list. {:->

07:37	Just ordered my very own Colbert Coin. It'll look good next to my Wriststrong bracelet. http://www.nofactzone.net/?p=1705
10:40	Downloading the iPhone 3.0 update now. Wish me luck...
11:13	@mikefulton Mine took a little longer, Mike. But it's done, and so far everything's fine.
13:09	Won't get my car back until tomorrow morning. So sad...
15:49	Find My iPhone is such a cool feature! Could have used it a while back.
16:03	Nob Hill Foods had more gold kiwis. This makes me very happy.

08:05	Watching last night's Colbert Report. Looks like a dyed skunk on his head.
08:22	TomTom has Homer Simpson's voice for its GPS. It's a dream come true. Damn my Camry and its integrated nav system! http://bit.ly/188xqf
19:38	I haven't laughed at an inside joke this much since All Your Base Are Belong To Us! http://bit.ly/Vu26K
20:37	Finished my last gold kiwi tonight. Hope I can find some more. (Never had a gold kiwi? You don't know what you're missing.)
20:38	@dorumon_fanatic You did? How? Jailbroken?
21:14	@catconnor Yep. I love gold kiwifruit. My local supermarket had some for the first time. Hope this means I'll be able to find them again.

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10:42	Maryland prairie dogs escape $500,000 escape-proof enclosure. I say, send 'em to Gitmo! http://bit.ly/HT5Ds
11:31	Shop in Mtv View has bacon flavored toothpicks. Also gummy bacon, but strawberry flavor, not bacon. WTF?
13:07	Rain? In California? In June? WTF2!*
14:50	@fxrobot I plan to wait a couple of weeks and see if Googling turns up any indication of fraud. Then I'll deposit it and see what happens.
19:47	In case you were wondering, bacon chocolate isn't nearly as bacony as bacon cookies. If I hadn't known, I wouldn't have guessed bacon.
21:06	Just saw an add for Microsoft's bing.com search thing. A delirious raving pregnant woman; yeah, that'll make me abandon Google.
21:07	@renatojr_rj Not one of his better ideas, I'd say.

07:51	According to Slashdot, some guy built a Twitter client for his Commodore 64. 1982 tech in the 21st Century! I am so* impressed!*
13:55	Justice certainly isn't swift. Just got a check from an FTC action against a credit card scammer. The verdict was rendered on 8/29/2000!
22:36	Just finished watching the very last episode of Pushing Daisies. Bastards! How could you cancel something so amazing?

08:26	Going through my weekly upload to iStockphoto. They limit me more than any other agency, and yet it takes longer than any other agency.
11:29	Thinking about another road trip. Southwest flies to Boise, and in a week and change of driving I could hit WY, SD, ND and MT...
13:13	My first animal style burger & fries at In-N-Out. Not sure about the fries, but the burger's something I'd do again.