Filed under: Personal | Tags: Broad Street Run, Brooklyn Half Marathon, eHarmony, I have mice, iphone, Mexico, Mousesnaps, Mousetraps, running, starting a business, swine flu
Despite what the weather in New York would have you believe, it’s nearly July. And since this blog is all about “mytwothousandnine,” I think this would be a good time as any to do a six month review.
The highlights:
- Took hand-painted mousetraps from a half-baked idea to a half-baked LLC
- Pest Control Technology , Insects in the City, and Examiner.com agreed
- Met the goal of running the Broad Street Run 10 minutes faster than 2008
- One-upped myself and ran the Brooklyn Half-Marathon
- Got promoted
The low lights:
- Sat through a date where the man showed up with cat drool on his sweater (thanks eHarmony!)
- Spent roughly $700 in two weeks on iPhones (yes, plural – thanks New York Sports Club petty thieves!)
- May or may not be able to manage the triathlon swim within the next month
- Timed my Mexico vacation in conjunction with a swine flu outbreak
- Can’t manage to get excited for more than 10 minutes at a time about any major accomplishment
All in all, it’s bee a good ride. If the rest of the year is anything like the last six months, there’s sure to be a few more wins and a few more losses. Hopefully, they’ll balance out – and if they don’t, at least you can’t say I didn’t try.
Filed under: Personal | Tags: antelope, co-workers, gazelle, grammar, iphone applications, spanish, Translator application
Today, I used the Translator application on my iPhone to learn how to say “Yo soy una sudoroso gacela.”
Or, “I am a sweaty gazelle.” (It’s an inside joke, read all about it.)
My co-worker was pretty impressed that the application actually worked. But if my high school Spanish serves me correctly, adjectives follow the noun.
“So shouldn’t it be ‘gacela sudoroso’?” I asked him.
He agreed – but not before demanding to know why I cared so much about Spanish grammar.
“Because.” I told him. “If I say that to someone, I don’t want to look stupid.”
I suspect it’s a little too late for that, Sweaty Gazelle. A little too late.
While in Mexico this past week, my friends and I had the pleasure of meeting Diego – our resort’s resident DJ and entertainment staff extraordinaire.
Whenever we saw Diego around the resort and asked, “How are you?” – he’d respond, “How do I looks?”
It was pretty adorable and borderline condescending, which as you may know, are two of my favorite things.
As such, I’ve decided that if anyone says anything remotely similar to, ”SWINE FLU! How are you?”over the next few days, I’m to take a note from Diego and say, “How do I looks?”
Filed under: Personal | Tags: customer service, FedEx, Hewlett-Packard, HP, ipod, laptop
Technology is failing all around me.
On Saturday, the wireless assistant on my laptop broke and after spending a half hour on the phone with Federico, the customer service associate from HP, it seemed that the most logical course of action was for HP to FedEx me an empty box so that I could ship my computer back to them to be fixed. Federico seemed to be hyperventilating when he told me this and I assumed it was because he thought the situation was just as ridiculous as I did, but it turns out he was just out of breath from “running across the room to get a manual.”
This morning, my iPod mysteriously deleted all of my music. And my cell phone is presently on its last leg – but that’s only because I forgot to charge it last night and let’s face it, I don’t really use it anyway.
All I know is that the only thing left in my room that requires electricity is a lamp – which technically doesn’t even belong to me, is currently missing a shade and isn’t actually hooked up to my light switch. And so help me God if that fails too.
