LX3 2 LX5
Did you know Panasonic upgraded their awesome Lumix LX3 to the newer, and probably even awesomer, LX5? Will I ever get the GF-1?
It Follows Me
After the post about looking for sneakers, I had stopped by Zappos.com to check out if they had the sizes I wanted. I did find what I needed there, but didn’t buy anything. You know zappos does you well by not charging you shipping for your shoes you buy especially if you had to return them. Except now at every website I visit, Zappos.com is taunting me with the shoes. Seems they’re following me everywhere I go. I guess the only way to stop this is to buy a pair.
Down with whites
Never could stand white sneakers. Unfortunately, white is their predominant. Yeah, it makes it hard to buy sneakers, then. I don’t like white sneakers, because once you get them dirty, they become ugly.
But I can’t stand black sneakers, they make your feet look tiny. Black is also sneaker’s second most popular color. The set of sneakers I can buy gets smaller and smaller as I shop.
I went sneaker shopping today and bought a pair of grey Adidas. Now there’s a color to like. This pair are running shoes. I looked at some casual Sperry slip-ons, but no size 9. They have 9 1/2, which were a tad too big. I would’ve liked to have compared the 9 to 9 1/2 just to see if they felt better. I then found the Adidas (9 1/2) that I bought, but I am completely underwhelmed with them. I still bought them as I like the brand and the color, but I kept searching for another pair.
I checked out tennis shoes. What a difference! They fit and feel better than running shoes. I’ve been deceiving myself all my life. Because tennis demands white, all tennis shoes are white. They don’t have another color except black — the two colors I can’t stand. Yet, now I have to get a pair of white tennis shoes because they feel so much better than the running shoes that I’ve been buying.
My prejudice has been arrested. White it is.
Apple Store/AT&T pre-order FAIL!
This damn thing will cost as much as the original iPhone! Been trying all morning to pre-order it. I was slightly successful the first time around. The time being about 8:00 AM. It was in my shopping cart. I stared at it for a few minutes and decided to change my plan. I clicked edit, and, tada, Apple store down screen shot. Here at work IE7 seems to not like displaying the purchase page correctly. I don't know if that is affecting submission of form.I downloaded the new Apple Store App. Tried to purchase. App crashes out to main screen.Hilarity!I wonder if it is all worth it considering I feel like white this time. When's that white coming out? "End of summer." FRACK!
That’s it?
So I started getting my stuff in order in my house. Things are still scattered all over my house, but I spent most of the morning cataloging my books using Delicious Monster’s Library. I’ve got lots and lots and lots of books almost 400, and I’ve yet to go into my office with the bookshelves. Tons of the books are manga. I’m gonna have to get rid of quite a few, because I can’t bear to re-read them or I didn’t like in the first place.
I decided to make use of the local used bookstore in town, Ukazoo. I know they buy books back, so I pack up my eight volumes of Black God and the volume of Biomega to test drive the book buy back. I’m no longer fascinated with Black God, and Biomega is not my cup of tea.
Into a bag they go, and I am off to Ukazoo. I drop them off at the buy back desk and wander around the store giving them a chance to decide how much they will pay me for used books.
Ukazoo’s manga section is somewhat sparse and features many older titles. I would like to grab a few, but that would defeat my purpose for coming here — to offload my junk without gaining any new junk.
I get back to the buy back desk. $4.98. Couldn’t they just make it a nice round $5?
I ask if they get any manga. She says they do, but they usually go to the warehouse to be sold online!!
So, I paid about $100 for 9 volumes of manga. They’ll buy it back for $5. They’ll then sell the manga for $4 a piece. I don’t know whether to feel outraged or relief.
On the one hand, my money is gone and I am not even coming close to recouping the cost. The store is gonna make good scratch off of me. On the other hand, my house is a smidge less cluttered. On the third hand, they only gave me $4.98!
Is the cost of having a less cluttered house worth $4.98? I think it may be, but I wish it was worth more. I feel foolish to accept such pittance, but I really want to get rid of this clutter. I did think about donating books to the public library for free and yet, I am bothered by this offer.
Should I be?
Link of the Day [4.26.10]
When my nephew was born, for his first Christmas I was thinking of getting him some Apple stock. I remember the run up to that December 25th. Apple (APPL) was mired in the low teens. I could hardly believe it. So when I found out that (at the time) you could purchase a single share, I thought it would've made a great present. But I talked myself out of it because why would a baby need stock in Apple?Now look at it here. I kept telling myself to buy APPL but never did. Who knew you could become a millionaire betting on APPL? It still keeps going up and up!Today's link is blocked at work. I hope this is correct.http://www.kyleconroy.com/apple-stock.php
Buy This Now! Part 98.68
Now here’s a product I can get behind! Beer! It’s what’s in my hand. Not really but beer is always good. And sharing with a young hottie is even better.
Once again, buy things based on the hotness of the girl in the commercial. So run, don’t walk or drive to your local bar and drink, drink, drink all the beer you can. It doesn’t have to be a Heineken.
Buy This Now! Part 23.24
This girl is hot. The car or whatever you call that thing. Not.
I suggest you buy things based on the hotness of the girls in the commercial.
I’m at my local Lexus dealer.
Cheese curls
Looking for snacks before the storm?
I wish Planter’s still made their cheese snack line especially their cheese curls. I loved that they advertised on the can that it was made with real cheese flavor. Hmm, made with cheese flavor? That doesn’t sound like it was made with real cheese though.
As far as getting snowed in. I’ve already got some ramen and some eggs. I just need the salty snack to help while away the lonesome day.