Photo-A-Day #1399
No, I haven’t gone crazy spending some stimulus package. Am I the only one sick of seeing those scam ads on Facebook? No, I watched OfficeDepot as the price fell on the Wacom Bamboo Tablet and the 4 port USB hub. The Samsung camera was a giveaway from a generous sponsor at IZEAFest 2008. And generous Swag is reason #9 for going to IZEAFest 2009. The 1 TB FreeAgent XTreme external hard drive from Seagate. I won that from a contest on The Dirty Shirt. Today I finally put these items to use.
I hooked up the hard drive and set it to backup the video and photo folders of our other external hard drive. I also made sure that that particular drive was up to date with my travel external hard drive. And if that is not anal enough I have another external hard drive of just Eva photos. The 1 TB FreeAgent XTreme will go into our fireproof lockbox. I will also find another safe place for the Eva hard drive and do my backups once each month. So now I have to set up a reminder message to myself for once a month backups.
Speaking of getting things done, today I finally picked up my glasses, the ones that were $200 more than the Zenni Optical ones that I am wearing right now. The company called me wondering why I hadn’t picked up the glasses in 4 months. Oops.
So I grabbed them, then stopped over at my Gym to cancel my membership. Gyms are such scams. I know that I paid 1st and last months fees but they said I have to bring my original paperwork back to confirm that. Really, they didn’t have that on file somewhere? I find that hard to beleive so tomorrow I bring them my paperwork.
Oh and I also got my car inspected. My plan to have it inspected at least one day into the new month after the last one expired is working. I figure if I do it for 12 months I get one year free. That is probably not what is happening but I like to think it is.
And I love On Demand by Comcast because they had Wolverine and the X-Men was on Nickelodeon for free. I also found Marvel on Twitter. I love that they are using Twitter. I’m going to find some of the other media sources that I love as well. Hey great, news IDW publishing is on twitter too! They are the people who do the Angel, Transformers and G.I. Joe comic books.
It’s about time you picked up those glasses! That’s really too funny.
I don’t understand that getting your car inspected thing at all…
I also thought you might be interested in this: Jeffrey’s cousin, Robert Atkins is a comic book artist. He’s currently working on that GI Joe series. Here’s his website.
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Anna,
Yeah it took me a long time to do that and I’m not even wearing them.
As far as the car inspection by waiting till the month after it was due I could essentially get one free year by adding one full month a year for 12 years. It is crazy I know.
I will check out Jeffrey’s cousin. I do like G.I.Joe. Now it looks like I need to keep collecting that one. You should tell him to get twitter.
I also do the Car inspection thing. The only thing is it takes 12 years of owning a car to actually have that 1 free year. Usually I have bought another car by then resetting my whole free year.
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Lenny,
Ah, I didn’t figure on the switching cars thing. I will most likely be driving my honda civic for 12 years though, so that might work however I didn’t start this until 3 years ago so I have a ways to go. I knew someone would understand my logic.