Day In The Life of Baz

Now I’m not sure exactly what possessed me to do this to myself, but this is how it started. I was walking through Walmart, doing my basic grocery shopping, when I passed by the DVD section. I saw a DVD entitled Hatchet . On the cover there was this hatchet covered in blood, so I figured that this would be some basic generic horror flick that I could use to kill an hour or two. Come on now, I wasn’t looking for the next Saw or anything, but I figured it would at least be within the league of One Missed Call .

Boy, was I wrong. The plot , if you can call it that, was somewhat reminisent of Wrong Turn : super strength, disformed guy goes on killing rampage. This movie reminded me of those early 90’s over the top horror films. There were heads twisted around, there was gushing blood that looked like a garden hose squirting Cool-Aid, arms being ripped out, etc.

I really need to stop this self torture; it’s not healthy.

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As you guys must know, the iPhone 2.0 came out yesterday (July 11th, 2008). The only new appeal is that 3G network access and the GPS. I didn’t really pay it much mind, because as you know, I’m not an iPhone kinda guy . It’s just more than I need right now. I work a 9 to 5 at a software company, then leave work and come home to my Windows/Ubuntu box. So, I don’t have a real need to be any more connected.

Then, this morning, I got a text message from a friend:

Jesus Phone

Then he called me (he still couldn’t receive calls at the time. Brand new activation and all). Then we started talking about his new iPhone. How it’s changed his life and he loves it so much.

So I started to wonder, Do I want an iPhone? My T-Mobile contract is about to expire in a few months, so I’m seriously considering it.

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Well someone told me some time ago that I should be more sociable and try to make more friends. So when some of my coworkers offered to have me over for poker night, I figured why not?

So this is how night one goes. There’s a $20.00 buy in . That’s what everyone pays to have a stack of chips in front of them for the night. Now, from here it varies depending on how many players there are, but usually the 1st place winner gets most of the money and the 2nd place gets $30.00 back .

Now, night one was the 1st time I’ve played this game. I even brought along, what I now call, my lucky cheat sheet. It’s just a list of hands and stuff, nothing useful. I actually managed to stay in until 2nd place and got back $30 bucks. So I’m $10 up and loving it.

Night two, didn’t go as good. I can’t remember when I got knocked out, but it was way before 2nd place so I was out $20.00, for a net effect of $10 under.

Extra Bucks

As you guys should know by now, Lava is my resident Personal PF blogger. Yesterday morning, she gave me a call ranting and raving about this crazy lady that bought $250 worth of groceries for $10 . Needless to day, I was a bit intrigued. After doing a bit of research myself , I found that the story goes like this:

1. You sign up for CVS Extra Care program and wait 2 weeks to receive the Extra Care card .
2. You stalk the store a little bit and get some Extra Value booklet or something like that. This book is supposed to list all the items that are available for Extra Bucks for that week/month.
3. You buy stuff that gives you Extra Bucks. It’s sort of like an instant rebate .
4. You use the bucks your got to buy more stuff that gives you bucks.
5. Rinse and repeat.

Here’s a typical example: You’re first purchase may be some deodorant that normally goes for $3.00 , but this week there’s a special where you get $3.00 extra bucks on that purchase (Yeah, so technically, it’s free - just pay sales tax). Now because you just started this, there’s going to be no initial savings , except if you used some other coupons or something.

Now we all have our horror stories with our favorite delivery folk, but I’m having a tough time with FedEx, when the package does not require a signature.

This is the second time this fun stuff has happened. The last time I purchased a cell phone for Lava’s Christmas gift. I always like to track my packages online while they are in transit. So for the entire day that I was at work, I was checking the package info. At about 2:04pm, to my utter horror, I saw that the package had been delivered and left at doorstep . Now mind you, I get home at 5:45 pm for the earliest. My jaw just dropped.

For those of you wondering, what’s the big deal , I live in an apartment complex. The neighbor in the building that I live in, whom I don’t know or speak to, has to walk very near my door to get to his apartment. Now, I’m not claiming that anyone is dishonest, but isn’t this just a bit too inviting? They have to pass the apartment complex office on their way out; how hard is it to dump it there?