A waste of bits and bandwidth

Wedding expenses; ugh. The wife and I have been sharing a document to track everything that we need to pay for, plan etc. I had the brilliant idea that a spreadsheet work work better so I decided to create one and share it with her, yada, yada, yada…

Now I’ve always considered myself fairly handy with finances and all. I track shit. I keep my receipts. I total it and manipulate it in multiple spreadsheets. I put it into categories figuring that someday I’ll do something with all my data.

I spent over three hours Saturday trying to get the number to reconcile properly resulting in a near total loss of brain function. The problem being that MiHwa has paid several deposits meaning she obviously owes less for some things than me. Other things she has paid for outright. I figured it might have been wrong of me to ‘overlook’ that and just split everything 50/50, hence my descent into spreadsheet hell. I think I finally have it right. She says it looks good but I dunno how closely she looked at it. I wonder if she’d notice a sundry MacBook item…

Today it was DimSum with the usual suspects. Sweet feathery moses, that stuff doesn’t sit well with me. I like it and all but I feel like crap afterward and today was no different. I ate over 9 hours ago and I honestly don’t feel that digestion has started. I even walked home in an attempt to speed up the process but no luck.

On the other hand, I really didn’t need to do anything for dinner…

Mac fans will have had this day marked on their calendars for months now; His Steveness and his [tag]Macworld[/tag] keynote. Being the only mac user I know, this will appeal to no one and that makes me smile. Is that wrong? Should I be saying that out loud?

The Apple TV was announced today looks interesting; not interesting enough for me to spend $350 on it but interesting. After all the work I’ve gone to in order to get [tag]MythTV[/tag] working with my xBox Media Center I really don’t see the need. It’s not like it records TV and unless you live in the US and can download TV from iTunes, it’s really just a wireless share. Maybe I’m missing something but until I can buy a box with a tuner that records TV, I’ll stick with what I have.

The [tag]iPhone[/tag] was also announced. The software looks super cool (it’s running [tag]OS X[/tag]) and I would welcome the easy mac sync but the form factor left me cold. At first glance it reminds me of the old Sony cell phones of a few years ago. Maybe all those iPhone videos that people dreamed up got to me. Having just upgraded my phone, I’m pretty happy with it. It’s not like the iPhone would work up here anyway, I have an iPod already and who can really afford a decent data plan anyway? Still, it’s pretty slick.

His Steveness talked for two hours and over an hour of that was iPhone related. There was no talk of [tag]Leopard[/tag] (seriously, wtf?). None at all, not even a “we’re still on track…”. I doubted they could get it out for Macworld though there was talk it would be released to beat down on Vista a little more. Still, throw us a bone…

iLife 2007 was also absent and it always gets upgraded at Macworld so that was odd. As well, all the rumours of .mac upgrades were wrong as there were none. None announced anyway. Not that I care. $120 a year for an email account and 2GB of storage is a joke. Actually, it would be a joke if it was reliable and worked well. Given what I read online, .mac is an utter waste of money.

Well, back to Google Reader to read the latest…

Shaddap… You try coming up with a new title for every post.

I had a great time at the game on Friday. It wasn’t the best game in the world but it had it’s moments. These moments included the two mouth breathers down our aisle who decided they should get back to their seats during play and were making their way past us as the ‘Nucks scored. Nice.

There was also this kid behind us who screamed for the entire game. He was switching between doing colour commentary and shouting encouragement. I’m sure my ear drum was perforated by midway through the second period. Kate was really annoyed with him from the start. Her mood didn’t improve after he jumped up and whatever he was eating flew in the air, coming down on her head and the jacket of the girl sitting two spots away. Dad seemed oblivious to it all… This is why I generally don’t like the other humans.

In other news, we were happy as hell to find our section had won a prize package of some sort! Spanky, Kate and I set off to collect our loot during the intermission. Imagine our disappointment to find that we had won the right to give away all our personal information. “You mean we don’t get a lot of booze right now?” We decided to pass on that one.

Biff was over on Saturday night. I made little mention of his latest facial hair experiment though it didn’t go unnoticed. We grabbed some bad Chinese food and then hit Starbucks. And yes, he lost his glasses. He noticed that they were missing after spotting what he thought was a girl getting undressed in the apartment across the street. It was likely a curtain moving the the breeze. In any event, this was the moment that he realized that he didn’t have his glasses.

We looked everywhere and they aren’t here. No, I’m not just saying that. As someone who has worn glasses since I was 13, can I just say that I’ve never lost a pair of glasses? He and I have similar eyes so neither of us wear them all the time and yet he ‘loses’ his once a year. I’m betting something at Prada caught his eye…