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		<title>A little something while my shorts dry</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[No, not the shorts you&#8217;re thinking of. My exercise shorts were just washed and are now in the dryer. Since I have some time before my walk to the library and my stint in the gym, I figured I&#8217;d blog a bit about stuff. What stuff may you ask? I dunno, I&#8217;m just gonna ramble. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>No, not the shorts you&#8217;re thinking of.  My exercise shorts were just washed and are now in the dryer.  Since I have some time before my walk to the library and my stint in the gym, I figured I&#8217;d blog a bit about stuff.</p>
<p>What stuff may you ask? I dunno, I&#8217;m just gonna ramble.</p>
<p>Worst.  Transitional sentence.  Ever.</p>
<p>Last weekend, the Jets lost yet another AFC Championship game.  I&#8217;m not the biggest football fan, but I grew up watching the Jets.  I also pull for the Giants (some old college buddies had my leaning their way) and everyone who is playing against the Cowboys.</p>
<p>It would have been nice to see the Jets in the bowl, seeing as how I&#8217;ve seen the Giants there a few times, Buffalo four times (those were sad days, when I liked the Bills) and those damned Colts once.  I think Peyton Manning is a douchebag, but I can&#8217;t take away from his skills on the football field.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ll still be rooting for the Saints, in deference to one of the few coworkers I respect.</p>
<p>Baseball starts soon.  Since the season is so long, I&#8217;ve promised Amy that I&#8217;ll stick to my usual baseball routine of ignoring everything but the standings until the All-Star Break, then listening to every Yankee game on my iPhone until they&#8217;re on free TV in the playoffs.</p>
<p>But hey, pitchers and catchers soon.  Can&#8217;t wait to see how this new pitching rotation works out.</p>
<p>Speaking of the Yankees, I didn&#8217;t get the chance to comment on their World Series Championship.  Because I&#8217;m lazy, and I was too busy being happy.  Say what you want, but the Yankees are another team I grew up with, and it&#8217;s always fun to see them play.</p>
<p>They&#8217;re coming to Arlington to play the Rangers in August.  I plan on taking Amy and sitting in the outfield seats that come with food.  Not a bad deal for $40/ticket.</p>
<p>Typically those seats are $35.  The two Yankee games are considered &#8220;premium games,&#8221; which nets an extra $5 for most seats.  So even in Dallas, home of the most overrated quarterback in history, they know who people are really coming to see.</p>
<p>Yes, I&#8217;m taking potshots at Tony Romo.  No, I don&#8217;t care.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ll Howl again soon enough.  Work has become extra stressful.  I&#8217;m the only team lead on first shifts on the weekend, so I have more to worry about.  I&#8217;ve also been asked to take more calls, though I thought I&#8217;d been managing the call volume successfully.</p>
<p>One of the other accounts just finished up.  Nearly all of our overflow agents were with that queue, and they&#8217;re all gone now.  Including our one Spanish speaking overflow agent.  Net overflow agents for the majority of the day: one.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m currently seeking better employment.  I can do nothing but take phone calls elsewhere for more money.  I&#8217;m miserably underpaid, more than most people think they are.  People I&#8217;m responsible for make more money than I do.  Which sucks.</p>
<p>What doesn&#8217;t suck is exercise.  I&#8217;ve turned into quite the gym rat.  Which has turned my calves into gelatin.  New shoes will be necessary, and soon.</p>
<p>Over in the sidebar my DailyMile exercise posts should load.  If you follow my Twitter (@attackman) or have me as a Facebook friend, you&#8217;ll see them there as well.  If you don&#8217;t see them for a while, let me know.  It means I&#8217;m slacking off.</p>
<p>The dryer should be done soon, which means I can walk to the library to acquire the book <u>Flatland</u>, a wonderful science fable.  I&#8217;ll then head over to the workout room and bust it for 30 minutes on the elliptical.  </p>
<p>I would have gone in dirty shorts (<em>eww</em>) but the iPad announcement was this morning.  Yes, I want one, but it&#8217;s not an immediate must have for me.  Not waiting for any features, just the money and maybe a better job so I can consider spending money on things like this.</p>
<p>All morning people have whined about the iPad not having Flash.  This will be the last time I say this: Flash sucks.  We allowed one company to have control over web content, and they&#8217;ve failed to keep up.  They continue to make poor software, forcing you to watch your processor melt to watch a video.  And it&#8217;s not the video that is killing your playback, it&#8217;s the Flash container.</p>
<p>I use Weight Watchers eTools on my Mac, which is a Flash app on their website.  They have a decent mobile app made in HTML and AJAX, but it doesn&#8217;t have all the necessary features.  They could implement everything in a nice looking, proper web app, but I gather their devs are lazy.</p>
<p>I looked at the CPU usage for this app earlier.  Flash Player, with nothing going on, was eating 5% of my cycles.  Anything that requires that much CPU to idle is crap.</p>
<p>John Gruber has a great breakdown of this terrible tech over at<a href="http://daringfireball.net/"> Daring Fireball</a>, which is currently pretty trafficky.  I guess everyone would rather listen to him, even though he hasn&#8217;t said much yet.  Here&#8217;s the <a href="http://daringfireball.net/2010/01/apple_adobe_flash">article</a>.</p>
<p>There, now I won&#8217;t have to subject Amy to the rest of the rant I started ten minutes ago.  Sorry, love.  Does Austin have a speaker&#8217;s corner?</p>
<p>Time to split.  Later cats and kittens.</p>
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