We're No. 2!

My bowling team is back in 2nd place (tied for 2nd, actually) after winning two of tonight's three games.

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Oh, brother.

Weekend on the Coast

I spent the day in Santa Monica, mostly at the Third Street Promenade. I finally got around to reading this month’s Dwell and Wired, both of which were pretty interesting. Dwell focused on affordable but well-designed housing, which, because I am a person of momodest means, piqued my interest.

This weekend I took the plunge and ripped most of my CD collection to the computer. It’s just nice to have all my music in one place and easily accessible (I download a lot of MP3s and subscribe to the legal online music outlet, Pressplay, so this is more of an issue than it sounds). In the process I came to appreciate Microsoft’s Media Player version 9. It automatically creates different folders for each artist and album and even creates an icon of the album cover. This works for ripped, downloaded and subscription music alike. Nice.

My bowling team (yes, I’m in a league) lost our No. 1 ranking last week after loosing three games in a row. In my defense, I was getting over a backache brought on from a game two weeks prior. The rest of my team will have to come up with their own excuses.

Someone here at Barnes and Noble just asked about my laptop. When people are still impressed with your technology six months after you bought it, that’s a good sign you got a cutting-edge device. Now that I can’t buy anything for awhile, we’ll see how long that lasts.

T-Mobile lowered the prices for its Wi-Fi access and got rid of its ridiculous data transfer caps. But still not enough to make the service worthwhile.

OK, I’m going to leave because it’s freezing in here. I dressed for the afternoon high of 73, not this 40-degree night.