This collection of entries is from January 06, 2003.
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Oh, oh... here it is: Fox's new reality show Joe Millionaire. I don't know, it's such a "Fox'y" twist on things, but I just can't imagine this guy not blowing his cover by the end of the show. I don't know, I think I'm also questioning is $19,000 job (seems low for a heavy equipment operator) and the fact that he's 28 and still doesn't have anybody in his life. The whole gold-digging aspect of the show is almost unsettling and uneasy to watch since the audience knows the secret and the girls do not. The biggest rumor going around is that this is not all there is to this reality show - that the producers may have still another twist up their sleeve before the curtain falls on Joe (actually, he's Evan Wallace Marriott. Gee.. I Wonder why they don't use his full name?) And I just like Paul the Butler. Oh, The Smoking Gun says that Evan has been cited for "toll evasion" for blowing through a toll plaza on State Road 73 near Irvine, California on September 25. He paid a $104 fine for what could have been somewhere between 50 cents and $2.50 in tolls.
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After a too long day at work (a tape-copy operation that took way too long), I came home to find... a box from Amazon.com. Not a big deal as I had pre-ordered Cory Doctorow's "Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom" and it should be shipping around now. But then I opened the box to find... a wrapped present! Well, that was a new one to me! It had a card on the gift: "happy birthday (it might be a couple days past, but who says it can't be a birthday week or month!??!!) cheers!! hope all is swell!!!!" There's another envelope in the box, the front reads: "DON'T RUIN YOUR SURPRISE Open your gift before this envelope".
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So, naturally, I tore into the wrapping to find... the Special Edition DVD of Monty Python and the Holy Grail!!! Cool! OK, now who sent this??? So I opened the envelope and... it's just the packing slip. Wait... up on the Billing Address... it's my Blogmom Erin!!! This is my first gift that I've got from my Amazon Wishlist that wasn't from my family... and it came from my blogging family! This is so cool! Erin, thank you so very much! (So this is how it looks when you send an Amazon gift! Thanks!)
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Back at work after what feels like a very long time. Relatively busy. I mean riding a Help Desk has it's moments of non-stop phone calls and what could be sheer boredom. Fortunately, I have "other duties as assigned" in my job description, so I'm doing some weekly tape copies for off-site storage and building a notebook for a user in Kansas City. Keeping busy. Busy = good. Of course, I wouldn't mind some downtime to read some blogs...