Man, hyphenated last names need to go away. Pick a fucking last name, either your husband’s or keep your own. Unless you are muslim, there is no need for two last names. Deal people.

lol all business like. Anyway, a wrap up of the last few months.

I had my wisdom teeth (two of them, the lowers) removed. Procedure went smoothly. One minor issue was that my oral surgeon could not put in an IV to save his life. I had two holes in my arm for a couple of weeks due to him. Why he puts in his own IVs is beyond me. He had at least one RN in the procedure room during the operation. I had one partial impacted wisdom tooth and the other was a standard extraction, thus the operation was cheaper than I expected. Came home after the procedure, really not in much pain, just discomfort and sore and some swelling that went away after a few days. Was sore for a couple of weeks. And fast forward today, the holes left are almost completely gone.

I went to a concert on December 1st to see Killswitch Engage, Lamb of God, Devildriver, and Soilwork in Lewiston at the Collisee. Not a bad show. I was hoping Lamb of God would have a longer set. Took a bunch of pictures. And saw one kid getting pulled out of a pit by three security guards. He was out cold. Had the guy by the arms and legs and just dragged him out. Soilwork wasn’t too bad, though I don’t really dig the vocalist. Dez of Devildriver was really shitfaced. I don’t think he was really there, which is a shame. Disappointing performance.

I had a newspaper article written about my business and thus have been straight out busy with lots of service calls. Which is a good thing, as this year has been pretty crappy in the way of profits. I haven’t punched in all of the numbers, but I’m hoping this last few weeks in 2007 helped make it a good year. I had the news article copied and framed, as that is a once in a life/business experience. Something to hang up.

Been seriously considering getting a Blackberry, since I’ve been so busy, getting e-mail has now become pretty critical for me. Not sure if I should go with US Cellular, AT&T, or T-Mobile. Those seem to be the obvious choices. Verizon locks all their phones and makes you pay an arm and a leg for each feature you want to use. They don’t get it. US Cell has strong coverage, but only recently stepped into the Blackberry market and only has three models to choose from. Reasonable data and voice plans though. I’d probably end up getting an amp for my truck anyway to improve cell service.

For Christmas I got a $50 BB gift card (not sure what I’ll use it for yet), a new wallet with $20 in it, and this neat weather station. A real geeky gift, but actually is useful and pretty damn cool. I mounted the wireless wind direction and speed monitor outside on the storage shed on a scrap piece of conduit I had laying around. Works pretty good, just waiting for some good breezes to see how fast it will go. Has a serial PC link cable and some software to record the values. I can’t hook it up to my current computer since I already have my UPS plugged into my only serial port. The hardware says it will not work with a USB to Serial adapter either I haven’t hooked up the rain gauge yet, as it is winter and I don’t want water freezing inside the unit and breaking it, even though it is designed as a funnel.
I didn’t get anyone any gifts as I’ve made it clear with the family a) I have little money to spend on a gift, b) they are way older than me and have everything they want so that makes shopping for a gift difficult, c) I don’t buy into this whole commercialization that christmas has become, and d) would rather spend the time with the family hanging out. I guess I’m not feeling christmas this year. Oh well.

that’s pretty much it. Not sure what 2008 will bring me. Already starting the year pretty shitty, as I had to work today on this customer’s computer which got re-infected after I reinstalled it already. So there’s four hours of work down the shitter. Fuck spyware, fuck viruses, and fuck all these political ads on tv. Fucking a.

I’ve got four wisdom teeth. Only two of which have come through the gums. But those two are fucking killing me now. All inflamed and shit. I’ve also been getting a lot of inner ear problems, like infections, so I wonder if by getting these wisdom teeth out, if that will go away as well. Who knows. So I’m getting those two teeth taken out tomorrow morning. Sucks, but it has to be done. $900 for two teeth. Wow…

I picked up a nice set of speakers, the Klipsch Promedia 5.1 Ultra. Wow, these speakers kick total ass. Music sounds way better. Lots of bass, but a lot more range than my old Cambridge Soundworks FPS2000 had. I think I’ve gotta mess around with the placement of the sub, for the best performance.