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Since having my cell phone switched to AT&T, I have noticed more problems that when I had US Cellular. Now while driving up the interstate the signal goes up and down, sometimes cutting out completely. In fact at home my signal goes between 1 and 2 bars… US Cellular at least had 4 or 5.. So everytime I see one of those commercials, it just makes me mad, as unless you are in a highly populated area, your stuck with the same old crappy coverage that Cellular One had before AT&T bought them out. The only good thing about the new one, is that the GPS works in it with Google Maps. But other than that, the internet access is slow, calls dropped and the coverage sucks.

Random Stuff, Rant Random Stuff, Rant

While I was out walking around the massive amounts of people trying to get those sometimes good black friday deals I found these… I needed a new set of measuring spoons and the ones I got came with this extra set. I just wonder what the actually equate to? So if you really need a “tad” of this  or a “dash” of that, or a “pinch” here or a “smidgen” there, these are supposed to be what those “terms” equate too…

Food/Cooking, Funny Food/Cooking, Funny

This was the first year I hosted thanksgiving dinner. All in all I think it went well. The food was well liked.

Family, Food/Cooking Family, Food/Cooking

So I get poked fun of at work any time I wear a Sun shirt.(And no I don’t have Sun Underwear, or Sun Socks, or anything with a Sun logo that is below the belt.).. When I first started I pretty much wore a Sun logo’d item every day… (I have enough, more on that later).  I have cut back some (have to dress up a little more now.) So I decided tonight to start going through the house to find all of my Sun stuff. So far this is what I have found:

1. Numerous ink pens. Everything from the pen/highlighters from classes, to some more expensive ones that are engraved/etched.
2. Sun Mints (got to say one of the weirdest)
3. Sun Sun Glasses
4. Various Sun Hardware, from Servers to workstations. (SPARC2, 5, and Ultra 5)
5. Broke Sun Ray 1 (the caps in it were from the bad caps era)
6. 3 Sun Binders
7. 1 Sun Leather notebook
8. 4 Sun ceramic mugs
9. 2 Sun mugs
10. 1 Sun Water bottle
11. 3 Sun book bags
12. 2 Sun Jackets
13. 1 Sun folding Camp stool
14. 7 Sun Polo Shirts
15. 1 Sun long Sleeve dress shirt
16. 10 Sun T-Shirts
17. 3 or 4 Sun Mouse pads, both cloth and the old hashed ones for the original optical mouse
18. 3 Sun lapel pins for Certifications that I have earned.
19. 3 Sun “business cards” for certifications that I have earned
20. Sun microphone
21. Sun Java Cup Coaster
22. Sun Stop Watch
23. Wireless Sun laptop mouse
24. 1 Sun CoolThreads niagra CPU
25. Various Sun Java Cards from the EBC
26. Copies of SunOS 4
27. Copies of Solaris for SPARC and Intel from Solaris 2.5 up to and including Solaris 10
28. Copy of OpenSolaris 2005.08
29. Various Sun brochures, pictures and marketing items
30. little Java Duke squeeze toy
31. Sun Monitor Duster
32. Very old Sun Frisbee
33. 3 Sun baseball hats
34. Sun Type 4 keyboard
35. Sun Type 5 keyboard
36. Sun Type 6 keyboard

This is just what I have found in the couple of hours I looked briefly through the house.  And for the proof here are some pics.  So as you can see I am a “Sun Geek”.

Sun, SunGeek Sun, SunGeek

Just can’t imagine my grandma doing this.. It is pretty funny trying to watch them keep up…

Funny, Video Funny, Video