101 in 1001 update #2: electric boogaloo

100. Buy a shredder. -- Completed 10/1/05. I haven't used it yet, but, you know, baby steps.

9. Get a raise at work. -- Completed 10/26/05 (combined w/ #10)

10. Get a promotion at work. -- Completed 10/26/05. I'm now Associate Producer on the new show. Tomorrow, the WORLD!


The entire list.

a good week

So, a lot has been going on.

I finally found a replacement for myself that my boss liked and she started on Monday. We did two days of "Take My Job, Please" boot camp and now I'm officially in my new position -- Associate Producer.

I played in the Blogger Tournament on PokerStars on Sunday and was really happy with my performance. Out of 1470-something entrants, I finished 25th. That means I'm getting an iPod Nano, which is pretty awesome. Other than a ridiculous suck-out early in the tournament (my KK cracked some poor guy's AA, all-in before the flop), I didn't have to rely on luck too much. My pre-flop hand selection was really good and just about the only all-in I called where I wasn't ahead was the very last one where my AK never improved against TT. Before I called the all-in reraise, my entire thought process was "I know I'm in a coin flip, but I've got a Nano already, so...."

All in all, a good week.

not so amazing, really

I am not so in love with the family edition of The Amazing Race. I don't really mind the family teams of four, but the fact that the race won't leave the US (or is it North America?) is a simplification that removes much of what I love about the show. There's no language barrier. There's no wrangling with travel arrangements. There are no exotic locales. It's all driving and map reading, which is just not very exciting to watch. While the team bickering is still in evidence (to an extreme degree -- oh, New Jersey team, how I hate watching/pity you), it's not balanced by the awe of a team seeing something amazing or the excitement of going to a country that's been their dream vacation. In short, the show has lost much of the positive spirit that set it apart from the other competitive reality shows.

That being said, I was happy to see the family with the Not-So-Great Santini Dad get the axe. I hated him.

Cannot...resist...freeroll

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SAP: en enspanol where available...or everywhere

So, I sit down last night to watch Desperate Housewives, because it's the law now, that you have to watch, and it was all dubbed in Spanish! I immediately called Jessica to see if it was widespread. She fired up her TiVo to hear that Bree, Susan and the gang were all speaking Spanish on her TV, too. Somebody had flipped a switch and we were getting the SAP version on the main channel. Luckily, Jessica is a genius and figured out that the Closed Captioning was en ingles, so I watched with subtitles. With the pearl clutching, face slapping and spying on people from behind curtains in Spanish, I realized that good ole DH is really a telenovela in Emmy-bait clothing.

The show finally switched back to English at about the 50 minute mark, in the middle of a sentence, no less. Somebody is SO FIRED.