When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap. —Cynthia Heimel
Can I just say that I have the best job in the world? I have today—Thursday—off for Good Friday! Ironically, I woke up at 4:30, went to Tone to the Max, came home and ate breakfast, showered, and took a quick nap before heading to Bible study.
Hmm, what should I do for the rest of the day? Maybe another nap, some work on a freelance project, and some reading. Who knows how the day might go! More later…
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God really cracks me up sometimes because he uses the most random incidents to teach me lessons. Here was last night’s lesson:
Chris and I went to Financial Peace, where we learned how to negotiate for really great deals. According to Dave Ramsey, everything is negotiable and you should never pay retail for anything. On the way out, Chris and I joked that I would be the negotiator in our family because I sort of enjoy confrontation and like giving people a run for their money.
We head for Barnes & Noble to look for a PHP tutorial. I’m in the middle of a web development project, and I’ve stretched my knowledge of PHP to its limits. We flip through all of the PHP books that are available and finally settle on one that’s mostly a hands-on tutorial. We flip through it once more and find this page:
Now we have ourselves a dilemma. This copy of the book is the only copy in the store, and while I don’t have my heart set on it, it is a good opportunity to practice what we’ve just learned at Financial Peace, so I head to the customer service counter. I show the managers the vandalism, and they think it’s pretty funny. I tell them, “I’m sort of interested in this book. Can I take it off your hands for a discount?” They offered to order a fresh copy for me, but I politely told them that I was already a loyal BN customer and that a little writing in a book didn’t matter to me, so they gave me AN EXTRA 20% OFF the book! That’s in addition to my member discount! I saved over 8 buckaroos on my new book!
Regardless of what the vandal said about Barnes & Noble, the folks over at BN really do know how to treat people, and that’s one more reason I’m a loyal customer.
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Last night I slept like an angel, like a baby, like a log, like a woman who’s suffered the effects of Daylight Savings Time for four days. I had already scheduled a vacation day, so I skipped Bible study (oops…didn’t do my homework all week) and slept in.
And now I’m home in Clinton, spending a few days with my family—you know, getting in visits with grandparents, mooching off my parents, and generally being lazy. Heck, I’m even screening my phone calls and enjoying Mom’s semi-high-speed Internet.
Mom and I went to the community center this afternoon to run/walk. I “ran” 3 miles and felt really good. I have a 7-miler plotted out for Saturday; hopefully all will go well.
More later. I must get back to slacking off.
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Ugh…I hate Daylight Savings Time. I know it’s four days after the fact, but I haven’t had a decent night of sleep since Saturday. Every night, I try to go to bed at my “normal” time, but I stay awake until 1 AM. Of course, I’m getting up at my “normal” hour, so I’m netting 1-2 hours of sleep less a night than I was last week, which is why I didn’t work out yesterday morning (and tomorrow isn’t looking good either). This was a good problem in college when I used the extra hour of up time to study; however, I did skip a lot of my morning classes when DST rolled around.
I’m trying to suck it up and deal with the time change. After all, everyone else has. And I don’t mind the extra daylight in the evenings…
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