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Christmas Presents, McDonalds, AntiFreeze and Split/Second

Split Second: Velocity
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Tamika drove me to work yesterday.

The kids got so many presents at the Pinkney Christmas that we needed to take a second trip. Our car had already been full from 3 weeks of travel in Canada, so there wasn’t much room at all. Miss Apit (our neighbor) let the kids stay overnight with her. After dropping me off at work, she headed north, and met her Dad in Delaware, and loaded up the Subaru with the gifts. It took her most of the day to get there and back, sadly, traffic was completely miserable, and she was late picking me up.

We caved and picked up McDonalds, too tired to figure out anything else. We stopped to get gas on the way home, and I realized the coolant was empty. The gas station attendant let us use his hose to fill it up, and I hopped a fence and borrowed a cup from a Chinese carryout next door to mix the anti-freeze. That stuff weirds me out! Whatever chemicals are in it make it practically glow under any light.

We put the kids right to bed when we got home, and then watched another couple episodes of Caprica. Still like it, though it’s got a couple vulgar scenes. Tamika and I have also been playing Split/Second (which is oddly made by Disney?) against each other. I’m still in the lead, but she’s catching up… 🙂

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Robbery, Vectors, Tilapia and Caprica

Caprica (TV series)
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Went back to work yesterday.

Technically, I worked last week (for a day) and designed some wireframes on Monday, but yesterday was in the office. After the extended stay in Canada, if felt a little surreal.

Making it even more surreal was the fact that the office had been broken into over Christmas. The suite Brightline Interactive shares with MRB had gotten crowbarred open, and then the office doors for three of the offices that MRB owns got crowbarred too. Some of you might remember my house getting robbed last Christmas while we were upstairs, so all the fingerprint dust and entering damage was strangely familiar to me.

Regardless, I got to work on a really cool prospective project for a big theme restaurant chain and do a lot of vector drawing for it. It took the whole day to do, so it was kind of therapeutic to do.

I stayed a bit late to get it done, though, and my head hurt coming home. Tamika made the most amazing baked cheese Tilapia and Indian-style spinach for dinner. After dinner, we opened my Mom and Dad’s present to Nya (we had gotten it late, and then had gotten caught up in the chaos of packing). They had a lot of fun opening it, and I filmed it to put it up on youtube for my parents (I’ll post it later).

Afterwards, I did a bit of work and Tamika and I settled in and watched the first season of Caprica (the prequel to Battlestar Galactica). I actually kinda liked it. It is very different from Battlestar (which we just finished and really loved), but it’s got an intriguing storyline. I know Syfy cancelled it later, but we’ll see.

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