I ordered my bandsaw this past weekend. It was on sale. However, I just got an email saying it's on backorder until the end of May. Stupid. I need to decide if I want to wait, or if I want to get a refund and try to find it somewhere else; I'm inclined to just wait...I got 10% off and free shipping.
I was really looking forward to it coming in sometime relatively soon so I could get started on making my jigs and things for more guitar stuff...I can probably do a lot of it with hand tools and my router, but I was holding out until I could cut things a bit more precisely.
I went to Katy this past Saturday, which was fine...but the drive back was a shit city bird bath. It usually takes 2-2.5 hours. This time, it took almost 4. First, they were doing road work near exit 695 on I-10. This is the exit to get onto 71. When I drove past, there wasn't anything indicating the way to go (they took the signs down, I guess), except for a break in those bright orange barrels with the road coming out. The shitty part is that, if you miss the exit, there are about 10 miles before the next one. So I back tracked and missed the exit on my way back East (same roadwork bullshit). I u-turned and was going West again. The construction crews were putting up one of those light-up temporary signs telling me where the exit was. Fuckers. That wasted about a half hour. THEN, on 71, the police had the highway blocked off...and I wound up having to drive North to 290. I called Omar to verify that the FM road I was on went to 290 and had him look up what was going on...apparently there was zero visibility due to smoke. Some sort of fire. The best part was that there were no signs specifying anything.
My parents made a huge deal about me telling them what to buy me for my birthday this year...so I struggled with it and gave them a list of stuff...then I was too busy with work to go back until this past weekend (almost 2 months after my birthday) and they STILL hadn't picked the things up...and just gave me cash (my ORIGINAL request). Frustrating.
I almost got a Facebook the other day, but Erin showed it to me and it just doesn't interest me. I don't know...posting pictures and looking at pictures seems to be a major emphasis...I don't care about that kind of thing at all. Plus, I'd kind of want to have my name be Deuce McGravy...Amber, I know you want me to have a facebook...can you try to persuade me? The only reason I can really think of is to know when and if people I know have died...which is kind of depressing.
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I'm trying to think of reasons to get a Facebook that would appeal specifically to you... My brain isn't working quite right (I'm a little burned out studying for upcoming midterms)... Here are reasons I like Facebook (and I realize a lot of these probably don't appeal to you):
- Looking at other peoples' pictures
- Reading what jobs they have, what degrees they earned
- Seeing who they're dating, who is married, who has kids
- It has it's own Chat program which is IMing through Facebook. So you don't have to know everyone's screen names or log on to a different program.. If they're visible, you just click and chat.
- If there are a few friends you actually care to get updates from, you can set that preference to only have updates from them
- You can message through Facebook which at times can be more convenient than real email (or IMing)
- I like some of the applications they have... e.g. there's a movie application I like where you can rate movies you've seen and see what other people rate them, and it can give you your movie compatibility rating together; I also keep myself amused with the online pop culture musings of Bumper Sticker and Pieces of Flair applications where you send images to friends or select ones you like for youself
- I like that it has an option to list your status -- what you're doing at the moment or in general. It's another way of getting a more personal glimpse into acquaintance type friends' lives, and a way to actual see what your real friends are sort of up to
I dunno, I really like Facebook. Another thing that's good about it is that it isn't as trashy and ugly as Myspace (...yet... it keeps changing). And also you can customize how much you want to see of other people, and especially how much you want other people to see you.
I think you should get one, even if you don't use it much, although I of course would prefer you to use if often. ; )
So what did you decide about the bandsaw?
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