It is so frickin' cold right now!

I hope everybody's Thanksgiving went well, because mine was pretty fun. My dad came over to Kelly's parent's house for a catered meal. Kelly's cousin is in town too. Kelly made some awesome garlic mashed potatoes. In case you think I was just laying around, I was busy cleaning the house while she was cooking. So, Thursday we ate. Friday we climbed Camelback. Saturday we went to the Arizona Sonoran Desert Museum. Sunday was mostly shopping. Meanwhile, Kelly and I have been watching the first season of Six Feet Under on DVD. I started watching the show during season 3, so it's funny to see where the characters first came from.

In other news, my eBay auctions ended last night. Surprisingly, the Home Alone game sold for the highest price (take that, Beth!). It was a relatively painless experience, but both eBay and PayPal skim off a portion of the profits.

I posted my first auctions on eBay. You can see them h e r e. I've never done this before, so we'll see how it goes. I'm just selling some Super Nintendo games that I never liked and will never play again. I actually dragged out my SNES last weekend to play around with it. I tried out all my games, and I still hate to play these ones, so I want to get rid of them.

So I got a haircut Monday morning at the usual place, Dolce. They have grown a lot over the past couple years, expanding their spa. Now they want to open an upscale barbershop so guys don't have to feel uncomfortable going to a "salon". So they need some male hair models to put up on the walls, and since I have longer hair (unlike most guys) they asked if I was interested. I said sure and filled out a "model sheet", but I was sure they wouldn't use me 'cause I'm not very photogenic. But they called me yesterday, and I chickened out and said I couldn't do it. I mean, who wants to look at a big picture of me staring down at them in the waiting room. "Hey, look at me. You can get a doofus haircut like me." No thanks. But it's nice to be asked.

Um, yeah...I don't really know what to say about this. It's just too bizarre.

So apparently you can purchase a whole episode of Lost on iTunes for $1.99. That's about 40 minutes of medium quality audio and video. Or you can purchase about 40 minutes of high quality audio for about $10. Either that's a steal for commercial-free TV or we're paying way too much for music these days.

You Passed 8th Grade Math

Congratulations, you got 10/10 correct!

Could You Pass 8th Grade Math?

Kelly and I went to Dehli Palace last night. I tried to order the veggie pekoras but I accidentally said "keporas". That made the waiter chuckle, and then he told me that word means "a man's balls". Boy, was I embarrased!

Last night I was working on my ore deposits homework with some classmates. We started a discussion of geologic/geographic terms that people pronounce pretentiously. Here's a small list:

lava
Himalaya
Kamchatka (I think I do)
placer (Don Burt definitely does)

What others can you think of?

By the way, I did finish reading my book this past weekend, but I won't update the "Currently Reading" box until I start a new one. Right now I'm resting my brain from 18th century picaresque tales and reading the last issue of Giant Robot.

It was Halloween last night, but I don't think any kids came by our house at all. I didn't get home until 8PM, and the outside lights were off until then. Now we have a bunch of candy I have to hide from Kelly before she gets a tummyache. Kelly and I watched Poltergiest because I hadn't seen it before. It was pretty good, and it would be really scary if I was a little kid.