Happy Turkey Day!, 2008

I got home on Wednesday at around one in the afternoon (CST).  I was so excited to be back in Birmingham, my hometown, if only for a few days, to see family and friends and places around town.  Not to mention I’ve been driving my old car (my little sister drives it now) around, which has been amazing, really, b/c we don’t have a car up in Chicago.  Public transit (CTA or Metra), biking, walking, cabs, get us where we need to go.

In any event, it’s just so good to be back.  We went to Cocina Superior for lunch Wednesday, then went to my sister Mandy’s brand spankin’ new house (and her family) that night for dinner.  I miss seeing Mary Virginia and Anne Louise on a regular basis (check out flickr.com/nealtucker for pics of them, they are so cute).  We then had Thanksgiving yesterday, with my whole fam, Ash’s fam, and some of my cousins over at my parents’ house for lunch.  Which was so great.  Talking about Chicago, school, how bad the Lions suck – awesome.  We took the obligatory portraits, which I secretly love, b/c it catalogs life in a very memorable and meaningful way.  I mean, think about life without those awful, drawn-out, embarrassingly-difficult-to-organize portraits we take with 800 different digital cameras and the one uncle with his 1982 Holga.  Then what do you have.  It wouldn’t be a life worth living, that’s what.

So today, Steve and I got Hardee’s for breakfast and then went Black Friday “shopping.”  We went to Office Depot and snagged an inexpensive HP printer and ink, and some really cheap memory cards for cameras and phones (I wrote that sentence that way to display why Oxford Commas are necessary in other circumstances, because here, the printer and ink go together, and the memory cards are for both cameras and phones.  So there.).  Then we drove home.  That was our version of Black Friday.

When I got home, I did some research to find out how many 3.2 megapixel pictures (or my iTunes songs, for that matter) could fit on a 4 GB microSD card for my LG Dare phone.  And here is what I found.

How much music will fit on a memory card of a given size with a song of a given bit rate.

How many pictures will fit on a memory card of a given size with a camera of a given megapixel(s).
You may not need this info now, but it might come in handy later on.  Some day.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Because you listened,
Neal
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Weekend shopping foray update

I got a few of the things I posted about earlier in the weekend.  I got the boots and the printer.  However, the printer is actually a little better than the one below, because it’s a photo-printer.  It’s still HP, so that’s good.  And the best part about it all, Ash’s parents bought it all.  They didn’t have to, of course, but they did, which was amazing.  I had no idea they were going to buy my boots, so that was a great surprise.  I had been told they would buy the printer, but that was still awesome.

Here’s the printer.
So, in addition to Nordstrom’s (boots) and Best Buy (printer), we also went to The Home Depot and got our VERY FIRST CHRISTMAS TREE!  YEAYAYAY!  … yup.  It’s 4′-6″ tall, and it has lights already on it, for the lazy American in all of us.  Now all we need is Thanksgiving to come and go, and then the four weeks after that, and some ornaments, presents, and SNOW, and we’ll have CHRISTMAS 2008!!!  I think I might make t-shirts.

This is the closest thing to the tree we bought I could find on homedepot.com.
If anybody has any ornament ideas, let me know.
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