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I know, lame. I’ll come up with something better by midnight Friday. Stay tuned!

Well, here’s what I got for Christmas:

* Matrix 10-disc DVD set with color booklet and Neo bust
* Kill Bill Vol. 1 on DVD
* Kill Bill Vol. 2 on DVD
* 5-pack of Ultra Fine Sharpies in the new pastel colors
* small box of Ferrero Rocher Hazelnut chocolates
* small box of After Eight dark chocolate thin mints
* 2 Chamois shirts from LL Bean (red and blue)
* blue mini waffle henley shirt from LL Bean
* George Foreman-brand t-shirt
* 2 pairs of Drill cargo pants (sand and olive)
* multiple pairs of boxer-briefs
* pack of tube socks that need to be returned – tube socks don’t agree with me
* Bluetooth CF card for my PDA (it’s in the mail, should get it Monday Tuesday Wednesday)

Serif also got a couple of presents. He got a little electronic ball that lights up and makes bird noises when it’s rolled, and he got a 4-limbed dangly cat toy thingie. He loves the ball!

Happy Christmahanukwanzakah to all!

I was thinking tonight that it must rock to celebrate Christmas if your family are naturists/nudists. You get all the awesome presents, no lame underpants, socks, or lop-sided sweaters from grandma.

Just my 2¢

And I think I’m going to keep tabs on Santa tonight with the help of “NORAD”:http://www.noradsanta.org.

I saw a visual style for windows on a tutorial site earlier today, and I knew I just had to have it. The only problem was that I didn’t know what it was named. It looked like something that would be in linux, but it wasn’t. After posting in a couple of computer forums (“NeoWin”:http://www.neowin.net and “FlexBeta”:http://www.flexbeta.net) I finally got an answer as to what theme it actually was.

Turns out it’s called Opus OS from someone who goes by “b0se”:http://www.web9design.com/themes/.

I think it’s just a stunning theme. It’s simple, sleek, and isn’t overly saturated with color like the default Windows XP themes are. If you have a “modded uxtheme.dll”:http://themes.belchfire.net/index.php?showtopic=9001 I highly suggest giving it a try. And check out “other works by b0se”:http://b0se.deviantart.com/. They’re quality.

Here’s a screenshot of mine that shows what “Opus OS looks like”:/images/post/opusos.png.

Disability Determination Services
ATTN: Medical Consultant Coordinator
Arsenal St. Ext.
116 State House Station
Augusta, ME 04330-9835

To Whom It May Concern:
Today I had an appointment with Dr. Martin Margulis of 22 Cushman Street in Portland Maine for an evaluation to provide more information for my disability claim. This letter is being sent because the feedback card provided did not have enough space to write about the experience, and I feel it needs to be looked into. My appointment was for 1:30PM on Tuesday, December 14, 2004. I showed up around 10 to 15 minutes early for the appointment and went into the offices. There was no place to sign in to let them know I was there so I just sat down in the waiting room. There didn’t appear to be anyone around except for another patient in the waiting room with me. After waiting 10 minutes past my appointment time I decided to find out if there was some place I had to sign in. Dr. Margulis did not have any of his business cards in the waiting room with the other doctor’s in the office, so I took one of the other cards and went outside to call from my cell phone. After calling, I was told that I should wait in the waiting room until my appointment time and the doctor would come and get me. I told the person that it was past my appointment time and I was told that he would try to contact Dr. Margulis for me and let him know I was there. Going back into the waiting room, I waited a few more minutes before the person who answered the phone walked in looking for Dr. Margulis. This is when Dr. Margulis walked in the back door coming back from lunch. The person who answered the phone told Dr. Margulis that someone called who had an appointment with him, and Dr. Margulis cut him off saying that if he called and the other guy answered, then he must have dialed the wrong number. I spoke up and said it was me who called, and there was no apology for being late; I was simply told that Dr. Margulis would look at my file, and call me into his office afterward. By the time that Dr. Margulis called me into his office, it was close to a half-hour past my appointment time. Upon entering his office, I still received no apology for him being late; I was only told that I was resourceful for calling even though his card was not in the waiting room. He then proceeded to do the interview to send to the Social Security office. It only took him about 15 to 20 minutes and he kept interrupting me, having me repeat things as I told him as if he wasn’t listening to me. He seemed inconvenienced that he had to provide his services for this purpose.

The reason I am applying for disability is because of extreme anxiety and this situation did not help any. My anxiety started the night before this appointment in anticipation and was only elevated when there was no one to direct me when I got to the office and then when I felt that I had missed my appointment that was required for this process. And my anxiety level was not dealt with or eased at all when the doctor was interviewing me because he did not acknowledge that he was late or even offer an apology or excuse. I feel it is highly unprofessional, especially for a profession where you have clients who usually only have a set amount of time for the appointment, to be late and offer no corrective measures, explanations, or apologies. And I do not feel that the length of the appointment was sufficient to gather the required information to aide in the decision making process for my case.

I thank you for your time reading this and for any consideration placed on this matter.

Sincerely;

Theodore Duguay, Jr.

I tried to order a christmas gift for a friend and the only form or payment the site accepts is through PayPal. You can pay by credit card, but PayPal handles it.

So I go to order the gift, and I got an error that PayPal couldn’t process my request. Okay, I hadn’t put any payment information in yet, so I was safe. Try it again, and got further along – entered my payment info and then get the same error. But this time I look at my bank statement online, and I got charged the $1 fee that they use to check if the card is valid (or whatever that charge is for). But I wasn’t charged the price for the order. So I finally go through everything again, and it works. So, by now I have 2 $1 charges on my account, and then the full ammount for the item.

PayPal bites. I guess this is how they make their money — scamming customers.

If anyone’s looking for ideas of what to get me for Christmas, here are a couple of really sexy pens that I wouldn’t mind owning :o)

First, the “Parker 100″:/images/post/pens/p100.jpg. An updated design to the classic Parker 51

Secondly, the limited edition James Bond 007 (“1″:/images/post/pens/dupont007_001.jpg, “2″:/images/post/pens/dupont007_002.jpg) fountain pen from ST Dupont. This pen was modeled after the barrel design of 007’s gun. It even pulls a 007 with a removable laser pointer in the barrel of the pen.

Sadly, they’re both way out of my price range. The Parker 100 is $250 and the limited edition 007 fountain pen is $1,060 (that’s right, that’s 4 figures without a decimal point).

Because of the chill in the air and the snow flake or two we’ve been having in Maine, I decided I would post a link to an entry of mine from earlier in the year. It’s a little joke about how the Nation deals with cold.

“Cold ‘Nuf Fer Ya Yet?”:http://blog.tduguay.com/index.php?id=160

Enjoy!

If Santa was really like those drunken knock-offs you see in the malls with the little rugrats sitting on their laps bawling at the site of the big scary man with a beard, I think he would most likely answer children’s letters to him in a simmilar fashion to the ones listed below. Enjoy!

deer santa:
I wud like a kool toy space ranjur fer Xmas. Iv ben a gud boy all yeer.
Yer Frend, BiLLy

Dear Billy,
Nice spelling. You’re on your way to a career in lawn care. How about I send you a frigging book so you can learn to read and write? I’m giving your older brother the space ranger. At least HE can spell!
Santa

Dear Santa,
I have been a good girl all year, and the only thing I ask for is
peace and joy in the world for everybody!
Love, Sarah

Dear Sarah,
Your parents smoked pot when they had you, didn’t they?
Santa

Dear Santa,
I don’t know if you can do this, but for Christmas, I’d like for my
mommy and daddy to get back together. Please see what you can do.
Love,
Teddy

Dear Teddy,
Look, your dad’s banging the babysitter like a screen door in a
hurricane. Do you think he’s gonna give that up to come back to your frigid, fat mom, who rides his ass constantly? It’s time to give up that dream. Let me get you some nice Legos instead. Maybe you can build yourself a family with those?
Santa

Dear Santa,
I left milk and cookies for you under the tree, and I left carrots for
your reindeer outside the back door.
Love, Susan

Dear Susan,
Milk gives me the shits and carrots make the deer fart in my face when riding in the sleigh. You want to do me a favor? Two words, Jim Beam.
Santa

Dear Santa,
What do you do the other 364 days of the year? Are you busy making toys?
Your friend, Thomas

Dear Thomas,
All the toys are made by little kids like you in China. Every year I
give them a slice of bread as a Christmas bonus. I have a condo in Vegas, where I spend most of my time making low-budget porno films. I unwind by drinking myself silly and squeezing the asses of cocktail waitresses while losing money at the craps table.
Santa
P.S.
Tell your mom she got the part.
“Long Dong” Claus

Dear Santa,
Do you see us when we’re sleeping, do you really know when we’re awake, like in the song?
Love, Jessica

Dear Jessica,
Are you really that gullible? Good luck in whatever you do. I’m
skipping your house.
Santa

Dear Santa,
I really really want a puppy this year. Please please please PLEASE PLEASE could I have one?
Timmy

Timmy,
That whiney begging shit may work with your folks, but that crap
doesn’t work with me. You’re getting an ugly sweater again.
Santa

Dearest Santa,
We don’t have a chimney in our house, how do you get into our home?
Love, Marky

Mark,
First, stop calling yourself “Marky”, that’s why you’re getting your
ass kicked at school. Second, you don’t live in a house; you live in a low-rent, ghetto apartment complex. Third, I get inside your pad just like all the burglars do, through your bedroom window.
Sweet Dreams,
Santa