I never thought my life could be
Anything but catastrophe
But suddenly I begin to see
A bit of good luck for me

‘Cause I’ve got a golden ticket…

It finally came: after weeks of waiting, my Starbucks Golden Rewards card finally arrived in the mail. I worked hard for it, slaving away, buying drink after drink, day after day. And I am weirdly proud of the payoff. I mean look at: it is beautiful! And beyond that, it is down-right prestigious. But now that I have …

Waiting. And waiting. And waiting some more.
Today is the day when Apple will FINALLY (hopefully?) announce a delivery date for the newest version of the iPhone, for which I have been in need for well over a year. I am still using a 3 year old 3G, which I will admit was pretty serviceable for two of the three. Of course I stopped upgrading my apps over a year ago – most of them were working pretty well for the most part, and it seemed as …

WordPress 3.0 came out weeks ago, but I just recently got around to updating. Over the years one of the biggest problems I have faced when a new version of WordPress is released is that things get whacked out with whatever theme I happen to be using. Well, thus far everything seems to be working pretty well with Arthemia (knocks wood). One of the new features in WP 3.0 is a much more robust interface to handle the creation of custom menus. This is handy to know, …

Back in December when I restarted this blog, I committed to myself that I would write 100 posts in 100 days. I completed that back on March 31st, and then immediately took an unintended hiatus. What ever happened to “old habits die hard?” Writing posts for 100 days straight in a row only felt like a chore maybe four days total (I will let you figure which days those were). The only real problem with being so slavish and dogmatic about it is that I began to …