this is kinda scary…

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Feds: We will search through your laptop files at the border
http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/90325

I’m not too concerned about anyone finding “illegal” material, but I’ve kinda got a problem with the government making a copy of my entire archive of intellectual property (i.e. my writing) to store in some huge, possibly hackable database somewhere to eventually be “searched for terrorist stuff and child porn.” I can’t say that we plan on traveling outside of the country anytime soon, but I guess when we do we’ll just buy a cheap laptop when we get there or something? 🙁

mini-update

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– I don’t want to jynx it, but I’ve actually been getting a lot of writing done this week and I’m feeling really good about it.

– I hooked up the old school NES this week and Sara and I have been playing far too much of The Legend of Zelda. Tonight I got the tri-force from level 4, bought the blue ring, and found the white sword.
– “Hi, my name is Scott and I’m a huge geek.”

– I’m actually looking forward to going to work tomorrow, except for the fact that I won’t have gotten much sleep after staying up playing Zelda half the night! I’ve got a couple of really cool enhancements to develop tomorrow and it should be a pretty fun way to round out the week.

Reason #12498 Why Sara is Cool

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I asked her to pick me up a pizza to have for dinner over the weekend while she was grocery shopping, so she buys me…

…Mickey pizza!!! Awesome.

Also, today marks the 2nd anniversary of our first date back on April 20th, 2006. While the Applebees itself wasn’t exactly what one would consider “memorable,” fortunately the friendship founded that evening was much more than that. Happy Some-Sort-Of-Anniversary, Babe! (Once we’re “married,” I only have to remember that one, right?)

Current Bid – a mere $50,000

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Something tells me that I’d be in a bit of hot water with Sara if she came home to find that I had the winning bid for this one…

Original Santa Monica Pier Ferris Wheel
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&Item=290222956722&Category=13878

How cool would our backyard be then, though?! Pool tables are for amateurs…

Keep Moving Forward

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We watched Meet the Robinsons with Mom this evening for the first time since seeing it in the theater last spring – probably my favorite Disney movie in the last ten years, and there’s been some decent competition in there. I’m not sure how well it did financially compared to other recent ventures to gauge that level of success, but in terms of fitting the mold of the classic Disney movie that just leaves you in awe, full of inspiration, and so forth – mission accomplished.

I particularly love the quote at the end – if the montage of Lewis getting adopted wasn’t enough to get me misty-eyed, this is certainly the icing on the cake…

Around here, however, we don’t look backwards for very long.

We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we’re curious…and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
— Walt Disney

I think it’s time to stop looking backwards on the creative aspects of my own life and start working on my next “failure”… 🙂

one day to go!

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Kinda tired.

Kinda stressed about not getting everything done around the house.

Kinda anxious about getting crap done at work today before vacation.

But that’s ok because Mom’s coming to town this evening for a week of wedding planning, Disney shopping, and with any luck relaxing fun!!!