after5's Journal: STRING!

Sorry for no update, but we've been having some phone difficulties. You see, California is simply screwtated. The 805 area code extends north from los angeles all over the area, and you'd think that everything within that area would be a local call, but nooo...you have to look at the prefix! The 555 in the 555-1212, isn't that weird?

So yes, the "local" internet calls that I made were not local at all, and depending on which number I called, I was charged anywhere from 0.01 to 0.05 dollars per minute. Frickin' nuts.

Other than that, our lives have been rather normal. Today we went car shopping for Dena, she's fond of the Toyota Corolla, and we're currently looking at a 2001 and 2003 models. My father and I were doing back of the envelope calculations (only without the envelope) and figured it was a difference of 100 dollars a month combining both payments and insurance.

Yay guestimates.

On other news I went to go see Gangs of New York. I've determined that I can no longer go to movies. The greeks did everything and I can pretty much figure out the movie if not by the trailer than by the opening act. It's very disappointing. I've become Jono II: The Movie Snob.

GONY was okay, but not overwhelming. Go see it if you have an extra three hours. Still have to see Catch Me if You Can and LoTR: TTT, probably wait to see those in the ATL, paying 8.50 for a movie is absolutely insane. Along with phone bills, this state blows.

I forgot to mention something about my trip to the San Diego Zoo, the pandas were quite cute, but as I think I mentioned, the zoo is loosing 2/3 pandas to china so they can be sent back to either A) retire, or B) put out to stud. All pandas in the world are property of China, and they can request them back at any time so that they can breed them. If anyone else finds it ironic that an endangered species is sent to china to breed, well then, speak up. I hope i'm not the only one.

With that said, i better let dena use the computer.

What is your quest???

[dmbdoitforfenton]

dude, I have need of you upon your return... To that end, I charge you with this quest: ~Athlon XP 2000-2200 (depends on price) ~Mother Board to support said Processor ~New Ram if I NEED it....I have 512k Pc 133 SDram, that I would really like to be able to use again. ~New Case w/ 300w PS (nothing fancy) I guess I only wanna spend about $300 I took a look at pricewatch...I think we could do this! as you know, I have all the fans I'll ever need.

Screwtated, eh?

[Heidi137]

The California phone number system does seem a bit screwtated... that's for sure. Oh well, at least they don't have to worry about confusing people with 4 different area codes (and worse yet, combining two of them so people don't have to "memorize" something completely different...).

I hope that Dena finds her dream car :) Toyotas are nice, pretty, and sturdy... she should go for it! And it's definitely more practical than an SUV.

On a final note: we all knew you were a movie snob underneath it all anyway ;)

Hmmm, one more thing... randomly choose 3 letters of the alphabet and let me know what they are. You'll find out why later.

Say hello to all of the Boylans and Torreses for me! I hope everyone has a Happy New Year.

Re:Screwtated, eh?

[after5]

Randomly?

S, E, and T.