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So as of last Tuesday (12/12), I have Internet access at home. As you can see, it hasn’t really improved my posting frequency that much. And by “that much,” I mean “whatsoever”. I’m still hung up on that one fundamental problem: when I get home after 8-9 hours at work, I’m really in no mood to sit back down in front of a computer. And besides, I’m rarely at home anyways.

I think last Tuesday best exemplifies these points. I got a call at work in the afternoon to let me know that my DSL had been turned on (in the middle of a meeting, and I’d forgotten to turn off my ringer, go me). Instead of rushing home to install my modem and whatnot, I spent the evening at my first-ever hockey game (Iowa Stars… we lost mightily). I had a really good time, enough so that I fully intend to do it again in January sometime. I bet it was even more fun than sitting alone in front of YouTube all night would’ve been.

All of this sorta begs the question as to why I bothered to get Internet access at home in the first place. Well, I’ll admit that it did come in handy a bit this week. See, I decided to be all domestic and send out a few Christmas cards this year. I think I prepared 13 in total — not nearly all of my friends/family, but enough that I felt like I’d accomplished something. Only problem was, I didn’t really have very many addresses. I had two addresses from cards that had been mailed to me, but after that, I was sorta at a loss. Enter the Internet. I found two more addresses scouring my email archives from 2003 to present. Then I turned to Google and was able to track down four more. After that, I logged into Facebook and got ahold of two that I had expected to find in my email but had proved elusive. And for the grand finale, for those who were proving particularly difficult to track down online, I turned to the government: property tax records. I found three addresses — in three counties and two states — by searching through property tax assessment records. :)

Man, I’m beginning to think I’m in the wrong line of work.

Anyway, life continues to go well. Work is ~extremely~ busy this week (I had to schedule all of my tasks for this week several days in advance to ensure they’d get done), but I think I’ll get enough done that I can take off a couple of days next week. Tonight, I’m heading out to Felix & Oscars with some coworkers for some Chicago-style pizza and beer. Tomorrow, I’ll be enjoying a lovely dinner of steamed salmon, some olive-feta salad thing, white wine, Grey’s Anatomy, and Firefly for dessert (I’m on disc 4/4 though… very sad). Oh, and also some of Anne’s chocolate mousse, which I hear is pretty darn good.