Wednesday, December 31, 2008

12:16 a.m. 1-1-2009 and I should lay off the champagne

Happy New Year everyone! I'm hoping my lovely Zune will magically fix itself like MS claims it will. I'm hoping I get to spend lots more time with my cool friends in 2009. I'm hoping I can add 5,000 miles (hopefully more) to my bike's odometer, that's motorcycle. And I hope I can add 40 miles a week to my bicycle's odometer as I start commuting to work. Lots of hopes and dreams for 2009. Stay safe!

2008 In Review

Early January was our group ride to the Forbidden Gardens in Katy Texas. That was great. Wish they would fix/upgrade/invest and make the place even more spectacular.

February was my 1 year mark at the new-to-me job.

March was (clearly not memorable at this point).

April marked 3 years of Jess and me being together + the last name change.

May we had a great Memorial day ride with Danny and his son-n-law through the hill country of west Texas. We stopped in Luckenbach Texas for the first time.

June was some summer riding with friends.

July was my big 3-uh-O. Had a blast in big-D go-carting.

August was the start of me being the recycling team lead at work.

September we took the gun class and was the gimongo hurricane Ike (please note that New Orleans did not offer to take our folks that were homeless from the storm nor did they offer to help rebuild Galveston - I'm totally bitter we're still dealing with all the crappy fallout of Katrina (GO BACK ALREADY HOUSTON USED TO BE AWESOME!!!)). We lost power for 14 days, though not nearly as long as our neighbors across the street and our friends up north of H-town.

October life was starting to return back to normal from the devastation and we made a trip up to big-D to see the bro & sis-n-law. Plus I got my shiny new gun based on the results of a bet (I aced the shooting test).

November I was assigned as a move coordinator for multiple floors of my building to a new location in h-town. OMG! Someone shoot me already! But we made it in early Dec and I am not in a padded cell. We had a crazy political turnout.

December is ChristmaKwanzaHanukkah. We had a great one of all the above. I had some phenomenal gifts this year. Thanks JESS!!! I hope 2009 is a great year.

January will mark major changes for the US of A. I hope all are good.

Good luck to everyone in the New Year.

Z2K9

So I am like all the other unlucky souls that have a Zune 30gb, mine is stuck in the boot sequence. And apparently there's not a thing that can be done about it, at least not today (coincidentally the 366th day of the year).

MS Zune support:

Maybe the QA at MS could do a "Lessons Learned". It would seem that the simpliest of programmers would realize leap year really does take special caution, cause it doesn't usually just fix itself in the programming world. Okay, stepping off my soapbox. I was just annoyed that I had no tunes today and I sit with a NOISY bunch of folks.

MS Zune, FIX THE PROBLEM PLEASE!!!

Better luck next year, right?