Long Week

This has felt like the longest week ever. I haven't even been working overtime hours, but it seems like I am. Then I think about what I've accomplished work-wise so far this week, and it really doesn't seem like I have anything much to show for it either. After work, I can't really think of anything I've been doing that's worth noting. And this has showed blog-wise, as some of you may have noticed, I haven't been writing as much this week like I'm used to.

Maybe I haven't been doing anything because I've done a lot of "spacing out" instead. At my desk, on my bed, while eating, while driving, just about any situation, my head just wanders off to nowhere. My brain is really cluttered these days, but instead of trying to sort out thoughts, I end up just listening to music and letting the time pass until it's time to sleep. Not good.

Oh well, at least one thing I did accomplish this week was to sign up with Dennis at Bally's yesterday. Even though my membership at Powerhouse (or X-Sport Fitness) lasts till September or October, the "2 for 1" deal was too good to pass up. Now I'm set for 3 years. Anyways, I was basically only going to P-house on weekends in Darien, and I'll still probably do that thru the remainder of my membership.

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I just got a email from my mom to see if I had any ideas for Father's Day. She wants us to do something "memorable" as a family, but I have no idea what a family like us can do together. Both me and my sister are 20-something now, and other than having dinner with mommy and daddy, what kinds of things are there to do? It's already hard enough thinking of stuff to do with friends. Well, I guess I'm gonna try to think of a gift first, and then hopefully my trusty sister will have some ideas on what to do.

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Here is an interesting article on rebates that I read yesterday. I always wondered how and why manufacturers or stores would give rebates that made their products effectively free. Seemed like something shady was going on in that world.

Well, I guess it is a combination of these companies being shady but also people being lazy. And by "people", I guess it means "men". I figured a small percentage of people would always forget or be lazy, but not enough for the store/manufacturer to recoup significant profits. But if read the article right, the numbers suggest that usually at least 10% fail to collect their rebates for one reason or another, and 90% failure is not uncommon. If that's true, there's significant profit right there.

So the lesson to be learned is, be careful and vigilant about rebates, cause it's easy to get screwed out of your money and it happens more than you think. Sales are always better.

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Anyone know of a good place to buy checks? I've still been using the temporary ones Anuj gave me when I opened the account, but I'm gonna run out soon. I figure most people just get them from their bank, but Bank One charges too much I think. Plus I wanna see if there are cool designs out there. I'd pay more for those. Email/IM/Post Comment if you have any input, thanks.

(p.s. Josh if u read this, can u send me the name of that tint place again, I accidentally closed my IM without writing it down yesterday and now I forgot the info. thanks much appreciated)