Felipe Anuel’s Neighborhood

I don't know if I've mentioned this - but the Nook is taking gadget
prone readers by storm this Christmas. The pre-orders sold out within
the first two weeks and now if you pre-order you wont get it until the
first or second week in January. I ordered mine in time, and it'll
still be shipped on Monday.

However, now the Nook is selling well on eBay. There are 10+ bids on a
single Nook causing the once reasonable price of $260 to skyrocket -
and in some cases double. So I'm now wondering if I should play the
patient one and put my Nook on eBay - and let it pay for itself and
just get it AFTER the holidays. But I don't know if I can. I've been
waiting well over a month for this thing and that's a long time for
me. The last time I waited so long it was for a doll who had to be
cast and sanded.

Paul's telling me I don't have to sell it, but I know that he thinks
we'll just make the money back and so it's foolish NOT to sell it. But
I don't know, the bubble may burst after the devices are officially
shipped and people are able to get real reviews on the thing. Then
again...I bought it blindly, didn't I?

I'd ask for everyone's opinion, but to tell the truth I don't think
anyone will be able to make this decision but me...

My hair's starting to grow back. Some may remember that awhile back I
posted about my post-pregnancy joy of loosing all the luscious hair I
developed while pregnant. Well, now its growing back and making me
look silly. I can hide the signs of the growth at my forehead hairline
with bangs, but another place that it happened was at my temples, and
I can't hide that. Oh well - looking like a mad scientist fits my
personality pretty nicely actually.

Today's my last day before my ten day vacation. I'm excited :) Trying
not to build it up though because as long as ten days sound, it will
fly by - my six weeks of maternity leave sure did - the holiday will
make sure of it. Thursday we're going to my sister's for Thanksgiving,
Friday we'll be going to the in-laws, and Saturday we'll be recouping
from the holidays :P

Found R2-D2 in Star Trek - nice Easter egg.

Been playing Dead Space with Paul, it's a good game - very scary. It
would be more scary though if the music let you know you were being
attacked from behind. Sometimes you can't tell until a random limb
appears around your head. Paul thought the game ended at Chapter Six
so imagine our surprise when we beat that boss and got another
objective. Oops, guess we shouldn't have spent all our money trying to
beat that guy.

Only two more weeks until I get my Nook. With the gift card fiasco
cleared up I'm getting more and more excited. I got a sample of Ron
Paul's book, "The Revolution", and was really inspired by the snippet
I read. I think I'm going to check that one out from the library
though because it doesn't seem like a book I'd read more than once.
Now to just find my library :)

The vid is a bit long but will shock you.......Who is minding the store?

The drama unfolds slowly at first.  First-term (anti-bailout candidate) Democrat Alan Grayson questions Elizabeth Coleman, Inspector General of the Federal Reserve.  The issue is oversight of the Fed's balance sheet, and the potential multi-trillion dollar loss that would be borne by you.

If watching the clip sends you into an apoplectic seizure as it does to me, then please help.  We need millions of Americans to become aware of the Fed and its abuses.  Monetization of the national debt is occurring daily (quantitative easing), as Bernanke simply creates credit and purchases Treasuries.  And we haven't even begun to discuss the Fed's balance sheet and the trillions in toxic assets they have accepted (purchased) from failed Wall Street banks.  Meanwhile the U.S. Dollar crumbles in value and makes new lows seemingly on a daily basis.

Trillions have been stolen from your children and used to rescue failed Wall Street banks and the Federal Reserve is the conduit.  They must be stopped.

Today Star Trek is supposed to be waiting for me at my house when I get home – I’m so excited!!! Once the baby goes down, that puppy’s going IN.

I’m having a hard morning. The audio portion of our A/V setup in our LARGEST conference room wasn’t working today. I wasn’t really in the best of moods and just couldn’t seem to get myself to a mental standing to figure out a solution. At last another person from my department (my company’s IT department) figured to bypass the system with a set of desk speakers and amplify it using the microphones that were already in place and for some odd reason working when the rest was not. I feel like I really dropped the ball – perhaps I should track down the meeting organizer and apologize? The guy’s nice but gives me the creeps, so I’m not sure.

I’m taking an impromptu vacation next week! This week is going to be kind of short because I’m taking Friday off (along with my regular Wednesday) and then next week I already had Thursday & Friday off (along with my regular Wednesday) so I only had to use two days of vacation to make it a full week. So in essence once Thursday of this week is over I’m not going to be at work again for another…TEN DAYS. Awesome Paul and I are REALLY excited, I think I’m going to ask my sister to still watch Evy on Tuesday like always so maybe we can have a day to ourselves – not sure when we’re going to get time off together again.

I’m feeling creative today, I just wish I had something to create One of these years I’m going to do NaNoWriMo – I’m thinking once Evy is not so dependent on me and can entertain herself for more than five minutes – like when she’s my nephew’s age. Of course, if I stay on track with my “family plan” I’ll be prego again come January 2011 so…

I'm so excited! It's going to be here on the 17th - in all it's
Blu-Ray goodness :) I'm so excited!!!!