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Unfortunately, I got rid of the Phantom I bought a few months ago. I have some diatomaceous earth but I am not sure I will use it. We have a lot of living areas.

Sorry Jacob. Good luck Iain. After a pretty good couple of weeks of work, I've had a really shitty couple of days. I found out on Friday that there was going to be this big train strike in Germany starting Saturday morning. We had tickets to take the train from Bonn to Frankfurt on Saturday morning (to catch out flight). So we decided to get a hotel near the airport and to get another train ticket for Friday. OK, that is annoying but not too bad. We get to the hotel (we've stayed there 3 other times) and I thoroughly check the room for bedbugs (like usual). I find nothing suspicious. However, just as we were about to leave, I see a bedbug crawling across the sheet. What the fuck? ? Why me again? Luckily, I can dry clothing and put the luggage/shoes/backpacks in the "Packtite" (bedbug heater/killer) but I cannot do anything about electronic, etc. I am going to be soooo fucking pissed if we get bedbugs in our house again (we just had them 1 year ago).

Heh. They are pretty nice. A hackintosh is sounding better and better.

I've been waiting for these to come out to replace my my MBP that recently died. Now, I'm not sure what I am going to do.

The Mac Mini no longer has a quad core option.

Happy Birthday Vicki!

The Roosevelts: An Intimate History Episode 1 1895-1901

Tried some currywurst today. It basically looked like this with more sauce (except on a fancier plate) and tasted just like it looks - a bunch of ketchup with a little curry powder poured over bratwurst. It was awful!

The only problem I have noticed when having too many tabs open in Safari is with the Spotify app (it will cut out when I switch tabs).

Chris, Where did you get yours?

Wish I could watch the Giants v Cards series. At least I'll get to watch the WS.

That would have been useful to read at the beginning of my journey. Update: We are probably going to get a 9" king size latex mattress (x-firm Dunlop, firm Dunlop, and medium Talalay for the top) from www.foamsweetfoam.com (someone mentioned them in this thread and I am too lazy to look it up). Because I have an skin allergy to bandaids (most likely it is just the adhesive) I decided to be careful and get an latex blood allergy test to make sure I don't have a serious allergy to latex. It would suck to find out after having the bed shipped all that way. I'm waiting for the results. Now I just need to decide about the support for the bed. We have a solid wood platform that the mattress could rest on but many places say that a mattress should be able to breathe and so a solid base isn't good. I've thought about converting it to a slat platform by doing something like this. http://www.flobeds.com/products/foundations-legs/slats-for-platform.htm I could also just get a king size frame and this from http://www.sleepez.com/foundations.htm or some cheaper site.

So sorry that I missed that game (stuck on a plane)! Wow, 18 innings.

I tried to get a flu shot this week at my work but they told me I had to get it at my doctor's office because I had a reaction to it last year. So now I have to wait until I get back from Germany.

Feel better Brent, that is no fun.

So I finally decided to put Lacy on my bench this week....

Gene!!!!!!! Welcome back!

I tried my friend's iphone 6+ today and liked that it was less wide that the Note (whatever number) that I tried. It is still way too big for me but wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. For example, I could hold it as a phone without worrying about dropping it. I couldn't however reach even half way up the screen with one hand (so even the home button software help didn't help).

Can you do this with the builtin firewall in Windows 8? I can only seem to make rules and deny all connections (incoming or outgoing) that aren't specified in a rule? I would like to block everything and have it ask me everytime there is a new incoming or outgoing connection.

I don't see the problem, I think you would look great in that costume Ric!

Thanks.

It is a super cool program. I'd be happy to know if there was one for Windows as well.

Happy Birthday Santa!

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Thanks for the comments! The WRX is way too young/sporty looking for hubby, the new Acura TLX looks very nice. We'll definitely check that out when we get around to test driving cars. We did end up renting a 2014 Ford Fusion (with ecoboost) this weekend and I didn't like it as much as our 2004 Accord v6 so that car is definitely out.