{"id":166,"date":"2006-06-26T22:47:40","date_gmt":"2006-06-26T22:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobbijowoods.com\/?p=166"},"modified":"2006-06-26T22:47:40","modified_gmt":"2006-06-26T22:47:40","slug":"kiss-my-sass-blog-archive-go-go-gadget-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobbijowoods.com\/?p=166","title":{"rendered":"Kiss My Sass \u00bb Blog Archive \u00bb Go, go gadget pc!"},"content":{"rendered":"

OK.<\/p>\n

After my near-disastrous lunch with mom on Saturday I *did* have a good rest of the day on my birthday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

We went to her house and hung out and she showed me some stuff she learned at her computer class and then she gave me\u00a0a really pretty homemade card that she made (these things are like works of art the way she does them) and for my gift she bought me a ticket to the Lions\u2019 Super Breakfast.\u00a0 What a great gift!<\/p>\n

The Lions\u2019 Super Breakfast\u00a0is this great big, huge event the Lions have twice a year as a fundraiser.\u00a0 It\u2019s\u00a0sixty dollars a ticket which is a LOT of dough for me to just toss out on entertainment, being a\u00a0broke bum who runs her own business.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve gone to these\u00a0before and it\u2019s great fun.\u00a0 It\u2019s always at Willie\u2019s Hidden Harbor which is this bar & banquet hall right on a marina on the Mississippi, and there\u2019s a huge buffet with every breakfast thing you could want, eggs, bacon, sausage, ham, hash brown casserole, corned beef hash, omelettes, gourmet breads, croissants, and muffins, and then giant fruit baskets made of watermelons and filled with pineapples, strawberries, grapes, and melons.\u00a0<\/p>\n

There\u2019s also a bar and you can make your own screwdrivers and Bloody Mary\u2019s and a giant aluminum trough of ice and beers (mostly domestic and watered down stuff but still free, all you can drink,\u00a0with your ticket).\u00a0 Then they have raffles the whole time, pull tabs and quick picks which are kinda like pull tabs but they draw a number after you pull your tab off the board.\u00a0 The raffles are fun, most people like them, they give away\u00a0sports jerseys (Vikings, Gophers, Northstars, MN Wild,\u00a0Twins, etc.),\u00a0gift certificates and cash. \u00a0<\/p>\n

I\u2019m excited.\u00a0 It\u2019s generally a day of sloth and food and drunken merriment, lots of friends and people I know are going so it will be a blast.<\/p>\n

Another highlight was when I got home, my iPAQ pocket PC came in the mail, which I bought from eBay, as a birthday gift to myself.\u00a0 It\u2019s really cool and I can\u2019t want to trick it out with tons of cool stuff.\u00a0 Some people buy these buggers so that they can instant message their buddies, play games or mp3\u2019s\u00a0while away from home.\u00a0 Me, I\u2019m gonna use it to keep track of contacts, addresses\/phone numbers, meetings, to-do lists and check mail while I\u2019m out and about.\u00a0 I have to get a network card for it but it should be fairly easy for me to find one for under $40.\u00a0 The pic above is a pic of the\u00a0model that I purchased..<\/p>\n

And here\u2019s what the screen looks like (not mine but similar)\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Same day, different year..<\/h3>\n

\nOther posts on this day:<\/p>\n