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Christmas Booty

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UPS just delivered the box of the stuff I got for Christmas. Easiest piece of luggage I ever dealt with!

Beer at LGB

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My plane is delayed until around 7pm so I’m in the bar getting some food and drink.

Laguna Beach

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I’ve got some time to kill before my flight, so I’m wandering around.

Today, a series of events coincided which have resulted in my cell phone having no saved phone numbers (i.e., contacts):

1. I decided to start syncing the contacts on my phone with Exchange. This enables me to maintain one set of contacts that’s accessible from the device, Outlook Web Access and in Outlook on my desktop at work.
2. My work password expired on Christmas. I was warned about this beforehand, but I forgot to change it before leaving on Tuesday.
3. Because my password expired, I kept getting these annoying error messages from Outlook Mobile complaining that it couldn’t fetch my email since the password wasn’t correct.
4. In order to remedy the situation, I stopped syncing everything. This deleted all the contacts on my phone. Again, Outlook Mobile warned me that this would happen, but I didn’t see it as a problem at the time.
5. Now that all my contacts have been deleted from my phone and now that I can’t access Exchange to synchronize them, I’m stuck until I can set my password to something new.
6. Normally, I’d reset my password by logging in remotely to my work computer via VPN.
7. I can’t connect to the internet on Vista because I signed up for the internet at my hotel on my phone. In Mac OS X, I can get online because I can just spoof the MAC address to match the one in my phone. MAC address spoofing doesn’t work for my wireless card in Vista for reasons I don’t understand.

Without being able to spoof my MAC address, I can’t connect to the internet, which means I can’t remotely log in which means I can’t change my password which means I can’t connect to Exchange which means I can’t synchronize my contacts which means I have no numbers in my phone.

Arg.

Room without a View

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I’m in Anaheim staying at a hotel while visiting relatives for Christmas. When I stayed at this place a couple years ago, it seemed a lot nicer. Maybe the other room was better. Maybe the hotel has gone downhill. Maybe my standards are just higher now. Anyhow, it’ll do.

Today I went to my brother’s house for dinner. Nice to see everybody, but now I’m covered in dog hair (they have 4 dogs and my parents brought their 2 too).

Hummer

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Ha ha, a lot of good a big honkin Canyonero with 4WD does you on an icy Seattle hill.