October 21, 2008 by Avy.

 I hate that little piece of slang yet I love to giggle at it. ah well.

I went back to work yesterday. I miss my son, but it’s all good. We’ll live.
now that I’m sitting on my arse most of the day, I’m back on Calorie Count at least until the next Weight Watchers session starts at work. It’s too easy to stuff my face all day in this place and I’m tryin to get MILFtastic. A girl can dream. I’m already below my pre-preg weight (not by a whole lot though) so all should be well.

I’ve also started wearing make-up regularly again. Yay! It’s a good feeling. Once finances allow, I’ll buy a few new articles of clothing. In the meantime, I’m back in the office and selling Mark for extra cash. Buy stuff!!!

Oh and, Google opens the floodgates, open-sources Android - Engadget

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October 17, 2008 by Avy.

Johnny Rockets
Originally uploaded by avytech

My darling husband bought me a Flip Mino. I must say I LOVE this thing. I only see two cons:
a) There’s no hold button and the buttons are all touch-screeny sensitive. I see accidental deletion in my future.

b) The file sizes are big… I can change them in-computer so it’s okay.

Anyway, I have tons of videos on flickr now. Yay. Lots of Xavier, too. I go back to work on Monday so there will be more more stuff on Monday night/Tues am of non-baby life. I’ll probably leave it with Erik Tues-Fri since he’ll be home with X.

Oh so last night my mom babysat again.
Erik and I went to Passional (it’ll always be Fetishes Boutique to me) and I got some nice stuff. This includes an awesome black corset with pink pinstripes. Yay.
Afterward, we headed over to Johnny Rockets. Mmmmm Streamliner! I love a good soyburger. Our waitress looked just like a young Tori Amos. We told her. She blushed. It was good.

Uh oh. I think someone pooped.
Adios

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September 25, 2008 by Avy.

So who wants to buy me one? Seriously. I think it’s do wonders for my back. And I think we all have heard and felt my knee by now.

These things are pretty cool though. I think Erik’s the one who first told me about them. Apparently the infrared part removes toxins that a regular sauna doesn’t get to.  I ended up getting even more info from this  Infrared Sauna site. I didn’t even think about this before, but you can burn 900 calories in 30minutes with these things! i knew regular saunas did a little, but this seems like something I can get behind. I wish my gym had them. I only burn like a third of that on the elliptical machine.

So far infrared saunas seem to be the way to go. I dunno why anyone would buy a regular sauna over this kind. I need money so we can have one

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July 12, 2008 by Avy.

Nope. But I kinda want one. I don’t hate the idea of an iPhone, it would just be irresponsible of me to buy one. I can’t afford it with the wedding and the baby and the bills, but let’s face it… I would if I could. It’s a desired thing. But I could also rule up a BlackJack. That’s a pretty sweet thing. I will have a new phone somewhere around Yulenukkah.  Maybe that could work. Things go on sale. I just can’t justify the expense when you get down to it. In the meantime, I’ll utilize my PDA and acknowledge the fact that my current phone IS pretty flippin sweet.

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February 14, 2008 by Avy.

This article is so cool! Well the subject is, not the article.
Here’s a little taste of the geekin:

By Julie Steenhuysen

CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. scientists have developed a microfiber fabric that generates its own electricity, making enough current to recharge a cell phone or ensure that a small MP3 music player never runs out of power.

If made into a shirt, the fabric could harness power from its wearer simply walking around or even from a slight breeze, they reported Wednesday in the journal Nature.

“The fiber-based nanogenerator would be a simple and economical way to harvest energy from the physical movement,” Zhong Lin Wang of the Georgia Institute of Technology, who led the study, said in a statement.

The nanogenerator takes advantage of the semiconductive properties of zinc oxide nanowires — tiny wires 1,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair — embedded into the fabric. The wires are formed into pairs of microscopic brush-like structures, shaped like a baby-bottle brush.

One of the fibers in each pair is coated with gold and serves as an electrode. As the bristles brush together through a person’s body movement, the wires convert the mechanical motion into electricity.

“When a nanowire bends it has an electric effect,” Wang said in a telephone interview. “What the fabric does is it translates the mechanical movement of your body into electricity.”

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