* My new employer (well, the organization that leases me from my employer) was giving out T-shirts today. I don’t really feel like I’m in the Valley unless there’s at least one new work T-shirt every year. This one is actually kind of cool, too.
* I’m smack in the middle of a major re-organization of my backup strategy. It’s not enough to run Time Machine; I need a secondary backup as well (which is currently spread between an iMac, an old iPod, and .Mac). Now if I get my new DVD project done, there’s a very real chance I could wind up with a hard drive only 60% full. Which would be nice.
* Said DVD project suddenly took off like a rocket this morning, when I realized that maybe iDVD looks for movies in the “Movies” folder. (Hold the applause please.) As soon as I moved the project files off the desktop and into that directory, boom, everything was there, and it took me all of 5 minutes to configure the DVD mapping and get the special features menu together. Not only will this one have the new movie, but it will have the trailer, the original 02-02-02 trailer, AND a 10-minute reel of deleted scenes from the new picture. Next trick: getting it burned while working in the background on a couple of actual work projects…
* Celtic is playing at Barcelona today. Barca are the only Continental team that I sort of like, and I do respect the hell out of them: for their record, for their ties to the Catalan region and their role as anti-fascist stand-in against Franco’s Real Madrid back in the day, for the fact that they never had a sponsor on their shirt ever…until THEY decided to sponsor UNICEF and put their logo on the shirt. Couple that with the fact that the game is at the Nou Camp, and that Celtic have never won on the road in the Champions League era…well, no spoilers please, but I have a sneaking suspicion how this one will turn out.
* Am I mixing my plural-noun cases here? Probably. Put it down to the influence of Setanta Sports and having the Geoff Show podcast on in the background.
* I don’t really need a pair of blue sunglasses, do I? That would just be silly. (Not $illy.) Although I do sort of think that since I tend to use my eye color as a trademark, having brown shades is a bit counterproductive. OK, now I’m just talking shite. I will stop now.
* Last year’s Celtic road shirt (the green/black stripes) for £9.99? Now THAT is $illy.
Will need to see photographic evidence of said sunglasses before being able to determine chic or geek (read: cool or lame) factor!
Am anxiously awaiting rodent videos, just for the record.