PDA Babble

Short entry because it's Christmas Eve Eve, and some of us (hint: me) have a few carols to sing tonight.

As I do with everything, I have begun to go overboard with my PDA. I brought it up briefly last week here, but I feel as if I owe it a better introduction. Here's what I should've written:

I recently got a PDA for work. It's almost like the people at work got together and said, "Is there anything we could do to make him nerdier?" And then they started shouting out, "Make him carry around a slide rule in a holster!" and "Dress him up like an Ewok!" Then, someone just slammed their fist down on the table and said, "To hell with that, let's give him a computer he can take EVERYWHERE!" I just played into that trap like a sucker, because I am always screwing around with that thing, trying to calculate how many milkshakes I could buy with 150 million dollars. Then, I amortize the cost of those milkshakes over 20 years. The possibilities are endless.

I have decided that el PDA's name shall be Samwise, since it goes everywhere with me, and the case looks exactly like Sean Astin's head (I ordered it specially). I didn't have too much to do at work today, since it's my last day of the year, and so I decided I would write a little app for it in C#. It ended up just being a little form with a button on it that said "SELF DESTRUCT". Whenever you hit that button, you'd get some text that read "AIIIIYEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!" and an explosion sound. I devoted far more time to that than I should've. Also, I downloaded Pong for it. Between the Ponging and the self destructing, I look forward to a non-stop battle of wits between myself and Samwise over the next 2 weeks.

Going home for Christmas tomorrow morn. Even with that, I won't be stopping Goulash. Unlike the Post Office, Goulash recognizes only one holiday a year (George Washington's Birthday), and even that is done grudgingly.