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LiveJournal, Coffee, Buns, etc.
Sep. 17th, 2007 10:13 pmJust a heads up in case you missed it: LiveJournal started using Omniture to track 5% of its journals. Now, I'm somewhat familiar with Omniture. When I used to work at my Internet job, we used Omniture to track sales and site visitation stats. It's a good way for Web-based businesses to learn about their traffic. But in case you don't want to have the possibility of Big Brother hovering over your LJ, you can always go to the admin console and change your setting to opt-out.
(The admin console is a good place to use in general for things like banning unwanted users or inputting things like mood themes. Forgot the link to the console? It's listed under my "LJ Resources" links list in the right sidebar.)
Coffee Overdose
I've purchased over 14 pounds of coffee over the past week. Thanks to my gracious ex-shift supervisors and partners, as well as my still-functioning free-coffee-a-week benefit, I got enough markouts to help tamper the cost. The smell, however, is a different issue entirely. Between my shiny new espresso machine, the free espresso machine a client gave us at New Job, and playingdealer provider of quality Starbucks coffee to my co-workers and hence convincing about half of them to buy coffees through me, I've managed to make the living room smell like a coffee shop.
Not that I mind. I was shamelessly plugging my favorite coffee (the Ethiopia Sidamo), which, in my opinion, is the best smelling of the lot, and ended up buying something like 4 lbs of it and causing my living space to smell the most like Sidamo ^_^;;
Chinese Baked Goods
There's a local Chinese bakery that sells a variety of Chinese pastries that I like to go to. Due to recent inflation, buns that used to cost 0.60 can now be priced close to a dollar. But this store's pricing remains reasonable. And what's more, at 6 everyday, buns start to go for 3 for $1. At 6:30, 4 for $1. I bought 8 buns on my way back from work today.
I couldn't resist. As soon as I got home, I had a lotus-filled pineapple bun. Yum!
PS
Lastly, for those of you with whom I interact in RL: my apartment's phones (note the plural) died. None of them is working. Apparently it's been like that for quite a while. So, yeah, if you've been trying to call me and no one answers, that's why :p
(The admin console is a good place to use in general for things like banning unwanted users or inputting things like mood themes. Forgot the link to the console? It's listed under my "LJ Resources" links list in the right sidebar.)
Coffee Overdose
I've purchased over 14 pounds of coffee over the past week. Thanks to my gracious ex-shift supervisors and partners, as well as my still-functioning free-coffee-a-week benefit, I got enough markouts to help tamper the cost. The smell, however, is a different issue entirely. Between my shiny new espresso machine, the free espresso machine a client gave us at New Job, and playing
Not that I mind. I was shamelessly plugging my favorite coffee (the Ethiopia Sidamo), which, in my opinion, is the best smelling of the lot, and ended up buying something like 4 lbs of it and causing my living space to smell the most like Sidamo ^_^;;
Chinese Baked Goods
There's a local Chinese bakery that sells a variety of Chinese pastries that I like to go to. Due to recent inflation, buns that used to cost 0.60 can now be priced close to a dollar. But this store's pricing remains reasonable. And what's more, at 6 everyday, buns start to go for 3 for $1. At 6:30, 4 for $1. I bought 8 buns on my way back from work today.
I couldn't resist. As soon as I got home, I had a lotus-filled pineapple bun. Yum!
PS
Lastly, for those of you with whom I interact in RL: my apartment's phones (note the plural) died. None of them is working. Apparently it's been like that for quite a while. So, yeah, if you've been trying to call me and no one answers, that's why :p
