Tonight I did something I've never really done before. I complained about service in a restaurant to the manager. It was the most frustrated I've ever been in a restaurant in my entire life, I don't argue that fact. But who won? Did anybody really benefit from my complaint? The waitress was sour, the manager was pissed at the waitress, and I'm guilty because I complained to eventually save myself $2.

Man, karma is going to eat me for this one.

Not sure how many people are into Aqua Teen, but I redesigned my website and completely overhauled the forum. I'd say I've put about 10 hours of work into this thing in the last 2 days. It really gives me a sense of accomplishment. At least the 12 year olds appreciate it.

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I just had the weirdest dentist experience of my life. Way worse than the nine minute dentist experience last time.

I arrived early, of course, and was quickly ushered into the chair after I read a bit about endangered frogs. She started cleaning my teeth and then all of the sudden goes, "Whoa..." I'm thinking, oh man...cavities. Swear to God, it was like in Friends when Ross had that thing on his ass.

"Hey, Rhonda. Come here a sec. You're good with different stuff like this. What do you make of this?"

"Whoa.. Do you smoke or chew at all?"

"Absolutely not." I am panicking. What the hell are they looking at?

"You been sick recently? Wear a retainer? Dentures? (giggles)"

"No, nothing." Okay, seriously. Tell me what you're doing.

"You been on steroids? You suck on anything real hard or sweet lately?" (okay, gross)

"NO."

"Hmm.. I want somebody that makes the big bucks to look at this." She finishes up the cleaning in silence and then retreats to find the dentist. Surprisingly, it was an asian woman (I've never had a non-white or non-male dentist before). She says, "All right, lemme check this out."

She is baffled. The dentist pulls out the book. They start leafing through images of people's mouths, all the while I'm still wondering what the hell is wrong with me.

"So you haven't done anything different the last couple days?"

"Well, I've used orange listerine a couple times in the last week."

"OHHHHH!!! You've got chemical burns all over the roof of your mouth. Stop using that. Nice teeth, very nice teeth. Have a happy New Year."

It took 2 weeks for my accounting professors to put up our grades and I was beginning to worry. I absolutely destroyed my Intermediate Accounting final with a 140/150 and my Cost Accounting final suffered the same fate with a 97/100. I finished my second straight semester with 4 A's and 1 B. There's always just one class that I can't seem to get an A in.

Why do I wake up in the middle of the night with old country songs blaring in my head?

Merry Christmas.

This week is going very quickly. I really don't wanna go back to Des Moines. I kinda like this slacking business I've got going on.

Reminiscing about moments you'll never forget with the people you made the moments with is the greatest part of owning a memory.

My first day home was pretty sweet. I got absolutely nothing done. Well, I guess I got something done. Something I wasn't looking forward to doing, but I got it done.

I looked over the syllabus for this tax course I'm trying to cram in. This is pretty technical. Most of our accounting classes have been conceptual in nature, just giving us the tools we need to easily understand any accounting system we encounter. This course is intent on teaching me specific rules and exactly where to put my zeros when I fill out a corporate income tax report. That makes it a LOT harder to cram into 4 weeks.

I'm done with finals and I'm fairly certain that they were easier than they have ever been. It was nice to be pretty confident of what grade I was going to get before I even went into the test.

I'm taking bets now for how much I actually read of that tax book over break. Also Kading.. I don't know what the hell that brown crap was all over your hands after you lifted, but now it's all over mine. What is this?!?!

I'm going home on Friday for 2 weeks. Do I take my computer? You know if I don't I'm gonna wanna shoot myself. But it's so much of a hassle lugging this thing around. I really should just get a laptop...

I wish all Tuesdays were this lazy.

Management and Accounting are in the can. I actually think I might get an A in management, which will be a surprise to both me and Scullen.

So far it looks like I'll for sure have at least 3 A's and 2 B's. That's been my goal since day one, so....booyeah.

It's finals time. I have two tomorrow and one Wednesday which means that while this weekend should've been a great time to prepare, I felt it more important to figure out the minimum grade I needed on the final to receive an A or B and reassure myself that getting that would be easy.

Kading's parents had a party at their house and our house received the spoils. The difference between Kading's parents and my parents is that while Kading's drove the excess food over, mine would've told me to get my butt over there if I wanted it.

I can't wait to go home.

I just received what could be the last paycheck from NewCom Technologies. We've gotten ourselves into a ridiculous situation because a trusted client failed to get a government grant. They were already into us for $500,000 and we were into others for half of that. The problem with the situation is that while we will not see any of that $500,000, our creditors fully expect to see all of the $250,000 that we owe. After multiple promises from our client dating to October, I think it's finally time to admit that it's over.

Well, it's been a good run. It's been a great run, actually. Who wants to hire me? I've got skills.

We are once again having major issues with the internet. I don't know what happened to my router, but it is screwed up royally. It will work fine when it's just Mark and I on there, but as soon as Will tries to access it, it just stops working. Anyone know what to do?

Why does it keep snowing? Did we get this much all of last winter?

Boston Legal was disappointing for the first time...ever. I really didn't think it was even close to realistic and it felt like David E Kelly is having issues attracting viewers to this show. Nothing like comprising the integrity of a great show to make it popular.

My bed is so cold when I get in it, but it's too warm to leave in the morning. Is this some kind of paradox?

I spent about $150 on sheets and a new comforter for my bed. Tonight is the first night in my new bed. You'd better get used to me, bed. We're going to be spending a LOT of time together.

Trying to pick out a bedroom set is more complicated than figuring out the plural of 'analysis'. I wish my girlfriend would've done it for me.

So I changed the design. I'm not sure if even I like it, so I have no hope that you will. I dunno, leave feedback in the comments and we'll change stuff up.

I downloaded the entire first season of Lost from Matt's MIT server (THANKS!) and have watched 18 episodes in 2 days. It's like Star Wars. I fell in love with the original three, then 3 prequels emerged and filled in the details.

I wish I could be thought provoking. You'd come here and actually think about something a different way after you'd read what I wrote about it. I think that's pretty universal, though. Everybody wants to think that they're the most interesting person in the world.

It's the last good weekend of the semester. Next weekend will be filled with last minute cramming (or video games for Josh) and then it's home for Christmas. Let's do it up.

We just had the first big snowfall of the year! I scooped off about 4 inches of snow on my car this morning. I was forced to move it into the driveway (we got all four in there!) because of the snow ordinance.

Meanwhile, our heat and electricity bill was $302. Upon closer inspection, we found that Kading forgot to pay the last bill..entirely so it's really only $200. Still though.. is warmth worth that much? We only have our house at 61 degrees, now. It's...freezing. You know how in the middle of the night you flip your pillow over to the cool side? I can't do that anymore because it's so cold I get shivers.

I hate...non spring.