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I haven’t been able to transfer any money from my bank account to ING Direct lately, and that annoys me. But it’s neat that after just two months, I’ve gotten more from interest than I’ve gotten from Royal Bank in years. With much less money in the account. After this month, my finances will be back to normal, with my old VISA account paid off. But I’m now also paying a little more for the faster DSL I have, and the slight rent increase due to my raise last July.

On Saturday, I ended up working late again, until just after 9am (normally I’d get off at 7:30). I haven’t really done much of that lately, mostly because of the reasons I would be staying late. In 2002, the reasons were more sensible, and I did that more often. I might start doing that more often again — I wouldn’t mind the extra overtime. When I go back to work tonight, it’ll be under a new assisstant manager. Hopefully he’s more organized. Which was the only thing I really found wrong with the other one, unlike other people working there. But some of them like to complain about everything.

Oh yeah, even though I can finance a $1600 laptop, I still can’t even get a department store credit card. That amuses me, but doesn’t really bother me. I didn’t actually want one anyway.

Free listing day on eBay.ca tomorrow, I’ll have to dig out some computer stuff to put up for sale. Most of it I will probably never use again, so it would be better to sell for a few bucks and have someone make use of it, than let it sit in my closet for a few more years.

Well, it’s 2004. Like 2003, but one more. Nothing special about that.

Work wasn’t too bad last night at all. There were just 4 or 5 of us there (one started earlier, so he left by lunchtime). Myself, a couple of friends, and someone else. Plus the manager. Which did make things go faster than if other people had been working.

I had planned to buy a movie or two this week, but I’m not sure if I will now. That was before I bought a home theatre system (Venturer AVR2000 200W 5.1 surround sound, $88 CAD). I might still get one, at least. Probably Pirates of the Caribbean – that was a good movie. I don’t think I had anything else I had to buy this week, other than stuff for lunches.

Notes for making my spam graphs generate faster:

• Add a new table so at the end of each month, I can enter in the number of spams filtered for that month. Easier on the server than doing a search for each month in the graph, I’d imagine.
• Generate a final graph for 2003, and archive it. There were 8593 spams filtered in Dec 2003. I don’t know how that compares to the previous two months, because I’m missing half of October and November (3044 and 4603 spams, respectively). Sep 2003 having 4731. But, the number has been steadily increasing over the whole year. At this rate, it wouldn’t surprise me if there were 10000 tagged as spam by SpamAssassin this month. And all of that doesn’t even count the mails that get rejected by my server before it hits the filters (which end up being 50-100 daily, it seems).
• Set up a subdomain for my local webserver as a CNAME for seymour.ath.cx

Having supper at my grandparents tonight. Shortly, actually. After I have a shower and all that. Goose and ham and the usual veggies and stuff. Mmm… and I’ll get to take a dish full of it to work with me for lunch.

Oh yeah, I also get to go to work an hour early tonight. Since just a manager isn’t allowed to be in the store alone, and there won’t be anyone else there after 10 other than the manager working tonight. Which is fine, I was getting up early today anyway. I don’t know if I’ll be going home an hour early yet or not. I don’t really mind staying until 7:30, get a bit of overtime. I’ll find out for sure sometime tonight, I guess.

I was going to post this entry to my LiveJournal, but it ended up being a lot longer than I expected, so here it is in my weblog.