Wedding planning is going well. Ashleigh has taken on the role of “bride,” which makes sense, and I’ve taken on the role of “wedding planner,” because I’m actually really good at organizing things (a trait I got from my mother, so thank you, Mom). We’ve done most of the work we need to do already, and we’ve still got a little over three months till our wedding. I read some advice that said it’s better to get done whatever you can get done ahead of time, even if it seems like something that can wait, because you don’t want additional stress right before the wedding. So although we could have waited to get table name holders, we got them last week. And although I could have waited to get a cake knife and server, I ordered one yesterday. The less we have to worry about in the days leading up to the wedding, the better.

I understand that your pricing structure may be complicated, and that everything’s somewhat negotiable. But if you refuse to put prices or price ranges on your web site–or even worse, if you refuse to put prices in your “information” packets–then I don’t really want to do business with you. Clearly you think you’re too expensive, because if you were a good value, you’d want to advertise that. And anyway, you’re just wasting a whole lot of my time and your time, because then I have to call you, and you have to dedicate time to coming up with a price quote for me, and you have to keep following up and inquiring with me, even though your location is far too expensive in the first place. If you’d just tell me up front how much it’s likely to cost, I could avoid wasting everyone’s time. Do you really think that by making me talk to you, you’re going to convince me to spend twice my budget? Not a chance. Instead, you’re going to get a shitload of people calling you to find out what you could have easily posted on your web site. And the people who could afford it will, and the people who can’t won’t. You’re not going to convert anyone, you’re just going to piss people off.

Ashleigh and I got engaged this morning!

Holy crap! The new Apple Store (the cube) at 59th and 5th is going to be open twenty-four hours a day! That’s excellent news because it means there’s finally something to do in midtown after 11pm besides eating and drinking. It’ll also be helpful for the next time that Ash’s Junior Mints melt all over her iPod.

Oh, and for the first twenty-four hours (beginning tomorrow at 6pm), they’re giving away a MacBook an hour.

Earlier today Apple Computer Inc. announced that, with a small software download, the new Intel-based Macs can run Windows XP. I immediately went to the apple.com home page to check it out, because I imagined it was going to look like this.

It’s not on my Yahoo Calendar for some reason, but today’s officially the first day of spring. So why the hell is it so damn cold outside? Really though, it’s much more mild than it was last year at this time, so I think that means we’ll have a nice, long spring. It better not be two weeks long like it was last year. Anyway, my show is now over, and Ash is in Wisconsin for three months, so I’m going to be rather unoccupied throughout the spring. This is a perfect time to visit me if you’re a friend of mine, and a perfect time not to visit me if you’re not.

We had elphabagels at work again today, in honor of St. Patrick’s Day. This year I was brave enough to actually try one. They’re just plain bagels with green food coloring, so they shouldn’t taste weird. But… they tasted weird. Sort of like… lots of green food coloring.

People on Flickr were complaining that this shirt from Fossil is no longer available, so I went ahead and recreated it on Spreadshirt for people who still want them.

At my office, in addition to coffee, we have hot chocolate. It’s not the greatest hot chocolate (because it’s made with water and powder instead of milk and syrup), but it’s still hot chocolate. And if, when I was ten years old, you told me that I would one day be working in a place where I could have as much free hot chocolate as I wanted, any time I wanted it, I’d have been really freakin’ stoked.

I’ve been working at this location for over a year now, and today I found out that the quarts of milk in the refrigerator are supplied by the company for anyone to use. I always thought that they belonged to an individual, because the refrigerators are there for the purpose of storing employees’ personal food. All this time I’ve been drinking black coffee at work even though I hate it!