oddgirl’s blog

Rumor is that the PNO stock, or as it will be traded: LGBT, will be reverse-split 11-1. That means for every 11 shares I have, I’ll get one share I can trade.

So, instead of paying off my debt or buying a big screen TV or a trip to the Bahamas with Big Daddy, I might have enough for a stick of gum or a pair of Converse. Still better than stepping in gum in my old Converse, I guess.

I need to get to work.

Behind the news of the Google IPO, my old company, PlanetOut, also filed for it’s IPO.

No fuckin’ way, man. Now, what did I do with those stock certificates???

my team launched a new site today for the next version of The Sims for the console – The new product is called The URBZ. My team rocks.

it’s freakin’ hot in SF. if i wanted hot weather, i’d go to Palm Springs. oh, wait… i’m going to PS this weekend. it’s time for Coachella again. The lineup this year is stellar! The Pixies, Air, Kraftwerk, The Cure, Le Tigre, Belle & Sebastian, Radiohead, Death Cab for Cutie… Yoweee!

can. not. wait.

my tivo unit appears to be dead. i’ve now tried to pull out each hard drive seperately and see if it was one or the other that is dead, but it seems like both are problematic. at this point i just want to take it somewhere and have it fixed. about the last thing i want to do with my day is figure out how to re-format hard drives. so very sad. i’m ready to go to Best Buy and just buy another unit, but i’d feel too guilty about that without at least figuring out if i can hire someone to fix the one i have.

next time: buy one and just suck it up and don’t take it out of warranty.

but i know that i am.

had a birthday yesterday – i’m now officially on the long march to my 40th next year. it was wonderful to have the canada set of the wedding parents along for dinner last night. the beautiful mum assured me that the 40s were a wonderful time in her life and that i would enjoy my own. methinks that since she had two children her 40s were different than i’m imagining mine to be.

i’m not at all where i imagined i would be. 10 years ago I was living with M., cooking lots of yummy food and signing up for AOL. Now living alone, dating around and making the web be more fun. i would have never imagined the journey i took to get here. then again, in 1995, we didn’t really understand what the web was going to turn into. and i thought i’d be with M. forever.

so i’ve got about a year to start imagining what the next ten years might hold. there are some things i’ll be able to control. and some things i won’t.

but if i don’t go to work right now, i’ll have bigger worries than philosophical ones.

i could play with this for hours.

…was my mantra for the weekend. i succeeded in living up to my mantra and yet still reveling in the celebration of the wedding weekend.

it’s hard to sum up the weekend, but it’s a blog, so i have to try: there was food, drink (maybe too much for some who thought that perhaps it was a pub crawl and not a wedding), friendship, so much joy, and camaraderie with lots of new people. A couple that was absolutely meant to get married and make an adventure of their lives together. Lots of family from and friends from all over the world.

i danced which i don’t do often. i danced with my date, my friends, many aunts/uncles and cousins of the bride and groom and my best dance was with the mother of the bride. i was absolutelly honored because she asked me. that gives a great picture of a great family. it was a wedding with something for everyone!

had dinner with the new couple last night – picked up keys to their place so i can help young cousin Ryan when he stays there while they are on their 5 week honeymoon in europe. it was great to have a chance to connect up with just the two of them in a quiet moment before they left. a perfect example of how lucky i am. throughout the weekend i kept meeting people who would love to have the kind of time with them that i take for granted. i get to see them all the time. how did i get so lucky to have such great friends in my life? between them and Staz and the Engineer – i am so blessed.

Wedding weekend. I’ve been waiting years for this wedding. The excitement is in the air and the introductions and greetings are beautiful in their abundance. It is really the joy of life to get to see two friends come together in their love and then get to see all of the other people in their lives swirl around them with all the happiness that this weekend will have.

I had a really great date last night. Sushi dinner and getting out to see an old friend’s band perform and meeting some new people and lots of fabulousness. Having someone be so present and playful was such a joy to me.

ok – sleep is overtaking me. i’m off to wonderland – can’t wait up for the last people to arrive out our condo and tomorrow night the party condo (that would be Heathen’s) will be in full swing so i need my beauty sleep. Plus I have to pick up my tux at 11 am.

(wow – i used the word joy twice in one entry. what up with that?)

or just giving my money to some other poor shlump…

So this year I filed my taxes myself with TurboTax. I was extremely pleased to have had a relatively easy tax year – basically one job, no big wacky stock transactions from failed companies I’d worked for. And I was due a pretty decent refund which I chose to have direct deposited into my checking account

sidenote – have you ever noticed that when I’m typing really fast in IMs that I sometimes transpose letters and numbers?

My refund was supposed to hit on April 9 and this morning when I woke up at 4 am I checked and it still wasn’t there. Perplexed I checked the IRS site for a status and found out that my refund was in fact deposited on April 9. I then opened up TurboTax just to double check my info…

Yup – I transposed the numbers of my checking account. So lucky guy who’s account ends in not 57, but 75 got a pleasant surprise when he hit the ATM this weekend.

So I realize this and of couse can’t go back to sleep. So I get up to watch some TV.

Tivo is giving me what I’ve now found out is known as the Green Screen of Death. Bascially, I think that my hard drive is dead.

greeeattt.

pity me. show me love. i leave for tahoe tommorrow and i haven’t started packing. be nice to me today.