According to this article, 9 out of 10 emails are spam. I can vouch for this. I came home last night to ~600 emails accumulated in four days; approximately 30 of them were legitimate emails. Yes, 95% of my email was spam, and this is after much of it had gone through a spam filter once already. Interestingly, I noticed the same trend mentioned in that article — my spam seems to have increased ten-fold in the past few months. If any of you out there use an effective spam filter and/or can recommend one, I’m all ears.
I woke up this morning to the first gray day in a week. The weather was absolutely perfect in Corpus Christi all weekend — sunny, breezy, not a cloud in the sky. I do think I gained about 10 pounds from all the food I ate over the last four days, but oh well. Time to add some miles to my running anyway!
Thanksgiving was great — I ate and ate and ate, and then J and I kicked some butt at foosball. I was offense, he was defense. We made it through the entire day undefeated — 12 wins in a row! Turns out I’m actually decent at foosball. Who knew?
On Friday I went Black Friday Shopping for the first time ever. We were at Circuit City at 5 a.m. and waited in line for two hours! Then we went to Kohl’s, then Conn’s, then the mall, then back to Kohl’s. The only thing I bought in 7 hours of shopping was two pairs of running socks (at 40% off) and a Whataburger breakfast taco, but let’s just say that everyone else spent a bit more. Getting up early wasn’t as bad as I thought it’d be; in fact, it was actually kind of fun.
On Saturday I got a mini-tour of Corpus, we saw the new James Bond movie (entertaining, but too long), and we played a lot of my new favorite video game: Guitar Hero. It’s like Dance Dance Revolution, but with a guitar. Yesterday we slept late and then visited the Texas State Aquarium. They even had a dolphin show, which is something I’d never actually seen before. Dolphins are the coolest.
It was a fun weekend. Having to come back to work was sucky on many, many levels.
You should try Donkey Conga. You have little bongo drums that you play. I have actually never played but Joel always sings the little song from it.