{"id":294,"date":"2006-07-17T14:28:47","date_gmt":"2006-07-17T18:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/2006\/07\/17\/pre-birthday-ish-stuff\/"},"modified":"2006-07-17T15:12:08","modified_gmt":"2006-07-17T19:12:08","slug":"pre-birthday-ish-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/2006\/07\/17\/pre-birthday-ish-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"Pre-birthday-ish stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My birthday is tomorrow &#8230; so this is the last day for me to write when in my 30&#8217;s :veryshocked:<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had the ability to get a few &#8220;b-day presents&#8221; ahead of time, with me saying the other day &#8220;every day from now thru my birthday is my  birthday&#8221; &#8211;meaning to &#8220;treat me nice&#8221; the whole time and &#8220;make it feel special&#8221; &#8211;so then DH decided to make it that something would be gotten for me every day, mostly &#8212; so let&#8217;s see:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fry&#8217;s: a DVD: &#8220;The Sixth Sense&#8221; &#8211;I have never seen it, but based on &#8220;The Village&#8221; being a favorite of mine, I had thought of getting the other movies that  M. N. S. has put out (I&#8217;m using initials for spelling reason, too you-know-what to look it up)<\/li>\n<li>Best Buy: something for my Sansa e260 (Sandisk) &#8212; the Sandisk Sansa e200 series Travel Kit<\/li>\n<li>Best Buy: using money from FIL for birthdays to DH and me, and a bit more donation from DH a new mp3 player just to have Audible Ready-ness ability. It&#8217;s a Sandisk Sansa m230, which is for the family to use with my <a href=\"http:\/\/Audible.com\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Audible.com<\/a> account only (and I am still wanting my Sansa e260 to do Audible &#8230;)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A nice little list. The Sansa&#8217;s don&#8217;t use bookmarking, and I would like it if they did, but as it is, it is nice to finally have a device to listen to Pride and Prejudice, or other Austen e-books, as well as other stuff I have, like: Prydain Chronicles; Chronicles of Naria; Eragon, Eldest (Inheritance Trilogy);  Atlas Strugged; etc. an I have slim but great hope to have Audible Ready-ness added to a firmware upgrade for the e200&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>Another thing I&#8217;ve had for my birthday countdown week is DH watching &#8220;Cold Mountain&#8221; with me last night. It&#8217;s the first time he&#8217;s seen it. I saw it so long ago, and it really affected me, and I have been trying to get DH to see it too. I did see it as a rental first, when DH was out of town. He later bought a used copy of it for me, but wouldn&#8217;t watch it. I MADE him under Her Majesty Declaration last night, and after the about 3 hours, he declared it a good movie, though through out it he struggled with it the length and that is understandable since we watched other movie first, &#8220;Must Love Dogs&#8221; which was OK, cute, but too long and drawn out and filled with stuff that could have been left on the cutting floor. We saw that as a rental, DH trying to get something for us to watch and NOT have to watch Cold Mountain. I declared the movie to be watch to BE C.M. but DH wouldn&#8217;t and only caved after I insisted for having gone through &#8220;Must Love Dogs&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;d be nice to have seen it only, Cold Mountain, but how it happened worked out OK.<\/p>\n<p>I really enjoyed seeing the movie again, and cried sticky tears many times. It is such an emotionally engaging movie, it really is good to see a deep look at that time in The South. There is no glory in war, not really. It&#8217;s all man-made sophomoric stuff <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:.75em;\">[Wikipedia: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sophomore\" title=\"click for article and scroll to word\"><b>Sophomore<\/b><\/a> &#8211; Folk-etymologically, the word is said to mean &#8220;wise fool&#8221;; consequently sophomoric means &#8220;pretentious, bombastic, inflated in style or manner; immature, crude, superficial&#8221; (according to the Oxford English Dictionary). While it appears to be formed from Greek sophos, meaning &#8220;wise&#8221;, and moros meaning &#8220;foolish&#8221;, it is in truth from the word sophumer, an obsolete variant of sophism; ] <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:.75em;\">[Online Etymology Dictionary: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.etymonline.com\/index.php?term=sophomore\">sophomore<\/a><\/b><br \/>\n    1688, &#8220;student in the second year of university study,&#8221; lit. &#8220;arguer,&#8221; altered from <i>sophumer<\/i> (1653, from <i>sophume<\/i><i>, archaic variant form of <\/i><i>sophism<\/i>), probably by influence of folk etymology derivation from Gk. <i>sophos<\/i> &#8220;wise&#8221; + <i>moros<\/i> &#8220;foolish, dull.&#8221; Short form <i>soph<\/i> is attested from 1778. <i>Sophomoric<\/i> &#8220;characteristic of a <i>sophomore<\/i>&#8221; (regarded as self-assured and opinionated but crude and immature) is attested from 1837. ]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My birthday is tomorrow &#8230; so this is the last day for me to write when in my 30&#8217;s :veryshocked: I&#8217;ve had the ability to get a few &#8220;b-day presents&#8221; ahead of time, with me saying the other day &#8220;every day from now thru my birthday is my birthday&#8221; &#8211;meaning to &#8220;treat me nice&#8221; the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,1,9],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-general","category-movies","tag-holidays"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2969,"url":"https:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/2017\/07\/18\/sandisk-sansa-e200v1-models\/","url_meta":{"origin":294,"position":0},"title":"Sandisk Sansa e200v1 Models","author":"Maisy","date":"Tuesday, July 18, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"I first had an e260, then an e280R because my first went through the washer by accident and wasn't as good, so I wanted an upgrade. 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