Brother, Can You Spare a Quarter?

I just finished my collection of state quarters. I got Hawaii sometime last year, but I missed Wyoming along the way. My Mom gave me one (actually two) yesterday. Here's the complete set.

Jealous?

Honey and the Moon

I love coffee, it's true, but I like most hot beverages:  tea, hot chocolate, chai, warm milk (sweetened with sugar and topped with a sprinkle of nutmeg), hot toddies, etc.

Since it's been a little chilly lately, I've been warming up to a spot of tea more than usual.  I rediscovered the honey bear in my pantry to compliment the many teas I drink.

Although Kona is my favorite coffee, I'm not sure I have a favorite tea.  I like Earl Grey and Chamomile, both of which I drink plain.  I put milk and lots of sugar or honey in most black tea like English Breakfast and Irish Breakfast.  I like Green Tea, but I mostly drink that because it's healthy.  

(Keep Feeling) Fascination

I had a potentially good conversation today regarding my 9-5 situation, which might change as soon as next week. Fingers crossed!

Phone First

When I got my new cable service I also changed my phone service to "bundle" and save money. I was happy with the VoIP phone service I had, but it was scheduled to end soon so I thought I'd give cable a try.

I hate it.

The new service sounds awful. There is a buzz on the line that the installer said they can't fix unless I want to pay $35 per phone jack. I also hear a sound on the line at some point in every phone call that sounds like a phone ringing or an old phone dialing. There's no voicemail and I don't have an answering machine.

I can't see a reason to keep it, but I have two more weeks to get out of my contract.

All Systems Normal

I lost about 1000 songs on my iTunes earlier this month when I opened the program and an error message said the files were damaged. Yesterday, I tried connecting my iPod, which still had all the songs, and synching the two but that only transferred the purchased songs to iTunes and erased the other 900+ songs from the iPod.

I thought about reloading the songs from CDs but that seemed like a lot of work. And I wasn't exactly sure which songs were and which songs weren't still there. I checked my computer folders and found the song files. I was able to get one missing song to play and save so I imported the whole folder into iTunes. Other than creating duplicates of the songs that transferred from my iPod, it worked! I'm not sure what happened, but I'm glad I was able to fix it.

Resuming Write

I was working on my online resume that's posted on a few sites. I thought it was interesting that one got 14 hits even though it wasn't searchable. How does that happen?

I think I need to add some details and make it meatier. There are some bare-boned parts. I should definitely put in more buzz words.

Cookout

The food at today's cookout is worth commemorating. I should have taken pictures. Hurray for the start of summer grilling!

Lunch
Burgers
Brats
Andouille
Kielbasa
Hot Dogs
Chips
Fritos
Cheetos
Fruit Salad

Dinner
Chicken
Zucchini
Potato Salad
Macaroni Salad
Pasta Salad
Puerto Rican Rice

Dessert
Yellow Cupcakes with White Chocolate Buttercream Frosting
Peach Pie
Sweet Potato Pie
Peanut Brittle

I'm pretty sure I ate about a month's worth of sodium and nitrates.