Just a weird day all around. Nothing huge, lots of small stuff leading up to a general feeling of … I don’t know what.

Last night not a lot of sleep, no particular reason, but I think I didn’t fall asleep until after 4 and I was up around 9 this morning. After work, what will be my final visit to the chiropractor (insurance coverage for this has run out) – but I’m feeling 99% normal now (not that I’m claiming that I am 99% normal) so probably no need anyway.

Bought tix for the new Harry Potter film. Hong Kong only has 1 IMAX theatre (until some time in the future when a second one opens up at the ICC, I think). Even though it hasn’t opened yet, the Harry Potter film is all but sold out on the IMAX screen for the next two weeks but managed to get some not horrendous seats two weeks in the future.

What really cheeses me off is UA Cinemas garbage web site (not gonna bother a link). Because I was trying to book last night at 1:30 AM. You go to the web site, choose the movie, choose the seats, enter your credit card information and ONLY THEN are you told that you can’t book tickets online between 1 AM and 6:30 AM. What? They need to bring their system down for maintenance for 5 and a half hours every freaking night? Is their site not run by computers, it’s run by a team of gerbils that are allowed to get off those wheels for a few hours late at night to catch their little gerbil breath? And they can’t tell you about that sooner? Like as soon as you click on “Buy”? I think they must be partying in the office late every night, getting drunk, watching the screen, “Oho! Here comes another one! Wait …. wait …. wait …. gotcha!”

Anyway, some late afternoon trekking around to find the Mophie Juice Pack Air. If I wasn’t sure that I wanted it before, the fact that I can’t find it makes me crazy to have one. (Yes, I know, this is not rational.) It would appear that stock arrived on Friday or Saturday, only to sell out instantly. I went to Windsor House, Times Square and the Wanchai Computer Centre, all with no luck.

Took a look on Amazon, US$80. and it says “usually ships in 1 to 2 months.” HK shops, when they had it (in white and purple but not black, the one I want, of course) were selling it for around US$85. It’s on Ebay, where some guy has a “buy it now” price of US$100 – plus $35 for shipping to Hong Kong, so I ain’t going that route. And the guy who’s selling it for $90 won’t ship internationally. It’s also on the US Apple store – $80, ships in 3-5 days, but this is starting to be too much trouble.

Actually I’ve yet to run down the battery on the iPhone 3GS. I love the readout that shows percentage left on the battery (no idea how accurate it is or not). Everything, and I do mean everything, loads and runs noticeably faster than on the 3G. I’m very happy with it.

At least I accomplished something at Times Square, because there’s a store-wide sale at Page One – 10% off any purchase, 20% over $300, 30% off purchases over $600. So I grabbed two books by Michael Freeman, one on HDR.

Hooked up with my gf, got some snacks that turned into an early dinner, and by the time we got home at 8, it was all I could do to make it upstairs and go to sleep. I woke up at 10:30, which knowing me means I’ll be up for the rest of the night. (And no, it’s not an especially clear night and this is one of those rare nights where there are no fishing boats anchored in the stretch of water in front of my house, so nothing to take pictures of.) My gf, meanwhile, seems to be out for the rest of the night. We were gonna watch Duplicity but I guess I’ll have to be satisfied with the season premiere of Entourage.

Just took a look on Monster, where I uploaded a new CV last week. In one week, 350 views, not a single email or phone call. Sigh. (Yeah, I know, you’re gonna say must be something wrong with my resume, but I’ve worked and reworked it dozens of times and I think it’s pretty strong.)

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