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- 09:20 My right eye is watering like crazy today, Weird. #
- 09:27 I shaved with a manual razor for the first time in like 9 years. Not only did I do a shitty job my face is on fire. Whee razor burn. #
- 10:08 I found a document online called the "2001 Clear Channel memorandum" that is pretty much be a list of my favorite songs from high school. #
- 17:20 Have you ever wanted to get on an elevator, let the doors close and then just wait there with a creepy grin until someone opens the door? #
- 08:41 Well lets see if a little caffine fixes this headache... #
- 06:14 5am is too early to be up, 6am is too early to be at work, 13 hours is too long of a day to work. #
- 10:11 I just sneezed loudly as a line of people were walking past my cube and every single one said "Bless you" as they walked past and saw me. #
- 12:19 Contortions in reaction to an icecream headache aparently can make you look like you're retarded. #
- 18:38 12 hours and 40 minutes later my day is finally over. #
- 12:38 I hate it when I want to vent about something but for political reasons I shouldn't. #
- 15:54 I'm supposed to have dinner with 2 friends in 2 hours but I don't feel up to it. I can't cancel again cause this would make the 3rd time. #
- 16:20 @eddikat Perform that action! #
- 20:25 Tv announcer: 'around 197 feet tall.' That's pretty specific. Saying 'around 200 feet tall' warrents the 'around' not an exact number. Derp. #
- 13:08 I thought an old cd of mine had a really trippy remix of sandstorm on it. Then I realized it was skipping. No joke. #
- 10:09 Sony has told me to check the knowledge base twice now after I've twice told them that it didn't fix my problem. Oh canned responces... #
- 10:46 Don't you hate it when something seems like such a good idea at the time then you look back at it and say "Why the hell did I do that?" #
- 14:38 @andrewneo If you looked closer at the weather report the rain here is supposed to be done by 7 am and sunyn by 9. #
- 14:56 @AndrewNeo Psychic? No. Psychotic? Oh yeah. :-P #
- 14:57 Stops chatting on twitter #likeaboss #
- 15:27 Apparently 20,000,000 Amex rewards points gets you a space flight. My current ballance: 23,598. Damn guess I'll settle for a gift card. #
- 07:57 There was an annoying bird sitting just out outside my window singing loudly. I opened it and let my cat sit there. Now there is not. Yay! #
- 09:07 This is the longest traffic jam I've ever been in. There beter be one spectacular accident at the end of this. #
- 09:47 Finally out of the traffic jam. Definantly the longest I've ever been in. #
- 15:44 Is it just me or does anyone else have several peoples icons comming up tinted green? #
- 07:50 Why don't they have pajama day at work twice a year like they did back in school? #
- 08:38 @AndrewNeo If the dimmer control wire was not correctly attached to the stereo sometimes the other dimmed lights will stop working. Msg me. #
- 09:06 Office dick move #7: Cutting in front of someone to take the last cup of coffee and not making more. *grumbles and drinks his tea* #
- 09:08 @DuncanDaHusky @eddikat In answer to both questions I guess it really depends on the day and who I'm working with. #
- 10:12 I'm having a darned difficult time getting my brain working today. #
- 10:40 Thanks to a misspelling I'm now picturing the cuddliest horror movie villain ever: Freddy Cougar. #
- 10:41 @scardykat85 You're at Plymouth road today? Might have to get some lunch from Panera. #
- 11:34 I just got a wrong number asking for the trauma center. I heard a scream then the guy says "I'll just call 911" and hung up. O.o #
- 12:16 Eat lunch at my desk #likeaslave #
- 16:26 I hate it when people talk about obscure anime and things from Japanese culture and expect me to know about it like it was common knowledge. #
- 08:35 Nothing like having an email waiting in your inbox from your boss asking for you to come see him first thing in the monring. Fantastic... #
- 08:57 Wow... yeah this is not going to be a good week at all; I can feel it in my bones. Well time for a 3 hour meeting. Joy... #
- 10:54 New rule, if you're late for a meeting don't expect it to be rewound so you can catch up. It would be awesome if people could be on time. #
- 16:10 My last meeting for the day has finally concluded. 5 and a half hours in meetings today whoooooooo... #
| Thursday, July 9th, 2009 | |
| 2:53 pm | Maybe not the happiest place on earth, but I do have a fond memory or two of it I've found myself being overly nostalgic today. As a kid I spent a lot of time down in Florida at Disney World as my parents were complete addicts for the place. Part of me really wants to go again as it’s been around 6 years since my last visit. I remember not really enjoying it in my late teens but I have a feeling that it was mostly because I didn't have other people my own age to hang out with down there. The prospect of drinking my way around the World Showcase sounds like a lot of fun now too. Finally my parents always took two days at each park but mainly because we always drug my grandparents with me and my mom liked to shop a lot. I have a feeling I could do the four major parks to a satisfactory level in 4 days. I'll have to ponder on this for a bit as I don’t really have the vacation time or money for a few months but its tempting. Opinions? |
| Wednesday, July 1st, 2009 | |
| 4:00 pm | Obligitory Post #2: Going to AC As I think I'm required to make one of these before I go to major convention here we go. I will be at Anthrocon this year. I will be working at the convention for Operations and will be doing a panel and a performance. Please attend the "Effective Furmeet Planning" panel and the "Method 1: Live" show; it would really mean a lot to me to have a good audience for both. I will be bumming around the convention probably in my usual fedora for at least part of the time so I shouldn't be hard to spot. If anyone cares to talk about MiFur, FCN, Method 1, cars, audio equipment or furry in general feel free to approach me as I will be happy to chat. Please do not run up and hug me from behind without me expecting it as in the past it has led to an inadvertent hip throw. In the late evenings I do plan on sitting around the hotel bar enjoying drinks and conversation so feel free to come see me down there if you like. I rather hope to get to see a lot of my distant friends at this convention so don't hesitate to say hi! |
| Tuesday, June 30th, 2009 | |
| 12:07 am | Twitter Update |
| Monday, June 29th, 2009 | |
| 1:16 pm | The Obligitory Update Post for 6/29/2009 The weekend was productive, if crammed with stuff to do. My girlfriend is working on making a lantern fish fursuit for AC and needed a light up lure for it. I decided to take it upon myself to make something that would flash in an interesting pattern for it. I figured I'd wired up things like that in the past so it wouldn't be a big deal. 4 resistors, 2 transistors, 2 capacitors and a couple light emitting diodes later and I came up with a device that makes a rather interesting flash pattern. It took far longer then I had hoped but I'm pretty happy with the results. Last week my mower started smoking badly so I had to attend to that as well. My buddy Kargo came over to assist with that a bit on Sunday and we managed to get it working with just an oil change and a spark plug. There were a few other projects I put some time into this weekend but nothing too spectacular to note. I'm starting to get back in the swing of planning for FCN 2010 and will start hammering on that after AC. Since I have a multi year hotel contract I'm hoping I can plan some of 2011 while planning 2010. Its strangely and almost uncomfortably quiet here at work today. Its making me a tad uneasy. I think I'm so used to being slammed with work all the time I don't know how to react to a little down time here. Oh well. Finally, I'll be at Anthrocon this weekend, feel free to say hi if you spot me. I'll more then likely be one of two places most of the convention, operations doing my rotation or at the bar. Please only come say hi at the latter of the two places. Nik and I will be doing our "How to run a Furmeet" panel and a live showing of Method 1 with our resident DJ Oddy in tow. Hope to see you all there! |
| 12:09 am | |
| Saturday, June 27th, 2009 | |
| 12:07 am | Twitter Update |
| Thursday, June 25th, 2009 | |
| 12:08 am | Twitter Update |
| Wednesday, June 24th, 2009 | |
| 12:08 am | Twitter Update |
| Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009 | |
| 8:45 am | Mental Health I was going to make a long drawn out post about this but instead I'll be brief. I have this terrible tendency to brood on things instead of saying something about stuff that's bothering me. It's just a trait that I seem to have but its something I've been trying to change lately as repressing anger is just unhealthy; I fear (as does my psychiatrist) that if I don't do something about it soon that eventually I'll have a severe nervous breakdown. In that spirit I need to get this off my chest. In short, we had a furmeet this weekend. It was pretty darned awesome. Several people showed up at our home after the fact without asking if they could. That was not awesome. A couple stayed until late into Sunday where we had to kick them out. That was not awesome at all. Having to kick people out made it really awkward around the guests we had invited up for the weekend. Extremely not cool. If you want to come over after an event ask me, Nik, Oddy or Rok. We all live in the same home and therefore have authority on inviting people over, no one else. Here's a good way to know if you should ask. Open up your phone, look for my number. If you find it call me and ask. If its not there that means one of two things; I don't know you well enough to give it to you yet or I don't want you having my number. Either way its probably not cool to just come over. The cool thing about my close friends? They're all considerate enough to call. I don't see why casual friends and acquaintances can't do that. |
| 12:08 am | Twitter Update |
| Monday, June 22nd, 2009 | |
| 1:37 pm | Furmeet Day: A Concept So while doing Method 1 this weekend a realization came up that there were at least 3 major furmeets that all took place on the 21st of June in different locations. While thinking about it Nik and I commented on how cool a furmeet day would be where multiple furmeets would take place all over the country and possibly the world at the same time. It would be a great way to get people together, meet one another and hopefully help some furries feel less isolated. ( Click here to read more ) |
| 9:36 am | The Problem With Success As I tend to do I held a furmeet this last weekend in the Ann Arbor area. It was a fairly routine sort of thing for us; we did dinner and an activity, in this case the park. We ended up completely taking over the Steak and Shake that we had went to. I felt a little bad for the staff as there were over 40 people in the restaurant from the meet. I was a little surprised with how many people were in there as usually more people show up for the activity then food. When we got to the park things exploded. At it's peak I counted 77 unique furs there. As a few people arrived rather late and some left early I'm sure that number is a little low but its close enough. Its neat to see that many furries in one place but I'm left with a bit of a problem. There really isn't a good way for me to keep running meets anywhere but a place like a park at this kind of size. I could go to a hotel I guess; no wait that's why I started FCN. The demand for furmeets in the area astounds me. I'm going to have to be resourceful and come up with something because I fear the MiFur furmeets that I run as they are today will soon hit critical mass where they are just too big to work anymore. |
| Sunday, June 21st, 2009 | |
| 12:07 am | |
| Saturday, June 20th, 2009 | |
| 12:07 am | Twitter Update |
| Friday, June 19th, 2009 | |
| 12:12 am | Twitter Update |
| Thursday, June 18th, 2009 | |
| 12:08 am | Twitter Update |
| Wednesday, June 17th, 2009 | |
| 1:58 pm | |
| 8:44 am | Organizational Matters Many of you probably know that one of the things I’m really bad at is picking up my own space. More often then not my room is typically an absolute wreck. Over the course of the last week I actually really cleaned and organized my bedroom. This wasn’t one of those cases where I just raked everything in the closet and figured I’d worry about it later or did laundry and shoved the rest under the bed; I actually cleaned and organized. I went through my closet and threw out everything that I didn’t feel I’d need in the future, I bought a shelf and shoe horned it into my room to make additional space and then proceeded to make everything in my closet accessible. Now this isn’t to say I’m done reorganizing things (I plan to still get rid of and eBay some stuff) but for the first time since I moved into the house my room actually feels “clean.” I felt very accomplished when it was complete but now I feel strange about it. My room suddenly feels very small, almost claustrophobic. I know the dimensions haven’t changed any but something about my room suddenly feels very wrong and somehow less comfortable then it was before. I think I had been living with mess and clutter for so long that it seemed normal. Having to step over and around things before bed has become a habit so engrained in my head that it feels a bit strange being able to walk strait to it without tripping. I found myself sitting away in bed last night wanting to drag my computer in the middle of the floor and take it apart to poke around in side of it. I did, I ended up adding a USB card that I had laying around then dragged out my bin of expansion cards to see if anything else should be added. After finishing with the upgrade and putting my computer back I started to clean up the parts since I didn’t want to wreck all of the work I had just done the previous few days. It was strange; while I had the mess in the floor and was working on the project my room once again seemed comfortable. When it was all cleaned up and put away once again things felt strange. Hopefully I get used to it in a few weeks. |
| Tuesday, June 16th, 2009 | |
| 12:08 am | Twitter Update |
| Monday, June 15th, 2009 | |
| 8:47 am | Mobile Browser Goodness As of June 12th Skyfire is finally out of beta and available as a polished product. If you have a Windows mobile or nokia smart phone go get it right now! You totally will not be disapointed. http://get.skyfire.com |