| A summer grill! |
[May. 31st, 2009|12:06 am] |
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Now that I have a place where I can theoretically entertain people, I'd like to do so. I've talked about this to a couple people, but I want to have a BBQ/grill thing. It will be an opportunity for people to come over, probably late summer, and enjoy some gooood food and drink of multiple kind.
I will be planning this for a while, but nothing will happen until July probably because I will need apparatus. Keep this in the back of your minds, this is happening, the only question is when! |
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| Nothing quiets the soul quite like an imperial stout |
[May. 15th, 2009|01:26 am] |
Some things are nagging at me and keeping me from sleep. One of these is not an issue of mine but rather an issue of another person who would bemoan my loss of sleep over their situation. Another issue is a bit of beyond-the-office work I promised to have done by Saturday. It really shouldn't be hard, but the time investment may be more than I'm planning for. Whatever, I have supreme confidence in my ability to produce programs in languages I am completely familiar with in arbitrary lengths of time. Another issue is money, but that's mostly a non-issue for various reasons. I just need to be more careful this month. No visits to Dogfish Head for a few weeks, certainly.
Basically, I'm glad these are my worries instead of the ones that plagued me while I was in school.
Also I have constructed a web site because as a web designer I feel it is my duty to have a place I can direct potential employers, and my current site is not a place I feel comfortable sending them.
http://discoshiny.com/
Design is entirely my own and it amazes me how much better it is than the majority of Wordpress sites and templates I've been looking at for ideas on where to go from here. The sidebar is emptier than I'd like and probably needs rearranging, but I can't think of anything else to put there. All that's really left to do aside from writing more stuff is to do lots of small enhancements and shine that disco right up. |
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| Ffffffff |
[Mar. 27th, 2009|02:40 pm] |
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Twiz I'm sorry. Yeah, that's all there is to say... |
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[Nov. 6th, 2008|12:26 am] |
I am so happy that no one tries to engage me in political discussion ever. I don't pick fights and they don't pick me. But then I read some shit and I get all sad and want to help. I can't.
Then I get sadder. Why can't people be informed? |
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[Oct. 28th, 2008|01:07 pm] |
Trapped out of my house and out of my car at the moment. I think I'm going to walk to the library until someone turns a phone on and isn't too busy to help lil old me.
Wireless internet is pretty great. Sunshine, not so much (laptop screen).
Had a job interview yesterday. I'm so fucking hoping right now. I don't know how you're supposed to wow people in interviews but I decided that just being me was probably okay. |
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| More dour mood |
[May. 27th, 2008|01:13 pm] |
Things are better now but it's hard to see them that way. I have this fucking awful sore throat that has been getting worse since last Thursday and I finally get to see a doctor about it today and maybe get some painkillers and antibiotics. I am down to one meal a day because it hurts too much to swallow anything including water.
Reason things are better:
- Alice is here in Fairfax! But I can't see her until I see the doctor and call people and stuff ARGH.
- I have a car to replace the Sable! Poor Sable. I want to strangle that damn woman. Everyone agrees that from my description of the accident that she must have been jackrabbiting out of the parking lot in order to swing me around like she did.
Anyway it's a 2004 Silver Pontiac Grand Am. Definitely a step up in a number of ways (working A/C, much better gas economy, pretty rad sound system, steering isn't going to fail at any moment, doesn't consume a gallon of oil a month) but it's hard to see that old workhorse go. Carmax is a great place to buy a car though. I'm definitely pleased with it so far. I need to get to the Sable today and grab the coffee, garage door opener, and CD visor (this car only has a CD player until I get it replaced with mine).
This damn throat is gonna kill me if I don't do something pronto. The Vicodin downstairs is very tempting. |
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| I forgot to press the button last night so it gets posted this morning |
[Mar. 18th, 2008|11:59 pm] |
So what exactly do you want? Do you want her to realize she made a mistake? Because the following things are guaranteed to make you out as a crazy on your relationship resume.
- Intimidation and belligerent behavior at weird hours of the evening
- Spreading harmful bullshit about her (holy shit this why)
I don't know if you'll ever read this, and far be it from me to be Internet Toughguy, but please stop being a douche and claiming she's pretending to hurt. |
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| Poop |
[Jan. 9th, 2008|06:12 pm] |
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My car died while I was driving home last night. The lights dimmed, and I slowly lost all function and then the engine stopped and I coasted to the shoulder. We had it towed today and it's getting fixed now, but it won't be ready until tomorrow. I missed work and D&D, I'm rather bummed. |
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[Jan. 1st, 2008|03:42 am] |
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I think this is the third year in a row that's been rung in with ssbm with the posse. Not bad. |
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| The Quickening |
[Nov. 3rd, 2007|11:19 am] |
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Last night was one of the greatest nights I have had in recent memory. Thank you Kaz, thank you Gibbs, and thank you internet people. It started on a whim and didn't stop.
For more details: http://www.ppzq.net/kaz/headline.html#03PPGL |
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| My Arm |
[Jun. 16th, 2007|03:50 pm] |
At the start of the week I had downtime and pondered what I should do with it all. Talking on the porch is nice and all, but the conversation is 70% stupid and there are things that bite. I looked through the small collection of PS2 titles I brought with me and decided to finally pop in the God Hand for my own satisfaction. Usually when that game is played on my PS2, someone else is playing it. Kaz has played it all the way through, someone played it at my house extensively, and someone played it at Kaz's extensively. I feel I am missing someone but it doesn't matter because the point is that more hours had been spent watching the game than playing it until this week. I popped it in and began a rampage of utter ass kicking that lasted through all my free time until today when I sat down and beat the last 3 stages. On easy. So now of course I have to play it on normal, unlock hard, and play it on hard. I have 8 weeks to do this, start the clock. When I return I will be a God Hand champion rivalled only by Dima. As it is I can tear up the early game on normal without taking damage so that's awesome.
I had forgotten the number of people down here who utterly suck. Yes I understand I am in the south and west of VA near a town called Pulaski (pronounced PEW-las-kee) but there are so very many people at this camp who are total 'gays' as Condit calls them or 'douchebags' as I like to call them. There's Ultra Inflated Super Ego Man (Warburton), The Incompetent 3 (who cause the BSI first year scout program to be referred to as Boner Suck Island), I Swear I'm Not New At Everything That Adults Do Guy (Will Burton, who exudes an aura of being completely new at everything he does, from smoking to cursing, often doing these to excess. Did I mention he called me a minority-loving liberal and then flipped the birdie when I said I didn't mind black people?) I very dearly miss the company of the posse and Klan Kaz already for the sanity they provide.
Shit there's a bee on the wall above my laptop.
There is a new Wal-Mart down the street which is very bizarre because it is sane. Even more so than Target near my house. I don't get it. To deepen the mystery, 12 packs of Vault are $2.75 and there is an in-house Subway that has 2 foot long subs for $9. Two more things which are strange about being down here: Hardees has Vault in the soda fountain. Unlimited refills and all. I am blown away. Second is the gas which is $2.88/gal for premium on Fridays, the same as mid-grade.
I whipped myself in the eye with some rope 2 days ago. It's still bothering me and it went nearsighted for a whole day after I did it. I am sad. I also bit my tongue really hard the same day so there is a largish numb patch on my tongue that is healing presumably. I hope this is just getting all my injuries for the summer out of the way instead of an omen of what's to come. |
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| Goodbye |
[Jun. 9th, 2007|04:31 pm] |
I am very close to embarking on the long voyage to camp from which I will not return for some time (2 months). I'm coming back for Curtis's birthday and that's it, so I'm gonna really miss game night and D&D and possemeets (well maybe not those since animus hurrrr) but I'll most likely be having fun whatever working hard and all that stuff.
If anything wicked happens I do have limited internet down there so maybe I'll post about it but don't count on it, the humor down there is highly specific (MAH NAME'S PEYYYTON! BUHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!). I will most likely return with a mild southern drawl since everyone else there has one. I can quit if I want to though I swear.
I may write a book of my adventures, but I may have to change a few details to make it more interesting. I have a cover all picked out too:
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[Jun. 8th, 2007|04:45 pm] |
This is a cup with a naked man on it that John gave me. It is hilarious and now contains coins. |
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[May. 31st, 2007|09:25 am] |
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There is a style of camerawork in movies that recently has become quite popular. I think the worst offender of late is 28 Weeks Later. I have always called this style "cat-in-a-blender cinematography" because of a review I read of Battlefield Earth (not shown here because it's in a book now or something). Basically Mr. Cranky postulated that to create the effects shown in the movie, a camera was attached to the back of a cat and the whole thing was thrown into a dark room that could be moved violently like in an amusement park ride. The resulting footage was most of Battlefield Earth. I don't know how "blender" was substituted for "dark room" but I think it has something to do with it being easier to say, grosser, more elegant, and exaggerated. |
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[May. 28th, 2007|03:58 am] |
Went to Stab's house dead tired but that hour or so of powernapping woke me right up. Watched Abenobashi which I would put as somewhere around 10EH. It was like FLCL, but with substance, a better plot, and coherence. Then we went to the Cajun place and I got the diablo pasta which was great then we went on a great ice cream adventure that ended at Coldstone because nothing was open. Then we went back and Condit came and we watched my subs of Awful Children, again. Then Curtis, Thompson stayed over and I left.
Pirates 3 was good. Don't let people deceive you. Its only fault was perhaps too many intricate plot threads that confused and turned off many people, but the inevitable plot holes weren't glaring and the ending battle was great! There were pirates, swashbuckling, rum, crabrocks, and more Captain Jack than ever before. On a related note, Pacific whatever restaurant that I've never been to is great and I can't believe we never went there before.
I am sorry I was unable to Ninj this evening, but the situation I found myself in was perhaps rarer than usual and far away from Fairfax. It would have been perfect to do both, but watching 13 episodes of any show takes time. |
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