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October 27th, 2009

06:25 pm - Nyquil hallucinations Took some past dated Nyquil last night. Got insomnia until 3am. Woke up at 6am and tried to doze until 8 or so. Had all kinds of really weird hallucination, dream-type things. Was kind of awake but eyes were closed and things made less than normal amount of sense. Was thinking about indoor/outdoor lcd thermometer, but thermometer was surfing on a big wave and was measuring speed which was the same thing as temperature. That's the only one that can remember but there were many, many more. Anyways, weird stuff. Current Mood: sick

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October 23rd, 2009

12:51 pm - Unfortunate Whoppers Have experienced something in last day that can now share knowledge of so don't have to experience. Don't eat fortune cookies and an energy drink for lunch (with biscuits) then follow up with Diet Pepsi and Whoppers candy for dinner. Was a ham sandwich in there too but pretty sure wasn't contributing to the problem. Definitely a mistake overall. Spent late evening, night, and morning putting down digestive system rebellion. Darn cats decided last night was play, fun night too. Running around, playing with toys at 4:30, fighting at 5:30, opening the linen cabinet door at 6:30. Ended up suffering in bed until late-ish this morn. Feeling somewhat better now though. Time to take a shower soon, log off of work stuffs, and head to Eastern WA. Current Mood: weird

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October 21st, 2009

06:55 pm - Writer's Block: I'm sorry If you only had one day left to live, and you had the chance to tell one person from your past "I love you," who would it be? How about "I'm sorry"? Submitted By crazy_lil_loud1 View 1395 Answers Can not think of any person that need to say that to. Probably have lots of people that should say sorry to. However, past is past. Regrets have no benefits except to make sure to change actions so have less in future. Live in the now and all that. Have always tried to make up for mistakes that have made and can't see going back and compounding the problem now. If had one day to live would be very busy putting finances and such in order and easily discernible and trackable. Then creating will and figuring out executor of said will and making sure can get at all things that need to. Otherwise would feel guilty about mess left behind when kicked off. And figure out where cats would go. Tags: final words, regret, sorry, writer's block

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October 20th, 2009

06:26 pm - Neglect Ah, the guilt of not updating Livejournal for more than a week. How sweet and bitter the taste. Vexxing in its whispers in the back of the mind whenever on the home computer screwing around. Anyways, been doing stuffs. Cats, Poli in particular, have brought in many rodents lately which interferes with sleep and is annoying. Luckily have been leaving some outside. Found 2 dead rats in lawn in last couple of days. Found dead shrew or something out back. Athena had little, bitty mouse on Saturday outside. Went and saw Kevin Smith with girlfriend, the Gleasons, and the Overbeys on Saturday. Kevin Smith is absolutely hilarious. Laughed so hard was crying at one point. Ropey, ropey, ropey. Don't worry, will know what talking about if ever watch 4th dvd of talks when comes out. Went to really fancy restaurant, The Purple Cafe beforehand. Well, prices were very fancy at least. Luckily Michele had gift card for part of it. Was quite tasty, but have had just as good $10 meals before. Did nothing on Sunday except snuggle, watch football, and nap. Was fine day except for the awfulness that is the Seahawks. Then moved some firewood after significant other left. Was moving firewood because built small roof over part of back porch for holding firewood on Saturday. Weekend before went over to parentals' and helped build part of larger roof. Played round of golf with grandparental too. Pretty amazing that at 84 years old can still carry set of golf clubs on shoulder and walk 18 holes. Current Mood: accomplished

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October 4th, 2009

10:31 pm - 'nother weekend buried Used up the current weekend. Had a wake and buried it. Was pretty darned good one though. Saw educational film, "Zombieland", on Friday night with Michele and the Gleasons. Best movie of the year barring "Watchmen." Wish more good, educational movies were getting made. Did some cooking Saturday. Not a euphemism but did that too. Cooked up diced steak for tacos along with carne asada. Picked bunch of tiny, pathetic ears of corn and cooked up. Were quite tasty but only 3 to 5 bites per ear. Baked double batch of oatmeal cookies too. And made big batch of nachos with olives, some of the steak, and some cheese from the freezer. Made blender and a half batch of strawberry margaritas using frozen strawberries from garden, a cut up lime, a little agave nectar, ice, Cointreau, and fancy tequila. Pretty pleased with how tasty everything was. Had leftover nachos and broiled batch of link sausages for very late breakfast. Watched "Yes Man" on dvd last night at behest of girlfriend. Was quite humorous and best Jim Carrey movie since "The Mask." Not that that is saying much, but was good movie. Also watched "Wolverine" on BluRay. Was pretty decent. Somewhat ambivalent towards but not sure why. Poli, Dalamar, and Kabuki brought live rat of some kind into the master bathroom Friday morning at 4am. Which sucked because didn't fall asleep in chair until 1:30 and didn't go to bed until 3. Took while to catch and take outside. Came home Friday night after movie to discover a giant, dead mole in the bathroom. Largest or second largest mole cats have caught. More than 6 inches long. Saturday morning Kabuki brought bird into bedroom at like 8. Made sure talked loudly and said "bird" very clearly. Was obviously showing off for Michele. In other words cats all had fine weekend showing off and getting extra attention. First time have been around most of weekend in long time too. Chore list; Put new battery in truck. Old battery was almost dead again after sitting idle for couple of weeks. Batteries more expensive than last time bought one. Got some sweeping done today. Did lots of loads of laundry over last few days and still have couple more to go. Speaking of which, need to go change another load right now. Current Mood: exhausted

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September 30th, 2009

07:46 pm - Summer's Almost Gone Actually, summer is gone, gone, gone, but wanted to use the Doors' song as subject. Rode bicycle home in the dark tonight. Think was just two weeks ago that sun was still up when riding home. No more sitting outside after work with the cats. Kind of cold in mornings and evenings too. 38 degrees this morn. Decided to wear a sweatshirt when riding in rather than just a tshirt. Wore socks too while riding in for first time in months. Been working quite a bit, trying to finish up project that got foisted on. Foist; interesting word. Kind of funky and moist. Think can see home stretch of project. Just need to figure out one production bug tomorrow which is holding things up. Had good weekend at Greg and Jeff's. Played new game, Aion. Not bad. Waiting in queue to play is bunch of suck. Backstab has too long of cooldown timer. Stealth having duration timer is unhappy making. Graphics are very pretty. Character customization is great. Quests are somewhat meh and primitive compared to newer, more modern ideas. Lots of annoying kill X thing. Go back to quest person. Go back to same place just were and do something else. Go back to quest person. Repeat three or more times. Zone instancing works well to get rid of overcrowding. Crafting seems decent. Greg made blueberry crumble which was very, very tasty. Speaking of food, got two things of freshly homemade cinnamon rolls from girlfriend along with plate of cookies. Very, very tasty also. In fact will probably be eating last of cinnamon rolls for dinner tonight. After being gone for weekend cats were sure showing off a bunch on Monday. Dalamar, Poli, and Kabuki all took turns racing around the house showing off. Athena was right in pathway when got home and needed loves for awhile. All 4 seem to have been in pretty good moods lately. Last night Poli and Dalamar had to come by and let know that was raining and had been out playing in the rain. Pretty funny how have to make sure that know what is going on. Must be all outside doing important kitty stuffs tonight. Only Poli was in when got home little bit ago. Went out when got mail, and just came back in. Cold fur. Guess that's all for now. Looking forward to weekend in couple of days. Going to try to find time to move some things around in preparation for house projects. Have to figure out what to do with ex's big pile o' stuff in the back room. Because would like to utilize that space by moving comic book rack into there. Then could cut vent in wall for furnace air intake so pulls air from that room which is warmer due to the servers. Which in turn saves money. Current Mood: accomplished

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September 23rd, 2009

07:45 pm - Woke up this morn On the wrong side of the bed. What does that mean anyway? Underside? Inside? Since have whole bed excepting wherever cats are sleeping, pretty much isn't a wrong side on top. Woke up at like 4 this morning and either had dream or actually happened of knocking on front door loudly. Got up and took a look. Did not see anything moving. Noticed bicycle was still outside from putting chain wax on earlier in the day. Decided would bring inside just in case. And both tires were completely flat. Spent whole day wondering if trick was being played on or if popped yesterday while in the hot sun. Just finished changing both tubes. Both tore through at stem just like last couple of tubes from same batch that purchased. Rubber on Pyramid thorn-resistant tires must go bad after few years. 4 popped in same way in less than 5 months. Guess wasn't mischievous sprites or anything after all. Just as well. Have enough going on without fey issues. Current Mood: tired

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September 22nd, 2009

05:32 pm - Fested Salmon Fest was last weekend. Did chalk art for what believe is like 10th or 11th year. Think turned out decent. Actually had design in head for many, many months. Took more than four hours to do though. Was more complex implementation than some years in past. Had all kinds of other fun also. Got to spend weekend with significant other, friends, and family. Went swimming in pool and hot tub for couple of hours. Went out to dinner Saturday night at Mexican place in Leavenworth. Ordered SO a grande margarita. Then went to grandparentals' to drop off sibling's car so drinking could ensue. Which did. Was very entertaining, like a multi-hour live comedy show. Were done by like 10pm and drove the imbibers to parentals'. Sunday morning helped parental put a couple of roof beams in place. Which required a pretty decent amount of effort but was successful. Then headed up to grandparentals' to retrieve sadira33's car. Then stopped at Heidelburger (sic?) where used to eat as little kids for lunch. Headed over mountains stopping in little-bitty town, Maltby, to pick up enormously huge cinnamon rolls. Other fun activities also occurred but too many to list and don't really need to get into specifics of some. Cats were all glad to see on Sunday night (or Monday morn in Athena's case.) Monday night Dalamar, Poli, and Kabuki were super wound up and playful. Ended up playing with the fuzzy cat toy on a stick for quite awhile. Got to see lots of other cats this weekend too; Bing, Max, Pun'kin, and Bhagera. All in all a great weekend which was good because week is very, very busy with work stuffs. Current Mood: accomplished Current Music: They Might Be Giants: Flood

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September 16th, 2009

09:56 pm - Good|Bad Good; Got to surprise see new significant other today for couple of hours. Bad; Was totally freaked out and worried because thought something really bad happened or was going to happen. Best; Nothing bad and 'nother awesome weekend upcoming. Bad; Will miss seeing Fluffy Bunny at the Merc this weekend since will be out of town. Good; Finally got around to hooking up the home theater w/ HDMI for the BluRay player and the upscaling DVD player. Bad; Took an hour and a half to wire up everything and get working. Good; Dolby TrueHD sounds significantly better than Dolby Digital. Bad; It took over half an hour of reading through the manual to figure out how to un-grey out the analog audio settings such that could set it to multi-channel. Good; Everything is hooked up and working (except haven't tested the LD player yet.) Bad; When rolled the home theater cabinets forward found a dead bird from last week's bird feather flurry in the bathroom. Good; Cats knew that behind home theater gear was off-limits so hadn't gone back there to retrieve. Chris, get a processor with 5.1 analog ins or HDMI 1.3 Dolby TrueHD and DTS-Master decoding. Won't regret it. Mmm, uncompressed audio. Much richer sounding. Now to watch Kill Bill Vol. 1 in BluRay. Current Mood: tired

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September 12th, 2009

10:10 pm - Home Log Update Have successfully navigated the perils of "Do the Puyallup" for the first time. Mission involved keeping track of seven children with one other adult for first few hours. Normal fair activities ensued. Rides were ridden. Cotton candy was consumed and stickified a number of children's hands. Hardest part was trying to figure out how to get to parking lot where were meeting this morning. Due to blocked off and closed roads along with unfamiliarity with area, that took like half an hour and maximum patience. Danger Boy was pretty well-behaved. Had number one goal of purchasing and trying chocolate covered bacon. And was successful in that goal. Said was good, as did majority of other kids. Ew. Did not try and have no desire to do so. Was fricking warm today. Am sure was over 90 degrees in shade. Have not sweat that much for that long in long time, maybe since last roofed a house or poured concrete slab. Long enough that can't really remember. Definitely heading to shower immediately after conclusion of post. Biked three days to and from work last week. 25 miles Tuesday, 17 miles Wednesday, and 25 miles Friday. Rode motorcycle on Thursday. Bicycle is working fine after new chain, thorough drivetrain cleaning, and new left crank. Ate ton of food and figured had gained couple of pounds over week. Not so. At same as was week+ ago, down at lowest weight of year. Cats were in fine mood last weekend. Definitely liked hqving guest spending weekend. At least Poli, Kabuki, and Dalamar did. Poli liked better than likes just about any person. Was quite sight to see. Athena was odd as normal, came in one morning chirping and excited and then realized that was not who thought was talking to and went !!!!!?!!!! and ran off. Athena was then very lovey over week and wanted more attention than normal. On negative side Kabuki puked Monday night after eating too fast. Nothing quite like a rude middle of the night wakeup. Then Tuesday found half of a squirrel in the bathroom along with the rear feet and tail. Wednesday found full-sized dead rat in ditch by driveway. Thursday found pile of feathers in bathroom and bird poop on counters. So not sure if showing off after good weekend or acting up because no visitors during week. Absolutely nothing done on homefront this week due to work, bicycling, and cat cleanups. Kind of pain to go to Lowe's right now with road construction from 7pm until morning on weeknights. Going to try to get some door trim painted tomorrow morning before head to Bothell to pick up Danger Boy from where is spending night. Current Mood: exhausted

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September 1st, 2009

10:13 pm - Whew Kabuki showed up last night at 12:30 and drank like a gallon of water. Then headed back outside. Think came in later and slept on bed for hour or two. Was around tonight to check out the painting occurring in the living room. So decided was past time for some kitty treats. Kabuki, Athena, and Poli were in. Was going to call Dalamar when must have heard thoughts because ran in. All four scarfed that down then headed outside to help rinse off brushes and roller. Quite relieved that all of the kids are ok. Speaking of painting, used up second gallon of paint. Will need to purchase at least one gallon more, probably tomorrow. Finally decided what to do with the empress teal paint too. Will paint computer area with that color as a semi-subtle change from the dark blue of the attached living room. Think will look pretty interesting. That is all. Just wanted to express relief that Kabuki showed up. Current Mood: happy

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August 31st, 2009

10:17 pm - Kabuki Darned cat is making extra worrying occur. Haven't seen since Friday morning when left for work. Was gone over weekend and did not get back until after 8 on Sunday night. Did not show up last night or this morning. Did not show up tonight either even though was outside doing stuff for while. Called a number of times. Heard neighbor calling for another cat, Shadow, too. Hope coyotes haven't been around or anything. Will be really worried if hasn't shown up by morning. None of the girls are particularly wound up or freaked out so hoping for the best. Probably call Humane Society tomorrow and see if got picked up if hasn't shown up. And everything else going so well. Darn, darn, darn. Current Mood: worried

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August 26th, 2009

10:08 pm - Want to Break Free Just listened to Queen album on the main stereo system. Wow, sounds good. flac files are darned nice and sound about as good as CDs through either of the Pioneer Elite DVD players. Sonos music system is one of best investments have ever made. Listen to lots of music that probably wouldn't otherwise due to having to dig out CDs. Rode bicycle 11 miles each way to and from work. Think cassette is partly worn out due to old chain being stretched. Will have to switch out in next few days before ruin the new, 'spensive chain. Have another cassette in the shed on a bent wheel. May need to get a new big chain ring too. Hopefully not because last time replaced think was $75 or so. Work has been overly stressful. Would think that really big company with like 20 main products would have cohesive branding and a good idea of what wants product hierarchy to look like. Would think so. No such luck. Spent large amounts of time looking at data, on phone, and trading emails to try to come to a consensus. Sounds like 4th quarter will be somewhat better though. Pulled baseboard and trim around door to bedroom tonight and masked off for painting tomorrow night. Need to get to get wall painted soon. At least to where going to add in stub wall. Tired of the dusky rose color. And tired of not having the project moving forward. Even did some videogaming tonight. Seems like a very productive evening. Now to go retighten seat on bike then to shower which should have taken couple of hours ago. Have pretty good feeling about near future. Getting in pretty decent shape. Personal life is going well. Even did sketch that may turn into something worthwhile. Really, really looking forward to next couple of weekends. Now if work stuffs calm down then life will be pretty close to as good as gets. Current Mood: pleased and worn out Current Music: Alanis Morissette; Under Rug Swept

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August 24th, 2009

06:31 pm - Interesting times Appears that more interesting times are ahead. So many things going on that had to finally set up Google calendar. Made one to keep track of personal life and one to keep track of work life. Because kept misfiling when events were going to occur. Had very fine weekend with friends. Went out for dinner then to martini bar as a late birthday celebration thing. Hadn't been there in year and hadn't drank anything there in more than that. Definitely missed the best-made lemon drops ever had. And the blueberry martinis. And the blueberry pomegranate martinis. That's the one bad thing about where live. Takes serious planning if want to go out drinking. Definitely drank the maximum without ill effects though. Fine, fine evening. Making some choices in life that may be semi-wise at best but feels like right thing to do. At first glance seems ill-advised based on circumstances but the more risk the more potential for reward. Not quite accurate to quote Strange Brew with a "no point in steering now" but like the quote so will use anyways. More like willfully steering into path of danger but if manage to successfully traverse the path will be magical meadow of unicorns and naked women and kitties. Mmmm, just had roast beast that cooked for 5 and half hours today. Rubbed in spices and cooked in a bath of A1 sauce. Quite tasty and tender. Baked apple pie today too. Did not make pie, purchased, but still is pie! Currently eating brownies that made on Sunday. Wore the bicycle out last week finally. Needed new chain which came in mail around middle of week. But was out of wax also so couldn't put new chain on. Jogged three days and rode motorcycle one day instead. Wax came today and put on while ago. Letting dry now. After dries will make chain right length and put on. Then see if ruined big chainring or rear cassette by waiting too long to change chain. Bought set of cranks too just in case. And because left crank has worked way loose twice in last month. Truck is dead at the moment. No power to the ignition. Battery appears fully charged. No power to headlights or anything either. Will have to get out voltmeter and see if can figure out what is going on. Weird, because ran fine when last used. Holy cow, forgot how much boobs bounce on character in World of Warcraft. Definitely need to have sports bras invented in that world. Current Mood: happy

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August 22nd, 2009

10:11 am - Wake up late Sure wish subject was valid. Woke up wide awake at 5:30 this morn. Got up started some laundry and such. rsynced last few cds that ripped over to the music server. Decided was finally time to clean up the paint in the main bathroom. Used Arm and Hammer spray with Oxi-power or some such thing. Works pretty well. Scrubbed the various paint spills off of the floor. Found yellow, white, and light green from previous owners. Found somewhat bright purple from ex. Found light purple from sibling who repainted the bathroom. Found black and grey from when painting ex's kid's room. Found light blue from painting hallway and main room. Then moved to the bathtub. Which was a cluster. Have probably spent 5 or more hours scrubbing like hell to get the massive amount of paint out of the tub since tub was used to clean paint up and wasn't rinsed out afterwards. Used a Magic Eraser in addition to the aforementioned cleaner and some Ajax. Not much paint left in bottom of tub. Rest of it is clean now. Now to replace the doorknob and curtain rod with pewter/brushed stainless steel and will be done finally. Well, should probably touch up a few spots that were missed in the repaint, but does look acceptable now. The lighter purple that picked up looks decent against the green tile. The darker purple that was there wasn't too awesome looking. And will need a few more things for decorations. On a note related to cleaning; is amazing how much less effort is to keep house clean when living alone and don't really have anything better to do most of the time. Like to follow philosophy of don't make mess then don't have to clean as often. Because enjoy clean house but don't enjoy cleaning. Will have to see if have time to scrub the kitchen floor this weekend. ...bleh... Amazing how much get done in a morning when morning comes too early. Time to celebrate with some Diet Cherry Coke. Yay for weekend! Yay for Diet Cherry Coke! Boo for having to fire up the work laptop and do some work now! Would bitch more specifically about which automotive manufacturer is making work too much right now, but is more than one and really do like being employed. Just don't like working 70 hours per week. Current Mood: bouncy Current Music: Lily Allen; Not Fair

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August 15th, 2009

11:06 pm - Indentured Dement Another day, another dollar Paid today, gone tomorrow Toil in silence Visage pale, strained effort A quick gasp, breath is short Taste the violence Sudden strike, hammer's blow Fractured soul, apropos Echo's absence Current Mood: whelmed Current Music: Rush: ByTor and the Snow Dog

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August 8th, 2009

04:13 pm - John Hughes Should be remembered for some of the greatest comedy movies ever made; Vacation, Uncle Buck, and Christmas Vacation. Heck with 16 Candles or those other bleh and boring movies. Ferris Bueller was a jackhole and that Home Alone kid needed to get cacked with one of those gallons of paint. Would say Christmas Vacation is probably third favorite comedy after Blazing Saddles and Caddyshack. Vacation is right after that. Uncle Buck is in the top ten too. Ugh, darn boss forwarded work mail last night and made mistake reading. Then spent next hour and a half responding to. Didn't get to bed until like 2. Slept in latest in years until 9. Fricking exhausted. Current Mood: exhausted Current Music: Hinder; Lips of an Angel

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August 7th, 2009

11:34 pm - Outsomnia? So if can't wake up is that outsomnia? Or does that mean are dead? This week has been weirdly sucky yet semi-satifying and unfortunately not in a satyrical way. Short work day on Monday followed by poorly overcooked BBQ. Long day made longer by missing the ferry on Tuesday, getting home around 8:30. Long day made longer by missing the ferry on Wednesday, getting home around 12:30. Long day made longer by 14 hour war room situation on Thursday, getting home at 12:30 then working until nearly 2:00. Semi-long day made semi-long on Friday due to crank coming loose on bicycle so hiked last mile home, getting home at 7:00. Still managed to put 50 miles on the bicycle this week commuting which isn't too bad since rode motorcycle one day. Was supposed to start and finish design work for new important project this week. Other than spending couple of hours designing in head while not at work, didn't do anything on that project. Instead had to get up to speed and fix issues with other project that was going out the door this week for user acceptance testing with very big companies, otherwise known as VBCs. And shepherd trying to get major software release out the door. And deal with a wide variety of production issues that came out of nowhere and should not have needed dev lead intervention. Does appear that another project that provided the design and framework for is going well. And does appear that the week's release and VBC related stuffs is working well, (knock on something to prevent ill luck.) Really should go to bed. Need to unwind a bit more. Body is wound up. Foolishly drank caffeine today when haven't really been having much lately. Last week boss was like "should take a vacation." And sat there thinking "uh when?" Boss was out for 2 weeks earlier. Have been cranking away on business critical stuff all year. Cohort is out of office for 3 weeks in Canada getting married. Business has stacked up like 5 critical projects for 3rd quarter which won't be technically possible to do all of in that time frame. Don't have any more engineers to throw at the problems and am responsible for the design of all of them and the implementation of some of them. Suppose is good that serve critical purpose but is wearing being the lynchpin that half of the engineering projects have to go through. Had paused on the painting of living room/home theater since was thinking about putting in faux columns under the main ridge beam of the house. After further thinking have decided not to do that for now. So may paint wall behind futon this weekend if weather is poor which it sounds like it is going to be. Should probably do some work too. Current Mood: worn out

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August 5th, 2009

06:47 pm - Time to Waste Spent day busting butt trying to unhosify the software release that was supposed to occur today after finding a few show-stopper issues. Appears the de-hosification was successful and now have few minutes to kill before the Sounders game. Yes, Sounders game. Somehow ended up buying two tickets to game that doesn't count against team from Europe. Still not quite sure how that chain of events occurred. Noticed something the other day. Sarah Palin the ex or soon to be ex governor of Alaska bears a resemblance to a slightly older and much more child-bearing version of the Baroness from GI Joe. Coincidence? Wearing pants today for first time in months. Rode motorcycle in. Again for first time in months. Seems to be more than is acceptable amount of dried bug residue on jacket from trip in May to eastern WA. Yuck. If have time after post think will go get paper towel and wash off. Tired, out of interesting things to say. Keep forgetting interesting things that think about due to boring, mundane things that keep coming up and crowding out the good things. Wish was at home taking nap. Current Mood: drained

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July 30th, 2009

09:10 pm - Nice Day part two Another nice day today. Not quite as hot but did think to look at temperature when left work at 5:15. 95 degrees. Pretty much pushed the body to its limits today. Going through bottle of Gatorade as soon as get home each day. Will see if am able to ride tomorrow. No jogging. Bottom of feet are sore from hiking in bicycle cleats yesterday. Definitely getting in better shape but think adrenaline reserves are about emptied. Need to rest up on weekend. Probably do yardwork mostly. All the cats came by to visit this eve except Athena. Odd, but was around this morning so not worried. Less interest in playing with grasshoppers today for some reason. Kabuki was more sociable than usual. Helped with shower which is usually Poli's and Dalamar's job. Much cooler in the house tonight. Down to 83 already. Looks like will be working lots over next month. Business has made difficult to keep promises that will probably require working weekends. Asked boss' boss when getting some help because definitely a bit too multi-tasked right now. Answer "maybe today." Which would be nice. Dell Mini9 notes: On battery power is unable to play youtube (or whomever) videos without choking. 800MHz is too slow with the crap integrated Intel graphics and no acceleration. Touch typing in the dark sucks because '/-= are in weird places. Gnome is a pig. Thinking about installing fluxbox and using that. Use fluxbox or blackbox everywhere else. GUI applets for networking do not work. Using ifup/down via terminal for bringing up wireless. Current Mood: awake

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