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  • Trivial

    Hello again. How have you been since we last spoke? To what great pleasure do we owe your return? Have a seat (as if you are standing). Relax. Take all that weight off your shoulders and just chill. These past few days have been enjoyable, I must say. It has been a while since I have found myself thoroughly amused by the monotony of life. But it has happened.

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  • Of birthdays and weddings

    Hello all. Here I am once again trying to waste more moments of your life with dribble and nonsense. I’ve had some lesser revelations lately, and I feel compelled to write them out.

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  • A Baised Review – Pixar's Up! soars

    Upon catching the first preview for this movie, I have to admit I was unsure about it’s success. Pixar had yet to dissappoint me and had in fact set the bar pretty high with Wall-E. Their ability to take the simplest plot and turn it into an adventure that has never been anything short of amazing is not something to be taken lightly. Time and teaser trailers did manage to catch my attention, enough so to make me go and catch the midnight showing.

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  • Delightful. Sheerly delightful

    So as an update on my previous post, I did manage to finally get a hold of Heathbar, and as always, it was just my paranoia causing a stir, just to rattle things up. Things are not bad between us, but we still don’t really talk. But I can’t really hold that against her. She is a busy person and I am not. At least not really.

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  • Another long day

    Another arbitrary post. Things have been well for me. I’ve managed to barely stay afloat financially. I am moving out in two months to a new apartment. I’m still working 40 hours a week, and will possibly progress further into the IT field with a year or so of training as a LAN tech. If I did that I would be able to pretty much handle any kind of basic IT job and have over 4 years worth of experience at it. That’s not bad, but if I were serious about it I would have to start getting certifications and that just doesn’t sound like a whole lot of fun.

    Playing lots of games, no new ones thank goodness. I don’t need to spend more money. But none of that is very fulfilling. I feel a good rant coming on and I’m going to let it out, for once. What’s there to lose?

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  • Of memorials

    So this past weekend was the ever-so-celebratory weekend we Americans call Memorial Day. It was an interesting, yet uneventful, one. This past week or so has been quite topsy-turvy though. I haven’t had much time to think, much less write. I have been inkling to do something that I probably shouldn’t, but what’s the worse that could happen?

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  • Two updates. In one week! HA!

    So I managed to find the time to update again. I finally finished reading all of Questionable Content. Took me long enough and the characters became less smarmasaurus when read slowly. Yes I can use that word. Don’t judge me.

    So last night was Dana’s birthday party. She doesn’t age until May 19th, but it was fun nonetheless. Lots of people came out to the bar with us where we played Shuffle board most the night. I suck at the game, but a miraculous game had me winning in two rounds, 12 on the first and 8 on the second. I was highly impressed with myself, albeit it was luck. Then we went back to Dana’s house and just hung out until the wee hours. Had to come in to work at 12:45 instead of 3 like I had planned, so my day is not quite as awesome as I had hoped, but after work I am headed to Florida for the weekend. And next weekend I am planning on seeing my friend Dani, whom is likely to cut my hair for me as I didn’t get it cut in Oklahoma like I had planned.

    Yesterday was my first plant visit for a chicken factory. We managed to get no work done but it was a good experience. I got to see the whole process, from the feed mill, to the hatchery where the eggs are incubated, to hanging them on the prongs, the shocking water, the throat slitting, the head-popping, defeathering, gut extracting, limb detaching and the entire deboning process, which is hand-done in our company. There were over 100 people cutting up chicken parts all day at this place. Quite the job.

    Still being stupid and indecisive. That should stop. Sometime in the near future. Or I’ll continue down the path of sanity. And no good can come of that. I did spend almost an hour and a half the other day with Verizon trying to order a warranty phone, only to have them tell me at that point that I couldn’t get it because the phone fell under “physical damage” and wasn’t covered. I eventually got them to send it out. Now to move my phone back over. Frustraing trying to deal with them though. Ah well.

    Nerd Note: I managed to make a pretty killer Slip stream CD for my work. I was pretty happy with the overall package. It has all the network drivers for most of our computers pre-installed, only have to name computer and joins to network via install, a batch file that will move it into the proper AD container, runs a GP update, pulls windows updates, runs our asset inventory software and installs our AV. All I have to do is put in my user credentials. Pretty nifty.

    Going to try reading this weekend. Haven’t tried in a while. But who knows what will happen. We might end up getting arrested, we might end up sleeping most the time. WHO KNOWS?! So I will have more to report when I get back. Also will hopefully have my video uploaded from the Oklahoma trip. Maybe.

    In the words of Mark De’Freur IV,
    “If one were to whittle one’s fingers,
    One would become nub to pain.”

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  • It liiiiives

    Good day sir. This post begins and ends with Good day sir. So I’m back. Back in the sense that I am at least writing again. My spirits have been lifted as of late. I got to do some amazing things these past weeks and I haven’t been happier in a while. All sort of spur of the moment, but awesome none-the-less. Where to start?

    My motivation to get myself a drum set is back. That was set on by a miraculous adventure I randomly decided to take. April 29th had been an average Wednesday. Unfulfilling, uninteresting, and overall drab. I did nothing note-worthy at work and came home to an empty apartment, my roommate being at work until the wee hours and my dog down at my father’s for some play time with other animals, a venture I am confident my dog enjoys more than my own company. I wasn’t sleep deprived, but for some reason, having decided there was nothing truly desirable to do at my house after watching cartoons for 5 hours, I was unable to sleep. It was 2:45AM and I was slowly dragging towards a rough day at work as I tried desperately to tell myself sleep is what I needed and I needed it then.

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  • Training myself to care & Clifford Stoll

    Ok. So it’s been a while since I’ve posted, or posted anything worth reading. It’s been a weird couple of months, to be fully honest. I’ve just been doing lots of rethinking, and although I generally feel the same way I used to about most things in my life, i.e. my hobbies, my physical condition, my friends, my environment, my family, I feel a lack of substance in most of it. It seems to have all become quite mundane. I think what always got me through in the past was having such little side projects and the, however minute, reaction of others when I displayed said projects. Like my obsession with buying co-op video games.

    I bought LittleBigPlanet because the game looked fun and had an awesome co-op mode, in my honest opinion. My roommate and brothers seemed to think it was decent, but not something they would do with their free time. It’s a little dissappointing, I guess. I mean I’ve always felt I’ve never had a good video game buddy. Someone who made a decent amount of money to actually buy games and enjoyed spending 8 hours on a video game. This is obviously no-ones fault, but it makes me begin to wonder about my obsession with these games and their worth in my life. Lately these things have started to fall into a grey area. None of them quite capture me like they used to. Nothing speaks to me quite the same. I actually traded in video games for the first time in my life the other day. I believe it’s a terrible waste of money to trade and the games weren’t that terrible, but I couldn’t get into them, them being Last Remnant and Infinite Discovery. RPGs for heaven’s sake! I used to absorb these suckers like a fat kid eating grass if the fat kid was in fact a goat. But I couldn’t get into either. Both of them had story and pacing issues, and Last Remnant had an obnoxious load time.

    So I say all that to say, I’ve been reconsidering my hobbies. One hobby I can’t seem to pry my mind from is keeping a decent blog going. That means I have to be resourceful and always have things to write about. Since most of my hobbies revolve around games still, I am once again going to give game reviewing a try. While I doubt for any internet infamy such as the great Zero Punctuation and his infamous rants, I need this to keep going. But I won’t limit this site to just video games. This site is an ameoba of thought patterns, at least in my mind’s eye. So, to get us started on the random junk that will be coming on here in a regular basis, the best Ted Talk ever, Clifford Stoll!

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  • Nerd rant

    So. I’m alive. I was sick last Thursday, so much so I actually had to miss work. Things have been OK lately. Friday I hung out with Brit at his house for his nerd party. Lots of SF4 and lots of SSB 64. I felt the impulse to buy a few games, so I bought Mega Man 9, Bionic Commando Rearmed, Linger in the Shadows and Burnout Paradise all of the PS Store. Beat all but Wily in Mega Man 9, actually don’t care for Bionic Commando, Linger in the shadows is just fun to watch, but Burnout Paradise I do enjoy a bit.

    I’ve been craving a good racing game and this is right up my alley. Racing with a good TOTAL DESTRUCTION element, but not quite as annoying as FlatOut. Also, I’ve been playing FF7:Crisis Core. Dave let me borrow his PSP so I’ve been raping that. I haven’t caught up to him in the story, which isn’t even halfway through the game, but I am already level 53, 15 higher than Dave’s character, and average about 15000 damage a hit now. I’m one-hitting all the story line enemies right now. It’s quite nice. 🙂

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