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| Friday, March 21st, 2008 | | 7:27 am |
| | Saturday, August 11th, 2007 | | 9:47 am |
This week, one of my dreams came true
Wednesday, I had a tooth cleaning. With it, it was officially my 1 year checkup, which required new xrays. I have been complaining about pain in my new crown all year, and this time, he did an xray and a more thoroughexamination of the tooth. Right after the cleaning, I got a call from the dentist, who sounded very concerned. Sure enough, I had a tooth that had developed a pretty bad infection. He scheduled a root canal for the next day. He also proscribed meds. One of these meds? Vicadin. I finally have enough of them to make one of the drinks I've always wanted to try : The Vicadin Smoothy! The pain, days later, has slowly subsided. The filling has collapsed, which they said might happen. The medicine taste is still around. But the tooth already feels SOO much better. Current Mood: drugged | | Tuesday, June 26th, 2007 | | 7:58 am |
Arr
Part 1 - Chris Benoit and family found dead - http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/nation/4920395.html Well, wrestlers are ppl too. Guess the stress (and X, where X is anything/everything else) got to him. Part 2 - Life Worked through the weekend, for what now amounts to very little. The rain has prevented me from getting back into my biking, which pisses me off, but oh well. Trying to keep up with family a bit more. Seems there are not enough hours in the day. Someone at work kept preaching that Resident Evil 4 was a game I should play. Got the Wii edition, and I'm tired of waking up from dreams and clutching things like I have a Wiimote and nunchuk in my hands. Good game so far. The styling and badguys reminds me a bit of the first Metal Gear solid - larger than life battles, and characters who are pure action stars. Current Mood: Late | | Sunday, April 15th, 2007 | | 8:48 pm |
Work is fun
120+ hours of work in 12 consecutive days. Datacenter planning, tear-down, relocation, and build-up, all in under a week. A headache that continues through it all. Welcome to Dot-com 2.0! Sure feels a LOT like 1.0... Current Mood: tired | | Wednesday, March 21st, 2007 | | 7:35 pm |
Guess what...
As I sit eating cookie and espresso, gotta say why... its a birthday! Happy Birthday ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=92.3) tokeki! Current Mood: full | | Monday, January 1st, 2007 | | 8:03 pm |
Happy New Year!
2007... let's see if you can best 2006. Thought about resolutions. While drinking a pitcher of mudslides last night, and waking up a bit slowly this morning, I can't help but think about ways to try and get 'better' - which implies what I have now isn't sufficient. Well...naw, not gonna think about it too deeply. Intent is important with these kinda things, the typical psychobabble I drone on about ain't necessary right now. I procrastinate like a motherfucker. I used to motivate myself with different techniques, but I've gotten rusty, and distracted by myself. Procrastination impacts my work and life - things like lateness on projects, mindless browsing (ohh, shiny), and just not doing jack... yeah, real good there. My clutter habit is part pack-rating, part laziness for not cleaning and putting things in their place. *the whole of the day goes by* Well... there's your problem... | | Sunday, July 16th, 2006 | | 2:41 am |
Damn today has been a full one, and in many, many good ways: -Had an awesome hamburger for brunch -Upgraded to 2GB RAM in my gaming rig -Had a 21.6 mile ride listening to techno all the way -Made some kickass sauce -M and J came over - Toki and all had much good conversation -Went to Main Event and rock-climbed - fuckin' A -Stepped onto a DDR machine for the first time this year... and actually played -More conversation and 2AM coffee! SO much physical yet fun activity today. Hell I'm gonna be so wonderful sore tomorrow. Alright, rock climbing is now my new Saturday Night thang! (besides, um, Bowser) This has me feeling quite thankful for the ppl in my life and the opportunities I'm allowed, and for the people I share it with. It isn't very often I feel this good about things - normally, I just wait for the other shoe to drop and have my world turned upside down by random unemployment, a death in the family, or a meteor falling onto my home. In the morning, after real sleep, perhaps breakfast awaits. Another ride. Laundry. Even, gasp, much needed cleaning. Definitely coffee, and definitely good thoughts of Saturday, July 15th, 2006. Thanks, Powers That Be, for a nice day. Current Mood: thankful | | Saturday, May 27th, 2006 | | 6:26 pm |
| | Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006 | | 8:16 am |
When will video card manufacturers, or at least the companies that integrate their chips into laptops or tablets, offer more damned video upgrade options that make fucking sense? I'm sick of perusing eBay and other Black Sites to find someone whose peeled their system apart and is selling just the video card, which is the only part I want. What's my issue? I want a dual core tablet PC with something better than an ATI X1400 with 64mb of ram. Dell can manage a 7900 GTX 512MB in a chassis. What's wrong with getting that option on something like a tablet? Yeah - it's GPU overkill for typical tablet options. But dammit, give me the option! I want this at purchase times, you marketing droids! That, or give me a legitamite upgrade path and schedule for the GPU that shows what's coming 6-12 months down the line. ( Ribs Update )( Work Update ) | | Tuesday, March 21st, 2006 | | 7:54 am |
| | Tuesday, February 7th, 2006 | | 9:06 pm |
| | Saturday, August 20th, 2005 | | 1:46 am |
Holy... I won at poker! Played two rounds... first round out first :(. Second... took out 3 people and took first place. Damn! DAMN! | | Saturday, July 30th, 2005 | | 3:41 pm |
Be careful out there...
'Cause it's f'ing hot! I took the Canon Powershot S400 out for a spin, looking for high quality reference pics for some texturing I am going to try and do. I've got a 512MB CF card in there, and filled it up. I HOPE I got something useful...my hand jitters a bit, even holding it with two hands, so I fear I have 512MB of crappy shots of pipes, rusted metal, tree bark, and subterrainian drainage systems. In other news, I am gettin' a vacation this year. I shall be in London, Ontario, for the first half of September, but will actually be in the Pinery area camping with some friends. There might be a trip to Toronto in the works for the weekend before we head to the grounds. I would seriously love to go up in CN Tower and take pics from there! It was a serious deal to get that time off from work. That's right in the middle of beta testing the next release Today shall consist of me not dyin' from heat exposure. As bad as they are for me, a venti iced white chocolate mocha would seriously kick ass right about now. I shall instead feast on water. Woo. Current Mood: tired | | Saturday, July 16th, 2005 | | 7:49 am |
An auspicious start...
Went to bed late, and woke up early 'cause of wierd dreams. Like, the kind where for some reason me and my roommates are driving with all our stuff in a trailer, part at my parents house, unpack EVERYTHING(refrig, couches, TV, etc) and simply stay the night... then morning rolls around and we're having to pack it all back up, I get a phonecall from my mom reminding me it's Mothers Day and she was wondering if I forgot and so I had to appologize and try to come up with flowers quick right as a nest of fireants begin consuming my lower body. In a way, I'm glad I woke up... that dream was going to hell quick. So spent the early pre-dawn hours cleaning up a bit. Last weekend I picked up a new LCD monitor (8ms response time = awesomeness for gaming), and just installed my old Dell 15in LCD. It's like half as bright, only supports 800x600, and is grainy. Damn the technology has come a long way. I still have part of my bonus left over from work, might be evil and spring for a cheap 17in LCD to replace the old one. Still, freakin nice to have a functional multimonitor station once more. I've got it at work, and home makes it damn sweet. My goal is to eventually get Maya on my main screen and Photoshop, docs, etc, on the second to aid with my learning. Life has calmed down since the move thankfully. Work is a busy hum, and not an overwhelming roar, even though I complain about it a bit too much, heh. I've almost got things situation with the room, even having been in here +2 weeks almost I still have to get used to it. Family life is, as always, a bit crazy, but at a distance. That situation requires a post all on it's own, tho I doubt I'll take time to write it up. Think it's coffee time. Been trying Kicking Horse for the last couple months - http://www.kickinghorsecoffee.com/ I strongly recommend them. Their Three Sisters blend in the french press is damn sweet. Got half a pound of their Kootenay Crossing left. I find it hard to choose one roast over the other thus far, but the Mocha Yoho is also great, if a bit light. 2 things if you do order - 1. It's in Canada, expect to pay a bit more for shipping and to wait a bit as well. 2. They have a reference program, so if you order and tell them I sent ya, I get a pound free, heh. And yes, HOLY CRAP I updated. WOW. Current Mood: tired | | Sunday, March 27th, 2005 | | 5:46 am |
For the scales out there : T-Rex soft tissue found! http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/science/03/24/rex.tissue.ap/index.html So, like, an update. Been up this morning playing UT2004, and then attempted to disect one of the ONS maps to see just how these babies are made. Got a good book on UT modding, etc, proving very useful. Would seriously like to create stuff in the engine. Life..GYAH. Been a while since I updated this. So, recap. Um... I got a full-time job. Woot :). Means a modest pay increase, too, which never hurts. This morning, I intend to spend the next hour awaiting sunrise. Haven't seen one in ages. For once, I want to see the light as it crests that horizon. Wierd thing to feel, must be the 2 pots of coffee and extreme amount of reading I've done. Yay for seeing contrails on everything! dj_mixer... when I visited Cali and never returned that CD to you... well, I still feel like crap. Yeah, this is crazy ass shit, but damn, dude... you're one of the coolest guys I've met, and because I let life, job, and everything else get in the way of it, I never returned it to you. I got you a few things to send to you - art stuff, some music I really liked and wanted to share... but I just never sent it. Just makes me feel like crap that I can't even get that one thing right. *shakes his head* Yeah, consider this a crazy man talking. Don't know if you read this, just know I'm sorry. Drop me an email with your address and I will see about finally returning your property to you, in addition to some other stuff to make up for it. In other news (esp. in light of the above and a LOT of other recent things that have crossed my mind), I'm tired of being a dead-beat friend. At the same time, I'm tired of being a dead-beat friend to even myself - there is giving of myself, and there is taking... but lately, their is not enough of either, just a squandering of resources and time on endeavors showing no true gain. Changes start within, right? Way past time for this one. Excuse my carrying on, folks. Heh, been one of those nights. Current Mood: crazy | | Monday, February 14th, 2005 | | 3:36 am |
Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.
He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound's the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.
The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.I recently splurged and got a small paperback with a bunch of Robert Frost poems in it. I found it strange to find this one... it's rather... peaceful. Somewhat appropriate. And, well, I can't sleep, and seems to echo in my head at 3:30AM. Miles to go before I sleep is dead on in fact. Gonna work out and get it out of the way, hopefully will be tired enough afterwards to sleep an hour or so before having to get right back up and go into work. Lottery would be nice right about now. Current Mood: restless | | Friday, January 21st, 2005 | | 11:29 pm |
So, my week... it's been... interesting. But, like the phrase 'May you live in interesting times.', it can and does have dual meaning. This week I finally began my 5AM workout routine. This consists of cardio and some weights, but is more focused on cardio and endurance building. For the first week, I did pretty good. The only problem is my energy level at the end of the day. I just die around 7-8PM. My schedule for a typical day looks something like this: 5:15AM - Wake up 5:30AM - 6:15AM- Work out 6:30AM - Shower, dress, water, breakfast 7:30AM - Go to work 11:30AM - Eat my prepared lunch 5:00PM - Come home 5:30PM-6:30PM - Cook, eat. 7:00PM - ... 10:00PM - Go to sleep (ideally) See the dots up there? WTF do I do in that time? Well, nothing good. I've wanted to do art or something productive, but that just hasn't happening. With art, it's basically a fear thing. ( Art rambling. I actually could use some advice on this stuff. )Got some good news at work today - I stayed late and put the new build on a couple of our development boxes, started some traffic, and will check Monday to see if they break. While I did that, a coworker opened up to me, and told me something shocking. Apparently, the people at work like me. Well that's a positive surprise. From what he was saying, he, and others at work, have noticed something about me that I even didn't really know about myself. Apparently, I'm thirsty - for knowledge, understanding of things. I haven't thought of myself in those terms in ages. I'm glad that trait is surfacing after the last couple years of stressful tech jobs. At least I'm good at something, right? Current Mood: thirsty | | Sunday, January 16th, 2005 | | 9:20 pm |
*urge to slay random asshats growing* It's just a feeling. Thought I'd get it out here. Please disregard. Now, to do something constructive. Current Mood: ANGST | | Tuesday, January 11th, 2005 | | 11:35 pm |
Happy Birthday, sky! Hope you have a good one! Current Mood: chipper | | Sunday, January 9th, 2005 | | 10:24 pm |
Half-Life 2
Got it for Xmas. Finished it. The ending... Valve? This is Mike, one of your customers. PLS FX K THX BYE! Also, Steam sucks. Imagine my joy in seeing that Half-Life 1 was redone with the Source engine. ' Freaking Sweet!' I think to myself, eager to play one of my favorite single player games of all time. But.. no! What's this? The Retail version of HL2 doesn't include it. And even if I wanted it, Steam accounts only allow one licensed copy of HL2 - getting the Silver package is impossible unless I just freakin' unregister this version and buy a whole new one under a new Steam account. >.<. Of course, my limited intellect perhaps doesn't give me any other alternatives. Please post here if anyone else knows a valid way of doing this without blasting my existing Steam account into the Abyss (which, thanks to Knasty, I've read about- I never want to end up there, no sir!). Weekend was like - 'Hello. Just stopping by... laters!' Fuck you, weekend. Get your ass to Mars. A deeper thought as I was coming home - this is not the life I wish to live. I mean the life of complacentcy with my network test engineer job. It's dull and slow. So now begins the hunt for another job. I guess the slow and steady stuff just ain't for me. Also, I need to begin working out and doing more art. Art is feelin okay, tho after about a month of not touching the sketchpad my anatomy just feels off. Whelp, more looking at dynamic figures and trying to understand how the deep and shallow muscles of the back shape the muscles of the chest and shoulder is in order. ( Some other thoughts ) Here comes the week. Collision speed... Current Mood: blah |
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