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Sunday at the Faire Sun Apr 30 21:17:11 CDT 2006
Mood: tired Music of the Day: Mythbusters on TV
I had a good day. Got up early to go with Techie, 'Stina and Amythest to Scarby. Got there around 11 am, met up with Nymaz and Strongbow. We went to a bunch of good shows, especially funny was Iris and Rose (bawdy wench songs, thought I was going to break a rib laughing.) and Ziltch the Tory Steller (Romeo and Juliet in spoonerisms, hysterical as always). I was good, I only spent about $10 at faire, on food and performer tips. Got home around 5:30 today, made dinner and have been watching Mythbusters and reading. I'm pooped, but I want to stay up and watch Dr Who tonight, since I didn't watch it Friday. Then back to the salt mine at work. Weeeeeeee. Laters gators.

Saturday Fun and Frolics Sat Apr 29 23:38:12 CDT 2006
Mood: good Music of the Day: From Beyond on VHS
I had a good day today, woke up around 10ish, bummed around the house til around noonish. Got some lunch, ran by Target, then came home and did alot of cleaning. Dumped a bunch of trash, house almost looks livable. Watched the last two episodes of Babylon 5 season 3. Then I headed up to meet up with Amythest and head out to Medieval Times. Once there we hooked up with Techie, 'Stina, Strongbow and Ken the websiteless. It was fun, especially the falconry exhibition. What can I say, I like falcons. It was a little more expensive than I liked, but it was fun. Tomorrow we're going to Scarborough Faire, to continue the time trip ;) Then, Monday and back to the slave pit. Hopefully next week will be calmer. But for now I'll veg out at home, with one of my favorite horror movies, From Beyond. Another Lovecraft adaptation that has very little to do with the story it's based on...but any movie with Barbara Crampton in a leather outfit is good enough for me. *grin* I'll babble more tomorrow, have a good night.

Things I learned today... Fri Apr 28 13:52:16 CDT 2006
Mood: amused Music of the Day: Darkest of the Hillside Thickets - Slave Ship
I learned that moving 20 gigs of porn from one server to another can take FOREVER.

New Satchel Fri Apr 28 11:00:54 CDT 2006
Mood: sleepy Music of the Day: Metallica & Orchestra - Enter Sandman
Well I picked up a replacement satchel last night, since my old one was showing a little too much wear and tear. Walmart, $10. Yes I know Walmart is evil, but they're cheap and I'm stingy, so there *grin* Almost exactly the same as the old one, save a second internal compartment (which screams out 'book space') and a metal label on the front saying the brand. Otherwise, same layout. For those who don't know me in RL, this bag goes everywhere with me, since it usually has...
  • My pda.
  • Books (yes, plural...I usually have two with me at any time. Addict, nah).
  • Assorted drugs (OTC type...I get headaches too often to go without meds)
  • Pens
  • Maglite
  • Jumpdrive
  • Contacts stuff
    And whatever else I feel like carrying that day. Hey, it's good to have assorted stuff with you when you are out and about.

    Especially the books ;)

    • Glum Fox Wed Apr 26 19:59:32 CDT 2006
    Mood: down Music of the Day: Mythbusters on TV
    I've got a serious case of the blahs. Some if it is work foo as usual, some of it is post vacation letdown. I'd been looking forward to my vacation, and now it's done. And while I did get some good rest, it doesn't feel like enough. So now I'm done with vacation and back to the slave pit. It doesn't help that I didn't sleep well either last night, so now I'm down and pooped. And no reason, that's the worst part. If there was a reason, it could be fixed, or at least accepted. Now, the reason seems to be the day ends in 'Y'. Feh. Not sure what I'm going to do about it, if anything...well besides going to bed early tonight. And watching Who's Line is it Anyway, that's a fairly effective laugh generator. *crosses fingers*

    Yog-sothoth.cabal23.net Tue Apr 25 20:24:24 CDT 2006
    Mood: geeky Music of the Day: Babylon 5 on TV
    Today I got my test bed Windows 2k3 server up and running. Well it was up and running back on Friday, but I went and tinkered with the firewall, and locked myself out of the server. Doh. So once I got a bit of a lull at work, I ran over, logged into the physical server and disabled the firewall. Went back to my desk, relogged in, reset the firewall correctly this time. I also got Cygwin installed and configured, so I can ssh into the server as well as remote desktop. Still not 100% sure of what I'm going to do with this box, but it should be fun.

    Yay Camping Mon Apr 24 14:53:28 CDT 2006
    Mood: good Music of the Day: Babylon 5 on TV
    Well here is my report for the campout. We left out Saturday morning bright and way too early. Got up to Turner Falls about 11, the was some issues with the cabin, so we (we being Nymaz, Amythest, Strongbow, and websiteless L. We headed up the castle at Turner Falls. A antiquities professor at Oklahoma University built this as a replica of a medival castle/summer home. Very cool, save all the idiots who write graffiti on the walls. Idiots. After exploring that, we had a picnic lunch, unloaded stuff at the cabin, then hung around the campsite for a while. Amythest as queen of event planning setup a scavenger hunt. Lots of items normally found around the park...save one...a feather. Feathers should be easy, but noone could find one to save their souls. Finally, I thought outside the box...ran back to cabin and grabbed Amythest's down pillow. So hurrah, my team won.

    As the day went on, it cooled off, so we went hiking. There is a natural cave, so we checked that out. It had a great view over the falls, then we wandered a bit. And I got an urge to see if I could rock climb down to the river's edge, which is about a 50-75 foot decent. Nice fun scramble, if a little more vertical than usual. Getting back up was harder, definitely was one of the harder scrambles I've done. And FUN. I love rock climbing, especially when I get to somewhere I've never been before, especially when it's a real challenge. Got back up to the top, and boy was I tired. We staggered back to camp, made dinner. Everyone else had brisket, I had hotdogs. What can I say, I've never liked brisket. After dinner we sat around talking, roasted marshmellows and generally relaxed. Eventually we all went to bed, though I had some issues sleeping due to a bit a snoring. But I had a good book, so it wasn't all bad. Btw, if you are a fan of H.P. Lovecraft or the movie John Carpenter's 'The Thing' go pick up a copy of Hive by Tim Curran. Very good as a sequel to 'In the Mountains of Madness' by HPL.

    Sunday I woke up with the rest of the gang. Had breakfast (cooked cinnamon apples) packed up and headed on home. Got back in town around 2. Unloaded stuff at Amythest's, then headed home to drop off my stuff and check on critters. They seemed to have missed me a tad. Then I met up with Amythest and Strongbow to go see Silent Hill. Very good scary flick, especially for a videogame adaptation. I recommend it for anyone who likes scary movies. After the movie I headed back home, made some dinner, and generally turned into a vegetable. Went to bed around 11, and slept soundly all night. Yay me. Today I've been vegging and watching Bab5 episodes and generally not doing much of anything. Yay for rest and relaxation.

    Back from Camping Sun Apr 23 19:59:15 CDT 2006
    Mood: exhausted Music of the Day: Babylon 5 on TV
    Quick post, got back from camping. Had a good time camping, got to do some good rock scrambling, hung out with friends and generally relaxed. Good to be home though. Now, to get clean, relax, and enjoy tonight, and tomorrow. Hurrah for being off work. :)

    Going Camping Fri Apr 21 22:25:09 CDT 2006
    Mood: tired Music of the Day: Good Eats on TV
    As of 7:30 am tomorrow I'll be heading on out for camping. I've got everything packed that I won't need between now and then. Got books to read, putting music on PDA for the road trip, got clothes, got sunblock, going to get some quality time scrambling around on rocks. Yeah, my weird quirk, I love rock climbing. Should be a good weekend. I'll be back Sunday, don't have too much fun without me.

    Dental Update Thu Apr 20 15:48:06 CDT 2006
    Mood: good Music of the Day: Iron Maiden - Moonchild
    Went for my followup with the dentist, all is healing perfectly, no dry socket, no infection, all well and good. Yay for me. :)

    Power Outages, New Servers, and Why I need a vacation Thu Apr 20 10:46:41 CDT 2006
    Mood: tired Music of the Day: Masi - God Promised a Paradise
    Well it's been a few few hours. Last night I woke up around 1am, went and checked my phone (work had threatened to call people in for "an issue") Issue didn't happen it seemed. Get back to bed, listen to the storm for a second, reach for the light...*boom* power gone. Grumble, alot. When the power didn't come on in a few min, go and unplug the hardware. Not having a repeat of last year's hardware fry. And wait for the power to come on. Now, as many of you lot know...I'm claustrophobic...and the big trigger, lack of air moving. In every room there's a fan in my place, I have on at work, even if it's 20 below outside, I have the fan going in my car. I like moving air. So power outages suck. Open the bedroom window, this doesn't help plus I get twitchy...last big outage was when Trinity got out though said window. This did not help me sleep. Finally doze off, and at some point the power comes back on. I don't notice, but I assume my body did since I got some real sleep. Wake up to the sound of Cassie meowing, look at clock. 12:00 on blink. Oops, look at phone, 8:15. Crap. Get up, close window, pet cat, scritch ferrets, shower, get dressed and head to work. Only 15 min late. Mental note, get UPS for alarm clock at some point. Also get UPS for computer hardware, but I've been saying that for a while now. ;)

    On to better news, I'm going to have a new server to play with. I talked work into setting me up a Windows 2k3 server for experiments. So I'll be playing with MS DNS, using Imail for a backup MX, MySQL under Windows, and all the other things I've been meaning to learn, except that I didn't have the hardware to play on. Server name, of course it's going to be mythos related, so I should have Yog-Sothoth up and running tonight/tomorrow. Just in time for me to go camping.

    Yay for vacations, boo for having to teach people to cover for me for 2 days of work. I ended up taking time out of my busy day to write out documentation, and bet you cash I'll have a pile of work to do come Tuesday. It never fails. But the boss wants it done, so it gets done. Wee. Later today I get to go back to the oral surgeon, get my socket looked at. Should be fine, haven't had alot of pain lately. Hopefully it will be an in and out thing, and back to work. Wee. Then tonight I plan on vegging and doing laundry...and going to bed VERY early. Sleep, perchance to dream. Yay sleep. *crosses fingers*

    Vulpine Babblings Tue Apr 18 19:30:03 CDT 2006
    Mood: good Music of the Day: Babylon 5 on DVD
    Well, it's Thursday Tuesday and it's hot as hell in Texas. Rolling blackouts are suppost to happen today, since the electic company got caught flatfooted by the sudden temperature change (from spring warm to blastfurnace hot) Not fun. I'm really wishing it would go back to comfy, hopefully by this weekend, so we're not camping in a sauna.

    Tooth foo is getting better, last night I had some rather bad pain, but I think it was more sinus than jaw...hydrocodone and sinus meds knocked it out shortly, then I was knocked out. Haven't taken any more hydrocodone since then, trying to go cold turkey...makes work easier, not being in a fog. Not much else, I go in for a check up with the surgeon on Thursday, then off Friday and Monday. Hurrah for 4 day weekends. Hopefully I'll get some rest, just in time for the summer of doom.

    On the work front I just finished a long ass project, migrating web domains off of old servers to new hardware. 24 servers, 350 domains. Oy. Made for a busy last few weeks, but hopefully I'll be able rest for the next couple of days, or at least I won't be working 110% of capacity. Then, a nice long weekend. Yay long weekends. And now, it's time to veg. *wave*

    George Carlin = Agent of the Esoteric Order of Dagon Tue Apr 18 09:58:03 CDT 2006
    Mood: amused Music of the Day: Mercyful Fate - The Mad Arab
    The squamous conspiracy is continuing. Today my George Carlin calender had this to say "In the Future: The human body will develop fins and gills, and beach property will increase tenfold in value." While he said nothing about tentacles, it makes me wonder when Mr Carlin became a follower of Great Cthulhu. Ia, Ia, Carlin Fhtagn ?

    Monday Mon Apr 17 21:02:56 CDT 2006
    Mood: tired Music of the Day: Who's Line is it Anyway on TV
    Long day at work, the hydrocodone for my jaw wasn't helping. Vaguely loopy and had trouble concentrating. Made work so much fun. Oh well, it could have been much worse. Now I'm home, vegging out and about to go crash. Maybe I'll get a decent night's sleep tonight. Yay sleep.

    Sundayness Sun Apr 16 20:34:17 CDT 2006
    Mood: soso Music of the Day: Babylon 5 on DVD
    Well the end of the weekend is here. Spent the day watching Babylon 5 episodes mostly. Jaw is achey, occasional fairups into real pain. Work should be fun tomorrow with painkillers. Hmm, stoned server configs. Probably should see if advil knocks it down well enough so I can keep coherant at work, and save the good stuff for home/sleep time.

    Been enjoying the Babylon 5 marathon, finished up Season 1 today, and I'm making good headway into Season 2. This is going to be very addictive. Definitely been on a huge scifi kick, reading alot of scifi along with watching Bab5. Now this doesn't mean I've given up Cthulhu and Tsathoggua and Dagon as reading buddies, but it's fun to go back to one of my oldest reading loves...good ol Sci Fi. Hmm, now to combine the two..."These are the voyages of the Starship Cthulhu..." Well, I think it would be fun.

    Tomorrow is work, yay work. *thud* I hope it's a quiet week, it will be a short week. 4 day weekend coming up, hopefully it will be nice and cool up in Turner Falls. And hopefully I'll get some nice and good rest out of this next weekend, make up for the less than fun of this weekend.

    Birthday Parties and Bowling Sun Apr 16 01:16:26 CDT 2006
    Mood: tired Music of the Day: Babylon 5 on DVD
    Well I got dragged out of the house to help celebrate a few people's bdays. We went to Main Event, hung around talking for a bit, then...bowling. Now I haven't bowled since I was in college. Now I never was a good bowler, and it didn't help that I was medicated to the gills. But I did get a few gone throws in, including two strikes at the end. It was fun. After bowling, some of the gang played lasertag, but I decided that playing while medicated would be bad. So I played a few games, won a stuffed pelican for Amythest got a lift home, and now I'm watching TV, thinking of sleeping soon. Yay sleep. Tomorrow I plan on spending the day resting and watching Bab5. I need a good rest, so hopefully I'll have a good week of work, then camping. Yay camping. *yawn* Night night peoples.

    Babylon 5 Notes Sat Apr 15 12:40:58 CDT 2006
    Mood: ok Music of the Day: Babylon 5 on DVD
    I've been enjoying season 1 alot. Other than some of the DVD have been 'quirky', so I've skipped a number of episodes. Meh. But I've enjoyed what I watched. Londo Molari (the Centauri ambassador) is very amusing in the first season, before things get dark later. I may try borrowing the missing episodes from Techie. But it's fun.

    I slept fairly well last night, I'm feeling a few twinges here and there. Had soup this morning, yay for protein. I still rather have something more solid, but that will be later on. Trying to think of things that would taste good and be very soft. I see eggs for lunch shortly. Yay eggs.

    Update Fri Apr 14 18:12:11 CDT 2006
    Mood: good Music of the Day: Babylon 5 on DVD
    Well, 8 hours post surgery. Watched a few Bab 5 episodes, enjoyed muchly. The bleeding mostly stopped an hour or so after I got home. Been eating pudding alot today, want real food...but I'm staying a good patient. Took a nap, woke up kinda sore and twingy...off to the drugs. Yay drugs. And I just got a very nice suprise, I was expecting a check up call from my oral surgeon's office. I wasn't expecting the surgeon to be the one calling to check up on me. Now that's a new one. A nice suprise to have a doc check up on you. I definitely recommend him for anyone in the Mid Cities area needing dental surgery.

    As usual when my diet is limited, I am having major cravings for food. Salt this time. I want chips, nachos, scrambled eggs with paprika and salt and cheese, omelets, especially the omelets. I had a dream while I was napping about making a giant omelet the way my dad did when I was a kid. Sunday mornings dad would make omelets for me and him, usually including leftover stuff from the week. These were usually gigantic, and stuffed with things I've never seen in an omelet since, hamburger, polska kielbasa, chinese beef from takeout beef and broccoli, and other things. Mom never joined us, not a breakfast person, so it was me and dad time. When I got older we stopped as a tradition, since I wasn't getting up til lunch...instead it was dinner whenever it was me and dad home alone, and still fun. I've made them a few times over the years myself, but I don't make omelets as well as dad did, but I think I'll make some time to practice this week and use up the ton of eggs I have. *hungry* Ok, back to TV and vegging. (and not thinking of food).

    Done with Dental Work Fri Apr 14 11:08:59 CDT 2006
    Mood: numb Music of the Day: TV
    Surgery went well. Went in, got nitrous oxide, got very loopy, said some silly things to the oral surgeon...he must be used to that. Got injected with the local, waited. I had Amythest's mp3 player with me, so I was listening to assorted music while we waited. Then rather suddenly he dove in, yank yank yank, no more tooth. I had a little discomfort, the yanking bugged the hell out of me, and there was some pain while he was doing something...not sure what, might have been removing roots or something in the gum itself. Then no more gas, feel less loopy, if very numb. Call mom, message friends, get drugs (yay hydrocodone) come home. Now I plan on vegging out and watching tv all day. Wee. :) Babble at you later.

    Almost time Thu Apr 13 23:14:06 CDT 2006
    Mood: nervous Music of the Day: Babylon 5 on TV
    Well, almost time for my surgery. 10 hours and change til time. Tense day, been mildly worrying and trying not to worry all day. Mostly succeeded, one work was done I headed out with Amythest to see Ice Age 2. Still a good laugh, even the 2nd time I saw it. Picked up groceries for this weekend. I also got a new stuffed fox, thanks to the redhead. *big smile* He's a puppet, and very cute. Nice to have a new stuffed critter at home. So I'm now home, groceries put up, fox sitting on the bed, Bab 5 playing, hopefully I'll get a good sleep tonight. Wish me luck.

    Shub-Internet Milestone Wed Apr 12 11:14:05 CDT 2006
    Mood: geeky Music of the Day: Testament - Envy Life
    11:13:58 up 100 days, 8:03, 14 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

    Good Shub-Internet, 100 days without a reboot. I'm pretty sure that's a record for me. *knocks on wood*

    Lobster Memories Tue Apr 11 21:14:54 CDT 2006
    Mood: nostalgic Music of the Day: $40 a day on TV
    Silly post time, was watching $40 a day on Food Network, and they had a lobster place, where you picked your own lobster. Which reminded me of living on Long Island as a kid/teenager. My parents and I would go to the beach most weekends in the summer, and on the way home we'd stop by this lobster place to get Mom and Dad lobster, then I'd get a pizza. Everyone was happy. I hate lobster, I blame being chased by them as a small child (Story time later). But I could pick a good lobster according to my parents, and I took rather gleeful delight in watching them cook. *grin* They'd steam em, wrap them with insulated foil, and they'd still be hot by the time we'd get home. Made for happy parents. Well, I was watching the show, and I was thinking about those fun days...and I was trying to remember the name of the place, I knew it started with a 'J'...but I finally gave in, called Mom...she remembered. It's Jordan's Lobster Farms, still in business. *grin* This makes me happy, a happy memory from when I was kid. Mostly I remember the not so good stuff, it's easy to focus on bad stuff...but this reminds me of the good things. Must remember the good things in life. So, if you're in the NY area, and you like lobster...you MUST head on out to Long Island and check this place out.

    The cider has landed. Sun Apr 9 21:32:53 CDT 2006
    Mood: Woodchuckery Music of the Day: X-files on TV
    Finally cracked into the Woodchuck cider. It's tastier than I remember, and I'm enjoying it (in a egg cream glass). I need to pick up some barware, save these glasses for the egg creams. Got a few ideas, maybe this next paycheck I'll order some. But yes, hurrah for cider.

    Sundays Sun Apr 9 20:23:26 CDT 2006
    Mood: blah Music of the Day: X Files on TV
    Another Sunday has come and mostly gone. Good bits, I got the ferret cage cleaned, the kitchen detrashed and a bit of the living room picked up. I also got a few groceries for the next day or two. I get paid tomororw, so this week I'll do the real shopping. Especially for post surgery next Friday. The not so good bits, I've got a case of the Sunday blahs, I perked up some after cleaning, but back down again. Usual meh feeling, unable to focus on stuff...general moodyness. Sundays suck, since my brain keeps reminding me tomorrow is Monday, and the start of another craptastic week. I'm not looking forward to the work grind, nor the surgery. *yawn* This is turning into a more depressing post than I planned. *meh* It's not all bad, I'm just not as perky as I'd like to be right now. Maybe this week will go by quickly, and the surgery will be ok, so all will be well. Well I can at least attempt to be hopeful. Hope, springs eternal.

    This is why I hate Doctors Fri Apr 7 17:44:26 CDT 2006
    Mood: annoyed Music of the Day: Dream Theater - Hollow Years
    My mom's had foot trouble for a few months now. Swelling, discomfort, discoloring. She's been to several doctors, multiple times, including one podiatrist who was heavy on the pod (as in pod person). Finally she goes to a new doc, who within 5 min decided 'Hey, we need a xray' Sure enough, she's broken a bone in her big toe...and it's been broken a while. That would explain the swelling, pain, etc. The rest of these quacks,"oh it's just an infection." Sheesh, even I asked "Could she have broken her toe at some point ?" No no, it's just an infection. ARGH !!!! I hope mom decided to sue the pants off the podling doctor, the man didn't look like could have gotten a clue, covered in clue pheremones, in field full of horny clues in the middle of clue mating season. *twitch* yeah, I'm a little pissed off right now. *grumble grumble*

    More Geeking Thu Apr 6 23:09:11 CDT 2006
    Mood: geeky Music of the Day: Phoenyx - Yo Ho!
    Well, after work I got to do some more geeking. Amythest just switched to DSL from cable, got the line and modem setup, but was having issues with the router she had. Ok, superfox to rescue. Get over there, all the cabling looks normal, the wired computer can hit the router fine, but nothing past it. Wireless computer, no dice at all. Ok, try to login to the router, none of the remembered admin passwords work. Call a friend, have him look up the reset and default passwords on the model, get it reset, login. Now according to another friend, this was suppost to be a PPOE setup. Ick. Try that, no dice, try all kinds of password combinations, no dice. Look on the computer setup, see nothing for a PPOE setup on it, just straight TCP/IP, but the machine worked fine when plugged straight in. Checked it again, yep it works...no PPOE, resetup the router, configure it for straight DHCP and TCP/IP and bam, on line. Woo for me. Now to resetup the wireless.

    I know squat about wireless, I got mine working at Chez Cabal23, but that was alot of guess work and grumbles. Go to Amythest's main computer, it says no wireless connection. Ok, to be expected. Have XP look for networks, find 4 in the neighborhood, two marked as linksys with no security...ok which one is the one I just enabled... reset the network name on the router (aka run back to the living room #1), refresh, ok finds the network. Doesn't connect. Try again, ok...that worked. Wee, I can surf. Now to secure it, hit the router from the wireless box, enable security...get kicked. Expected that, try to login...crap. Set the wrong something or other (told you I didn't know wireless). Go back to living room (#2) change settings, run back...and blank on the encryption key... run to living room (#3), write down key, run back...set...no connection. Try again, boom...online and encrypted. Yay me. Nice to know my geek instincts still work on networking. The rest of my night has been fairly dull, added some stuff to my ThinkGeek Wishlist, watched TV and generally vegged. Tomorrow looks to be a odd day, got some custom installs to do, and I've only installed some of the requested software once...so lets hope my geekstreak keeps up. Wish me luck.

    Better Mood Thu Apr 6 14:43:39 CDT 2006
    Mood: geeky Music of the Day: Hammerfall - Renegade
    Well my mood improved muchly this morning. Work has been nicely keeping me busy, not slammed but not too much time to think either. When I do have thinking time, I end up working on a shell script to make my server migration project even easier, but using unix shell scripts and awk to write .bat files to generate Windows 2k3 domains...I'm fairly sure if I wasn't going to hell before hand, now I'm going towards the front of line ;)

    Otherwise, not much else going on. Same stressors as before, but I guess I'm seeing that they are all resolvable with time. It may suck a bit, at least money wise and pain wise, but not as bad as it could suck. Lets hope the good mood lasts a while, I need a perky few days.

    Ugg Wed Apr 5 14:11:42 CDT 2006
    Mood: tired Music of the Day: X-Files on DVD
    Had a rough night last night, didn't get to sleep til around 6am. Called in brain dead to work. Woke up around 11, did some work from home, ate lunch and have bene watching The X Files. I'm tired, not feeling too swift and kinda down. Hopefully I'll perk up by this weekend, and survive next week's waiting on the dental fu. Not sure of what is planned for the weekend, hopefully some fun stuff, and cheap stuff. I'm a poor fox. Oh well, we'll see.

    More Dental Fu Tue Apr 4 13:24:10 CDT 2006
    Mood: up and down Music of the Day: Iron Maiden - The Clairvoyant
    Well, more dental foo. Got a call from the surgeon's office, he wanted me to be aware that since I was doing the local + gas, that I may experience "some discomfort or pain" during the procedure. Which set me off on a minor wobbler. 'Some discomfort' does that mean owow pain, or you poor poor boy kinda pain ? I also forgot to ask some questions I meant to ask before hand, like can I bring headset and music, and what will I be able to eat when... Guess I'll be calling back. Nothing like hearing the word 'pain' to drive all logical thoughts out of my brain. So I'll be calling them back later to ask some questions.

    I got better, mostly with some venting to people and just thinking time. Oh yeah, and punning. Well, when I was a kid I had to have a tooth pulled. The nitrous made me feel icky, and I didn't want a shot (small fear of needles, even at a young age). So I had a tooth pulled with no drugs. To this day, people ask me how I did it, I said 'Simple, transcend dental medication.' *duck* *grin* (and credit to Spider Robinson for the pun.) I'm better now, but I expect on Thursday night I'll be a tad twitchy. *crosses fingers* But, at least he called and warned me, that was nice. Even if I'll probably twitch.

    Dental Fu Mon Apr 3 17:00:26 CDT 2006
    Mood: tense Music of the Day: Lacuna Coil - Senzafine
    Ok, got back from the oral surgeon. Nice guy, nice staff in general. They didn't even take a 2nd xray since I had a copy of mine with me. Long story short, I can't get the tooth extracted til a week from Friday. I tried to find a way to get it moved to a time where Amythest could drive around, no dice. This is due to wanting the full sedation thing. Left the office, started thinking, called the oral surgeon back and asked about if I did a local, would I be able to drive. The answer is ...yes. Plus it's quite a bit cheaper to do. (I have insurance, but still...nothing like insurance snafus at the wrong time to make your stress wig out). So, I've got a plan, now to prep for the plan, and not think about it much....*twitch*

    Slither Sun Apr 2 23:28:39 CDT 2006
    Mood: tired Music of the Day: Linkin Park - One Step Closer
    Saw Slither today, 3rd movie of the weekend. I was in a blah mood, and I thought a sci-fi/horror movie would help. It did, it was rather funny. Rather gory, kinda ick in spots. But funny, as most B movies should be. Nathan Fillion (aka the Captain from Firefly) was very amusing, had lots of good quoteable lines. If you like movies like Tremors or Night of the Creeps you'll like this one.

    Movies and Mayhem (and Laundry) Sun Apr 2 14:00:02 CDT 2006
    Mood: soso Music of the Day: History Channel on TV
    Well, so far my weekend has been pretty ok. Last night went to see Stay Alive. It wasn't bad, wasn't great, but not as bad as I expected. Funny in spots, mostly due to the number of video gamers I've known over the years. I also picked up a few books at the mall bookstore, a Brian Lumley collection and a Ben Bova scifi novel. Came home after the movie, watched a little TV, read for a bit and went to bed.

    Utterly forgot the daily slavings time change, so I woke up alot later than planned. Got dressed, got coherant, ate lunch, then started laundry. Alot of laundry, I've been only doing enough to get though the week, so it's piled up some. While I do laundry, I'm watching a show on the Black Death on the History channel. Thinking of doing the movies again this afternoon/evening, go see Slither, well assuming the budget allows it ;) My wild life. *snicker* Tomorrow I go to the oral surgeon for a consultation, so hopefully I'll have the tooth of doom taken care of on Friday. I'm so not looking forward to this...well other than not having the tooth bugging me. It doesn't hurt much, more of a pressure feeling that comes and goes. Annoying. But in a week it will be done. Wee. Time to check on the laundry, more wee. ;)

    April Fool's Day Sat Apr 1 12:22:31 CST 2006
    Mood: good Music of the Day: Jeeves and Wooster on DVD
    Happy day of foolishness, my favorite fools. I'm in a good mood, I got a good night's sleep (minus a few hours whacky dreams), saw a funny movie last night (Ice Age 2), laughed myself silly, especially at the squirrel, Scrat. It was as good as the original movie I think. Must get it on DVD when it comes out. Today, I'm going to hang out with Amythest, hopefully not help setup anything for movie theaters like last weekend ;) Ciao, and may any pranks pulled on you be fun ones :)