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And the New Year's Resolutions... Wed Dec 31 01:50:32 CST 2003
Mood: tired Music of the Day: Dream Theater - Surrounded
And to repost...

Vulpine's Resolutions for 3170, Discordian Calendar

Resolution #1: Humor

    I will make more, and better (for a sliding scale of better) jokes, pun, filks, japes, etc in the coming year. I will go down to Austin for the OHenry pun off, and kick major punning ass. I will strive to make more friends, enemies and total strangers expel various substances out their nasal passages.
Resolution #2: Moving and Homelife
    I will get moved out of Needo's apartment, into my own place, and get it unpacked. (I plan on doing this before the new year, but well... I can use a freebee.) I will decorate, I will clean, I will have a home, not just a pile of stuff with a cover on it.

Resolution #3: Health

    I will go to the doctor, and keep up with my health.

Resolution #4: I will keep and stick to a budget.

    Pretty self explantory.
Resolution #5: Geeking
    I will geek. Alot. Almost to extreme.
Resolution #6:
    There is no Resolution #6.

Resolution #7: Travel

    I will make at least 3 out of Texas trips in the coming year. Out of country trips will count double, while trips within Texas, but outside of the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex could for 1/2. Business trips also count only for 1/2.

Resolution #8: Romance

    I will strive to not fall madly in love with the first girl who flirts with me. I will date, have fun, play, whatever. But I will not start any serious relationship without major work up first. I do know that I'm fairly well daring the Gods to test this one, but I'm going to try to stick to it.

Last Year's Resolutions Wed Dec 31 00:33:04 CST 2003
Mood: Wondering Music of the Day: Dream Theater - Burning My Soul
Well, I looked back in my history and found my New Years Resolutions from last year...Lets see how I score.

  • #1: Stop being so negative about things.
      I think I got this one, I'm in a better mood than I think I was back then, and that's without drugs. Wonder what I'll be like when I go back on my Antidepressants
  • #2: Get a better job.
      Qualified yes, I got a job, and yeah it's better than Dell. And that's all I'm gonna say.
  • #3: Keep geeking and enjoying it.
      Not really, I've done mostly the same things I did before, nothing new. But I'm still enjoying it, so we'll give it 1/2 a yes.
  • #4: Enjoy life more.
      Definite yes.
  • #5: Get into a slightly better shape than I am.
      Nope, still about the same shape as last year.
  • #6: Have lots of fun with Rhiannon.
      Nope. But that ended up being a good thing.
  • #7: Run my own colo.
      Nope, but that's ok, sharing one is fine...plus I can bug others to fix things
  • #8: In general, like myself more.
      Yes. I think I've hit this one on the head.


    So out of 8, I got 4 1/2, about 56%. Not perfect, but that's ok. I got the major ones. And I think I'll do good with this year's resolutions.

    • Lack of Sleep. Mon Dec 29 06:10:07 CST 2003
    Mood: tired Music of the Day: %s
    Well, I'm having a bad few days, sleep wise. I just haven't been sleeping worth a damn for days and days. Feels like stress, or worry or gods knows what. After sleeping a few hours I woke up wide awake and depressed as hell. Finally I got out of the house, went to the store and got soup and comfort foods and sleeping tablets. Now it's 90 min later, and I'm starting to fade. But I'm enjoying watching Elvira's Haunted Hills. Classic bad movie. :)

    Speaking of movies, I went with the D/FW Ufies List to see Paycheck. Now it's gotten pretty panned by critics and PKD fans, but I enjoyed it. It had a few noticable plot flaws, and for a Philip K Dick adaptation it had a really postive ending. But I enjoyed it. And that's the important part.

    Also, I went with Amythest to the Fort Worth Natural Museum. It was ok, not as intresting as some I've been to. Watched the IMAX presentation of Lewis and Clark, that was good I thought. From there I went home, and well you know the rest ;) Shortly from now I plan to go pass out. Weee.... Hurrah for sleepyness

    Xinerama is back Sat Dec 27 00:51:42 CST 2003
    Mood: Geeky Music of the Day: %s
    Well, after borrowing a monitor from a friend, and hooking up my spare 17" monitor to Shub-Internet. Now I have a 3840x1024 desktop. Scary isn't it. *grin* It's not perfect, but it's pretty good. Screenshots to come later... well maybe ;)

    Holiday Lootage Thu Dec 25 23:36:36 CST 2003
    Mood: Happy Music of the Day: KNAC on the computer
    Well, I had a very good loot haul for Cthulhumas. (And yes, this is what I'm calling the Holiday, it seems to fit.) So far I've aquired...

  • Cash
  • Cinnamon altoids
  • Apple cider
  • A big fox tapestry for over my mantle
  • A fox statue
  • A journal with a fox on the cover.
  • A dead parrot (Norwegian Blue)
  • A stuffed fox
  • A fox pillow
  • A journal book with a fox on it (Photo album to be)
  • More cash
  • A limited edition copy of Mechwarrior

    Life is good. Especially since the cash adds up to enough to afford a motherboard/CPU upgrade for Shub-Internet. The poor girl needs a boost. I also have had a really good holiday season. I tend to have really bad depression swings around the holidays, but this year I've only been a little moody. Which is a pleasant change from the way I tend to be. Life is good, and I'm a happy fox.

    So everyone have a Merry Cthulhumas, and a Hastur New Year.

    • Six Flags Tue Dec 23 22:46:59 CST 2003
    Mood: Frazzled Music of the Day: KNAC on the computer
    Well, today was different. Met up with some of the D/FW Ufies to celebrate Amythest's bday. Started off at Outback Steakhouse, where food was scarfed and presents were exchanged. From there, we went on to Six Flags (local amusement park) where hot cocoa was drank, and we watched two loons go on the Superman ride. Basicially it takes you up really high, drops you, pulls you back up, drops you more...not my idea of fun. From there we played a game. Basicially the object was the fill your pitcher from the moving water spout. I won, and got a giant Hello Kitty for the redhead. (Hey, it was worth it, I got hugs). From there, we went to the Shockwave, one of the classic rollercoasters. FYI for everyone, I do not like rollercoasters or rides. I haven't for years, comes from being a major ass control freak. But I got talked into going on this one, I was fairly willing, it had been years since I've been on one...so I was willing to try...

    Big ass mistake. I knew this for a fact when we were winding up the incline before it started and my heart started hammering. Then off we went. I learned a few things, g-forces driving my spleen into my legs is not a pleasant sensation. Looping upside-down doesn't bug me half as much as sudden long drops. I can curse creatively and coherantly while my brain is gibbering in terror. Finally the ride ends, I get out and stagger like a drunken soul to the wall. I'm still shaking a bit, 2 hours later. I'm just not much of an adrenialine junkie. And what little desire for thrills I have, I MUST have some control over things. So, next time I go to Six Flags, I will win Hello Kitties. I will eat funnel cake. I will watch the goofy shows and laugh with my friends. But no rides for me, it's just not my kettle of fish.

    And yet more change... Fri Dec 19 00:08:21 CST 2003
    Mood: Changed Music of the Day: None
    Well, to round out the year, I have made yet another gigantic change in my life. I resigned from the American Tradition of the Goddess, aka my Wiccan Tradition. I'm not going into details why, because they are mostly personal and private. I'm feeling...odd. After 9 years in the Tradition, it feels very strange to be out. Not bad, not good, just...different. But I think this is the right decision for me to make, and we'll see where my path leads me next.

    Hail Eris,
    All hail Discordia.

    Not much of note. Thu Dec 18 22:18:45 CST 2003
    Mood: Good Music of the Day: None
    Well, I've been fairly unchatty the last few weeks on here, just not alot to report. I'm a bit chattier on Livejournal, but that's mostly goofy posts and boredom. Life is pretty good all in all, the apartment is starting to feel like home, instead of a set of walls and a roof. Be better over the next few months as I add furniture. Went looking yesterday at used furniture places, found a futon I liked. I may get it in a few checks. Tomorrow, after work, I need to run by my bank then do a little Walmart shopping. Get some housewares stuff, a tv stand, a few other odds and sods. Then...sleep. Then I'm going to be doing a bunch of laundry and general lazyness. Woo for me. ;) I need to get with Needo and get the desk moved over. Then, the great rearranging begins. ;) I have such a dull life :)

    Vulpine's New /home Mon Dec 15 18:16:29 CST 2003
    Mood: Good Music of the Day: Star Wars Ep2 on TV
    Well today I finished moving my stuff out of Needo's apartment. Took a couple of trips, my car doesn't hold much. But now I've got my network all setup. Well, not all setup. I need to reconfigure ATAthoth for the new network settings. And get the rest of the toys from Austin, but I've got Shub-Internet running, got Yaddith (my router) routing correctly, and even doing IP forwarding correctly. And my Palm just got synced for the first time in a few weeks. So all is good. All will be better when I have more toys... but I'm patient. ;)

    Moving Fox Mon Dec 8 22:38:59 CST 2003
    Mood: Happy Music of the Day: None
    Well, I picked up the keys for my new place, got some stuff moved in today. Most importantly, the bed I'm borrowing from Amythest. Hurrah for sleep. ;) Tomorrow the cable internet and TV gets turned up, then I'll get cats + ferrets and computers tomorrow. :)

    *happy dance*

    Hurrah for me

    Countdown...redux Mon Dec 8 07:04:27 CST 2003
    Mood: Sleepy Music of the Day: None
    Additional: 0657 CST.
    I'm wiped...on advice of friends I'm going home and passing out, waking up around 4 and then doing the moving-in thing. *thud* I need sleep more than I need the keys. Now watch, I'll be wide awake by the time I get home. Bleah...

    Countdown Mon Dec 8 03:13:58 CST 2003
    Mood: Excited Music of the Day: None
    Well, in less than 6 hours I should have the keys to my apartment. After work I'm going and getting some money orders and heading to the complex to get my keys and sign my life away. Then I'll head back to Needo 's and sleep out the day. Then I'll head back up with a carload of stuff and meet up with Amythest who's loaning me a bed and some other stuffs. Then organize, maybe head back and get the cats and ferrets, maybe hold off on that til tomorrow. All depends on time and energy. I'm a tired fox right now, by 9-10 tomorrow I will be a dead fox. And since I have to work tomorrow night (and on) I don't want to kill myself in the process. But I should be all moved in (at least for the stuff here in DFW) by the end of the week. *hopefully glance at the Powers that Be (tm)* Tomorrow the cable gets turned on, and in a few weeks, I make a road trip to Austin to get my stuff...then I'm done. Wow, a four month move. Eeep. Yep, never never never moving again...well for at least a year. *grin* Hopefully life will continue being like this...generally good, or at least workable. If next year is anything like the last 3 months, it should be intresting at least...

    Hurrah for intresting times :)

    State of the Vulpine Address Thu Dec 4 22:46:16 CST 2003
    Mood: Fair Music of the Day: None
    Another day, another Vulpine status report. Today starts the countdown to my new place and my new schedual. I get the keys on Casa del Cyberfox on Monday at sometime, same day I start my new schedual at Work. Of course I have to work my old schedual this weekend, so I'm working 8 days in a row...but I can survive that, plus I can use 10 extra OT hours. That is going to my 'furnish Vulpine's apartment' fund. ;)

    Other than work, and being a little anxious about getting my stuff moved in, I'm good. Money will be a touch tight, not horrible, but tighter than I planned. So, I'll be eating ramen alot and using paper plates and not getting the good soda ;) But thats ok. I'm tough and I will survive ;)

    Not much else, I should have cable internet around my movein date. But if I don't, I'll just be spending alot of time at friends using Nyarlaptop and their bandwidth ;) The big thing is to get moved in and get my stuff out of Needo's place, then do a good job cleaning up. I also need to find out what places for food and stuff are nearby my new place. I found the local grocery store, and I know a few places (I do work in the neighborhood) but I need to dig around and find some more. I already know where the bookstores are though, a fox has his priorities ;)

    Mood has been pretty good, a little bleah today, but I usually get prework blahs. I did get the start of a history series today, Sharpe's Eagle. Instead of naval stories of the Napoleonic wars, now I'm trying some land war stories. I think i'm done with Scifi for a while, lets see how quickly I burn out on flintlocks and cannon fire. But at least most of the authors I'm reading have written large numbers of books. So I won't run out for a while.

    That's about it, see you in the funny papers.