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End of the Month Fri Mar 31 14:08:08 CST 2006
Mood: moody Music of the Day: Armored Saint - Dropping Like Flies
Last day of March, definitely been a rollercoaster month. The tooth issues were the big thing, but there was some amusments in there, like the melon incident and the sub commentary. Also I got to meet Stav in person, and that was a major positive thing. I didn't make my goal of posting every day this month, but I did post ALOT. 49 posts (including this one) in a month, not bad. Of course 4 or 5 were "placehold, I feel like crud, night." posts, but still. I also never got my epic Mythos post done either. Oh well, maybe later on.

Weekend plans, it appears to be the weekend for movies. Tonight Ipm off to see Ice Age: The Meltdown. Looks cute and fun. And I also want to see either Slither or Stay Alive. Both look like my kind of cheese. We'll see. Tonight is also hangout with friends night, get to see Amythest and Techie and Nymaz, along with I hope quite a few other people from the D/FW Ufies List . Yay friends.

Oh yeah, on another note...I saw the first two Jeeves and Wooster episodes last night on DVD. The first one didn't do much for me, though towards the end I was laughing a bit. The 2nd one was a bit better, if a little harder to track what was going on. Still fun. I hope the episodes keep improving.

Well, that's enough babbling. Back to the salt mine.

Sub Fun Thu Mar 30 17:29:09 CST 2006
Mood: mischevious Music of the Day: The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets - Frogstar
No you pervs, not that kinda sub...just a weird thought I had, and the fun I had with it. *wink*

Nothing like breaking a friend's brain a little. I've been reading the Illuminatus Trilogy while at work, and today I had a strange thought. So I quickly shared it with a friend who's into military hardware. Basically the thought was, what if you stole a nuclear attack sub, and were caught. What would you be charged with ?

Misuse of military property ?
Piracy ?
Grand theft: sub ?

Needless to say this question raised an eyebrow. And no real answer, since neither of us are experts in military law. I'm fairly certain under our current military and political stance, the person in question would be quietly shot and the whole thing swept under the carpet. But I can hear this in my head. "This is a nuclear submarine, do you know the trouble we'll be in for subnapping ? They'll make up things to charge us with." "Nah, it's not so bad." "Not so bad ? This is misuse of miltary property, piracy and probably grand theft sub all rolled into one !!!!"

Some days I love my brain ;)

Crap Thu Mar 30 11:30:50 CST 2006
Mood: annoyed Music of the Day: Nightwish - Astral Romance
Crap, forgot to do a post last night. Well, there goes my month of posts. *grumble grumble* Training yesterday was suprisingly interesting. Not too useful, but interesting. Hung out with Amythest last night, watched Mythbusters and a tivoed episode of Doctor Who. Came home, went to bed...didn't sleep well again. I keep waking up 2 hours before my alarmclock, and then I toss and turn. Very tiring. :( Work is ok, got new scripts to do domain migrations with. Not 100% useful, but more helpful than doing it manually. Tonight is laundry and grocery shopping, weee. My wild life. Catch you lot later.

Ugg Tue Mar 28 15:08:44 CST 2006
Mood: tired Music of the Day: Animal Planet on TV
ARGH !!! One stressor leaves, and another one shows up. I was worried about money, I get that all budgeted and find I'm not as screwed as I thought. Yay me. Then...I call to schedual the surgery with an oral surgeon on my insurance plan. And call, and call. See, the original plan was to take a week from Friday off, and Amythest would pick me up from home, take me there, take me home, by way of the drug store. All good. Except there is no oral surgeon on my plan and within a 15 mile radius of my house who does friday afternoon or saturday surgeries. So I get to scramble to find someone to play chauffer and nurse maid. Or at least make sure I don't get lost on the way to my front door. :( After that, I get a message from Amythest, I fill her in on the details and she reminds me she's off work that day. *thud* So back to original plan. Get all nice and calm, and work goes nuts. Get work calmed down, and hightail it out of the office to get some lunch. Come home, nuke leftovers and try to get calmed down again. Still have a huge pile of work waiting for me back at the office. I'm so frazzled...it's crazy. Hopefully tonight will be calmer.

Monday, aka the Day of Doom Mon Mar 27 20:34:14 CST 2006
Mood: drained Music of the Day: Digging for the Truth on TV
Well it was a Monday. Short handed at work, so short handed I got to play level 1 tech in the first few hours of work. Then I got back to domain migration (aka what I've been working on for weeks now), and then having to drop that to fix a pack of shared servers's SSLs. Busy busy, stressful stressful. Deposited my check, got home, had soup and apples for lunch, now I'm just vegging, watching Digging For the Truth. It's about the Holy Grail theories that Dan Brown made popular (and I've been reading about for years before I'd heard of Mr Brown.) Nothing too new or suprising, what can I say I know this subject matter rather well. Been reading on this subject since my brother handed me a copy of 'Holy Blood, Holy Grail', so about 18-20 years now. Great zombie Jesus I'm getting old. *whimper*

Not alot else going on. Reading a bit, a fun Scifi novel by David Weber, and the Illuminatus trilogy by Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea. Have to watch what I'm reading when, the Illuminatus Trilogy before bed = majorly screwed up dreams. So, yeah...scifi tonight, then Illuminatus at work tomorrow ;) And on that note, might be time to shower and start getting ready for bed. I'm a pooped fox.

Sundayness Sun Mar 26 21:09:18 CST 2006
Mood: tired Music of the Day: Elvira's Haunted Hills on DVD
Well, today was mildly dull. Took mom to the store, then went for pizza with her. As usual we had a good time chitchatting. Came home, watched tv, read a book, fought off the urge to take a nap, and generally haven't done much of anything. Which is a good thing all in all, I like slacking days on occasion. Once the movie is over I think I'll be heading to bed, and hopefully a good night sleep will make the next week better than the last few have been.

V for Vendetta and Why Cardboard Squirrels Suck Sat Mar 25 23:16:54 CST 2006
Mood: tired Music of the Day: Mythbusters on TV
Last night a bunch of the D/FW Ufies List and I went to see V for Vendetta. Long and short, I enjoyed it mostly, I thought it had a few issues in pacing, but not huge ones. It probably helped that I never read the comic series, so I didn't have a preconceived idea of what things should be. Plus, I was hooked during V's intro with the 'v' aliteration bit. I was told I had a look similar to awe or religious rapture at that moment. All in all, a good movie.

Today was a fairly dull day, did some laundry (bedsheets and blanket and whatnot) watched The Blind Dead, a bad Spanish horror movie, with zombie Knights Templar draining bimbos of their blood. It had some moments, but mostly it was dull. I'm told the other movies in the series are better, so I'll give them a try. Later in the afternoon, I went with Amythest to setup a cardboard stand for the movie Over the Hedge. It stated it was a fairly complex setup. It was a nightmare...in fact, I'm thinking we should call the movie Over the Edge, cause that's where it drove us. At one point we accidently tore one of the tabs, so we had to improvise with a stapler and scrap cardboard. Another time I got whacked on the head with the squirrel on the setup. Needless to say, it wasn't quite as easy as we had hoped, but we got it done. The worst part, the same stupid line people would say "Looks like your having fun." Actually, we've snapped and we're going to attack you people with staplers at this point. *thud*

After the work, we met up with Techie and 'stina for dinner at Fuddruckers. After dinner we went to Borders books, I was good...no spending money for me. I saw a few books I want, but nothing I couldn't live without. What I really want to find is a good book or series of books that is scifi, and exploration based. Space opera or hard sci-fi, either is fine...but hard to find. Not military scifi, but good old fashioned Star Trekish scifi. I'd say Star Trek books, but they have such a bad track (trek ?) record with me. If anyone has any good ideas, let me know. After Borders I headed home to watch a Mythbusters marathon, yay Mythbusters. Not much else, tomorrow I take my mom to Walmart and maybe work on Shub-Internet a bit, we'll see. That, and sleep. Yay sleep :)

Dear Ebay Abuse Minions... Fri Mar 24 15:32:34 CST 2006
Mood: cranky Music of the Day: Iron Maiden - Chains of Misery
Dear Ebay Abuse Minions.

While I do agree that the evil nasty phishing sites that crop up under compromised accounts and servers need to be closed, I would call attention to the number of emails you nimrods send. On average, I get 4 emails per domain in one shot. One simple email to the abuse address on file with abuse.net would suffice. Spamming across the assorted emails addresses in the Abuse and Security group, sometimes multiple times just annoys the piss out of me. Also, please communicate with your fellow borg, one email from one person is all we need, saves my time and yours. Thank you.

No love or cookies
Vulpine, abuse geek to the stars (the burned out and fizzling stars however)

A question Fri Mar 24 11:55:31 CST 2006
Mood: puzzled Music of the Day: Iron Maiden - Die with Your Boots On
I have a question. Why do spammers spam abuse@ and security@ email addresses. I know they get bulk lists of emails, but if I happened to be a spammer the FIRST thing I'd do is a find and remove for any address with abuse, security, postmaster, or similar. Spamming abuse admins is about as smart as poking lions in the eye with a sharp stick. Yes, I know the average spammer isn't that smart, or he could care less...but still. Sheesh.

Upcoming Vulpine Events Thu Mar 23 14:39:07 CST 2006
Mood: good Music of the Day: Mythbusters on the computer
Well, to make up for some pretty dull posts, here is my plans for the future. Ok, this will probably be pretty dull as well...we'll see.

This weekend:
  • V for Vendetta on Friday.
  • Housework/laundry on Saturday day.
  • Possible upgrade to Shub-Internet. Got some drives to slot in, and depending on how brave I am, I might upgrade the OS to Fedora Core 5.
  • There was talk of a pool party for Saturday night, no idea if that's still a plan, since last I heard the host was in another state.
  • Sunday: nada ;) I plan on vegging, reading and watching tv.

    Next week:
  • Get paid, pay rent, etc. No plans for the weekend yet. Something will come up though

    Weekend of April 7th:
  • Find an oral surgeon, get tooth pulled. Get drugs and spend the rest of the weekend vegging out and recovering.

    Weekend of April 14th:
  • Friday: Pay taxes. Ouch.
  • Saturday: going to Medival Times to celebrate a bunch of Ufie birthdays.
  • Sunday: No plans yet.

    Weekend of April 21st:
  • Campout up in Turner Falls. Woohoo :) The plan is to take the Friday off from work, and the monday after off to recover.

    So that's my next month in theory, hmm...I'm going to be busier than I though. And I have cool things to look forward to. :) Happy me.

    • Nothing New Wed Mar 22 21:16:52 CST 2006
    Mood: tired Music of the Day: Good Eats on TV
    Nothing new today to report. Work was ok, picked up a pizza for dinner, came home, did laundry. My so wild life ;) Physically I'm feeling soso, still feeling kinda run down. Not very down, but not super perky either. I'm thinking of going to bed as soon as good eats goes off. *yawn* Sorry I've been dull, maybe I'll do something wild and interesting this weekend.

    Well it could happen...

    maybe.

    Oh let me dream *wink*

    New Toy Tue Mar 21 22:36:45 CST 2006
    Mood: tired Music of the Day: Lillian Axe - Misery Loves Company
    Had an okish day at work, not great but not bad either. After work I got snagged by Amythest to run down to Fry's Electronics. While I was there I snagged a Lexar 128 mb flash drive, in a snazzy purple case. 4 times the size of the 32 meg drive I have in my satchel. Cost, $7.99. I didn't need it, but I've wanted a bigger flash drive for a while now, and for 8 bucks can you blame me ? You can see it here. *grin* If only it came in green ;)

    Monday Mon Mar 20 20:39:17 CST 2006
    Mood: tired Music of the Day: Digging for the Truth on TV
    Tired fox, very tired. Was a long day at work. I really hope tomorrow isn't as hectic, it's wearing to be as busy as I was today. Came home, watched tv, ate dinner and generally vegged . I dozed off on the couch, so I'm thinking that sleep is calling my name already. Sleep, perchance to dream. And dream well, I can hope.

    Sunday Sun Mar 19 22:03:15 CST 2006
    Mood: tired Music of the Day: History Channel on TV
    Not much went on today, I woke up late...actually I woke up several times, but I just didn't feel like getting out of bed. Eventually I did, watched Mythbusters and went to the store. Where my body announced it was lacking in fruit again...so I got a few things. Melon, apples, pineapple, apple sauce to be specific. Well, if my body is going to be that unsubtle about what it needs, who am I to argue with it. Really didn't do much else, did go to Half Price Books, picked up the latest David Weber Honor Harrington novel. Alot of people I know have panned it badly, but so far it's ok. Going to bed in a little while, then another week of work. I hope it's a quiet one, but I doubt it will be.

    Meeting Ufies Sat Mar 18 20:47:23 CST 2006
    Mood: blah Music of the Day: Egypt: Beyond the Pyramids
    Well I got to meet Stav today. We met up in a local Red Robin with her boyfriend, as well as Techie, Amythest, and Strongbow. It was good to finally meet her, we've talked online for years and years. I should have met up with her during my 2000 trip to San Francisco, but it didn't work out. After lunch, me, Amythest and Techie headed to the movies. They saw some teen chickflick, I saw The Hills Have Eyes. Not a bad remake, pretty gory but all in all an ok movie. Afterwards I headed home, got a little food to make sandwiches, since then I've been generally bumming around, watching TV and reading. Dull evening, I'm still feeling worn down from being sick, and working too hard at work. Probably go to bed early tonight, hopefully I'll sleep well tonight (didn't last night).

    Merry St. Pats to All Fri Mar 17 09:40:11 CST 2006
    Mood: cheery Music of the Day: Minstrels of Mayhem - Johnny Jump Up
    Happy St Pat to all, I'm here at work (feeling like Dante from Clerks, damn it I shouldn't be here...) playing irish music and generally trying to be in a good mood. Should be a good day, if rather busy. And tonight is hanging out with friends, tomorrow I get to finally meet the amazing Stav and tomorrow night there is talk of a pool party. So I should have a very fun weekened to make up for the last week and some of crud. Lets hope.

    I leave you with a toast, Irish toast (guess it's boiled ?), but it's the one that is our family toast, that we share with our friends going back to visit the ol' sod. See yas

    Pogue mahone !!! *wink*

    FRUIT !!!! Thu Mar 16 08:52:27 CST 2006
    Mood: hungry Music of the Day: Darkest of the Hillside Thickets - Tarred and Feathered
    I got fruit. YUM !!! Yeah, normally I'm about as healthy eating as a komodo dragon, but while I was sick I got a big craving for fresh fruit, melon specific ally. And the local mini-Walmart has big packs of honeydew and cantaloupe with big seedless grapes for kinda affordable. I know it made me feel better while I was sick to eat, I guess my body craving lots of vitamins and water. Last night after couch patrol, I was craving more fruit like nobody's business. So I got up early this morning, got fruit (and babbled part of Ice Age's "Protect the Melon" bit...lucky my local Walmart is used to my weirdness) and got to work. So now I'm knoshing down before work starts. Content fox. :) And no Techie, it's not going to be used for a fruit hat, stole, cumberbund or other assorted fruit related form of wear...

    freak.

    New Furniture Wed Mar 15 21:24:15 CST 2006
    Mood: happy Music of the Day: Good Eats on TV
    Well I bought a used futon from a friend of mine, should have gotten it a while back, but with the tooth foo, I just now was able to snag it. Major thankage to TheSilia and her truck of doom for getting the futon and helping me lug it around. It's a nice one, looks like one of the generic black metal Walmart futons, but it has a very thick pad (with a maroon cover). I can barely feel the support bar, unlike your average futon. It's comfy, it's pretty, and it's all mine. I already have my two fox pillows setup on the couch. Amythest made them for me for xmas a few years back, and since then they've been in the closet. I think I'm going to go christen it by curling up and reading Callahan's Key.

    Back to Work Wed Mar 15 12:05:49 CST 2006
    Mood: better Music of the Day: Lacuna Coil - Senzafine
    Short post. Had a better night last night than usual, made it to work. Still feel less than great, ok...I feel about 3 steps from comaville, so yeah... living dead fox. Work is, well it's work. That's about all I can say about it. But I'm here, and it's a different set of walls to look at. Speaking of which, back to work.

    Same shit different day Tue Mar 14 21:20:51 CST 2006
    Mood: blah Music of the Day: Who's Line is it Anyway on TV
    Same type of post as the last week or so...still feel like moose poo, still aching, still tired. Still mostly keeping food down. Generally though, I just am sick of being sick, I'm sick of worrying if I'll get better before I get canned, just sick of it all right now. *sigh* Hard to find something to be perky about, sorry people.

    Mondayness Mon Mar 13 21:41:08 CST 2006
    Mood: drained Music of the Day: Digging for the Truth
    Another day survived. Was mostly a restful, improving day...til I got the idea of cheese sandwiches in my head. Made one, and it smelled so go, I ate way too fast, and my body in subtle fashion let me know my sins. Once I recovered, I found I still could eat, just had to be VERY slow. So I'm eating better, but not great. I'm also feeling better, but not great. Still a little warm, a little achey in the jaw, as well as all over. And rather blah. Ok, beyond blah, I'm pretty down in the dumps. Life has sucked for a week now, and there is still suckage in the future. I don't want to start thinking about every that's going to not be pleasant in the next month or so. Oh well, maybe things will be less glum tomorrow. Gods I hope so.

    Sunday... Sun Mar 12 21:10:00 CST 2006
    Mood: ok Music of the Day: Animal Planet on TV
    Well, last night rather sucked. til about 1-2am I was fine, dozing. Then I woke up with a horrible pressure/pain in my jaw. Just like when this crap started. Threw up around 4am, so no good. Finally got back to bed and slept. Woke around 8am to take my antibiotic, threw up again. Went back to bed and hid in my weird dreams. I should be writing these things down, they make so little sense (even for dreams). Woke up again around noon, got my antibiotic in...and threw it back up. Oh boy. So, went back to stage one, drank pedilite and gatoraide, and slowly worked food into me in bits, egg noodles instead of ensure meant that by the after noon I was back to how I felt Saturday night. I'm weak, tired and not trusting myself to do anything more complex than chatting and watching tv. I'm thinking of bed soonish, might try a little light reading...no reading on Sumerian history, what that did to my dreams I cannot begin to describe ;) Work, we'll see how I feel tomorrow. I don't want to think how far behind I am, but at the same time I don't want to relapse and get worse. I can't handle being worse...so we'll see.

    Saturday Sat Mar 11 15:22:28 CST 2006
    Mood: still sick Music of the Day: nada
    Well, going on day 5 of this ickyness. Plus sides, I haven't been terribily nauseous today. I no longer can stomach pedalyte though, so I moved up to gatoraide. Not quite as easy on the tummy, but I can get it down without turning green, so that's a plus. On another plus, I got solid food (sorta solid, egg noodles) down with little difficulty. Big step, since I haven't kept solid food down since Tuesday, actually more like Monday. If nothing else this ick has done wonders for me loosing weight. Bad news, I still feel like crud. I have no voice to speak of, I still feel like hammered crud, my neck and shoulders are solid knots of tense, and a new one...I found I can't open my mouth very far. Enough to get a fork full of noodles in, but not much more. So, a little lockjaw to go with the infection. When it rains it pours I guess. So I'm getting better, if very slowly. Maybe tomorrow I'll feel almost human, and Monday I'll be able to work.

    Friday Sick Fox Update Fri Mar 10 18:44:09 CST 2006
    Mood: sick Music of the Day: Random Stuff on TV
    I'd say thank god it's friday, but I'm not feeling too thankful today. Still feeling very ill. For those reading on LJ, you're lucky and the following details of medical TMI will lj-cut for your stomach's sake. If you're reading this on Cyberfox.org. you're boned. ;)

    Last night I experienced a new first in my life. The taste of pus. Yeah, the abcess swelling decided to give way a little. Ye bloody gods, that is a nasty taste. Majorly ick. I also think that's why my nausea came back in spades today, drainage from the abcess to my poor abused tummy. On the plus side, I'm running out of nasty or unpleasant body fluids to deal with. I'm glad my personal squeamousness is rather low. Still, I'll be glad when this is an unpleasant memory,

    In other news, I've mostly decided to quit World of Warcraft. I haven't been playing it much at all, and when I do I get frustrated fast and quit. So I can't see spending $16 a month on something that isn't fun anymore. I'm not reading alot either, hard to focus on what's going on in the book. In fact I'm having trouble on concentrating on this post...ditzy fox. I might write more later.

    Sick Fox Update #235 Thu Mar 9 20:25:04 CST 2006
    Mood: queasy Music of the Day: Animal Planet on TV
    Still feeling like crap. I've been forcing Ensure and water into me, since I was getting dehydrated. The nausea has faded somewhat, but the jaw's swelling is still driving me nuts. Hopefully it will go down by this weekend, would be nice to feel human again. I'm going to go see if a hot shower helps any.

    I feel like crud Wed Mar 8 20:02:50 CST 2006
    Mood: icky Music of the Day: Mythbusters on TV
    Well, I'm still feeling like crud. The meds I'm on make me very nauseous, so I haven't been able to keep much of anything down. I'm also having issues with my balance. Needless to say, I am REALLY miserable. I'm going to call my dentist tomorrow, see if there's something else I can take to keep me from puking my guts up. Hopefully I'll get some good sleep tonight, I did sleep last night...but I kept waking up every 30-45 min. So, wish me luck.

    Dentists Tue Mar 7 11:51:29 CST 2006
    Mood: hurting Music of the Day: Discovery Channel on TV
    Another quick post, I went to the dentist today. I've been having tooth pain/ headaches for a few days. Last night I could not sleep, way too much pain and swelling. So I called in, found a dentist and went. For those who don't know, I have a rather severe phobia about dentists. So I get checked, yep it's an abcess. I can't afford a rootcanal, and the dentist didn't want to pull it, since my roots are curled weird, and they'd probably break off in me. So instead I got 'scripts for both hydrocodone and amoxicillin for the pain and the swelling. And in a week or so when it's gone down, I'll go to an oral surgeon to have the tooth cut out. Painkillers haven't kicked in yet, hope fully soon. So if I don't answer, or I'm kinda goofy sounding...yay for drugs. Send me good thoughts about swelling going down fast and less pain, please.

    Ick Mon Mar 6 23:48:48 CST 2006
    Mood: cruddy Music of the Day: nothing
    Not feeling good, so here's another placeholder post. Maybe real content tomorrow.

    Sunday Sun Mar 5 20:47:40 CST 2006
    Mood: tired Music of the Day: Walking With Dinosaurs on TV
    Well, I survived working day two of Irish fest. More details later, I'm so beyond tired I can barely keep my head up. Weee. I see thudding over in my near future. Very near future.

    You all thought I'd miss a day... Sat Mar 4 23:47:07 CST 2006
    Mood: tired Music of the Day: nada
    Nope, here's my post for Saturday. It will be a short one.

    Irish fest was a blast. My volunteer shift selling performer's cds went great (and I sold about $600 worth of cds in 3 hours). I saw some neat people I don't see often enough, saw some pretty shinys, picked up a cool new shirt and in general had a blast. I'll go into more details later, but I am so beyond dead tired it's not funny. So, babble at you all tomorrow.

    Ferret Amusements Fri Mar 3 10:35:40 CST 2006
    Mood: amused Music of the Day: Iron Maiden - Where Eagles Dare
    Had an amusing ferret incident today. First a little background though, twice a day Winter gets some ferret glop (aka human baby food, chicken). I started doing this back when Shadow got sick, and I was giving him his meds mixed in with the glop so he wouldn't fight it. Well, I didn't want Winter to feel left out, so I started giving him the glop, sans meds. Gave me a little time with both weasels, and after Shadow passed, I kept up with it. It's about the only way to cuddle a ferret, keep him distracted with food. Now, I have Frodo and Arwen, who get treats as well, but aren't as easily distracted as Winter. This morning, I go in to give Winter his glop, and Arwen is wide awake and bouncing. I open the cage to get Winter, and Arwen is out the door like a lightning bolt. So I give Winter his stuff, while Arwen is running laps around my bedroom. Frodo on the other hand, looked at me like "What's up with him ?" He got extra treats for being cute. ;) Put up Winter, got dressed, corralled Arwen and headed to work. I think I need to let Arwen run more laps, he has the energy of 3 ferrets...maybe if I wear him out he won't run Frodo and Winter into the ground during playtime. ;)

    Babbling Fox Thu Mar 2 21:32:41 CST 2006
    Mood: talkative it seems Music of the Day: Conan the Barbarian - Anvil of Crom
    Yep, another post. You lot are going to be so sick of me. Yeah, I'm still babbling. I just spent the last hour or so working on a post for later on. One I've been working on for well...a bloody long time. It's about weird fiction/Cthulhu Mythos stuff, how I got hooked, why I like it so, etc. And tonight I wrote alot. Which was pleasantly suprising, I don't write well. Not that I don't write interesting things, but I have a problem sticking with things, actually finishing something. If what I write can't be done in 5 min or so, it doesn't get written. But this, this is big. Lots of stuff I've written in my head, and finally getting down on electrons. Remembering stuff I haven't thought of in years. It's fun, though waltzing down memory lane can be a pain. So, hopefully in a few more days I'll have it in a position to post. And I'll never give a writer too much grief over the time it takes to write, it's HARD. Especially when I know I had things all nice and worked out in the car, but for the flippin life of me I can't remember how I did it now.

    Besides that, I'm alright. Kinda sleepy, but not very. Mind is still active as hell. So probably another rough night of sleeping for me. Meh. The nextdoor neighbors of doom and loud booming music have been replaced by moving in neighbors of no known musical tastes. Lets hope for quiet, day working people so I don't have to kill. Not much else going on. Listening to pretty music, about to go read for a while and maybe, just maybe, I'll sleep tonight.

    Yeah, I doubt it too...but I can dream.

    Hurray Hurray, the End of the Day Thu Mar 2 19:58:27 CST 2006
    Mood: tired Music of the Day: History Channel
    Well, the day ended with a whimper. Mine. Fled work on time, headed home. Decided to stay in, I'm tired, cranky and generally unsocial feeling. I made mac and cheese and kielbasa for dinner, and for once, everything turned out alright. Yummyness is a good thing. Looked for stuff on TV, found a show on the History Channel about Istanbul/Constantinople/Byzantium, followed up by a show on the Koran. Much historical wootness. Neither is something I know alot about, and I always love to learn more. *smile* After this show, I'll probably run a hot bath and read for a while, then try to sleep. Sleep would be nice. Then, back to work. One more day, then hopefully a fun weekend. Let us hope.

    Not all Strum and Drang Thu Mar 2 12:22:19 CST 2006
    Mood: trying to be chipper Music of the Day: King Diamond - Eye of the Witch
    On the plus side, I got a lovely suprise from Amythest. Two books on CD, vol 1 and 2 of Richard Bach's Ferret Chronicles. Rescue Ferrets at Sea and Air Ferrets Aloft. Cute stories by the guy who wrote Johnathan Livingston Seagull. I own the first one in book form, and it's a fun, cute read. And fun is a good thing, so is ferrets. Maybe I'll play these for the gang at home, see if they like em :)

    Ugg Thu Mar 2 11:56:11 CST 2006
    Mood: down Music of the Day: Blue Oyster Cult - Imaginos
    Well, today hasn't been all that hot. I'm still not sleeping worth a darn, work is stressing me out and in general I feel like crap. Bleah. Great way to start the month o posts, but I can only call them the way I see them. Oh yeah, for the Astrological minded around, welcome to Mercury in Retrograde. When it rains it pours. On the plus side, Irish fest this weekend, fun with friends. And 2 weeks til vacation. Yay vacation. I need vacation.

    A month of posts Wed Mar 1 11:29:03 CST 2006
    Mood: hopeful Music of the Day: Helloween - A Tale that Wasn't Right
    Greetings boys and ghouls. I wanted to warn people about my impending flood of posts. Ok, maybe not a flood. But more than the 1-2 a week I usually do. So expect at least a post a day during March. Now some of them will be fluff posts, or one line "See, I posted...sleep now" things. But some will have real content.

    So here we go...