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Weekend Foo Mon Nov 29 22:21:33 CST 2004
Mood: Good Music of the Day: HammerFall - Crimson Thunder
Well, another weekend gone. *sigh* Back at the salt mine. Friday was another uberbusy day at work, but after work I hung out with The Grim Squeaker, SugarFae, and Techie and ate pizza and watched Master and Commander on DVD. Yes I am addicted to this movie. :) Came home, bummed around for a while and went to bed.

Saturday I woke up to my mom calling me. She tells me she hurt her back opening a stuck window, and can I go to the pharmicist for her. So I get moving, head to get Mom's drugs. She's hurting alot, but doesn't want to go to the hospital. So she takes the muscle relaxers and I spend a while over there trying to make her comfy. It's hard for me to see her in that much pain...especially since I couldn't make it better. Eventually she got settled in and went to sleep, and I headed out. My friends Nymaz and Amythest made it back into town. We met up and saw Finding Neverland. Cute movie, if a little depressing in spots. But interesting. After the movie we had dinner and I came home to play City of Heroes. (Yes, I'm slightly addicted). Went to bed.

Sunday I woke up earlyish to deliver Frodo back home. I'm going to miss that little weasel. They were happy to see each other. Once Frodo got settled in, I went with Amythest to look for a new baby ferret. At the first store she found the perfect little weasel. She's a tiny little girl, very cute...made me want to add a new ferret to my cabal. So we brought the little one home, Amythest decided to name her Arwen. (Hurrah for Tolkien.) We introduced her to Frodo, and they hit it off fairly well. Frodo is just a friendly weasel.

After that, I headed home, was generally bored for a while. Went by Mom's to check on her and make dinner for her. Came home, played more CoH, and watched TV til bedtime.

Work today was well...busy. Monday's usually are. Called Mom, she went to the doctor today, and the doc gave her good drugs. She's feeling somewhat better. Now much else, slow night...pondering going to bed soon. Sleep good. Hurrah for sleep.

Turkey Day and the Week in General Thu Nov 25 21:07:49 CST 2004
Mood: ok Music of the Day: Stargate SG1 on TV
Well I survived Turkey Day and one heck of a busy week. Btw, yes I haven't gone postal yet. Still some desire to go postal, but not alot. Today was Thanksgiving with my mom, a good steak dinner. We both hate turkey, so every year we try to do something different. This year, steak and potatoes. Hey, for me that's rare. Was good, had a good giggle fit. Mom's salt shaker has a large crack that I didn't know about. When I salted my potatoes...I got ALOT more than I expected. No big deal, it spreads...but for some reason we both laughed like loons about it. And kept laughing. My mom's a nut, which is why I love her. ;)

The rest of this week has had little worth mentioning, working hard at work. Playing alot of City of Heroes. Friends are out of town, so I've been checking on their cats and fish and the house in general. Along with the temp ferret roomie, things I do for friends. ;) It's all good. Now to just survive tomorrow, and hopefully I'll have a good weekend. *Crosses fingers*

ARGH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Mon Nov 22 21:25:09 CST 2004
Mood: See subject Music of the Day: Testament - Deadline
ARGH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nothing to see here, move along. Just a fox wanting to go postal.

Shub Upgrade Sun Nov 21 19:19:00 CST 2004
Mood: Geeky Music of the Day: Mythbusters on TV
Well, I did a quick upgrade on Shub-Internet. I've had a 256 meg DIMM for Shub for almost a month now, but I haven't upgraded her yet, no super need and I didn't want to loose my 30 day uptime. But, with the latest kernel upgrade, I had a good reason to kill -9 two processes ;) So Shub now has 1 gig of memory, and is running 2.6.9 kernel. Weee for me. :)

Guest Ferret Wed Nov 17 21:05:25 CST 2004
Mood: Good Music of the Day: None
Well, I have a special guest for the next week and so. My friend Amythest's ferret Frodo. She is going out of town to Washington DC, so I'm ferret sitting. Now to get Frodo and my boys adjusted. So extra ferret spoiling for a while :)

Additional:
Forgot to post this after writing it...but I let the feezels have a nice romp, they seem to get along ok...not snuggling up to each other, but not actively trying to fight. A little tussling, but mostly Frodo exploring my room, and Winter and Shadow alternating between watching the new ferret and playing around me. No guys, he's not a replacement, just a temp houseguest who needs friends. They do like his food though, so to the store I go tomorrow. I can't deny my weasels ;)

How to Kill Spam Tue Nov 16 16:40:51 CST 2004
Mood: ok Music of the Day: Nightwish - Dead Boys' Poem
Find the alias or aliases that you've had forwarded to your main email address for the last 7 years. Decide you haven't received a valid email to that address in many moons. Set a procmail rule sending that sends all mail to that domain to /dev/null, to prevent dictonary spamming from getting though. See the spam bucket go from getting 1000 messages over the weekend, to 30. Ye flippin' gods. I need to get ahold of the postmaster at the old domain and have him just kill the forwards, save my bandwidth, but for now this at least makes sorting the bitbucket a 30 second job.

Weekend Update Mon Nov 15 00:36:10 CST 2004
Mood: Ok Music of the Day: 'Allo Allo on TV
Well, it's been a weekend. Some good, some bad. Friday was the high point, went with Nymaz, Amythest and SugarFae to Medieval Times for dinner. I'd never gone before, and though it was kinda hokey, it was fun. For those who have no idea what I'm talking about, it's a dinner and show, with stage combat, horses and falcons. I really did enjoy it, and got into cheering (well as much as I could without a voice) for "our" knight. It was fun. Thanks to Amythest for talking me into it.

Saturday was housework day, went grocery shopping at Walmart then cleaned house and did laundry. Watched alot of Andromeda. Then I headed out to meet the D/FW Ufies List for dinner. They went to see the new Bridget Jones movie, I on the other hand went home and played City of Heroes for a long while, then went to bed. Dull day, sue me ;)

Sunday I woke up with the blahs, and it went downhill from there. I'm not going into details, but it took a long day to come back up from the blahs. That, and a trip to Half Price Books . Amazing what buying a few Robert Howard novels will do for my mood ;) That and watching Mythbusters. Now that's a show that makes me laugh. Right now I'm sorta awake, but will be going to bed soon. This weekend was way too short. I miss my 3 day weekends. I just hope this week is less stressful than the last few. Lets hope.

Geeking Thu Nov 11 17:06:05 CST 2004
Mood: Geeky Music of the Day: Stream of Consciousness
Well I had a geeky day today, spent it hacking into an old Linux workstation here at work for me to use on the job, got it done after a long while of wrestling with root passwords. Also built a second linux workstation for one of the senior Unix techs here. I'm turning into IT for the Unix side of work... *laugh* So now I have a Windows and a Linux workstation, named Hastur and Cthulhu respectively. *grin* Cthulhu is a nice machine, Athlon XP 1800 with 512 megs of RAM and a 15" flat panel. Hastur is the Celeron 733 I've been using as a workstation since I moved to the new group. I'll be swapping monitors (and which machine is primary) tomorrow, using the Linux box as my workstation, and saving the Windows box for Windows specific projects and software. *grin* Hurrah for geekstuff.

Quick Update Wed Nov 10 22:06:55 CST 2004
Mood: Eldrich Music of the Day: Judas Priest - The Ripper
Just a quick note, I love Half Price Books. Not only did I get 2 F Paul Wilson novels that I've been missing, and a Cormac Mac Art (one of Robert Howard's other heroes) novel that I needed a better copy of. (Diamond isn't fond of pastiches I guess, or Andrew Offutt.) But, I also got a illustrated edition of Ramsey Campbell's Cold Print. For those not as Mythos nutty as me, Ramsey Campbell is a rather famous horror author in England (and to a lesser degree in the US) who got started writing Mythos stories in the 60's. And Cold Print is a collection of all of his early Mythos stories. I had a copy in paperback, but this is hardback...and illustrated. And for $5. *happy Cthulhu dance*

Yes I'm weird. But I got good books. And more books with strange words like squamous and eldrich and gibbering is a very good thing.

(Mental note, may need to invest in another bookshelf for the 'weird fiction' section. Yes, I have a 6 foot bookshelf near filled with weirdness. *grin* Life is good.)

Day Two Tue Nov 9 17:27:57 CST 2004
Mood: ok Music of the Day: Various Artists - The Pogues - Sally McLennane
Well, Day 2 of the week, and I still feel....eeeh. Not really bad, but not too good either. Came home last night, and I was in bed by 9. Did me some good, other than way way way active dreams. One about finding some way out of print and very limited edition of some Mythos stories, one about being in the military, but the military circa 1800's, but not...they really didn't have trench warfare back then as I recall. And the last one was a friend of mine getting married, save the groom vanishes and I was called to stand in. *blink* Not quite a nightmare....but ;) But nearly 11 hours of sleep helped some. Today and yesterday here at the salt mine have been rather busy. Begining of the week foo, but today was calmer so here hoping it's a calm week the rest of it.

Weekend Foo Sun Nov 7 18:13:26 CST 2004
Mood: ok Music of the Day: Return of the Living Dead II on TV
Well, another weekend has gone by way too damn fast. Friday I got home from work and generally vegged out playing City of Heroes and watching TV. Went to bed and forced myself to sleep in Saturday. Got up on Saturday, generally bummed around for a while, then headed over to see The Grim Squeaker. He got a PS2, and was playing Grand Theft Auto, San Andreas. Amusing game, lots of fun driving like a maniac and being part of the criminal element. I also got a late bday gift from SugarFae.



I love the shirt. Arggh !!! :)

From new wardrobe time we went to the mall to see The Incredibles. I loved this film, I think it was one of Pixar's best. Funny, but not too silly. Had some adultish moments, but not too many. A little sappy, but not enough to annoy. And ye gods, did the animation look good. Making hair look realistic in animation is alot of work, and they pulled it off great. The only thing I missed was the lack of a 'blooper' reel, like other Pixar movies. But that's a minor flaw in the movie. Definitely worth your money. Of course, since I've been playing City of Heroes, I kept thinking in game terms...but that just made it more amusing. :)

Today has been very slow...played more CoH, got Steel Weasel up to level 12. Went and bought movies at the Movie Trading Company, The Toxic Avenger I, Return of the Living Dead II and Tremors III. No I didn't mean to make the numbers work the way it did...that's just how things go in my life. Went to the store, got food. Now I'm watching movies and generally relaxing. I hope this week isn't as stressful as last week was. Still recovering from the crud. I hate being sick. Maybe, just maybe it will pass by tomorrow. Being sick for over a week blows. Oh well. At least it's not as bad as last week.

Still Sick Fri Nov 5 12:55:26 CST 2004
Mood: Still Sick Music of the Day: Various Nightwish Mp3s
Yep, I'm still sick. Bleah. I should go to a doc, but A. no insurance and B. no cash. At least not enough for a doc visit and drugs. :( Oh well, it's my yearly case of the creeping crud...it will be mostly gone in a few days. Well, I'm hoping at least.

Work has had me hopping. New position = lots of work. And it hasn't slowed down much. Today is the first day I don't have 9 things on my plate at one time...*knocks on wood*

Not alot else, going to the movies tomorrow...assuming I'm not still sick as a dog. Sleeping, alot of sleep. Not much else. Wee, my wild life.

Weekend update and Sick Fox Tue Nov 2 20:40:35 CST 2004
Mood: sick Music of the Day: Andromeda on TV
Ok, I've needed to post about my weekend, but honestly I've too sick and tired to want to write. I woke up Friday, feeling foul. Or fowl... Not sure. Went to work, had a busy day...including our Halloween decoration judging. Tech didn't win, big shock. Left work early as schedaled, and me and Nymaz and Amythest met up with The Grim Squeaker and SugarFae to go to The Texas Reniassance Faire. Long drive, but it went well. Spent most of it talking with Nymaz, since Amythest was sorta unconscious ;) We get to Houston, and to the lovely home of C & C, fellow Userfriendly List members and two very nice people. They opened their home to us wandering geeks. We sat up talking for a while, then I went to pass out. Succeeded eventually, after relocating due to a snoring viking ;)

Woke up Saturday, got dressed and headed out. Got to the faire site around 10am. I had a really good time, saw the Ded Bob show, saw a friend of mine and his musical group play. Saw ALOT of lovely wenches in garb and general skimpyness. Saw some very hot Ufiebabes in garb too :) I was also good with my money, spent a bit on food, and a few knicknacks. All in all it was a good day. Finished up at the Faire around 6, headed out and found food. Bad mexican food. Not as bad as some, but pretty bad. Then back to C & C's, where we watched Clue. Or at least I started to, I fell asleep early...so I went to bed. This being sick thing sucks...I sleep so badly when I can't breathe.

Sunday rolled around early, woke up, got fed really yummy waffles and sausage. Never thought of Polska Kielbasa as breakfast food, but it was good, and easier to make for a horde than bacon. ;) Hung around for a while. Skippy the Plush Cthulhu was a big hit with C & C's kids. We eventually packed up and headed back up to Dallas. Another long ass drive. Finally got home, feeling really foul. Watched TV, went to bed early. Didn't sleep well...

Monday, woke up ahead of my alarmclock. Bad sign when I do that. Felt like hell, decided to call in sick. Slept in, generally was lazy. I had to leave the house fo groceries and rent for my apartment, then back home to plop in front of the computer. Played alot of City of Heroes. Steel Weasel is kicking major butt ;) Went to bed again, didn't sleep again. Today was pretty much the same thing, save no going out of the house. Just watched TV, drank juice and generally rested. Still feeling uberfoul right now. Hoping to make it to work tomorrow. I need to work, and make money. So lets hope for a healthy fox tomorrow.

On a lighter note, Andromeda is a very cool show. And not just cause it has the hottest AI in scifi ;) Yep, I'm addicted, so sue me ;) What can I say, I love Space Opera. And this is opera at it's best. :)