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I don’t care what anyone else says,

and I’m off to go relax, and maybe take a nap before going to see the last Star Wars movie ever!

So yesterday was our seventh anniversary. It’s funny, I had to write a check and it’s really hard to write the date on something without writing 98 as the year on that particular day.

We didn’t do anything overly special, but we did it together. We took off work early to go get Knight some whipworm medication so he would stop pooping all over the house. Pretty darned romantic if you ask me. We went home, fed the dogs and gave Knight his medicine (which made his food look sugar frosted). Decided we’d go out to eat and figure out where to go from there. We went to Johnny Carinos and had a hearty late lunch with appetizers even. We talked about and thought about what we could do afterwards and came up with nothing so we went home and since it was such a beautiful day, went out and took a nap in the hammock. Needless to say, we just kind of spent a simple, quiet day at home completely focused on eachother.

We’re still hoping to go away somewhere this summer (other than to Julian and Chelsea’s Wedding and my Mother’s family reunion). We just don’t know when or where. We want to drive no more than 10 hours to get there and we want it to be somewhat secluded and be surounded by nature. I need to get back on the Timeshare website and see what’s available.

Tonight, however, I’m going to be an idot and a fanboy and go see Star Wars at 12:01 at the rave. Its two and a half hours long, so we’ll see if I make it… may have to slip a couple Rockstars in my pocket before I go. I probably wouldn’t have considered going if it weren’t for the fact that a) blu3warri0r is going to be there, and that’s just plain fun; b) taloncomics is also going to be there with his crew and I don’t spend enough time with him either; and c) this is possibly the last Star Wars movie ever! So wish me luck and lets hope that the late hour doesn’t spoil the movie.

When I was a kid I had this book, Alexander And The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. It was about this kid, Alexander, who was more than a little grumpy about his day.

I’m having a day that sounds like it would have a similar title, only with more cursing since I’m a grown up (mostly) and I swear like a the bastard son of a trucker and a sailor. Needless to say, I’m not in the greatest mood but, like Alexander, things are looking up. I’ve been building this web site for a faculty member here on campus and while the design and coding took more time than I had originally expected, I got it all done. Now the struggle is getting it up on the web. What was supposed to be a simple task (and actually was 95% successful) has actually nearly exploded in my face and left me completely adlebrained for the entire day. I’m just now starting to pick up the pieces as things get a bit more sorted out. I may be getting to a point where I can actually enjoy my RPGA game tonight and not die from stupidity or miscalculation. Then again, the way my day’s going…

I bought a new car stereo Saturday. Some of you are saying to yourselves “didn’t you just buy one this past December?” The answer to that and much more is yes! But you may also recall that I bought it used on eBay for about $30. It did exactly what it needed to do, which was get us to Virgina and back listening to the Nomad the entire way. Other than that small success story, it’s a piece of shit… honestly. So I’ve been doing the website and I knew I was getting paid today, so I decided I’d head over to BestBuy and see what they had in stock. They didn’t have the Aiwa that I wanted but they did have this Dual Headunit that was simple, cheap, and had all the features I wanted: AM/FM stereo, MP3/WMA, and an interface cable for my MP3 player. It’s also really bright blue! I had them install it for me because last time, while it wasn’t impossible, or even difficult – it was kind of a pain in the ass. I figure if they want to do it for free, god bless them. I also went ahead and put $20 down on the service plan because I haven’t heard of Namsung, have you?

So anyway, now I’m trying to clean up my Nomad for more efficient listening, but it looks like it’s going to take more time than I have today to re-sync all the tunes. I’ll have to take it as is today to test it out, and bring it back tomorrow for a full update.

Have fun kiddies, and stay safe! I love you all.

I want cookies or a donut… someone bring me something.

Update

Yay! I got cookie! I love my wife!

And now for another complete waste of time, compliments of iamnight

I guess I just haven’t been in a posting mood. I used to post frequently and regularly, but I’ve been really lazy lately. I just haven’t been in the mood. I’ve still been reading, but my writing focus has been elsewhere. I think it’s all the chatting and playing on World of Warcraft.

Anyway, my skin has almost completely shed. I got sunburned last weekend (not this past one, but the one before) while I helped my friends sell parking spaces for Fry Street Fair. The worst of it was on my ankle… yes, my ankle. Who the hell gets sunburned on their ankle? But yeah, my face has completely peeled, my arms are in process and nearly covered in brand new skin and my ankle, well, it’s not purple anymore. All in all, it was a good weekend, though. Last week went by fairly quickly. I did a web site for a faculty member that he is currently evaluating to determine if he’s going to pay me or not. I had to work on it until about 6:00 in the morning Wed/Thurs so he could take it home on a CD. I think it came out pretty darn good for being my first all Flash site. I’d post a link here, but since it’s still in negotiations, I’ll hold off until we have his official site set up with a Domain name and everything. Currently it’s just hosted on my site for preview purposes. Even if he doesn’t like it, it’s going in my portfolio.

This past weekend, I helped a Friend move and then got to play some good old-fashioned RoboRally at Talon on Saturday. We had a huge nine person game, which is the biggest I’ve ever played. It was about five hours of robot rallying madness. I think everyone involved had a good time. Sure, it could have ended a little sooner, but otherwise all was good. oros was the big winner, but really, we all felt like winners when he pulled that Ahead 2 and ended the game. Then we all went to eat at Baris for Derek’s birthday. I still don’t know which was the manicotti and which was the canaloni, but it was all good.

Watched a lot of TV and played a lot of WoW yesterday. Celebrated the triumpant return of Family Guy. The first scene alone was well worth the wait over the years. I’ve got it on DVD here in front of me and I may try to pull that clip later when I’m at a different computer. If I can get it small enough, I’ll attempt to post it for your viewing pleasure. If you didn’t get a chance to see it, it explains why Family Guy was gone for all those years.

I think I may actually be able to go to the rec center tonight, my ankles don’t feel like the flesh will shatter if I get on the ArcTrainer.

I’m too tired to post for real. Lets just say that as a web designer, I really sell myself short.