If I could trade in a sibling like a car, she'd be the upgrade..

Penny Arcade

Woot!

   

Coming soon...

   

Wednesday, July 19, 2006

Vegas: tales of music, hookers, liquor and lightning.

Ever been so friggin' tired that you actually feel amped and awake, but sort of in a daze?

That's me this very second, staring vaguely at the screen trying to convince my fingers to type something.

5 days in Vegas
2 surprisingly great bands
Free booze (total bottle count still being debated)
1 Limo
15 incredibly awesome friends/coworkers/sinners
1 intense lightning storm
1 hooker ***

...god I can't wait to go back.


More to come!!

//end.


*** Editor's Note: I should clarify - the hooker in question was a hysterically funny, drunken moment of comedy gold involving one coworker, a lotta booze, and what he THOUGHT was just a very friendly, attractive lady riding the escalator with us.

Please note: NO money was exchanged. NO sex was had. Plenty of laughing, however.

Quote of the night: "Dude I didn't know they were allowed INSIDE the casinos!"

//end.

Wednesday, July 12, 2006

Chapter 6...

Man what a day.

So, fairly standard day at work...buddies mention hitting Slugger's on the way out to grab a beer, and as I hear God laughing at me....the power goes out. I mean alllll the way out.

Both buildings are down. Oh, hey...the whole block is down.

What? The entirety of Woodinville is down?

Shiiiiiiiiiit.....

*sigh* Couple hours later, just after we got most of our non-critical systems offline to save some backup juice, and we started thinking about 'oh hey...what's our recovery plan if the Exchange SAN goes....?"

Shiiiiit again. Well, turns out that the power decided to come back on - woot. But our goddamn Barracuda decided it didn't want to power up anymore - fuck. Without the 'Cuda, mail goes nowhere - double fuck.

However, IT genius being what it is - problems solved for now, and I finally get home, sans beer, but whatever. I had a bathroom to clean and laundry to do anyway.

Oddity #2 for today: Sarah's at the house loading out some stuff to her car.

hmm...

You know it's strange; you think about certain situations and how things will play out or how you're going to act...but it never works out that way. I thought I'd get all twisted up over things, or feel that stupid empty-gut feeling again upon seeing her for the first time since a week and half ago.

I'll be honest: it was a little weird to see her finally, and actually talk for all of 2.5 minutes or so. I won't lie - I can feel as strong and as confident as ever for 23 hours a day, but there's that one collective hour or so where I really, really miss her. I know i know...that's probably not going to go away anytime soon, either, but what can ya do?

Anyway...at first, parking the car, I felt kinda odd - like hm..what am I supposed to do? Is she going to be all stand-offish and attitude, or just pretend like we haven't lived together for 3 years...that kinda thing? Fuck I dunno - get out of the car and let's see what happens.

And nothing happened. She got some of her stuff...got the mail and left me the mailbox key...seemed very tired and/or stressed, and I just quietly listened, tried to see past the odd little awkwardness...and just...I dunno...be ok with things.

And I was.

//end.

Monday, July 10, 2006

Chapter 5...

Well, some things I've learned over the past week+ :

- Letting go of someone you love...or thought you loved...after almost 3 years, is not an easy thing to do. I honestly wish I could be one of those people that gets past things like this with an air of ease...like they've guarded themselves properly in case of emergency, y'know?

- I've been called lazy and callous, and by all rights, that's probably a fair statement, and one I wish to change whole-heartedly. But in some way, I think my callousness was actually my failed attempt at being one of those people mentioned above...'you're not going to hurt me because I won't let you'. Heh, yeah. Easier said than done, my lazy callousness or not.

- I tried ...but I just do NOT like Thai food. Although the thai iced coffee was fucking awesome.

- When I least expected it, I found I had some wonderful people around me...friends that listened, nodded their heads without judging or offering empty advice or taking sides. Just listened. For that I will always be thankful - I love you guys, and you know who you are.

- I still, and probably never will understand women.

- I really hate being stuck in this fucking house. I want to move forward with myself and my life, and I want to surround myself with a space that I feel comfortable in to do that moving forward...and I just can't right now.

- A week of general malaise and skittering the edge of depression which killed the appetite for anything other than iced tea and cigarrettes, coupled with a stretch of beautiful beach, great weather and intentions of getting my head and heart clear has led me to drop almost 10 pounds already. Awesome, but my favorite jeans won't stay up anymore...

- I'm going to Vegas in less than a week. Fuck. Yes.

- I'm looking forward to quitting smoking once and for all...got the itch to start training again. Anyone in the northern Seattle/Lynnwood'ish area know of a good muay thai gym, shoot me a message.

- My daughter turns 6 this Wednesday, and I can't begin to describe how proud I am of her.

- I love my family. As weird and dysfunctional as they are, I love them dearly.

- Zidane. Head-butt. Best Sportscenter highlight ever.

//end.

Thursday, February 09, 2006

Thursday, February 09, 2006


Rules. We gotta have rules...

My interweb prowess being what it is, I have no source for these (by that I mean I caught it on a forum somewhere...). Could be Dane Cook quotes for all I fucking know, which in and of itself would elevate the Awesome™.

Either way, the truth is in the comedy, and vice versa (Oh, I added one of my very own at the bottom as well. Inspired). Enjoy!

New Rule: Stop giving me that pop-up ad for Classmates.com! There's a reason you don't talk to people for 25 years. Because you don't particularly like them! Besides, I already know what the captain of the football team is doing these days: mowing my lawn.

New Rule: Don't eat anything that's served to you out a window unless you're a seagull. People are acting all shocked that a human finger was found in a bowl of Wendy's chili. Hey, it cost less than a dollar. What did you expect it to contain? Trout?

New Rule: Stop saying that teenage boys who have sex with their hot, blonde teachers are permanently damaged. I have a better description for these kids: lucky bastards.

New Rule: If you need to shave and you still collect baseball cards, you're gay. If you're a kid, the cards are keepsakes of your idols. If you're a grown man, they're pictures of men.

New Rule: Ladies, leave your eyebrows alone. Here's how much men care about your eyebrows: do you have two of them? Okay, we're done.

New Rule: There's no such thing as flavored water. There's a whole aisle of this crap at the supermarket — water, but without that watery taste. Sorry, but flavored water is called a soft drink. You want flavored water? Pour some scotch over ice and let it melt. That's your flavored water.

New Rule: Stop fucking with old people. Target is introducing a redesigned pill bottle that's square, with a bigger label. And the top is now the bottom. And by the time Grandpa figures out how to open it, his ass will be in the morgue. Congratulations, Target, you just solved the Social Security crisis.

New Rule: The more complicated the Starbucks order, the bigger the asshole. If you walk into a Starbucks and order a "decaf grande half-soy, half-low fat, iced vanilla, double-shot, gingerbread cappuccino, extra dry, light ice, with one Sweet-n'-Low and one NutraSweet," ooh, you're a huge asshole.

New Rule: I'm not the cashier! By the time I look up from sliding my card, entering my PIN number, pressing "Enter," verifying the amount, deciding, no, I don't want cash back, and pressing "Enter" again, the kid who is supposed to be ringing me up is standing there eating my Almond Joy.

New Rule: Just because your tattoo has Chinese characters in it doesn't make you spiritual. It's right above the crack of your ass. And it translates to "beef with broccoli." The last time you did anything spiritual, you were praying to God you weren't pregnant. You're not spiritual. You're just high.

New Rule: Competitive eating isn't a sport. It's one of the seven deadly sins. ESPN recently televised the US Open of Competitive Eating, because watching those athletes at the poker table was just too damned exciting. What's next, competitive farting? Oh wait. They're already doing that. It's called "The Howard Stern Show."

New Rule: I don't need a bigger mega M&M. If I'm extra hungry for M&Ms, I'll go nuts and eat two.

New Rule: If you're going to insist on making movies based on crappy, old television shows, then you have to give everyone in the Cineplex a remote so we can see what's playing on the other screens. Let's remember the reason something was a television show in the first place is that the idea wasn't good enough to be a movie.

New Rule: No more gift registries. You know, it used to be just for weddings. Now it's for babies and new homes and graduations from rehab. Picking out the stuff you want and having other people buy it for you isn't gift giving, it's the white people version of looting.

New Rule: [and this one is long overdue] No more bathroom attendants. After I zip up, some guy is offering me a towel and a mint like I just had sex with George Michael. I can't even tell if he's supposed to be there, or just some freak with a fetish. Don't want to be featured on your website, dude. I just want to wash my hands.

New Rule: When I ask how old your toddler is, I don't need to know in months. "27 Months." "He's two," will do just fine. He's not a cheese. And I didn't really care in the first place.

New Rule - When debating politics: The number of "-isms" used when debating politics is directly proportionate to the level of bullshit achieved, and can be quantified by the mathmatical expression of bullshit tonnage needed to power a small village in Indochina.

Oh snap.

Let's push things...forward.

Time to consolidate the musings, and I prefer the inferface and non-interference of Das Bloggen over MySpace and LJ, etc...so there you are.

Stand by for posting barrage..
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