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[25 Oct 2008|01:09am] |
Today I...
-became a Commander of an internet army of NCSU students
-reran coax cable from one wall in my house to another and installed a coax plate in the wall
-rewired some outlets that were annoying me to better suit my needs
-moved all my living room furniture based on the new cable outlet and tv location
-drilled 19 holes and cut out one large hole in the drywall in my living room
-fucked up the hanging of some wall decorations that required me to drill 10 more holes than I needed to
-lost my wedding ring
its like you wake up... and it's all downhill from there
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[26 Sep 2008|08:39pm] |
TF2, Spore, and any other game I tried to play on my computer wasn't working. Aaron and I tried pretty much everything else except the video card, figuring that pulling that out would be a last resort. When we finally had to pull it out (hehehe), we noticed that two of the capacitors on my video card had blown like a Taiwanese hooker. Luckily, the thing was still under warranty. I paid the extra $15 bucks to have them cross ship it (which means I get it first then mail it in in the return box) and them pay for the shipping. I figure its worth it to not have to wait a month. In the meantime, I get to use one of Aaron's sweet ass cards (thanks, Aaron!).
Also, I had a breakthrough at work. Three years and I finally get some good, verifiable data. Lawl.
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[23 Sep 2008|10:36pm] |
I'm in a funk. Work is oddly successful and unsuccessful at the same time, and I don't know what to make of it. I feel like I'm getting somewhere, closing in on some work that might complete a project, but I'm being pulled away or led astray by my adviser, who's decisions I ultimately have to follow.
My marriage is wonderful. I wouldn't change it. I've been going to bed at 11, sometimes 10:30, to make my wife happy. Making her happy is great. I love her.
Joe came to visit, as well as Amelia. Last week, I didn't feel like I had a lot of time to myself. It was nice to see people, but I definitely appreciate not having company, and feeling like I get some time to myself and for Amy and I.
I started a new website, GradNCSU, a message board for grad students at State. I also updated Part Time Pimp, gave it a new look, changed some site stuff, and spiffed it up a little. You should check it out if you haven't been in a while. If you're not a member, then sign up, dammit!
Gonna have another short weekend. Amy's parents are coming up and we're going to the football game Sat night and a golf tournament on Sunday. I think it'll be nice to have them visit, but we're going to have to do some cleaning between now and then.
Watched Fringe tonight. Seemed good. House was also good. The fall shows have started... and now there's multiple new shows to look forward to each week. Luckily, I can download them all.
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[15 Sep 2008|09:57am] |
I guess I should update for those of you who haven't seen this on Facebook or PTP... the reason I needed the editing software was the second video, but watch the first one before hand.
First...
Second...
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[12 Sep 2008|01:08pm] |
FUCK YOU, YOU PIECE OF SHIT GARBAGE CALLED WINDOWS MOVIE MAKER. FUCK YOUR CRASHING EVERY FIVE SECOND WORTHLESS MOTHERFUCKING TIMELINE NON-AUTOSAVING HORSESHIT. I HOPE YOUR MOTHER DIES OF CANCER AND YOUR SISTER GETS SYPHILIS! >:(
on a side note, anyone know of a good free video editing software?
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[08 Sep 2008|10:17pm] |
"It is, I suppose, the common grief of children at having to protect their parents from reality. It is bitter for the young to see what awful innocence adults grow into, that terrible vulnerability that must be sheltered from the rodent mire of childhood.
Can we blame the child for resenting the fantasy of largeness? Big, soft arms and deep voices in the dark saying, "Tell Papa, tell Mama, and we'll make it right." The child, screaming for refuge, senses how feeble a shelter the twig hut of grown-up awareness is. They claim strength, these parents, and complete sanctuary. The weeping earth itself knows how desperate is the child's need for exactly that sanctuary. How deep and sticky is the darkness of childhood, how rigid the blades of infant evil, which is unadulterated, unrestrained by the convenient cushions of age and its civilizing anesthesia.
Grownups can deal with scraped knees, dropped ice-cream cones, and lost dollies, but if they suspected the real reasons we cry they would fling us out of their arms in horrified revulsion. Yet we are small and as terrified as we are terrifying in our ferocious appetites.
We need that warm adult stupidity. Even knowing the illusion, we cry and hide in their laps, speaking only of defiled lollipops or lost bears, and getting a lollipop or a toy bear's worth of comfort. We make do with it rather than face alone the cavernous reaches of our skulls for which there is no remedy, no safety, no comfort at all. We survive until, by sheer stamina, we escape into the dim innocence of our own adulthood and its forgetfulness."
- from Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
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[07 Sep 2008|10:08am] |
Work, video games, figuring out whats for dinner, hanging out or more video games... this is my daily routine... every day. I kinda wish I had something to break the monotony. In hopes to inspire something more exiting or adventurous, i will mention some of the breaks from this norm I have achieved.
I went to DC with the wife and Aaron... uh, last weekend I think. It was actually a lot of fun and I enjoyed it. It was good to see them again and even though it was a shorter trip than could have happened on a 3 day weekend, it was definitely worth the drive and money to get up there. We got back at 3 or 4 am. I don't remember. By that time I was a zombie falling asleep at the wheel.
I also went to the second NC State football game. Danial Evans is a pile of smelly as garbage and should not be allowed on the field. He threw two interceptions in just under 4 minutes, and I think maybe scored once against a candy ass team (or at least, a team we absolutely should be able to beat no problem). Beck came in and we started to get shit done. We scored a lot more with him and he was connecting on some long and accurate passes. He needs to start next week. See if he can build some momentum. D. Evans will never be anything more than a piece of shit, and he's proven that every single chance he's had... which has been pretty much every single game. I have no idea what TOB is thinking. Anyway, we won, but they put up a good show, especially later in the game. We left with a few minutes left to beat the traffic and apparently 4 more touchdowns were scored in the last 8 minutes of the game (when we left) so that would have been interesting to watch, but we won, so all is well. We're now at 1-1 and a slouching Clemson and a seemingly powerful ECU team to face in the next two weeks.
The Panthers game is on today, which should be fun. Hope everyone enjoys their lazy Sunday and has a very good rest of the week.
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[27 Aug 2008|02:28pm] |
You can learn a lot about someone from their Netflix queue, especially if it's filled with porn... though mine is not. I should probably cut this, but I'm not. Tell me how many of these movies you've seen and if they are great or worthless shit.
My Netflix Queue:
Currently out - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Five Days - Disc 1
Five Days - Disc 2
Blade Runner - The Final Cut
Total Recall
Life is Beautiful
Primal Fear
The Towering Inferno
If We Had No Moon
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
The Breed
The Wind That Shakes the Barley
Milwaukee, Minneota
Heckler
F**k
How's Your News?
Funny Games
Deathwatch
Barton Fink
Dazed and Confused
Slacker
Whole New Thing
Starter for Ten
Venus
The Lookout
The Dead Girl
Snow Angels
Joshua
11:14
Ifilm: Deranged
Spy Game
5 Centimeters Per Second
Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
Metalocalypse: Season 1 - Disc 1
Metalocalypse: Season 1 - Disc 2
Brazil: The "Love Conquers All" Version
The Lost Room - Disc 1
The Lost Room - Disc 2
51 Birch Street
For the Bible Tells me So
Wal-Mart: The High Cost of a Low Price
Instant Queue
The Thing
The Seventh Sign
Room 6
Fronterz
Lake of Fire
The Business of Being Born
Sherrybaby
Civic Duty
I Like Killing Flies
Ghost in the Shell
Street Fight
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[19 Aug 2008|01:00am] |
What is...
I've been playing more CivRev than anyone should... but Amy plays it too and that makes me happy.
I've also been playing Pixel Junk Monsters. I'm not terribly good at it, but I'm not terribly bad.
Work is going fine. I'm chugging through my research. The other day I came up with a really good experimental design. I talked to advisor and he seemed enthusiastic, which is great because this is the first time he was excited about an idea of mine. However small, it gave me some sense of accomplishment. I hope this route works out, seeing as how it's my idea. I have a meeting to discuss it this week.
I'm trying to sell Rock Band and some PS2 games on CraigsList and Tdub.
What aint...
My landlord isn't around and never follows through with what he says. I left a bag of mail from the old tenants on the back porch this weekend. he said he'd come pick it up. It was still in the grill when we came home. This is probably the 10th time he's said he'd come do something or fix something or pick something up and not shown up. It's like he doesn't exist. I still haven't signed a lease.
We don't have mice anymore... I took care of them.
Anyone wanna buy Nascar 08 for PS3? Also, I may have some stuff to give away to some of my friends soon, just apartment kitchenware and shit like that.
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[25 Jul 2008|11:59am] |
Yes, it's been a while. Probably because not much is happening, but that's not necessarily a bad thing.
I've been playing a lot of video games, especially Oblivion. Oblivion never ends. It goes on and on and on, which is a good thing, in a way. I'm choosing to do all the side quests first before the story missions. I've racked up about 100 hours so far on the game and have completed about 4 main story quests and countless guild and side quests. My reward is not as I expected though, as I learned while playing, all the things I have to fight in the main quest story line level up with me, so it's still a bitch to have to kill them all. It's a difficult game that involves strategy and cheating the system to make it possible to win. At least, that's what I've come to discover. The strategy I've found is to sneak attack them for 6x damage then go invisible and wait until they stop looking for me and sneak attack again. Slow as fuck, but it sure as hell made the Gladiator arena part easy as fuck.
I also bought a PS3... probably against my better judgment. I knew I wouldn't have to pay for it immediately (0% interest CC), but I will soon.. by October. I got the MGS4 bundle, which is a solid deal. Played through MGS4 and beat it. More cut scenes than you could throw your grandmother at. It was absurd, but really enjoyable. If I could ever get ahold of Jon, we can play it online. I bought a bluetooth headset so we could do just that. I also got Assassin's Creed and Nascar 08 for 22 bucks each. I figured they were cheaper games that I would probably like, and they both are OK. Nascar isn't the same as Matt's on the original Xbox, the format is different and I don't like it as much. Assassin's Creed is a little better, though very very repetitive. I can only play it in spurts before I have to go back to the 360. Between Oblivion and the PS3, I haven't played any online shooting stuff in a month and a half. I need to get back in there. Soon, I guess.
Work is going well actually. I think, for the first time, I really might have some positive results that I will be able to put together into a paper. I'm in the middle of isolating my samples now for testing, I'll probably post on that once I know what's up.
Busy few weekends coming up. Nothing really this weekend, except that Amy is gone and I have to fend for myself. Next weekend is Ginny's party, then Liz's wedding and Seth's thing, then the last couple days of the week after that, Amy starts school. I don't think she actually starts teaching until a week later, but it will be pretty exciting. Maybe she'll let me help her set up her room.
Anyway, things are mostly good now. Got a lot of great things going on, but maybe there will be a few greater changes to come in the future. Perhaps we'll see.
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[29 Jun 2008|01:49am] |
OK, so, general update to keep up with whats happening with me:
I got married:
great ceremony at the beach
smoke cleared right before the wedding
the wedding music went great
all my friends really pitched in and made it work out
i had an amazing night at the beach with the bonfire and everything
i think it was the perfect wedding... save for like one or two things, which is really how it works out
There are pictures on facebook... if you cant find them or cant access them, let me know and I'll make it happen
I went on my honeymoon with Amy to Cozumel, Mexico. this is what we did:
stayed in a tiny but awesome hotel
shopped at the local super-mart
ate at a real good mexican place
rented a car
drove around the whole island
visited Punta Sur
visited San Gervasio
moved over to stay in a really nice all-inclusive place
relaxed some
snorkeled
went to a nature park to snorkel some more
swam with a dolphin
had an oceanfront honeymoon dinner
went to Tulum
went to bed hella early
snorkeled some more
got a massage
flew home (got stuck on a runway for an hour and a half)
now we are home and have many things to unpack and do
I will update soon if stuff happens
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[22 Jun 2008|09:30pm] |
I just saw a bunch of Mexican waiters dressed up as Luchadores doing the Soulja boy...
Cozumel is awesome.
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[08 Jun 2008|08:55am] |
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Off to the beach to get hitched...
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[01 Jun 2008|12:11pm] |
As of last night I am completely moved out of my apartment and into my house. I'm glad to be done with the moving and the packing, but now the unpacking remains. I'm waiting until Amy gets back into town to do that. I assume she would want a say in where everything goes. Plus, I have shit organization skills.
In honor of being done moving and packing and stressing, today is my do-nothing-at-all day. I paid my rent check (though, that's a whole other story) and today is my day to sit back and worry about nothing. I'm going to play video games and watch TV and cook some food and do absolutely nothing. I cant wait.
Catch you later.
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[21 May 2008|01:10am] |
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easy come, easy go
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[19 May 2008|07:41pm] |
For all intents and purposes, Amy and I now live at our house. We haven't... you know... signed a lease yet, but all the bills are in our name, we are sleeping here, and we've cooked and eaten a meal here. It's amazing. There are a few more things the landlord needs to do that he hasn't done yet,but hopefully those things will get done. I'll spare you the bitching about all that stuff. I also need to talk to him and figure out how much we're going to prorate next months rent. If you feel like coming and checking out the place, just give Amy or me a call. We're around.
Also, cable is awesome (probably until I get the first bill), and having a phone is nice, though I realized I probably need to put everyone's number in a little book or something near the phone. I might go do that now.
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[07 May 2008|01:47am] |
Tonight was the Cedar Hills weekly tournament, the first one of the summer season. My partner and I got par, which for an am-am team is pretty spectacular. Some other am-am guys who had to be 'baggin got 9 under, but who knows. If they were really playing on their skill level, congratulations to them. I couldnt have been happier with the way I played, and I think Jimmy and I are gonna start playing together some. It'll be nice to have another competitive player to play with again. Maybe I can start pushing 5 and 6 under at Kentwood again.
We went to trivia tonight too. I wont the big door prize which consisted of a Yuengling hat, a Jaeger lanyard, a Magic Hat stamped metal wall sign, and two free pints. I gave one to Jon since it was his birthday and I was going to buy him some beer but the lady brought the checks before I could ask to put his on mine. We also won trivia overall, so we now have $100 to spend over the next little bit.
Not much else. I'm hoping to move into my house this weekend. That will be a welcome move. I'm really excited about getting settled into the new place. I'm even more excited about finally getting to take my damn bed out of the box.
Leave me a comment and tell me one exciting thing that you're looking forward to. Yes... you... reading this. Every last one of you.
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[02 May 2008|09:41am] |
UPS completely fucked up a package delivery for me, which really would have gone much smoother had they NOT offered to do some kind of special delivery of my packages and then told me they would call me when they were on their way and then NOT call so I missed the delivery and somehow it was my fault and I had to drive up to north Raleigh to pick up the god damn thing.
Longest run on sentence ever... except not really.
Still can't move into the house because the landlord is slow to make renovations. When we asked to paint, we thought we would be able to paint on our own time, but he ended up after I had started saying that he didnt want to put down the linoleum and carpet until all the painting was done, so now I'm busting my ass to get this shit done even though I shouldn't have to. Also, my lease technically started yesterday, but I haven't signed anything. Soo... thing's are started to get ridiculous and I'm getting annoyed that I might be paying rent starting yesterday but I'm not able to move in yet. He hasn't cashed the check I gave him yet, so we'll see how that goes. I think we're both nice, trusting guys, only he's being dumb about the floors and behind on work and I'm too nice to be a dick about it.
I added some more pictures of the inside here.
I have to go out of town this weekend to talk to Amy's grandfather about Jesus or something as a prereq. to him marrying us in June. I'm not looking forward to it because, as an idea and belief, I'm perfectly happy with Jesus, but it's not something that I feel comfortable talking about with people. I was supposed to have read this book about marriage and honoring your wife and shit but it was really pretentious and idealistic, at least the first chapter or so was. I'll probably skim through it on the drive down this weekend just to be able to discuss it, but I'm not looking forward to it, because it's pretty much garbage. It's like high school English all over again.
Wedding planning is starting to close up. It seems like the ball has started rolling on everything now. It's just a matter of time before everything falls in place and things are going good.
School still sucks, but it always does. Solitary research sucks hard and every piece of equipment seems to be breaking or is becoming unavailable for use. Oh, and we have no more money to order anything... so I don't really know what I should be doing now, since I'm in a position to do nothing except maybe order shit. It's student/advisor meeting time.
Also I bought a knife set from Woot. It's cheap as fuck, but I got a sharpener and a cutting board which is really why I was ordering it.
We also started a social group for the COT student aimed at getting people together (especially the American students) and hanging out. We got mad that we didn't know each other and never hung out so we decided to change that, and in only one week, we've got like three large things planned we want to do and are starting to hang out more and talk more. If nothing else, the increased socialization makes work and the COT atmosphere a lot more pleasant. Plus, after three years of being in the same building with all of these people, I'm actually learning their names.
Also, a few days ago, I tried to organize a Rock Band thing at the Hibernian, but the night staff said we couldn't because they didn't know what was going on because the fucking day manager didn't tell them we were going to be coming. I was kinda looking forward to hanging out with Ken again and some of Aaron's other friends, but sadly no.
I know thats a lot of shit you dont care about, but I'm done. I have nothing more to say about my life, because that's all thats been going on. Shit is bananas.
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[23 Apr 2008|11:59pm] |
so i cut myself again today at work... on the same piece of broken glassware that I did yesterday. Only this time it fucking cut a lot deeper so i have a big gash on my thumb that i always seem to press raised surfaces into. No good.
I bought my king size bed for the new house. It wasnt terribly expensive. A storage platform bed with bookcase headboard for about $540 and a memory foam mattress for $750. I'll let you know how it works out.
Not much else is going on. Finalizing wedding plans. Things going well. Rawr.
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[19 Apr 2008|03:30am] |
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Having conversations regarding money with your drunk father at 3 in the morning has a peculiar way of solving nothing and everything at the exact same time. I wish I knew how to describe the way I feel right now but I don't.
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