It's been a while...

So I've been busy switching jobs and ... reworking some of the things in my life. Mostly internal stuff, I can't say it's been exciting. I have generated a lot of junk in the process, now i just need to get rid of it. My office is a shambles now, I need to finish the cleaning I started there. Also I need to pull in all the junk I've managed to spread around the house.

Any way it's just a process of letting go.

I'm backing up one of my server's and seeing that I had a huge collection of photos of various super models for some project I don't remember... I still consider it a win. :-)

I have a lot of half=started/finished projects. Maybe one day I'll finish them all.

for now though here's a funny picture...

Lunch today

I'm eating left-over Chinese food for lunch today.

Ups & Downs

Was beat & stressed yesterday. The weekend wasn't restful. Saturday I had to put down one of the Kittens Maggie brought in. It had megaesophagus and was starving to death. We took it to the vet and spent 3 hours there... not a fun experience in the best of circumstances.

Having to do that made me think of Obie and having to put him down. Also, these kittens are really only here for a little bit longer until we have to send them to the pound anyway. Here they are in action:



So it's made me kinda down for the past few days, and I think I've just been a little depressed in general. It's gotten better though.

I've begun the process of cleaning my computer room. Actually I've been making it more dirty by getting in all the computer junk I have and centralizing it in my office area. On the good side of things it helps me consolidate everything, on the bad side it leads to clutter, and I hate clutter. :-)

My plan, is to setup my windows PC for games again, my Mac for graphics and rendering, my linux box will remain my server, and I will fix-up the old dell to be the TV control box (that also plays CD's and acts as a giant photo displayer). I got the mac setup yesterday and I got the latest ubuntu as well. The windows game machine needs a power supply and I need to get to installing on the old dell.

Return to your first love, it's a paraphrase from the Revelations in the Bible, and I use it help me to remember to not get distracted from the things I enjoy doing. In Revelations St. John was talking to the church of Epahasus, but I remember it to help keep me grounded. There are reasons we love to do the things we do, and remembering that helps keep us centered. I've filled my life with a lot of distractions recently and keeping first things, first has been a problem. So, I'm jumping back into my computers, as my hobby as well as my profession again, and using them like I enjoy using them.

sleepy from violent dream

I went to sleep 'late', maybe around 1am, but I woke up at 6:30 because of a horrible dream.

I usually don't have dreams like this one. It was really violent, the beating women kind of violent. In fact I've only had that kind of dream three times. I wonder about my brain when I have dreams like this, was it a specific event that triggered it or was it just too much tv or is there some evil piece in my mind that feeds on things like this or does some demon know where to jab his spear in my brain to trigger these thoughts no matter what I'm doing... It had made me really tired though. Even though I slept I got no rest and woke up early. I guess part of me didn't want to watch the television of my brain. I spent the next hour and half sleeping and waking in a chair... I heard Helen leave on her scooter, and I finally got up and showered and rode into work.

Blog like IM

Hungry... just need breakfast...

work
work
work

got Caeser, a new/old dog lol.

blah

Yay Larry & Cathy & Becky & Will!
Need to call Becky... ugh todo todo todo

need to stop eating fingernails.


KungFu Hustle is best movie Ever!!!

Needs more techs.

My iMac is dead. :-( Helen is taking it to the vet later on today.

Guitar lessons going good, I need to practice more.
got nice calouses on my fingers from it.

Movie Night: Death Note

We went to see Death Note last night.



It was good, details to follow...

It's been a while...

I just looked at my own blog for the first time in a while. Oberon is no longer with us. He died of kidney failure three weeks after we got him. Me & Pooks were really sad about it. We're looking into new dogs now though, hopefully we'll find one that fits us.

One funny thing that happened while we had Obe... Our backyard neighbor's dog came running into our yard, he'd gotten loose somehow, and of course ran up to check out Obe. He then went around the yard marking everything and just checking things out. It was a male boxer and he had a cold too, his nose was runny. He got next to Pooks who'd been petting & showing him some affection, when he did the barrel roll shake and flung droll and snot all over the place. Pooks had this look of absolute horror that she might get some on her. She squealed and shrieked, and the dog stopped and just looked at her like, "What's your problem?".

I found a friend of mine is unexpectedly pregnant.

I started guitar lessons. I'm having a blast learning it. I need to get a metronome to work on my timing. I still haven't tried riding the motorcycle with the guitar on my back yet... :-)

Speaking of motorcycles, I've been riding just about everywhere recently. I'm really having a blast and hating stop lights. I have also started using my head phones while riding, It's nice to be able to have background music.

Work is stressed, no one knows what's going on and things are seriously confused. The migration to the new system is progressing miserably and has seriously failed. I haven't heard of a single success story. So our IT transition, failed, my job, who knows.

On a good note, Pooks & I seem to have found a church we like. Avondale UMC, it's well lit, they keep the AC low, the stain glass is nice, and the pastor must have ADD. He was all over the place during the sermon on Sunday. He made an analogy between the sacrifice of William Walace in Braveheart and the sacrifice of Jesus. It's the first time I've ever heard "eviscerate" in church. :-) I thought it was great. Pooks and I are definitely coming back. We also like that church starts at 11am so we can sleep late.