Long ago... or something like that.

Had a great evening with mom and dad last night. We roasted hot dogs and relaxed by the firepit. Pooks and I are getting annoyed with moving stuff. It's just gotten disheartening recently.

I got a call from an old friend from G'ville on Thursday too. It was good to talk with her. Hopefully she'll be able to make it up to the house warming in Feb. I miss a lot of my Gainesville friends. Of course not getting involved around here like I did down there hasn't helped. It makes me thing of how really long it's been since I've talked with any of them. I do keep tabs on things, Earl's leaving the church, Bob died, IHN keeps helping families. I may miss the superbowl party for the homeless this year. Makes me kinda melancholy. I know though that a lot of the people and things I knew from there are gone. The memories are of happy times long ago. I've moved, but not necessarily moved on.

It's late and I don't want to sleep. I'm rapidly succumbing to the sandman though.

Cleaning for Christmas

Jennifer and Eve came over and helped me with getting things ready for Christmas. We've got the tree up and lights on it. We'll wait until Maggie gets home to decorate it. I want to make sure she is part of the process.

I am pretty tired now. It's been a very long week with moving last weekend and taking a day off I've had to make it up, so I've been working 9+ hr days. It has just killed me for today.

I'm gonna go nap for a little bit (or maybe sip some tea on the porch) then I have a large amount of presents to wrap still.

The gift that Shanks gave us is the first one underneath the tree.

Constellations in Concrete

There are constellations in concrete
glowing beneath my feet

a bright star flared and died
and in the darkness descending
new stars sought my eye

bright white shown
these new constellations unknown
while my cigar glowed a dull red
and furrows creased my head

I realized that I had not the heart
to sail these seas alone
to penetrate this new dome
inky blackness that swirled
and in my heart fear curled

these new stars, as I sat alone
were stains and chips of stone
leavings of projects long past
slowly being covered with leaves of Grass

smoke slowly drifted away
beyond my new stars lay
a home, but fearfully I stayed

breathing in the galaxies
these stars and their possibilities


Yes I do write my own poetry at times. I have more, I will write more as the mood strikes me.

Bringing Down the BanHammer!

Bringing Down the BanHammer!

Did some early morning maintenance on the dreamlibrary.org site. Various spammers were posting adds for stupid stuff in one of the forums. Even though it was the "OffTopic" forum, they still aren't allowed. So I'd grab the IP add it to the banned list and then delete the post. It's comforting to know that at least the spammers know where the site is. I tell myself it's a sign of getting famous.

I'm about half way done with packing. I finished most of the living room last night. Hopefully I can get the computer room and bedroom done today. I am still trying to keep things somewhat oragnized so that's helping.

It's been a stressful week for me and pooks too. She's having problems and having to move doesn't make it any easier.

I did get to do some online shopping last night, that was kinda cool. I actually like shopping for Christmas presents. I'm done with Pooks (I think) so i still need something for Maggie & the rest of the family. It's a little too close to try to mail-order things, so I think I'm stuck with going to the store. Super Target here I come!! (and World Market, walmart, books-a-million, bed bath & beyond infinity (My God, It's full of Towels!) But I'm saving that fun for next week.

Stress leading up to moving.... and potentially something better.

Moving sucks, two tons of crap and not enough dumpsters.

lol.

I'm getting some packing done but I feel like it's going too slowly. I need to make a goodwill run and give a bunch of stuff to them. I've still got a lot of crap in the computer room to both junk and pack. I can't tell if I have more stuff than when I moved back to Jax or less. I know I filled a 17' truck moving up here, but not I'm wondering what it was full of... I think I've been a little good at throwning stuff away this time and not holding on to so many things.

The good part is that I'm throwing off some barnacles that weigh me down. I'm moving to a new house with a woman I love and a daughter that's adorable. I will be able to refresh myself with new things. I won't be stuck trying to keep up the old things. This is the stuff I love, new possibilities and potentials and everything both scary and wonderful that comes with it.

Pooks is going through some stuff now and it's hard to advise her. It deals with old friends and that always makes it harder.

We all had a stressful day yesterday, so before bed we got together and had a family prayer time. It felt good to just sit together and let out our worries and frustrations and then to remember the things we were thankful for.

I've been stuck w/o my linux box and everything is getting packed away so I haven't had a lot of time to do things computer wise. :-( I do think I want to setup the prime number database again. It's the kind of cool project I enjoy doing that makes no good sense. :-)

Back again for the first time!

WooT!

Greatings to all my readers (all 4 of you)!

It's been an active time since I last wrote something. I married Pooks on Nov. 4th, I'm closing on a new house, I am learning to live with two new people in my life and I got my warlock to level 45 in WoW.

Me & Pooks:
That's the only picture I've got that I really care about.

So we're happily married going through the growing pains of wrestling with learning to live and be with each other. It's fun being with her even through the rough times.

We're trying to get things rolling on a business doing things online. I can't say we're more focused than that b/c we're not. Not the best business plan to start off with, but it's what we've got for now.

I haven't been getting much sleep recently. Between Maggie's school work and my own trying to clean and get things given away or packed I've been up past midnight twice this week. A big spaghetti lunch and now it's catching up with me. I'm so ready to just curl up and sleep.

In the meantime though, I will keep plugging away at work and fixing up the websites we've got for work stuff.