March 07, 2006 •
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Lately, I have been doing a lot of independent consulting work with a fellow down in Springfield, IL. He has informed me that if things go the way they are planned, he would like me to work for him full-time, starting sometime in the next few months. This would mean moving 4.5 hours south of where I currently reside.
I am very excited about this. It will allow me to get out on my own and experience what it's really like in the working world. Although, it is really going to be tough being so far away from all my friends and family that I've lived with all my life. That will definitely take some getting used to.
As stands, I should know for sure sometime in the next month or so whether or not I'll be making the move. Of course, I will keep you all informed as I hear the news.
March 06, 2006 •
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Welcome. I've decided to start up a journal (yet again) to record random events that occur in my life. To get the ball rolling, I've imported all of my LiveJournal posts on to here. More to come later.
December 20, 2005 •
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Fitness transformation is going VERY well. Will probably post full-body shots in a few weeks to show my progress.
December 13, 2005 •
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I went downstairs for breakfast, hoping my wife would be pleasant and say, "Happy Birthday!", and possibly have a present for me.
As it turned out, she barely said good morning, let alone "Happy Birthday."
I thought... Well, that's marriage for you, but the kids will remember.
My kids came into breakfast and didn't say a word. So when I left for the office, I was feeling pretty low and somewhat despondent.
As I walked into my office, my secretary Jane said, "Good morning, boss, Happy Birthday!"
It felt a little better that at least someone had remembered.
I worked until one o'clock and then Jane knocked on my door and said, "You know, it's such a beautiful day outside, and it's your birthday, let's go out to lunch, just you and me."
I said, "Thanks Jane, that's the greatest thing I've heard all day. Let's go!"
We went to lunch, but we didn't go where we normally would go.
We dined instead at a little place with a private table.
We had two martinis each and I enjoyed the meal tremendously. On the way back to the office, Jane said, "You know, it's such a beautiful day, we don't need to go back to the office, do we?"
I responded, "I guess not. What do you have in mind?"
She said, "Let's go to my apartment."
After arriving at her apartment Jane turned to me and said, "Boss, if you don't mind, I'm going to step into the bedroom for a moment. I'll be right back."
"Ok." I nervously replied.
She went into the bedroom and, after a couple of minutes, she came out carrying a huge birthday cake... followed by my wife, kids, and dozens of my friends and co-workers, all singing "Happy Birthday".
And I just sat there...
On the couch...
Naked.
December 09, 2005 •
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I saw this posted on a forum and thought it was pretty funny, so I decided to share it here for all of you to see. Enjoy! :)
- Under no circumstances may two men share an umbrella.
- It is ok for a man to cry under the following circumstances:
- When a heroic dog dies to save its master.
- The moment Angelina Jolie starts unbuttoning her blouse.
- After wrecking your boss' car.
- One hour, 12 minutes, 37 seconds into "The Crying Game".
- When she is using her teeth.
- Any Man who brings a camera to a bachelor party may be legally killed and eaten by his buddies.
- Unless he murdered someone in your family, you must bail a friend out of jail within 12 hours.
- If you've known a guy for more than 24 hours, his sister is off limits forever, unless you actually marry her.
- Moaning about the brand of free beer in a buddy's fridge is forbidden. However complain at will if the temperature is unsuitable.
- No man shall ever be required to buy a birthday present for another man. In fact, even remembering your buddy's birthday is strictly optional.
- On a road trip, the strongest bladder determines pit stops, not the weakest.
- When stumbling upon other guys watching a sporting event, you may ask the score of the game in progress, but you may never ask who's playing.
- You may flatulate in front of a woman only after you have brought her to climax. If you trap her head under the covers for the purpose of flatulent entertainment, she's officially your girlfriend.
- It is permissible to drink a fruity alcohol drink only when you're sunning on a tropical beach... and it's delivered by a topless supermodel...and it's free.
- Only in situations of moral and/or physical peril are you allowed to kick another guy in the nuts.
- Unless you're in prison, never fight naked.
- Friends don't let friends wear Speedos. Ever. Issue closed.
- If a man's fly is down, that's his problem, you didn't see anything.
- Women who claim they "love to watch sports" must be treated as spies until they demonstrate knowledge of the game and the ability to drink as much as the other sports watchers.
- A man in the company of a hot, suggestively dressed woman must remain sober enough to fight.
- Never hesitate to reach for the last beer or the last slice of pizza, but not both, that's just greedy.
- If you compliment a guy on his six-pack, you'd better be talking about his choice of beer.
- Never join your girlfriend or wife in discussing a friend of yours, except if she's withholding sex pending your response.
- Phrases that may NOT be uttered to another man while lifting weights:
- Yeah, Baby, Push it!
- C'mon, give me one more! Harder!
- Another set and we can hit the showers!
- Never talk to a man in a bathroom unless you are on equal footing: i.e. Both urinating, both waiting in line, etc. For all other situations, an almost imperceptible nod is all the conversation you need.
- Never allow a telephone conversation with a woman to go on longer than you are able to have sex with her. Keep a stopwatch by the phone. Hang up if necessary.
- The morning after you and a girl who was formerly "just a friend" have carnal drunken monkey sex, the fact that you're feeling weird and guilty is no reason for you not to nail each other again before the discussion about what a big mistake it was occurs.
- It is acceptable for you to drive her car. It is not acceptable for her to drive yours.
- Thou shall not buy a car in the colors of brown, pink, lime green, orange or sky blue.
- The girl who replies to the question "What do you want for Christmas?" with "If you loved me, you'd know what I want!" gets an Xbox. End of story.
- There is no reason for guys to watch Ice Skating or Men's Gymnastics. Ever.
December 01, 2005 •
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Note to self: Get 4-wheel drive fixed ASAP. Driving with rear-wheel drive and no 4x4 in snow is not cute.
November 28, 2005 •
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So last night I didn't get to sleep until roughly 3:30-4:00am, which is definitely not a good thing when I have to be up at 6:30am to get ready for work. That's what sucks about sleeping in on Sundays. Also, the power decided to go out for no apparent reason last night (in the entire town), knocking out my 175 day uptime on my router/server. That was kind of irritating, but what can you do?
Surprisingly, I'm feeling pretty good this morning with the great lack of sleep. I also have a huge craving for some crab rangoons from my favorite local Chinese buffet. Lunch time needs to get here now!
November 27, 2005 •
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Sundays are always so depressing. They just mean that you have to go back to work the next day and get back into the same old boring routine for another 5 days in a row. Being grown up sucks.
Although, I must say, Mountain Dew Code Red is very tasty.
November 16, 2005 •
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So last night I decided to boot into Windows for the first or second time since I've installed it on my old 20gig hard drive (dual-booting using Grub). After completing the hordes of Windows Updates, I started playing around with some of my old software and such. I even fired up my CS 1.6 server and dicked around in CS for a few minutes. I kind of liked how things 'just worked.'
After being a hardcore Linux user for the past 4-5 years, it was quite a change to be able to 'double-click' on a game and not have to worry about whether or not my current Wine build would still work.
Now here's the thing. I got thinking.. basically everything I do now days is done through a screen session on my server, including (but not limited to) e-mail, IRC, BitTorrent, programming, system maintenance, AIM/MSN/Yahoo IM clients, etc and really the only thing I do on my main machine at home is use that screen session in an Xorg environment. I am missing out on all the fun games, being able to print from my print server, using my digital camera, using my USB->Serial connection for my cell phone and other misc. things like that. So I've been asking myself.. do I even really need to run Linux on my main machine anymore? If anything, it's just a pain in the ass keeping it up to date, making sure things don't break, etc.
What it boils down to is this: I'm getting older and lazier and starting not to care. I just want things to work and not have to worry about keeping software patched. I no longer care about the 'elite' self-imagery that I always thought running Linux gave me. Don't get me wrong- I still highly dislike Windows, and if I could, I would probably run OS X on it (soon to come), but damnit, I want to play some games! And let's face it.. it's just not going to happen on Linux for quite a while. So, I think sometime this week I'm going to scrap the Linux partition and throw XP on for a while. Who knows, maybe I'll be reminded why I didn't run it for so long shortly thereafter.
What are some of your opinions? Spirilis? Damacus? Sorel?
November 11, 2005 •
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Finally got an occupational license in Wisconsin and my rights to drive back in Iowa. That means that after 6 months of not being able to drive to work, I can finally drive to work! I feel like a little 16 year old school-boy who just got his license all over again. Such a good feeling. It sucks having to depend on others for a ride to work- it made me feel so helpless. I hope I never have to go through that bullshit ever again.