The thoughts that float through my head when I remember to jot them down. An insight into the madness that is me.
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This is where you stick random tidbits of information about yourself.
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Friday, January 03, 2003
Well wasn't that special.
I was up, awake, and with a dull ache in my left ear/left side of my throat until about, oh, 6am before I finally dozed off. Unable to sleep. Of course I had a conference call at 9AM so I staggered down the stairs (late) in order to get on the phone.
I can hardly talk more than a mumble today. Things are a bit tender. I had some grilled chicken last night and I think the crunchy (aka burnt, hello atomic element number 6) went down hard a few times and that aggrivated my throat.
So I have a wedding rehersal to go to this afternoon (late) for my sisters wedding which is tomorrow. It kind of snuck up on me I guess. I didn't really think it was this soon but it is the first weekend in January. Kind of an odd wedding date but with her in Nurse Practitioner school this is the last time she'll have some time off for the next 18 months. My mom is doing most of the catering type things and I hope it all goes well in the end. She was a bit stressed on it and my sister apparently hasn't given a lot of feedback. Plus I'm not real fond of the guy, he's kind of stand off-ish and that whole 'married when he met her and left his pregnant wife' thing has always stuck in my head a bit on the 'uhm, bad idea' side. But of course no one cares about my opinion on the matter and being a dick about it would only make my sister not like me even more so I'll just go along, grin and bear it and not be able to drink because I'm still on narcotics.
I've been playing around on this website 'Phototsig' (http://www.photosig.com) where people submit their photos for various critiquing. I'd done a couple, and I got rightfully smacked down. It's hard when you take a picture of your kid which you think is the best in the world and then everyone tears it apart.
Well apparently I offended some fan of some photographer on the site when I didn't like their photo and gave it a thumbs down (they have a three thumbs up to a three thumbs down rating) so he proceed to go through every photo I posted and give it the worst rating possible and denegrate and foam at the mouth about everything. I emailed him and suggested he go back and make sure he point out how ugly my kid is, and everything else. I figured out what review offended him so much and went back and expounded on my thoughts of why it sucked even more. I had nothing else to do last night while I laid awake in the night but to forumlate my scathing reply. The picture was of some naked chik in stilleto heals out in the forest with snow on the ground and some little fairy wings made out of panty hose strapped to her back. I said It didn't look that erotic and she didn't look very fairly like, being 6ft tall and in heels in the middle of the woods. Not to mention the wings reminded me of the little caterpillar in 'A Bug's Life' being 10 times to small for the body, that little thing called physics.
Oh well, I ruined their life apparently. Because the person I rated goes to my latest picture and proceeds to tell me how ugly Becca is and she doesn't look christmassy at all in her dress and everything. Better not let her Papa see that because it was one of his favorite pictures of her. Anyway, real professional behavior people. I guess I hit a nerve. Oh well, fuck em. If the best thing they can do is insult a 14 month old kid, they've got bigger problems.
Well my little rug rat just crawled under my desk and before she finds the blinky light on the power switch again I better post this and get her out of there.
12:45 PM
Thursday, January 02, 2003
Angi's Pregnant. Kid number two is on the way.
Total shocker. When you're told you can't have kids 'the normal way' by a Doctor and you do invitro fertilization for the first one, it's quite a shock to get pregnant the normal way. We're a little excited to say the least. I've been trying not to get to excited because we still have nine months to go, and lots of things can go wrong.
Angi took one pregnancy test on the morning of the 30th, and then two more the next day. We asked the Doctor's office to confirm it with a test, but they insisted that they're no more / no less accurate than what they do and the scheduled the first visit for January 8th.
So my blog should get semi-intersting to see what happens over the next nine months.
Or not, if you've got no kids/don't like kids not like you'll care :). Of course I'm still of the opinion i'm the only one that reads this anyway.
Back to work today, pretty tame being the 2nd to last day of the week and all, but weeded through about 300 emails. The delete key got a workout.
Other than that, not much else going on. pain med ran out so I had to switch to the demerol pills. I don't like those at all, and I don't understand how someone could get willingly hooked on them. They gave me a weird disjointed feeling making anything but watching TV a chore.
Saw the Two towers on Monday. Becca came along. She's starting to recognize things and get scared though. There is a scene where one warg has Gimli pinned down and a second one pops over and growls ready to eat him. She was sitting on my knee watching when that happened. She turned, and proceed to scamper up my chest trying to get away.
I wrapped my arms around her and let her hide her face, which lasted maybe a second or two, then she turned around and contiuned to watch and was pushing my arms away from her. I thought it was very cute. A few other scenes scared her the same way but she recovered quickly and continued to stare at the screen. I can only hope the next one is this good because The Return of the King is out next Christmas.
4:00 PM
Monday, December 30, 2002
Hmm. My little world might be changing soon. Find out more details in a few days on that one.
Played Dark Age of Camelot until 2:30 AM this morning. I managed to get to level 20. Woot! I can RvR now. We'll see if I try it or not, not sure what I want to do. Had a lot of fun with a large group in the Spraggon Den. Lots of rtm/otm and a few ptm monsters. Very cool. The graphics in the game are quite interesting and well rendered. Really makes Everquest show it's age. I already canceled my Utlima Online account I resurrected for about a days worth of play. It's just too odd compared to EQ and DAOC. My brother bought DAOC as well and is getting addicted to it. Hopefully his wife is understanding but he's got two mobile & handfull little boys while I have the little passive baby girl that just likes to play with her little people.
Hopefully going to see Two Towers today. I've waited way to long for this. We're trying to get over there this afternoon to catch it.
On Jan 1 I will have three weeks of vacation with IBM. I will officially be with IBM 5 years on March 9th, 2003. That will be the longest I've ever woreked at one job in my life. In this day and age that's saying something. My dad's been with Southwestern Bell for something like 35 years. Don't find that in many people any more. Pretty interesting. I read an article that said job hopping will become popular again. I don't know if I can do that anymore. Other things are important to me like vacation days, 401k benefits, stock benefits, and most importantly health insurance coverage.
it's pretty amazing how your priority changes once you get to a income level that you are comfortable with. 10 years ago I'd have left my employer in a heart beat for another $5000 a year. Now it'd have to be $20 - $30k a year to get me to interview, and then some hellaciously awesome benefits to get me to switch. I'm pretty comfortable where I am.
I've decided to start working on an attempt at a shareware program for the Macintosh OS X. I am starting to play with Objective-C and Cocoa programming interface on my Powerbook. Right now I'm not very deep into it. I can create objects and assign basic data to them. Just now learning the methods needed to dealloc from memory to prevent memory leaks and such. Maybe I can apply some of the rudimentary knowledge I got from DeVry into some tiny extra money by writing some shareware programs. We'll see, it's pretty basic / beginning at this moment but I'd like to find a hobby that I could make a little money off of instead of waste all the money I got.
Well, that's about all the random thoughts for today that I feel like imparting.
l8r
10:57 AM
Sunday, December 29, 2002
Booring day, nothing to see here. move along
10:40 PM
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