Very little web design was done yesterday. Instead of that, I did a ton of Graphic Design. Cool!
Carrie had that, wha'd'yacallit, class in the evening, so she was home for the afternoon. We had absolutely no food in the house, so I went to Taco Bell for lunch and bought like seven soft tacos (supreme) and a cheese quesadilla. Health? Ha!
Thankfully we went shopping at Fred Meyer not too long after that. I even made Salmon with steamed broccoli and sauteed zuccini for dinner! Wow! Salmon is tasty fish.
In the evening while Carrie was at class I worked upon my two major Halloween projects: My punkins and my costume. More on those later...
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Friday, October 29, 2004
Pac-Man vs Sinistar
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Thursday, October 28, 2004
Kind of Creepy, But it Works.
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Lunatic
Carrie for once did not have class in the evening yesterday (Wednesday). That means she worked a full 9:00 to 5:00 instead of a weird split shift. There was a new girl at the Bead Factory (Leanna or something like that—so now we have Linnea, Leilani, Lindsay, and Leanna to keep straight; gotta be careful when you start to say one of their names that you get the right one out), so Carrie didn't come home for lunch, instead she went out to lunch with Viki and new girl. I did, however, actually end up going to the Bead Factory to have a meeting with Melissa about integrating the WireMaster logo with header cards. Fascinating, no?
For dinner, Heather and Steph came over and brought takeout from Rock Pasta, and we all ate and watched Mean Girls. Around 7:00-ish my mom called to tell me there was a lunar eclipse, so I walked outside and couldn't see it because of the huge tree in back of the house. I walked a bit further up the sidewalk to the corner of 11th, and sure enough, there was a freaky looking moon up in the sky. It was red. And I do mean red. And even though it was dark you could still see the whole thing.
I went back inside and announced to the girls that there was a celestial phenomenon happening that wouldn't happen again for another three years or so, and would they like to come outside with me and see it?
So we all trooped up the sidewalk and oohed and aahed at the little red moon and the shadow of Terra that was slowly moving across it (although through some optical trick it looked like it was going the other way).
They went back inside to finish watching their movie. I got my camera and took a couple of pictures even though I knew there was no real way they would turn out with any quality (my digital camera suxors in the dark, and this was about as dark as you could get). Here's a regular photo:
After Mean Girls was over all four of us went down to the Bead Factory so that I could take a picture of the ENTIRE staff (excluding myself, obviously). Lindsay brought down her baby and I got to see it for the first time. Linnea brought Melina, too, and Sophia had a great time playing with her. I took a few photos of the most beautiful women in the world (I'll post the pics whenever Mark gives 'em to me), then Carrie & I went home. Carrie was gonna hang out with Leilani, but a friend of Leilani's showed up unnanounced at her house (the one that's two blocks away from ours), so she had to entertain that friend instead. Stupid pop-overs.
On the way home from the photo shoot I happened to look over and see that the shadow of Terra was about halfway off of old Luna. Kinda like that story where the farm animals think that someone's taken a bite outta the sun. Only this time the moon. But you could still see the whole round—the shadow wasn't as dark as the surrounding sky. Vey kool.
Carrie & I tried to get some sleep last night. That didn't work very well. I wonder what's up with us not being able to sleep at night no matter how tired we are during the day? Howcome we're so wired when 11:00 PM rolls around?
The world may never know.
For dinner, Heather and Steph came over and brought takeout from Rock Pasta, and we all ate and watched Mean Girls. Around 7:00-ish my mom called to tell me there was a lunar eclipse, so I walked outside and couldn't see it because of the huge tree in back of the house. I walked a bit further up the sidewalk to the corner of 11th, and sure enough, there was a freaky looking moon up in the sky. It was red. And I do mean red. And even though it was dark you could still see the whole thing.
I went back inside and announced to the girls that there was a celestial phenomenon happening that wouldn't happen again for another three years or so, and would they like to come outside with me and see it?
So we all trooped up the sidewalk and oohed and aahed at the little red moon and the shadow of Terra that was slowly moving across it (although through some optical trick it looked like it was going the other way).
They went back inside to finish watching their movie. I got my camera and took a couple of pictures even though I knew there was no real way they would turn out with any quality (my digital camera suxors in the dark, and this was about as dark as you could get). Here's a regular photo:
After Mean Girls was over all four of us went down to the Bead Factory so that I could take a picture of the ENTIRE staff (excluding myself, obviously). Lindsay brought down her baby and I got to see it for the first time. Linnea brought Melina, too, and Sophia had a great time playing with her. I took a few photos of the most beautiful women in the world (I'll post the pics whenever Mark gives 'em to me), then Carrie & I went home. Carrie was gonna hang out with Leilani, but a friend of Leilani's showed up unnanounced at her house (the one that's two blocks away from ours), so she had to entertain that friend instead. Stupid pop-overs.
On the way home from the photo shoot I happened to look over and see that the shadow of Terra was about halfway off of old Luna. Kinda like that story where the farm animals think that someone's taken a bite outta the sun. Only this time the moon. But you could still see the whole round—the shadow wasn't as dark as the surrounding sky. Vey kool.
Carrie & I tried to get some sleep last night. That didn't work very well. I wonder what's up with us not being able to sleep at night no matter how tired we are during the day? Howcome we're so wired when 11:00 PM rolls around?
The world may never know.
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Wednesday, October 27, 2004
The Ocean Shores Pirate Strikes Back (and gets drunk)!
Yesterday while Carrie was teaching class I wrote a new article!
A Halloween Project For The Ocean Shores Pirate
I hope ye all enjoy it.
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Tuesday, October 26, 2004
A useful little bugger
My Contact Form dot Com
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Five Times a Factory
On Monday I ended up driving to The Bead Factory a total of five times in one day. Let's see if I've got it down:
- Taking Carrie to work
- Taking Coffee to Carrie
- Picking up Carrie for lunch
- Taking Carrie back after lunch (and having a meeting with Melissa)
- Picking up Carrie after work.
Hmm. Yeah, sounds about right.
Speaking of Melissa, she stopped by for din-dins (Carrie made a chicken pasta with a blue cheese sauce) and then she and Carrie went for some retail therapy. Gary came over for rasslin' and I showed him iloveegg.com in order to freak him the f--k out.
I started re-reading Farmer in the Sky yesterday as well. I'm about halfway through it already.
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Monday, October 25, 2004
Confound It
I would like to get up outta bed around 7:00 every morning. Sounds easy, right? For some reason it is absolutely impossible to get up until after 8:00. This morning it was closer to 8:30. I didn't get very good sleep last night (I seem to write that sentence a lot); I didn't fall asleep until almost 2:00, and then I woke up at 4:30-ish and had a session of epic gas and ferocious flatulence (TMI?), then couldn't fall asleep again for at least another hour. So I really didn't get much more than five hours of sleep.
It probably didn't help that yesterday (Sunday) I didn't wake up until almost noon.
We went and bought punkins yesterday, though! We went to Sterino's and I picked out five medium-sized punkins and eight teeny-tiny cuties. Carrie made a kickass potato-leek soup for din-dins slash practice. She also made fresh salsa, which confounded Taisha: "You made salsa?"
Recently (last Thursday) Carrie & I went used CD shopping. We bought a whole bunch o' stuff. Here's what I can remember:
It probably didn't help that yesterday (Sunday) I didn't wake up until almost noon.
We went and bought punkins yesterday, though! We went to Sterino's and I picked out five medium-sized punkins and eight teeny-tiny cuties. Carrie made a kickass potato-leek soup for din-dins slash practice. She also made fresh salsa, which confounded Taisha: "You made salsa?"
Recently (last Thursday) Carrie & I went used CD shopping. We bought a whole bunch o' stuff. Here's what I can remember:
- Pizzacato Five: Made in USA
- Puffy AmiYumi: Illustrated History
- Michelle Branch: Hotel Paper
- Alanis Morissette: Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie
I also got Out of Sight on DVD for only six bucks and change. That's a good movie, judge.
Oh, and I hosted Fools Play on Saturday (Haunted House) and must say I kicked all ass.
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Saturday, October 23, 2004
Welcome...
Welcome to zombo-com. This is zombo-com. You can do anything at zombo-com. Anything at all. The only limit is yourself. Welcome to zombo-com.
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"He's In a Happier Place, Now"
Wow, Friday was a bus-load of fun (not sarcastically). In the afternoon I went over to Mary's apartment and actually freakin' painted! I hadn't pushed paint around with a brush in, oh, about five years. Or maybe five-and-a-half? I dunno. A freakin' long time. It was heap big fun. Panamonica's is displaying a collection of Halloween-themed artwork this month, so Mary & I were both painting Halloween-themed pictures. Hers was a rather ambition one with included a severed foot and arm, a heart in a jar, a crow on a piece of wood, and a pumpkin. Mine was much, much simpler, but I thought it would be good to ease my way back into the realm of painting rather than jump in headfirst and hit my noggin on a jagged outcropping! Are you ready? Here's what I painted (click it for a larger version):
"He's In a Happier Place, Now"
It took me about an hour to do that. It was fun to hang out with Ms. Mary and paint. She sent me home with a whole boatload of stuff (including wedding pics she took and some DVDs that she'd borrowed that I'd forgotten about).
I drove home from Mary's but discovered that Carrie had already left for the Bead Factory's Anniversary Party, so I scanned in my painting, then found a frame for it (by removing the frame from a photo of the house I'd taken), then took it to Panamonica's, where it was proudly put up on the wall. I had a sammitch there and shot the breeze with a guy named Sean (or Shawn or Shaun). We talked mostly about early 80s cartoons. He'd forgotten that Casy Kasem was the voice of Cliffjumper.
I came back home for a bit, and I think I played some video games or something before I drove down to The Grand Cinema and saw I Heart Huckabees with Neighbor Gary. It was pretty funny, I have to say. Afterwards we went back to Panamonica's so Gary could see "He's In a Happier Place, Now" and hang out. Mary & Devon showed up shortly thereafter. I left around midnight and drove by the house. Realizing that Carrie still wasn't home from the BF I drove there and went inside. Carrie saw me and said to Viki, "Chris is here; can I go home now?"
I rescued my wife from having to work very, very late.
Well, in truth the whole thing was wrapping up, but she still got to go home earlier than she would have if I hadn't shown up.
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Friday, October 22, 2004
An Hilarious Blast from Halloween Past
I'd forgotten just how funny this article was until I re-read it just now:
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Thursday, October 21, 2004
Debbie does Panamonica's
Whoops! Keep forgetting to do this. Let's see what I can remember...
Tuesday I had lunch with Brandy at Metropolitan Market so she could tell me about her trip to NYU and we could generally hang out. We ate sushi. I bought a sammitch to bring home to my wife.
Wednesday we got a call from Carrie's mum saying she wasn't feeling well and didn't really wanna drive home. Carrie's dad came and got me and we picked her up (after we finally found her—see, she thought she'd told him the wrong place to pick her up, but really she'd told him the correct place, so we went to the correct place and she went to the wrong place. In other words: *sigh* ), then he took her home in her car, so I drove his car back here.
We had salmon baked in Mr. Yoshida's Sauce for dinner. Yes, there really is a Mr. Yoshida. Hoo-boy! Tasty fish!
Carrie drove the 'yota to work to teach her class. Around 8:30 I got a little stir-crazy, so I went to Panamonica's and hung out with a very inebriated Devon, and a still-working Mary. We met a nice young lady named Debbie who was from the base down south and had just moved to the area and had never been to Panamonica's before. Krissy sang a k-a set. I like hearing her sing.
Carrie really couldn't sleep at all last night. Well, a little. It was hard (again) to get up in the mornin'. We gotta figure out what we can do about that, 'cause it totally suxors. It suxors like the word "suxors."
Tuesday I had lunch with Brandy at Metropolitan Market so she could tell me about her trip to NYU and we could generally hang out. We ate sushi. I bought a sammitch to bring home to my wife.
Wednesday we got a call from Carrie's mum saying she wasn't feeling well and didn't really wanna drive home. Carrie's dad came and got me and we picked her up (after we finally found her—see, she thought she'd told him the wrong place to pick her up, but really she'd told him the correct place, so we went to the correct place and she went to the wrong place. In other words: *sigh* ), then he took her home in her car, so I drove his car back here.
We had salmon baked in Mr. Yoshida's Sauce for dinner. Yes, there really is a Mr. Yoshida. Hoo-boy! Tasty fish!
Carrie drove the 'yota to work to teach her class. Around 8:30 I got a little stir-crazy, so I went to Panamonica's and hung out with a very inebriated Devon, and a still-working Mary. We met a nice young lady named Debbie who was from the base down south and had just moved to the area and had never been to Panamonica's before. Krissy sang a k-a set. I like hearing her sing.
Carrie really couldn't sleep at all last night. Well, a little. It was hard (again) to get up in the mornin'. We gotta figure out what we can do about that, 'cause it totally suxors. It suxors like the word "suxors."
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Jon Stewart K's some A
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Wednesday, October 20, 2004
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Tuesday, October 19, 2004
Mettre les Photographies dans les Cartes!
I have a peculiar way of cleaning that bothers some people sometimes. The way I clean is thus: Let's say I want to clean off my office desk. I will take EVERYTHING off of the desk bit-by-bit, put it somewhere else, and organize it there into sections. Then I'll take each section back and put it where it belongs, so that my desk is nice and organized. Basically, in order to clean one location I have to make a complete disaster area out of another—but the end result is that BOTH areas end up cleaned. Problems can arise if I get interrupted in this process, because then there will be this huge mess in the second location waiting for me to come back and straighten it up.
The reason I'm telling you this is because yesterday I launched a thorough cleaning of the office. So right now both the office AND the dining room are pretty much wrecks.
I also took a look at the dishwasher, which last week had started to produce either smoke or steam that smelled like smoke from it's behind. I think we may have burned out our heating unit on it. Suxors!
Monday was like the first day in a long time that Carrie actually worked 9:00 to 5:00 instead of a split shift or anything like that. Around 2:00 I called the store to see when she was coming home, but she wasn't really able. Would I like to get some lunch and bring it to the store to eat with her there? Would I!
I went to Metropolitan Market and got a sammy and some soup for her, and some soup and an olive roll for me. When I got to the store Carrie was still in a meeting with Viki, so I wandered around and hung out with the other babes for a while until she was ready. Then we ate a tasty lunch at her desk.
Less than two hours later I went back to pick her up and we drove straight to my folks' house so that mi familia could look at the wedding photos.
When we got home I tried some experiments in printing out some photos while Carrie wrote a few Thank You cards (we's gonna stick der photos in des cards). I had a good deal of Bead Factory work to do in the evening, along with cleaning up the mess I made when I was "cleaning" the office, and watching the conclusion of the Farscape miniseries.
The reason I'm telling you this is because yesterday I launched a thorough cleaning of the office. So right now both the office AND the dining room are pretty much wrecks.
I also took a look at the dishwasher, which last week had started to produce either smoke or steam that smelled like smoke from it's behind. I think we may have burned out our heating unit on it. Suxors!
Monday was like the first day in a long time that Carrie actually worked 9:00 to 5:00 instead of a split shift or anything like that. Around 2:00 I called the store to see when she was coming home, but she wasn't really able. Would I like to get some lunch and bring it to the store to eat with her there? Would I!
I went to Metropolitan Market and got a sammy and some soup for her, and some soup and an olive roll for me. When I got to the store Carrie was still in a meeting with Viki, so I wandered around and hung out with the other babes for a while until she was ready. Then we ate a tasty lunch at her desk.
Less than two hours later I went back to pick her up and we drove straight to my folks' house so that mi familia could look at the wedding photos.
When we got home I tried some experiments in printing out some photos while Carrie wrote a few Thank You cards (we's gonna stick der photos in des cards). I had a good deal of Bead Factory work to do in the evening, along with cleaning up the mess I made when I was "cleaning" the office, and watching the conclusion of the Farscape miniseries.
posted by Christopher at 9:57 AM
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Monday, October 18, 2004
Costume Materials
Sunday Carrie & I went to Fred Meyer to buy pigs and blankets, then stopped by the Home Depot so I could pick up some material for my Halloween costume this year. We just happened to run into Travis Medak, for whom Carrie has been looking for quite a while. We bought a couple of hot dogs at the stand outside of Home Depot and joked about how we both wanted to eat healthier foods. Oops!
Carrie made pigs in a blanket for Fools Play to munch on during practice. I think Taisha ended up eating the vast majority of them. After practice I watched the Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars miniseries, part one.
Carrie made pigs in a blanket for Fools Play to munch on during practice. I think Taisha ended up eating the vast majority of them. After practice I watched the Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars miniseries, part one.
posted by Christopher at 10:28 AM
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Sunday, October 17, 2004
That is One F**ked-Up Magic Show
I Love Egg! Do you?
posted by Christopher at 1:14 PM
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Saturday, October 16, 2004
Take a Look...
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Friday, October 15, 2004
Les Films à Profusion!
Boy, I've been getting a ton of movies in the last few days. On Wednesday I bought the following:
Carrie & I have been watching a movie in bed every evening this week, which is really cool. J'aime regarder les films.
Carrie & I have been watching a movie in bed every evening this week, which is really cool. J'aime regarder les films.
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Thursday, October 14, 2004
"Meet the Dog Buddha!"
Hello! I've been having trouble getting a good, full night's sleep lately. I think it mostly has to do with the fact that I've been having extremely vivid dreams. Not necessarily bad dreams; just really well-constructed dreams. Like this one, for example:
On the side of the road was a structure with an open end (my dream people couldn't decide whether it was a garage or the trailer part of a tractor-trailer). Posted on a sign outside the open door was a sign that read, "Meet the Dog Buddha." Inside the garage/trailer were three women (<sarcasm>jeez, that's not symbolic of Buddhism or anything</sarcasm>), each of whom had a dog on a leash. If your dog was depressed or needed spiritual guidance or something, you could take it into the garage/trailer, and a woman would fill a food dish with dog food. Then one of the three Buddha dogs (it was never clear whether one of them was the Dog Buddha and the others were fakes or whether somehow all three were the Dog Buddha together) would come forward and eat out of the food dish. Then you'd bring your dog forward and it would eat out of the same dish as the Dog Buddha. And this would somehow help your dog to feel better.
I don't usually have dreams that are that full of symbolism. I know.
On the side of the road was a structure with an open end (my dream people couldn't decide whether it was a garage or the trailer part of a tractor-trailer). Posted on a sign outside the open door was a sign that read, "Meet the Dog Buddha." Inside the garage/trailer were three women (<sarcasm>jeez, that's not symbolic of Buddhism or anything</sarcasm>), each of whom had a dog on a leash. If your dog was depressed or needed spiritual guidance or something, you could take it into the garage/trailer, and a woman would fill a food dish with dog food. Then one of the three Buddha dogs (it was never clear whether one of them was the Dog Buddha and the others were fakes or whether somehow all three were the Dog Buddha together) would come forward and eat out of the food dish. Then you'd bring your dog forward and it would eat out of the same dish as the Dog Buddha. And this would somehow help your dog to feel better.
I don't usually have dreams that are that full of symbolism. I know.
posted by Christopher at 7:59 AM
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Wednesday, October 13, 2004
Mint Tea Times Two
Yesterday (Tuesday) I drove Carrie to work on account of the sicky. Well, first I drove to the Mandolin Cafe and bought her a mint tea. Then I drove her to work. Then I came home and ate breakfast (I remember not what I had), and then got super, super sleepy and so ended up falling asleep on the couch instead of getting right to work. Ah, well.
Carrie called to have me pick her up shortly thereafter. I brought her home and then worked up the handout for her Peyote in the Round class. Sometime in the afternoon I went to Fred Meyer again to buy bread, cheese, tomato soup, nasal spray, and various other sundries. I also picked up the Action Sound Robin action figure from the Teen Titans.
I made Grilled Cheese sammitches and soup (for Carrie) for dinner, then took Carrie back to the BF to teach her class. Well, first I drove to the Mandolin Cafe and bought her a mint tea. Then I drov her to work. I put the PitR handout on Missa's computer there. Then I came home and did more BF work and also played some MAME. Carrie was dropped off at 10:05 (which is rather early), and I made us some waffles (weird), then we went to bed and watched Down With Love.
Carrie called to have me pick her up shortly thereafter. I brought her home and then worked up the handout for her Peyote in the Round class. Sometime in the afternoon I went to Fred Meyer again to buy bread, cheese, tomato soup, nasal spray, and various other sundries. I also picked up the Action Sound Robin action figure from the Teen Titans.
I made Grilled Cheese sammitches and soup (for Carrie) for dinner, then took Carrie back to the BF to teach her class. Well, first I drove to the Mandolin Cafe and bought her a mint tea. Then I drov her to work. I put the PitR handout on Missa's computer there. Then I came home and did more BF work and also played some MAME. Carrie was dropped off at 10:05 (which is rather early), and I made us some waffles (weird), then we went to bed and watched Down With Love.
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Tuesday, October 12, 2004
Welcome Back, Sick-o
On Monday I spent much of the day preparing for the return of my wife from her extended trip to Philadelphia. She got home around 3:30 or so and immediately became ill with a flu-like cold of some sort or other.
I went to Fred Meyer's to buy stuff for din-dins, and also picked up a copy of Mean Girls. Carrie made pigs in a blanket and a really good green bean salad with goat cheese and a dijon mustard vineagrette dressing. Num-numos.
We went to bed kinda early on account of Carrie was sick, and we watched Mean Girls and then fell to sleepy. Well, Carrie fell asleep almost immediately; it took me a while longer.
I went to Fred Meyer's to buy stuff for din-dins, and also picked up a copy of Mean Girls. Carrie made pigs in a blanket and a really good green bean salad with goat cheese and a dijon mustard vineagrette dressing. Num-numos.
We went to bed kinda early on account of Carrie was sick, and we watched Mean Girls and then fell to sleepy. Well, Carrie fell asleep almost immediately; it took me a while longer.
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Monday, October 11, 2004
Let's See...
Hello!
Well, I once again forgot to update this thing this morning as I had planned. So here's what happened yesterday as far as I can remember:
I had planned to get up around 8:00 but ended up sleeping until around 10:15 or so. It took me a good three hours to get through my morning routine. Then I went to Fred Meyer and bought garbage bags, then swung by Blockbuster to grab The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra and also bought Confessions of a Dangerous Mind and Down With Love. Then I picked up some pills at Bartell's. Sexpensive pills.
I did some cleaning before Fools Play Practice. Did I mention that Nathan the Orange Fool was at the last show? No? He was. He didn't perform or anything, though.
After practice I did some tidying up on the computers here and went to bed early. Lost Skeleton put me right to sleep (don't get me wrong, though—I love that flick. I'm gonna watch it several more times before I have to give it back this weekend).
Well, I once again forgot to update this thing this morning as I had planned. So here's what happened yesterday as far as I can remember:
I had planned to get up around 8:00 but ended up sleeping until around 10:15 or so. It took me a good three hours to get through my morning routine. Then I went to Fred Meyer and bought garbage bags, then swung by Blockbuster to grab The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra and also bought Confessions of a Dangerous Mind and Down With Love. Then I picked up some pills at Bartell's. Sexpensive pills.
I did some cleaning before Fools Play Practice. Did I mention that Nathan the Orange Fool was at the last show? No? He was. He didn't perform or anything, though.
After practice I did some tidying up on the computers here and went to bed early. Lost Skeleton put me right to sleep (don't get me wrong, though—I love that flick. I'm gonna watch it several more times before I have to give it back this weekend).
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Saturday, October 09, 2004
Guess What I've Been Forgetting
That's right, I've been completely forgetting to get back into the habit of updating this here blog, seeing as how I didn't do it for so long. I gotta get back into the habit of a lot of things. But I'm doin' well. Carrie is out of town in Philly, Mary is out of town in Pullman, and Brandy is out of town in NY, so most of my ladies aren't around right now. I've been watching a ton of Farscape and playing a ton of MAME. I saw Shaun of the Dead with Taisha.
I'll resume regular broadcasting, say, tomorrow, okay? Got lots to do.
I'll resume regular broadcasting, say, tomorrow, okay? Got lots to do.
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Saturday, October 02, 2004
Prognosis Negative
Yesterday (Friday) Carrie & I tried our damnedest to get up at a reasonable time, and didn't really succeed at all. For some reason ever since we got back from the Honeymoon we've been having real trouble getting up in the mornings. Anyway, I drove her to work, then swung by Starbucks and got her a coffee (and a Chai & a pumpkin scone for Steph). I then went immediately to COMPUSA to buy a chord that I thought might actually help me connect my two computers so they could talk to each other. More on that later.
Carrie was going to teach Peyote Sampler in the evening, and she was very embarrassed of her handout (through no fault of my own), so in the morning she whipped up an updated version that I went to the store and picked up from her. I then spent the majority of the middle of the day unsuccessfully trying to make some sorta connection between these two computers here. Didn't work.
For lunch we went to The Rosewood so we could have fine food and also pay Barry for the keg he supplied to our wedding. Missa & Christine showed up while we were there (of course—they can't leave us alone).
After Carrie went to class (or after I took her there with the disc with the new handout on it) I finished the update of the new design for www.ANGRYBEEF.com. Ch-check it out. NOW! Then I watched some Star Trek VI - The Undiscovered Country and dozed until Carrie came home.
Man, something is screwy with Amazon.com's associates central place right now. Weird.
Carrie was going to teach Peyote Sampler in the evening, and she was very embarrassed of her handout (through no fault of my own), so in the morning she whipped up an updated version that I went to the store and picked up from her. I then spent the majority of the middle of the day unsuccessfully trying to make some sorta connection between these two computers here. Didn't work.
For lunch we went to The Rosewood so we could have fine food and also pay Barry for the keg he supplied to our wedding. Missa & Christine showed up while we were there (of course—they can't leave us alone).
After Carrie went to class (or after I took her there with the disc with the new handout on it) I finished the update of the new design for www.ANGRYBEEF.com. Ch-check it out. NOW! Then I watched some Star Trek VI - The Undiscovered Country and dozed until Carrie came home.
Man, something is screwy with Amazon.com's associates central place right now. Weird.
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Friday, October 01, 2004
Welcome back, sir. I trust the expedition was fruitful?
Wedding... Honeymoon... the ending of my Seattle job...
It's all finally done.
The wedding was wonderful. It went off with only a couple of (very minor) glitches and everyone says it was beautiful. The honeymoon in Disneyland was equally if not more so wonderful.
Now it's the first day of October, so it's time to get back to business. Real business. My own web business.
To prove that I'm on top of things right now, I've already created my Of the Month picks for October. Being that my favorite holiday (Halloween) is in October, I thought all my picks should have some sort of horror theme:
It's all finally done.
The wedding was wonderful. It went off with only a couple of (very minor) glitches and everyone says it was beautiful. The honeymoon in Disneyland was equally if not more so wonderful.
Now it's the first day of October, so it's time to get back to business. Real business. My own web business.
To prove that I'm on top of things right now, I've already created my Of the Month picks for October. Being that my favorite holiday (Halloween) is in October, I thought all my picks should have some sort of horror theme:
Link of the Month:
The Federal Vampire and Zombie Agency
This website hilariously deals with a fictional (or was it?) government agency that existed until the 1970s that dealt with paranormal monster fighting. Controlling zombie breakouts. Researching antidotes to vampirism. Stuff like that. The site even has several "what would you do?" scenerios so you can see if you've got the mettle to be an agent. Absolutely brilliant website.
Book of the Month:
The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag
by Robert A. Heinlein
This book is really as close to horror and fantasy as Heinlein ever comes. The title story is a fascinating mystery yarn about a man who leaves for work every day, comes home afterwards, and has absolutely no memory of where he went or what he did there. He hires a private investigating husband-and-wife team, and as the two delve into Mr. Hoag's life, seemingly impossibly supernatural events start happening. I would love to make this story into a movie some day.
DVD of the Month:
The Thing
John Carpenter is a very hit-or-miss filmmaker. This movie probably hits home more powerfully than any of his others (except for Big Trouble in Little China, which is a comedy—not to mention the greatest film ever made). This film is a visceral, paranoid, claustrophobic masterpiece about a group stranded in an arctic (or antartic? I forget and it's not very important either way) research station who make a discovery that unleashes... something into their camp. Unlike most horror movie people, the characters in this movie are smart. That only makes the film more frightening, as you realize that even these very intelligent people might not be able to think their way out of this situation. Features a great performance by Wilford Brimley (!!). Based on a story by old-school Science Fiction master John W. Campbell Jr.
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