Yeah... it seems we have the fever this year. Last year just didn't have the "oomph".

Not sure what's different this time around, or whether it will last (probably drop off a bit over the summer months,) but it's nice.

Just got out of bed.

Even though the hacking cough that's been my constant companion for two weeks now seems to have subsided quite a bit today, I still felt terrible all day. Achy, feverish, and cloudy-headed. Made for a long day at work, even though I showed up late and left early.

I also scratched the hell out of one of my fenders when trying to back into a space at the garage. I misjudged the angle and brushed the concrete wall. Probably had something to do with the humming inside of my skull...
It's not bad... but still the worst mark I've ever put on this car.
My car is going on 7 years old... and I know I should expect the occasional scratch, bump, bang, and ding, especially considering where I live and work... but knowing it's there will still eat away at the perfectionist side of my soul for weeks... until something worse happens to take my mind off it. (Perfectionism is a total curse... don't let anybody ever tell you otherwise.)

I just ate and hit the sack as soon as I got home.

Got a few things done at work anyway, despite my state. Only one crew person showed up to do any work today though. Still, we managed to get a bit accomplished. Didn't totally finish the office today... but made some progress there, as well.

Called about my gee-tar. He told me to bring it by tomorrow afternoon and he'll take a look at it and make recommendations. Basically, my idea is to pretty much strip it back to the wood and rebuild it from there. New frets, new hardware, new pickguard, new pickups and electronics.
Huh. That will make tomorrow the first time I've carried an instrument in on the subway in like over 5 years. Wow. I did that every day for 5 years when going to college. It's gonna feel weird.

EDIT:

I was just digging through the list of "Who's Online" right now a few moments ago.

Someone (a 'guest' AKA: a not-logged-in or non-registered user) was printing out the contents of this thread.

Huh. :indif:

That seems a very curious thing to do.

It's difficult to imagine there's anything in this pile of nonsense that deserves the wasting of precious planetary resources to be committed to hard-copy.

Oh well.

Enjoy paging through our ramblings, whoever you are!

And who ever you are, we can find you.... eventually. I mean, it'd take 20 years, but we could do it. :D

ED: You seem to be in the know about the gee-tar stuff. I'm looking to learn, partially because of Guitar Hero II, which is a great party game, but partially because I realized something.

Expert Guitar players look impressive while jamming, and it's a get hot women aid. :D
((SEE: Allen Collins, Lynerd Skynerd))

So, I'm looking for a cheap intro buy into a guitar and amp, tuner, and is it better to be taught, or just try to pick it up myself? Limited budget though....

Anyway, still haven't started anything for work. Laziness abounds.

Someone (a 'guest' AKA: a not-logged-in or non-registered user) was printing out the contents of this thread.

I always worry someone i know might be reading this stuff and relaying the stuff i talk about to interested parties

Crack you have come to the right place my friend... :D

Any of the cheaper Fenders (Strat, Tele...) are usually pretty good. So are the Epiphone copies if the Gibson line. They scrimp on the electronics somewhat to keep the prices down, but that shouldn't matter much when you are learning. You can always upgrade pickups down the road when you are ready to hit the stage.

Amps are a little trickier... but there have been a lot of lower priced amps that have come out in the last couple of years with a pretty slick array of features (including built-in tuners and full DSP effects.)

I've always felt having a teacher is a good jumping off point. Someone who can get you on the road, keep you from developing too many bad habits right out of the gate, and show you a few things to begin with that you probably wouldn't be able to figure out on your own.
After a year or 2 you may not need that anymore, and be able to glean what you need from books, video, and ear.
Or you may wish to get a different teacher to start to go over the more advanced stuff.

well, instead of doing my HW last night I played 4 hours of EAW: forces of corruption over my home LAN with a buddy.

holy CRAP is the SSD huge and still almost worthless, it started facing the wrong way and took was over half blown up by the time it turned around to fight.

Dropped off my guitar this afternoon. Sounds like it's gonna set me back if I do everything I want. But what the hell; I'll get a new guitar out of it... already broken in just how I like. :D

I don't think I'd get anything like that out of a brand new off-the-rack one for the kind of money I'm planning on spending here.

Gotta choose specific pickups though and call him back tonight or tomorrow. I'm leaning towards Duncans... just which specific models?

I also have to make sure he's ordering the vibrato bridge I wanted... he pointed to one in a catalog that I thought was it... but now I'm not as sure.

Hmm... thanks Ed, Kinda wish i lived near you, so you could teach me.

First snow yesterday. Shoveled drive way for the first time this winter. It's odd. Usually i've been out there 6-20 times already since december. Not that we mind the warm weather. Hell no, I'm not complaining. Keeps me happier.

Hmm... thanks Ed, Kinda wish i lived near you, so you could teach me.
Yeah... I could use a student. Would probably be fun. Keep me busy,.. learning the lessons before you to make it look like I know what I'm doing. :D

Maybe we can figure out some online distance learning thing. Swapping PDFs and mp3 files. Use inexpensive webcams or something. Hey, it is 2007... we should be able to pull that kind of thing off.

I gave Rhett some advice about inexpensive guitar gear a while back. You might want to check with him to how it all turned out.

I'll PM you the file of me playing on that CD I recorded a while back.

Once you hear it you may not want those lessons...


;)

EDIT: (I guess I wasn't really done for the night...)

Playing a Carlos Santana video on TV right now. "Smooth" Cool song... if unfortunately played to death. Couple of hawt lil' honeys in the vid, too...

Meeting Carlos and getting to talk with him for a while back in '99 when I was on tour has been just about the top highlight of my post-college career so far. It was just before that album really took off.
Come to think of it... I got to hear most of the songs off that album before it was released... and played live, too.

"You guys are doing the angel's work!" was what he said to us as he left.

Stuff like that just makes you feel ****in' great... I'll tell you what!

well, sadly I am checking in very shhortly, and checking out for the weekend. Going to see the woman and dont really get online much except to quickly check on email and ebay.

Should be a great long weekend, been a few weeks since we have seen each other.

Nothing exciting planned, just a nice long laid back holiday weekend

Gotta try to get through some of that list of "MUST DO: URGENT!!!!!" that I made a few weeks back... just before I got so sick and never got to crossing off more than a couple of items from that list. A few more things have been added since then too.

Sounds like a giant ball of fun,.. no?
Bleh.

I' surrounded currently by a small army of boxes. Cardboard, i can defeat them if they decide to get saucey. :twogun:

So, I'm almost packed up. Just need to take apart the computer and move it all over. Thus, I will be with out internet for a few days. So I'm not dead, just...

Not online. :D

See you all when I get connected again.

--Kyle

Sounds kinda like a fate worse than death to me... :dozey:

But that may be because the Internet is really about my only window to the wider world at this point.

Well, good luck with it anyway. Y'all come back real soon, y'hear?!??

long day today....yet boring woke up 6:30 at the alarm, took shower, ate some frosted flakes, then i just walked out the door, walked 4 miles, my biking path, it took me 1 hour and 7 minutes. my knees did not appreciate that.

went to dunkin donuts for smoothie before going to work. work was boring, same old stuff, just slower cause people gone and blew all their money on xmas. :p

got done w/work, got a logitech microphone/earphone and the supplement Glucosamine Sulfate, the **** that actually works. when i got home, took some of that and felt somewhat better instantly. I then loaded galaxies up, and experienced crap GCW point Base farming, which was crap and made me afk and put in the movie 'unbreakable' which is pretty good movie, if not long (saw it once before).

some odd canadian bird added me as a friend on facebook and it reminded me of another odd canadian bird i used to know. she probably wouldn't recognize me these days.

IMplayed ROTS game today on PS2 boy i havn't played that in a while but it's a good game. My sis is coming over and should be good. :D

Highlight of the day yesterday was going out to another extended lunch with a bunch of people from work. Seems like it may become a weekly ritual of sorts. That is, until we all get so busy at out respective jobs in a few weeks that we'll never be able to arrange to all be in the same place at the same time.

Still... it is in line with keeping with my primary resolution this year: to have something approaching a social life like normal people have. To that end I've also been forcing myself to talk to people a bit more at work. Y'Know... stick my head into offices that normally I would just walk by on my way somewhere else and try to just say "Hi!" or "Have a good night!" or something.

It's been a bit difficult. Attempting to start a conversation with somebody who is obviously busy with something else just simply isn't in my character. I usually don't care for it when someone does it to me. I wonder if I really appear as awkward and uncomfortable as I feel when I do manage to do it... Still, other people have no problems with it and do it all the time, so I suspect it must just be me.

Double post. So sue me. :dozey:

Spent the day trying to get through as many line-items on my list as I could before the energy ebbed and I collapsed.

Did a bunch of shopping at the wholesale club (mostly food... but also 2 DVDs that were really cheap: "Strange Brew" I love that movie; and "Unforgiven" Total classic!)

Cleaned up my home office and bedroom somewhat. Re-organized the CD collection again. Plus I got a huge stack of old magazines ready for recycling.

Also did some picking up and cleaning in the living room and kitchen... though I didn't get anywhere as near as far as I would have liked.

Still... crossing anything off the list helped to make me feel like something got accomplished today. Unlike the overwhelming majority of days in my life.

Gotta force myself to try to finish everything in the next 2 days. Impossible, I know... but the attempt must be made, for otherwise I will revert to my sloth like behaviour, and I will still be bitching about items found on this list 12 months from now. I might just get a few more things done...

only got 4 hours of sleep.

before i went to bed, wrote a list of stuff to accomplish between 7am and 11am. i was to wake up at 7, shower, eat breakfast, clean my room, set up my old computer, set up team speak, and then wash the dishes. got all but the dishes part done. setting up my old computer was kinda funny, it's alot slower than the one i have now, but a few songs i bought online are still on it... I have to fix my sister's computer sometime, so i may end up doing that sometime this week.

I found my selective service card, and realised i never did the address change since i moved, so i did that online and they may send me a new card.

afterwards i checked out a civil service website to see if any jobs there i would be interested in. nope. none. i may end up going for the air force, so my parents don't get all worried. After all, my friend is in, so why shouldn't i...and later on i can go to the army with that blue to green or whatever the hell plan they call it. i just wish the airforce site was as informative as the goarmy.com site...but regardless, i will definetely check it out in mid february or early march.

My knees are getting better. Hopefully no damage was done from not having that stuff.

Well,.. so much for getting a lot of important stuff done today. :rolleyes:

My former boss (the one who quit right around the same time as my cat died...) called me up this morning with computer issues. Specifically, he was wondering if I had an extra CD-RW drive laying around to replace his recently "kid-modified" one. :dozey:

Seeing as he has bequeathed me a huge pile of hardware and software over the years (he is the primary source for the 2 spare computers I have downstairs...) I really couldn't say no.

I dug out one of the RW drives from the spare PCs... threw it in my car, and headed down to his place in Pembroke.

I just got back a short while ago. Ended up having dinner there, and then playing card games most of the night with him and his family.

It was a good time. His kids got a bit out of hand... but even that was kinda entertaining (just glad it's not me with the kids! :D )

It was good to see him again. I always got along really well with him,.. other than that one week that he resigned. An even then I cut him some slack. It was just that I was having such a miserable week personally I couldn't really sympathize with his plight all that much... and vice versa, I guess.
Also, it was good to get away from the house and do something social as well. If I can keep that type of activity up and continue to make a habit out of it, this year might just be bound to be personally better for me than other recent ones.

My cat's going crazy tonight for some reason. Walking around the house howling. She's never done that before... but then she's picked up a number of increasingly odd behaviors ever since the other cat died. She's never been an only cat before in her life.
I'm not planning on getting another one, however. When she goes that will be it for a while.

She could be hearing outside animals too... there have been a number of coyote sightings around here lately. They could be making a racket out there that she's responding too. I don't know.
I'll put down some fresh food for her before bed and see if that helps to shut her up.

:toilet1: Anyone around? No? Oh well...

Well... a whole lotta nuttin' happened today. Got absolutely nothing of note accomplished.

So much for using my time off productively.

So, since I have nothing else of real value to post...here's edlib's current list of top 20 'desert island disks':

1.) Yes - Close to the Edge
2.) Jethro Tull - Minstrel in the Gallery
3.) Eric Johnson - Ah Via Musicom
4.) Steve Morse - High Tension Wires
5.) Iron Maiden - Powerslave
6.) George Carlin - A Place For My Stuff
7.) Rush - Moving Pictures
8.) Radiohead - OK Computer
9.) Dickey Betts Band - Pattern Disruptive
10.) The Police - Synchronicity
11.) Van Halen - Fair Warning
12.) The Beatles - Abbey Road
13.) Anggun - Snow On The Sahara
14.) Stravinsky - The Rite Of Spring (New York Philharmonic/ Zubin Metha cond.)
15.) Holst - The Planets (Berlin Philharmonic/ Herbert von Karajan cond.)
16.) John Williams - Close Encounters of the Third Kind OST
17.) Danny Gatton - 88 Elmira St.
18.) XTC - Nonsuch
19.) Kings X - Gretchen Goes To Nebraska
20.) Heart - Dreamboat Annie

Not a scientific accounting or even a truly complete or accurate list by any means... just the CDs that seemed to me (just now sitting here thinking about it...) to see the most mileage through my various players lately. Or the ones I would get the most enjoyment/ use out of if truly stranded on a desert island (with, presumably a portable CD player of some sort and a lifetime supply of batteries for it...) If I turned around and actually looked over my CD rack I might just have come up with a slightly different list.

Very well then... let the tearing apart of my tastes in music commence!

EDIT:
Oh,.. and I just realized today that the inspection sticker on my car is now a good 15 days expired. Um,.. so yeah. :o

I guess I'll have to do something about that soon.

20 is a lot of CDs. but i guess since you could replace them all with a single ipod, that isn't very much at all.

my list would include:

1. enigma: a posteriori
2. enigma: voyageur
3. enigma: cross of changes
4. thievery corporation: versions
5. anoushka shankar: rise
6. dusan bogdanovich....: bach with pluck
7. dusan bogdanovich....: bach with pluck vol 2
8. Genesis: selling england by the pound
9. alfred deller and the deller consort: hark ye shepherds
10. anthony phillips: field day
11. bjork: greatest hits
12. some recording of Handel's Messiah
13. thievery corporation: the outernational sound
14. thievery corporation: the cosmic game
15. jens gad: le spa sonique
16. massive attack: collected
17. peter gabriel: hit
18. phil collins: face value
19. steve hackett: til we have faces
20. ravi shankar: the essential ravi shankar

a little bit of almost everything.

10 seemed way too few to make a decent list that I wouldn't feel that I left most of my favorites off. Even 20 feels way to short to properly do it justice... but typing more would be almost like work. :D

What inspired me to do this now was putting away my CDs the other night. I noticed that the same 20 or 30 were the ones I ALWAYS have to put away every time I do this.

I do need to get an iPod one of these days, though... I'm still holding out for the terabyte size one though... anything smaller just doesn't seem enough. ;)

Maybe for my birthday this year...

thievery corp. is pretty good.

I forget the last cd i bought..i'll list my favorite ones i have though...

Godsmack IV
System of a Down Hypnotise
Nickelback All the Right Reasons
Disturbed 10,000 Fists
Memoirs of a Geisha Soundtrack
Three Days Grace One-X
Evanescence The Open Door

Kinda odd, how I haven't listened to much Trance music in a while..that's all I used to listen to back in the day.

I have issued forth communication and received a response from a certain ghost. She is alive and well and Canadian.

Honestly I didnt like Enigma - A Posteriori and - Voyageur that much. Screen Behind the Mirror is still my favorite. Gravity of Love is one of my favorite songs ever.

1 Norah Jones - Come Away With Me
2 Norah Jones - Feels the Same
3 Counting Crows - Films About Ghosts
4 Counting Crows - Across a Wire: Live From New York
5 Moby - Play
6 Avril Lavigne - Let Go
7 Avril Lavigne - Under My Skin
8 Enigma - The Screen Behind the Mirror
9 The Eagles - Hell Freezes Over
10 Rammstein - Mutter
11 Rammstein - Sehnsucht
12 Prodigy - Fat of the Land
13 Massive Attack - Mezzanine
14 Evanescence - Fallen
15 O Brother Where Art Thou? OST
16 Andrew W.K. - I Get Wet
17 Bond - Explosive
18 Michael Buble - Caught in the Act
19 Fiddler on the Roof OST
20 some sort of classical compliation disc

Ok so I cheated on the last one.

15 O Brother Where Art Thou? OST
Almost made my list. Not exactly sure what I would have dropped to place it there though.

just watched 'scorpion king' for the first time. better than what i expected.

work was boring. this time of year is slow. -_- at least it's not snowing.

oh yeah, my muffler...needs a replacing, glad i got that 1 year warranty on it...may go visit Kost Tires and have them tell me what's up.

work and car stuff aside though, i'm feeling depressed. **** to believe i'll be 23 on sunday. what a ****ing wasted beginning of my life. 4 years down the toilet. but, it's been a hellalot better than sitting on my ass in a class. at least i keep telling that to myself. at least i'm not in any kind of debt. <---crap attempt at cheering myself up any. not helping. *checks weatherbug* Mostly cloudy in the morning...then becoming partly sunny. A chance of flurries. Highs in the lower 30s. Northwest winds 15 to 20 mph.

Depression sucks. Car problems suck. Tooth aches suck. Glasses suck. Work sucks. Having a day off that i don't know what to do with, really sucks as i'll probably just sit at computer because it'll be too cold outside or maybe me kneecaps will be feeling ok to let me workout w/o experiencing unnecessary discomfort.

o well. i want to go fishing, but pennsylvania requires me to have a valid fishing license...damn it, i'm half broke. gotta pay car insurance. yippeeeee....it's due on my bday.

Buck up, 15.

Birthdays always tend to make me depressed too... I hate the idea of getting older.
But just because life is ****ty right now doesn't mean it will always be that way. Things can get better... especially if you work at it.

Still... sometimes you are going to be down and there's nothing you can do about it, and nothing anybody else can say that will help. I think it's just part of life.

Try to have a good one anyway.

yeah...so i go to get my mail and i got this tax **** from lancaster.....havent lived there in a year and 8 months, so what the **** they doing that for. now im just pissed...and bored. it's ****ing cold outside, was planning on going out hunting, but **** that. guess i'll just waste 24 hours doing nothing. god i hate this. actually...i better clean the kitchen so my sister doesnt bitch at me when she gets home. that's another thing that's starting to bother me. it's just as bad as living w/my parents sometimes. all that ****ing yelling at me to do this and that. never once have i yelled at anybody to do anything, i just let people walk all over top of me, then i just bottle it all up inside because i find arguing over **** to be rather pointless.

Kinda dull day at work. Babysitting orientation meetings for incoming students. Yawn.

The temp. outside dropped like 30 degrees today. Now it finally feels like winter around here again. Quite the shock to the system.
I need a good winter coat. I should run around some night this week and see if I can get my hands on one...

Tired. Think I'll order some food (sure as hell don't feel like cooking...) and get to bed early. Chinese sounds right... Maybe I can get some reading in before I conk out. I haven't been doing nearly enough reading lately. Feels like my brain is getting soft. Softer. More softer than it was already soft.

See what I mean? :dozey:

I miss my Strat. Been playing the 335 a lot more now that the Fender is sick... but it's not really the same.

made it through the day....then it snowed, well flurries more likely.

didnt go get muffler checked...gonna just wait it out, gotta go when the place is packed out. :) put $20 in the gas station, went to walmart to get dish detergent and milk, came home, washed dishes, took trash out, swept the floor, played galaxies for a bit, sis got home and we went over to parents' for supper, then watched 'lucky number sleven' it was o.k....after that i played some more galaxies...managed to kill someone that pissed me off earlier...happened to be my mark. i did half hour of dumbell exercises, now i'm posting here, gonna go check out some sites, then going to bed.

Been working a ton lately - trying to meet a deadline on Monday. I hope I don't have to work over the weekend...

Oh, oh, and I almost forgot. Ahh, I'm also gonna need you to go ahead and come in on Sunday, too...
:joy:

Today is Joints and Stargate in ze teevee. Whooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. Afterwards I will hop over to a friend for cooking, making some music and smoking some more of those sportive cigarrettos. ****ed yesterday. Moved stuff out of my flat on monday. Received a very good blow job on sunday. I still have to do the dishes in my flat, because I didn't touch it since July, but I'll have to move out on January 31st. Guess my life and stuff is u-turning and u-whatever again. ^^;

I don't really have a top 20 album list, but I will say that I agree w/ edlib on Rush's "Moving Pictures". Others that make my list of favorites would probably be Metallica's self-titled "Black Album", Van Halen's self-titled first album, and Queensryche's "Operation: Mindcrime".

better now than when you get a ticket for it being expired!

I havent done much, I got some HW done for my javascript class done over the weekend, thats about it for the weekend on usefulness. I spent the whole weekend at the gf's just hanging out since we barely saw eachother since the middle of december.

I did pick up Lost Planet for 360, its pretty amazing, reminds me a bit of mechwarrior for xbox(which reminds me that I never beat either of those).

I have done alot of future planning, but thats about it, did some checking and engagement ring shopping :yelhelp:

seems like I am going to need about 4500 bucks for the ring and diamond I want..........that tightens the budget some!

That has occupied a large portion of my free time lately, thinking about all that fun stuff. Talking to the girlfriend about it(getting married, not the ring, she doesnt have a say in that!). I am firmly against the whole 'going ring shopping together' thing, I beleive its up to me to get a ring that a) shows how I feel about her, and b) that she will like. I have a perfect ring in my mind, and I will show her a wide range of examples to sort out her preferences, but I am 99% sure she will like what I have already picked out anyways. But whenever I talk about she gets all quit, light red and giggly, so its fun to bring up on occassion.

My twin brother(don't worry, fraternal, not alike, so there are not two Zargons running around the universe) is getting married this weekend, I have to pack and finish(ok really start writing instead of thinking about it) the toast tonight, I am the best man, I am afriad I will need a 6-pack to get the stuff he wants in it(hes all touchy feely) and I don't easily open up and write out heart-felt emotions, its my largest um...limiting factor as a true gentlemen I guess.

Anyone having insites on a toast let me know, but the biggest hinderance is, I have met her 3 times, total time about a week, and shes really 'uptight'/reserved, and quiet, so I basically don't know her at all.

then watched 'lucky number sleven' it was o.k.


Just OK? I thought it was one of the best movies I saw all year. Extremely clever............


Anyone else remember good movies from 2006? It seems to be a pretty short list.....

those with an * are ones I actually went to the theater for

I also loved Inside Job

over the headge was good.

Crank was excellent(for an action movie)

I felt Pirates II suffered from ESB disease, its merely junk to carry you too the 3rd movie.

*Superman Returns was good imo, coulda been better tho, kate bosworth sucked it up big time.

Munich was excellent, as was glory road, hoodwinked was good.

Tristan and Isolde was ok, it dissapointed me. Underworld Evolution was alright, same with annapolis, coulda been better.

The matador was way over hyped.

The Worlds Fastest Indian was really good.

Running Scared was surprisingly good.

16 Blocks was solid.

Ultraviolet was a huge dissapointment.

Failure to Launch was tolerable.

V for Vendetta was really good.

Benchwarmers was good, I was expecting a bit more though.

The Sentinel was good.

Stick it was pretty funny.

*X-Men III, 'good', but shoulda been better.

Cars was good.

*Flyboys was really good.

Beowolf and Grendel was awful :(

The Lake house was decent enough.

You me and dupree - ouch, thats all I got to say.

*Flags of our fathers, I loved it.

Beerfest funny, coulda been better, but good.

*Invincible FREAKIN AWESOME

Fearless was good

*Casino Royale - probably the best bond movie ever. but it could just be that its by far the best I have seen in a theater



Ones I still need to see:

employee of the month(borrowed it just havent seen it yet)

Accepted.

blood diamond

the good shepard

we are marshall

children of men

rocky balboa

curse of teh golden flour

The marine

All the kings men

The last king of scotland

The guardian

Gridiron gang.

The Covenant.

The Protector

Snakes on a Plane

Ice Age 2

Night Watch

Thank you for smoking.

United 93

MI: III

Goal! The dream begins

larry the cable guy health inspector(my boss swears is hilarious)

A Scanner Darkly.

Clerks II

My Super Ex-girlfriend( l like luke wilson)

John Tucker must die.

wow, so I saw alot more than I thought....also, some of those were watched because my gf wanted to see them.

shes also the reason I didnt see alot of the ones I wanted too, she snot big into movies, esp not action movies.

yeah thats alot of movies.....i liked running scared as well (tho i can hardly remember what it was about, something about a stolen gun or something) and i loved Crank...(the part where he threw the cabby out was priceless) employee of the month was pretty funny. i wanna see apocolypto and saw 3 when they come out on dvd.

Oh, oh, and I almost forgot. Ahh, I'm also gonna need you to go ahead and come in on Sunday, too...
I just watched that last night for the first time... Reminds me of the three years I spent working for AOL in their call center.

And speaking of working, I got a job offer today from RBC (Royal Bank of Canada)... $31,000/yr, plus an annual bonus and a ridiculously sweet benefits package.

I've only seen a couple of those movies last year... and all on DVD. Don't believe I ever set foot inside a movie theater last year now that I think about it.

I saw:

Cars
Ice Age 2
Clerks II (a lot better than I thought it was going to be...)
Pirates 2

I think that's it of the ones you listed. I also saw Nacho Libre... but I'm not sure if that's a 2005 or '06 release. Not all that great, either way.

Not the greatest year for movies in recent history.

Spent the day overseeing the maintenance crew. Nothing super exciting... but stuff that needs to get done.
Still tired tonight. Woke up right in the middle of a dream this morning. That always throws me off for the rest of the day.

God, it's hella cold outside! (Is that a contradiction in terms? Could be... although Dante had one entire level of Hell as a giant frozen lake if I am remembering correctly. I need to read that again...) I'm probably noticing it more since it was open-window, tee-shirt weather last week. :rolleyes:

Wildstar: I have all those albums you listed. Operation Mindcrime is probably my favorite Queensryche album... although I probably listen to Empire more often (shorter, poppier songs that you can listen to on shuffle. Mindcrime is an investment in time.)
The Van Halen choice was hard for me... but Fair Warning is the album I listen to the most. It's the darkest thing VH ever did. 1984 is more consistent overall, and #1 has that classic party vibe... but I almost always go back to Fair Warning.
I was never a huge Metallica fan... but that album is really good. Far better produced and more streamlined than their earlier efforts.

I just watched that last night for the first time... Reminds me of the three years I spent working for AOL in their call center.

And speaking of working, I got a job offer today from RBC (Royal Bank of Canada)... $31,000/yr, plus an annual bonus and a ridiculously sweet benefits package.
First time? Where the hell have you been, son?

And what happened to to the teaching career? As much as I love the idea of you influencing the young, impressionable minds of an entire generation,.. banker's hours are pretty sweet.

The education required for said teaching career turned out to be a) too costly, and b) too much of an adjustment to make after working for 4 years. Failed every course I was registered in.

Pity. I truly relished the idea in ways far too sublime to verbalise. :D

Overwhelmed with music yet? ;)
Anything out of all that mess stick out in your mind particularly?

I found a certain poetic quality to it as well... Alas, it was not to be.

For now. :joy:

I've been on the road going back and forth between here and Moncton for days now trying to find a place to live and nail down that RBC job, so I haven't had much time for listenin'... Spent more time on coach buses than my own bed lately.

I found a certain poetic quality to it as well...
****in' A. :dozey:
:joy:

Commuting is teh suck, innit? Pretty much nukes my soul every day. By the time I actually get to work I'm usually in a fairly dark mood.

Well, no pressure. Let me know if you come across any surprises that should be definitely included in "Don't Drink The Water - Extended Edition."

Yeah, thank God I'm moving... I'd go crazy if I had to do 3/4 hours of highway driving to go to work and back every day (Fredericton to Moncton = hour and a half in a car, 2 hours in a coach).

My brother & I had a "Planes, Trains, and Automobiles" scene in the local WalMart parking lot last night when the battery in my dad's car decided to die. Fortunately, the place hadn't closed yet and we found someone with jumper cables. It was tough getting the car started, though, b/c of the crud on the terminals, which my brother wound up cleaning up w/ a bit of Coke poured on the terminals. Interesting thing is another car also died and the driver of that car asked us for a jump after we got our car started. Needless to say, I managed to get home with the groceries (the WalMart visit was a side trip after food shopping) and my brother couldn't stay over to work on a job application as was planned b/c he had to leave the car running so he could return it to my dad.

EDIT: My brother's cellphone also picked that time to go dead, which further added to the urgency of the situation.

@Ed: I know it was in teh other thread, but that's been buried in the craziness now. Thanks for those links to the guy in your avy. I figured it was some kind of 70's shock rock with Alice Cooper or something. Some good reads :)

I watched Anchorman the other day for the first time in a while...."you see....i'm kind of a big deal." LOL One of those, 'so stupid, it's funny' kind of movies.

My start to '07 hasn't been quite what i planned/expected. I got sick right after new years. So i was down for almost 2 weeks, then it snowed here...and still hasn't left yet, it's been over a week. This is highly unusual for western Washington. In fact, I don't remember it ever lingering around like this before. But I'm feeling better and the snow looks like it's finally starting to melt away...yay. But i haven't worked in like almost 2 weeks...not like I'm on vacation...I've been stuck at home. I live on a hill and I don't have 4wd, so yeah....nothing but fun. :/

Oh and for the record, I'm tired of meeting/dating girls that can't make up their minds!

not much happening today....walked to the post office and back w/the mail, went to my parents to let the dog out, came back and mostly just been on galaxies all day. oh and i set my sister's computer up, the one that got nearly-fried....pretty sure the cd drive is toasted, it can accept cds but it acts like it's not reading them...also the computer is SLOW....shouldn't take 2 minutes to load 'my computer' should it?

got the day off so im just chillin....gotta clean the place up before 1730...

how could you fail every course? and you think 4 years of working is a big deal? I was gone at least 7 years (ok, 3 years more isn't that much) and then quit working and did school full time. I had a 4.0 for my first 5 quarters.

either you just suck at being a student, or teaching wasn't meant to be your thing.

The former... Along with a little bit of biting off more than I could chew. I was a terrible student through high school and my first post-secondary education, but I'd hoped 4 years would've been enough to whip me into shape. In my urge to dive in headfirst, my first semester involved one first-year course, three upper-level second year courses, and one third year course.

I had a lot of trouble writing papers for most of them, but the exams were the nails in the coffin... Four of them consisted of me walking in, then promptly forgetting *everything*. The only one I didn't blank out on were the third-year history of Russia course, but the poor papers I wrote (and re-wrote, and re-wrote, and re-wrote) weren't enough to pull my final mark above the pass mark.

I thought my studying methods were pretty solid... Thorough coverage of everything over the days prior-to, going to bed at 8PM the night before, then a quick review of the overview in the morning before leaving for campus.

I just wasn't meant for university, I guess.