Its been two years we've been in this house. Two excruciating years atop a deeply buried curse, due to the imagined Indian burial ground mere feet under the foundation from which I pen this warning. What else could possibly explain the maximum limit of 12-hours of sleep to be shared amongst the residence, no matter what. HohóyawtuJuice, ( Read more... )

I never know when the aftershock of overnight weekend production maintenance is going to hit me, but it usually does. This time around it's Tuesday at 0200. Wide awake and nowhere to go.

I used to worry, thought I was goin' mad in a hurry; gettin' stress, makin' excess mess in darkness...No electricity, something's all over me - greasy! Insomnia please release me and let me dream of makin' mad love to my girl on the heath, tearin' off tights with my teeth. But there's no release, no peace, I toss and turn without cease. Like a ( Read more... )

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Last night I dreamed that some years back drax0r & I had invested with uniquenudes when he needed to purchase some props for traveling and shooting his models. They were impressively ornate "sheik" style tents - long and narrow, completely open on one end and rounded at the back. That's where he always put the wrought-iron loveseat, in the back near the rounded ( Read more... )

I woke myself from a deep slumber laughing. Out loud. In the middle of the night. A first for me ( Read more... )

I usually do magnificent work because I stay ahead of the curve. When I discover I'm going to be performing a task, I ensure everything I'll need is in place, put in place if its not, verify the steps I'll be running through, write a script or two, move them into place, open my tabs, track down my consoles, verify my logins, setup my environment ( Read more... )

I miss playing 12-hour overnight games of Starcraft in the NOC 4-days a week with unixwolf and leonardii. Those were good times. I miss playing Diablo II with drax0r in Mass and the many weekends of SMACKDOWN LAN parties afterwards in Texas. I miss playing Dungeon Siege with danzigfried every night for 14-months after hours in Wichita. I miss playing Star Trek: Elite Force ( Read more... )

1989: 13-hour days, 7 days straight, Cinco de Mayo festival, Keller, Texas ( Read more... )

060616_1730 Depart work, listen to BSG on the way home.
060616_1740 Wife meets me at the door with an ice cold Corona.
060616_1750 Order Chinese, change clothes.
060616_1830 Finish dinner.
060616_1900 Start Flightplan.
060616_2100 Start 4th installment of Revelations mini-series ( Read more... )