Well, another Saint Pats day has come and gone. This year, I was a good boy and only ate enough corned beef to kill five heart patients. Homemade rye bread is healthy, right? That so makes up for all the beef. Plus, I maintain mustard is a vegetable.

It would be great if work would start being so mind numbingly busy. Some days are close to 9-10 hours, which is kind of not so fun. On the bright side, I am going to go see Abney Park Friday, which should be a blast. Also, I should be running the hospitality end of the first ever Steampunk University. That's right, I will be getting to cook for ( Read more... )

Paraphrasing a conversation I am having ( Read more... )

Happy New Years! The year of crap is over, and 2009 actually looks good, so yay!. My resolutions ( Read more... )

Blah, I had this nice long rambling rant about how lower oil prices mean a more stable middle east and more of the world not wanting to piss off the US, but noooo LJ had to go and eat it. Oh well. At least I have the satisfaction of being able to tell certain people that I told them so, at least in regards to the dollar and oil prices. Working ( Read more... )

In less than a week, I turn 25.

I dont wanna be old!

I should write more, butI really lost motivation to. The fact that my PC is bricked so all I have to use right now is my old crappy laptop does not help either. But meh. I am still losing weight, which rocks. I am getting out of WaMu for good Tuesday, and start the job of awesome with Microsoft. 60k a year to work from home as a business ( Read more... )

Job going well, impressing various vice presidents blah blah blah....Thats not important. I am going to PAX this year, and I am having a bunch of friends from all over crash my apartment starting Friday. :D I have never gone, but I have been meaning to for years ( Read more... )

Riding the bus back home from work today, I noticed something that, if its not new, its new to me at least. Some one painted a pin up of Betty Paige on the side of their house, cleverly using an awning to cover up the more interesting bits. I have no idea why they did the painting, or why they have it facing I-5. Its little things like that ( Read more... )

So work continues to be an adventure in to strangeness. The company stock tanked again, thus prompting more concern that we contractors are on short time, except for me. I am now officially in charge of managing the Unified Catalog and already owed, ready to deploy technology stock. In other words, people have to ask me, nicely, to approve their ( Read more... )