Month: March 2005

the ps/2 ports on my mobo went. i had to go get a new keyboard (usb) so i could do anything. i am frustrated at the extra expense, but it was way cheaper than getting a new pc – plus, it has a nifty backlight.

i am still really pissed though.

< nerd >
i just realized i am the lone asha’man in tar valon.
all these women, gossiping, scheming, plotting, planning, getting money, playing politics.
it is creepy, i am starting to categorize all of them by color.
< / nerd >

I need one of these.
Also, listen to these, otherwise god will kill kittens or some shit.

Didn’t puke tonight. If I can make it past the 2 week wall, I can do this. Got my weights and an exercise mat. They both helped a lot.

I’m considering Atkins short term, to help kickstart the slimming process. I did really well on it last time, it just means no drinking for a while, which I think I can live with.

i just did 30 minutes of cardio, followed by 20 flights of stairs, followed by sit ups and push ups until i ralphed.
i am so out of shape.
hopefully, after two months of this, i will feel better about myself life.
right now, my knees feel like they are made of fire.

So after i got back from my 10:30 meeting, I worked for what seemed like 15 minutes, and it was 1:30. I just had my lunch, wrote two emails, and proofread a proposal.
It seemed like that took well over two hours.

That was like thirty minutes ago.

Helloooooo relative time.

I had moroccan lamb over wild rice with curried couscous and fresh broccoli rabe, chili peppers and fresh mozzarella. I also got a yogurt parfait with cranberry and mandarin orange, and a fresh lemonade.

I got it for 6$ too. Lets hear it for a major job perk!

I also updated . Scope it out if you haven’t yet. It was a holiday themed update!

Hope everyone has a good weekend, if you don’t hear from me again until Monday.

ADDENDUM: Holy FUCK! Cablevision outbid the Jets by $40 mil CASH! That is regardless of the zoning approval. (via )


yes folks, jesus can save you from three out of four elephants of the apocalypse

i forgot my whoreson phone today. i think it is because i was so productive last night

  • i had a nice dinner
  • prepped my taxes
  • paid my bills
  • organized some files
  • re-printed all my gd receipts to get my transit check from my last job, since they apparently lost the claim i made a week ago
  • had some fun and games online

my job has not leveled out yet, but the change is in the wind. i finally have an assistant, and i am beginning to delegate slowly but surely. it means little by little things are moving my way.

has an interview here! the yay! i will call back when i have my phone back in my possession.

we have an interesting situ here at work. officially, noone can leave early today. last year, a daughter of abraham complained that the people who worship a jew with holes in his hands got to leave early, but not the people who worship a fat chinese man, a jew with a red cloak and a staff who can’t read a map of the desert and talks to burning shrubbery,a guy whose parents gave him the same first and middle name, or folks worship the sun, moon, trees and bees. i don’t think the people who believe this entire posse of weirdos are like some sort of spiritual adams family, and reject the whole show were represented.

at any rate, as a result, the decision was passed down that nobody is to leave early today. traditionally, i guess, they let people leave early. not today sirrah! however, everyone on the XO staff is leaving at noon.

how the fuck do you keep the crew in lines when the captains hit the lifeboats?

i have told my peeps to take a long lunch at three if they feel the need to.

me, the godless heathen, will be sitting here phoneless until the elephants cows come home, or some equally apropos lame imagery.

First seal is opened : a white horse appears, its rider held a bow (conquest).
(Rev 6:1-8 NIV) I watched as the Lamb opened the first of the seven seals. Then I heard one of the four living creatures say in a voice like thunder, “Come!” {2} I looked, and there before me was a white horse! Its rider held a bow, and he was given a crown, and he rode out as a conqueror bent on conquest.
Taiwan
Tibet
Iraq

Second seal is opened : a red horse appears, its rider holds a sword (war)
{3} When the Lamb opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, “Come!” {4} Then another horse came out, a fiery red one. Its rider was given power to take peace from the earth and to make men slay each other. To him was given a large sword.
Sudan
Afghanistan(yeah, we are still there killing people)
Iraq

Fourth seal is opened : a pale horse appears, its rider is called Death
{7} When the Lamb opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature say, “Come!” {8} I looked, and there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named Death, and Hades was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth.
Marburg virus
TB

All we need is a good famine, and the third seal gets some links too.
I hate looking at the world sometimes.

when snow falls in march
and people begrudge it
i laugh
and slosh through the slush.

i’m glad winter is getting in last licks.

i know some pretty amazing people, but gods am i tired.

So I read the RSS feed of .
They had a snippet today about an artist hanging his own works in major galleries.

It has been updated to reflect the new info, but when I saw it earlier today, it mentioned that the art was still at large.

I talked to my boss and her boss, and we called communications and left a message. They called back 5 minutes later to ask how we found out about it so fast, since the NYT called just after we left our message.

sometimes being a geek gets you office props.

i spent 10 minutes trying to figure out why swatting my alarm clock was not turning off my alarm. then i realized it was ‘s alarm. got up to reset his alarm, got cat attacked, and that was the end of my sleeping today.

i listened to some debussy on wqxr, and now i am up, cuz they started in on the news.

the morning is quiet – the rain hasn’t started yet.

it is coming.

Well with buck shot eyes and a purple heart
I rolled down the national stroll
and with a big fat paycheck
strapped to my hip sack
and a shore leave wristwatch underneath
my sleeve
in a Hong Kong drizzle on Cuban heels
I rowed down the gutter to the Blood Bank
and I’d left all my papers on the Ticonderoga
and was in a bad need of a shave
and so I slopped at the corner on cold chow mein
and shot billards with a midget
until the rain stopped
and I bought a long sleeved shirt
with horses on the front
and some gum and a lighter and a knife
and a new deck of cards (with girls on the back)
and I sat down and wrote a letter to my wife

and I said Baby, I’m so far away from home
and I miss my Baby so
I can’t make it by myself
I love you so

Well I was pacing myself
trying to make it all last
squeezing all the life
out of a lousy two day pass
and I had a cold one at the Dragon
with some Filipino floor show
and talked baseball with a lieutenant
over a Singapore sling
and I wondered how the same moon outside
over this Chinatown fair
could look down on Illinois
and find you there
and you know I love you Baby

and I’m so far away from home
and I miss my Baby so
I can’t make it by myself
I love you so

I am not going to Vienna.

I am a good match for the position, and they were very enthusiastic about having me. The “subsidised” housing comes out of my salary, and is tied to my contract. That means if I don’t like the place I am living, or the job I am doing, tough shit, I am locked into both for full term. I can opt to not live in the subsidised housing, but that makes real estate negotiations both costly and complicated. They are pretty sneaky about the “220 working days” bit. I have to sign a letter of intent to have them fly me out for the interview (meaning basically, if I go, they make an offer, and I don’t take the job, I pay airfare + lodging =/.). Assuming they are hiring me, I would then sign a contract for them to go with the visa. From the time I sign the second contract, I am hired. They said that I would have approximately three weeks to a month to relocate, which comes out of my non working day pool.

Also? Average work week – 70-80 hours.

I knew this was too good to be true. Glad I didn’t get my hopes up too high.

FYI – I made it home without getting arrested, though I did have some strong words with a homeless guy on my block who told me to fuck off when I didn’t give him change. I showed up drunk to the shindig, continuing to drink was a mistake-e-o. My apologies for any tomfoolery or silly antics that inconvienenced anyone other than myself. Last night proved that I should not be social when my blood and booze is up.

so my db system is still down at work.
i take a stupid ok cupid quiz to kill some time. apparently i’d do real well in a zombie survival scenario.
i go to browse the stupid match thinger, and richelle’s profile comes up in my first 10 local matches at 80%.
i think i am done with ok cupid.

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