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Thursday, July 2nd, 2009
12:25 pm	Pull up the roots So, I am going to sell my condo.   Once it's sold, lots of bills get paid off and I start with a clean slate.   It also means that I will have a bit of deciding as to where I'm going to go.  Austin is nice and I don't mind staying here.  Las Vegas is a possibility.  Little Rock/Hot Springs is a distant possibility, I think.  Back to Florida?  Someplace exciting and new?  Seattle?  California?  DC?  Time for some thinking. Current Mood: pensive (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, February 26th, 2009
10:21 pm	Garlands Since I haven't posted in a bit, I'll post this meme. RULES: 1. Put your MP3 player, iTunes, Windows Media Player, etc. on shuffle. 2. For each question, press the "next" button to get your answer. 3. YOU MUST WRITE THAT SONG NAME DOWN NO MATTER HOW SILLY IT SOUNDS. 4. Wanted me to tag you people, but no. ( Lemmingness abounds! ) (Comment on this)
Monday, February 23rd, 2009
8:32 pm	Be vewwy vewwy quiet. I'm hunting jobs! So on Wednesday, I have an interview with Pearson, a publishing company.   The job seems rather perfect for me.  It's a lot of what I've been doing for the last 15 years. They're looking for someone to create assessment type tests in flash.  They're located two miles away, within biking distance.   The down side is that my flash fu is not that strong yet.  But they seem sort of willing to overlook that.  And they did come to me.  So fingers are crossed and I'll stress until then. Also Google said 'Let's talk'.   I'm not sure what they saw in my resume, but we'll find out. (Steven, we need someone to be the 'before'). (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, February 14th, 2009
8:37 am	Yay Heroes! So last night's dream involved me following two heroes.   What they had done was unclear, but it was clearly heroic.   For the second one, I'm suddenly finding myself giving a short speech on his behalf in front of President JFK.   The speech basically went 'It is human to aspire and to try.  It is human to fail.   It is human to try again.'   Of course, I should've added 'and avoid open air cars', but oh well.  (Comment on this)
Monday, February 9th, 2009
2:42 pm	I need a vacation I can say that because I now am working again, albeit only for two months.   I'm basically helping to update the website for TABC (the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commision).  We'll see how it goes. (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, February 1st, 2009
10:44 am	I am only your memory. I cannot provide any new information I have nothing to say really. This is just a post to keep me posting.    I'll show off the rarely used biking icon.  I will note happy cats.  The interview on Tuesday didn't go at all, as they hired someone the morning of. (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, January 27th, 2009
8:51 am	Help me, St Obama! Help me speak eloquently and persuasively during today's job interview.  Let them be convinced of my worthiness!  Shroud their eyes from my imperfections!   Have them know that I will end wiretapping their phones! Current Mood: anxious (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Tuesday, January 20th, 2009
11:31 am	President Obama! Woooooooohooooooooo! Of course, while I'm watching it, I get a phone call from a job recruiter.  Which causes me to miss the oath!   (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, January 19th, 2009
7:30 am	The geekiest dream ever So, it's the doctor.  I'm a companion/ observer.  Doctor 11 is sort of a mix between Tom Baker and and David Morrisey.  A very generic doctor (the dream is still early at this point).   There's unspecified running around.  The doctor regenerates in a twentyish year old woman.   She's very perky and much like Jenny .   Basically all she does is run off and very short while later regenerates (the thought in the dream was that she didn't want to be a woman doctor).  Doctor 13 is Doogie Howser (as played by Fred Savage (don't blame me, i never watched the show)). I know this because my dream reaction is 'Really?? Doogie Howser?'   His outfit is some sort of dark red and black plaid thing.  It is implied that he regenerated while captive of the bad guys.  There's escaping, but in order to save the day, he has to jump off a deadly drop.  Me and unspecified companions try to stop him.  He jumps.  Me and companions get to the ledge, but there's no longer a ledge. If only the Doctor had waited! (Though it's unclear if the Doctor jumping had anything to do with the ledge disappearing.)  Being the geek that I am, I pick up a book to reread the bit about what happened to the doctor.  The bit read (which, this being a dream turns into me watching it on tv) turns out to be about the Sylvester McCoy doctor captured by the Sontarans.  He regenerates into Tom Baker, but there's a problem with the Sontaran machine, as several Tom Bakers show up.  They play tag for a moment before setting things back to normal.   Having finished reading that, I then decide to look up the Doctor Who entry on Wikipedia so I can see the picture of all 13 doctors together.  But there, we have evidence of a 14th doctor, a dark haired young woman, much more serious.  Only distinguishing feature is that she doesn't like to listen to music while drinking.   The dream also implies that she didn't regenerate from the Doogie Howser doctor, but rather suddenly discovered herself to be the doctor.   At which point I wake up.  And realize that that was the geekiest dream ever.  Pretty much all that's missing is me dreaming about blogging it. :) So it's been a while since the last post.  I'm posting this so I don't lose this dream.    Hi all! (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, April 29th, 2007
3:38 pm	Wherein Our Hero Returns So, in celebration of it being one year since I last posted, I shall post again! In the past year: Despite having lived in Texas for 20 years, I had never been to Mexico.  I've now been there twice.   My (former) company celebrated its 20th anniversary, so the boss took everyone to an really nice all inclusive resort near Cozumel.  I brought Sherry along.   It was a blast!  Mostly just hanging around the beach and sunbathing, with a trip to Chichen Itza (We missed the equinox by one day, darnit)   I should work for more companies about to have their 20 year anniversaries.   The second time was a cruise, my first, to Cozumel, though it never actually got there.   We ended up only getting to Progresso.  It was still fun. I need to do more cruises. I played my first $500 event in January.   I played very well I thought, but was unlucky at the wrong time, so didn't cash.   Since that point,  I've had 4 really big wins, though, so the poker bankroll is up. I quit my job about a month ago, as it was not providing any work.  So now I am a bum^H^H^Hpro poker player.  I wish it paid more.  I will be going back to Vegas in the middle of May for a pair of poker tournaments and hanging out with online poker buddies. My parents are about to sell their house in Vegas and move to Hot Springs Village in Arkansas.  They'll be closer, but no more free lodgings in Vegas, darnit. Pyewacket and Frisbee remain horribly spoiled.   Frisbee caught some sort of stomach bug last summer, so I had about 3 weeks of feeding her medicine.  She was less than thrilled, but overcame the bug. I started a blog about my poker game, along with a friend. It's at the_flop There's probably other stuff that happened, but my life is pretty boring. :) Current Mood: relaxed (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, April 29th, 2006
8:36 am	Wherein Our Hero gets an F Another meme being passed around. Comment and request, and I shall give you a letter. Go back to your journal, and write ten words beginning with that letter, including an explanation of what the word means to you and why. The letter I got was F from solcita ( My first F ) (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, April 28th, 2006
8:19 am	Wherein Our Hero Gets Presents from the Kitties In case you were wondering what to celebrate today... National Hairball Awareness Day (Comment on this)
Wednesday, April 19th, 2006
1:19 am	Whereing Our Hero is Inquised. Another meme, this time from suzuno If you want, comment, and you shall receive the gift of five questions, to be answered in your own lj. ( My five questions from suzuno ) (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, April 9th, 2006
9:41 am	Wherein Our Hero is Spoiled Snipped from littleowl Even though my cats have done none of this, they are still very very spoiled. ( How spoiled are you? ) (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Friday, March 24th, 2006
3:49 pm	Wherein Our Hero Divulges Secrets* Here are some random facts about me that most people will have no interest in. It's some sort of meme. ( No one expects the Spanish Inquistion! ) *No, he doesn't. (Comment on this)
Thursday, March 23rd, 2006
11:09 am	Wherein Our Hero realizes that he still has an LJ account I guess the long delay just means I have a boring life. Or that I'm lazy about updating. My leg has for the most part healed. There's still a small lump that still getting smaller, but other than that, the leg is back to normal. Work had a very intense period of lots of extra work, followed by a period of no work at all. Which was a nice break. It's going to be quiet for the next two weeks, then back to working normally. I took a month off from poker. It was mostly to clear the mind, but apparently I cleared too much as since I started resuming the game, I'm a bit down. The good bit, I think, is that when I play Hold'em, I'm winning. It's when I play the other games (Omaha especially and Stud and weird games on Ultimate Bet) that I lose it all. This fortunately, can be cured. I still need to win my way to the WSOP this year. There should be a new constitutional admendment: There shall be no law passed or enforced that is not open to public knowledge. (Okay, it needs polishing) I keep hearing more and more stories, especially about 'secret' laws. I cannot see any possible reason for any law or rule being secret. Pye and Fris continue to be adorable and snuggly. I am also addicted to Wikipedia now. Current Mood: relaxed Current Music: Enya - The River Sings (Comment on this)
Tuesday, January 3rd, 2006
11:18 pm	Wherein Our Hero Fights to the Death (or leg injury, whichever is first) So, Xmas was spent in Vegas. A bit of family time and a bit of poker. A pretty ordinary trip. I did get a radar detector to replace one that I had had stolen about a year or so ago. And Barnes and Nobles gift certificates! Note that $90 of books do not fit on a $30 gift certificate. On Thursday, I ended up putting my foot through the sheetrock in my parents attic. It didn't seem much at the time. Just a scrape a little bruise. I went off to play poker that evening. After about an hour, it had swollen a little and I had a touch of pain while walking. I then enter a poker tournament (the first I entered with my own money for over $100, this being $125). While playing, my leg just kept getting bigger and bigger. During breaks, I notice that I can't really stand without a rather lot of temporary pain. I finallly finish the tourney (in 4th for $510! Wheee!). And then almost pass out at the cashier's cage cashing in. I go to visit the local clinic, where I spend $80 and get told to put ice on it. Back in Austin, it's still swelling (at least areas lower down the leg are). It's also turning really pretty colors. All over the leg. Today I spend more money to get told... Keep it elevated. But I also found out that it wasn't broken. Just a bad bruise and lots of blood going outside the lines. It's going to be along time healing. :( My foot currently reminds me of the scene in Big Trouble in Little China, just before Thunder explodes. It looks a lot like that. So, I'm mobile. We'll see what the recommended Ibuprofen does for the pain when I stand. It's also going to be annoying, sitting at the computer with the foot up. Currently, the shredder (turned off, of course) is the footstool, but something more permanent will have to be found. Current Mood: sore (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Saturday, December 24th, 2005
11:19 am	Short days got no reason... It's winter. The biggest bugabo I have about winter is that the days are so short. Even in Texas. I should not be driving home from work in the dark, darnit. Anyway, that's all behind me now. I spent Thursday evening with Sherry and friends. I'm now currently in Vegas with the parents (And incidently a whole lot of casinos). Now it's a week of glorious gambling, sightseeing, and Mom saying 'Remember when...' (Count so far: 4, all on xmas ornaments that I inflicted on them in my elementary school days.) The tradition in my family: Christmas eve evening: Fondue for dinner. Relax. Drive around and see the xmas lights. (In days gone by, Mom would take an inordinately long time to get ready for this). This has slowly devolved into... Hey, I see a light. Can we open presents now? Return home and open presents (In days gone by, there would have been more under the tree than when we had left the house). Christmas: Enjoy presents Ham for dinner This is also the first time I took the laptop travelling. I realized that I hadn't moved the bookmarks from my regular computer to here, darnit. But at least all my music on the laptop, because Sherry got me an iPod for xmas. Score! So, I've moved all the music over. But I badly need to organize it at somepoint. Dies Natalis Solis Invicti (Birth of the Unconquered Sun) which is a great name for a holiday, especially in winter. (from ursulav) Current Music: Kate Bush - Be Kind to my Mistakes (via iPod!) (Comment on this)
Thursday, November 10th, 2005
7:28 pm	Wherein Our Hero Arrives Late Bad: Coming home from work 2 hours later than normal, with the realization that one will probably have to work part of the weekend and a few more late days. Good: Flumphing in a chair, then having a soft purry cat come sit on your shoulder. (Comment on this)
Thursday, October 27th, 2005
6:11 pm	Wherein Our Hero Ponders Dare I try Nanowrimo once more? My previous attempt two years ago, netted about 12000 words half way through when I more or less stopped completely. And Civ 4 just came out. I would need time to play that (defined: 16+ hours/day) And then there's poker. I'm on a bit of an upswing at the moment. On the plus side, the second half of November appears to be very light, workwise. But that could change. Decisions, decisions... I at least signed up, so just in case... Current Mood: contemplative (1 Comment |Comment on this)