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Monday, September 22, 2003
8:02 PMTWELVE
Full day at work today. 12 hours and maybe another 2 to go. Viruses everywhere. Welchia and Blaster.
9:29 AM
Music, Life, Harpoon, Football
I got my iPod back yesterday. My battery was indeed shot, so they gave me a new 20GB one, unfortunately not one of the new slim models, but a new iPod none the less. This makes a total of 3 iPods in 1 year. I bought it on the 22nd of September 2002, and the headphone jack gave out in March and they gave me a refurbished one then, I assume it wasn't refurbished enough.
I need to start working out again.
Going to the Pats-Jets game today with Keith, Rich, and Joe. We will tailgate with Terrayaki Steak tips, Pork Loin, Brat, Sausage, and Pasta Salad. Beers are Octoberfest, ESB, Pale Ale and Munich Dark.
As if I didn't have enough beer yesterday.
Saturday, September 20, 2003
8:39 PM
DRUNK
I am now.
Thursday, September 18, 2003
5:33 PM
Bad always creeps behind Good
So I got employed today, start tomorrow. I'll be working at Fisher College in the IT department for a couple of weeks. It's a temp job but at least its a job where I have to have some technical experience.
Of course good news like this always has to be ruined. The universe can't let Mike celebrate now, not even for a little bit. My car has been sounding a little off lately, I thought it was the exhaust, but lo and behold, my manifold is cracked.
So now all that extra money I will be making will go straight into the car instead of into my pocket.
Joy.
Wednesday, September 17, 2003
2:27 AM
Frodo should have used this
Hoom maps shows what is the quickest way from Bag End to Mordor.
Why didn't Gandalf use this?
From Kottke's remaindered links
Monday, September 15, 2003
3:46 PM
Telemarketers
I signed up for the do not call list that the feds are putting together. It doesn't go in to effect until October 1st, and I have been getting more and more calls from telemarketers lately.
It's almost as if the companies that place these calls are trying to get through to as many people as they possibly can before the end of the month. It's also almost like these companies have looked at the list and are trying to find ways around the list. Call them now and if they don't say take me off your list then you have just given us the right to call you forever and ever.
Ah, I am going to disconnect the home phone anyway. I'll be just a cell phone now.
1:15 PM
Hour 20
I decided to break my late night streak by staying up til 9 tonight, meaning I have been awake since 5pm yesterday. At 9 I can sleep, and wake at a normal time and maybe restart my plans of rejoining the human race.
The battery on my iPod (I have an old 20GB model) is doing strange things. I hope I am still under warranty, I bought it last September but I can't remember the date. Update: I bought it on 9/22/02, so I still 9 days left on the warranty. Yippee.
2:34 AM
MFC
Link from Kottke's remaindered links:
"To me, that's not a reality show about gay people," Millam said. "A really good reality show for gay people would be five gay men dying of AIDS."I gotta say wishing a horrific disease on people is a great way of showing and promoting family values. I wonder if the MFC is just 5 cranky old men and women.
It reminds me of a line from one of my favorite movies
"I love my dead gay son!"From Heather's.
"How do you think he'd react to a son that had a limp wrist with a pulse?"
Friday, September 12, 2003
5:30 PM
Johnny Cash
1932-2003
"As sure as night is dark and day is lightThe minute I learned the news, this has been swimming and repeating in my head.
I keep you on my mind both day and night
And happiness I've known proves that it's right
Because you're mine,
I walk the line"
5:49 AM
24 Hours?
I think that the only way to fix my problem may be to stay awake until tonight. Just get through another 12 to 16 hours and then I'll be right as rain. Sitting on the front porch, sunrise happens in another 30 minutes at 6:20, and I think that I'll watch it.
Just went for a quick bike ride to the postbox to drop off the 2 movies I saw earlier, wonder what is next on the Netflix list?
I am waiting for the cold. It isn't that I am sick of the heat, the temperature has been perfect. T-shirt and shorts perfect, but I have been looking at sweaters and wanting the leaves to fall. A biting breeze in the air. A nip in the air when I wake, with the dew glistening on the grass.
I think I'll head north to Vermont on Monday. Visit some covered bridges, walk a few trails and browse some stores. Look at antiques that are too expensive for me to buy. Dream of owning a small house out in the woods, along a dirt road, near a bubbling stream, and a hammock in the backyard. I need to get out of Boston."Hate the sinner but love the sin," Aimee Mann, High on Sunday 51
The lights just went on for a couple of floors in the school across the street.
4:28 AM
Later
I have got to start going to bed at a reasonable hour.
I watched 2 movies this evening. The Matrix and then Saving Private Ryan. Ryan always makes me cry.
Thursday, September 11, 2003
2:03 AM
This is the reason why I love PBS
art:21 art in the 21st Century Season 2.
Saturday, September 06, 2003
1:35 AM
Movie Night
Tonight I sat at home, alone, and watched, alone, 2 movies. They are Netflix rentals that have been sitting above my DVD player since before my trip. (So basically, I have been shitting away $20 a month without much to show for it) The third is damaged and I guess will come back to me in due time. One is a film that I was told that I have to watch, cause it is so me, 3 years ago, I just got around to it. The other is just a scary film.
I saw the scary one first. It was ok. When I watch scary films I look for the hooks and the ploys and the fake music crescendos. This one had them. I had guessed the ending though, which in some cases of scary films is par the course now a days. "What way can we really trick and fool the audience," a writer thought and so did I and most everyone with some intelligence. The film was The Others starring Nicole Kidman and I give it a B, mainly cause it used the soundtrack to its full abilities.
The second was the one that I had to see. I get told this a lot. There is always a film that my friends say is so me. Unfortunately, my friends see the movie and then tell me, and then no one else wants to see it cause its a Mike movie. Annoying, and I might need better friends, or friends who live in the same city as I, but I digress. This movie was good and it was my type of film, so therefore a Mike film. Dark, intelligent, funny and a little off the wall. Actually, pretty much off the wall, maybe through the wall. I recommend it very highly, it is so choice, the movie was The Royal Tenenbaums. I give it an A.
Now I get to send these 2 working discs and the 1 cracked and find out what is next on my list. I have forgotten my Netflix password and can't be bothered to spend 5 minutes trying to find it. There should still be a rather large list of movies that I have picked and when the list gets low I'm sure Netflix will tell me.
1:17 PM
Oh this is interesting
This is annoying to the extreme.
Lets see if this works.
Check out this site, The Four Seasons by Jonathan Clark. Some cool cemetery shots and still life effects.
1:04 PM
Oh this is interesting
So I can still post, if only by email. This means I can't edit or anything else, but I can still post.
So, thinking even more about switching to MT.
Check out this site, The Four Seasons by Jonathan Clark. Some cool cemetery shots and still life effects.
12:56 PM
Can't log in
Blogger says I don't exist. Though when say that I lost my password they send me the same password that I have always used.
Joy.
So I am sending this by email in the hopes that it will post. Then I can be safe to say that something is very wrong on Blogger's side.
Thursday, September 04, 2003
2:19 AM
"What are you up too?"
I have been asked this question a lot lately. Which isn't surprising, I am unemployed and living off my savings. Most of the time the question is asked with the implication of how many jobs have you applied for today, or what did you write, or did you leave the house at all?
I ashamed to say that I keep telling the truth. I have been up to and doing nothing. I don't leave the house, and if I do, it is just to let the dog out or to buy more books that I won't get around to til 2006. I wake each day at an awkward 2pm. I go online and read some blogs and some news and check my email and play Yahtzee and Snood. I take a shower around 4 and make some food. I might go on the hammock and read, but I haven't done that in a week. It is usually straight back to the computer where I fix some small thing on one of the websites and keep telling myself that I have to look into CSS and XML.
What I should answer when asked with this question is to boldly lie. Tell the accuser that I just applied to 7 jobs and got call backs for all of them, or that I am working on my novel and I am 300 pages deep, or that I am making a cruise missile in the basement. I could say that I have started an online conspiracy to steal the largest ball of twine. That I am training for next year's Tour de France and that Steve Jobs and Apple are sponsoring me. That I am working on a top secret new nozzle design for NASA that will revolutionize rockets. That I have trained the local squirrels to play "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" with a hedgehog that does a mean drum solo and whose timing is immaculate. That I have found my birth parents and am suing them for all that they are worth. That I can now teleport by will from my bedroom to the playboy mansion and that Heff and I are great friends. That I am in truth a Timelord, lost on this world in 1973 and that my TARDIS is my Civic. That I am running for President of the United States, or even better, that I am a write in candidate for California governor.
But for some god dammed reason, when asked next, I will answer thus, "I slept til 3 and played 6 hours of Naval Command on Yahoo."
