| I'm 30 years old now.. |
[22 Jun 2009|12:13am] |
And it's been one hell of a year. School started, I did pretty good considering how long it'd been since I was in school. I bought a house. I started singing Barbershop. My wife's pregnant.
Not much else, but really? That's a hell of a year, right there.
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| If everything goes according to plan... |
[27 Apr 2009|07:02pm] |
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...Sometime around December I'm going to be a FATHER. Yes, Wren is pregnant. What a wonderful year this really has been! First, school! Then, HOUSE! Then, BABY. It's been a damned good year!
I don't think I've ever been happier (aside from chemical depression, but who *DIDN'T* know I suffered from that one, right?) and life has taken so many turns up, it's... Incredible.
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| I... Live... AGAIN. |
[05 Mar 2009|04:54pm] |
My computer is running again. Well, case, keyboard and mouse are running. Everything else is new.
BUT YAY COMPUTER MACHINE!!!
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| Awesome! |
[15 Sep 2008|03:06pm] |
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So, my computer's dead. Power supply seems to have cooked the motherboard. I can't afford a new anything, so I'm shit outta luck for awhile. I need the damned thing for school, too. Ah well, maybe I'll be able to find a *better* computer for something I can actually afford. Maybe.
What all this means is my internet activity is going down. Kinda a good thing, considering the fact that I just started school, but still. Big pissoff.
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| I need you all to do yourselves a favour |
[17 Aug 2008|03:50pm] |
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Read the book "Variable Star by Robert A. Heinlein and Spider Robinson. Heinlein was dead for 17 years when pen was first put to paper, but.. The Man Himself wrote it. I don't know how to describe it other than this:
No one can write like Robert A. Heinlein. For better or for worse, no one can. Spider Robinson's touch is evident, such as the inclusion of the Trailer Park Boys, but.. It's Heinlein. As though the two took turns writing chapters, yet they flowed so beautifully into each other.
Robinson had 7 out of 8 pages of notes, and some 3x5 index cards written by Heinlein. But that wasn't the only relic he had of one of Sci-Fi's patron saints- No, the estate gave him several things to work with; Heinlein's own cufflinks added to a modified shirt of Robinson's; Heinlein's wife Ginny's kimono for Spider's wife to wear; Heinlein's favourite garden shirt; and finally, and most poetically, I think, Spider Robinson used Robert A. Heinlein's own desk dictionary, with its' fifty odd years of repairs and modifications by Heinlein himself. The two wordsmiths pulled from the same forge, and the result is beauty.
To put the book in a synopsis, this is my best effort:
It is the End and the Beginning. A man who turns down everything he could ever dream of, seeing it as the nightmare it was, and fleeing from humanity to rebuild himself among the stars. The trials, tribulations and joys of being this man, and the new hope available to him after all hope is extinguished.
Do yourselves a favour. Read it. You may not like it as much as I did, but even if you don't like Heinlein, or Sci-Fi, in the end, you've read an amazing book.
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| June 22 |
[04 Aug 2008|10:54pm] |
Instructions: Go over to Wikipedia and enter your birthdate and then pick 3 events, 2 births and 1 holiday that occurred on the day of your birthday.
168 BC - Battle of Pydna: Romans under Lucius Aemilius Paullus defeat and capture Macedonian King Perseus, ending the Third Macedonian War.
1825 - British Parliament abolishes feudalism and the seigneurial system in British North America.
1942 - Erwin Rommel is promoted to Field Marshal after the capture of Tobruk.
1757 - George Vancouver, British explorer (d. 1798) (Yes, *that* Vancouver)
1898 - Erich Maria Remarque, German writer (d. 1970) (All Quiet On The Western Front. Cool!)
BONUS BIRTHDAY:
1958 - Bruce Campbell, American actor (Hail to the King, Baby)
Holiday?
Saint Thomas More (d. 1535) Cool.
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| Well, 15 minutes to 29 |
[21 Jun 2008|11:47pm] |
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And I have to say, this has been a pretty good year. Things could've rolled better with the roomie, and a few other things, but Wren and I are happy. I think that's all I can really ask for. I don't feel any older yet, but wait 365 days and I'll answer a lot differently, I think. Gettin' old, but not hating it. It's nice. :)
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| Huh. Stolen from Kim |
[10 Jun 2008|04:23pm] |
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If you read this, if your eyes are passing over this right now, even if we don't speak often, please post a comment with a memory of you and me. It can be anything you want -- good or bad. When you're finished,post this little paragraph on your blog and be surprised (or mortified)about what people remember about you.
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| Best. Use. Of Inmates. Ever. |
[17 May 2008|10:16pm] |
This is hilarious. The population of a Phillipino prison in Cebu doing "Thriller" by Michael Jackson, with a 'sister' playing the role. Pure hilarity.
See? It's stuff like this which can really make inmates see there's more to life than crime. Or something.
At least they were doing something constructive.
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| Heh. Funny survey thinger |
[30 Apr 2008|12:04am] |
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| Welp.. |
[23 Apr 2008|02:06pm] |
Today is my Vocational Aptitude testing. Meaning that, after this, some fine individual is gonna be able to tell me what I'm gonna do with the rest of my life.
No, I'm not gonna rock. But moving on sure does.
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| I has a podcast. |
[15 Apr 2008|05:33pm] |
This is my podcast.
Enjoy it if you like, ignore it if you want to! It's going to be mostly poetry recitation for now, because I enjoy reciting poetry. Maybe a couple stories later, I don't know yet. They're short, 5 or so minutes max so far, but there are 3 poems (two recitations of one, sobriety is good!) up right now, should be more soon!
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| One of the most horrifying things I've ever seen on the internet. |
[25 Mar 2008|09:26pm] |
It's a short list of things that horrify me- blood, gore, all that is fine. Abusing animals is sickening. But this.
THIS.
It's the most horrifying thing I've ever seen. The NYPD beating down a peaceful protest of Tibetans in front of the UN.
A cop (seemingly uninvolved in the fun) at the end says "This is being taped, right?"
The guy answers doing the taping says, "Yes."
And the cop nods and says "Very good. VERY good."
I concur, Officer. Very good that it was taped. Rise up, people.
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| Mmm, 8 am. |
[10 Mar 2008|10:13am] |
Yeah. I woke up at 8 am, which I'm sure all of you know by now is *not* something I do on purpose. However, I was majorly sleep deprived yesterday (1 hour of sleep), and after a fun-filled day of Shadowrun and then hanging out with the missus, Lene and Sammie, went to bed. I freaking SLEPT, ladies and gents. A good 7 hours of uninterrupted sleep is exactly what I needed.
Plus, breakfast. :) Cheese omelette, home fries and toast. Lovely way to start the day!
That's how life is. Simple pleasures and anger management issues these days. Yeah, I'm losing my temper a lot again. I'm trying as hard as I can to control it, but maaaaaan it's hard. Not much else to say right now.
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| Something to think about. |
[05 Feb 2008|08:28pm] |
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In the 1920s, Ernest Hemingway bet ten dollars that he could write a complete story in just six words. He wrote: "For Sale: baby shoes, never worn." He won the bet.
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| I was going to say something here |
[31 Jan 2008|02:14am] |
But I forget.
Well people, life is pretty good. Could be better, but it could be fuckloads worse. I don't say much in here because I really don't have much to say- I used to, but now I just talk to my wife and Sammie. So.. Yeah. It's really weird to have this LJ these days because I can almost never think of anything to post.
Oh, Stewart and Colbert's ratings are going through the roof since they came back. I suppose it has something to do with the fact that they're not made of FAIL. (The others seem to be, as they keep losing viewers!) here's the link.
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