bjciii: My twisted thoughts

Monday morning and I’m back. It’s going to be a wacky day in the ol’ cubicle farm today boys and girls! So this weekend was very productive! I helped my dad get some cabinets on Saturday morning (the man adores waking up early… the only thing I can’t stand) and then I went shopping with my buddy Dan at Costco. That place is wonderful… for those of you who don’t have Costco, it’s a wholesale place where you buy a gallon of ketchup for 25 cents. Okay, that’s hyperbole, but you get the point. I worked at the store that night and we had the front of the store tiled, so stop in! It really looks great. I get to work there tonight, so I’m looking forward to seeing the finished product. It will be so nice to get rid of that ugly brown carpet. An old guy actually pissed on it one night! He was handing some money over to pay for his booze and just pissed down his leg! I swear… people are just disgusting. Luckily I wasn’t working that night!!! So this week is going to be a busy one. I will be working bookend weekdays and I’m trying to nail down my gaming night but Alex is the sticking point, so I’m not sure if it’s Tuesday or Thursday yet. I go on call tomorrow night, so that’s a joy-joy feeling. Luckily I get to sleep in next Monday, so that’s good. Oh yeah!! How happy am I now that most schools started today?! No longer will I have to get pissy walking into places during the day because those thug-ass kids are there. I am such an old fart at just under 29 years. It’s sad, but I don’t remember me or my friends being nearly as big of assholes as these kids now a days… I blame it on the mentality pervasive in sports and entertainment today. We had hair metal, they have gangsta rap. We were odd, they are rude. It’s a sad state of affairs. Oh well… enough of that… time to get crackin. Talk to ya!

Sorry I haven’t posted lately. I was ever so gently reminded to do so today by a beautiful and quite bored Carolinian. So what have I been doing since the AM on Monday? Working!!! Another project in the fast pipeline and I’m under the gun (no, not literally… don’t you people remember I don’t like guns??) to get it done by “the end of the month.” So I’ve been putting in mondo-hours for that. Tuesday night was gaming with the guys and we had some fun. Steve is a very inventive guy! Wednesday I was home and relaxing because, damnit, I can. I got to watch a fantastic show on FX called “Rescue Me” that reminds me of my cousin Chris every time I watch it. I love that boy… I really do. He’s a fire-fighter and a husband and a father and a great friend. It’s a damn shame that it took 9/11 to get people to realize how many heroes we know in daily life! Anyway, off the soap-box. Um… last night I went out to dinner with a very sweet girl and we talked until we screamed because the Eagles game started and they amped up the volume. Other than that, it was a nice evening. Today I got into work a couple minutes late and dove right into my project again. Now I get to leave here in about an hour so I can go to the movies and see Hero with my aforementioned buddy Steve. That movie should rock. After that I invade The Phile home and relax with two of my favorite people for the evening. It’s always so damn cool there. Tomorrow I get cabinets from a construction site… would ya believe they just toss ‘em when they’re not being used?? I know I sound like a trash-picker by saying that but have you priced cabinetry?? Yeah… thought not. Tomorrow night I work and Sunday I’m going to redesign the Football Pool Website for it’s grand unveiling in a little under 2 weeks. There’s still room for some more people, so join up!! Have I written enough for you to read Karen? Break-time’s over babies… gotta jet. Have a great weekend!

Monday morning and boy did I ever want to call in sick today! When I heard that alarm at the crack of 06:30, I was just so drained that I briefly flirted with leaving a message at work, but then I remembered that I had to kick off a project at 07:10 and my conscience got the better of me. Off I go into work on a lovely, chilly Wilmington morn. So I get to my cube, boot up, and attempt to login to the correct server… nothing. Password hasn’t been changed for me. BAH! Nothing can happen, so I could have stayed in bed after all. Oooo I was a little depressed about that one. But now I have a steaming cup of Lipton tea with a ton of sugar and lemon juice and I’m rarin to go this morning. I got my shit together and finished a CD I was thinking about for a friend of mine for her birthday (which was way too long ago). I do so love music though. I’m slowly rebuilding my CD collection (store-bought Mr. Recording Industry man…) and it’s really heartbreaking to remember my books in all their glory. Some of those CDs are lost forever… What a damn shame. Oh the plus side I met a very sweet and cute girl / woman (I really don’t know how to refer to females anymore… girl pisses some off and woman pisses some off. If I just say “female,” I know that will piss some off, so I stick with girl to be safe) this past Saturday. Just sat at the bar with her for about 3 hours and talked. Very cool. After that I went home and severely crashed. I think I slept more deeply that night than I have in a long time; I was so tired!!! Long weekend capped off by a nice date. Very cool. Anyway, here I am on Monday morning in my cubicle with my rapidly-cooling hot tea and I must bid you all a fond adieu. To all my lovely ladies who are reading this, how YOU doin? To all the guys reading this, go away… you’re scaring off the ladies. Peace out yo.

No, I’m not engaged people. Bernadette is a very good friend who I do love, but we’ve been joking about this fiancee thing for a while now. It’s even gotten to the point that a mutual friend’s mother is ecstatic about “the engagement,” so it’s a little humorous. Bern’s a wonderful woman (and I know she’s reading this), so as I was talking to her on the phone last night, she was giving me shite about not making a big deal of her arrival. Never back me up to a wall people!!! So I let the ol’ tongue translate into the fingers and my gift of unctious verbiage took over. I also found 2 pictures from our month together back in 1991, so I scanned them in and posted them up front. I truly can’t wait to see her again… it will be a lot of fun. By the by, when we do get married we’re gonna have a house in America, a house in England, and a house in Australia. She reckons we’ll have to elope since we have such huge families, so that will work. I said we would go to Vegas and get married by Elvis. Imagine saying “I Do” in front of “The King”!! Anyway, it’s Friday morning here and I’m getting ready to start pre-install proceedures for a project. It’s cool because it’s something to do! I got a lot of sleep last night (God bless Smithwick’s!), so I’m rarin to go today. I have to work tonight, but I am free most of the remaining weekend. I have drinks with a girl I’ve never seen on Saturday night and a game with the group on Sunday at Le Maison du France. Should be fun. I look forward to my entire weekend of relaxation! Enjoy!!

Greetings and salutations my friends. How the hell are ya? Besides being a bit tired (those late night Olympic Event airings are killing me), I’m pretty good this cloudy morning. It’s going to be a good week of Bill-time. I have the next 2 nights free, so it’s going to be completely chill at 407. I managed to take some time off in September so I can have a 2-day work-week the week of my birthday. I’ll be 29 this year! Such an old fart. I now card people at the liquor store younger than my sister. Can you actually believe people born in the 1980s are allowed to legally drink now??? That’s just frightening. I guess you start thinking of that stuff when you enter THE REAL WORLD instead of that safe cocoon of your parents’ house and school. So I’m desperately trying to come up with a great redesign for my website. The problem I have is not time or motivation, but my own anal ways. Everything I decide on looks great at first glance, but I think it’s too trite after 5 minutes. I haven’t redesigned this place in over 2 years and I need to dump in some cool graphics. Maybe I’ll get (my buddy) France to teach me the Zen art of Photoshop. Then you all will be toast. Love it! Hey… join the football pool! It’s a fun thing and there are a lot of newbies in it this year. Anyway… this has been a rambling and completely pointless entry. Suck it up… my page, my rules. Peace!

I needed this past weekend. I needed it so badly that it felt so good to just eschew everything and relax. I am real tired this morning, but that’s my own damn fault for staying up until 1am watching TV last night. So what happened this weekend… good question. Friday was the opening of the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. My parents had a party and it was quite fun. Sara and Jonathan came over as did Jenn and Drew. A lot of my parents’ friends also showed up and we all had fun watching the parade and the lighting of the giant joint… I mean torch. Saturday I played around most of the day and worked that night (so boring on Saturday night). I ended up going home and relaxing with a little ESPN NFL 2K5 and sleeping for about 10 hours. Beautious! The disappointment of the weekend was there was no rain! I love weather. I think it’s the greatest thing in the world to see Mother Nature remind humanity that we aren’t shit in the grand scheme of things, so I was a little disappointed to see that the hurricane completely missed Wilmington. Sunday I finally talked myself out of getting XBox Live for myself. It would have cost $250 and I would only have played it with 1 game, so it was a $270 game. Uh-uh… no f’n way am I THAT crazy! Sunday night I hung out with the boys and watched SummerSlam at Casa de Mongoose. It was real cool because it wasn’t my house. I got a quote on the big board and I was happy about that. Of course Wade isn’t thrilled, but that’s life big boy! Time to go get some stuff done. Enjoy the updates and I’ll catch ya.

I recently got called on something I wrote online during a particularly stressful period in my life (it was last November / December) and so now somebody’s all pissed off at me. Like I’ve said before, I stand behind everything I put online because it’s completely my feelings (unless I’m being sarcastic, then you have to figure it out people). Anyway, this person got pissed because they read something completely out of context and blew it up into gargantuan proportions. Granted, if I were reading it cold, I probably would have been a little curious as to wording, but I wouldn’t have gone nuclear. What people fail to realize is, on a bulletin-board system, threads are on-going and sometimes feature asides to conversations had in RL (real life) as opposed to on-line. So when you read something that seems to make little sense, it probably is an inside-comment to someone else that they’ll understand due to a background in the conversation that you don’t have. So to this person I say: You remember the time. You remember the conversations WE had, so get over this deal now. You don’t know the story behind the comment you so brazenly overrreacted to and you don’t know the meaning of much of that post itself! It’s pretty much ALL an allusion to prior conversations that I had with some friends who were helping me out and, guys being guys, we do what we can to cope with situations. Is that post indicative of poking fun at you? Absolutely NOT because it was a horrible time for you and I’m never one to kick someone when they are down… ever. So maybe… ya think… possibly… you overthought, overreacted, and overreached in this case? Yeah. I think so. I do commend you on the quoting of the post though… narrowed things down quite a bit. So anyway, I’ve said my peace. What you thought is absolutely incorrect and I’ve now attempted at setting you straight. If it didn’t work, not my problem. I’m a little tired of trying to soothe the hurt feelings of everyone who misinterprets things. I’ve written this in another forum but: When I want you to be insulted, believe me… you’ll know you’ve been insulted beyond a shadow of a doubt. Oh… believe it or not, I’m actually having a nice day so far. Go figure.

So I’ve become quite addicted to crossword puzzles lately. I visited my grandmother and she was having trouble with the last few boxes, so I helped. Then I started doing them on my own and we’d call each other to confirm answers. Basically I just do the one in The News Journal and I’m getting so I’m only missing a couple each day. Not bad! I have noticed that the ones on Monday are a lot easier than the ones on Friday and Saturday, so I have a theory that they get harder as the week progresses. I don’t do Sunday’s only because I have more to do that day! Okay… enough about that. What else is new? Well I’ve been doing a lot of work around the house and trying to clean that place. It’s not that I’m dirty because I’m not, I just collect clutter it seems! Oh… I was just shot a snotty comment by a coworker who has zero tolerance for noise. See… I was up in the Men’s room and my cell phone went off (sister called), so I get back to my desk and I get “Your cell phone just annoyed everybody.” So, of course I shot back, “Oh good! Everyone else’s does too, so I’m glad I’m not left out anymore!” I swear… this office has some people who have NO tolerance for outside distractions. Bah. I’m still happy though. I’ve got caught up on all my work and I’m just smoothing over some other stuff here, so I’m feeling groovy and barely nothing can bring me down. Gotta finish up so I can go to meet Brian & Shanna for lunch at Rooney’s. You see… Red-Headed Tara is bartending today and, call me crazy, but I happen to like being at the bar during that time. Tee-hee.

I’m such a bad little monkey… I know. I promised an update yesterday and I didn’t deliver. I’m a tease. So here’s the good news: I’m no longer on-call this week! Last night was the last night until September, so I’m good for another 5 weeks. I cannot stress how good that feels!! I also got Stephanie’s computer back from the dead, so I thank John and Anthony for their help in supplying parts for that box. I just took part in a discussion on that BBS I post to about “blogs” and what they are. My feeling, that I’ve stated numerous times, is that a blog should be a forum for the writer to post whatever they want. If they want to bitch and complain, then so be it. If they want to idolize some celebrity or person of attraction, then go for it. Me, I just write whatever I feel like. I’ve used this word a bunch of times before and I’m using it again: catharsis. It’s what makes me sane. I do a wonderful job when I try to convince others I’m crazy, but it’s all a way to make people laugh. I hate misery… unless I intend to cause it of course! So here I sit trying to organize my day (and believe me, that ain’t no easy task) and I remembered that I forgot to update here yesterday. Fun isn’t it? So I’ve re-started my football pool, so please sign up and have some fun. All the rules are on the main page and you’ll be able to follow along very nicely. Time to get cracking again. This provided a much-needed mental sorbet for me this morning… cleared the old brain palate with no brain-freeze. Love the imagery!!