July/August 2004
8/26/04
With his bloody sword, he wounded his enemies...to DEATH.
What is this? Some kind of wacky website? Is it wacky?
Could my website use more wackiness? Or would you prefer zaniness to
wackiness? That's one tough decision. I shall have to meditate on
that.
Anyway, I've been quite busy of late. The new job is going well.
Keeping me quite busy, which is good, except sometimes I feel a bit
overwhelmed. I even have a huge list of things to do in the office when
there is nothing to do. I wonder if I can remotely defrag the new hard
drive I put in out Citrix server. Though I should be there to setup the
mirroring. Apparently I can't. Which, I guess is a good thing
security wise.
So, it has been a busy couple of weeks. Jawscat has returned to his
home, quite happy to do so I hear. Went to see
Saint Eve with Po, Jen, Mike and
Kris. They enjoyed it as did I. Met
Dr Atomic there. Met
and had a geeky chat with Urban Outlaw
and the good doctor himself about various sci-fi things. I took
pictures of course. Of the show that
is, not the geeky chat. Got home quite late and slept.
Saturday evening was Craig's
birthday party. Twas fun. met some new people, got to hang out
with Dave, Lauren and Miller, which is always fun. Had another geeky
conversation with Miller, but this was about computers. We had dinner
fun, then headed to Craig's to see
Robosapien
in action. After which we headed down to an 80's themed club aptly
called The Breakfast Club. It was fun, but I do get tired of 80s music
after a while. Plus it is kind of annoying that people feel obligated to
go nuts over a Bon Jovi song just because we live in New Jersey. I have
nothing against Jovi, just how Jersians over react to him. Anyways.
Got home late from that too.
Sunday relaxed and watched
Equlibrium, which if you like Orwellian futures or Christian Bale, you'll
like this.
This week has been a bit more relaxed for me. I can't believe that I'm
making plans as far ahead as December though. I'm like some crazy adult
person.
A few things:
Li: I know you're strong.
Tricia: Enjoy and thanks.
Cathy: YUM!
Rachel: Look out behind you!
The guy with the yellow shirt: Put that down. No one wants to see
that.
Tom: Yeah...
Mom & Dad: Enjoy the Swiss
I guess that's all. Yeah, I'm getting a bit lazy. I'm also running
out of pics and wav files. Maybe it was a limited time offer. That
makes it more special, doesn't it?
8/22/04
I think you should give us all your gold.
I think you should sleeeeep.
Yeah, I've been very busy. Work has been good, though end up staying
a little late most nights. This coupled with the fact that I've been
socializing every night this past week makes me one tired Ganoosh. I'll
get a more detailed update with pics from the St Eve show soon enough.
8/8/04
You know what I like about Canadians? They're real easy to elbow out of
the way.
So, what a fun time I've had. I'm finally done with creepy ol'
Bayonne. But it didn't let me get away unscathed, oh no. I spend
most of the day yesterday feeling like crap as creepy Bayonne germs wormed
their way into my mucous membranes. Not only that, but I was out of
soup. It only took me about half an hour to get out of my chair and down
to my car after deciding I was going to the store. And to make the order
of events of this weekend more random, I had my car checked up yesterday,
which is good. I hope to have that thing for 5 more years. I also
have a guest for the next week
and a half to two weeks. He
adjusted well to the new surroundings and is lying in a sunbeam behind me as I
type this. Li is pretty relieved that he adjusted so well. I also
watched some Due South, which I
borrowed from my sister. It is quite a good show, nice mix of drama and
humor. Plus how could you not like a show that has a deaf wolf, but he
can read lips so it's ok as long as he's looking at you. I've also
completely fallen in love with
Rescue Me. It's a great show and had the funniest scene this past
week where Denis Leary called his dad and they talked about the game on TV,
but there were subtitles where they were saying how much they loved each other
and how proud they were.
Not sure what else is going on. Start the new job tomorrow and it will
be interesting to see whther or not I will be medicated for my first day.
Also, here's and interesting
interview with Dr Atomic about Atomic
Box.
Plus there's a Saint Eve show on
Friday August 20 at 11:30pm at the Slipper Room in NYC. I plan on going,
let me know if you are interested in joining me.
That's all I can think of for now. Maybe I'll try and do some midweek
thing this week.
8/2/04
SILENCE! I concur.
Here are some pics I took at work today.
8/1/04
If there's trouble, all us freaks have is each other.
Yeah, it's been a busy week. Been at Bayonne again, but at least the
movie is over so the parking lot is all empty.
Lets see...
Got ye olde pow-wow pics here.
The Uberjerk show was good. Got those pics
here. I must say that they have improved much and hopefully I will
get to catch them more in the future. Plus maybe they'll put songs out
on something other than record someday.
Plus, got Contempt pics too. I
know you all love those.
Well, this is my last week at OBS. Next Monday, I start work at
Link High as a Computer Network
Technician/Consultant and can hopefully stay there for the next few years or
more of my life. Apparently no one noticed the clue (I took my resume
down). You all fail!
It's been a while and I feel that I should have more to say, but I can't think
of anything.
Well, Dracula: The Musical was good, but the ending sucked, basically.
It was quite abrupt and Mina kills him with a knife. You can't kill
Dracula with a knife, silly! Geez.
I've seen several movies and enjoyed them all. You should all go see the
movies that I've seen.
OK, I'm done. I'm going to go get something to drink. You all
should do that too.
7/26/04
Got some news. Will mention it later. But there is a clue on
this page.
7/19/04
It's an illusion! I'm fooling you and you don't like it!!!
Everyone loves Magical
Trevor!
7/18/04
Say hello to everything you've left behind. It's even more a part
of your life now that you can't touch it.
Certain Americans living in Hong Kong who haven't updated their web page
in 8 months who will remain unnamed feel that they can mock my two weeks of
lack of updates here.
"Its almost time to make fun of T for not updating his
site. I guess he now realizes when you have a job, its hard to find time.
Awwwwwwwww."
Actually it has very little with having a job, the only connection with that
is adjusting to actually having to get up at 6:30 in the morning again.
It mostly has to do with my laziness, which I am perfectly willing to admit to
and not make excuses, as well as
this.
Updating a site takes 30 minutes, maybe an hour if I have a bunch of pics to
upload. That barely fills in on non-job related time. On top of
that, I have been quite busy with other things.
Lets start at the beginning, shall we.
First there was a bright light, then over the next few Pico seconds the energy
cooled and matter started to form...oh wait, not that beginning. The
weekend of the 3rd was a much fun hanging out weekend. For some reason,
maybe because I was working so hard I had no time to update my site, I can't
recall what happened on the 2nd, but the third was Po's BBQ, which was lots of
fun. Got to hang with Jen's sister and her boyfriend Brian who were both
pretty cool. Everyone else who I didn't talk to much seemed quite nice
too.
The 4th was the family BBQ at which my Dad got finagled into grilling again.
After desert, I met up with Gusta, Tom and Jen for some fireworks and Twilight
Zone action. Though not both at the same time, which would've been quite
creepy.
The 5th, Rachel and I went to see Fahrenheit 9/11 (again for me) and hit
Penang for dinner. Many thanks to her for paying and I'm sure she thanks
me for breaking in her new credit card and sending her off into the wonderful
world of buying things with money you don't have.
The following day, I started work, which hasn't been too bad. I spent
most of the week down at Bayonne High School where they were filming a movie
version of
Strangers With Candy with Mathew Broderick and Sara Jessica Parker.
And how did that effect me? It made parking a bitch.
The weekend of the 10th was again busy. Friday, I hung out with Po and
Jen and played some card games and watched
The Evil Dead. It was
really odd seeing Bruce Campbell so young. Saturday was Zack's D&D game
followed by some more hanging out with Li, Tom and ROSS at the Budd Lake Diner
(where I had my first happy waitress) and my apartment. Sunday, Rachel
and I went to the Sussex County Pow-wow, which I have pics for, but will post
later. We had fun, and I enjoyed my fry bread.
This past Tuesday my grandfather passed away.
While, not overly upset (I admit I've been kind of preparing myself for this
mentally ever since my grandmother passed away last year), it left me feeling
kind of down for the rest of the week. Though I did manage to exorcize
most of the demons plaguing Zak's laptop, there are a few stubborn ones still
remaining though.
This weekend was mostly quiet. Friday I ended up watching biographies of
David Koresh, Jim Jones (of Jonestown fame) and Charles Manson with Scott.
It was all quite fascinating, though I was quite amused to hear Patricia
Krenwinkel say some things that were samples from White Zombie's Real Solution
#9.
Saturday was Opa's memorial with the family. It was good to see everyone
and we had good food (catered by the AB&G). Afterwards, my Dad came over
and we watched Return of the King (thanks D-mo for letting me borrow it).
That should keep me going until the full version comes out in November.
Today, I met up with my dad and sis to see I, Robot, which was entertaining as
long as you don't expect any connection with the Azimov story aside from the
three laws. I was amused to find out that the voice of Sonny the robot
was done by the guy who played Wash on Firefly.
On to the announcements
Next Sunday at 9pm, Uberjerk is playing in New Hope, PA. I'm going in
early to stroll around a bit.
Friday the 30th is Contempt.
Is that good enough for certain Americans living in Hong Kong who
haven't updated their web page in 8 months who will remain unnamed?
7/1/04
I can hear you
Just barely hear you
I can just barely hear you
Well, it's been a while, but I really haven't had much to say here, so I
haven't said it. that and I haven't been doing much.
What's in the news?
Well, my monitor is dying. In fact it's 1/3 dead. The blue no
longer works. It's still usable, but I have trouble sometimes finding
links and I can't play Diablo II very well because blue and gray look the
same. I'm waiting to save up some money and hear back from people that
can help me get a good price.
It's Josh's birthday today. Say happy birthday to the bowtie king.
After much bugging, I have added some new skins to my
forum. You can choose which
one you want to use in your profile if you haven't done it already. I'm
also having a logo contest. Each skin needs a different logo image.
Go design one, you can find the details
here.
Now, lets look at the calendar.
Tuesday I start work at OBS for the
summer. Which will give me money as I catch up on certifications.
Next Sunday, the 11th, is the Native American Festival at the Sussex County
Fairgrounds.
Here's pics from last year. Let me know if you want to go.
On Sunday the 25th, Uberjerk is playing in New Hope at 9. Where in New
Hope? AM or PM? Only Gusta knows the answers to these questions.
Seriously. I asked Baker and he didn't know.
On Friday the 30th, there's the mighty
Contempt at Remote Lounge.
Check out Remote's website that night, you might see me.
Saturday, the 30th, I'm going to see
Dracula, The Musical
with the family. It sounds corny, but it's by the guy who did Jekyll &
Hyde and that was great.
Not entirely sure what's going on this weekend, but there may or may not be
pics.
Can't think of anything else to say right now.
Here's a pic and a
wav.
