Jen and I got a bunch more Christmas shopping yesterday after doing the Jingle Bell Run; 5 miles from the mighty Bohagers Party Shack, around past my block and back again, dressed in a Santa hat, red sweatshirt, bike tights and Gap carpenter shorts. What a fashion plate I am these days.
Happy Fun Things To Do Department: We visited Dave at his tree stand last night, and found him in Carhart bib overalls and lumberjack shirt, smoking a pipe and handling the merchandise. Pulling in we found Clifford the Big Red Truck, a Ford F-350 Super Duty extra cab, a year old with 30K on the odometer. Dave let me take her for a spin, and I loved it. What a beautiful truck. The three of us went over to the Forest Diner and had some dinner, and I wish to god I had brought my camera, because we sat and ate yummy hamburgers in a true 50’s silver-car diner listening to X-mas music, decorated well, and almost empty. Dave looks good and sounds like he’s doing well, and he was happy to get a tin of gaulettes (sp?) from Jen.
Jen and I got a bunch more Christmas shopping yesterday after doing the Jingle Bell Run; 5 miles from the mighty Bohagers Party Shack, around past my block and back again, dressed in a Santa hat, red sweatshirt, bike tights and Gap carpenter shorts. What a fashion plate I am these days.
Happy Fun Things To Do Department: We visited Dave at his tree stand last night, and found him in Carhart bib overalls and lumberjack shirt, smoking a pipe and handling the merchandise. Pulling in we found Clifford the Big Red Truck, a Ford F-350 Super Duty extra cab, a year old with 30K on the odometer. Dave let me take her for a spin, and I loved it. What a beautiful truck. The three of us went over to the Forest Diner and had some dinner, and I wish to god I had brought my camera, because we sat and ate yummy hamburgers in a true 50’s silver-car diner listening to X-mas music, decorated well, and almost empty. Dave looks good and sounds like he’s doing well, and he was happy to get a tin of gaulettes (sp?) from Jen.
Remember Pearl Harbor. Don’t see the movie, which I’m told sucked; read this book by Gordon W. Prange. From what I understand, nobody that produced the movie did; maybe you’ll learn something.
Some little jerk walked past the Scout this morning and sprayed a red line down the side with spray-paint. I hate this city so much. I can’t wait to move out of it.
An interesting quote from Richard Parsons, the (now) CEO of AOL Time Warner:
Q. Do you think the Web can remain free?
A. No. No, I don’t think so. Not if it’s to achieve or realize its ultimate destiny as the global interactive marketplace that it can be.
Go to hell, Richard. And take TIME magazine and all your spamming AOL subscribers with you. Do you understand anything about the Web? The best part about it is that it’s free, you ignorant fool. The best thing about it is that I don’t need to pay narrow-minded greedheads like you to publish whatever I think or feel; I own this site and you don’t. Mouthbreather. Keep the ‘interactive marketplace’ on your pretty AOL sites and leave my web alone.
2:46 PM – </vent mode off> OK, I’m feeling better. Life is good. Please process the above vitriol through the “had a crappy morning” filter. Running was good, and I had a good time with Jeff and Dwight.
Remember Pearl Harbor. Don’t see the movie, which I’m told sucked; read this book by Gordon W. Prange. From what I understand, nobody that produced the movie did; maybe you’ll learn something.
Some little jerk walked past the Scout this morning and sprayed a red line down the side with spray-paint. I hate this city so much. I can’t wait to move out of it.
An interesting quote from Richard Parsons, the (now) CEO of AOL Time Warner:
Q. Do you think the Web can remain free?
A. No. No, I don’t think so. Not if it’s to achieve or realize its ultimate destiny as the global interactive marketplace that it can be.
Go to hell, Richard. And take TIME magazine and all your spamming AOL subscribers with you. Do you understand anything about the Web? The best part about it is that it’s free, you ignorant fool. The best thing about it is that I don’t need to pay narrow-minded greedheads like you to publish whatever I think or feel; I own this site and you don’t. Mouthbreather. Keep the ‘interactive marketplace’ on your pretty AOL sites and leave my web alone.
2:46 PM – </vent mode off> OK, I’m feeling better. Life is good. Please process the above vitriol through the “had a crappy morning” filter. Running was good, and I had a good time with Jeff and Dwight.
Not a lot to write about- very busy today. Lots seen and done, but not a whole lot of time to process the information. I did get a bunch of photos back from Blow-Up yesterday- they look fantastic. Now I just can’t wait to get a digital camera for some instant gratification.
I also added the calendar to the left for some easy reference in the running (OK, walking right now) project. (this links back to the old weblog format).
I got off my lazy ass today, went down to the gym with a bunch of other guys and got on a treadmill. To begin the first bout of exercise this out-of-shape slob has done in a year, I walked quickly, then ran for about 5 minutes, or at least until the ankles began screaming, and then walked again. There will need to be a lot of stretching, then slow buildup of the cardiovascular system, and also some headphones so I can catch The Bold And The Beautiful on the ‘CBS Only’ TV, and maybe by about February I’ll be able to do three or four miles without passing out from pain and exhaustion.
I also continued working on the website, which is making me very happy. I miss the Web. In another couple of days I’ll have to bug Steve to get me a copy of Flash for the PC so I can start doing some simple splash animations for this thing. Then i have to bug Mark Thomas to help me set up CGI permissions on the box, and set up a couple of randomizers.
I got off my lazy ass today, went down to the gym with a bunch of other guys and got on a treadmill. To begin the first bout of exercise this out-of-shape slob has done in a year, I walked quickly, then ran for about 5 minutes, or at least until the ankles began screaming, and then walked again. There will need to be a lot of stretching, then slow buildup of the cardiovascular system, and also some headphones so I can catch The Bold And The Beautiful on the ‘CBS Only’ TV, and maybe by about February I’ll be able to do three or four miles without passing out from pain and exhaustion.
I also continued working on the website, which is making me very happy. I miss the Web. In another couple of days I’ll have to bug Steve to get me a copy of Flash for the PC so I can start doing some simple splash animations for this thing. Then i have to bug Mark Thomas to help me set up CGI permissions on the box, and set up a couple of randomizers.
Today is the day of jackhammers and heavy machinery. I woke up this morning to the sweet, gentle strains of a backhoe-mounted reciprocal pick chipping out the concrete in the back alley behind my house; both cats looked at me wide-eyed like I was, perhaps, calling the apocalypse unto them. I got ready for work and left the house, and upon arrival at work found another backhoe lifting great sheets of the pavement in the parking lot into a dump truck. Now the seat under my butt vibrates like Joey Buttafuoco’s pager ringing a ‘007’ from Amy Fisher.
Oh, Martha, I have found a gorgeous, sad, wonderful song: Trouble by Coldplay.
This is a short and sweet entry for today–I’ve been real busy and for the last few days not very interested in log entries, strangely enough. I actually have a project which piques my interest and it’s a good feeling to A. be good at what I do and B. love to do it. I wish I could do this constantly again–I miss it tremendously. It makes me want to redesign my own pages for the first time in 2½ years.
Music of the day: Hooverphonic and Supreme Beings of Leisure. Damn this is great stuff to work to.