Out of town for the
Out of town for the weekend.
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Out of town for the weekend.
Sitting here watching "We Were Soldiers" and thinking that I am Pro Soldier and Anti War. The men and women of our arm forces, and I suppose those of our American friends by extension, deserve a enormous amount of respect. They are doing their job, just as you and I are. Presidents and Prime Ministers make wars. Terrorists and war lords make wars. Leaders make war. Soldiers go and do what they are ordered to do.
I support fully the men and women who go and do what they are asked to do by their government. War is a hard and ugly thing and it is not entered into lightly, no matter what some people seem to be thinking. I hope that war in Iraq can be avoided.
Respect those in uniform. They go and do what you wont.
An excellent site. Check it out.
Was checking out Wil's site as I normally do and he had the following post:
Now I thought I might do the same thing.
Dear 12 Year Old Andrew,
Invest in the following companies: Microsoft, Apple, and Netscape. Put all the money you can find into these companies. Sell the Netscape stuff in 1997 and then buy more of the other two. You will get very rich.
While you are waiting to get rich remember the following. Kids can be cruel and you will learn about this in the years to come. Don't pick on anyone in jr. high, it may make you seem cool, but you will hate yourself for it later. Don't give Joel that Ministry tape when you are 16 and when you turn 18, go get really drunk. Have fun and learn. Above all else, learn. You can be so smart but you dont know it yet and will think the opposite for many years. Comb your hair! Dont use so much hairspray and for a few years, lay off the coca-cola. Talk to more girls, there are some out there that like you even though you dont know it yet. When you write that love letter to Lisa in the 6th grade, dont worry about it. Youll meet other girls and eventually meet someone very special.
Be nice to your family, they may seem annoying, but you'll understand them better when you get older.
Lastly, be happy with who you are.
PS
Dont scratch yourself so often, people will notice.
Me.
Change is good. Getting there is not!
I have been trying all morning, and as you can see, in vain, to change the look of the website. I want to do a little altering here and there and I havent been able to. I am going to try and get help.
This is hard!
More later.
Just another day.
Today was cold, the wind was out of the north again and there was blowing snow all over the city again and the brief couple of days we had where the temperature wasnt -30 seem like distant memories.
Most likely there will be a change in how the blog looks in the near future. I am thinking of messing with the template and perhaps sticking in a template of my own making.
More later, I am completely pooped.
Peace
More Adventures from the Lounge
Once again I am with lap top in the lounge in the hotel connected to the building where I work. I am very much looking forward to the weather getting warmer so that I can go somewhere else for lunch.
The past 4 or 5 days have been a little rough. On Friday after getting home from work, I began to feel a little ill and as the evening wore on I got a lot worse. That Friday was the first day of a LARP event at which I was expecting to have a lot of fun. I lasted until about 9pm and then I had to leave. I got a ride home from a friend and after a failed attempt to watch a little tv, I went to bed. The next ten hours were a little fever filled and hazy. I remember Shauna coming home and talking to me for a little bit, but what I said I dont recall. Shauna later said I sounded fever drunk and not totally coherent. Saturday started out bad, but by that evening I was up and about and feeling a lot better. The LARP event was a lot of fun and I enjoyed myself immensely. Sunday Shauna and I slept in late and went out to eat some subs. The afternoon was spent in front of the tv with me working and Shauna just kind of relaxing. That morning she had found out her uncle had died and was taking it hard. Early that evening she spoke to her mom and was broken up pretty hard. We went back to her place and crashed for the night. All in all it wasn't a great weekend.
Still working on the California Adventure story. It's coming along well but i dont think I will have it done soon. It's getting long and I want to make sure that it is all well done and tells a good story.
More later.
This is another cool site. Go to it now.
Found this place by accident and I thought it was so interesting! It's basically (as it says in the "about" line) a stangers life in pictures. I find the site interesting, I suppose, because I have a mild fascination with asia and asian culture. The site has tons of photos and commentary to go along with them. Check it out.Hunkabutta: Tokyo photos, a stranger's life in pictures
Mary mother of gad! I just went through hell and back. A very nasty stomach flu hitme like a mac truck and left me a broken man. I am a little bit better this morning, but last night I was worried!
More in a little bit.
Having a cranky day. Resisting the urge to post a bit of a bitch about current situtation in my work environment. But I won't.
I could complain about the weather, but I wont rehash it. If you live near me, then you know how bad its been.
I just really dont have anything to talk about at the moment. More later I guess.
See the below links. Follow them.
More later.
Underneath (or eventually in the archives) you will see some links that I have snagged to keep an eye on. Eventually they will end up in the appropriate links section.
More later.
Todays PVP was hilarious
Reqium for a Brujah
&*%^ing dumb#@$^ piece of @#$%# !
Thank you.
Last night, a character I play in a game (Vampire: The Masquerade) died. I can't go into too much detail right now as someone might come here and read about it. It was a lot of fun playing Lucas and I think he did pretty damn good for all that he had thrown against him. I made him a long time ago and he got me through some tough personal times. It's odd to admit, but when I would be down or what not. I would say, well what would Lucas do? and I would then pretend to be him (sort of) and when I was Lucas, I was strong and smart and good looking and it helped me get through those tough times. I fully understood that I was not Lucas and that I was never a vampire nor that they existed. But pretending to be someone stronger, allowed me to be stronger.
I am glad I can be strong without him. But I will still miss him
rant!
Another day In Paradise
Well, here we are again, another day in a land colder then a freakin eskimo's ice box. Last night, actually the last couple of nights, now that I think about it, have had windchill warnings. Now for those of you who don't know what this means, it means that the tempurature is very low, added to that, a wind of some strengthing is gusting and these two put together cause conditions that will cause your skin to freeze and fall off. Sometimes I serious hate the weather here and it is only the knowledge that summer is coming soon, that keeps me out of the tower with a gun.
Adventures with the radiator are still continuing and its beginning to get a little annoying. The handyman of our apartment came and looked at my rad and said nothing was wrong with it. Had I been there I would have said "DUH!" I told the landlord that!!!! There is a large puddle of something in front of my radiator and it appears to be seeping UP THROUGH the carpet from somewhere underneath. I know the rad isnt directly making it because I felt the rad all over when it was off and I didnt feel anything wet. The rad has been on steady since last evening and I am worried that when I get home in about an hour, that there will be a HUGE assed wet spot on the floor and that the carpet will be ruined and that I will have to freaking well wait while they reapir it and find the problem. Damn.
Props out to Kory, I had gotten him to agree to cut my hair last night and unfortunately something else came up. I forgot to call him and let him know that I wasnt coming and when i did talk to him later that evening, he was kinda mad. I had a good reason, honest, but he was still mad and I still feel bad. I will do my best to fix things with him.
Peace out.
Lots of changes today. Yay!
More links and I messed with some of the template.
Back on the main page there I added a geourl button
Another Post From The Lounge
Could have written this from the office, but I thought that since I was down here having lunch, I would be productive and get something done.
In the process of writing about my adventures in California. Trying to put together something interesting for people to read. My time in California was a lot of fun and writing about it is bringing back a lot of fond memories. I should be done the text this week and by the end of next week, I should have all the links and pictures in.
The weather is still colder then a fridge in an igloo. I can not stand this stupid weather. Its unreal and to make things worse it doesnt look like things will get any better in the near future.
More to follow.
Very short post tonight. I'll write more later. Very Cold.
I love Shauna Mulligan. Easy as pie. I say it to her all the time but I want anyone who might come by here to read about it. I love her immensely and even though times are tough, I will be there for her every step of the way until they get better. Because I love her.
I know things are hard baby. I know things look bad. I know it doesnt look like anything good will every happen again. Good things will happen. As long as we have each other. We will make it. You will make it. I won't ever let go.
Love. Easy as pie.
Posting away from the office.
Decided today that I would work on my post for today during lunch down at the hotel. The building I work in is part of a office/hotel complex and I work down at the office end of the building. Usually I come down to the lounge at the hotel for lunch and have a burger or a clubhouse sandwich. I wanted to actually have some McDonalds today but the weather is so cold that I don't want to even go outside.
Lately I have been completely adamant about not spending another winter here in Winnipeg. The weather for the last 45 days or so has been so cold that its been almost unbearable. Windchills have been around -40 and that means when you go outside that within minutes exposed skin is frozen solid and when that happens, it falls off. I desperately want to move to the west coast. Vancouver has been my choice for a place to live for the last little while. I have enjoyed myself every time I've been there and I think that work wise it might be better for me. Shauna and I talked about it earlier in the week and she is hesitant to go there. The reasons she gave me were completely valid (once we got to the real reasons) and I hope that we can work it out. I know she likes Vancouver and BC in general and would, eventually, want to live there. Ultimately though, California is my final destination.
I hope that my friends out there read these words and know that things are on the up and up, and that I do still look back on those days with great fondness. A link will show up here very soon, so those who want to know, can read about my adventures out west.
Late night post.
Listening to some music that I am downloading for a upcoming LARP event.
Listening to some tunes I might not usually listen to and some I have never heard of.
Rock on!
I love this web site and I thought that the very first site that I used "Blog This!" on should be Unca Willys. Go to his site and enjoy.
[edited for spelling]
I do have a long list of things I would like to talk about, but never seem to get around to talking about them.
At some point soon I'll talk about California. Both what I did there and who I met, altered who I am (I believe for the better, though I know some people out there will argue against that) and changed how I view the world. I'd also like to talk about my plans for the future and what I would also like out of the rest of my life.
I am also in the process of putting together an idea for another blog, an education blog. I am currently trying to get my certification for my MCSA and Shauna is trying very hard to get back to nursing school. So, I think what I am going to do is set up a web site and a blog for the two of us to use as a education center for people like us. Everyday (or as often as we can) we may put stuff up on the web site for people like us who want to learn more about the subjects that we are both writing about. Although I should actually talk to Shauna about this before I go all gun ho.
One other thing I think I will write about in the near future is travel. Where have I been and where do I want to go?
More later. Peace.
Ok. I lied. I didn't write more last night.
Oops.
Ok. Finally.
After having the Pro account for two days and no new posts, here I am. I know you have all been waiting breathless in anticipation.
Ok we are going to pause this post for a very important rant. I HATE spam with a passion. I hate it even more when it comes through a private email address at work. We got one today that came to an email address that has no ones name in it and is abbreviation of our company name. There is no way you could mistake this for a personal address. Lame ass I am telling you. Sheesh.
Not much to really talk about. The space shuttle tragedy is still on all the channels and when it isn't on, the avalanche troubles out west in BC are. I feel for those people. So many families loosing loved ones in an instant.
I think I will write more later tonight.
Peace.
Upgraded to Blogger Pro this afternoon.
Looking forward to all the fun I can have.
More posts to come as I write them!
Don't you hate it when you WANT to sleep in but you can't? As you can see by the time of this post it is barely after 10am on a Saturday morning, a day when by all rights I can sleep the whole day away if I wanted to. But of course, Mother Nature figures that I should have some sort of sleep patern and that I got enough sleep. Bah! But I am glad I got up when I did.
When I turned on the tv it was showing feed from CNN. The space shuttle Columbia has apparently broken up while approaching Cape Canaveral on its reentry. There is no doubt that all of the crew are dead and the shuttle itself is completely destroyed. They are ruling out a terrorist attack because the shuttle was still over 200,000 feet in the sky, which is higher then any missle could go or any jet could fly. The guy on CNN seems to be talking about pieces of the shuttle coming loose and possibly affecting the engines or the wings. One huge possibility is that one of the ceramic tiles on the bottom of the shuttle came loose and there was a hole in the protective layer along the underside of the shuttle. The ceramic tiles protect the shuttle from the intense heat caused from air friction when an object enters the atmosphere at high speed.
It worries me that this has happened. NASA gets so little money from the American government and when bad things occur the government is releuctant to give over money or resources for NASA. When the Challenger exploded in the 80's the space program shut down for a long while. Exploration is in our nature as humans, to look, to seek, to find something new. A great curiosity. With war looming on two horizons (both North Korea and Iraq could be seeing lots of Americans with M-16s soon) a economy in trouble and a president who seems hell bent on waging war on SOMEONE before he has to leave office, I have no doubt that money, resources and time will be taken away from NASA.
The stars got a little farther away today.