Archive for February, 2005
February
25
Every morning I wake up at 6:15 when my alarm goes off. The plan is to hit the snooze button once and be out of bed at 6:30, shower, dress, out the door by 7 so that I can be at work at 7:30 or 8 depending on the traffic. So the problem is that this week that hasn’t been happening. The alarm still goes off at 6:15 but when I hit the snooze button it instantly becomes 7:15 and I look up at the clock and say “Oh crap”. I swear that I don’t remember hitting the button more than once, and at 15 minutes per snooze that’s four times? I definitely support the theory that there is some kind of time displacement field happening in my room. Perhaps I need to get Jordi in there with a tricorder to investigate. Perhaps there is a leak in my warp core, that would explain the weird green spot on my TV.
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23
But I think we may have won the battle with the fruit flies. It’s been like the Hatfields and the McCoys around here for a couple months. We would fight in waves. The flies would build up their numbers slowly and then seem to attack all at once. We would counter with furious slapping. Later we developed more devious weapons (cleaning spray and paper towels) but they were no match for the shear numbers of the fly armies. I envision the older flies telling their eggs how they would someday grow old enough to torment the humans while they were watching TV or using the computer. But like America, we the apartment dwellers eventually developed weapons of mass destruction. With one fell swoop we obliterated the hordes before they could mount another attack. The last fly just surrendered to me in the bathroom, just before I swatted him. VICTORY IS OURS!
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22
On the way into work today I was listening to Elliot in the Morning and he was having people call in about obsessive compulsive disorders and other mental problems. So the weird thing is he had a caller who had to smell everything then the next girl that called in said she had to pick all the zits on her husband’s back. The third caller who’s name was Crystal was bi-polar. The first two were definitely my Crystal all the way, I only think the third symptom was her. But kind of freaky anyway. And btw I think I may be a little compulsive at times also…
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21
I’m really not used to this yet. For those of you that don’t know me very well I’ll explain my situation. I’ve been single since August last year. So that’s about 6 months, no big deal right? I’ve been talking to people my age and it seems like I’m a bit off. This stretch is the longest time I have been single since I was 15. And I think it might be longer than that. When I was 15 I started dating Crystal and dated her until my first senior year of college. After that relationship exploded in my face I set out on my single life. Unfortunately I found love too quickly. At the restaurant I used to work at I saw a beautiful young woman that I fell flat on my face for. I should have waited longer but I didn’t want to. I thought the year with Faith was great… but that was about 6 months ago… which brings me to right now. I really just like to be a boyfriend. I’m good at it. Maybe it’s because of who I was dating but I haven’t even had many friends that were girls, so even that aspect seems strange to me. I’m not good at the whole “when to call, when not to call” situation. I’m trying not to just jump into another long term relationship, but in truth, that is what I want. I was at IKEA today and I saw what I wanted. It wasn’t a new bed or dresser it was the cute couples shopping together. Maybe they were shopping for their first apartment or maybe they were just touring the store. I just really like having that person to connect with. I’ve met a couple of cute girls but for one reason or another I haven’t found the right one. Don’t get me wrong I’m not giving up on any of them! I think I just need a little more time?
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16
So I’ve been slowly working on this monstrosity that I call a blog. Blosxom is great in the beginning, So many plug ins so many options. And then you realize that it’s up to you to get them to work. I’ve added a RSS reader, random image generator, Category list, and Counter. I think I’ve gotten this ramshackle contraption to work well in most situations. A side effect of the counter in particular is that it keeps a log of visitors to the blog. I went through it today just to see what was up. The usual people were there Suleman in RI, Caroline in MI, My Sister in GA, GMU people, VT People. But the unknown is the most interesting… Who are you person from Amsterdam and Person from Wisconsin? And why have you graced me with your presence? Anyway everyone thanks for stopping by. Even though I know most of you are away message stalkers…
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14
I played basketball last night. And miracle of miracles my knees didn’t fall off my body, or even hurt. Mainly because my elbows were killing me. I think this was because on Saturday I spent the morning and most of the afternoon chopping wood over at the Schlotter’s house. We finished the day with an assload of wood. And yes that is the technical term for it. I still have the wood in the back of my car. I’m hoping to sell it to one of the guys I work with. I really should go over and talk to him about it. Otherwise I’m going to drop most of it off at my parents house. oh well it was a fun time anyway.
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11
So apparently I haven’t been testing this thing properly. I checked it the other day in Internet Explorer and it was totally messed up. I knew that IE had problems with CSS but damn. Compounding that was the fact that I just learned CSS and dont really know what I’m doing. I tried wuickly to fix most of the problems. The only one that Is left is the picture of the ipod in the post below. Somehow it’s behind the white space. If you really want to see it then you can choose the “crow flies” style to the left. Or you can switch to FIREFOX 1.0! You should do that anyway IE is old and busted and Firefox is the new hotness. I’ll try to get some brainpower on that right away. Mark out.
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09
So last night on the way to my basketball game in Stafford (which we lost 42-46) I was trying on my mouthgaurd that I have to wear to protect my 4500 dollar bridgework in my mouth. I was noticeing that it wasn’t fitting right, then being that it was covered in spit it slipped out of my hand as I was taking it out. When I got to my parents house I looked on the floor of my truck and right next to the mouthgaurd (now covered in hair, change, and old french fries) I found the poor guy huddled on the floor next to some greasy looking pens. He was obviously frightened. Unable to call out for help (because of a dead battery and some other reasons inanimate objects can’t call out) he had layed there helpless as I talked of his missing older brother Lappy. While Lappy is still missing and presumed violated, Mr. Poddington has returned home. Unfortunatley he’ll have to remain unconcious until I buy a new cord, that was in the laptop bag.
But that was yesterday. Big parties on the weekend, pretty much what I’d call a bender. But that’s not going to happen this weekend. Well maybe it can happen friday, but after that I’m going back to Stafford. I’m just getting tired of being the host of the party, I need to go somewhere where I’m not responsible so I can relax. Maybe I wouldn’t feel so bad if the people that were coming over were all over 21, or I didn’t have to babysit them so much. I think I’m getting old too fast.
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02
As some of you may have heard my laptop case and everything in it were stolen from my appartment last Friday. Or if you haven’t heard then here is the story. Friday night I had been planning to go out bowling with my friends. Charlie (my roomate) said that he was going to have some friends over, this happens all the time so I wasn’t worried. I went out with my friends and didn’t return until the next day, that’s when I noticed something was missing. My laptop bag was no where to be found. I checked the car, all the rooms in the house, everywhere. I then started to call people and ask them if they had seen it. Another friend, Ryan, told me that he had moved it from the chair I left it in and leaned it up against the wall. Then I started to get worried. Through some other friends I learned that Richie (another friend) had invited someone from his soccer class at NOVA, who then brought more people. Three extra guys and one girl I think. And there we have our suspects, the only people over that night that hadn’t been over a thousand times before. I tracked down phone numbers that they could be reached at and called the first suspect “Omar”. Omar was not a nice guy, after telling me repeatedly that he had no idea where my laptop was and that “I should stop telling him what to do” he dropped this bomb “Don’t tell me what to do or I’ll come to your house and put a gun in your mouth” after that the phone call ended very quickly. I waited till Charlie got home and called the police to file a report. The officer was really nice and informed me that this would be grand larceny and also it could be federal charges for making a threat over the phone. Which is great and all… but as of 3om on Wednesday I haven’t even heard back from the police. I’m trying to keep up hope that i’ll get it back… but it’s not looking good.
Keep hope alive!
Mark
