Oh, and I totally left this out. For at least a week or two and for the most part, I have been unimpressed with the stuff that’s been coming out of the photo blogs that I watch on a daily basis. I dunno why. Maybe it’s because I’ve seen so much, that I’m over the newness and coolness of them all. Or maybe they all look the same to me. Like I said, I dunno. But, this one totally blew me away today. I’m sure that it strikes every person that sees it differently. I just can’t imagine being this guy. Sleeping with his dog in his arms. Surrounded by trash. And what I can only surmise as dog food in front of him. Great pic. Possibly the best that I’ve seen in a while.

I don’t know why I’m choosing to blog at this time of night. I really should go to bed. For what it’s worth I’m tired, but really I haven’t done too much today, or at least it feels that way. Plus I’ve got work in the morning, so I’m just losing sleep “for no good reason” or something like that… And I don’t feel like I’ve blogged that much this past week, but looking at the actual entries, apprently I did on Monday and Thursday. It seems pretty obvious to me that I have a lot more time on the weekends to do this, than I do during the week. I get up, go to work, come home, eat, check my email and blogines, maybe watch something, then go to bed, to do it all again the next day… So, I don’t feel like there’s that much to talk about during the week. And really, there may not be too much to talk about during the weekend either…

I don’t know if you guys know how much I don’t really like long blog entries. I tend not to read them when other people write them, so I try my best to not make mine too long, so that you guys will actually read them, because I really do want you guys to read them. So, I figure that this one will be longer than it should be, but hopefully you’ll stick it out. :)

So, what do I have to say? Well, the Hibbs/Ozborne wedding is coming up fast. I’m very much looking forward to seeing everyone, <rant> but not particularly looking forward to loosing 8 hrs of pay. It was my own choice to stay for the extra time, so nobody but me can feel bad about the decision. But, I’ve had some OT, so that might make up for it… but it would have been nice to have both… but I digress… </rant> I’m looking forward to spending time with the friends that I can scrounge up for those couple of days. And I appologize in advance for the undoubtedly forthcoming vagarity, which apparently isn’t a word, but I don’t care, so I’m using it anyway. Vagueness. So there. Anyway, I guess that I feel like the weekend could hold a great deal of promise for certain things, but things I feel I immensely suck at. So my imaginary expectations shoot through the roof while my prior experience and the realistic side of me shoot those expectations down, hard.

Why can’t life be just like the movies *cough*garden*state*cough*? And why can’t I just be content?

Anyhoo, there were like half a dozen typos above… ouch, but hopefully I caught them all. I really need a haircut. And I probably should have rented a car by now… And if anybody can tell me as to whether or not an extra 3 hours in Texas is worth an extra $75 on Monday, I’m open to suggestions. I’ve got 3 netflix that I need to watch. I saw Episode III. It totally kicked ass, no matter what Bru thought. I think that I use “that” too much. And I really need to go to bed, so ‘night.

Did you know… that listening to Pat Green makes me crave Taco C?

I don’t think that I can write code without havning dual monitors. I guess that I’ve just gotten too used to them. Which is quite unfortunate, because they are a luxury I fear I will only have at home.

CSS is a damned lot of work…

Thomas has 13 slices of cheese, 4 sandwich buns, and 20 chicken pattis. Thomas eats two sanwhiches at a time, using two buns, two pattis, and two slices of cheese. Sandwhich buns are bought in groups of 8, cheese in 16 or 24, and pattis in 11. Buns should be bought at Wal-Mart, cheese at Kroger or Wal-mart, and pattis at Kroger (and possibly Wal-Mart). What would the optimal combination of buying stuff be, if Thomas is trying to reduce the trips to both Wal-Mart and Kroger?

Extra points if you write a program to figure it out. Double points if you use Java. Negative points if you use Fortran.

burns
Somehow in the past week or so I managed to burn my tongue, the roof of my mouth, my finger, and my toe. I burned the tongue and roof on hot food, of course and the finger on the toaster. But, I somehow managed to get a carpet burn, or rather a jean burn, by putting jeans on too fast. The toe was the index toe, otherwise known as the toe next to the big one… on the left foot… amazing, huh?

amazon refund coolness
After I bought my new hard drive, I noticed that they dropped the price on it like the next day by like $10 dollars dollars, you know, like? So, I shot them an email (or really submitted some web form). And they refunded my money! Yay! $9.40 extra. I’ll try not to spend it all in one place.

finished west wing
I finally finished the last of the six seasons yesterday. As I recall, I began this journey at the beginning of the year. 5 months isn’t too bad, I guess? Well see if I rewatch them…

customer service in ga is dead
Seriously. Everybody is nice and all. Especially driving and stuff, even if they do drive like bats out of hell on the highway. But for the love of everything that is pure and holy, get some customer service skills, people. I may be turning into my dad on this one.

Ok, so I went to Quiznos this afternoon. All I wanted was a BLT. Simple enough. It was almost all I ever ordered at the one in CS. So, I didn’t even look at the menu. I just ordered a BLT. Now, this was after the two people who were working finally got around to finishing their conversation, or rather the one who was talking so much finally stopped talking so that the other one could take my order. I don’t know if you’ve ever heard Dane Cook talk about ordering something that’s not on the menu, but it was something like that, because they were like, um, we don’t serve that, and looked up at the menu and stuff. Come on people, it’s BACON, LETTUCE, and TOMATO. Maybe throw in a little ranch and some cheese. It’s not that hard. And since I didn’t want to confuse them too much, and since what was close apparently was “The Traditional” I just got it (Roast beef, turkey, ham, cheddar, lettuce, tomato, red onion, black olives, Ranch Dressing). Why is it that it’s so hard for me to get people to give me stuff that’s not on the menu. Crap, man, just figure out what you want to charge me, and charge me for it. Overcharge me for all I care, but give me what the crap I want. Whatever happened to “The customer is always right”?

gitar [sic]
I picked it up again last night, since who knows how long ago. Good times…

Away message from txaggiegrl07:

Look who misses me!!
txaggiegrl07: I miss you
thomas536m: i miss you, too

Well, the day seemed to fly by. I’m not quite sure why… I did manage to get my oil changed, emissions test, and open a savings account. Hopefully my Mom will get the money from my account back home transfered tomorrow. I need to go by and register my vehicle in the state of Georgia. It looks like I’ll be screwed because I’m sure that I won’t really be able to get everything done/not have the right documents. Mainly because it’s not really my car and it’s not paid off. So, I think that they require the title or some form blah blah blah. I have until like the 18th to get it all done to stay within the law… yeah, like I truly care about legally operating a vehicle in Hotlanta. They can just [insert expletive phrase here].

I need to get a haircut. I need to get a car rental for the wedding. I bought a new drive and enclosure. 300GB from amazon and combo usb/firewire enclosure from newegg. I hope I have enough money for the stuff that I’ve had to buy to cover my obligations… But, I think that those purchases will be the last of them… well, that and the $1000 washer and dryer. Haven’t gotten the bill on that one…

Can somebody please explain to me what the fuck I’m doing here?

Well, yesterday I went to the DMV to get my license changed. Hiisss! I had thought about getting there really early to camp out for a while so that I’d be at the front of the line. Well, that didn’t happen. So, I finally got there around 8:55 (they opened at 9:00). I was at the end of a line of people that was approximately 150 people long. After almost three hours and $9 I had my new Georgia liscense.

On the way I saw a bunch of guys playing cricket at like 8:30 in the morning! And I saw a family of geese. Man I have got to get myself an awesome digital camera.

Yesterday I watched Meet the Fockers, which was good. And a little bit of Short Circuit last night. My parents sent me a care packages of some linux magazines, hot pads, some dish towels, and of course some cookies. Yay!

Well, I’ve got a bunch of errands to run, so I’ll git… ttyl…

Oh, and I’m going to be in Texas for Greg and Stephanie’s wedding Memorial Day weekend. If you’re within a couple hundred miles of me, you should knock me up… that’s British for giving me a call… pervs… I’m flying into IAH Saturday morning, then wedding all day, then party Saturday night, then hanging out somewhere Sunday and Monday morning, then flying out Monday afternoon. Be there or be square.

Ok. Informal poll to all the A&M folk. I’m not asking for personal experience here, but would you consider a 3 or 12 keg party to be a big one, by A&M standards? Some guys were talking after work, so I’m curious… How many kegs would it take at A&M to make it be considered a big or the biggest party?

Oh, and this was funny…