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I tied my hair into a pony-tail in preparation of the kung-fu glory that would permeate my body. After five drinks I instead had total fucking Kung-fu failure...I had two-thirds of the can left and couldn't handle another drop. This is a nasty concoction and deep inside I knew it would be, but I couldn't NOT buy it.

Seriously.

Are you stuck drifting through life in a state of existential confusion wandering aimlessly through the multitudes of energy products not knowing which one is the right one for you? Then look no further for the true meaning of life then Master Sensei Seagal’s Lightning Bolt Energy Drink!

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Oh and it gets better, Steven Seagal’s Lightning Bolt is available in 2 great juicy flavors! Cherry Charge brings you the great taste of freshly squeezed cherry juice, while for those of you that desire a slightly less sweet drink can partake of the true Asian Experience. Either way, you still get a powerful bolt of energy delivered into your body that Steven Seagal precisely blended for lasting maximum performance. So get ready to take on the world with new meaning with Steven Segal’s own Lightning Bolt Energy Drink!

I picked up a new horse for the stable today.

I spent the first several weeks of the year mourning and brooding over Virgil's death. Bran was super supportive and blew me away when she seriously suggested that we buy his bike, a 2005 XL1200C. I thought about it and told her that as much as I'd like to have it, I couldn't justify having two in the garage.

"I'll learn to ride it."

SOLD. I talked to his power of attorney and asked if I could have first consideration if it was sold. He said, "Virgil would want you to have it...I'll give it to you for a little over pay-off." Yikes. The 45 day wait while the appropriate legalities processed just passed and I met with him to pick up the keys yesterday. He's giving me his helmet and saddlebags whenever I want to pick them up.

It's 60 degrees today, sunny, and a good day for a ride.

Current Music: Zimmer's Hole - When You Were Shouting at the Devil...

[ ] Republican

[ ] Democrat

[x] Slaczkacrat!

This may be the first and last time I ever use Jimmy Kimmel and funny in the same sentence.

I've been busy as hell at work and the puppies are a like a couple of two-year olds at home. I was lying on the couch yesterday evening in a completely exhausted state when Piper asked randomly, "Why does Chewie have a hairy penis?" I kept my composure for the most part and replied responsibly, "because he has fur that covers his whole body." He gave me a look of thoughtful measurement and approval and decided that yes, Chewie's hairy penis must coincide with every other hairy part of his body. Why wouldn't it?!?

I finished Marvel's Dark Tower graphic novel...overall good stuff. It would be cool if they launched a fresh story line based on King's canon.

I'm ready to go home...bedtime can't come soon enough.

After recently ordering and installing a new array of 22" widescreens in our noc command console, I've been asked to find a good screen cleaning product.

I'm putting in an order for this one in particular. It licks almost anything.

Chewie!

Lando!

puppy...

overload...

aborting...

I've been a fan of Matt Busch's art and sexy bald head for a relatively short time, but I can certainly say I'm a fan for life. THANKS FOR THE FREE SCHWAG!!!

(His You Can Draw Star Wars series and book is highly recommended to anyone who likes to doodle!)

Current Music: MESHUGGAH - Obzen (this crushes)

I think I'm going to get Bran a dogger for her VD gift. I ran the idea by her and she seemed keen on it, so I directed her to the local humane society site and now we just have to figure out which one will not be a barker, indoor-shiter, and chewer.

Journey hired a new singer. "In a story reminiscent of "Rock Star", Neil Schon discovers (on YouTube, of all places) a lounge singer from Manila who's used to playing covers to a packed house...of 25-30 people. The new tour is scheduled to launch Feb 21 in Chile."

So I'm a closet Journey fan, okay? This guy is Steve Perry on performance enhancing drugs.

I applied and interviewed for a Systems Programmer position here and didn't get it. I've resolved to start taking classes again this Fall and finish my degree in Information Technology. That way at least by the time my boss retires I'll have a shot at his job instead of having to work for some dinglefod with the right degree and no experience.

If you like creepy reads, look at this: http://www.angelfire.com/trek/caver/index.html ...It's lengthy, but it's pretty well-played.

I made an appointment to see a dietician on Thursday of next week. Part of my New Year's resolution (who does that shit anymore?) was to start eating smaller servings of food. Last weigh-in I was up to 215, but I think a good 10 lbs. of that is hair. I think I've lost weight...in fact I think I've been under-eating. The weekend beer lends to the empty calorie count, but I'm curious as to what an 'expert' has to say.

IBM hardware support sucks ass. They "lost" our maintenace contract and a part that is supposed to arrive in 4 hours is now going to be here in two weeks as they try to clear up whether we have coverage. They're totally ignoring the fact that you can put the serial number of the part in question in on their website and see that our 2 year mainteance contract doesn't expire until later this year. HP is another story...40 minute calls to Costa Rican help-centers are an ultimate test of patience.

That's all the randimosity I can currently conjure for now. Off work. Zip.

Books read thus far this year...
The Star Wars Vault: Thirty Years of Treasures... - Stephen Sansweet
The Orc King: Transitions I - R.A. Salvatore
Lord of Chaos: The Bloody Rise of the Satanic Metal Underground - by Michael Moynihan, Didrik Soderlind

My wife bought Gunslinger Born for me for Valentine's Day to add to the list of scholarly reading I've done so far this year.

I took four days off last week and now this week I'm doing everything that the incapables couldn't. It's the kind of work I enjoy, but I have a seemingly endless list of it. I was off work for three days taking online classes/training for an asset management application (Zenworks) that we'll fire for effect in the next couple of weeks. The class was 9 hours a day with a couple of ten minute breaks and an hour lunch, with a lot of boredom (lectures) and a lot of application labs, all in the comfort of my own home and pajamas.

Bran IM'd me about an hour ago and let me know that Mason has tonsilitis. She picked him up from school and he's likely spent the day in bed playing the Simpsons game (Wii!) we got him for his birthday yesterday. I've been playing a lot of Super Paper Mario lately on the Wii...World 4-1. On the PC I've been playing Quake 4 (which seems to be a whole lot of the same same same as far as the Single-Player goes), Stalker: Shadow of Chernobyl (trying to get alternate endings), and Dark Messiah (just installed actually). I picked up a Razer Barracuda AC-1 soundcard from Woot.com for a steal and it smokes my Audigy2 Value, even without EAX support. My only concern is the lack of ASIO driver support within studio/recording applications, but I haven't had a chance to hurtle that yet. To digress, I had my tonsils removed when I was a kid and won't be bedridden this time by the plague-farming little brat. So I'll have to come to work instead of staying home and playing on my pc or the Wii. Triumphant!

This has the potential that I've described of the Guitar Hero series if only it was EXACTLY like this and not a silly game with a five button guitar. The only problem I see is that the catalog of songs is unrecognizable and likely mediocre in quality due to an understandably low budget and high licensing costs. Activision or another competitor may come along with their fat wallets and devise a plug-in (or wireless) interface for consoles and pick-up the A-List of classic and modern rock anthems which will yank the proverbial rug out from under this developer. But what do I know...maybe they'll get picked up by a mighty developer and lifted into their well deserved echelon among the greats.

...When two great things....Coast to Coast with George Noory...and Half-Life...collide.

On Mythbusters January 30th:

A plane is standing on a runway that can move (some sort of band conveyer). The plane moves in one direction, while the conveyer moves in the opposite direction. This conveyer has a control system that tracks the plane speed and tunes the speed of the conveyer to be exactly the same (but in the opposite direction).

The question is:

Will the plane take off or not?

This has started a wager war here at work.

My money is that the plane will take off. Any one bet against it?

I've got my reasoning, but I'm keeping it under a lid for now...so that people can genuinely reason it out themselves.

Grrr. I decided today to buy one of two soundtracks I've been wanting...Sunshine - OST or 28 Weeks Later - OST...

And apparently the release of the first has been delayed (indefinitely?) due to legal problems between the parties involved, and the latter is iTunes exclusive.

Sonsofbitches.

*mental note* - 2 12mm sockets - 4 washers - 3.5" SS sockethead bolts.

Virgil, a very good friend and co-worker of mine, lost his year-long battle with pancreatic cancer this morning. It has been a very rough and emotionally taxing day for me. We have been close for over ten years...since I first started as a student here at the University...and as I'm at work this evening (restoring user mailboxes after a major system snafu) I can't help but see his ghost everywhere while trying to hold it together and be productive. I typed up the following journal entry a week ago and then posted it privately because I thought I may have just been worrying too much.

December 22, 2007
I've been tripping a little bit for the first time about Virgil's (a very good friend and co-worker) year long fight with cancer. I went to his house over my lunch hour to spend some time with him and pick up the usb drum kit that he and I picked out for our boss. He's not good. His roommate came home after picking up Virgil's prescriptions and noted that they just quadrupled his prescribed morphine dose. All I know is that alone is completely not good, let alone that he has two more masses on his pancreas that they've deemed inoperable, whether malignant or benign. Virgil gave me a Christmas gift that really caught me off guard...a really nice knife (Gerber Applegate-Fairbairn) since I had made the remark to him once that I can't bring myself to buy a Gerber even though I have a gift card to cover half the price of one ...because it would never leave my drawer....I would lose it...or notch the blade trying to cut something stupid...etc. Anyhow...I just about cried at the gesture in light of his seemingly short time left with us.

Rest peacefully my friend, confidant, and partner in thought-crime.

Handbell HERO!

This is actually closer to playing music than Guitar Hero, but you don't feel quite as cool as you do when you're holding that cheap plastic guitar with five buttons. Come to think of it...I felt highly uncool those few times standing in Wal-Mart playing the Guitar Hero game they have on display...holding that cheap little toy guitar with five buttons. We'll be opening up our Wii and Guitar Hero III in a few days, so worst case scenario I'll have a new tool to belittle the abilities of my children. Seriously...I'll bet it would be loads of fun if I had no clue how to play a real guitar. Maybe in the future they'll have similar games that teach real guitar through a fun cock-out-rock-out interface. There would be pre-teen guitar virtuosos roaming the planet in hordes.

My co-workers and I chipped in and bought our boss a usb drum kit. I've gotta get one now...and if only they had Drum Hero...and this....

There and Back Again.

Something to look forward to.

I need some new wallpaper for my work pc. Who has something really cool on their desktop? I like creepy. And dark. But subtle.

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To anyone who uses Line 6 products... Java 1.6 is not your friend. I just spent an hour figuring out why my pc flies to planet apeshit when I launch Line 6 Edit.

I went and saw I Am Legend. I counted on it to be a complete deviation from the book, and in that light I enjoyed it much more than expected. I thought that it would have benefited from the ommitted key plot-lines of the novella...so much that it would have lifted it to the forefront of the genre's best. I'd still give the first two-thirds of the film a solid A as a derivative of the story, and the third-act a C for "Commonplace". Fortunately (Will Smith's performance) > (CGI Uglies).

(*spoiler...don't read if you haven't seen it*)

Superman/Batman Movie!?!?! Green Lantern Movie!?!?!

And after listening to (MOST) of what was on that playlist, I think it's safe to say that I'm officially sick of Christmas Music this year.

rissa333 uploaded some good Christmas music to share with everyone. Everyone say, "thank you, Rissa333."

Thank you, Rissa333!

I'm going to snowball it. I'm re-gifting her tracklist (tacky, isn't it?) with some of mine thrown in on top of it. All in one tasty little .rar file.

Rar!

"Winter Wonderland" - Radiohead
"Christmas Eve Sarajevo (live with narration)" - Trans-Siberian Orchestra
"Jingle Bells" - Brian Setzer Orchestra
"Happy Xmas (War Is Over) [acoustic]" - U2
"Last Christmas" - Travis
"Christmas Message 1963" - The Beatles (the stoned buggers babble about Christmas...use once and destroy.)
"Merry Christmas Everybody" - Slade
"Twelve Days of Christmas" - Bob and Doug McKenzie
"Carol of the Bells" - John Williams
"Things I Want For Xmas" - Tenacious D
"Baby It's Cold Outside" - Leon Redbone and Zooey Deschanel
"Merry Christmas" - The Ramones
"Silent Night (A Christmas Card From a Hooker in Minneapolis)" - Tom Waits
"Snow Miser/Heat Miser" - The Year Without a Santa Claus
"Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" - Vince Guaraldi Trio

Get it here! Enjoy! Snowball it if you want to.

Edit: I seemed to have omitted a couple a song or two from her original list...whoops.

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