Nov 12
I don’t ever blog…not that I ever much did. Melina and I have a site at MelinaAndSteven.com that I sometimes try to post on when we’re travelling the world…but I can’t even manage to do that. I can’t even get pictures uploaded! I have tons of honeymoon pictures…Colorado…lots more wedding…anyway, there’s always tons of things to get done.
So I logged into this site to clean up the spammers that tried to get through, noticed there was a WordPress upgrade, noticed my ancient theme was broken, so decided to do some refreshing.
I noticed that my first post was November 23rd, 1999…so in 11 days it’ll be this site’s tenth birthday. I was running it on my one computer in my dorm room with a school-provided alias (I certainly couldn’t afford a domain name) on some terrible blogging software I wrote in Perl.
We went to my ten-year high school reunion a few weeks ago. Strangely fun to see what people had done with themselves…mostly stayed in Ringgold/Chattanooga and had a litter of kids, but there were some excellent surprises.
I can’t believe how much things have changed since then…how much I’ve changed since then.
In another decade I’ll be pushing 40! Hopefully it doesn’t come too quickly.
Apr 09
life has been good the past month or two
it’s been really quite stress-free, and that is fantastic
i’ve had a lot of me time, which has been missed
i’ve been able to contemplate about where my life is going, how i want it to go, and whom i’d like it to go with…which has been very enlightening…not that there’s any plan now, just that i know i’ve wasted a year of my personal life
I got a gargantuan raise at work, and i can now afford a house while still single with one income. i’m not sure if i’m going to get a house yet, and who knows how long i’ll be single, but at least the option is there now.
i’ve actually not been worrying really at all about being single…if i’m not supposed to be, then i won’t. if i’m supposed to be single, then there’s nothing i can force that could end up well.
i’ve been spending a lot of time with tasha, which has been fun – i’ll be sad when she moves to chicago in FIFTEEN WEEKS
i said that as if she reads this…i actually don’t know of anybody who does anymore, so…whatevers
way past my bedtime, i hope to make it into work before 10 more than twice this week…i’ll try 3 times. that is a challenge.
perhaps i will post again in another month and things will be even better…ha
Dec 19
Jeny came over yesterday and had a surprise of foodstuffs in a bag, which she then cooked for me. It was nice and delicious.
Saturday I went Christmas shopping for some hours. While I was out I went to all the stores with Wiis and asked when they were opening, did they have tickets, how many wiis were they getting, etc. I never want anything for Christmas but this year I finally decided I wanted a wii!
The fellow in the electronics department at target said they were handing out tickets at 7 am, opening at 8 am, and would have about 40 wiis. Since people were already camping at 3pm at best buy, target seemed like my best bet. I wanted to show up at 11 (closing), I ended up not making it until 12 or so. I was still #17 in line, so everything was good.
It was fairly warm for a December night, but still not the best 7 hours sitting on the sidewalk.
They came out at 7 am with 16 tickets for their 16 Wiis that they had to sell and sent everybody else packing.
#15 in line said that he worked at EB and wiis came in sets of 3 to the store, so I have no idea what happened to the other two that they should have received (funnily enough there were 18 of us at 7 am who had been there since midnight).
Anyway. That’ll teach me to stop being greedy.
Off to work, things are exploding and I’m easy to blame.
Dec 11
“Livestock are responsible for 18 per cent of the greenhouse gases that cause global warming, more than cars, planes and all other forms of transport put together.”
read
Dec 08
If you have Firefox 2.0 then you can install the Google Finance microsummary generator I just made. If you don’t know what that does, any time you bookmark a GFinance stock quote page (and probably put it on your bookmarks toolbar), it’ll let you choose in the bookmark dialog to show the “Live Title.” The live title updates itself every so often with the newest price for your stock.
Nov 17
I make a really good sourdough-mayonnaise-spicy pickle sammitch, if i do say so myself.
Something pretty crazy happened last night, and I may have huge decisions in my future. It’s scary.
Sep 04
how sad about steve irwin. i always enjoyed watching him
jeny and I had a really fun weekend. saturday i loaded up a bucket o’ stuff at walmart and we washed our cars. i’ve never had a car without any dings or chips or anything. jeny’s car needed a good scrubbing, the amount of black stuff i got off the red paint was insane.
then she cooked me indian food for like 3 hours. it was delicious and I am fat.
no work tomorrow, that is fantastic.
Aug 28
yesterday we went to buffalo wild wings, “we” being jeny and I and mitch and larissa. mitch and I had a hot eating contest. we decided to do wings instead of indian. I only eat boneless wings but it was ok. I ate 8 “Blazin’” wings without drinking anything. He got through 2 and a half, and then had to switch to a milder sauce. So i won. Jeny was proud!
I started writing this then forgot about it. I had more to say, I guess I’ll say more another time. It was a fun night. Work is boring. My new car is boring. Yay
