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November 24th, 2009
02:29 pm
Do it for the living and do it for the dead
Do it for the monsters under your bed
Do it for the teenagers and do it for your mom
Broken hearts hurt but they make us strong
Current Music: Kimya Dawson - Loose Lips
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September 30th, 2009
05:23 pm - Brain Dropping
"And the sign said long haired freaky people need not apply
So I tucked my hair up under my hat and I went in to ask him why
He said you look like a fine upstanding young man, I think you'll do
So I took off my hat I said imagine that, huh, me working for you."
Doesn't that just further his mistrust of long haired freaky people and reinforce his stereotype?
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September 8th, 2009
03:56 pm - Cruiiiise.
Well I got back last night from a 3 day cruise to the Bahamas. Major fun, if I get time later I'll post the pics on my Facebook and maybe on here. In the meantime, I think I'm suffering from MDD because it's been like... 29 hours since I got off the boat and I still feel like I'm rocking back and forth a bit. Hopefully it goes away soon, its supposed to only last a day or two but there are cases that have lasted years. Yay!
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August 19th, 2009
01:20 pm - To The Writers In The Crowd
I should be working, but I needed a break and remembered my cousin had sent me a link to her blog. She's an aspiring writer who, in my opinion from the little I've read, is fairly talented. I started reading her blog today and found it to be very interesting if you're into writing. She has little lessons on grammar, discussions of her problems with rewriting, deciding whether to rewrite/leave alone/trash what's been written, etc.
So, if you are into writing, give it a read, you might find it insightful, or maybe not.
Here's the link.
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July 27th, 2009
07:45 pm - Since Chris did it...
Here's my Myers Briggs
ESTJs fear a bankrupt nation that abandons its heritage and its obligation to a prescribed set of standards. Like all SJs, ESTJs feel the need to earn their place in a just society. ESTJs believe that membership is ensured through responsible serving and the threat of being forsaken or cast out will make them feel insecure. They will worry about dereliction of duties and betrayal. The resulting stress can cause ESTJs to redouble their efforts at controlling disorder. In an effort to correct what they feel is out of place, they will direct their anger and frustration at what they consider the irresponsible behavior of others. At these times, others may feel the ESTJ is not responsive to their point of view and is jumping to unjustified conclusions.
If stress continues, the ESTJ may become physically immobilized and experience illness, unpleasant bodily sensations, and fatigue. Feeling incapacitated, the ESTJ dreads the thought of being deserted and begins to feel increasingly unappreciated and left out. Their grievance list usually includes those to whom they are responsible; thus it may appear that the ESTJ is neglecting their own obligations by blaming others. While exempting themselves from their own responsibilities, the ESTJ may henpeck and nag others. This can cause those who feel hindered by the ESTJ's complaints to feel defiant and to rebel further.
How true, the stress at work makes me feel crappy all the time.
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July 5th, 2009
01:51 pm
So, most of my friends list on here is/was 3K players. If you weren't, this will mean nothing to you, most likely. In any event, its really only here for me to vent.
Some of you remember about 3-4 years ago I broke up with Dalandra and things went to hell, the end result being my character/wizard of just about 9-10 years being wiped, my 2nd being wiped, and me basically exiling myself from there for over a year.
3K opened another port a few months ago and said anybody could apply to be a wizard. Being a wiz was one of the best things I've ever done and one of the things I've enjoyed the most in my life. I love video games, plain and simple, and being able to work on one rocked. So I applied.
Rumor emailed me yesterday to let me know that I'm being rejected because of my actions all those years ago.
In a nutshell, I'm heart broken. While I certainly accept that I screwed up bad back then, and understand that there are consequences, I still screwed up and got my hopes up recently.
I really don't know if there's much point to me sticking around there as a player since that aspect isn't enjoyable to me anymore.
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April 20th, 2009
05:19 pm
Also, for shits and giggles, I found a politics test I took a few years back and wanted to see how I changed, I was more socially permissive and democratic apparently, anyway the results are...
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05:09 pm
So it's been 6 years since Ben died. I just went back and saw my post on here from that day. I remember being at his house by his side until early in the morning, when I left to go home and get some sleep and some pills, only to be woken up by Evan calling to let me know he passed. It's a tough day for me every year, as I'm sure it is for all the people he was friends with or family to, but it never seems to get any easier with each passing year. I have to mentally struggle to keep it together sometimes. I think I'm getting better at coping with it but the loss doesn't feel lessened. He had so much to give to this world and it let him slip away. The only solace is knowing that every year is a year closer to seeing him again.
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February 26th, 2009
09:49 pm
I feel like I'm internally confused, mainly because I'm sitting here drinking a calorie loaded soda full of sugar and caffeine and eating a Nature Valley strawberry yogurt granola bar (SO YUMMY!)
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January 1st, 2009
01:15 pm - New Year's New Year
Well here it goes, my first full calendar year as a married man goes into effect today, and I'm a year older to show for it. The big 2-6. Feels like 60 already with how much all my joints hurt already. Meh. Things are well as can be and life is pretty damn okay. We'll see how it holds out this year.
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December 27th, 2008
10:23 pm - Again, F'in Wisconsin Weather
So it was super freaking cold, then we got like 2' of snow over a week and a half, which sucked. I got a notice from my landlord saying I need to shovel as it's been more than 24 hours since it stopped. So I go out there and bust my ass shoveling this wet heavy crap. Today? It rains and is almost 50F outside, melting everything. Tommorow? Back below freezing so it'll be ice *everywhere*. Joy.
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December 21st, 2008
02:28 pm - $!(*@$#*(!@# weather.
It's -3F outside right now, with a windchill of -25F, the wind is blowing at around 20MPH. At 9AM it was -10F with a windchill of -40F. I hate Wisconsin weather.
For those of you who prefer metric, it's -19.4C outside, -31.6C windchill, wind blowing at 32.2 kph, at 9AM it was -23.3C with a windchill of -40C. (How cool, -40 is the same in both, yay coincidence!)
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December 12th, 2008
04:55 pm - Help finding a song
This might be the wrong group of people to ask given what I know of your musical backgrounds, but, there's a hip hop song with a catchy piano in the background. The artist is from Philly, and the lyrics that stick in my head go something like "this is my vibe, it's how I survive" and "if I'm the king then you must be the fresh prince". I can't find anything on Google for it except a blog some kid has that uses that fresh prince line as his title. Consider this a call to arms!
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December 4th, 2008
September 16th, 2008
03:27 pm - Marriage and pictures
So I got married on August 9th and it was amazing and beautiful. I uploaded some pictures, so if you could go under Scrapbook and take a look at them that would be nice. Also, when I clicked on Scrapbook it said it didnt have a "preview" or a main picture for the gallery titled "MY wedding or whatever I titled it. Does anyone know how to put a picture on that since its blank? Most websites let you put a spot on there that says something to the effects of "let this picture be my album cover" So if im just blind or whatever, someone please help me out. lol. Thanks.
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September 6th, 2008
09:57 am - Stolen From A Forum
I thought this was a good read:
1. The fact that a believer is happier than a sceptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality. - George Bernard Shaw
2. Faith means not wanting to know what is true. - Friedrich Nietzsche
3. I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. - Frank Lloyd Wright
4. We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes. - Gene Roddenberry
5. To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. - Isaac Asimov
6. A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows. - Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
7. Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. - Seneca the Younger
8. Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned. - Anonymous
9. Not only is there no god, but try getting a plumber on weekends. - Woody Allen
10. If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of their words. I think he would prefer an honest and righteous atheist to a TV preacher whose every word is God, God, God, and whose every deed is foul, foul, foul. - Isaac Asimov
11. Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination. - Edward Abbey
12. With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion. - Steven Weinberg
13. I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence. - Doug McLeod
14. The world holds two classes of men - intelligent men without religion, and religious men without intelligence. - Abu’l‐Ala al Ma’arri
15. Since the Bible and the church are obviously mistaken in telling us where we came from, how can we trust them to tell us where we are going? - Anonymous
16. I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires. - Susan B. Anthony
17. The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike. - Delos B. McKown
18. Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer. - Anonymous
19. Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, even if religion vanished; but religious superstition dismounts all these and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men. - Francis Bacon
20. The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully. - Richard Dawkins
21. A God who kept tinkering with the universe was absurd; a God who interfered with human freedom and creativity was tyrant. If God is seen as a self in a world of his own, an ego that relates to a thought, a cause separate from its effect. he becomes a being, not Being itself. An omnipotent, all‐knowing tyrant is not so different from earthly dictators who make everything and everybody mere cogs in the machine which they controlled. An atheism that rejects such a God is amply justified. - Karen Armstrong
22. It is not as in the Bible, that God created man in his own image. But, on the contrary, man created God in his own image. - Ludwig Feuerbach
23. People ask me what I think about that woman priest thing. What, a woman priest? Women priests. Great, great. Now there’s priests of both sexes I don’t listen to. - Bill Hicks
24. All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science. - Matthew Arnold
25. Blind faith is an ironic gift to return to the Creator of human intelligence. - Anonymous
26. Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one. - Richard Dawkins
27. What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof. - Christopher Hitchens
28. In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point. - Friedrich Nietzsche
29. It will yet be the proud boast of women that they never contributed a line to the Bible. - George W. Foote
30. On the first day, man created God. - Anonymous
31. I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours. - Stephen Roberts
32. You do not need the Bible to justify love, but no better tool has been invented to justify hate. - Richard A. Weatherwax
33. What’s “God”? Well, you know, when you want something really bad and you close your eyes and you wish for it? God’s the guy that ignores you. - Steve Buscemi (From the movie “The Island”)
34. As far as I can tell from studying the scriptures, all you do in heaven is pretty much just sit around all day and praise the Lord. I don’t know about you, but I think that after the first, oh, I don’t know, 50,000,000 years of that I’d start to get a little bored. - Rick Reynolds
35. Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime; give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish. - Anonymous
36. Calling Atheism a religion is like calling bald a hair color. - Don Hirschberg
37. God should be executed for crimes against humanity. - Bryan Emmanuel Gutierrez
38. To say that atheism requires faith is as dim-witted as saying that disbelief in pixies or leprechauns takes faith. Even if Einstein himself told me there was an elf on my shoulder, I would still ask for proof and I wouldn’t be wrong to ask. - Geoff Mather
39. I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it. - Mark Twain
40. Of all religions the Christian is without doubt the one which should inspire tolerance most, although up to now the Christians have been the most intolerant of all men. - Voltaire
41. And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence. - Bertrand Russell
42. Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God? - Epicurus
43. I’m a polyatheist - there are many gods I don’t believe in. - Dan Fouts
44. If it turns out that there is a God, I don’t think that he’s evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he’s an underachiever. - Woody Allen
45. A lie is a lie even if everyone believes it. The truth is the truth even if nobody believes it. - David Stevens
46. Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a God superior to themselves. Most Gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child. - Robert A Heinlein
47. I refuse to prove that I exist,” says God, “for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing. - Douglas Adams
48. It ain’t the parts of the Bible that I can’t understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand. - Mark Twain
49. He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; he that dares not reason is a slave. - William Drummond
50. Remember, Jesus would rather constantly shame gays than let orphans have a family. - Steven Colbert
51. Which is it, is man one of God’s blunders or is God one of man’s? - Friedrich Nietzsche
52. Religion does three things quite effectively: Divides people, Controls people, Deludes people. - Carlespie Mary Alice McKinney
53. Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea. - Anonymous
54. When a man is freed of religion, he has a better chance to live a normal and wholesome life. - Sigmund Freud
55. They felt that science would be corrosive to religious belief and they were worried about it. Damn it, I think they were right. It is corrosive to religious belief and it’s a good thing. - Steven Weinberg
56. Take from the church the miraculous, the supernatural, the incomprehensible, the unreasonable, the impossible, the unknowable, the absurd, and nothing but a vacuum remains. - Robert G. Ingersoll
57. History teaches us that no other cause has brought more death than the word of god. - Giulian Buzila
58. Atheism is a non-prophet organization. - George Carlin
59. We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further. - Richard Dawkins
60. A believer states everything must have a creator but fail to say how he was created. - Anonymous
61. “There are no atheists in foxholes” isn’t an argument against atheism, it’s an argument against foxholes. - James Morrow
62. People will then often say, ‘But surely it’s better to remain an Agnostic just in case?’ This, to me, suggests such a level of silliness and muddle that I usually edge out of the conversation rather than get sucked into it. (If it turns out that I’ve been wrong all along, and there is in fact a god, and if it further turned out that this kind of legalistic, cross-your-fingers-behind-your-back, Clintonian hair-splitting impressed him, then I think I would choose not to worship him anyway.) - Douglas Adams
63. Properly read, the bible is the most potent force for Atheism ever conceived. - Isaac Asimov
64. If all the Christians who have called other Christians “not really a Christian” were to vanish, there’d be no Christians left. - Anonymous
65. An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support. - John Buchan
66. Gods dont kill people. People with Gods kill people. - David Viaene
67. If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself. - Alexandre Dumas
68. Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma. - Sam Harris
69. I don’t believe in God because I don’t believe in Mother Goose - Clarence Darrow
70. No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism. - Annie Wood Besant
71. I refuse to believe in a god who is the primary cause of conflict in the world, preaches racism, sexism, homophobia, and ignorance, and then sends me to hell if I’m ‘bad’. - Mike Fuhrman
72. Faith does not give you the answers, it just stops you asking the questions. - Frater Ravus
73. Believing there is no God gives me more room for belief in family, people, love, truth, beauty, sex, Jell-o, and all the other things I can prove and that make this life the best life I will ever have. - Penn Jillette
74. Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power but absolute power is corrupt only in the hands of the absolutely faithful. - Anonymous
75. Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense. - Chapman Cohen
76. The inspiration of the bible depends on the ignorance of the person who reads it. - Robert G. Ingersoll
77. When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion, it is called religion. - Robert Pirsig
78. I wonder who got the shit job of scouring the planet for the 15000 species of butterfly or the 8800 species of ant they eventually took on board Noah’s Ark. But at least we got that magical rainbow for all their trouble. - Azura Skye
79. I have no need for religion, I have a conscience. - Anonymous
80. Man has always required an explanation for all of those things in the world he did not understand. If an explanation was not available, he created one. - Jim Crawford
81. I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world. - Richard Dawkins
82. What has been Christianity’s fruits? Superstition, Bigotry and Persecution. - James Madison
83. The characters and events depicted in the damn bible are fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental. - Penn and Teller
84. If god is the alpha and the omega. The begining and the end, knows what has passed and what is to come, like it states in the bible, why do people pray and think it will make any difference. - Mark Fairclough
85. The finality of death is the coldest truth one must face. Religion makes the perfect distraction. - Anonymous
86. Religion is the opiate of the masses. - Karl Marx
87. If God created the world, then who created god? and who created whoever created god? So somewhere along the line something had to just be there. So why can’t we just skip the idea of god and go straight to earth? - Ryan Hanson
88. If we expect God to subscribe to one religion at the exclusion of all the others, then we should expect damnation as a matter of chance. This should give Christians pause when expounding their religious beliefs, but it does not. - Sam Harris
89. Atheists will celebrate life, while you’re in church celebrating death. - Anonymous
90. Animals do not have gods, they are smarter than that. - Ronnie Snow
91. I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or explorers but fanatics and ideologues who menace decency and progress. No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever. - Daniel Boorstin
92. I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious ideas of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God. So far as religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake… Religion is all bunk. - Thomas Edison
93. Fundamentalism, of any type, due to its prerequisite lack of intelligent thought, could prove to be the worst weapon of mass destruction, of all. - David J. Constable
94. To really be free, You need to be free in the mind. - Alexander Loutsis
95. Most religions prophecy the end of the world and then consistently work together to ensure that these prophecies come true. - Anonymous
96. Jesus hardly made the greatest sacrifice. He knew he would be resurrected anyway. - Anonymous
97. Religion is like a virus that affects the behaviour of its host in such a way as to propagate itself further. - Jack Pritchard
98. Religions are like pills, which must be swallowed whole without chewing. - Thomas Hobbs
99. Today’s religion will be the future’s mythology. Both believed at one time by many; but proved wrong by the clever. - Steven Crocker
100. The Bible - A Fairytale book of rules brainwashing millions. Obliviously used to help create war, kill, hate, judge and discriminate. - Anonymous
101. Why can’t we see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too? - Douglas Adams
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July 11th, 2008
10:39 pm - And another...
My uncle, also my godfather, passed away today unexpectedly. I don't know many details other than he was in the hospital recently and apparently never made it out of bed this morning, but was awake at some point before it happened. He hadn't even reached 50, and as my younger cousin pointed out, she couldn't believe her dad didn't even make it to see her get married. He, like my late grandfather, was one of my father figures, and of equal importance, someone I considered a good friend. It's going to be a rough year.
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May 12th, 2008
07:05 pm - Another funeral
My grandpa on my dad's side died today. He was in the hospital for weeks in Florida, and then a few days when they flew him back here to Wisconsin so he could die near home. I didn't find out until it was too late, unfortunately. He had congestive heart failure, pneumonia and MRSA. Funeral is Monday, or at least thats the plan right now. Sigh.
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April 19th, 2008
09:37 pm - Off to Vegas
Finishing packing right now, leaving in about 12 hours to head to the International Carpenters Training Center to take a week long class on GE Combustion Turbine Installation. Whee. First time out there, I'll be back in a week.
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April 18th, 2008
08:14 pm - KaBOOM
So I was almost blown up into little bits yesterday. Minor explosion at P&H Mining where I was doing some work... 100' from the explosion. 2 of our guys were 30' or so, one up in a man lift. Nobody was hurt except one of their employees who had a very very light flash burn (took off some hair on his arms, felt like a sunburn).
Basically there's 4 pipes in the ground, a natural gas line, an oxygen line, a CO2 line, and a compressed air line, all under high pressure. The theory is an electrical arc from a source hit the gas line, blew it, it in turn blew a hole in the oxy and compressed air lines, making it into a giant blowtorch. I watched the whole thing and it looked amazing. It was like a big cloud of dust and debris came up, followed by a fireball, then a pause, everyone started walking towards it like "Wtf?" then BOOM another blast, followed by "GET THE HELL OUT!".
I spent a good 2 hours in the parking lot at the evac point before they let us go to another building. 9 firetrucks showed up, 2 ambulances, and the city's structural collapse unit. After another hour or so they cleared out, the gas company came in and checked for more gas (lines were shut off by now), me and my 3 guys went in with generators to power up some lights for them, and a few maintenence personnel were allowed in, followed by the higher ups to assess the damage.
I went back this morning at 7am, they told us everyone had to wait outside as they were going to repressurize the gas line and test things in a few minutes. Over 2 hours later they finally started, and another 2 hours later they were done so we finally got back to work. All in all it was an experience.
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April 7th, 2008
04:38 am - *blows the dust off things*
So... yea, been awhile. Sup folks?
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June 2nd, 2007
06:24 pm - News
So I'm engaged to Laurie (date set August 9th '08), moving July 1st into an apartment with her, and perhaps the largest change of all...
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April 10th, 2007
06:25 am - Bedtime
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March 23rd, 2007
03:15 am
My life is fantastic. I'm leaving for Key Largo in a little over 24 hours. Things with Laurie are going good. We spent 2 nights together at her sisters house while her and her husband were out of state and needed someone to watch their 3 year old & sick-as-can-be 1 year old. It was enjoyable, even with the 1 year old pissing herself through her diaper, undershirt, onesie, and right onto me when I was trying to rock her to sleep.
The only downside at the moment is that I have strep throat right now and *need* these antibiotics to knock it out by the time I catch my plane. I don't want to fly with an ear infection, granted I will if I have to, I'm not missing a trip to a sunny sand beach for anything.
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March 5th, 2007
02:39 pm
First off,
Take the quiz at dicepool.com
Secondly, 2 weeks ago I finally got one arm completed. Picture below the cut.
( Tattoo )
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February 18th, 2007
11:45 pm
So we went out to dinner and then to her place and just curled up on her bed watching TV. Holding her close and just talking, everything fell into place. This is what I want our relationship to be like, I know it won't be like this all the time, but most of the time I want us to be like that together where we're just happy being around one another. I'm really happy we worked things out. We were previously talking about spending her spring break together, so we worked that out tonight too and booked a hotel in the Florida Keys and made the plane reservations. Kinda excited now :) Spending 5 days on key Largo. Yes, I know, Key West is bigger with more to do, but it's spring break and I don't want to be next to 10128301283 college kids, nor does she. I think this is going to work out well.
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February 11th, 2007
11:55 am - It gets better
Now I've got the grandparents cold. It feels like I swallowed a round object slightly larger than my throat which was covered in spikes. UUUUGH. :( It really sucks too because I wanted to take her out today to see a movie that she's been dying to see and now I'm pretty much confined to under a blanket. :( :( :(
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02:02 am
It's been a hectic couple days. Grandparents are both sick, and I think I caught it, but more importantly, Thursday was some rather bad news. I was sitting down to coffee break and got an SMS from my girl, all it said was 'im bad accident. car totalled'. Later on I get 'at hospital, can't feel anything below legs'. So of course I'm freaking out at work. I finally get off and rush to her house (at this point she'd been sent home, which put my mind *slightly* at ease since she wouldnt have been sent home that soon if she was paralyzed or something). She's banged up a bit, bruised wrists, swollen/bruised knees (one which was dislocated 6 years ago and took a good bang in this one too), her already messed up back took a good hit and her neck is sprained.
She basically hit a patch of ice, slammed on her brakes, slid into the snow which pulled the car futher off the road and into a tree head on. She wasn't going that fast, thankfully, and the airbags appear to have really reduced what could have been much more serious.
I feel so bad for her, she's in alot of pain and her car is totaled. It was only 6 months old too, which is killing her. She doesn't have any other mode of transport to school, and without a job she won't be able to replace it outright even if the insurance does declare it totaled and covers the full amount. I just don't know what to do for her, I talk to her all I can, and I want to spend time with her but she's hurting so bad that she needs to just stay in bed and heal for a few days. She's so totally depressed right now because if things don't get patched, she'll have to drop this semester, and she's already behind from missing out for surgery last year.
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February 2nd, 2007
10:52 pm - New girlfriend
So I started seeing this girl Laurie a week ago. Things are going pretty good. Brought her some roses yesterday to brighten her day (she's had a pretty dismal week, not the best way to start a relationship but what can you do). She's amazing. She's going to school to be a teacher, she's funny, smart, absolutely gorgeous, and we click which is great. I don't mind. All in all things are good.
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January 25th, 2007
11:00 pm - Pegged me dead on.
| What American accent do you have? Your Result: The Inland North You may think you speak "Standard English straight out of the dictionary" but when you step away from the Great Lakes you get asked annoying questions like "Are you from Wisconsin?" or "Are you from Chicago?" Chances are you call carbonated drinks "pop." | | The South | | | The Midland | | | The Northeast | | | Philadelphia | | | North Central | | | The West | | | Boston | | What American accent do you have?
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January 20th, 2007
11:32 pm
Your Slanguage Profile
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British Slang: 50%
Canadian Slang: 50%
New England Slang: 25%
Southern Slang: 25%
Aussie Slang: 0%
Prison Slang: 0%
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January 17th, 2007
09:14 pm - As promised
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January 14th, 2007
12:30 am
So I forgot to mention I got half the color inked on one arm (4 hours and only half?! yes. only half.) I'll post pictures when it's done shedding.
I'm in a funk. I hate it. I was doing so good for like 3-4 months, and then the holidays hit, and now i'm still feeling like crap and I know at least part of it is because I still haven't been able to let go of that stupid aussie bitch. I'm trying my heart out. I just don't know what to do anymore. The harder I try the more she ends up on my mind and I'm failing at keeping my mind occupied. It's like the only time I get any solice is when I sleep and 16 hours at a crack isn't fun.
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January 3rd, 2007
04:46 pm - Resolutions
I didn't make them on the 1st, but I'm puttering around with some. So far I'm sticking to my diet. 3 days strong. Yay.
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January 1st, 2007
03:43 pm - Ever notice...
That on your birthday, the day that's supposed to be all about you, you end up getting calls from people you'd rather you never spoke to again? Be it ex-significant others, ex-friends, ex-douchebags, or some other ex, they all seem to call on your day of days to try and act like saying happy birthday is an act of redemption for everything they ever did wrong to you and the world at large and suddenly you'll be best pals again. Wtf?
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01:30 am
Welp, cross off another year for me. I'm officially 24. Sadly, it doesn't feel any different.
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December 30th, 2006
12:07 am - Brainfart
So I'm trying to remember the name of this webcomic, all stick figures and shit, 
That would be one of them but whoever saved it there left out any info on it. I'm almost positive someone on here reads it and posted it once or twice. Help?
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December 21st, 2006
05:52 pm - Bad day at work?
A bad day at work for most people is the copier breaking, the fax getting a paper jam, and their boss being cranky. At my work, this is a bad day. And yes, that is the company I work for. Luckily nobody was hurt and it doesn't look like it was our fault since we didn't rig it.
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December 19th, 2006
04:40 pm
I'm a Lamborghini Murcielago!
You're not subtle, but you don't want to be. Fast, loud, and dramatic, you want people to notice you, and then get out of the way. In a world full of sheep, you're a raging bull.
Take the Which Sports Car Are You? quiz.
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December 10th, 2006
08:46 pm
The idea is to sum up your 2006 by re-posting the first sentence from the first entry of each month from this year.
January: If you're on skype, wanna drop me your contact info so I can add you on it?
February: Ok check the ones you've seen, post your total in the title, 70+ = nolife.
March: Click here.
April: Heading to the airport in about an hour.
May: It occured to me that I never mentioned I have my pics from my trip posted.
June: adalius's LiveJournal popularity rating is 3.81/10.
July: So, despite caring about her more than anyone I've ever been with, to the point of seriously considering moving in with her and possibly the concept of starting a family down the line and stuff, things people my age typically aren't concerned with to this extent, she's dumped me.
August: Went out drinking Saturday night, got to talk to Terra who is insanely gorgeous, might be doing something with her soon, I hope.
September: So I posted before about my new tattoos.
October: You scored as Suicide.
November: Jon decided to touch up the lines around the original kanji since they were a bit lighter after 5 years.
December: Whats your seduction style?
Summary: Tattoos, whores, booze, friends, and memes.
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December 9th, 2006
12:44 pm - Tattoo 5 Phase 2
Long one, took 4 hours this time.
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December 1st, 2006
04:05 pm
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November 28th, 2006
05:29 pm - Stolen From Larken
Go to www.popculturemadness.com and find the list of hits for the year you graduated from high school. Bold the ones you like, Italicize the ones you hate, leave the ones you've never heard of plain.
Note: Most of my non-bold/italicized I have heard of, I just don't have a like/hate feeling for them.
1. I'm A Believer - Smash Mouth
2. Lady Marmalade - Christina Aguilera, Pink, Lil Kim, and Mya
3. Ride Wit Me - Nelly featuring City Spud
4. Get The Party Started - Pink
5. Follow Me - Uncle Cracker
6. Bootylicious - Destiny's Child
7. Ain't It Funny (Remix) - Jennifer Lopez
8. U Remind Me - Usher
9. Pop - N Sync
10. Hero - Enrique Iglesias
11. It's My Life - Bon Jovi
12. I'm Real - Jennifer Lopez
13. Smooth Criminal - Alien Ant Farm
14. Family Affair - Mary J Blige
15. Angel - Shaggy
16. With Arms Wide Open - Creed
17. Where The Party At - Jagged Edge with Nelly
18. Bouncing Off The Ceiling - A*Teens
19. Hey Baby - No Doubt
20. Independant Woman part 1- Destiny's Child
21. Whenever, Wherever - Shakira
22. The Space Between - Dave Matthews Band
23. Turn Off The Light - Nelly Furtado
24. Hit 'Em Up Style (Oops) - Blu Cantrell
25. It's Been a While - Stained
26. I'm Real - Jennifer Lopez
27. Fallin' - Alicia Keys
28. Hanging By A Moment - Lifehouse
29. The Call - Backstreet Boys
30. This Is Me - Dream
31. What Would You Do? - City High
32. Survivor - Destiny's Child
33. Start the Commotion - The Wiseguys
34. All Or Nothing At All - O Town
35. I Wanna Be Bad - Willa Ford
36. Flavor Of The Week - American Hi Fi
37. In The End - Linkin Park
38. Superman - Five For Fighting
39. Drops of Jupiter - Train
40. I'm Like A Bird - Nelly Furtado
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November 27th, 2006
04:13 pm - It's official.
Back when Mara dumped me in July, it was a very rough time, mainly because my grandpa was just being diagnosed with plasmacytoma, cancer of the spine. He went through radiation and we thought things would be spiffy. His blood count however, showed a rapid spike in the indicator protein after radiation and a second MRI last week confirmed he's now got multiple melanoma, i.e. it's spreading to other vertebrae and his hip. The doctors, in what can be looked on as a plus in this situation I guess, say that he's probably got a good 10 years with the medication available now, but they don't see any point to doing chemo since it's not a 'curable' cancer in that it likely won't be forced into remission, etc. He seems to be taking it well, and I guess all in all I am too, I mean in 10 years he'll be 77 and, knowing him, not handling age setting in too well since he doesn't like to slow down ever. Plus it's still quite a bit of time, even if you look at it pessimistically, to hang out with him. He's always been more of a dad to me than a grandfather. I guess what really...messes with my head? and makes me bring her up at the beginning of this, aside from a time milestone, is that it made me realize how much I thought it was going to work out with her, and how I want him to be around to see me with someone I love and to be at my wedding and see his great grandchildren... and when I look at it like that, suddenly that 'long' 10 years looks so short...
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November 16th, 2006
07:12 pm - Ink Again
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01:04 am - Urg
3 hours of tattooing goodness tonight. Bit sore, it bruised up in a couple spots, pics when the redness goes away.
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November 12th, 2006
08:01 pm
All these poor saps who buy weed or other drugs or go out binge drinking to feel 'out of it', when all I have to do is absentmindedly forget to take my anti anxiety/depression shit for a single day and poof I'm loopy. Joy!
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November 7th, 2006
November 1st, 2006
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