“The March ’05 Update” (…part 1, hopefully)

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Wow – long time, no postings…so you know what that means – bullet points!!!

  • Life, in general, is going quite well, indeed…
  • Leslie is still around, starring in the role of my girlfriend, and from a relationship stand-point I’ve never been happier. We’ll be going on two months here shortly, but it seems like we’ve been together much longer already.
  • Work, in most respects, is still good also, even though it is becoming quite cumbersome – hopefully the entire ordeal will be over soon and I can get settled into a normal routine again. Also, last week they announced that we’ll be moving out of the Tampa City Center downtown and into a corporate campus up in New Tampa at the end of the year – it’ll take some getting used to, but should be a nice change.
  • Along those same lines, I’m also looking for a house up in the New Tampa area which is kind of exciting…if not simply because I’m ready to go somewhere else. I do still like the Town ‘N Country area and kind of wish that I could stick around this area, but between the lousy neighbors and the commute that I have to deal with everyday…and the new commute that I would have from here to New Tampa, maybe it’s all for the best. We’ll see! 🙂
  • I know I’m always way behind in the times with these things, but I started played Hitman 2 over the weekend on the PS2 – very addictive game! I’m normally not too sharp when it comes to the stealth-like games (i.e. Splinter Cell), but any game that allows me to whip out the guns and just charge in full throttle when I continuously blow my cover is still ok in my book!
  • The writing is still progressing along ok…I just don’t seem to have the time or motivation to get everything online as I’d like. I’ve written a number of editorial pieces on the current events that have been getting on my nerves lately, so maybe I’ll get a chance to put them online over the weekend. Last weekend I wasn’t exactly as productive as I was supposed to…with any luck I’ll get another shot and actually take care of business this time around!
  • Thursday Night TV Update: Kim got voted off Survivor, John got fired on The Apprentice – all in all, a quality night of reality television
  • “The Problem with Popplers episode of Futurama is on tonight – quite possibly the funniest episode ever! “They’re tasty, right – let’s call them Taste-ti-cles!“I am sooooo looking forward to sleeping in Saturday morning! Man, do I need a vacation…

Good Day! x3

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Woo-hoo – should be a fun weekend!!! Little sister is flying into town tonight, going to Disney for the second time in a seven-day span tomorrow, state fair on Saturday with sister and girlfriend, and “quality time” with nearly the whole family on Sunday – visitors are fun! 🙂

Weekend Update – the bad points

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So I had to call the cops on my neighbors the other night.

Believe me, I really didn’t want to, but it was three o’clock in the morning, we’d had a long day and were trying to sleep, and I just have a very low tolerance for rudeness at that hour. The stereo was blasting so loud that you’d think they had a rave going on, but the breaking point was when they situated outside my bedroom window and proceeded to argue at full volume about how much beer they had left and who got to fuck who after the roofies kicked in…

It’s sad because I used to love where I live – the highlights really shined and the only bad parts involved tripping over the mutant ducks that guard over our sidewalks…but I just realized today that I haven’t even seen the crazy bird lady in the longest time. I don’t know what happened, but it seems like the place has started catering to a different kind of people and now we have college-aged kids wandering around at all hours of the night with cups of beer in hand, shouting to each other across the complex. I’d be curious to see what kinds of rates these people are giving away now because before the cost alone was enough to keep out the riff-raff – apparently they’re renting to damn near anybody now, but come the end of my current lease, I certainly won’t be one of them.

When the cops finally did show up, apparently they made such a scene that the culprits turned everything off and went inside before they could be found, resulting in the guy pounding on my door at 3:30 AM wanting to know what the problem was. It scares me to think that these are the folks out there protecting us because during our conversation, some guy drunk as shit stumbled right by him…at 3:30 AM…and apparently he didn’t find anything odd about that. The other officer – a lady cop – did have slightly better deductive skills and managed to find them all huddled inside a nearby apartment (hint: it was the only one with lights on at 3:30 AM!), and thusly sent everybody in directions after threatening to check for drugs, but I’ll give it two days before they’re back at it again…

So I’m now even moreso in the market to find myself a house this year, folks! My lease here ends on November 13th and I’m already saving my pennies, but in the meantime, keep your fingers crossed for me – I’m gonna need all of the patience that I can get…

Weekend Update – the good points

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Well, that was fun!

Quite the busy weekend, indeed. I took Friday off in an effort to celebrate an early Valentine’s Day with the woman I love, and I’d like to say that it ended up being a success, in my humble opinion! The afternoon was spent over at Disney World – a la the Magic Kingdom – and if anything, it was certainly magical…and a bit goofy, I might add (no pun intended). Had dinner at O’Hana inside the Polynesian Resort, which served up some of the best buffet foods that I’ve ever eaten – strongly recommended to anyone looking to stuff themselves silly! For those out of the loop, it’s a Hawaiian-themed restaurant where they bring everything straight to your table, so when you’re ready for more shrimp, they simply unload another skewer of shrimp onto your waiting plate – genius, I tell ya. Also, the chicken wings were to die for and needless to say, we will be going back…

Oh yeah, and Mickey’s PhilharMagic was definitely cool, too. Saw it for the first time, loved it, and got a special kick out of hearing not only all of the kids, but also the girl next to me singing along with all of her favorite Disney songs… 😉

Saturday was eventful two-fold because it proved to be full of family from both sides of the spectrum. Leslie took me home to meet the parents in the AM and I’m told that things went rather well, which is mighty cool on my part! The entire family seems very down to earth and possesses one unique quality alone that made me feel very much so at home – they all rag on each other constantly – and I don’t think that I’ve laughed as much in the past week as I did during those few hours. Looking back at the grand history of all relationships, it could’ve gone horribly wrong, but thankfully it didn’t.

And last but not least, I received a phone call Saturday evening and discovered that my Dad is in town, so I’ve spent an excess of probably ten hours in the past day or so catching up with him. I’m not quite sure how long he’ll be here, and neither is he – I guess, but it’s certainly good to see him and I hope to spend as much time with him as I can while he is. It’s amazing how easily you forget about the important stuff when you’ve been gone for a year and a half…

All in all, probably the best weekend so far this year…can’t wait to see this one topped!

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Had a little fun downtown during lunch this afternoon:

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…beware of small moving parts…

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Finally was able to dive in and start getting the feel of Movable Type tonight, although it doesn’t look like I’ll be needing many of its features the way I’m utilizing it anyways. Hopefully tomorrow evening I can hammer out a few last graphics for the index pages and carryover the formatting that I’ve done to the archives and daily views and all of the other crazy templates that MT wants to use! Fortunately after this, all I’ll have left is Gallery and then it’ll be back to finishing up my own layout stuff.

With any luck, I could have this new site up in a week…after Lori delivers my new brain graphic, that is… 😛

Monday Update

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So I learned today that it looks like I’ll be keeping my job just a bit longer…that’s certainly a good thing. Bad news is that along with 15-20 people who are being transitioned into new jobs, that left another dozen that were given notice today. (I am in the group being transitioned.) Mind you, with the exception of three people who were let go today, everyone else was given at least two months of lead time so that’s good. Well, it’s still bad, but it’s as good as one can hope for in such a situation… 🙁

Also, I came home tonight to find UPS notices for two packages and I have absolutely no idea what they could be. I’m certainly not expecting anything and the shipping details state that they’re coming from New York City…I don’t know anybody in NYC. I wonder if I should be concerned about this or not…

“And if I’m well, you can tell that she’s been with me now…”

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P.S. I won’t go into details because I don’t want to jinx it, but I’ve also been making some nice progress with the beautiful, young lady whom was mentioned a few posts ago. I do hope to be able to talk more about her here in the future, though, because she really has proven to be an amazing person thus far and these past couple of weeks have featured some of the happiest times since I moved to Florida.

All in all, it’s a very surreal experience to me and at this point, all I can hope for is that I don’t wake up anytime soon… 🙂