The Last Post

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This is it, folks – the last post made from old yeller…

When I type again, it will be from a new machine much more powerful, capable of downloading pornography and pirated media at speeds that will continue to make this beast tremble all the way to the trash heap.

…that is, unless it takes a nose dive and I end up writing from my laptop instead – cross your fingers!

Bullet points are a sign of the times…

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  • Florida saw yet another hurricane this weekend, which came wee close to ruining my day. Game day on Saturday nearly got cancelled when the disaster relief crew went on stand-by, but we ended up lucking out at the last second and many games of Star Wars: Battlefront and Halowere enjoyed by all.
  • The meatballs that I prepared for said event apparently turned out surprisingly well, despite the fact that it was the first time I’ve attempted to make the sauce from scratch. Nearly two pounds of meat were devoured and I’m happily walking away with some new ideas to try for next time. Also, a crock pot is now officially on my list of stuff to buy the next time I’m at Wal-Mart.
  • Today, on the other hand, was an incredibly lazy day, as I spent a good portion of the afternoon lying in bed, listening to the storm outside. Lots of water fell and the winds gusted strong, but I’m happy to report that no major damages occurred in my area…not even many limbs down, actually. It looked like a few roads were closed due to a small amount of flooding in the evening hours, but hopefully that’ll be under control by morning.
  • Sadly, however, while I laid sleeping my new plant outside didn’t have it so easy, as I noticed it half out of its pot when I got the paper earlier today. I see no reason why it won’t survive – I may have to bail out the rest of the water tomorrow and pick up a bag of soil to replace what was washed away, but I suppose that’s what I get for not being smart enough to pull her inside the night before… 🙁
  • The single movie that I watched over the weekend in widescreen goodness was The Boondock Saints, and to sum it up in a single phrase, “Boy, was I disappointed…” This was one of those movies that was recommended by a friend – “Don’t bother renting it – just buy it!” – and although I don’t normally even rent that many movies, I certainly won’t make that mistake again. Not to even mention the lack-luster storyline and sub-par actors, the “widescreen version” of the DVD wouldn’t drop the bars on my “widescreen television,” so the entire movie was shrunk down and displayed with three inch bars on either side, even though it didn’t need to be. For future reference, any movie that mentions its similarity to Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fictionon the jacket is staying on the shelf from here on out… 😛
  • I’m getting a new computer this week!!! It should be arriving via FedExWednesday evening, so with any luck I’ll have everything put together and be zipping along at more current speeds later on that night – I can’t wait to actually be able to download security patches again without worrying of over-taxing my processor! Dual-channel DDR RAM, 800-Mhz front-side bus, gigabit ethernet – hmmmm…
  • My sister is apparently putting together some sort of jazz ensemble this year at school, which sounds pretty darn cool to me – it kinda makes me disappointed that I won’t be able to make it up for the holidays again this year. Nonetheless, I look forward to many MP3s turning up in my inbox as the rehersals commence!
  • Making Saturday morning nearly as enjoyable as back in the days of Garfield and Friends and The Real Ghostbusters, this old boy got himself a wink sometime Friday evening! For those not in the know, a wink is a subtle click-of-the-mouse found on most of the Internet match-making sites to alert another user that you’re mildly interested in getting to know them better – and I’ve never gotten one…until this weekend!Said *wink* was casually returned the following day, so now only time will tell if my love life actually does stand a chance after all. Hell, even if it was simply someone who bumped the wrong button, after officially scaring the last woman I attempted to contact clean off the Internet, anything is better than nothing!
  • And this happened about a week ago, actually, but I still thought that it deserved mention – both the ceiling fan and my toilet needed to be serviced last week, which required my calling the maintenance department of my apartment complex. I feel that it’s important to give my home proper credits because I’ve been reading a lot of bad reviews about them online lately, however each instance was fixed in a single visit and both warranted follow-up calls from the office the following day to make sure everything was taken care of, but that’s not the cool part. The cool part is this – on the second visit, after repairing the ceiling fan in my living room, the repair guy also took the time to take out the trash! So don’t believe everything that you read…

And last, but not least…

  • I’m looking to decorate my bedroom…finally…and I need some ideas. After deciding to renew my lease for another year, it seems only fitting that I do something to my bedroom to make it a bit more than, well, a room with a bed in it! I’m thinking a little paint on the walls, new curtains to replace the plastic things that are provided by default, maybe even some candles and a snare or two – whatever it takes to attract and catch the ladies these days. Come on – help a guy out here…

Incredible, yes…but edible? Only time will tell…

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Ok, I’m having eggs for dinner this evening because there’s nothing else here and I got home from work too late to go to the grocery store. My concern is that I don’t know if we lost power in my local area during Hurricane Frances last week or if these puppies are safe to eat, so if you don’t hear from me after a few days or something, do whatever you would normally do when you’re concerned about someone halfway across the country dying of food poisoning…

I guess that might carry a bit more weight if I had a slightly more frequent posting schedule. 😛

Purty Pictures

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The channel of the day is Discovery HD Theater – anyone who’s approached the home theater section at Best Buy or Circuit City knows that the display is usually set to this one and within a few moments it becomes amazingly clear exactly how this decision was reached – WOW…

I’m watching a series called Dinosaur Planet right now, which is basically like the Disney move Dinosaur only with a bit of a story to it. I thought that the Disney one looked beautiful in an actual theater, but the 3d effects are displayed brilliantly here, right in my own living room! Earlier I was watching something on volcanic eruptions and the aftermath, eventual regrowth, etc… – very cool stuff, indeed.

Anyone who claims that they can’t really see a difference between standard analog and HDTV must be asleep. Kids, if you don’t have HDTV yet – what in the world are you waiting for?!

P.S.

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After some nine years of sporting the same long, crazy mane, I finally got my hair cut while I was in Atlanta last week. I’ll try to remember to post up some pictures to my MoBlog in the morning…

Progress [the unabridged version]

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It’s pretty bad when you actually have to read up on your last post just to figure out where you left off, isn’t it???

So let’s see – it’s sooooo good to finally be back in Tampa! Not that Atlanta isn’t a nice place to visit or anything, but after living out of a hotel room and eating out for every single meal – and eating out being pretty much the only thing that we did – let’s just say that it got old real quick and I wasn’t the least bit disappointed when my name wasn’t called off for the Ivan relief group. With the new track shooting the thing west of us, I’m not even sure if they ended up going or not, but even if they did, I’m happy to say that I’ll be fending off this hurricane in front of my television instead… 😛

It’s hard to believe that it’s already September – it won’t be long now before I’ll have been here in Florida officially for a full year. Just looking around my apartment, I realize that I’ve come a long way since then, what with moving away from home and living on my own and paying off a huge chunk of the credit card debt that I managed to amass over the past five years. I’ve made new friends and tried my best to keep up with the old; I’ve began my climb up the corporate ladder and learned that raises with damn near any job are few and far between; I’ve purchased a High Definition TV – if those aren’t signs of the times, I don’t know what is!

I’m curious to look up and see what my New Years resolutions were for 2004 – I know off the bat that I’m still not doing great, but at least the finances are getting taken care of and that was my number one priority. My writing has fallen to the wayside and even when I can find the motivation to create, I simply can’t find the time – I know that this isn’t going to ease up at least for a little while longer, however I still consider myself fortunate merely to even have a job that pays me for my creative talents, so at least that’s something. Besides, I can deal with not putting out a book this year, I’ve decided – the collection book has more or less lost my interest because most of the columns that were going into it are at least two years old now and I’ve since then written much better pieces; Leaving Miami, on the other hand, is something that I do want to push at least a little farther this fall because I still like the concept and it’s a fairly personal story…which then again is why I’m in no hurry to rush its completion. I did write / finish a few random columns while I was in Atlanta that I’d like to put online sometime soon – maybe they’ll encourage me to start the weekly humor thing up again – I don’t know…

As for my other goals, well, I guess it all boils down to how I’m able to manage my time here until Christmas. Considering the sight-seeing aspect – this might end up being a matter of physically pencilling in places and times on my calendar and forcing myself to stick to them, which is hard when you’ve got a job that you actually enjoy and that still pays you for overtime…at least for the time being! 😉 Exercise is another one that I believe simply requires discipline…note that I’ve yet to go swimming once since my last diatribe…but many wise folks have told me that you really have to want to lose the weight if it’s ever going to happen. I believe these people whole-heartedly, but nonetheless I can also be incredibly stubborn and that, therein, is my weakness when it comes to exercise.

And last but not least, I’d still like to find a lady to occupy what little free time I have left. I think that having one would actually help keep me in line with my other goals listed above, plus additionally I’ve heard that women are great in bed and I’d love for the opportunity to test that theory out before the holiday season rolls around again! Who knows – when it all comes down to it, I’m definitely happy with where I sit in my life right now – there are always improvements that we would like to make, from adding or changing routines to simply figuring out why the toilet suddenly isn’t flushing the way it used to anymore – but at the end of the day, I think a lot can be said for those who can truly say that they are pleased with how far they’ve progressed thus far.

It seems to have worked for me this far, anyways…