A Long Day, Indeed…

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Michael’s funeral was today, as most already know. It was nice to meet so many of the other people he called friends, both online and off, as well as refreshing to hear all of the stories that everyone had to tell. Looking back, I think I would’ve preferred coming over for the wake Thursday evening to chat with everyone, but that’s ok. I do have one final bit that I want to write up here about this whole experience, but it’s just going to have to wait until tomorrow because 2:00 AM is simply too late to crank out prose that I have no intentions of proofreading later…

On a completely different note, I’ve decided that I’m going to Disney World on Sunday…I think. We were gonna go tomorrow, but then stupid, old me got scheduled for overtime at work and ruined that little plan! It just means that I get to hold onto my $54 dollars for one more day, right?

…f’ing people…

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Pet Peeve #3:

People who don’t respond to their e-mail in a timely fashion.

I know that other people have lives of their own, too, and we’re all really busy, but when I take the time out of my day to write you, for whatever reason, at least extend me the courtesy of a reply – “I’m out of the office…”, “I’m really busy right now…”, “My car just got eaten by a hippopotamus” – whatever! Just remember that your little instant messengers will show the last time you logged on, and I refuse to believe that Hotmail’s server are that horrible that only every third message that I send ever gets through…but if they are and you know it, then maybe it’s time to finally get yourself a new e-mail provider.

How important is my mail to you, anyways???

MB

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Man, this just really sucks.

I had all of this writing that I wanted to get done this weekend, and I just can’t do it. I can’t sleep, but even if I could it would just seem like a cop out at this point. How are people supposed to deal with something like this?

I re-read a bunch of Marvelous Bob earlier today and I just can’t get over what a genius Michael was, and he didn’t even know it. Or maybe he did and he just liked playing with people – that was kind of his thing. He always was the subtle jokester, from selling his webcomic, to creating an entirely new comic solely to promote his original webcomic, to re-packaging said original webcomic for another audience; I thought that it was a joke – some sort of sick, twisted joke – when I first got the news, but it wasn’t.

I didn’t really know the guy as much as I would’ve liked to, and we’d only met face-to-face once, but I really admired him for the passion that went into his writing. A lot of people live their entire lives trying to write like Michael did, but to him it was natural…even if he refused to meet deadlines purely out of principle! We never will get to hear the rest of the story and what ends up happening to Bob in the long run, but if anything else, it was certainly fun while it lasted…

Pretty Pictures…all six of them…

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My Tampa photos are finally up…although the only ones I have are ones that were probably posted here long ago…

I’ve decided that I need to start taking pictures again, so I’m looking online to find a replacement LCD for my digital camera. I did find one on eBay that looks hopeful and won’t break my pocket book, so let’s just hope that it’s a) the same LCD and b) going to actually work when I turn it on. I’ve got a bad feeling that I’m going to end up buying a new camera before all this is through, but keep your fingers crossed!

Conan does it again!

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Funny – I don’t remember my apartment hunting trip being THIS much fun…

(Fancy DIVX codec required…)
(…this won’t be staying up forever – please save a copy if you so desire!)

…and every stop is neatly planned for a poet and a one-man band…

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Day two of my site updates continues – I wanted to upload a bunch of photos that I took back when I first got to Tampa, but apparently some of the permissions got changed on our web server and I can’t seem to get anything in the admin area of gallery to work, so rather than spend the next hour re-CHMODing everything, it’s just going to have to wait until tomorrow…

Hmmm, what else can I do in the meantime?