Never been a cologne user. Perfume never really does it for me. And my venture into man soap has not been very enjoyable. I usually use straight up Dove or Ivory, but had some Dove green tea and cucumber and their lavender soaps for a while. The smell is very light and not too bad. I did feel a bit fem using those though. Thought I would man up and get me some Irish Spring man scent and some Dial for men bars.

The Irish spring was dyed really blue and just dissolved into a goopy mess. The smell was just a bit too much. The dial held up pretty good and had a cool shape, but still the smell was too much. Oh and the colgate shaving cream smells so horrible. I have to wash my face 3 or 4 times after shaving with the dam man smell soap. It is a vicious circle.

So at work they have hauled out the CHRISTmas tree and I am gonna throw a fit and demand they have a beer volcano and stripper factory as well to acknowledge my pastafarisim.

Oh and I was at the porn store buying a Princess Diana life size rubber Fist and the clerk Did not wish me a merry CHRISTmas, so I will take my shopping elsewhere thnxuvrymch.

My cube is next to the phone ladies. They deal in all things phone wired and wireless. And they talk all day long. They were just talking about their wedding cakes they keep in their freezer. One ate one 12th of hers last night with her husband and then put it back in the freezer.

Seriously who does that? And why eat it. So wrong. I once froze a snowball, but I tossed it out a month or so later.

My iMac is in bad condition… I came home from work today and was going through my RSS feeds. I clicked on a link (to BorK’s site nonetheless) and mid-click, my bluetooth mouse died. My iMac had a little kernel panic (the Mac BSOD, oh noes!) so I figured I’d restart, check the crash logs, and all would be good. ‘Cept on startup, it would just hang. And then kernel panic again. So I restart in verbose mode, which tells me what’s happening, and it turns out that loginwindow.app is corrupted. The thing about loginwindow.app is you can’t start OSX without it. I’ve been spending the past 5 hours trying to backup my iMac (my last back up is three weeks old), and trying reinstall. Except reinstalling causes another kernel panic. I think my DVD might be scratched.

My newest (and probably last trick in my bag) is copying my laptop’s hard drive onto the iMac’s hard drive. And if that doesn’t work, I have to send my Apple off to the fruit stand… That means a week without my iMac, a week without all my movies and tv shows, and a week without my RSS reader (ack!). Let’s cross our fingers that this will work…

How was your day? Did you make new friends or try new things?

HFS…I just spent 1.5 days trying to get wireless to work on my new linux box, and it finally happened!

This is the first of many difficult hurdles ahead, but none-the-less I am very happy for the moment.

There is a fungus amungus all, but it messes with me. Tinea versicolor is in simplest terms a collection of yeast and fungus that causes spots. We all have it on our skin, but for me about every two years it freaks out. I think I was about 15 when I first noticed it. We went to LinCcare and it was misdiagnosed. He gave me some ointment and sent me home. Well I, like most lazy Americans want a one pill fix.

So today I get to take my two 200mg Ketocanazol pills and it will basically scrub anything that is fungal / yeasty from my body. Cool eh? So this would be my 9th or 10th time I have had to take a drug for it. Before it was two pills once a week, one pill a day for a week, but this is the first time it was a one swallow type thing. Dam you evil scientists.

Man I am really struggling with the posts today. Been a pretty rough one here. I am still at work and it be about 8 PM, got a few more hours to go. So at work we are still recovering from the issue about a month back. When I came over here there were about 10 folks in the team I am a part of. We are the ones who build and maintain the servers for the state agencies in the state IT dept. Well we lost 3 to other teams and one guy had a premature baby, so we are pretty low on people. There would be about 4 of us actually dealing with 100+ servers and many more that need to be installed / built / etc….
Well today we found out that our leader is switching to another dept without anyone to replace him. Talk about kicking us while we are down. When it was mentioned at the meeting nobody even knew what to say we just sat there silent. I have been pulling extra hours like crazy and so have others. I am just a contracted employee from the Legislature. So really the team is worse off personnel wise. It really sux.

Our little team feels kinda like the bike in the pic. yeah with a little fixing up and love it could be useful, but instead it was just tossed in its broken state on the fricking curb.

I am fine though, just a little bummed.

So Mr. T said something like “didn’t you go to culinary school” when we first met. Not sure if he was joking around or not. But no I have no formal training. But recently I have really enjoyed cooking. Specially from raw stuff. There is that one lady on the food porn channel who makes meals from store bought crap and she irks me. Most has been from watching Alton Brown and other cooking shows. Trying different things, ya know. And spending a whole day on the weekend making stuff is a purdy good day to me.

But I seem to muck up this dam measuring spoon thing. it really grinds my gears. First off stop abbreviating it. And really just fricking pick one. how about we just get rid of the whole tablespoon thing? How about a mega teaspoon?

I made a batch of vanilla ice cream and split it up so I could do the cookies and cream. I used 7 tablespoons when it should of been 6 teaspoons of vanilla extract. i wanted to make it a bit more vanilla powered. It was so intense. Oh man I made it through one bowl and felt sick. Dumped the whole batch and made a new one.

Little sweepy today. Had an awesome time at the show last night. Been working some late hours again lately and gonna get a little break this afternoon. Washer repair guy is coming at noon to fix the washer. I know I said it was fixed, but it wernt. Good thing is the parts are covered under the warranty, the labor is not. Oh well. I will post some stuff during that time, bit busy currently. Then prob gonna head back into work to deal with some stuff. Joy.

Seriously work is bugging me. No need to go into it, but I missed the TNMWR tonight cuz I was working late once again. I really really really needed a bit of time in my church (wilderness) with some good buddies.

Gonna get Fuggles out on the trail a bit just to get some ride time in. I miss my MOOTS so much. I have only ridden her once in the past month. And that was to work for a 16 hour sat. Mootsiepoo will have to wait till tomorrow cuz I will not ride her on the salt levee trail. Too many thorns.

So iffin you follow this there site you might have read about how messed my past few weeks of work have been. I have been working some normal hours, but stuff is nothing like it has been. We are now very restricted in what we can do, with very understandable reasons. Well last Friday I just kinda flipped out. Super simple things cannot be done. I gave up and bottled my stress.

Now iffin you know me I am a severely happy go lucky kind of guy. Seriously I have zero stress, I am severely not accustomed to it. Life has been good for a really long time. Friday I freaked out about nothing, only T witnessed it (was work related and I shared it with her). So I get home, vent, then realize my washer was not fixed. I messed with it for hours and really felt like smashing something. I never get that way. A good night with friends and some bacon and it was all good.

Today at work there was a project that was thrust upon us, and well I did not get out of there till 9:30, but it all went really well and I was stoked. It was a major hurdle which pretty much negated the thing that stressed me out last week. All good.

So I come home, kick it with T, and have a drink. Now here comes my dealing technique. I enjoy a brew or two and watch music vids of my favs and then post them. So if you see me post vids you know my day has not gone very well, but I am soothed by groovy tunes and go to bed happy.

Keller Williams A day that never was

First let me start off with recognizing my bunnypansche Theresa.

Theresa is the fricking bomb. She loves to tend to our front yard plants.
She let me vent for a good 10 minutes about stressful stuff at work and just nodded along. It felt really good to get it out.
I am unnaturally happy most of the time. A few minutes of getting the strange feeling of stress out ruled.
She is an amazing listenter eventhough I am not.
She keeps our life, the doggies happy, and finances on track. I have to ask her basic questions about shit I should know. Like my age, our plans, and well pretty much everything.
She fricking rules.

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We are going to have this written up on flyers so we can just hand them out when people ask us why we are not going to reproduce

1) They are Noisy
I am not saying that all of them are, I wasn’t, but the fact is that most of them will be constantly mouthing off about something. They have questions coming out the ass every day, day after day. No single thing is too small to be worthy of comment, no problem too insignificant to whine about, and then there’s the nagging. They nag. You give in once and after that they never let up.

Living off fast food, gas station grub, vending, and the occasional pizza made me hurt for a good meal.
I have worked multiple jobs, been a college student for 10 years, and am so sick of fast food. This week with an amazing amount of hours at work and messed up eating / sleeping conditions really wore on me.

I stood in front of the vending machine on the 3rd floor hoping it would provide something different, hardly. “Well an almond joy might actually be nutritious.”

Got home tonight and it was the best I felt all week. We are past the critical stage. Now restore and reconfigure is the game plan. During the week the few times I got to sit on my couch were not very comforting (worry filled me). Tonight was awesome. We headed to the store and made a meat and potato with gravy meal. I relaxed and wolfed down “real food”. Theresa started laughing when I took a break and told me to breathe.

While the beef was getting firmer in the freezer I whipped up a batch of vanilla bean ice cream (you can see it on my flicker, will be a post). Gonna churn it up during lunch if we get one tomorrow.

I have to wear pants Mon morning Been rocking jeans and sandals since tuesday. If I am working 16 hours I better be comfortable. Wearing pants with my shirt tucked in is the most demoralizing thing I have ever dealt with. Pants steal your soul.

I am glad that things are going better, I love that I can once again enjoy a meal that I made from scratch from raw ingredients, I am glad to have a strong community of friends and peeps that support me. Oh man I so hope 5 O clock actually means something to me again some time here soon. I got a roast to cook and enjoy for a few meals.

Pretty stoked that I got to use the unicorn tag. I almost invented the bears vs unicorns tag but decided to go with Unicorn Wars.

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