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Met up with a friend from college – and she brought her 6 year old along. We had a nice dinner, folded some paper, and just hung out a bit. And I got a drawing of my ring:

Yeah, it’s a little greasy, but hey, he’s six and he had fries.

Finished the Prince of Persia game – the last boss battle was kinda lame. Didn’t even get below 50% on the old health bar. Still, overall, the game was a blast and looking forward to going through it again to unlock some of the secrets.

Well, I’ve got a poll to set up and a boatload of pdf files to move, so I should get cracking.

Back to work…

I visited my folks this past weekend to celebrate my sister’s birthday. We went out to eat and watched movies – a pretty good visit. I also finished up my latest origami project – photo’s here. I think it turned out well – but I’m also glad it’s over. Lot of work into that one.

Tomorrow I’m going to have dinner with a friend from college – haven’t seen her in 8 years. Should be fun.

Well, lots to do today so it’s back to work…

So, I got an invite from my friend from Kent State to go to the Akron/Kent basketball game last night. I managed to score a couple of free tickets to the game – and bought the rest early so that his friends wouldn’t have to stand in line. The group of eight walked to Aladin’s for dinner – they were packed. We tried 3 amigo’s they were packed too. Walked back to his house, then hopped in cars to go to Spagetti Warehouse – 1 hour wait. Finally, plan “D” at this point, we went to Parason’s – where we proceeded to stuff ourselves silly.

Then to the campus where we parked far away from the arena (I figured the other lots would be packed). And since we go there just before the start – the place was packed. We ended up in the far corner, in a Kent State section.

Highlights:

1. Zippy was cool and seemed to have a lot of fun.

2. The Zips dance team was pretty good, but they’re a long ways away from Laker girls – hey not everyone can be Paul Abdul

3. A zips player goes flying off the court and take out two people sitting on the side – and breaks a chair. One of the two people gets pissed and throws the broken chair out onto the court. The ref talks to him and then the police come over to escort the guy from the area. The other knocked over person is also talking trash, but not enough to get her thrown out. They were both akron fans.

4. The game was really close all the way down to the wire – but Akron lost by three.

I had threatened to throw popcorn on the Kent State fans in my midst – but the popcorn selling people were too far away. And plus – I hate to be that obvious or obnoxious. I’ll get them later – when they least expect it. hehe

Additional notes – the meatball sub at parason’s = really really good.

back to work…

Well, I turned 32 yesterday. I don’t really feel that old mentally, considering the size of my comics collection and my skills at video games – but I guess I’ve still got to count it.

Talked to my folks, my grandmother, and my sister last night – got some well wishes and got caught up a bit. I’ll be visting them toward the end of the month when our assorted schedules aren’t so full.

Work has been really busy – trying to launch a new calendar system. I’ve been really pushing to get it done – we’ve been working on this for eons.

Otherwise, things are going well and are fairly quiet. There’s other stuff going on, but I really do need to get,

back to work…

Feels weird to be looking at a full week of work – the holidays and their shorter weeks were really nice. The boss is still on vacation, so things are a little quieter on that front. Everybody else seems to be back, though, so it’s making life in the cubes kinda noisy.

Found a cool new bit of technology – http://www.io2technology.com/dojo/178/v.jsp – called the Heliodisplay. Wicked cool – I can’t figure out how they do it.

My birthday is coming up – not entirely looking forward to it. Not cause I’m getting older – cause that doesn’t really matter to me – but because it leads to some stress with family and travel.

And I think I’m getting a little depressed. There are some factors, but nothing that I’m not already dealing with. Maybe its one of those Seasonal Affective Disorders or that I’m coming down with something. There’s an increasing quietness and slow-down to me. I’ve had these before, and they never last long. Course, the people around me may think the “crankyness” lasts forever, but they’ll just have to deal with it until it passes.

Work is kinda pointless and stupid today – but I’d better get back to it.

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Update – found a site called Quiz Farm – turns out (as a result of the quiz) that I’m:

You scored as Neutral Good.

A Neutral Good person tries to do the ‘goodest’ thing possible. These people are willing to work with the law to accomplish their goal, but if the law is corrupt they are just as willing to tear it down. To these people, doing what’s right is the most important thing, regardless of rules, customs, or laws.

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Sounds pretty accurate to me. 🙂

The drive into work was odd this morning. Nearly got run off the road by a bus who decided he wanted my lane in addition to his own. Had a stand-off with an ambulance.

Wait. That deserves some more explaination. An ambulance comes barrelling toward me and like a good driver I come to a halt to let him get past with plenty of options. Except, he comes to a halt too – about 2 car lengths away. We both sit there for a moment – me, trying to figure out what to do and him sitting there with all lights and sirens blazing. Finally, totally perplexed, I start to move forward. He waits until I’m clear, then turns into the driveway that I was ironically blocking. He might have had a turn signal on, but with all the rest of the lights going I couldn’t tell. Bizzare.

And then when I got to work, I can’t park more than halfway into a space since the snow plows did a poor job of clearing the snow.

In other news, I talked to Mom and my grandmother last evening. Mom is trying to plan for my upcoming birthday – and pretty much talking about me coming down after the actual date. Which is quite a bit differnt from what I thought we had planned – that being that they would come up for a visit before my birthday. We’ll figure something out.

Well, time to get back to work…

Except it was after Christmas and more like a thunk than a clatter. This was at my parents house about 11:30 on Sunday night. We all looked around outside, but couldn’t find anything – must have been a tree branch breaking under all the ice.

What with the ice storm in Ohio and the tidal waves recently, seems a little like “The Day After Tomorrow” here on planet earth. Not that the two are connected, but it’s still weird.

Finished up “Lies and the Lying Liers that tell them: A fair and balanced look at the Right”, by Al Franken. A good book, kinda funny, but more scary than anything. If this had been required reading before the election, there’d be a differnt dude in the white house in January.

A pretty good christmas – I got some good stuff and had fun. I’m hoping for a quiet new year’s.

And now I’m back at work – wishing I was still at home, in bed. Asleep.

Bummer…

(with apoligies to David Sedaris)

On Wednesday they closed the University early – at 12:30. This was due to the worsening weather conditions – and it didn’t affect the students since finals are already over. Well, I had planned on heading south to visit my folks and the lure of an early start overrode the concern about the weather. So, I packed up my stuff and got on the road about 1:30.

The snow was bad. The roads were bad. The drivers were not too bad, though being anywhere near a semi was cause for alarm. Changing lanes was rough – what with all the unpacked snow between the lanes. And I was nearly in an accident.

The driver in the right hand lane accelerated and lost control. I saw it happen and started to slow down. He slid forward and then executed a fairly neat looking 270 – ending up in my lane, perpendicular, and facing out into traffic. By this point I had come to a stop just a few feet away from his car. Fortunately, the car behind me was able to get stopped too and gave me enough room to back up a bit – thus giving the spin doctor room to turn even further and get out into traffic when he was ready. There was an elderly woman in the passenger seat and I wasn’t sure if I should wave to her or not. Seemed a little rude. So, I just waited patiently and when the way was clear I speeded up and went on my way.

Overall, I counted 26 accidents, including 2 with semis. Columbus was bumper to bumper when I finally got to it at 4:30 and 23 was worse, so much so that I didn’t get to my parents house until nearly 6:00 pm. Normally, the drive time is about 2 hours and 40 minutes total.

My sister works in Columbus and got stuck there when a level three snow emergency was declared. She’s still there, staying with a friend, though she hopes to be able to head here this afternoon.

The ice storm Wednesday night coated my car – and everything else. Pretty, but terrible too. Lots of downed tree branches and powerlines on Thursday and even more today. My family is safe, so that’s all that matters for the moment.

I’m also hoping it clears up a bit by the end of the weekend – I’m expected back at work on Tuesday.

Well, I’ve got some email to get to, so I’ll wrap this up.

Later…

So, there’s me, with a back that’s still sore. And I’m wandering around CVS looking for a heating pad. I finally locate it – and it’s on the bottom shelf. I basically have to lay down on the floor to read the prices and find the one I want. It takes me a little bit to get back up off the floor and I get the rest of my stuff and head to the front. The lady at the counter commersiates with me about the heating pad and a sore back. I counter with “Yeah, and putting the heating pads on the bottom shelf is just mean”. She agreed and said it was as bad as putting the pharmacy at the back of the store to make the sick people walk farther.

The heating pad turned out to be more money than I thought, but I wasn’t going back to get the right one. It seemed to help a little, though I didn’t have it on there that long.

Well, that’s the news…back to work…

Well, at least they finally updated the snow-line this morning, but it wasn’t the update I wanted – so I scraped about 5-6 inches of snow off my car this morning and came into work. A lot of snow this weekend – just piles of the stuff. I stayed in most of the day on Sunday, watching movies and playing video games. I also enjoyed some green tea with melted sour gummi worms in it, instead of sugar. Yeah, I’m a sick puppy, deal with it.

I’ll be visiting the ‘rents for a few days fot the holidays – sort of looking forward to it. I hope we don’t try to do a lot of stuff, I really just want to rest.

Work has already been annoying this morning – departements that left me alone when classes are in session are coming out of the woodwork with stuff to do while the students are gone. It’s going to be a short, but busy week.

Time to get back to it…