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If you checked my away messages at all yesterday, you probably noticed that they all had to do with cooking, eating, drinking, ham, shopping or prepping, and deduced from that…
Not for what Ive been doing, but for the fact that all I WANT to do issit around and watch movies or play videogames. I havent donethat, though. Instead, Ive:…
Today is my last day of work! Yup. Just had to say it. Im heading off to work in a fewminutes, and Im online at home for the first time…
Springtime in New York is pretty sweet.
Im at MWS for a truncated trip that was supposed to be much longer,
but Relativity still needs me to help out for a day or two more.
Theyre still not going to have anyone to train the new guy, but
thats just going to have to work itself out, because how much can one
guy do? Its my time, and my time is valuable. To me,
anyway.
Setting up in the house is getting to the point where everything I do
seems like Im doing less than the last thing that I did, and its a
little frustrating. I still have a ton of stuff to put away for
the office and it takes forever because its largely little stuff that
needs organization and figuring. Ah well. At least Im
in. Next week, I even get a roommate! How great will it be
to have someone around sometimes? Also, how great will it be NOT
to be on the hook for all the rent every month?
Okay, enough of this, and back to installing stuff. The bigger pic of the Empire State Building is below the jump.
Ive just finished putting my workstation up in my new office! Im currently stealing wireless, routing it through my laptop and thento the house by way of wires that Ive…
I know its totally dorky, but why not make sure youre at least awake for the last time well have a sequential date like this in, umm, a long time.…
If youre going to call me and ask for Ryan, take some friendly advice. If I ask where youre calling from and you say "Los Angeles" or "California" you can…
Yeesh! I feel like it was just a couple of hours ago that I was sitting here, antsy to leave and to complete things from my long-and-growing list of house…
From the Onion:"Libra (September 23 – October 23):An 8-year-old asshole will give away all 43 endings to the "Choose Your Own Adventure" book youre reading." I mean, really. Effin kids.…
Flicman: you got hacked!Flicman: jealous ex girlfriend!archibaldQ: heh. wouldnt that suck. hacked for like 5 emails.archibaldQ: hmm… ex girlfriendsarchibaldQ: about as far from hackers as you can get, without being…
Kauffman tried to confusle, contort and confound me over the number and order of weekends in April, and, much to my amazement, it turns out that theres an extra weekend…
Picked up Casey Thursday night. Subjected her to paranoid rantings about and ministrations in advance of the movers pending arrival. Moved on Friday. $500 to get everything bigger than a…
So the stupid thing with the cops has dominated my page for too long. Im spending the day today wishing I was outdoors, because although its only 62 degrees, the…
Russ & Lauren got to town late on Friday night, so we spent a lot of time together this weekend, so that was good. I didnt get nearly as much moving done as Id like to have done, this weekend, so thats bad. I have an amazing shakedown story from Sunday, though, that Im going to recount now that enough time has gone by that Ive forgotten some of the conversations and now that Im at work where itll take a million years to get down in writing.
Ive started the process to file a formal complaint already, although Im not sure that I should. Im very sensitive to how hard it is to be a cop in any city, but especially in a city that gets so much media attention for its law enforcement, both real and fictional. I dont want two basically-good cops to have some thing on their record if they meant well, but if things were as they seemed and those assholes were just trying to get a rise out of me (or a bribe, more likely), then they should be tossed off the force and made to work as assistants in Hollywood, complete with pay reduction and dog-walking.
Anyway, the story follows. I apologize for how difficult it is to read – I feel like its disjointed and weird from hours spent away from the keyboard and thousands of interruptions, and the font is small and indestinct. Ill try to make it as interesting as possible. Its REALLY long, so give yourself some time to read this one.
Did it.Gave notice.Went well.Now I have to find a NEW job.Got any ideas? And I dont want "you shouldnt have quit this one, stupid."Thanks!
Im not ready to move. I mean, Im packing and packing, but it takes so long and so muchenergy and unexpected emotional energy, and in my current mindset, itall just…
Its that time of year, i guess! Welcome to the club, kid – the club for those that rule. I hope youre taking off today (and tomorrow) to make for…
Hows it feel to be 29? Congratulations, amigo – you made it to the last year of our twenties,the last year that weve got before we have to stop pretending…
Just wanted to wish everyone out there a happy 3.14. In nine years, if you agree to separate the date with dots and not slashes, itll be 3.14.15. Anyway, I…
New York City has owned me over the last few weeks, and its not yet released its hold. Ive gotta go back again soon, but first I have to move and deal with another important issue plaguing my life. My camera has some scratch on the plastic lens cover that affects picture quality (what? bad pictures from a digicam? Never!), but you can still see the nice weather that I had LAST weekend when I was in NYC. This weekend was nice, too, but I hardly saw the light of day. I thought about titling this post "knee deep in the dead" as a Doom reference as well as as a server reference, but I refrained.
Suffice it to say that it was a hard weekend.
Except when we were in Bay Ridge, which ruled. We hit six different places by about 2:45, which makes me proud. Judge and Jury has become The Pourhouse, but other than that, every place is pretty much identical in a comforting sort of way. Mike and Heather came out and joined me, Katie, her roommate Ashley, Ashleys friend Andrew and Russ (who attended the middle half of the event), making it quite the jolly party. I didnt expect it to be so popular, but I do appreciate that everyone showed up, certainly.
Larger (but still blurry) image of NYC in the morning follows.
I havent done nearly as much as I thought I might this week, althoughI did get some packing done (threw away a big trash bag full ofcomputer crap, including an…
notes: Locked myself out of the house this morning. Almost brokethe door banging, so I stopped. Finally got ahold of KM who letme in (thank god hes got a key),…
Mostly because Drew likes it when I do these things, Im putting up the floorplans that I drew and then subsequently edited in Photoshop to be a little more "to scale" as they say. Its still far from perfect, but its not bad. I even overlaid the images to make sure that they roughly matched each other, so you can get a sense of whats where. Nothing is labeled because final decisions havent been made yet, but I think you can figure it out pretty well. Sorry that my drawings are so bad – an artist I am not.
Im putting full-sized images in the Read More section below, as well as in the Fredonia Drive album in the photos section. That way, you can satisfy your curiosity now and then go back later to compare the drawing with the photos to get a better understanding of how things are laid out. If you do that, though, Im going to call you a stalker because, jeez, thats just too much.
Im exhausted and harried because Im already running later than Idlike, but being in New York for the weekend was really fun when itwasnt hard work crawling around on the…