Please take note. We have a new rule. Under no circumstances should Sabine have to deal with 2 ex’s in one 24 hour period.

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Today is Friday! That means before you guys get to hear about my day - I get to inflict more music on you! This week… I brought an old favorite of mine. We debated covers a while back, and this hands down is my favorite cover of all time. It began a love for this band that still is going strong.

Sabine’s Pick of the Week

Damn, that song just makes me happy. It makes me remember college, where good times were had by all. I can remember quite clearly me and oh, 12 of my closest friends standing on top of the bar at Dick’s just dancing, and singing, and … doing entirely too many shots of Tequila.

Heh.

Today I played tourist in Orlando. Do you realize how hard it is for someone that is anti-Disney to play tourist in Orlando? But I persisted and ended up with a pretty damn good day. (Read on …)

I was going to type something about my day… but it has to wait cause I have a tour of the Titanic to catch…. More later till then -you know the drill… you fill this out in my comments… and post it in your blog and I’ll go and fill it out there…

1. Where are you?
2. How did you find my journal?
3. If we’ve met, how/where did we meet?
4. Which do you know me better as (name wise) RL, online nick names?
5. Do you read my stories or just listen to me babble?
6. Describe me in 1-3 words.
7. What was your first impression of me?
8. What is your current impression of me?
9. How would you warn a stranger about me?
10. What reminds you of me?
11. What do we have in common?
12. If you could give me anything, what would it be?
13. If you could ask me for anything, what would it be?
14. Are you going to put this on your LiveJournal?

Melissa is probably the only other person who reads this that can see the humor in this ad. But it made my morning, and I am sure she will get a chuckle out of it as well.

(and for those who can’t tell… It’s a Sony Vaio ad, that their ad company used a doctored “stock” pic for… how can I tell? cause that dude on the bed? He’s using a Powerbook.. Yeah Sony just spent close to a million dollars on their new ads showcasing a Mac. heh.)

Happy Thursday, everyone! Today is “Drive to Orlando” day. So in lieu of actual contact you get a meme.

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Tomorrow Morning – everyone who reads this, needs to put forth effort. A certain effort, mind you. Tomorrow Morning, on your way to work – you need to find a Chik-fil-a.

Your order needs to contain one “Chicken, Egg, and Cheese Biscuit”. Please remember the biscuit part, because they will want to put your chicken, egg, and cheese on a bagel. While good… Chik-fil-a is not known for their bagels, and they have a tendency to be too sweet for a wheat bagel. Not to mention they get little oat-y bits stuck in your teeth.

So yes, much like the 2 pickles being crucial to the original Chik-fil-a sandwich, the biscuit is crucial to this. And you will know that if you can manage this task you will have in your possession the single most perfect breakfast sandwich ever to have been created… so says Sabine.

To create the perfect breakfast combo, this sandwich should be combined with 1 large sweet tea. And under no circumstances are you ever allowed to go and figure out the nutritional value of most perfect breakfast combo. Just limit yourself to one a week and consider yourself blessed to have in your knowledge one of the true meanings of happiness.

Sarah can be a wonderful friend, but she can also be a truly evil bitch. And if you wonder how I spend my evenings… this is fairly typical.

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Yesterday was the day of the Migraines. A nice big huge clusterfuck of Migraines. Today is the day of the Migraine Meds Hangover. Tonight is the night I go and buy a chaise lounge for my closet. For those of you not blessed with Migraines, you may not know that the Sun is absolutely the worst thing when you have a Migraine. Normally the only place I can crawl too is my closet… cause it’s the only place with no light. In my old place I had a futon in there, I got rid of it when I moved. The new place doesn’t have a spare closet that I can waste on a futon, but with some creativity I think a chaise lounge will work. Of course anything is better than me curling up on the floor with a blanket.

In other news I am having a fucking fantabulous hair day today.

I am addicted to this okcupid.com site. Not for its matchmaking skills, but because it keeps asking me questions! It’s a quiz that never ends! Do you realize how much sleep I have lost over this? 2 nights! I haven’t slept in 2 nights! I just keep answering questions.

Their concept is the more questions they ask the better understanding they have to match you to someone else. So far they have asked me about 800 questions… and they think they have a very, very good understanding of who I am. Despite the fact that their analysis is overly slightly embarrassing – it really is spot on. As is their initial test… there isn’t a part of the test results that I don’t agree with.

So much that for the first time in my life I am tempted to actually post a profile on the site. I am inherently against matchmaking sites. But this one has actually made an unique effort and what the hell? Its not like I actually know anyone here.

And no… my ID is not condoinhell or anything of the like. Nor am I planning on passing on what my ID is. (shut up, moira… you too, sarah) besides if you are really interested it shouldn’t be too hard to find me.

Sarah, a favor please… (Read on …)

OK! all of you HAVE to go and take this test! It’s great - one of the best I have come across in awhile… They will ask you for your email address (give them something bogus) and want you to create a login (go ahead!) … just make sure you tell your SO that you took a test on a matchmaking website at my request…

Here are my results… (I love it!!!) (Read on …)

Friday is the day I inflict my music on the world…

“Baptize Me” - The Exies

Like it - Damn it!

and Sarah requested the lyrics…. (Read on …)

I have been trying to find the best way to grow the BabyMac… in its current capacity I can’t turn it into the the media PC I want. I found a solution that will hopefully make me happy.

The new growth.

I know it kinda defeats the purpose of the BabyMac but its still smaller than a regular PC. Guess we will see next week…

Another day spent lazing about on my couch - I mean working from home.
Current status on week:

Stress Level -3
Happiness Level 8.5

This has been an exceptionally good week for me. I needed this. I spent Monday working from home (or mka – Vegging on the couch with my laptop and Chinese takeout.) Then 3 days of doing what I do best… kicking people’s asses into gear. For the first time since arriving in this godforsaken place, I actually felt like I wasn’t walking around with bullshit running out of my mouth. I felt back in control. To top everything off, a very good friend of mine was in town and we got to spend a good bit of time together. Since I have had a lot of solitude since arriving this did wonders for my disposition.

So today I am recovering. I leave for Atlanta tonight, and I have a few errands to run… but basically I am kicking back and relaxing. Catching up on net things… getting my gossip… so if I disappeared on you – sorry. But know that I am in a much better place because of it.

It sucks that I am going to Atlanta tonight. I love Atlanta… easily one of my favorite cities. But knowing that I will be there for 2 days and not ever leave my hotel… sucks. I have so many places that I would love to visit, but not on this trip. Oh well at least the hotel is a great one…

Still feeling amazingly geeky…

My radio is confused. It thinks I am Genna!

This morning I woke up to Poison… followed by Def Leppard. While refreshing…and good for a few memories, I’d like my music back. Ok Crossfade - that I can handle.

Ok so I had this whole long post ready for posting about the joys of WiMax, but I realized that I was letting my inner geek show thru so I decided to not post it.

Then I was going to tell you about my dream from last night… but it involved me working for NASA and creating robots. So no, you don’t get that story either.

And we won’t even mention the fact that I scored over 50% on Sarah’s geek test…

I am going on no sleep� I spent the entire morning in meetings� and now I have to go on a property tour. And I�ll be damned if I don�t feel great. I haven�t felt this good in awhile.

Today I had a random person ask me if I was in the SCA. By my scent and jewelry he guessed I was. That scares me a bit. Or maybe I am scared by the fact that he tells me he isn�t in the SCA� he just lurks.

yeah…

(sarah is sooooo going to hate me for this… cause its a meme, and you know she won’t be able to resist doing this)

Ok so I started creating this list a few weeks ago (March 27th). It took me awhile to come up with the list, but here it is. Again unless you have some serious stalker qualities there really is no reason to read this one…

The Mission: Complete 101 preset tasks in a period of 1001 days.

The Criteria: Tasks must be specific (i.e. no ambiguity in the wording) with a result that is either measurable or clearly defined. Tasks must also be realistic and stretching (i.e. represent some amount of work on my part). This system gives me both latitude — I can put both easy stuff and hard, soul-searching items on the list — and longitude, in that I’ve got plenty of time to knock this shit out.

And I do love lists.

Therefore:

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This came across a list today. I thought it apt. Reason #128 why I now use Google Maps.

Today has been a wonderful day. Thanks in part to the high I still have from my dream last night and also cause this morning when I walked into my meeting I was met with a familiar face. An old friend from some of my earlier days with this company is in town for these meetings. He will be here till Friday morning. And all of the sudden my week is starting to look up.

Sarah, those desperate acts we talked about? Yeah, I don�t think you have anything to worry about now.

And now for a quiz, that right now speaks volumes about my current feelings�

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I’m not finding it necessary to explain to everyone the details from last night’s dream. Just know, “Wow…”. Yeah. I can die happy now.

Wow… Damn. I love my mind. Wow.

120-Gbyte TiVo Upgrade Kit With Cooling Pak

From the Gadget Review:

My wife needs TiVo like you and I need oxygen. So I was more frightened of having to tell her I’d destroyed ours while trying to upgrade it than I was of the boldfaced warnings about lethal electrical shocks in this kit’s user manual. But, hell, nobody lives forever. So I set off, Philips-head screwdriver in hand, to follow the detailed guide for adding a second 120-gig hard drive and additional fan with mounting bracket to my 40-gig Series2. The instructions were clear, though I was confused by the frequent references to other models. I still managed to complete the task in just 15 minutes. The second fan adds a bit of noise, but now my better half can store more than 90 episodes of her beloved Law & Order at TiVo’s High Quality setting; that should tide her over for almost a week. — Robert Capps

feel free to drool all you want…