Within a few days, I'll know for sure... but things are looking rather interesting and there is definitely something strong developing. Its a weary trepedation of anxiety and excitement ( Read more... )

So on my birthday, I put a subject of "Today I asked for someone to shake some salt on my life" to quote some FNM lyrics. Well, it happened ( Read more... )

Josh, Aura and I went to see Mogwai play last night at The Orange Peel down in Asheville. The opening band, Growing.... well, I didn't hate them. I like experimental / noise, but they just didn't have a tight focus. Mogwai was phenomenal. One of Josh's friends, David, and I would randomly unleash a "Wooooo" just to watch it echo among the crowd ( Read more... )

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And what have I been doing? Working. A lot. When I'm not at work, for a while I was working on renovating the basement where I'm staying now. So far we've built a guest bedroom and the beginnings of a bar. Installing a wood stove down there was no small feat either. It was fun to learn about basic carpentry and get some experience with that ( Read more... )

Its been an odd Thanksgiving. While it was good to see everyone, it just seemed as if it was too short. The meal started an hour earlier than usual. My uncle and aunt from the father's side flew up from South Carolina, while the cousins drove up, one from Florida, the other from the other side of SC. We all met in Greensboro at my aunt's house with ( Read more... )

Here are the two accounts of both superhero, and supervillain. Okay, so they're lame and not very well written, but I really liked my supervillian name ( Read more... )

Damn it, I lose.

As I was browsing /. , I was reminded of a quote from Neil Stephenson's Snow Crash:
Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved to a martial-arts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten years. If my family was wiped out by ( Read more... )

Our head of HR came in, and introduced some visitors for me. "Here's our computer nerd. He's training to be a ninja. Don't upset him."