October 2004 Archives

Well I was.

But I had another tooth yanked today. They cut bone! Did you know smoke leaves your mouth when they drill bone?

Five stitches to to close the wound.

Lumpy is now known as Mr. Vicodin.

I know I vented mucho the last few blogs. I am STILL in pain but what do you expect? They took a mallet to my jaw.

I am in better spirits. I saw a few people baptized today, the music for the service was really good and I spent most of the day with my Nami.

. Nami and I spent some time with a book the church has been using. I must confess that it has been quite some time since I have been serious about a church. It has been even longer since I was serious about a woman. Be afraid.

Now, don't get me wrong, Pastor Gordon does a great job with the campus ministry. But it is, just that, a campus ministry. Where people come and go as they transfer schools, graduate and drop out.

Otherwise

I am REALLY tired. This is the last weekend third shift I will be working because staying up for 26 hours straight, getting an hour and a half nap and then working another six and a half hours is just not going to work at "forty something".

I am looking forward to a somewhat more normal schedule in the near future. I am going to get there. I have faith. For that, I am thankful

All right. It is just this simple.

No matter how good things go. You are going to have bad days. Buddha I am not and I, correct me if I am wrong, believe he is a myth.

My mouth hurts, my program won't run and I am losing ground on other things as well. The best part is I get to have another one yanked on Tuesday. If you don't notice post here it is because either (a) i have finally gotten so sick of it all I can't stand it or (b) I am just trying to deal with everything.

Well, I am back to more pain.

Figures this PC finally starts working right just when it is time to leave.

Today is just more of the same. My mouth still hurts, money is still and issue and there is still not enough time.

Do you wish to hear more?

Tough.

I am just going through my inbox and having interesting thoughts. This time I am actually opening all the spam. It seems there are some misconceptions about me...

I don't know about you but;

1. In my entire life I have never had a problem with my "member" size and, having a background in math, I am amazed that "80%" of the male population is smaller than "average". The two males who are skewing that bell curve must need wheel barrels in order to walk around without stepping on it.
2. Okay it has been a while and it looks like it will be an even longer while but I am confident it still works. Actually, if you witnessed the tent I awake under, you would be sure it works just fine. I have even mastered the art of doing a handstand for my first trip to the bathroom in the morning. Besides, I am not too keen on buying prescription drugs from some one who can't spell. (If you are thinking of adding "viagra" to your keywords filter don't bother just load these.)
3. I am happy with the amount of debt I have. I do not want a loan or a charge card. I want to work hard and pay it off honestly and fairly
4. I doubt Bill Gates is going to share his wealth with me. I do not think he is into that and if he did could we just call it "monopoly" money?
5. I do not own a home nor a car and have no immediate need to insure a mountain bike.
6. I do not wish to help you transfer money from overseas. Spend it there. I am sure the third world country that so recently and tragically lost their monarch would love the economic boost. I will pass on my part of the fortune to benefit the cause.
7. I do not have some long lost rich relative. Trust me I am a descendant of the working class middle class to poor. We have lived, for generations, in the poorest city in the country.
8. I am flattered by the fact that women everywhere except where I live have the hots for me. I am somewhat perplexed as to why none of them live near me and they seem to move every time I relocate. (Since I began penning this, I have met someone. She is all I need thank you.)
9. No wait... Here is one, "M33t me now. I L1ve ne4r U"... oh n/m... need a charge card for that one... hmm... maybe I can tutor her on spelling and barter?

Yeah, I am talking spam here. It seems everywhere. Fact is it IS everywhere and it is likely here to stay.

How bad is it? It is real bad. According to the book, Black Hat by John Biggs, spam will account for 63 percent of all e-mail traffic and there were 15 million spam emails on Valentines Day alone.

So what can one do? Well that depends on a number of things. One thing for sure though, SPAM is here to stay. If you are looking for this article to be the total and complete solution, don't bother reading any further. Until we come up with some other means of electronic messaging, we are going to have to accept some SPAM. The current e-mail format and system is just too easy to abuse. That is the fact of the matter. We must look at it like some type of radiation and figure out how to get the minimum dose possible. That is what I am going to write spam. Limiting it. I am sorry but some spam will always get through.

Yes, it is that time again. I am at work and things are going smooth as silk, my missing teeth are doing fine and I am listening to the Prairie Home Companion 1996 Joke Show. I am going to spend the next hour or so doing some site work and the point of this post is FYI.

As far as what is new here, most of the updates are on my Personal Blog. If you look to the left (thanks Sari!), you will notice many additions to the blog roll. I decided to take and hour and search for more blogs to add. Check them out. I try to make the choices have only quality in common and be as eclectic as possible. Heck, I even included a Kerry supporter.

It is a strange type of night for me. I am current in my Differential Equations class and have no laptop to work on programming on. I am going to use the time to do this update stuff and job hunt.

Anyhow enjoy..

The "day after" is always the worse for me. The day after I visit the deathist, er dentist, is always the worse for both pain and fatigue. It was even worse than I expected. (I did expect pretty bad too; after all, at one point in time during the extraction the dentist DID ask for a mallet.)

I missed class. I drug arse at the first job. I slept like a baby after the first job.

Now for the good part. I feel better.

Better than I did before... With the constantly infected teeth removed, my sinuses are actually clearer. I feel more alert and well... Life is good.

Just for the record, the past two days have mostly sucked. They would have totally sucked had it not been for a certain heroine named Nami. Although, I suppose that a fool could argue that part of it could not have happened with out here either.

Turn the way back machine to yesterday. It was the date of another first in the ballad of Lumpy and Grinny (Grinny is my pet name for Nami who weighs in at about 98 pounds and 99 of them are teeth and grin.). The stellar event was out first "falling out".

For those of you who know me personally, you all know that money is very tight for me right now. I have sacrificed almost everything to return to school and, I don't care if this offends my university, "false promises" made by the financial aide department have left me in a world of hurt.

If it were not for the grace of my Fraternity, Family and Friends, I would have been dead in financial Dire Straights long ago. I have a newfound appreciation for sympathy and understanding because of this experience.

This blog has been put off long enough. I was hoping to solicit a few other people's opinion but it looks like it is not going to happen. The original intent was to solicit the opinion of several people in the know on bloggin software. Of course, most of my contacts are also college students and major geeks. This means most of us disappear during the school year. That is exactly what happened here.

As far as what I prefer, I prefer Movable Type. I, however, am no expert. I like my older version because it supports multiple blogs and authors. (My old free version supports up to 5 authors and 5 blogs. The free 3.1 version supports 1 author and 3 blogs.) It works simple enough and well enough to meet all my needs. It is widely supported and numerous templates are available for it. I am comfortable with it, like it and endorse it.

As far as an expert, I turned to Geek who got me hooked on bloging and held my hand via Internet relay chat while I configured and modified Movable Type. All of what is written below, minus my comments in italics, is his penmanship.

Recent changes in the two most popular blogging tools, the buyout of Blogger and the revised licensing of Movable Type, have led many to look elsewhere for blogging software, and programmers, be they professional or beginner hobbyists, have stepped up to the plate to try to make the next Movable Type. There has also been an explosion in non-traditional blog uses, and I will also cover these, from PhotoBlogs to aggregate blogs.

Today's blog is going to be sweet, short and mysterious. I am simply going post it as a "Thank You" for what someone has recently done for my life.

I feel enriched, uplifted and more fulfilled because of you. I love you and I thank you.

I spent the day with the lovely lady previously mentioned...

It was nice.

I took her to meet my folks. They like her as well.

Stick a fork in me...

The evening of nine October is one of those night that, despite the fact that I may not recall the date years from now, I will never forget. It was one of those night when something you were well aware of for some time finally "hit" you. First off, it was one of my typical 24-hour runs due to two jobs. Secondly, tomorrow was going to be the same. I was already on the clock and only wanted to horizontal on the mattress.

I mentioned in a previous blog that I am quite cooked in matters of the heart. This is rather nice because it is very much mutual from what I see and hear.

Now please do not think that it took us this long to realize that we had feelings for each other. Although I am quite thick and blind in that area, I doubt I could miss this. (And Nicole K. and Halle B., I am sorry I didn't notice you throwing yourselves at me... I know I could have spared you a lot of grief in bad relationships. For that matter, you could have saved me from the few bad relationships I did have myself.)

No this one is very obvious. It is obvious to the point where there is no denial. We are in a state of mad about each other. This is SOOOOO unlike me. This never happens to me. The same, I have been informed, is true. Still here we are. And I know I have not really let you know much more than you already do. "I know."

I am still the irregular blogger. I have done some work on the site of the late. Most of my recent blogs have been in my My Personal Blog (UPDATE -- I simply keep it all here now) which, I feel is my the most boring thing I work on. So if you are anxious for an update or suffer from insomnia, go there.

Short of that I have been busy dealing with a rather harsh barrage of spam comment posts to my blogs. Do they really think that people who are reading up on hard drive partitions and backing up data are concerned about the length of their penis? Furthermore do they really think that this site actually gets traffic?.. heh

Yes, it has been quite a while since I have bothered to blog. I do, actually, have many a draft already posted to this blog and my other two as well. I have just been too busy with some other matters in my life to get to finishing them.

And equally YES, the truth need be told. For those of you giggling, whispering and what not, I shall, at the minimum, post this entry to de-cloud what is blatantly obvious.

I am, however, going to break my anal trait of only finishing my oldest blog first and push through this one. I simply must put this up on my personal blog and make it official. Now for the official statement;