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Chronicles life in general as well as thoughts, dreams, personal philosophies, and other subjects revolving around existence.

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• the compliment of talking about questionable charms

  Posted on Wednesday August 6th, 2008 at 22:13 in 1nertia, 750gb, abit, amory wars, asus, austin, c0rey, cable, comics, Computers, crown and anchor, dan's hamburgers

  Here are some quick highlights for each category to keep you in the loop. life: wake up, go to work, go home, eat my one good meal for the weekday with Mare, stay up ’til it’s time to go t...

• the alley oop

  Posted on Thursday July 17th, 2008 at 01:44 in 1985, cable, comics, Computers, dark knight, DVD, dvds, hulk, life, movies, omega the unknown, Semi-Pro

  I finally had the chance to watch Semi-Pro on DVD tonight. I enjoyed it. I don’t watch enough comedies. I’m looking forward to the midnight showing of The Dark Knight tomorrow night. IR...

• the chicken club chalupa

  Posted on Wednesday April 30th, 2008 at 21:06 in blockbuster online, c0rey foldman, diode, dvds, free comic book day, free dvd, Rant, work, writing

  [ [ [ Countdown to 3hirty Posts in April: TWO! ] ] ] A DVD is backed up over the network. The data is transferred to Diode, the alway-folding Debian system that hums quietly all day. Work went by fast...

• the tired and uninspired

  Posted on Wednesday April 30th, 2008 at 01:37 in April, classic cartoons, comic-reading, comics, dvds, food and recipes, mainframe, may, pluckers, post challenge, Rant, sleepytime

  [ [ [ Countdown to 3hirty Posts in April: THREE! ] ] ] April has come and gone. I’m hoping that May is more productive in my realm of creativity. I would like to do more writing that doesn’...

• the work & the worth

  Posted on Wednesday April 23rd, 2008 at 00:34 in blood, creative outlet, creatives, creativity, effort, hard work, living site, Passion, prolific, social circle, sweat, tears

  When your social circle has creative minds with prolific ideas, these types of thoughts will run through your head. A mixture of passion and effort is a key ingredient to making something creative hap...

• the first day of the work week

  Posted on Monday April 21st, 2008 at 21:47 in austin, jury duty, meeting, pto, stubb's, thrice, work

  The weekend came and went way too fast as usual. I surprisingly feel asleep real early on Saturday and didn’t wake up ’til Sunday. Sunday flew by, and Monday is mostly spent. The work week...

• the three-day celebration

  Posted on Thursday April 10th, 2008 at 22:59 in barbecue, beer, birthday, bratwurst, burgers, comics, ctrl+b and the beautiful, dewey cox, driftwood, friends, fruition, haircut

  I had the idea that my boss had canceled weekly meeting I have with him and one of our vendors every Thursday at nine in the morning. He had actually canceled the meeting for next week, because he was...

• the sound of typing in the dark

  Posted on Friday April 4th, 2008 at 21:07 in crown and anchor pub, dinner, dirty fingers, k$, mare, pbs, trudy's, work

  Today, I woke up this morning and it felt like Saturday. It also felt like it was about 11 in the morning, and I was telling myself that I had to meet my mother in a few hours. Then I realized that it...

• the x-men vs. iron man

  Posted on Thursday April 3rd, 2008 at 00:00 in food and recipes, found art, iron man, work, x-men

  I’m looking forward to the new Iron Man movie coming out in less than a month. Here’s some art that was discovered at work. Brilliant I say. I’m keeping this one short and sweet, bec...

• the 3hirty (aka the april post challenge)

  Posted on Tuesday April 1st, 2008 at 01:53 in alchemy index, april fool's day, april post challenge, birthday, Earth Day, fire in the hole, food and recipes, ian, ianism, k$, peace out, pluckers

  Similar to what I did in February, I am challenging myself to do the same for the month of April. Will this be a bimonthly challenge? I don’t know but by the looks of it, quite possibly. I have ...

• the tangible

  Posted on Tuesday March 25th, 2008 at 22:25 in 2.5, aeon flux, barbecue, cable, Canada, headache, mashed, organic, peace out, pork, potatoes, roasted garlic

  Not too much is going on lately. Time just keeps ticking away. My copy of X-Force #1 with the variant cover came in. I won it off eBay, and it made a journey all the way from Canada. I think I’ve go...