Dear JR,
In the past, the New Year has never really meant very much to us. It was an excuse to stay out and get drunk. Heh. We never needed an excuse, of course. But there was no sense of change, forward movement, or personal reflection. It was just another drunken night amongst friends.
But this year, […]

…but this is a pretty sweet site.
Pandora
You enter the names of songs or artists that you like, and it builds a custom “station” full of music that’s similar to it that you’ll probably like. It’s similar to liveplasma in that respect, except it actually streams the music to you.
My interest in music has stagnated lately, […]

I decided that I wasn’t doing nearly enough for each day to warrant it’s own entry.
So, Christmas.
It was nice. The only time I was reminded of the nastiness going on was when Teri would mention something that had happened the night before. The food was good, the atmosphere was nice, and mom’s house was sufficiently […]

Woke up around 9:30. Didn’t really do anything at all. I only woke up that early because dad called, but I couldn’t go back to sleep afterward.
Went to the store and bought eggnog, a cheesecake, strawberries and strawberry glaze. Took a nap, headed to mom’s. It was really a nice night. I hardly thought about […]

Tried to sleep in. Received call at 9 fucking 30 AM from Laura asking for help making an iron man logo for a shirt iron-on. That girls asks for a LOT of favors.
Left at 11 for mom’s house to make a pie. This is a small step towards showing myself that failing is ok. Crystal […]

Up at 10. Weird dream where I was talking to Floris about how he had his server wired. Decided - and this turned out to be ill-advised - to check my work email. 105 messages… Watched March of the Penguins, ate at Chik-fil-a.
Laura came by at 5:30. We got coffee, picked up one of her […]

Couldn’t sleep in past 9am. Pathetic. Watched Lord of War. Decent. Went Christmas shopping with Joanna again. Tiring but fun. Watched The Skeleton Key. Meh.
Tried to sleep. Unsuccessful.
Thoughts filling my head: scenario in which I’m confronting various family members on recent events. Hanging out with Lynne. Christmas Day. Floris coming home. Changes to my… habits […]

Vacation begins in 26 hours. I can’t fucking wait.
What will I do with my 13 free days? What will I say I’ll do but not follow through on? It’s anyone’s guess, really, but here are some directions I’m looking in:

Learn C#, Ruby, Python, Java (ugg…) or get back into serious PHP.
Catch up on movies that […]

Ok, I set the new theme to be the default theme last night, but obviously I didn’t test well enough. Looks like IE is having some issues with the template for viewing individual blog entries. I will fix it when I can.
Cool things about this theme:

The header image changes based on weather conditions and what […]

In an effort to distract myself from impending doom and imposing injustices, I decided to make a crappy little thing.
The idea is that this thing will keep a series of records with an integer between -10 and 10 that represents your mood for any given second. The only way something like this can ever be […]

I’m not doing well.

A year ago today…

I was in love
I was going to be in a major, major movie.
I was moving into a nice new townhouse
I was about to pay off my car loan
I was in love
I was looking forward to my first Christmas with She Who Must Not Be Named
I was stressing over a reckless driving charge

One […]