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The Spawn’s Christmas

So, I’m not much on celebrating the zombie deity’s birthday or creation day – whatever you call it; however, the Spawn does. It rather pleases me that the Spawn is happy, so I make attempts to do things for him that increase his level of happiness.

For a long time, he did not wish to learn to ride a bike. I  made a couple of attempts, and so did other members of the broken family; however, he just wasn’t that interested and didn’t really try. This resulted in him getting to the ripe old age of 11 before he decided that learning to ride a bike was a good idea. This pleased me.

The result, a video I made for his mother:

Also, awesome:

Supposedly there's a car here - I don't see it.

AT&T Has Dirty Windows

I walk by AT&T’s corporate office on a pretty regular basis, as every night I have to do a walkthrough at a satellite datacenter. At any rate, It seems like AT&T isn’t making a good decision by leaving the windows dirty. It makes the building look a bit shady, especially at night, and I can’t imagine anyone who visits during the day finds the building any more inviting.

This kind of follows my own decision making process. I’m trying very hard to not make poor decisions, but lately I feel as if no matter what my intention I’m doing the wrong thing. I really feel like I should be taking a firmer stand, but all I feel is helpless. It’s a really worrying concept for me, since I’m generally a self-assured and decisive person.

I don’t like the way things are going, and what is even more concerning to me is that I do not know what to do about it, to get things back on track. I’m a little lost, and I’m pretty sure no one is rushing to assist me in getting it sorted out. That’s sad.

On a less personal (but still quite important) note, the Spawn has pneumonia, and he isn’t getting what I would consider much better. He finished off his antibiotics, and he has an appointment with his doctor here; however, he slept all night while at work with me (he never does that), and he’s gone back to sleep since then. He’s actually in bed now, I’m mildly worried. =-/

To put a cap on the day, I think I’ve been lied to today (yay for lies before bed), and I imagine I’m going to be lied to a couple more time for the next few days. I am not going to fight those battles though, as much as I would love to do so. Instead, I’m going to (once again make a bad decision) let the lies work themselves out into honesty/truth. We’ll see where that gets me right?

I keep checking my e-mail. I need to stop that, but that means also getting off this computer, and putting my phone on silent so I am not tempted to check it for every little sound or vibration. That means going to bed. So, enough with the depressing, and on with the awesome. Good night everyone!

Li Ying Zhi (China)

I'd say something witty, but I'm distracted....what?

The Machines are Coming!

You like awesome stuff right? I know I like awesome stuff. I classify many movies (mostly not Hollywood movies) as awesome stuff. So imagine what I thought of when I saw this neat article about creating cells from non-carbon atoms: http://bit.ly/tKRZLQ

Now, let’s hope this progresses well, and in a couple hundred years we’ll have something akin to this, I could only hope:

Optimus Prime - Cybertron

And I'm sure they won't try to enslave us or anything.

New Addition to the Pack

So, I’ve added a new member to my household pac, a German Shepherd that I’ve named Kuroi Ninja. When I first brought him home, Kuroi Ninja was just Ninja, and he was afraid of everything in the yard. Currently, he’s grown a very big dog mentality, but hasn’t quite gotten the physical growth behind him to show it off. Though he does try with Powder, who is twice his size and very tolerant of him despite her old age.

Interestingly, he’s looking at a dog two yards over, that he was terrified of on his first trip out into the yard. Now he seems to be thinking, “Herm….he doesn’t look so tough.” The dog in question is quite large, bigger than Powder, and tends to get off of his tether very often. His favorite trip is to my yard, because Powder is an unspayed female. Interestingly, Powder doesn’t spend much time outside, because she is allergic to grass.The result being, she’s never outside and she’d kill him anyway. She’s not fond of other dogs. I’m surprised Kuroi Ninja is as tolerated as he has been.

He's a German Shepherd

I see him over there, he doesn't look so tough.

Ryu Ji Hye - China

Take the hoodie off, I like to see your eyes looking up at me.

Grey Skies

I’m beginning to think that I might want to move to London or something. I get a really pleasant feeling when the skies turn grey, and it looks like it may pour rain from those heavy looking clouds. The air is mostly still, and you can smell the coming downpour; love it. What I don’t love though is London. I have no desire to live in London, even if their climate agrees with me more (precipitation wise) than the weather in my current location.

Managed a win today, U-verse is available in my area. After arguing with AT&T about the availability of the service in my area, and finally getting someone that knew what they were doing, I have service that will start on the 12th. Apparently, they won’t just hook up the outside fiber. They want to come into the house and perform a test that the “modem” is working. I explained to them that I work in IT and don’t require their assistance; however, I was stonewalled. They are going to have to come in. That makes prata sad.

On the upshot, I’m more than quadrupling my speed. I’ll chalk it up as a success. In other news, I had a debate with someone about the human condition. I’ve written about the human condition before, and I was appalled at some of the things coming out of this person’s mouth (actually it was their fingers, but that’s besides the point). At some point the statement was made that humans are codependent creatures and that you should stay with someone that you don’t have a healthy relationship with simply to keep children or a child happy.

Obviously, I found this completely incorrect, and I stated as such. I followed up with what the definition of codependency is and that generally speaking a poor state of mind to be in. I followed this up with several facts and pieces of information. This person actually turned into an ostrich and put their head in the proverbial sand. I was disgusted, and sad for them. Well, whatever they want to do with their life, it’s not my problem and they aren’t my friend, so whatever.

You know what time it is:

Fanna - China

I don't think I could turn down a look like that