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Stupid Floppy Disk... And a Show and an Epiphany or Two

Posted on June 07, 2010
I had this fantastic post all done up.. and it's sitting next to me on an unreadable floppy disk. Maybe I shouldn't have transported it in my pocket? So today you will get the short(er) version of whatever it was I wrote on the stupid thing.Last Wednesday, my mom and I ventured into The City (because if you live in the tri-state area there really is only one City around - NYC) to catch a show (my annual birthday present)...

Happy Towel Day!

Posted on May 25, 2010
I almost forgot! (link)

Dating

Posted on May 24, 2010
I've had dating on the brain for the last 2-3 weeks. Partly because a lot of my friends are pairing up and getting married, but mostly because out of the blue some random girl messaged me on a semi-random dating site. That kind of thing always throws me for a loop, and this one seems pretty interesting...

Happy Birthday!

Posted on April 15, 2010
Happy birthday to me, happy birthday to me, etc., etc.My big plans? Work, cake and board games. Nothing special in the works (excepting perhaps the cake [i]at[/i] work). Still haven't figured out when my mom and I will go into the city and catch a show...

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Crazy Idea

Posted on March 30, 2010
So, about when I wrote the previous post I had this crazy idea (that I'll likely never act on):What if I quit my job?What if I went in tomorrow, gave my 2 weeks notice and just quit? No specific plan in mind, no fallback, no prior directed efforts, just a radical change, a leap (of faith as it were)...

You Have A Choice

Posted on March 15, 2010
You know, I have relatives in New Jersey, and every winter they complain about the snow, the crummy conditions, the poor job market... and I tell them: move.That's all. If you don't like it where you are, just... move. You have a choice. You don't have to stay where you are, you can just get up, put one foot in front of the other...

Period or semicolon?

Posted on March 14, 2010
I have a question that I would really like to ask my friends and coworkers but can't or haven't:Is this what you want with your life? What you do (work-wise), where you are - are you happy? Do you plan on doing it, staying here indefinitely?And the one that will likely remain unasked: Is it enough for you?I look at the people around me and sometimes think these questions...

What Do I Want?

Posted on March 10, 2010
I'm in a pensive mood, FFXIII and PS3 notwithstanding. What do I want? Someone asked me that recently. I have lots of abstract answers, tons of those. Goals more than answers and very few of them personal. In the abstract, I think I know myself or at least know about myself...

Envy

Posted on February 20, 2010
(Not a discussion of the seven deadly sins, thought it was fun to read about them at the link.)I am probably one of the more envious people I know. I don't harbor the customary ill will that is perennially associated with envy, but I enjoy its excess on an almost daily basis...

Questions

Posted on January 26, 2010
I just finished watching Choke, a weird indie movie starring Sam Rockwell. It's one of those movies that asks more questions than it answers, but at least this one has a nice bow on it. It's intriguing and bizarre in so many ways that I was enthralled, gripped by its insanity and the calm, cool way the outlandish was accepted as is, as normal...

2009: Looking Back On A Year

Posted on January 06, 2010
2009. The Ignoble Year? The Year That Wasn't? What Did I Do Again?What are titles that I tossed out for this post? Correct! You have control of the board.I tried to recall what happened in 2009. What did I do? Where did I go? Years from now, if someone asked me what happened in my life in 2009 how would I answer? Truthfully, and I will speak the truth from time to time, not much...

Happy Holidays!

Posted on December 24, 2009
Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays! Here's wishing you the very best and a pleasant and safe holiday season!

To All Those Friends I've Ignored

Posted on December 22, 2009
I'm sorry. It's nothing you said. I'm not angry with you. Really, there's nothing bad between us. I'm sorry I haven't called and I'm sorry it's been so long.See, there's this thing where I hide in my shell and don't reach out to my friends. Nothing happened, nothing caused it, there's no real reason...

Family

Posted on November 28, 2009
Another Thanksgiving has come and gone. Family and dinner. My younger cousin bought a house. My older cousin is pregnant with her second. This year we had "Tom The Turkey," raised by my uncle. Excellent meal. My grandfather is degrading faster and faster...

What the...

Posted on November 04, 2009
Strolling around the grocery store this evening and what do I spot? A SIXTH HITCHHIKER'S BOOK?!???! Why was I not informed?! How did I not see this coming??!? FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS STILL GOOD IN THIS WORLD, WHY WAS I NOT TOLD??!?!!Incidentally, the novel is titled And Another Thing...

Languishing

Posted on October 10, 2009
Languish:?verb (used without object)to be or become weak or feeble; droop; fade.to lose vigor and vitality.to undergo neglect or experience prolonged inactivity; suffer hardship and distress: to languish in prison for ten years.to be subjected to delay or disregard; be ignored: a petition that languished on the warden's desk for a year...

Notes to Self:

Posted on July 16, 2009
For the past 2.5 years, I've been living in fear, waiting for the axe to fall, waiting to be fired. I've been given numerous warnings from my bosses. I've told friends of mine that I would be surprised to make it another x months or that I would most likely be gone by x date...

Food For Thought

Posted on July 16, 2009
From: Epiphanies on Weight LossSelect quotations (blockquotes omitted for readability):The more self-examination I did, the more I realized that being overweight wasn't my problem at all. Being overweight was a symptom of my real problem - apathy. I seemed to be content to allow the world to just pass me by without getting into it, or getting anything out of it...

"Real Fact" #361

Posted on July 07, 2009
The pineapple is a very big berry.So sayeth the Snapple cap. So say we all!

The Out-Side

Posted on July 05, 2009
"Legend tells of a realm known as the "Out-Side", a vast open space where a fearsome burning orb hangs overhead, casting a harsh light over the land. Some say that to venture Out-Side is like unto death, as many have forever forsaken their blogs and messageboards and parents' basements once they have tasted of this strange and eldritch plane...

Truer Words Ne'er Were Spoke

Posted on June 21, 2009
Over at Boing Boing Gadgets, Steven Leckart posted his enthusiastic first impressions regarding the recently released iPhone 3G S. This happens to be Mr. Leckart's first iPhone and he's been looking forward to it for some time. The first commenter had this to say:It's awesome that you own up to being an irrational fanboy...

Sometimes, Some Ways

Posted on June 17, 2009
Sometimes I wish I'd made this blog (more) private and/or anonymous. One of the reasons posts have been so infrequent is that I can't write about the things that matter most to me. I cannot describe the things that are happening, the thoughts flitting through my mind, the fears and hopes and anxiety and happiness and sadness...

Tidings For An Addled Time

Posted on May 28, 2009
It's been rough the past few months. January was good, but it's been downhill ever since. I've been fairly angsty of late. Where am I going? What will I do? How will I get there? (Not that I know where "there" is, of course.) How does one measure "success"? Time progresses and I do not...

Eureka!

Posted on February 20, 2009
I had an epiphany today. I figured out what I want to do. I want to be a comic editor.One of my morning reads linked to this post over at Kung Fu Monkey. From there, I perused its predecessor. Later on, I found this article elsewhere.I love comics and graphic novels and, without having to serve as a pivotal basis of original content generation (e...

Stories

Posted on February 08, 2009
Stories bring things to life. My favorite purchases, my favorite pictures, my favorite memories - all are intertwined with a story.I went to NY Comic Con yesterday with a friend/co-worker. I purchased quite a few things including: an original sketch by Ben Templesmith (sketch is of Medusa from Wormwood and, I believe, was a random sketch not used for anything in particular), also some signed comics from Mr...

Logic & Illogic

Posted on February 02, 2009
So much of my life is ruled by logic. Income and expenses. The clock. A+B=C. Most events are assumed to prescribe by this ill-conceived notion of cause-effect, sequence and consequence, before and after. It is when events fail to abide by these concepts that we decry the lack of logic...

Down The Rabbit Hole -- Rabbit Hole Day '08

Posted on January 27, 2009
(From Boing Boing.)My rabbit hole was a cold Thursday in January. It began like any other with my arrival at the office. Despite the Styrofoam coffee cup in my hand, I was half-asleep, trudging through my morning ritual on autopilot. Even sitting at my desk, loading up my morning websites and checking e-mail accounts, my eyelids sunk lower and lower, hindering my meager efforts...

"Immanentizing the Eschaton"

Posted on January 13, 2009
The phrase is from "Doktor Sleepless," one of Warren Ellis' current projects. Excellent book so far (I'm not finished with volume 1 yet). According to issue 4, "immantentizing the eschaton" means bringing on the end of everything, i.e., inciting the eschaton...

Disconnect

Posted on October 28, 2008
So, I'm currently writing from Amsterdam, towards the end of our whirlwind tour-de-force (movie.girl & I). More on the trip in a later post, when I get back stateside. This one is about the moment/tonight.See, movie.girl and I have this certain disconnect which led to a minor disagreement this eve...

Intermission

Posted on October 19, 2008
We'll be right back after a few words from our sponsors.Tomorrow, I leave for a 10-day vacation. movie.girl and I are headed to Europe! On the menu: Cardiff, (Liverpool), York, Stratford-upon-Avon (SuA), Brussels and Amsterdam.The focus of the trip is David Tennant's performances with the RSC at SuA, Hamlet and Love's Labour's Lost...

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