Friday, November 30, 2007

Nerdiness++

Well, Johan Santana may be leaving the Twins, same with Torii Hunter. Too bad, but I suppose that happens in baseball. That being said, I am excited about the prospect of the Red Sox acquiring Santana (my #2 team), and would much rather him go to Boston than to the Yankees. (On a side note, at work today, I am wearing the Red Sox World Series T-shirt that my mom bought for Christmas. Ah, the joy of casual Fridays.)

On Wednesday night, we started our volleyball season, winning all 3 games. That part in itself sounds impressive, but we were playing against a team that had only 4 players (against our 6). But we'll take the wins anyway. I made some wretchedly bad plays. I am, of course, rusty, but my goodness, some of those were absolutely horrible. :) But alas. I need to slow down and concentrate harder when playing. This is always been a problem of mine when playing sports. But anywho, it was good fun, and I look forward to the rest of the season.

I am excited to open Star Trek cards on Saturday. This set should add "new" things to the game and make it more interesting. I always like opening new cards. It's just good fun. On other Star Trek related news, I am nearing completion of watching all the Star Trek movies. I had previously only seen 2 of them, but now I have seen all but one (Insurrection). But I have been watching all of them chronologically, and have 3 left - First Contact, Insurrection, and Nemesis. Then it'll be back to the taped episodes. Ah, it's always good to add to one's nerdiness.

My wife's work schedule will be changing. Her schedule is funky (as it always has been), working some days, some evenings, and some weekends. But now she'll actually have 2 days off (Thursday and Friday), which will be her "weekend," since she'll be working both Saturday and Sunday.

LotD: The Gettysburg Powerpoint Presentation. Oh, if only Lincoln had had his laptop handy.

Monday, November 26, 2007

Thanksgiving with the Elves

Well, I am back from my Thanksgiving trip to Ohio. Oddly enough, the people I visited with in Columbus make up a good chunk of my reading audience. So if you were there, this may just be a recap. Fun for you, huh?

Anywho, the drive down on Tuesday was long and boring. The "highlight" was seeing three semi trucks driving down the interstate in Iowa, each with what appeared to be a large windmill propeller as its cargo. Very exciting! We had McDonald's for lunch and Wendy's for supper, and got to Columbus at approximately 8:30. We chatted with Erik about both girly and manly topics, and I played a game of Lord of the Rings (the card game) with Erik, and I emerged victorious. Gina then came home and the four of us played Ra, a board game we've played with them before and rather enjoy.

We had our Thanksgiving dinner on Thursday with, I believe, a total of 11 people. The food was yummy. Over the course of the rest of the trip, Erik and I played 4 games of Rings (which we split), and we watched a fair amount of football.

On that note, I am rather excited that Ohio State still has a shot at the national championship game. All I have to say is: Go Oklahoma!

We played several other games, including pool, and had an all-around good time. We also swapped Christmas gifts, as we won't be able to be there on Christmas. We then packed up and left Sunday morning at 5:00 a.m. We had McDonald's again for lunch, then stopped along at a Steak-N-Shake for a chocolate milkshake and a Frisco burger. Both we also wonderfully delicious.

Along our long drive back, Megan and I talked a good bit about The Lords of Sargoff. She had read the chapters that I had posted and I had talked to her a little bit about other parts of the story, but she didn't know everything. Until now - she knows pretty much all the details of the story that I have developed so far. So now she can tell me whether or not the story is just plain silly. :) Hehe, she thought everything was good, and rather thought a few parts were quite good. I am going to be upping the amount of time I work on it, and will also starting reading more myself, as that is a good thing for people trying to improve upon their writing skills.

Anywho, I should (hopefully) now be back to my regularly scheduled blogging. Happy (belated) Thanksgiving everyone!

LotD: Top 30 Failed Technology Predictions. Yeah, that'll never happen.

Monday, November 19, 2007

One the Road Again

Today, I gave blood for the second time. It went fine of course, but I managed to fill a pint faster this time - 6:09 as opposed to about 10 minutes the first time. Then I had some snacks, including some wonderful cupcakes, and headed back to the office. It was very exciting.

Tomorrow, at approximately 5:00 in the morning, Megan and I will depart for Columbus, Ohio, with a stop down in Geneva to drop off Ruffles, our small white dog. Overall, it will probably be approximately a 13 hour day of driving. We will be there through Thanksgiving and will make the return journey on Sunday.

I suppose I should pack tonight, huh.

I have started compiling all information for The Lords of Sargoff in a database for easy storage and retrieval. It's pretty exciting. :)

Less than an hour until I get to be gone from work for a week. And I need a vacation. (Of course, who doesn't?)

LotD: Stripper Mistakenly Sent to School. Once again: Oops. Might be some dress code issues there.

Saturday, November 17, 2007

THE Ohio State University

My wife is old. Well, she's still 544 days younger than me, she's slightly more aged than she was just a few days ago. Her birthday went just fine. Sadly for her, she worked at night on her birthday (Thursday), but we had our little birthday dinner and gift giving on Wednesday night. She was rather happy to get the previously mentinoed nesting doll as her birthday present. I then took her out to Red Lobster (mmm... my second favorite restaurant), which was most excellent. I also brought her a piece of Godiva Cheesecake from The Cheesecake Factory (the favorite restaurant of both of us). It was all rather wonderful.

If you're wondering, I calculated that I was 544 days older than Megan on one of my many 11 hour drives between Ohio and Minnesota. I also wasted time alphabetizing my friend's senior pictures and ordering my spare change by date. That's a long time to be in a car alone. :)

Our Christmas tree is already up, and it's not even Thanksgiving. We usually don't put it up until the day after Thanksgiving, but we'll be gone until that next Sunday, and my wife didn't want to wait that long. So we retrieved our tree from the garage of a couple friends of ours, and put it up this last week. We're so goofy.

I am currently watching the Ohio State Buckeyes as they play Michigan. Even though Ohio State lost to Illinios last week, making it much less likely they'll be in the national championship game (though they're not completely out of it), if they beat Michigan, all will be redeemed. They're currently winning 14-3 in the third quarter. They better not blow it. :)

LotD: A Look Inside the World's Only Toilet House. Yes, it's exactly what it sounds like.

Tuesday, November 13, 2007

The Big Two-Four

It's been a busy week. My company, Priority, has just recently gotten into web design, and we are finishing up the website for our very first web client. You can see the site we created here. My work on the project was purely programming, and I did nothing with the graphics or design of the site. But it's seemed to turn out okay, though it is not final yet.

My wife is down in Geneva, and will be until Wednesday. Then, Wednesday night, we will go out to eat to celebrate her birthday (which is Thursday) and she will get her present from me, which is one of those funky "nesting dolls" that I found at store in the Mall of America. (Don't worry, my wife is not at a place where she had Internet access to read that, and if she did, she doesn't read my blog anyway). :) I'm sure she will like it, as it is one of her collections. It was what I thought was the nicest in the price range, as some of those nesting dolls at that store can be a couple hundred dollars or more.

LotD: Daylight-Saving Causes Twin Arrival Pickle. Born later, and yet legally older. What a sweet deal that is, eh?

Thursday, November 08, 2007

You Will Read a Boring Blog Entry Soon

I've started the process of excessive historic documentation for my story, The Lords of Sargoff. I am pretty excited to have more time to work on it. Like maybe tomorrow night. Fun stuff!

Work itself has been interesting; I've worked a lot on a website for an organization called MIPA (Midwest Independent Physicians Association). My new job has included one aspect I haven't really dealt with before, and that is designing a website collaboratively with other people. Not that I have much say over things, I pretty much just program the site to do what they want it to do. But I've worked with a designer who designed all the site graphics, another web guy who did some other coding for the site, and higher-ups who make most of the big decisions. It's funky.

I suddenly realized yesterday that Thanksgiving is only 2 weeks away, and that means that we get to drive to Ohio and see my family rather soon, which is pretty exciting.

LotD: Weird Fortune Cookies. I found this site rather amusing. I even got one of the fortune cookies shown here once.

Monday, November 05, 2007

Dark Lord of the Laziness

Ah, the lazy blogger strikes again! I know all of your lives have been on hold while I have gone 5 days without posting, but fear not, everything can return to normal, as here I am, wasting a few extra minutes of your day. Lucky you, huh?

Well, as most of you know, I dressed up as Darth Maul for Halloween. (See image.) It was good fun - Megan did the makeup and did a wonderful job. I already had the lightsaber from back in day when I was working at McDonald's, as a secret Santa gift from one of the McManagers.

I went into the FLS office to work over the weekend, but neither Saturday or Sunday was as busy as they were expecting. I am back into the office tonight from 5-10, but that is my last day. (My second last FLS day in two months.) But this time, I won't be back. At least, possibly, not until next October or November - the next election cycle. And being a presidential election, it will be crazy. But that's a while into the future.

On a wonderful note, both the Ohio State Buckeyes and the New England Patriots continued their unbeaten ways this weekend. I'm pretty excited about the potential that both teams have. Here's hoping that neither of them loses a single game this season. :)

Ah, a truth has been shown to me. I neglected my Link of the Day responsibilities during my last post, so of course, today brings a double-offering of links. Aren't you pumped?

LotD: Doctors Notice Increase in Facebook Status Syndrome. If it's on BBSpot, it has to be true. :)

Bonus LotD: Sleeping Man Dressed as Zombie Mistaken for Corpse. Better rethink that Halloween costume and drinking combination next year, buddy.