Category: General

Woohoo! We’ve got to do this every year. Maybe a few times a year. This weekend myself and some guys from work went on a camping trip in NH (8 of us in total). Just for the hell of it, we (most of us – 2 wussies stayed behind) climbed to the top of Mt.…

Beep…Beep…Beeeeeeeeeeeeeee….. Time of death, 5:23pm. Officially declaring No* a write-off after flaking out on plans for the 3e+08th time without explanation. (“Friends don’t leave friends hanging consistently.”) My big decision now is whether I should just drop it cleanly, or failness it explicitly. Time to kill the cat and let this indeterminate state collapse into…

Went out for some ribs and drinks with The Sleepy Kitten and some of her NYC pals. Turns out the place we went offers “a Vodka-based drink” in a fishbowl, with about a dozen straws sticking out of it. Umm…our group had 2. After that, we tried to catch a bus and eventually ended up…

Ha, my work celebrates Halloween. I mean, with a passion, constumes, a bit of a party and everything. So of course, being a natural Halloweener (er…hope none of you are using text-to-speech, or that could have sounded bad), I threw something semicreative and last-minute together in typical me fashion. Introducing… Duct Tape Man! QOTD: (after…

Err, I saw a guy get beat down with nightsticks today by Medford’s finest in the mall parking lot. Reasons unknown. QOTD: “When the going gets complex, multiply by the complex conjugate.” – Source unknown

Workness: Successfully clawed out from under every and all time-zapping obligations, deadlines and et cetera. Catching up on some much needed, beautiful zzZzzZzZZz… Project Stack: The Walking Man, my brother’s parting gift just before I peeled out of Chicagoland for the last time, exists only as a non-illuminated wallhanging, a (literal) shadow of his former…

Met up with with No* again today for some food / movies / playing with computers. Or was this the “Let’s prowl around in my ghetto little lab” extravaganza? (I really should write this stuff down the day it happens. Meh.) Well, let’s just say that any girl that is heard to without-provocation utter the…

Haha, I’m up at 7ish AM on a Sunday. Who, me? Yes, me. (Pause for horrified screams) Probably a good thing, after happening to wake up* just after 2PM (!) the day before. (A few days of in-the-lab-past-midnight-rigging-demos coupled with cloudcover the thickness of Homer Simpson’s skull will do that to ya, I guess. Oh,…

The internet done died again. Has been happening on and off the past couple days at the new place, which I had been attributing to crappy cablemodem service. One of the downstairs people was idly suspecting a conflict between our various routing and switching boxen, so we played with the settings a bit, restarted everything,…

Hah…this bit o’ events I already explained in an email to someone, so… *big paste* (for those scratching their heads and going, “hey, this doesn’t sound like your usual blogggging voice”…) The lease on my 4BR apartment expires at the end of this month, and I just found out that all my roommates are moving…

Lots o’ rocks Won’t budge… Tree and sunset Dad on a rock Mt. Washington…check! Sunset in Bar Harbor (yay dispose-o-cam) Tim in his natural habitat (to all those who have asked me, “did you just crawl out from under a rock?”) A cool-looking hunk of dead tree Gotta love driving in New England Not entirely…

We went out and watched the DNC tonight downtown. OK, actually, we hit the pubs and observed the whole mess from a respectable distance (onscreen!) – but were in the thick of gay marriage and miscellaneous other protesters, blaring their diatribes from bullhorns mounted on gaudily-painted vans (gotta love conditional noise ordinances). I was originally…

Loaded for bear First catch (a little one) (…the ones underneath…those are the bait!) Once you catch ’em, you have to catch ’em again…in the boat! Me hanging on for dear life (the boat, she was a rockin’) AJ chumming the waters, again (seasick much?) Hey, it worked! (After a couple hours of lax fish…

J* and E*: It’s like I was never gone at all. T*: Did we like, used to know each other or something? T*’s bitch: Still an asshole as ever. Immediately entered Turf Protection mode. (Incidentally, I come to find out I’ve been attaining sort of a bad reputation in my absence…) (Hey…um…I’m 23 and live…

Yeah, so I was in Shaw’s today (or Shah’s, as these New Englanders call it) picking up the usual assortment of random bachelor-chow, and had just deterministically selected the fastest checkout line (pick the line full of fellow bachelors with their purchases pre-staged for loading, cash and credit cards already in hand; not the one…

I couldn’t help but feel a little awkward. I made a promise (which is not something I do lightly, or often) and don’t back out on promises, but a hardcore agnostic saying a prayer…how does that even work? “Dear God, I don’t know if you exist or not, but just in case…” That has got…

I thought, “Yeah, I’ve been through college, there ain’t a booze on this earth I’ll have trouble slurping down.” Today, we had this Scotch tasting after work (come on folks, you can stop sending me resumes already) and I concluded that Scotch really isn’t my bag. To my jaded tongue (probably spoiled by years of…

Almost same day, almost same topic…okay, exact same topic. Talked to the aforementioned deadbeat today, had a nice long chat about the whole situation, and he gives me his assurance that he’s not trying to be a stringing-girls-along cunt, and there’s a lot of “ain’t-easy” to the situation that I haven’t been seeing. And you…

Yes folks, I am now at the point of faking connection problems as the ‘most graceful’ exit strategy for uncomfortable questions. Why the hell am I protecting that deadbeat? I’m not. My main concern is The Fiancee (tF), whose stability is in considerable question. Of secondary concern is The Girlfriend (tG), who I still (somewhat…