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Friday: July 01, 2005 - Semi-Canned Chris told one of his bio-lab bosses he was going back to school to get his MA in Linguistics. On Friday (again with the old updates) he received word that he was to be done immediately. Sure, he works seven days a week and is responsible for tons of stuff but apparently that doesn't matter. Poor Chris.

We grilled out and had a couple beers to de-celebrate.

I had meant to implement Brian's revised comment script today but I figured if this page was going to be PHP I might as well take my time and add some stuff of my own. [Comments: 0]· permalink · · ·

Saturday: July 02, 2005 - A Beautiful Mind I had a pretty quiet day until about 5:30am when Ab woke up. Jamie went to Alligator Point to relax at the beach so I was on pup patrol. Since Abby wouldn't go back to sleep I brought her and Chompy on a two hour car ride around town. I managed to not get lost despite driving around with that intent. Jamie took Chris and out to dinner to Bennigan's as a thank you for helping her move last weekend. We then hit up the new Hollywood Video they built across the street and got a couple of movies. We watched Sideways and it was pretty good. I had read about half of the book when I first got it and it seemed to capture it pretty well. The movie reminded me of a trip that Matt Flynn and I would take in about 15 years. Not that Matt is nearly that slutty but still. Naturally, I would be the balding guy. I also rented Saw to watch when Jamie isn't around since she doesn't like scary movies. Chris saw A Beautiful Mind was for sale so I picked that up for future watching as well. [Comments: 0]· permalink · · ·

Sunday: July 03, 2005 - All About The Benjamins I'm all for your 1st Amendment rights. I don't think censorship is necessary as long as people have a choice on what they see/don't see hear/don't hear. I heard Puff Daddy's (back when he was Puff Daddy) All About the Benjamin's Radio Edit on the radio (shocking) yesterday. Since I know the song well I couldn't help but notice what was blocked out. Let me know what you think is wrong with this (you can highlight over the yellow boxes to see what the actual lyrics are):

Now... what y’all wanna do?
Wanna be ballers? shot-callers?
Brawlers -- who be dippin in the Benz wit the spoilers
On the low from the jake in the Taurus
Tryin to get my hands on some grants like Horace
Yeah livin the raw deal, three course meals
Spaghetti, fettuccini, and veal
But still, everything’s real in the field
And what you can’t have now, leave in your will
But don’t knock me for tryin to bury
Seven zeros, over in rio dijanery
Ain’t nobody’s hero, but I wanna be heard
On your hot 9-7 everyday, that’s my word
Swimmin in women wit they own condominiums
Five plus fives, who drive millenniums
It’s all about the benjamins, what?
I get a fifty pound bag of ooh for the mutts
Five carats on my hands wit the cuts
And swim in European figures
Fuck bein a broke nigga

I want a all chromed out wit the clutch, nigga
Drinkin malt liquor, drivin a bro’ vega
I’m wit mo’ sippers, watched by gold diggers
Rockin bejor denims, wit gold zippers
Lost your touch we kept ours, poppin cristals
Freakin the three-quarter reptiles
Enormous cream, forest green -- benz jeep
For my team so while you sleep i’ma scheme
We see through, that’s why nobody never gon’ believe you
You should do what we do, stack chips like hebrews
Don’t let the melody intrigue you
Cause I leave you, I’m only here
For that green paper which the eagle

I’m strictly tryin to cop those, colossal sized Picassos
And have papi flip coke outside Delgado’s
Mienda, with cash flowin like Sosa
And the latin chick tranportin in the chocha
Stampedin over, pop mo’s, never sober
Lex and range rovers dealin weight by Minnesota
Avoidin narcs wit camcorders and Chevy Novas
Stash in the buildin wit this chick named Alona
From Daytona, when I was young I wants to bone her
But now I only hit chicks that win beauty pageants
Trickin, they takin me skiing, at the Aspens
Uhh, gangsta mental, stay poppin cristal
Pack a black pist-al in the ac’ coupe that’s dark brown
Pinky-ringin, gondolas wit the man singin
Italian music down the river wit your chick clingin
To my bizzalls, player you mad false
Actin hard when you as pussy as Rupaul

Uhh, uhh, what the blood clot?
Wanna bumble wit the bee hahh?
Bzzzzt, throw a hex on a whole family (yeah, yeah yeah)
Dressed in all black like the omen (say what? )
Have your friends singin ’this is for my homey’ (that’s right)
And you know me, from makin niggaz so sick
Floss in my 6 with the lex on the wrist
If it’s murder, you know she wrote it (uh-huh)
German luger for your ass bitch, deep throated
Know you wanna fill the room cause it’s platinum coated
Take your pick, got a firearm you shoulda toted, suck a dick
All that bullshit you kick, playa hatin from the sideline
Get your own shit, why you ridin mine? (uh-huh)
I’m, a goodfella kinda lady
Stash 380’s and Mercedes, puffy hold me down baby!
Only female in my crew, and I kick shit
Like a nigga do, with a trigga too, fuck you

I been had skills, cristal spills
Hide bills in brazil, about a mil to ice grill
Make it hard to figure me, liquor be, kickin me
In my asshole, uhhh, undercover, donni brascoe
Lent my east coast girl, the bentley to twirl (uh-huh)
My west coast shorty, push the chrome 740
Rockin redman and naughty, all in my kitty-kat
Half a brick of yea, in the bra, where her titties at
And I’m livin that, whole life, we push weight (uh-huh)
Fuck the state pen, fuck hoes at penn state (c’mon)
Listen close it’s francis, the praying mantis
Attack with the mac, my left hand spit, right hand
Grip on the whip, for the smooth getaway
Playa haters get away or my lead will spray
Squeeze off til I’m empty, don’t tempt me
Only, to hell I send thee, all about the benji’s
What?

Just so I'm clear I can say "get away or my lead will spray. Squeeze of [until] I'm empty don't tempt me" and "half a brick of yea in the bra where her titties at" , "German luger for your ass", "when I was young I [wanted] to bone her". Right? I can say these things with no problem. But I can't say "that bullshit that you kick", "hebrew" and "asshole". So it's ok to empty a gun into someone, hide your drugs in someone's bra and bang anyone you want. but it's NOT ok to talk trash, be Jewish or have a hole in your butt.

Again--I have no problem with any part of this song and I would much rather hear it full that with the edits. I'm just saying that the people in charge need to really prioritize what is important and what isn't. Then again, I'm expatriating so whatever. [Comments: 0]· permalink · · ·

Monday: July 04, 2005 - Seeing Saw Thank God Chris works with bugs all day and doesn't have the same fear of them that I do. I had been in and out into the backyard probably a dozen times already and thankfully we had finished eating. Between my sliding back door and the screen door (so technically in the house) there was a hornets' nest nestled up at the top. To make matters worse the larvae were hatching. Hiding in the house, we sent Chris out with a can of lysol and one of those long-lighters you typically use for lighting a grill. About ten minutes later they were all dead and their home base was burnt up beyond repair.

Jamie was the Grill Captain and made some awesome burgers. We tried to go to see Fireworks after dinner but missed all but the highest ones because a Publix sign was in our way. We know where to go next year.

Yesterday, I saw Saw. Great movie. [Comments: 0]· permalink · · ·

Tuesday: July 05, 2005 - New Lappy

Yeah baby. It's Lappy 6k. It took me two hours to uninstall all the crap Dell put on there and another three to put all my crap on it but it's finally road-ready. It caused a couple firmware problems with the router but aside from that it's all good.

Brian posted his 100 things about me and people have asked if I was going to do it. Since I'm already a pretty heart-on-the-sleeve kind of guy I don't know how interesting it would be. I'd be more inclined to pick out a hundred people and write one thing about each of them. I don't know if I know 100 people though. Maybe if I went back far enough I could put a couple sentences together.

The hornets are back. En masse. Adults. I renewed my lease and told my landlord about them. He said he'd take care of it but no dice so far. I got up enough courage to go look at them through the glass and then pound at them but that was about it. Chris and I got some coffee last night and Jamie and I yelled at each other on the phone for a while too. Brian said he likes to see his name elsewhere so here's some ascii art that was supposed to spell out your name.

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) / ____)/ (__(_(_(_/ (_
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Wednesday: July 06, 2005 - Pre-Trip I spent the day packing for my trip back to Chicago. My uncle is not doing well with his brain cancer and apparently my making more than my Christmas-Only visit is supposed to help take everyone's mind off being sad.

Although I won our first game of poker tonight, Elena and Brian duked it out for the second (and money winning) game. I'll see you all in a week. [Comments: 0]· permalink · · ·

Weeklong: July 12, 2005 - Trip to Chicago If you've never been to Naperville, and I have to assume you haven't, it's gotten big. Real big. Most houses now cost upwards of half a million and the city was named #3 by Money Magazine's Top 100 Places to Live in America. It's a yuppie town but at least it has a diner.

Since it would take a separate page to recount all the things that happened I think I'll just bullet-point the whole thing.

And here we go:

* Dr. Calendar was on my flight to Atlanta from Tallahassee. He's doing fine. I know I'm spelling his name wrong but he still thought I was in school so we'll call it even.
* The Atlanta Airport has wireless but then they get mad when you use it. Just FYI: user: admin password: password. No seriously. But they'll cut you off after a couple minutes.
* Baker's Square still has the best honey mustard sauce on the planet.
* Portillo's still has the best ribs on the planet.
* My mom is frighteningly good at poker. Not only did she win the majority of games, she finished in first or second in all but one (out of seven).
* I am superior to Steve at NCAA Football on Gamecube. So that makes my video game besting against Steve something like 1-435879.
* Soca Chompy's parts are now half done.
* My dad would consider helping my buy a house down here.
* My uncle can't remember anything important and my grandma can't remember anything unimportant.
* My dad bought my grandma a new TV. The first three didn't work; hopefully the 4th will.
* I went to my 2nd Naperville bar with Mark and then kicked his ass in Cribbage.
* My room at home is now, officially, "the den".
* I had to sit between two of the largest women in my life on my flight from Midway to Hartsfield.
* I think my flight from Hartsfield to Tallahassee was made up of the nicest people ever assembled on a plane.
* Tallahassee is DAMN hot and DAMN humid.
* The hurricane snuck into my house through my back door. It also killed all the plants in my garden. [Comments: 0]· permalink · · ·

Wednesday: July 13, 2005 - Ford Sucks For the ninth time since I've been blogging, the Taurus won't start. Had it not been for the kindheartedness of Jerry, I would have been stuck at home and at the complete mercy of the apathetic AAA people. Tomorrow I'm bringing the car into McCann's Automotive's shop. It's owned by the husband of my former boss (from the City of Tallahassee). I found out she no longer works for talgov and everyone told me to wish her the best when I saw her. I wonder why she quit...well, of course she had more job responsibilities than anyone else I knew there and probably didn't make enough money. To her credit though, she was a damn good employee (not to mention a very good supervisor). I don't think I'll ever work with anyone as detail oriented as she was. Three cheers for Helen (as long as her husband can fix my stupid car). [Comments: 0]· permalink · · ·

Thursday: July 14, 2005 - And I Mean All Day I spent all day in front of the computer. I know what you're saying--don't you do that every day? Not like this. Except for a brief lunch with Chris and a brief dinner with Jamie I didn't get out of the chair. I spent all day coding the architecture to a site that was drawn in MS Publisher. After nine hours I was feeling really good that I was not only doing things correctly but writing really clean, efficient code too (the polar opposite of this page). But no. All for naught. I came down with a big headache and decided to go to bed early so I could redo everything. Don't plan on seeing me this weekend.

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Weekend: July 17, 2005 - Hungry Abby The only notable item of the weekend is that Jamie made a delicious meal. Usually when we talk about Jamie and "good cooking" it involves a grill but not this time. She outdid herself with a fantastic chicken scampi meal made entirely in the house. For dinner she made a cake and Chris brought over some black and white cookies. Abby ate all the cookies and everyone was mad. Chris would bring some more on Monday but I of course did not know this at the time. Ta-da.

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Monday: July 18, 2005 - Paula Cole I don't know, Paula. Ok, I do know. I have nothing but work on websites since I got back into town. I know you're thinking: how much time does it take to put a couple of nonsensical sentences up here? Too damn long. See, this site needs a big overhaul. I really like the look but the updating process takes a long time since I set a bad precedent in the beginning. With my PHP skills now beyond echo ">p<Hello World!>/p<"; I'm planning on a big change soon. I'm not really looking forward to it because to reformatting of the previous entries will be painful at best. Chris also got hired by Rocket Daddy. Hooray for Chris.

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Weeklong: July 24, 2005 - A Week Of Highlights And what a week it's been! Let's hit the highlights, shall we?

I'm almost finished with a website project. I gave it a showing on Friday and it went over really well. I also booked two new clients. Yippiee. The subject of my wanting to buy a house came up and I got a lot of good contacts who would help me for no charge. Score!

I attended a luncheon at the University Club Center and got to hear astronaut Alan Scott speak. He is not related to the Alan Scott I went to school with.

Poker-Chris thoroughly destroyed us on Wednesday and took all our money. Again.

My neighbor Kent and his wife Sara moved away. One less person to invite to poker night.

Jamie took us (well, technically) to Giorgio's for dinner on Date Night. I had the blackened prime rib with some potato pie. Mmm mmm mmm. We then came back and ate s'mores in my kitchen.

Jamie went to Jacksonville and I pupsat. Chris came over with wine and we drank it. A lot of it.

I bought a couple new fish but they're dead already.

I vacuumed the kitchen and dining room with the mini-vac. People no longer have to worry about tracking things out with them when they leave.

I did about six loads of laundry but my room looks just as filled with dirty clothes.

I went to check out a gig site at Southwood. Nice place to live if you've got a couple million bucks and nothing to do with it. [Comments: 0]· permalink · · ·

Monday: July 25, 2005 - Jetta Tire Blowout Welcome to my world. Jamie's Jetta blew out a tire and we had a fun time changing it. It was an easy enough task but when you throw in the temperature being around 180F (with the humidity) with a sprinkling of drenching rain, it's probably not as much fun as it sounds.

All the major updates on this site are on hold until business stops flooding in. [Comments: 0]· permalink · · ·

Tuesday: July 26, 2005 - Shenanigans

After helping Jamie with more car troubles I decided to join Chris and Mike at this pub down on Thomasville (Shenanigans) for some beer and trivia. After devoting a solid three years of my life to trivia I thought I'd be pretty good but no. The only question I was able to answer was in the cruelly ironic Disney Movies category: the name of the whale in Pinocchio. It's Monstro. I never saw the movie but my mom used to read me that book as a kid.

Matt's Jenny's softball team was there playing and they complained that we had six people when the max was five. They're some real assholes. I was hoping we'd fight but it didn't happen.

Jimmy (also in our group) decided to pick up this big, dead beetle and pretend to throw it at me. That wasn't very nice. Naturally, I shrieked like a little girl and they all had a good laugh. But in all seriousness, this beetle was huge--huge even for Florida. Roughly the size of Chompy. It took him both hands to pick it up.

Ok maybe not. But still. It was the size of my thumb. [Comments: 0]· permalink · · ·

Wednesday: July 27, 2005 - Poker Trouncing Last night was the reason I don't play poker for big bucks. I was trounced by both Brian and Theory-Chris. Finishing a pathetic 4th in the first game and 3rd in the second game is not my idea of a good time but I guess someone has to lose. Unlike most times when I lose, the hands I folded were just as bad as the ones I played. Usually when I toss my 3-7 the flop yields the 6-5-4. I only had two good hands the whole night and the second one was easily bested by Brian.



Next Wednesday, after poker of course, we're going to Leon Pub to celebrate Jamie's potential MSW. On a lighter note, I had a tendercrisp sandwich from BK yesterday and I have to say that it was pretty darn good. I need to go back to eating fast food every day. [Comments: 0]· permalink · · ·