I'm Bored
So, It's around 9:00pm now, and watching the dogs has lost it's international action flavor. Although in truth, it wasn't exactly exciting to begin with.
Usually Friday nights are nights that I go grab a bite to eat, check out a movie at our new cinema plex, do my weekly grocery shopping, and finally make it home to check out what's on television.
So far the night has been completely un-eventful. The only interesting things of note was the fact that I learned something rather important. Boredom is not a gradual thing.
Right now, I'm flipping through the tv listings trying to find something to watch.
"What Not To Wear" - Nope. That will never be something
I willingly watch.
"Spongebob Squarepants" - Sponge
what? No way.
"Andy Griffith" -
Please. If I'm going to watch tv, it's going to be a show filmed in my century.
"Larry King Live" - That guy's suspenders are so deep on his ethiopian shoulders, watching him interview someone turns into a betting match for when his suspenders are going to finally gain the upper hand, and snap him in half like a twig.
"Miami Animal Police" - What?!? This is an actual
show?!? I can't believe that! Jeepers. If they need a show about some odd job, I'm sure I could wrangle somebody to do a weekly hourly drama called "Omish Technology" and get Kevin Bacon to take the starring role.
Hope & Faith - You've
GOT to be kidding me. Faith Ford and Kelly Ripa in their own show? I actually flipped the tv over for a few minutes, and couldn't place where I'd seen this show before. Then I went through the story points of the show and realized that the show
should have been named "Golden Girls: The Early Years."
Moonstruck - A love story with Cher as the leading actress? You mean to tell me they couldn't have found anyone better than her? As I'm writing this, I've had an epiphony. They had to make Charlize Theron ugly to be in the movie "Monster". And - by some act of grand wizardry - had to make Cher pretty. What if the roles were reversed. Cher is ugly, so the movie "Monster" would have been cheaper! Trust me - Cher without all the plaster of paris on herself that she calls "makeup" is ugly enough to scare the t-bone out of a cow. Yes. I can hear you all thinking it, and thank you. I am a genious.
Jeepers. Well over one hundred channels, and nothing to watch!
I'm actually considering
GOING OUTSIDE, I'm so bored.
Wait! Hang on! I have found a channel with a show that will be my entertainment savior for the evening.
Channel 58 has Ronco on selling "Hair in a Spraycan"
God Bless America.
Friends Wanted
So, here you are, reading my blog, and maybe you know me, maybe you don't. Maybe you've read all the other things I've written, and maybe this is the first thing that you've read.
Today I've decided that I'm going to meet more people. Lately all I've done is work, and hang out at my apartment. I tend to keep to much to myself, and the friends that I used to have are no longer available anymore.
Typical.
So, if you're looking for someone to talk to, I can do that. If you're looking for someone to rotate your tires, I can't do that. If you're looking for a friend who can make you laugh, that would be me. If you've been looking for a guy who you can shop for clothes with, that's NOT me. If you have a friend who loves movies, let me know. I can probably talk to them. If you've got a friend who wants to know about lawn bowling, I'm not the guy you want to talk to.
So, the polls are open. Let's see who's feeling adventurous enough today to Instant Message "Cobalt505" on AOL Instant Messenger.
Watching the Dog
Well, finally, I finished moving my office. All the stuff is put away. All the equipment is hooked up. All three computers are running perfectly.
There's only one problem. I still have a huge pile of cables and adaptors that I know I had to use before, but for some reason I don't need to now.
I figure that I'll find out what they're for when something catches on fire.
In the meantime, I was reminded my my mother today that I was going to have to spend the weekend at my parent's house. They took my sister to Pennsylvania to look at a college, and I have to stay home and take care of the fishtank, cat, and three dogs.
Anyway, time to go home. I've got some other things that are knocking around in my head that I think I'll type out later. In the meantime, for those of you who've been visiting (there were 23 of you yesterday) I'll be hanging out on AIM tonight.
Be daring. Send me an IM. (Cobalt505)
Debating the Debates
The First Great Debate
So, it's roughly 11:30 Thursday night now, after the debate. I've watched President Bush and Senator Kerry battle it out verbally over the issues of Homeland Security, and the battle in Iraq. The consensus? It was a great debate. Kerry shot himself in the foot several times, and Bush didn't push the offensive at every point that he could have. In that aspect, I was dissapointed in President Bush. However - in the overall category of the debate, President Bush ruled the roost. He was handing out the truth about Kerry's record faster than Kerry could climb out of his sinking ship.
I only have one point before getting to bed, and getting ready to yet again head into work and finish moving my equipment from the "Glorified Cubicle" to my wall-to-wall carpeted office.(There's carpeting on the walls...that might mean something that they're putting me in a "padded room"...I'm not sure what to think about that...)
My point is this - President Bush brought out a point about our current battle in Iraq that nobody - not even supporters of the war - have brought out. That's this: The terrorists are working in a concentrated effort to stop us in Iraq. Prime Minister Allawi said that "Terrorist are pouring in across the border.". The reason for that is that they know that a free Iraq will be an absolutly huge threat to their horrible way of life. Right now Iraq is the focal point of the struggle that the free world is fighting against Terrorism. Right now it's
the central location. For the first time you've got all these terrorists together fighting our army. Are people dying? Yes. Are they killing Americans? Yes, they have. Are they killing civilians? Yes, they are. Are we losing? No. We're not. The truth of the matter is that we're beheading the snake of terrorism,
and the terrorists know it.
It is a terribly unfortunate thing that we've lost so many of our Americans during this war on terror. As of my typing here in this blog, 1,054 Americans have died since we invaded Afganistan and Iraq. So, think of it this way. Do we continue at this rate of beating the terrorists, and fighting them in their own backyard, or do we do what John Kerry and the Democrats would do and revert to a September 10th mentality, and let over 3,000 people die in only a few seconds?
Anyone will agree that fighting the terrorists and taking minor casualties outweighs losing them three, four, five thousand or more in a single clip here in our front yards.
I just can't understand how one can function like that.
I raise my can of Pepsi to you, Mr. President, and eagerly await the next debate.
Broken Pieces
For those of you reading this post - (I get over 10 hits a day on here, but nobody ever leaves any replies to my posts - that's weird to me.)- you'll notice that there isn't a picture on this post. During the two weeks that I've been posting on here, I've never talked about me. Why? Because I'm a private person. My philosiphy in life is that I can fix my problems myself. Sometimes I'm right, and sometimes I'm not. I've always been able to hide my life behind a veiled curtain. Truly, most people do the same thing - but I'm a much more self reliant person than most people. I've had to be.
When I was growing up, I had braces, glasses, and girls made me nervous. The tag line of "weirdo" really stuck. I basically got made fun of until I was 16. At that point I grew to 6'. Guys stopped messing with me. But I was still a geeky nerd. (I still am today...but I've learned to hide that part of me.) Growing up that way, I learned to never ever leave my personal feelings open for discovery - it wasn't safe. Then, I got to go to college. College was great. I went 6 hours away where nobody knew me. And there - at college - I came out of my shell. A girl went through my closet, threw out all of my clothes, and we went to places I wouldn't go into before - Old Navy, and The GAP, and Ambercrombie & Fitch, and she filled my closet back up with more "trendy" clothing. After that, my hair-style changed too. I went from the 'bowl cut' to the 'short style'.
For once in my life, girls actually paid attention to me. I was amazed.
I came home from college different. I looked different. I dressed different. I even talked different. And when I came back, I met a girl.
She wasn't a normal girl. To me, she was stunning. The most beautiful thing I had ever seen. She talked to me. She actually talked. To me. I was dumbfounded. So we started talking more and more. Pretty soon we were dating. I saw her everyday. I talked to her on the phone everyday. I talked to her online everyday.
For a year.
Then, she left me.
I'd gone through hard things before. But not like this. It was like my heart had been torn completly out.
For six months I never left my apartment except to go to work. I didn't shave anymore. My hair grew long.
So , for the ten or so people who look at this everyday, you're wondering what all this has to do with why I'm posting right now.
I broke up with this girl two years ago. Two years ago she left me. And I still hurt. Every day I miss her, and today is no different. You see, I saw her today.
There she was. In the store where I went to get milk. At first I didn't see her. I walked past her when I smelled something. I looked around, my nose telling me that it was my favorite smell in the world. It was her hair. I will never forget that smell. And there she was. Talking on her cell phone to her dad. Laughing.
And then the feelings were there all over again. I screwed up, and I lost her.
I left the store without buying anything, and without her seeing me.
There's gotta be a way to feel better about this. I'm tired of it.
Wiring My Future
So I got to get up earlier than normal to meet the boss at Lowe's. We picked up some shelving, and headed back to work where we promptly returned to the mission at hand: moving my office.
The long and short of it? I've never seen so many wires in my life.I'm not talking about four or five. I'm talking about enough cables to make a Best Buy employee blush. It's crazy how many wires that I've had to move. The best part of the whole thing is that all of my equipment is wired back up. But I seem to have piles and piles of cables that were plugged into
something. I think when I find something that doesn't work, I'll be able to figure out what I forgot to plug in.
The best part of the whole thing?
I'm not done yet. I still have to finish moving out from my area. Tomorrow I get to finish moving everything out from my office and figuring out how to fit it into my area. It's like fitting a family of 6 into a Ford Fiesta. It ain't gonna happen!
On another note, tonight's the night to pop the popcorn, grab a pillow and pull out a blanket. It's the First Presidential debate between John Kerry and President George W. Bush. I can't wait. President Bush is going to wipe the floor with him.
Now where did I leave that bag of popcorn?
Too Many Wires To Count
So today I got to go to Amsterdam to work on the network down there. I wound up staying there from 9:30 in the morning until 12:00pm. The drive there and back was mildly entertaining.
After getting back to work, I started to move my office. Now moving my office isn't as easy as just moving a desk calender. I've got more computers, tv's, and vcr's in my one office than in most Radio Shacks. It comes with the Video Production territory. Anyway - I had to move my office from where I am now, back into where I used to be. Needless to say, Having so much video equipment now means that there is a virtual plethora of cableling. I'm not talking about three or four - I'm talking about around 20 RCA cables, 12 SVHS Cables, 5 Firewire cables, ect, ect. So, I wound up moving my stuff from two o'clock until seven o'clock - and I'm still not done moving everything yet. I got one of my computers moved. That's it. Now I've got another computer to move, and a TON of extra cableing, my entire Video Production Archive (two full Racks of BetaSP tapes - over two hundred of them...) Plus all the extra equipent that I keep around 'in case crap happens'.
So tomorrow morning at 8:30, I'm going to meet Ken at Wal*Mart to get some shelving, and tomorrow I'll continue putting my Video Production room back together.
After moving all of this stuff, I've had an epiphony. If I switch my field from Video Production to...oh...say bongo playing, moving my office will take MUCH less time.
Sounds like a plan to me...
Moving Day
Well, today proved to be quite interesting. We hired a new guy at work who's going to get more work for the company, and perhaps help out with a little bit of production work.
And, just like old times - I'm moving my office.
Again.
For those of you keeping count, yes, this is the fifth time I'm moving. The only problem is that everytime that I move, I've got more and more stuff to move. The first time I moved, it took a half hour. Now it's going to take a full day. I've got a large computer with 2 19" monitors, 4 vhs Decks, a DVD deck, a 27" tv, and a 17" tv - and all of it is wired together.
Tomorrow should prove quite interesting. I've got so much stuff to move, it's like a mobile Radio Shack.
As I continued to read about Job today, the very next chapter held a pretty deep insight:
"Fear of the Lord is True Wisdom" - Job 28:28
Just when you think that you've heard all the best quotes, you can always count on hearing a better one in the Bible.
Anyway, the countdown tonight continues until part 2 of Bill O'Reilly's interview with the President.
Fox News is just getting better and better...
My Life's Not That Hard
Today I was reading in the book of Job (for those of you following along - Job 27:1-6), and after reading everything that that man went through, it constantly amazes me.
God let the devil take away everything that Job held dear because God was proud of him. That amazes me. God was boasting about one of us! And after Job loses pretty much all of his personal possessions, there he is, still praising God.
"I make this vow by the Living God, who has taken away my rights, by the Almighty who has embittered my soul. As long as I live, while I have breath from God, my lips will speak no evil, and my tongue will speak no lies." - Job 27:1-4
This guy is the man. Loses everything, but still refuses to say anything against his God.
Simply Amazing.
It's Fun To Play Together
Well, the weekend was pretty entertaining. On Friday I woke up with enough back pain to lay me up for the day. Apparently my "lower lumbar region" didn't agree with my fitting underneath our radio server rack on Thursday. Yeah...that hurt.
Thankfully, on Saturday morning, I felt pain free enough to head up to Suny Tech for the STGC LAN Party. Now that was great. Over 30 gamers crammed into half of their Cafeteria playing all the great games - Unreal Tournament 2004, Call of Duty, Doom 3, Team Fortress Classic, Counter Strike, Far Cry, and Star Wars: Battlefront. From 11:00am until 11:00pm, yours truly was in the mix introducing people to my shotgun, and making sure that they got friendly with my rocket launchers.
Most also liked my new computer. I hand built a pretty good computer that not only has a lot of horsepower, but also looks cool.
Anyway, in T-Minus 1 hour and 45 minutes, the President will be interviewed by Bill O'Reilly. Now that should be a great show. The President in the "No Spin Zone"? GENIOUS!
