10 posts tagged “personal”
I usually use Vox to post personal stuff, and carpeaqua to post nerdery. With the insane schedule I've kept over the past few months, putting updates on either site has been a taxing situation.
I remember when I was 14. I remember when my brother was 14. We were both little assholes. In fact, I think everyone is an asshole at 14. The changes that you go through when you are 14, the hormones, growing up, etc. I remember always fighting with my parents over the dumbest stuff. I'm now watching my sister, Hanna, go through being 14, and I am pretty sure she is the worst 14-year-old ever. Not only is she moody, but she is also loud and doesn't know when to shut up.
Today, Hanna came home from school at lunch (she misses at least 1 day a week) with some glorious news: she has accumulated enough demerits, 18, to warrant 3 Saturday schools. Congratulations!
To celebrate this occasion, I thought I'd share some of my favorite demerits from Hanna's record.
Hanna cannot keep gum in mouth. Was told to get rid of it and not chew in my class. She put another piece in during the same period.
Rudeness, talking during presentation after being warned
Hanna has quite an attitude. In the restroom during lunch, she had a bottled drink. I was goign to ask her where she had gotten it, but didnt even get that far. She carried the attitude into the foyer area. I tried to talk with her there and the attitude was all I could see, so I thought if we went back into the restroom where there were fewer people, we could talk. Not good. She apparently wants suspension!!!
Hanna threw a fit in her study hall class. Mrs. Verley told Hanna not to come back to her class during study hall. During study hall Hanna stated, "I am going to pee all over this school if you don't let me go to the restroom."
Hanna back talks and is disrespectful
Hanna was sitting in the booth that had too many students. When asked to move, Hanna refused.
Christmas is over finally. I managed to survive with 0 Christmas spirit this year. I did have more spirit than my father though, whose spirit levels were in the negatives.
Christmas Eve was spent at my grandparents (father's side). Before I could get there, I almost ended up getting arrested for disturbing the peace at Wal Mart. I was rushing around doing last minute shopping, and it was 5:50 and I demanded they let me in Wal Mart since it was 10 minutes to close. The bitch at the front door refused, so I just lost it and started ripping into her. Fuck Wal Mart.
Dinner on Christmas Eve was good (Ham and pie). We also opened gifts and gave my grandmother a TiVo Tutorial so she can keep recording her episodes of Mama's Family. After we left, I went home and started to install my mom's Christmas gift in her car. I got her an XM unit so she doesn't have to listen to the drivel that is streamed through the FM airwaves around here.
Everyone seemed to enjoy the gifts I got them. I got my dad a new Colts pullover jacket, my brother a Netflix Gift subscription and my sister a pink Nikon digital camera.
I rake in 3 xbox 360 games (Table Tennis, Smackdown vs. Raw 2007 and Tiger Woods 07), which will keep me occupied well into late February or March. I also got some new clothes from my sister and brother. Apparently they don't enjoy seeing me wear the same general t-shirt, jeans, track jacket ensemble I have been sporting for the past 18 months. Who knew!
Christmas evening was at my other grandparents and featured 22 people who really don't get along that well: ah chaos! My sister was running around performing The Hanna Show. If you aren't aware, The Hanna Show is where Hanna realizes she has new people to show off around and tries to be funny and obnoxious all at the same time. Unfortunately, my sister is not funny, btu she is very obnoxious.
The line of the night came from my insanely quiet cousin who finally had his fill of my sister, looks over at her and says:
You're a fucking idiot.
Christmas!
After Christmas at the Webers, I headed back home and then went to try and snag some dinner with Jenna at Yen Ching. We got there and were informed they had run out of food. Who runs out of food on Christmas! Defeated, we headed home hungry and just opened gifts. She got me a very nice Bulova watch, an Apple gift card and a new FCUK track jacket (she obviously appreciates my daily clothing ensemble). I got her a red iPod nano.
All in all Christmas was good. I'm glad its over though. Now it's back to work.
I've been told that I have neglected my Vox blog about as much as I neglect carpeaqua these days. It's not for a lack of desire to write about my daily grind, but merely that I am out of words by the end of the day. The past few weeks have been filled with way too much book writing and editing. I put in about 10,000 words this week. Ugh. The Rails book is in the home stretch: I have one more chapter to edit and then its just proofing. I will be so glad to get that monkey off my back.
The Leopard book is coming along nicely, and I enjoy writing it much more than the Rails book. It is a bit frustrating as the audience for the book keeps changing on the whim and it makes it harder to write. Tack on to that the fact that I have no clue when Leopard is going to be out, so I am pretty much waiting on Apple.
In non-book related news, I am actually rebuilding my client work. I closed a major deal for Second Gear this week: our biggest to date. The project is going to make life even more hectic for the next 30 days, but it will definitely be worth it. I don't like the holidays anyway, so being able to bury myself at work and avoid them will be just fine by me.
In more personal news, I am feeling a bit better about my whole birthday annoyance. One person came through, while another one has still pretty much disowned me. That's fine. Hopefully I won't have some sort of uncomfortable encounter over Thanksgiving. That's just what I don't need.
I really need to get back into taking pictures. Maybe I can find some time this weekend to go shoot.
Tomorrow I am boarding a flight for Chicago again to attend C4 (and see Dana of course). Instead of having to make the 90 minute drive to Louisville, I got a flight out of the Evansville airport. It costs about $100 more, but it saves me putting more miles on my car. After I arrive in town tomorrow, we are going to see Wicked. I tend to go to one show a year in an attempt to have some culture in my life beyond what is on my TiVo or Netflix queue. Unlike many of the other shows I have seen before, I am actually looking forward to this one. Rumor has it it will be in English. That's a first for me. :)
In other news, I decided to color my hair brown. I have been a blonde all my life and have been ribbed by my family for having the same haircut since I was 10. In an act of spite, I decided to color my hair as dark as possible while still maintaining a natural look to it. I am very happy with how it turned out although not everyone can be pleased (my father and brother most notably).
I also got an Xbox 360 the other night. I have wanted one since last Christmas when they were next to impossible to find, and lucked into a decent deal one one this week. I only have two games thus far, and have been playing NHL 07 exclusively. I have Saints Row, but I didn't want to start it until I get back from Chicago Sunday night. I had a lot of book editing to do this week, and starting a game like that just engulfs me way too much. I also picked up Sonic Rush for my DS since it was $10 a Target. I figure playing a game for a few hours at the airport is more fun than spending that $10 on a few magazines to read.
by the way, my Xbox Live handle is carpeaqua. Add me as your friend so I can feel special.
And finally, we are moving in the next 4 weeks. My family has pretty much decided we want to move on to the next chapter of our lives and get out of the neighborhood that has haunted us for the past 6 years and head to our new/temporary home on the other side of town. It's a bit smaller, but it gives me an excuse to buy some new furniture that I can then take with me when I make my move to another city (still thinking Nashville).
What was the last wedding you went to? Were you in the wedding?
Oh my. The last wedding I went to I got in so much trouble. I wasn't in the wedding, didn't know the bride or groom, etc. I was just a tag along for Emily because she was friends with them. I guess you could say that i had a Larry David Moment.
Let me preface this by saying I hate weddings and will never get married. No woman is taking half my fortune. Why get married when there is such a thing as domestic partnerships? :)
Anyway, I get dressed up for this wedding (meaning I wear khaki pants with my tennis shoes) and go to the church. We sit towards the back because I couldn't be on time to anything. Also in the back is this woman and her screaming child. This little asshole is just making noise during the entire ceremony and it's bugging me for two reasons:
- I don't like children because they are not well behaved.
- If this was my wedding and your kid was making stupid noises through the entire ceremony, I would tell the priest to stop until you got that kid out of there.
I am not hte only one annoyed by this kid as others are looking back at her with the get your kid out of here look. Of course she didn't because she couldn't fathom someone being annoyed by her little tike or that it might be ruining someone else's special day.
So, as the priest is saying those magical words ("You may kiss the bride") the baby woman finally decides to take her child out, and my subconscious decides to use my vocal chords.
"It's about fucking time," I say.
Everyone around me turns to look at me. Emily chastises me and is completely embarassed that I said this so loudly and that I cursed in church. What a zilch I can be.
Sometimes I really need a filter between my brain and my mouth.
As a software developer, I don't think there is anything more frightening than letting your projects out in the wild. We spend months working on these applications. They see some secondary eyeballs through beta testing, but it's nowhere near as massive as the rest of the world. Then, there comes the time where you have to just accept that it's time to release and let go.
The wait for reaction is scary. I am always afraid that there is going to be a catastrophic bug that I missed or that people won't like what I have done. I guess it comes with the turf.
I hope everyone likes Porchlight. I sure do.
Other than the 5 years I spent at Purdue, I've been living in Evansville my entire life. I don't necessarily dislike Evansville, but I don't want to spend my entire life in the same city and state. With that in mind, I am planning on packing up and moving to Nashville, Tennessee in the first part of 2007.
Why Nashville? It has music, culture, is close to home (3 hours) and is something completely new. A lot has to happen in the next 6 months for this to be possible: for one, Second Gear needs to keep growing at the rate it is going so I can afford to live comfortablely. Second, I need to find somewhere to live. Here's my requirements:
- Relatively close to the city. I don't mind the suburbs, but I don't want to be more than 10 minutes from downtown.
- A garage. I need an apartment that has garages. I drive a brand new Lexus. I am not leaving it outside.
- New apartment. I want to live somewhere that was built in the last 5-7 years and hopefully is more upscale than your regular run-of-the-mill apartment.
So if you live in Nashville or have lived there, can you offer me any suggestions on where to look?
