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2002.09.27 (from the archives)

Part of a series of posts from my old website archives. Enjoy!

2002.09.27 – 3:30am

It is time for a change. Patrick, one of my roomates, and I will be moving into a new place. Due to some situations surrounding us and a lot of details I won’t go into here on this site, both of us decided to take our housing situation into our own hands and accelerate the inevitable. Within a few months, we will have had to find a place anyway; now is the best time of the year to do so, what with all the UT students back and apartments sitting there with empty units. I say it’s a damned good time to be a renter. ¡Viva la renter!

It’s a nice, 2 bedroom, 1 1/2 bathroom apartment in a small complex, what looks like it used to be a motel or something, like back when Hwy 290 traffic brought travelers into town. The neighbors appear to be cool, more working-class types, and two of my friends live, like, 2 doors down from us. Gas and water are paid; our only bills will be electricity, and then cable-modem and phone. Believe me, brother, it’ll be nice to live on the cheap. And get this: this place, for its price and location, is huge, something like 930 square feet (which, apparently is “large”). The whole place is very well kept. The pool has been cemented-over, apparently after a previous resident tried to jump into it from the second-floor balcony. (True Darwinism at its finest, folks.) The grounds outside the complex are OK, but the open-air courtyard is well maintained. Even the railings have a good solid coat of aqua-green paint. Nice, nice.

I can’t wait to begin moving next week. But no rest for the wicked until it’s done. (*yawn*)

It’s bedtime for Bonzo. G’nite.

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2002.09.18 (from the archives)

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2002.09.18 – 11:00pm

Hi there, y’all. Site update. Word. I’m not even going to apologize for the five months of website silence. If you know me, then you’ll know that it’s par for the course, baby.

Lately, though, I’ve been toying around with a lot of programming this week, and the major part of it the past few days has been the JavaScript on this site. Not completely done, but it works in just about every browser (your mileage may vary). You can now scroll the news/journal document window using the arrows on the right; each click scrolls a certain amount. I’ve done everything in my power to make this as cross-browser as possible. If you have problems, send me a message and tell me about it. After all this work, sometimes I can’t help but feel, after all the research I’ve done online, that I’ve re-invented the wheel. Then so be it. More wheels = more fault tolerance. (think about that one)

So, personally: doing what I can to keep a good head on my shoulders. Seems people have been getting awfully moody around here, but somehow I manage to keep a decent attitude about it. Dunno. ::shrugs:: Been feeling a little bit more aggro the past few days, like in a “c’mon, dammit, let’s get this shit done for crissakes” way. It’s a good thing, I’ll say that. I’m so tired of waffling around, and having everyone else around me waffle around on things. It’s time to get business done. Seriously. Grrrrr.

I think I’ve finally settled on a design for my first tattoo, whenever it is that I’ll be able to afford such a luxury. I’ll tell you about the design and the story behind it later. I’m still kicking it around for feedback.

My roomate situation is borderline floopflop. Dunno what to say about what’s going on, but with this being a public forum, I can’t say much.

Work? Still employed, almost enjoyably so. The workflow is steady at times; though a few of my coworkers know how to slack, we still kick a lot of ass in getting those books made and shipped out. More books = more profit = more pay.

And I still don’t have a steady girlfriend. Care to donate one?