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I have been so productive at work!

yesterday, I spent most of the day cleaning up the mp3's on my ipod. of course, I only have 5635 on there... unfortunately, I did not include my audio books (which are pretty much just harry potter, though lorie did buy the davinci code, so I'll probably rip that) nor the thousand or so that I got from random people which are all pretty much sitting in a folder on my desktop at home.

probably not going to get to those anytime soon.

they all would have been included on my ipod, but due to lack of memory and the want of some semblance of organization, I had to leave them.

"cleaning up" includes the following:
correcting all the ID3 tags so that song title and artist are correct. all album, track, and genre informatino was removed for those that I did not rip from cd's the lorie and I own or that I did not buy through itunes. currently my ipod contains about half and half - half legal and then the others.

adding album artwork to all tracks ripped from cd's. individually, not an impressive task. given that I ripped over 200 cd's - a little more daunting when trying to update them all in one sitting. fortunately for me, I have some time whilst in my cube.

deleting duplicate or bad tracks. duplicates are easy enough. I may still have a little work on the bad tracks.

some fyi's to the world. to fill album artwork box you need an image at a minimum of 150x150. though 300x300 usually looks much better. also, I'm sure other people knew this, but when in itunes, you can change the album artwork between the selected item in your library or on your ipod and the artwork for the track that is playing. when using selected item, you can select multiple items and just drag and image from a web page or from a directory into that box to change the artwork for those items. much much faster than selecting multiple items and doing a get info and dragging into the box there. saves time when updated hundreds of tracks.

tonight will be my last night in here.

and I am happy.

to give you an analogy about my current perception of "it", I will say "it" was planned and sold by an over-optimistic contractor who can really talk and just wanted a sale, lead by a foreman who knows practically everything but doesn't know how to get it all out efficiently, whipping a group of under-appreciated mercenaries who are being forced to slam, kick, and stuff an oversized square peg in an undersized round hole in half the amount of time it takes to get an undersized round peg into its corresponding undersized round hole, using duct tape, staples, and paste. all the while, keeping an eye out for any reason to shift blame to anyone... not to mention the one person with questionable-morality who always works for the contractor because of this that and the other.

but whatever. I'm not about to go burning bridges. I'm just going to stay as far away from those builders as possible.

hopefully the next two months go as care-free for me as possible since I'll probably have more to prove on the place I am going to after the place I'm going to next.

now. hopefully we can get the water pressure in the house fixed, because not having it sucks. and I have to fixe the roof and the ceiling by the fireplace.

I am taking three weeks off in june. I plan on doing it then.

in the meantime, I'll be able to listen to my ipod and actually know what the song is called and which artist is actually performing it. this is all with the assumption that I have the correct information. and I will also be able to utilize the organization contained within the ipod to play specific artists or albums (where I have album information) how neat.

however taking a quick look at the selection of tracks on my ipod and the tracks played the most. to quote a former roommate's former roommate - "I didn't know ipods came in gay".

ok. back to work.

I need to update a few playlists so that I don't get made fun of whilst playing poker and something to keep me going at the gym.

there is a blackhole of time called the wii.

hiro and kris came over on friday. we were going to watch a movie or something, maybe go bowling, maybe go play pool, whatever. hiro is back from japan and we just wanted to catch up.

6pm. ryan: "there is a movie at 7:15 - we can leave in 30 minutes to make it." we were going to watch blades of glory I think.
hiro: "that's fine, what do you want to do for now?"
kris: "you wanna play wii until we leave?"

::: playing wii sports :::

7:30pm ryan: "uh, we missed the showing"
hiro: "haha, is there another"
ryan: "yeah, at 9"
kris: "ok, we'll go see that one"

::: playing wii play (tanks!) :::

8:45pm ryan:"you guys just want to scratch the movie and order something in?"
hiro and kris: "haha, yeah"

::: still playing :::

11:58pm kris: "ryan, why is your clock fast? it says it's almost midnight?"
ryan: "um, that's the right time."
kris: "dude, I have to work tomorrow"
ryan: "ok, one more round of bowling"

::: one round and a few training sessions of bowling later :::
12:50am kris: "I gotta go"
hiro: "yeah it's late"
ryan: "uh, how long did you work today? not including lunch?"
hiro: "8 hour day, 1 hour for lunch, so 7 hours..."
ryan: "and you came straight from work to here?" [my house]
hiro: "yeah"
ryan: "you realized we just played wii for as long as you worked today"
hiro: "ha, I should have gotten paid for this."

::: kris and hiro leave :::
3am - gambit is now pro in bowling and ryan has completely changed his bowling swing.\

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I've been making mii's like crazy, and no one is in my parade... :-(

watching wicked with co-workers is not as cool as watching it with family or friends.

It's hard to get excited about something if you know you are going to get mocked for it or if you know no one else will share your excitement. some of my co-workers were practically falling asleep. can you believe that?

tidbit - deedee magno - who is now deedee magno hall and of mmc and the party - was nessarose. she played kim in miss saigon for a while. fiyero was played by her husband, who apparently played chris in said production of miss saigon. just thought it was neat, since I practically grew up watching the new mmc and still listen to some of the stuff by the party... probably more for nostalgia sake, but also because I'm a dork.

don't judge me.

anyhow, afterwards, the cast members were collecting donations for some local charities and for a $60 donation you could have gotten a signed poster of the cast. I almost did it, but then decided against it. I was probably going to do it more for getting the signed poster instead of for whatever the cause was - which I have since forgotten. I probably would have done it if I saw deedee just to get a picture, but I didn't and I figured I didn't really need a signed cast poster of wicked. I definitely would have done it if it were idina menzel or kristin chenoweth, but it wasn't. although the cast did have crazy pipes, and they were full out on all of the songs, which was not the case the first time I saw it and it was a little disappointing given the first time watching it...

my favorite thing about watching musicals over and over is the fact that it's always a different experience - the cast changes, the songs might change a little, blocking, some lines, little extras that each person brings to their roles...

next time, I will definitely vie for closer seats.

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then I got lost on the way back to the hotel.

the end.

she also said, "God gives us relatives; thank God we can choose our friends."

the mark of a great friend is knowing that person will be there for you without having to say it.

perhaps some people measure friendship by all of the interaction that takes place. true, this builds bonds, and I guess these bonds need to be created, but once the bonds have been forged, it doesn't matter what happens after that, because they will always be there and thought days, months, or even years may pass, nothing seems to change between you. you can pick up right where you left off.

barring, of course, the unrequited love clause and an active and obsessive imagination - but let's not talk about that.

maybe this isn't true. maybe it's just wishful thinking on my part, becuse I don't really get to see anyone. but whatever - those times that I do get to see anyone, especially lorie, I am elated beyond words. I feel those pieces that were missing return and there is a sense of completeness.

maybe I would like to think that nothing has changed between people after long breaks, because maybe if that was not the case, then my fragile mind would not be able to handle the reality that people move on without you and that you can never catch up with them.

yeah right.

that would suck. for the world.

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I was reading up on pascal's wager. I've heard it before, but never in this form or as succinctly. I kind of look at it and go.

"duuuh."

but whatever.

choice is choice and choice is our right as humans.

so choose. and there are only two options.

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I get to see wicked today.

work is sponsoring.

we have extra tickets.

if you can get to houston prior to 7pm CDT - we might be able to get you in.

of course. given that it's 1:30pm and that any place ticket would be more than the cost of a seat - it's probably not a worthwhile endeavor.

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"I must make pee-pee" ~Antoine Laconte, Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo

so... I'm not going to be taking the month of June off.

I will be taking the week before kris's wedding off.

I will be taking the week of the fourth of july off.

I will probably have the month of may off.

good enough.

hopefully I will like my next project better.

I know some of the people involved with it already, but I'm not 100% sure that I will have it, although my name is penciled in.

barring some other exciting project, I think I'm set.

if I don't get the promotion this year, I will use the experience I have gained throughout all of my time at my company and vie for another job at another place that will pay me oodles more for the same product.

but enough about work.

let's talk about wii.

let's talk about the fact that my right tricep is becoming much more defined and much bigger than my left.

let's talk about the fact that my lovely wife and my sister are both sore due to playing baseball with all thier might.

let's talk about the fact that lorie (still my lovely wife) actually rented games from blockbuster because she wanted to play them.

let's talk about the fact that the only games most girls I've met like to play is bust-a-move (bubble bobble) and tetris and dr. mario.

let's talk about how fun it is making mii's

let's talk about how hard it is to make certain people's mii's

let's talk about the fact that we spent a huge portion of saturday night playing mii's and eating pizza.

now.

if we could also find time to talk. ;-P

just kidding, a lot seems to get discussed whilst playing the wii.

got sonic now.

gotta get used to the play control.

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by the way. having terrible water pressure sucks beyond belief.

I should not make the mistake of thinking I can have more than one obsession at a time.

it is too expensive straight away; it is too time consuming, and time is precious; and, at times, there is too much temptation and stress to handle.

that being said, if money was not an issue, if time was not an issue, I would probably glad try to handle the stress and temptation that comes along with said obsession.

of course, my obsessions are more simple in nature. in order from junior highschool to the present - board games, fire, cds, stupid videos, anime, command and conquer, bust-a-move 2, gambit, comics, rogue spear, the matrix, trigun, poker, paintball, harry potter, airsoft, the thursday next series, the mallory series, resident evil, magic, final fantasty, guitar hero, conquer club, guitar hero II, zelda, wii...

it is much easier to have one at a time, because that can balanced to allow some degree of normalcy in life. you can put it aside and do something real. when you have more than one, you move from one to the other and back again and forget that life is moving outside you own head.

but yes, I had these... some peoplehave shoes or clothes, some people have sports, some people have golf, some people have work, some people have substances, some people have self-control, and some people have a condition.

I guess we all need something outside the "required" aspects of life.

I just hope mine stay harmless.

all that being said. I just spent 5 minutes at uncannyxmen.net and I am so far out of the loop of the storylines that I do not want to try to get back into it.

right now, I just want to collect all of the poes' souls and free jovani, then get to the bottom of the cave of ordeals, and then save zelda.

but I'm at work.

and I'm pretty sure I have things to do this weekend.

I guess she's going to be trapped a while longer.

6am flight. that means I have to wake up at around 3:30 to 4:00am depending on if I have to check my luggage or not and if I'm packed.

sunday was palm sunday and rosie and kris's bridal shower. after church and the shower, we ended going to my mom's for dinner, because she had food and we don't have water pressure. but the latter point has nothing to do with the former. we ended up being at my mom's until about 8:30pm when lorie and I decided that we should go to target.

we went to target, because going to target is always a good idea. it shouldn't be, but it is. anyhow, we ended up finding a nunchuk for the wii there so that we now have four remotes and four nunchuks... if we ever decide to start buying points to get old school games, we'll eventually have to get the controllers as well... but that's in the future.

whatever. we got home at around 9:30pm, when lorie decides to return casino royale which has been in our house for two weeks and needed to be returned to blockbuster. she returned homw with two movies and two wii game rentals.

I was packing my clothes for the week. haven't gotten a chance to take my clothes to the cleaners because of a combination of procrastination and prioritzation and the fact that I have more than enough clothes to cover, but whatever. lorie wants to play the wii cooking game.

cute game. can keep you entertained for about 15 minutes, and if we owned it, I would play it just to beat it. super monkeyball (the other game) was more fun, but lorie kept kicking my but in the multiplayer games which weren't explained very well and we just ended up mashing and swinging to get through the games. fun game though, but my mind has been on zelda for the last few weeks, so until I complete that, I really won't be too interested in other games...

hmm... I digress... where is this going? oh yeah, so 10pm and we start playing wii, two and ahalf hours go by before I realize that I have to wake up soon. except, I'm not sleeping yet, therfore I can't wake up until I sleep. lorie reluctantly decides that, yes, she should also go to sleep, and I set 6 alarms (three on my phone and three on the alarm clock) to make sure I get up in time so that I don't miss my flight.

holy crap.

there was absolutely no point to this post.

haha.

tried to watch dream girls on the plane, but feel asleep because I was too tired.

sleep is good.

I get to see lorie two weekends in a row!

these are exciting times, my friend.

exciting.

this coming sunday is Easter. I don't think I'm as prepared as I would have liked to have been. I guess one is never as prepared as one would like, but I would have liked to at least been more prepared than I am. time has been moving to fast that things have been sneaking up on me... I'm used to doing all of the sneaking.

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and work is slowing down.

when that happens I always get paranoid, because I think either I'm missing something or something bad is about to happen. that may be the more pessemistic side of me.

ugh. I'm going to stop talking about that now.

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coming home thursday.

happy.

today is only tuesday.

sad.

thinking about meet the robinsons

happy.

hahaha...

funny movie.