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Im typing this entry from the instinct. $70 a month for 450 minutes and unlimited text, data, email, tv... seems pretty good, though i can't play the facebook apps... i can also use the gps too... i'm a little excited. i'm also getting the hang of the keyboard too, which is pretty slick. i'm liking it so far. time will tell.

I've been up since lorie left. that was three hours ago.

I've closed all of the windows and the blinds so that the sun cannot come in. I am unwilling to turn on the air conditioner. so I will be cleaning in my boxers and a t-shirt, so at least I won't be completely in the buff should anyone stop by unexpectedly.

aaand I'm a loser.

second run through zelda, but it's backwards. basically, link is usually left handed. but for the wii, he's right handed, which is why the whole game is mirrored imaged from the gamecube version.

there seem to be only 17 episodes of the last season of alias.

like I said, I'm loser. I have a lot to do.

I should probably get to it.

but after this disc.

I'm pretty funny.

I am really.

I'm so funny that it annoys people.

of course, I could analyze that and come to the conclusion that I am merely annoying.

but that's not the case.

I'm sooooo funny that it annoys people how funny I am.

(ego talking - no other explanation - because I know I'm really not that funny)

I have developed a tough skin - it was needed. because if you dish it out, you need to be able to take it, which is also why I've tried to avaoid joking around in a way that could possibly make people feel bad.

"Oh, let me guess. Another box with a crank that I turn and turn and turn until... whoo... a clown pops out. Then you laugh, the kids laugh, the dog laughs, and I die a little more inside." -stewie griffin

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the bruce campbell commercial where he sings hungry like a wolf whilst playing the piano is AWESOME.

i love bruce campbell. but not more than friends.

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so a few things. I am telling everyone this because maybe someone will find me a job where I can get paid the same amount as I make now doing this, but believe it or not, I am excel expert.

I am. really.

I can do formulas cold.

pivot tables are a snap.

I know so many shortcuts it's ridiculous.

I'm so good that I almost put too much effort in my spreadsheets... because really, not every spreadsheet needs buttons to sort every column and you don't need macros for everything.

but sue me, I like coding.

which brings me to the fact that I've rediscovered how much I like coding. for the past few weeks, I've been coding pl/sql. I'm pretty good at it.

which brings me back to the fact that I am funny.

because only funny people like programming.

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i got drunk on wednesday.

my wii#:
6410 7099 7483 5035

Add mine and please comment with yours and I will add it to mine as well.

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

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.

so I just found out that although I have enough flights to the end of the year, i probably won't be making platinum status...

basically, I need 11 segments from now until the end of the year but because the way they classify my tickets, I won't be eligible for the segments for the flights I'm on... which means I need to figure out how to get 11 qualifying flights in before the year ends...

probably not going to happen.

so that blows.

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ok... so I just did some math... and I'll be 13000 miles short of actually doing it via miles... it's actually not all that many in the grand scheme of things. a flight to the west coast is probably 3000 miles round trip easy... if I do four flights to the west coast, I think I could cover it.... the problem then would be what I would be doing there... plus I'd only fly out for a day. oh... and the whole cost of the ticket... so boo on that idea.

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ugh.

gotcha.

a classic movie in my mind, which I haven't seen since I was in thrid grade. it was probably very much too much for me to see at that age, but nevertheless I remember quite a lot of the movie and probably a lot of the lines from it.

in any case, in the beginning, there were people playing a game where they had to tag everyone with what I vaugely remember being a paintball handgun. probably nothing near as powerful as the markers of today... rather large but mostly concealable...

they were give a list of people who they were required to "hit" other players of the game or maybe designated targets that would report back to some governing authority. in any case, anthony edwards (ER) was the top dog, so to speak and was popping people lef tand right... a trip to europe turned him into a reluctant spy, adventure ensues...

which got me thinking, well, actually it's probably something I always wanted to do (I'm not sure how telling this is, but you're just going to have to trust that I'm not a psycho) was to do a "hit" but not really kill anyone.

long range, close range, remote, blah blah... probably why I like paintball so much - all of the rush but none of the death. well, maybe not all of the rush, because I have no idea, nor do I wish to know, what it feels like to be in a life or death situation.

I try to imagine sometimes, but I get too creeped out and thing about bunnies and other happy things...

but whatever - I think I'm going to go around the office with post-its with "gotcha" written on them and stick them on the backs of co-workers.

basically, I will continue until I get caught and then tally my score.

if someone figures out the game and hits me back, then the game ends as well and my tally stops there.

I figured post-its are much safer than paintballs or airsoft, but it probably won't satisfy my desire to peg someone from a distance... I guess I have to wait until we play sniperstrike next time we play paintball...

anyone want to play "pretend assassins" with me?

I'll make up dossiers and backgrounds on intended targets and methods of "execution"

I think the best we can probably do is post-it them or maybe booby trap their door with the pull snaps or hit them with throw snaps. sort of like mafia - but more action. and you can't get caught either. maybe we throw in a detective... maybe we don't...

if I say paintballs or plastic bb's, I'm pretty sure people will judge me much more than they are now. well, that and no one would want to play...

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don't judge me.

you know you want to play too.

post-it notes
pull snaps
throw snaps

and maybe some hot peppers. :-P

there is a "10-year" rule for those considered the tops in any field.

10 years of hardwork,deliberate practice...

according to this article
which is probably from a few days ago... a world-class virtuoso will have practiced 10,000 hours in his or her lifetime.

if you break 10,000 hours into 10 years (obviously not a lifetime) you will have something like 2.5 hours a day, every day...

but it requires deliberate practice (observing and constantly adjusting and fixing mistakes) not just pounding away at the piano or swinging a golf club a thousand times with no real technique.

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so, if I were to just practice playing the piano, with a really good teacher mind you, since I graduated highschool then I could probably be a concert pianist right now.

the article goes on to talk about how certain people "stop learning" and how others continue to learn... something to do with drive and proper practicing technique...

i've repeated myself.

anyhow, I wonder if it would be possible to be a world class geek... I probably have more than enough practice at that.

actually... scratch that. I am a world class geek - the trick now is to find someone to pay me for being one.

so for all of those people who are you think are talented - they are not natural born - they are raised...

it gives me hope... one day, I can still possibly be a ballerina! :-P

dude.

heroes is a GREAT show. don't know why I like it so much. maybe because it's GREAT?

I could spoil it for you, but I won't because you should probably just watch it.

because it's GREAT.

I hope it finishes like it started... GREAT.

hahaha... I'm watching it right now, so I'm having trouble thinking about what to type.

I'm gonna stop now. so I can watch.

I'm holding on for a hero til the morning light...

I google the world.

I google everything - I'm not sure if you knew but you can google earth.

oh, you knew that?

did you know you can google mars and the moon?

I already mentioned google books...

and just so it's out there... because I'm not sure that it's common knowledge, nor am I aware of any formal documentation of it... but just so you know.

When searching in google - most people enter the text for which they are looking. For example:

lorie ryan

the above implies looking for documents (html pages are documents) that have lorie and ryan somewhere relatively close together.

exact phrase searching:

"lorie and ryan"

that will only return documents that have the phrase as you typed it exactly with no exclusions, so if you don't want a million pages returned and you know that those words will be right next to each other - use it.

the OR search - really it should be self-explanatory, but I will just say for who don't have time to think about it. it will return either search parameter, regardless if the other one is present or not.

ryan OR lorie

I only use that when in conjuction with exact phrases, because otherwise it would be pointless...

now, if you want to exclude certain words (like to get rid of unwanted and inappropriate sites you can do the following

ryan -evil

the first term is what you want, the one following the "-" is what you don't. simple.

also ther eis the site searech... you can choose to look is a specfic site:

"ryan and lorie" site:babiegoose.com

it will look form the search string in the indicated website... I use it a lot with imdb.com and wikipedia.org...

to get tricky you can look for links to web pages... say you want to find sites that link you... do this:

link:www.babiegoose.com 

if you want to see the lasted cached version of the site (so if you go offline, this is what you would probably be able to pull up)

cache:www.babiegoose.com ryan

of course, I almost never use that, but you might... say if you lost all of your data from a page and you can pull a cached version to recover something - hopefully... of course if you cleared your cache, then there will probably not be anything there...

the following are like the exact phrase and exclusion, except they are for document types - some other document types php, html, htm... you get the idea

lorie filetype:doc OR filetype:pdf

lorie -filetype:doc 

lorie -filetype:pdf

and the following will give you some of the same info as what is above... just more concise and specific to whatever address you give it...

info:www.babiegoose.com 

I am not a representative nor do I endorse google... I am not getting paid, I just prefer this search engine over others... google. wikipedia. imdb. if I don't hit all of those at least once in the day, then I'm not at work. :-P

I also prefer SUV's to cars, snowboarding to skiing, in-line skating to skateboarding, paintball to basketball, pepsi to coke, ice cream to gelatto or yogurt or custard, fall to summer, full moon to any other phase...

and I prefer being happy.

it's all good...

uh, and if you don't know, now you know...