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1. How old will you be in 3 years?
three years older than I am now...

2. Do you think you'll be married by then?
Yes. I will still be married.

3. What do you look forward to most in the next 2 months?
Seeing lorie at any point. Seeing my family at any point. Thursday's when I fly home. Being told at any point that everything will be good from now on, and it being true.

4. Who was the last person you talked to?
my mom (it was too late for me to call lorie, and I was returning kimmie's phone call)

5. what do you think about the person that took this survey before you?
I stole this from amit. he like clue. that makes him cool. "nnnnnaoh." "I'm sorry, I said no meaning yes."

6. Who was the last person to text you?
lorie. she said 'ok'.

7. Who was the last person you hugged?
I think it was isaiah or ethan. I gave everyone else kisses or I slapped their hands. I think they call that 'giving fives'

8. What were you doing at midnight last night?
watching 'the batman' and 'legion of superheroes' thinking, 'Wow, I'm such a cool dude.'

9. Parents separated/divorced/married?
Interesting question. I guess you could say widowed, but my mom is now engaged.

10. Last time you saw your dad?
August 18, 1997, around 12:30am...

11. What happened at 11:00 a.m. today?
I decided I needed to go to target to get lotion, hair product, and boxers

12. How many states do you want to visit?
as many as possible, except the states that cause bodily or mental harm, deficiency, etc. US states... well, the 5 or 6 I haven't been to yet...



14. Do you prefer shoes, socks, or bare feet?
it's seasonal. bare, etiquette permitting.

15. Are you a social person?
Yeah

17. Favorite ice cream?
anything with nuts, chocolate, or mint, or any combination thereof...

18. What is your favorite dessert?
I'll go with Ice Cream for 2000, Alex

19. Whats your favorite song right now?
This very second, I think I'll have to say, 'Wonderful tonight' Michael Buble/Ivan Lins

20. What kind of jelly do you like on your peanut butter sandwich?
Raspberry jelly

21. Do you like coffee?
yes, but prefer espresso if I need the caffeine and chai if there is soy.

22. How many glasses of water a day do you drink on average?
two

23. What do you drink in the morning?
oj or iced tea

24. Would you rather kiss someone with or without a lip ring?
Without

25. Do you sleep on a certain side of the bed?
Yes. on the top of the bed.

26. Do you know how to play poker?
Yes. but I suck at it.

28. Any plans for this week?
work. mowing the lawn. seeing my family. cooking dinner for lorie.

29. Do you eat out or at home more often?
out. can't cook in the hotel - well I can, but it would stink my clothes up. when I'm home, I like to eat there.

34. Have you ever been in an ambulance?
No.

35. Do you prefer an ocean or a pool?
yes. I do, very much so.

36. Do you prefer a window seat or an aisle seat?
window.

37. Do you know how to drive a stick shift?
yes.

38. What is your favorite thing to spend money on?
when I have money, anything that's not a bill.

39. Do you wear any jewelry 24/7?.
yes. my ring.

40. Do you speak any other language?
English. Bad English. a tiny bit of japanese. a tiny bit of tagalog. a tiny bit of spanish. a tiny bit of french. to make a long story short (too late) No. I cannot speak any other language with any degree of fluency. unless you count programming languages.

41. Can you roll your tongue?
only once. people that can do it multiple times are weird.

42. Who is the funniest person you know?
steen or phil... they are pretty funny. they might technically count as one, since they are married... :-P


43. Do you sleep with stuffed animals?
yes, it's name is 'Pillow'

44. Are you in a relationship?
Yes.

45. Do you still have clothes from when you were little?
like 95lbs. little or like toddler little. yes and no, respectively.

46. What is the color of your bedroom wall?
river rock - dark blue (I don't know the name of the blue)

47. Do you shut off the water when you brush your teeth?
in the hotel - no. at home - no.

48. Are you crushing on someone right now?
my boo.

49. Do you have any tattoos, or piercings?
haven't checked in a while... so, maybe?

you could literally copy and paste each week for me.

it's all pretty much the same.

minor details regarding work.

so it's obviously the weekends I live for now.

I haven't blogged in a while.

the client pretty much blocks everything.

not cool.

today was the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

for those of you that don't know. it's the day that Mary was taken, bodily, into heaven. The way I understood it, after Jesus conquered death by resurrection, He honored His Mother by allowing her to be the first to be resurrected into His Kingdom.

from what I can tell, there is a question whether or not Mary actually died, or if she was assumed at the very instant of her death. The eastern orthodox call this day the Dormition - and believe that she was entombed and that after three days she was raised, bodily, into heaven.

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that's it. thought it was neat.

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courage is on. I like to watch him, he's funny.

it is may.

it has been for a week now.

it is 2006.

it has been for a little over four months now...

here are a few things that have become "normal", although I do not remember when they became so...

my body doesn't heal nearly as fast. since I've stopped working out I've noticed an increase in several vital statistics. since I've stopped stretching [period] I've noticed a decrease in my flexibility.

I can't drink heavily four nights in a row and expect to function correctly the following mornings... of course, I'm not sure that I could ever do that because during the time period that I thought I was capable, it probably was more the fact that I didn't have to do anything [like work or school] the next morning, so essentially I could have just slept through the mornings thus avoiding noticing how bad they would have been...

I enjoy not going to the bar and not coming home smelling like smoke and not having an $80 plus bar tab...

I enjoy sleeping with my spouse. I enjoy not having the alarm wake me up in the morning. I would like very much to not talk to neighbors who like to complain about noise, about the lawn, about blah blah blah because they have nothing better to do than take care of their lawn or sleep.

I enjoy home cooked food, spending time with my family, and not paying for gas...

I enjoy vacation. I enjoy zero stress.

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on that note.

later!

there are things that just typically happen, over and over and over...

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it is typical for kimmie to pick me up from the airport, and when we are on the way back to my house, around exit 22 she will accuse me of burping or farting in her car, when every time it is the landfill we are passing...

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it is typical that I will snooze from 6:35am to 7:45am. The hope is I get up at 6:35am to get the day started early, but I am typically too lazy and wake up at 7:45am in a rush to get to work on time.

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it is typical that my leftovers from lunch become my dinner.

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it is typical that I find myself thinking that I would rather be at home with lorie than be platinum elite anything

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it is typical for me to fall asleep to adult-swim when I am away. it is typical for me to fall asleep to nbc when I am home.

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it is typical for people to blog about superficial, yet amusing things or rant about thing that are upsetting them. those things are easy to give away... it is very hard to put yourself out there on a deep level when you know the people who are reading...

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it is typical for me to veg out on friday morning because I just like to "be" and be home...

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it is typical for me to make sweeping generalizations about many things, because intimacy requires effort and effort leads to stress and stress...

well... stress sucks.

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I'm into meditation now. I support any belief that says nondoing is the best thing you can do for yourself. My mom's been saying I'm lazy, but it turns out I'm just Buddhist.

HAHAHAHAHA!

So SUCK IT!

Thats not very Buddhist, but I only read the first chapter...

so I saw a movie last night.

went with a bunch of co-workers...

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don't you hate it, when you are watching a movie and that guy who sits there watching every minute aspect of the movie, and then figures out the whole movie and tells you about 15 minutes in?

yeah.

well...

it's fun.

at least for me. but I'm sure everyone else doesn't like when I do that.

I actually only do that so I have a witness... because no one would believe me if I said, after the movie, "I figured it out here..."

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that's it.

saw lucky number slevin.

I liked it a lot. although I think the sir ben kingsley's role could have been played by dustin hoffman, but ben kingsley can be much more sinister... it's just weird to me to hear dustin hoffman's voice coming out of ben kingsley...

at least, that's how I kept thinking about it. [dustin hoffman did not do any voice overs for ben kingsley btw, he just sounded like him]

whatever.

I didn't want to get into the movie, so I chose one insignificant fact and took two run-on sentences to talk around it.

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yeah. I'm busy today.

:-P

gray:
O.E. gręg (Mercian grei), from P.Gmc. *gręwyaz (cf. O.N. grar, O.Fris. gre, Du. graw, Ger. grau), from PIE *ghreghwos, but no certain cognates outside Gmc. The distinction between British grey and U.S. gray developed 20c. Gray as figurative for "Southern troops in the U.S. Civil War" is first recorded 1863, in reference to their uniform color [from Online Etymology Dictionary]

so in other words...

gray is a color, whereas grey is a colour...

I need to wash my whites - I didn't have any plain white t-shirts this morning and therefore had to wear a dark shirt as the printed t-shirt I was forced to wear would have been seen through a lighter colored shirt.

I learned that TCP means Transmission Control Protocol.

I was reminded that dynamite is employed in putting out fires under certain circumstances. (MacGyver told me that first, oh so many years ago)

I learned that there are far more iguanas that people in Boca Grande, FL - but if you think about it, there are far more insects that people in the World - but considering that iguana's are far more complex than insects - and much larger, and therefore more unsightly - it makes it a bigger deal...

I learned that if the time-wait on a TCP connection is to short, the server could potentially be taking away resources from processing to clean up sockets...

and it's only 11am!

"Gluttony is the over-indulgence and over-consumption of food, drink, or intoxicants to the point of waste. In the Christian religions, it is considered one of the seven deadly sins -- a misplaced desire of food or its withholding from the needy" ~http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gluttony

so is it considered waste if you get wasted and throw up?

not that I did.

I only had three beers last night... but on an empty stomach, I was pretty much done.

[yeah, I know - light weight]

in my defense they were microbrews of ~7.5% alcohol by content...

not sure if that counts as gluttony. considering the meager portions that I am able to consume at any given meal, I would think that I am far from gluttonous...

well, except for chocolate and ice cream.

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I guess it all depends on what you do while your intoxicated...

in my case, it leads to excessive singing and dancing, statements of affection which border [or at times cross over] uncomfortability, and very bad poker playing.

I also have the tendency to call people and leave absurdly long and incomprehensible voice messages.

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none of this happend last night.

three beers and a meatloaf dinner...

I was singing along with the dude at the bar with the guitar and a mic, although I wasn't singing into the mic.

my rommate was bitching about some of the people we had dinner with who had, by that time, left the establisment.

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in any case, I bring up gluttony because I just ate out for lunch and I'm super full...

I had a whole half of a sandwich and a cup of soup. typically I leave the restaurant with a takeout box because I can't finish (any meal) so my leftovers become dinner... today, I ate the whole thing!

[GASP!!]

yeah. and to top that off, I had two glasses of raspberry iced tea.

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what to do. what to do.

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I'm going to have to run a million miles to burn those calories.

here is a list of things that I think should be standard issue:

first-class - this isn't really feasible but it would be nice. free alcohol, extra leg space, nice cushions, no elbow wars. Extra plus: my feet don't touch the ground when I sit back - so I can swing them around like a little kid. And if I sit in the first row, I can prop my legs on the wall. neat!

automatic faucets/soap-dispensers/towel dispensers - I am constantly mindful of germs and wet objects - so the fact that I don't have to touch the faucet to use it is brilliant. Add on the fact that I don't have to touch the soap or the towel dispenser is even more so. Minus: when I get an IR that doesn't work - then I'm waving my hands in a sink for 20 secs and feeling like an idiot

shoe horns at security - I bring my own plastic one whenever I travel - much easier than having to mess with shoe laces, however, a public shoe horn would not appeal to my disklike of other people's germs.

workout facility on the premises - not having to leave the building in the cold and being able to work out directly after work or before work or during lunch would be awesome - not to mention a stress reliever. of course, I don't have that now, because I am a contractor and not an actual employee. so I get jealous when I walk by and see people using the one on site...

automatic car starters - I have one on the car at home that I never drive (due to my absence), and I think that all cars should have them, including rentals, because it can get damn cold up here and I like to have a warm car in the morning instead of having a cold car for 3/4 of the drive to work.

tivo - I hate commericals when I am watching a show. the whole week should be pre-recorded... of course, that makes watching the news a little pointless...

red bull - I'm pretty sure people are in agreement that this stuff isn't good for you, especially in large quantities and especially with vodka. whatever - it curbs my appetite. I say "gimmiemydamnredbullnow!"

lip medex - chapped lips suck - in many different ways that I won't get into.

large offices with doors - cubes blow. having no privacy sucks. but stuffy, cramped offices might actually suck worse.

bathroom stalls with walls and doors that go to the floor - they seemed pretty standard in europe, and they've been around much longer than the US. When I'm in a stall, I don't want to see the feet of the person in the next one. it reminds me that if the wall wasn't there, I would be sitting, half-naked, with someone I don't know in my personal space.

floating mood meters a la Sims - when you don't even have to look at a person to let them know that you are in a pissy mood, it allows you to cool off that much faster. a floating mood meter (like a mood ring) should float above your head. so if someone comes up to you while you are i the red, they had better make you laugh or else they could lose a [noun]... this is, of course, fantasy, and wishing cannot make it so.

good 24-hour, on-site cafeterias - but that might be an oxymoron. vending machines will be the death of me - do you understand how many calories are in a bag of muchies? there is no nutritional value, just empty calories and loads of sodium. Not to mention the occaisional need to shake the crap out of the machine to get your little $2 2oz bag of puffed corn due to it being stuck in the coil.

um...

that's all I can think if right now... my brain stopped working a minute ago.

so there are things you know you know...

then there are things that you know that you don't know...

and there are things that you don't know that you know...

but there are things that you think you know, but don't know...

there is also a case where you know you know, but you don't know why you know or are quite sure that you know...

but I guess that's just a derivative of one of the other ones from above...

in any case - we just added a pressure booster pump to our house. (We have a community well which give crappy pressure) and we had a plumber install it.

[why the plumber instead of taking on the venture myself? - there was much more work to be done than I cared to take on myself, plus with a professional installation, I can work off the newly installed plumbing instead of botching it up first and paying someone later... I decided that me botching it up later would be cheaper for me to fix that me botching it up first.]

since I wasn't home when the plumber installed the booster, I had vince watch the house while he was there...

the plumber installed everything correctly (there was almost a point where he was going to install the pressure tank incorrectly, but fortunately I caught it - so even experts make mistakes) but for some reason the pressure wasn't holding...

he mentioned that he completely opened the pressure reducing valve which was placed right before the pump on the schematic...

[it was at this point which I started to question everything...]

the next thing he mentioned is that there wasn't enough pressure to keep the pump going so an external tank would need to be installed...

[crap... more parts and labor]

the pump would work fine once it was charged up, but the stopped working...

[dang... potentially broken pump]

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so for the next week or so - I fiddled with it.

I was much to lazy to call him back and have to deal with more plumber stuff, so I tried to figure out the pump myself...

the pump instructions were not hard to follow... it just didn't mention stuff that I [eventually] figured out on my own...

the first thing that I didn't understand was why would the schematics call for a pressure reducing valve if it was supposed to remain wide open? didn't make sense...

then, why would the pump charge the pressure, run for a bit, and then stop when the pressure was low...

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to make a long story short [too late]

I lowered the pressure via the pressure reducing valve and modified the pressure switch so that it turned on at a lower pressure...

I am assuming that the pump can sense how much pressure is coming in from the feed (water main) and can figure out how much pressure is being pumped through - because the pressure reducing valve was fully opened, too much water was being pulled in, so the pump would think there was enough pressure and then stop pumping...

I think that by lowering the pressure, it regulated how much water the pump was actually getting, so that it would keep a consistent flow of water from the main and therefore would not stop the pump because it could maintain a constant pressure, instead of a compression wave like pattern...

I'm not sure about the math behind it, but it seemed to work well while I was taking a shower today and when I was messing with the faucet...

I'll check with lorie tomorrow to make sure that it is working like I think...

if not - I'll have to tell her how to bypass the system...