musings from the sleep deprived

Root canal this morning, bright and early. Need to get back in a week or so for the crown work. Nothing is as exciting to me as dental work. An a positive note, this guy made the anaesthetic shot completely painless. Thats a new one for me.

So you’re using a cool IM client and you don’t like the stock icon it puts in there for you? I’ve added all the avatars I’ve been accumulating over the years into my gallery. That particular album is located here for your perusal. Read more

If you’re not addicted to this inside of 3 minutes, you’re not into puzzles. Check this out.

And so in accordance with integrating the Gallery thing cleanly, I’ve decided to drop theme switching and just come up with the theme I like the best and leave it there. I still like the dark color scheme I originally had in the ‘Dark Fire’ theme, and then the layout elements/fonts from Stucco. So this is a mix of the two. Hopefully, I won’t get bored of this and change it every 2 months. We’ll see.

Yeah, you might think, sure … you work 7 days on, and then you have 7 off. How could you possibly turn your ‘off’ week into something busy? Well, I did. Yeah, fine … you might say that I filled it chock full of what would otherwise be considered liesure activities, that is true. But hey, I think that is what I earned having worked 85 hours the previous week. Is it not? Read more

I got the bug again. Time to have some serious conversations with the experts to figure out just what I want to do with this hobby, what it will cost me, and how to get where I want it to go. I doubt there will be any changes in gear until at least November, or so.we’ll see. more to come.

If you know what that acronym stands for, then perhaps you will simply chuckle a bit a what follows. If not, please allow me to elucidate. Read more

Whenever a tragedy on the scale of what happened (and continues to develop) down in New Orleans occurs, there are liable to be alot of differing opinions on how best to deal with the situation. Read more

So I observed, patiently, pH, KH, GH, NO2/3/4 testers in hand for the fishtank to go through its normal nitrogen cycle, get my bacteria going again, and stablize. Pop went the ammonia, then down they went. Up with the nitrates, down they went. Algae formed. Everything going according to plan. Read more

So I made mention awhile ago about wanting to revitalize our D&D campaign, and throwing some new ideas into the mix. Read more

After doing a fair amount of reading of other people’s blogs in the past few days, a few thoughts occur to me. Read more

So on quiet nights at work, when we do have them (maybe one a week), I try to catch up on links people have sent me, or poke around finding something interesting online. One recent such link was Clublife, the blog of a bouncer from a swanky NYC club. Read more

Seems to take longer nowadays. Maybe I’m imagining things, and maybe I’m not. Anyway, going to work today is going to be an exercise in proper symptomatic medication.

As usual, everything happens late and in the most exhausting way possible. Ah well. Guests on the nonce.

I was pondering something yesterday, and it has continued being a background thread in my brain since then. It occurred to me that time tends to distort, and often completely obscure our ability to remember precise order of events, or specific memories. That’s all good. Expected and normal. Read more