Word to the wise: no matter who you are, no matter what you do, no matter who your father, mother, brother, or uncle is, no matter where in society you are, NO ONE likes to hear the words "Do you know who I am?", ESPECIALLY A COP.
Read it all: If it really were a serious offense, she should've been ticketed, if you ask me. No one should be above the law.
I think I might actually finish this model today. Scary.
-KIE
Notice: The subject matter of this blog entry may need to be interpreted by parents for younger audiences.
I've finished the course.
Tonight was the rehearsal & dinner. Great fun. Made a complete cool dude of myself as per usual & Amanda bailed me out. Got to take my bride home, and the drive ended most well.
(Side note: We missed you tonight, DV, but we understand, really. I'll have something for you in 2010.)
Tomorrow is my wedding day.
Tomorrow is my wedding day, and I, l
Wheels of an iPod, that is.
Just a quick note: since I finally have an MP3 player, I might as well do this:
Soundtrack of my life Opening Credits: "Holy", Nichole Nordeman Woven and Spun Waking Up: "I Need You", Jars of Clay The Eleventh Hour (I could wake up to that. ) An Ordinary Day: "Chevette", Audio Adrenaline Some Kind of Zombie (...yeah ) The First Date: "My World", Holy Soldier Promise Man (ominous beginning.) Falling in Love: "Walk on Water", Audio Adrenaline Bloom (....heh) The
With this being my 47th blog entry (my favorite number, incidentally), I figured it was time I went ahead and divulged my favorites, official and non, of the approaching 600 blogs here.
By no means is this list complete. This is just what I found on the first 5 pages.
FAVORITED BLOGS
Puffins Puffins Everywhere
The Life of Lady K
Toaraga's Toa-Bloga
Captain's Quarters
Omi's Rush
From the outskirts of Chocolate City.... (Hey, it's not vanity: it's a way of finding mine quickly!)
Nikir
For record-keeping purposes only.
Poinsettia
Texas Christian (-11½) over Northern Illinois
TCU 37, NIU 7
Las Vegas
Brigham Young (-4½) over Oregon
BYU 38, Oregon 8
New Orleans
Troy (+7½) over Rice
Troy 41, Rice 17
Mobile..er, papajohns.com
South Florida (-3½) over East Carolina
USF 24, ECU 7
New Mexico
San Jose State (+3½) over New Mexico
SJSU 20, UNM 12
Armed Forces
Tulsa (+2½) over Utah
Utah 25, Tulsa 13
Aloha, er, Hawaii
Hawai'i (-7½) over Arizona State
UHI
For entertainment purposes only.
New Mexico
Texas-El Paso (+11½) over Brigham Young
BYU 52, UTEP 24
Humanitarian, uh, MPC Computers
Northen Illinois (-2½) over Fresno State
NIU 40, FRES 17
New Orleans
Troy (-1½) over Ohio
TROY 48, OHIO 21
St. Petersburg
Southern Mississippi (+3½) over Louisville
LOU 31, USM 28
Las Vegas
Boise State (-16½) over Utah
BSU 26, UTAH 3
Poinsettia
United States Naval Academy (+1½) over San Diego State
SDSU 35, NAVY 14
Aloha, er, Hawaii
Don't ask why I'm up at this hour.
When all else fails, swipe an image from Wikipedia
And then Cartoon Network decided to replace GITS:SAC with Shin Chan.
And this made KIE very upset, so much so that he more or less ignored "Adult Swim" during the week.
And then Cartoon Network decided to dump Shin Chan in favor of Bleach.
And then KIE was very happy.
Would you believe I still haven't seen every episode? Seriously, thanks for starting at the beginning.
-KIE
The tropical cyclone season for the Atlantic Ocean runs from 1 June to 30 November.
(In other words, the 2007 hurricane season starts today.)
Levees in the Lower 9, New Orleans East, and on the Westbank & Algeirs still aren't up to par level. (Thus sayeth the all-wise Mayor Ray Nagin.) Haven't heard anything about east Jeff, which is sad because I, of all people, should have inside knowledge about it.
It's hurricane season.
God help us all.
-KIE
17 years
167+10 hours
1700 miles
2 jobs
11 weeks
130 miles per hour
4 cars
12 roses
13 months
3 revisions to the application
1 testing
...and 14046 registrations
-KIE, who wonders who'll take a gander at the significance of all the numbers at the top.
I don't know how it is at your/your parents' offices, but down here, it's the Christmas season. And that means gifts.
Not inter-person, but inter-company.
Oh sure, there's cards and all. But a week ago today, there were two large baskets filled with everything necessary for a spaghetti dinner (pasta, EVOO, marinara, real parmesan cheese, and a bottle of merlot), from Parson Sanderson, a company that sells sewer pumps. Unfortunately, there were only two, and my name wasn't on either of them.
As appealing as the Relient K diddy sounds to some this time of year, it really has no business being the weather for December 23. At least not in the Northern Hemisphere.
But wouldn't you know it, today's forecast for New Orleans is almost shorts weather: lots of sun and 66° F (19° C).
So, to try and elicit some yuletide cheer, I bring you More Of KIE's E-Mail™
...not that I actually have that trademarked or anything....
-KIE, who is 3-0 with his college bowl picks
I'm tucking this away in this category because I was offered tickets to a basketball game tomorrow morning: University of North Texas vs. University of Memphis.
Yeah, baby. March Madness will hit the Big Easy tomorrow & Sunday.
I'm not going because I'm holed up with all this work.
But, that doesn't stop me from filling out a few Sheets of Integrity.
("Sheet of Integrity" is a euphism for a completed prognostication of events of the tournament, the outcome of all 63 games.)
I
I should be sleeping, and yet I am not. A shame, really, but I must discourse on the events of this weekend.
Friday I took off before I was finished with work, but after hours still, to go eat with my brother, his wife, and our parents, while they (my parents) were in Baton Rouge to play golf on Saturday. I'll be frank: I'm sufficiently tired of working on this model. Burned out, as it were. I'm looking forward to something else, even if it's just no-brain maps in ArcMap.
But enough about my
shadowpirakafan, I'm doing better, although I do have half a mind to take off the last hour of work and go take a nap.
Though if I do that, I should go work on my MOC for BrickFest.
I might even be able to take some pictures before BrickFest, depending on what I can get my hands on and when.
In the interim, an email I got all of 35 minutes ago:
Tasty. *twitch*
-KIE, who after a week still hasn't gotten the KexPod
T-minus about 4 days to Brickfest
What burns?
Lots of stuff burns!
Let me catalogue that which burned over this past weekend:
Gasoline
I visited my mom over the weekend. Like any mom, she's going to worry about me going to D.C. this weekend. I'm 26 years old and still get this: you high schoolers should get used to that treatment: it won't go away because you're 18.
Actually, as I think about it, coming in on my 10 year reunion (I AM NOT THAT OLD!), I find that I was lucky: There wer
My, it's been a while, hasn't it?
I guess I could recap the past week, what I've picked up, news, and what not....
My stock picks don't like me any more, A Collision by David Crowder Band, Thrive by Newsboys, The Eleventh Hour & Christmas Songs by Jars of Clay, I'm not nearly as upset about the Louisiana Republican party subverting my Huckabee vote as everyone else (electability, hello), and who in 1968 knew Fidel Castro would last this long?
There, with that out of the way....
F
Or at least it seems like it.
In the process of preparation for a procedure tomorrow morning, I've had to go the last 24 and the next 6 hours on a clear liquid diet. I get to eat Jello, broth, and sports drinks, all that aren't red or orange.
Trust me, that's not much to choose from.
You never realize how much you appreciate something until it's taken away from you.
At least I can still guzzle some broth: after 12 AM, I'm not supposed to have anything at all. And no, it's not lik
Another new component for the computer. I feel a sense of urgency about finishing it, to be honest. It's taking 4 months from thought to first boot.
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 SATA 3.0 Gb/s 400 GB hard drive [gallery]
Two reasons why I waited so long to buy it. When I first picked it out in March, it cost $130. I bought it Wednesday for $100.
The price of computer components has been steadily trickling down, making way for the newer stuff. This is why a conspicuously key component remains a
Some recent highlights:
-I saw a summer sausage at Walmart tonight, and was reminded (back me up on this, magpi) that the most random things happen at 1:30 in the morning at LEGO conventions.
-My key chain is marginally heavier and infinitely cooler thanks to Black Six.
-I don't know what the physical therapists are thinking: shoulder impingement or weak rotator cuff muscles can't be related to tendinitis of the deltoid, can they? They do realize the pain is in the shoulder area and not in
Observe the manhandling of the Cruisers, in their home stadium, versus the Laplace Gators. Peyton on a good team, as if I ever had a chance. 0-2 becoming 0-3 on the way to 0-5.
That's not what hurts today though. Although yes, knowing I'm putting down $110 all told to get walloped week in-week out is an ego blow, there are other things.
Like, say, Friday night, when the whole of Napa Valley turned out to take out yon Über-Monster-of-the-Fortnight, the Void Shadow.
Took 3 hours to kill. A
Ugh.
Why oh why did yesterday have to happen?
I may or may not have mentioned I'm much further behind on the sewer model than I need to be. To top it off, the Regional Planning Commission is not renewing their JP sewer modeling contract with HEI, a firm we're subbed under. This means the sewer modeling must be done by the end of April.
This means I kind of need to be working on this seven days a week now, if I'm to have any hope of finishing it.
If you want me to pick up your MOC for B
And to think, this time last year I'd just ranted about the Astros offensive ineptitude, but did find a nice restaurant.
Todd & Melanie, myself, and my parents will probably eat there in a few weeks: even if they're $1, they're still hot dogs.
So here, I am, blogging for a year.
I've toed lines, pushed limits, gotten into hot water, and hopefully generally elevated the topics of discussion in BZBlogs.
See, all this time, and going forward, it's not been so much about garnering comm
