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MORE OF MY AWESOME ONLINE FRIENDS TO GO TO BRICKCON 2010! Please please? It's almost guaranteed that I'm going next year, unless the 'apocalypse' comes two years early. Oh, I also need a LUG started somewhere near me. The nearest one is five hours away... D=
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"You go through it night after night. You can't get it out of you. It's in your dreams and things you see that remind you of people. You can't get it out of your system. War is no good for no one. All those guys got killed, and for what?" –Local WWII veteran
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I'm approximately 9,000 words behind. And I have a speech to write as well. BLARWUG
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Which is to say, I'm going to my Grandma and Grandpa's house at 5 in the morning tomorrow to rake leaves out of their yard. Which is BTW awesome. They have SQUIDNORMOUS trees and a small yard, so the leaves are like six inches deep. And I muddle about in them like a leaf shark. muddlemuddlemuddlemuddlemuddlemuddle
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I'm a freakin' American. Being stupid and ignorant as such, I typically don't celebrate it. But I LOOOOOOOVE fireworks! So bring on the pyrotechnics!!1! I don't care if nobody else in the state is doing anything, I'm gonna celebrate!
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A monstrously mangled mess of many misplaced marks. That is to say, NA NO WRI MO.
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Well, I'm healing up. AT LAST. Nothing else important has happened. I'm listening to Apocalyptica. They OWN. I read 278 episodes of a webcomic I can't link to because of swearing, my sister taught me how to draw a horse, I ate ramen noodles and didn't watch iRobot. (Nya, I know that's not how to spell it 'cause Asimov wrote it WAY before Apple products, but the comma in the middle makes it awkward to type it out.) Hooray for stupid and/or pointless blog posts. I'll end it here and now with this: Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me; The cube had food and maybe ammo. And immortality.
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Halloween was an epic meh. I sat around home all day, then when trick-or-treating started, I watched Batman Begins by myself. That about sums it up.
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Ain't it lovely? I was gonna do a long, winded entry about the arrogance of people and how ready they are to cuss people out and bash them because you can't get socked in the face over the interwebs, but I'm exhausted from reading through four pages of pointless drama and illogical arguments on Flickr.
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Blast, bloody depression again. FREAKIN' GET OVER IT AND STOP PITYING YOURSELF ...
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I really, really, hate being depressed. Especially when I can't figure out why or what caused it. Now I'm just in a sucky mood and can't seem to get over it. Maybe that's why all my drawing of late have had people dying in them... I think I need unprofessional help.
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4½ years. Not really by the boards, but I had very serious plans of getting into a groove there. Even thought I was in that groove, but now I'm out. Pray for me. Pray for us. We need to land quickly. -KIE
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Wow, I just realized how totally out of it I am. BrickCon was freakin' amazing. Getting to hang out with Arpy, Roa, XCCJ and KopakaNui totally made my day. Oh yeah, and doing that insane review. That was cool. I really can't write an entire blog post on the awesome that was the convention. I just hope to be back again next year. Bye bye.
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Hurrah for getting back on BZPower! Hurrah for getting back on my blog. Hurrah for forgetting the post I was going to post when it finally came back up! Hurrah for running laundry! -KIE, who won't be in attendance in DC tomorrow.....but will next year.
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For the first time in 7 years, 337-842-0361 is not my cell phone number. My wife was receiving unwelcome phone calls in the middle of the night, so we had our numbers changed. After 4 years in New Orleans, I finally have a local phone number in the 504 area code. Oh, and married life? I don't think I can answer how it is: it's too early to have set an honest-to-goodness routine. -KIE
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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, like my bride, will be wearing white. Last year, before my iPod docking station broke, I was listening to my iPod on shuffle, and I couldn't help but remark at the number of abstinence message songs. Not just "Average Girl" by Barlow Girl, but "Wait for Me" by Rebecca St. James, and even "The Love He Has for You" by Point of Grace and "I Don't Want It" by the late great dc Talk. When I encountered these songs on their respective CD's (Barlow Girl, Transform, The Whole Truth, Free At Last), I was of the mindset that these messages, like all of the "True Love Waits" messages that graced my ears in youth group & conferences & retreats, just weren't intended for me. I thought: I'm not in any kind of physical relationship; I don't have anything that sniffs of a boyfriend-girlfriend relationship. Why do they feel compelled to drill this into my skull? Note to future youth ministers: I'm pretty sure I'm the exception, not the rule. I don't think I'm a wholly isolated case, though. Fast forward 12 years, and the situation changed. The first 27½ years of my life confronted me with no temptation to break the promise made back in high school. I'd always joked that I'd like to think I'd met who it was I was going to marry. In May 2008, I discovered I met her in 2001, and the subsequent 13 months were a very different story. There is a lot of truth to Genesis 2:24. Over the process of a relationship developing into wedlock, there is a lot of bonding that takes place. You can assume I've been sappy or not, but it's the truth. I'm attached emotionally to Amanda, at a very deep level. Her successes are my successes. Her trials are my trials. I devote, even lay down, my life for my wife, and I know she would do the same for me. And now, looking back, I am so, so very happy to not have bonded physically with anyone else. To have done so would have twisted my heart in that I couldn't cleanly bond with my wife, in the way I have bonded with her emotionally and still do spiritually. I am also glad I have waited until after our wedding to bond physically with her. Even if nothing else deviated from courses taken, tomorrow night, and every night thereafter, would have been greeted with a lingering doubt "Would she have still said "Yes" if I didn't give in?". True Love Waits. It is not impossible for it to wait: my bride & I are proof tomorrow that it can wait, because it has waited for both of us. Tomorrow is my wedding day, and we both will be wearing white. -KIE
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*giant dust cloud* Hello. Sorry you haven't gotten to hear about me for the past......while. I've been busy. Wedding plans & stuff. Well, that's not wholly true: I moved at the beginning of May, and I've spent a good chunk of time unpacking. Couple that with no internet access at work (firewall in the Yenni building), and Team Fortress 2, and it's been little but cricket chirping in my blog. One of the neat things about getting married is the registry. It's traditional to commemorate the couple's new life together by showering gifts to start the new couple's household, as friends are able and willing to give. Mind you, this is not a solicitation for gifts: we aren't greedy. We're grateful for any thing that arrives or doesn't arrive. If anything, the building and complete registry is a guide we've set for what we want our household to look like (stuff-wise) once we've settled in. Publishing the registry gives friends & family the opportunity to help fill in some of the first pieces of that stuff puzzle. One of the things that arrived recently, from one of my bosses at Digital incidentally, is a duvet cover & pillow sham to go on the full bed in the front bedroom. This is the bed I've been sleeping on since, well, as long as I can remember (it was moved over here when I moved from under my parents' roof in 2005), and where I'll sleep until the wedding in...12 days, 16 hours & 28 minutes. Anyway, my boss got me an $80 duvet cover (comforter), and Amanda & I decided we could afford to purchase the matching $60 sheet set now, before the wedding. (This way, I can replace the well-worn sheet set on the bed now.) Well, we used a 10% off coupon, the return of an extra candle ledge Amanda received at a shower in her office a couple of weeks ago, and a $25 gift card from someone at the shower at the church some weeks ago. Final out-of-pocket expense: 32 pennies. It was quite humorous, and blog-entry-worthy. I mean, I've catalogued so little of this process, at least this must be mentioned. Also, live-action ATHF was made of pure, unadulterated fail. It was excruciating. Good night, everyone. -KIE
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The National Football League will forever have a giant cavity. While some can fill your persona, knowledge, and jacket size, no one can do all three. Farewell, John Madden. -KIE
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Cavities hurt. Not just the ones in one's teeth, mind you. Nature abhors a vacuum, and I'm no exception. Right now, there's this cavity between my arms and chest, that only Amanda can fill. She won't be here until Friday, so it'll have to hurt until then. But oh, it hurts. :\ (no, this has nothing to do with the ab strain at the gym Monday night) -KIE
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Hi. I finally got the opportunity to watch Fireproof over the weekend. Let me say two things about it: 1) This film is a must-see for anyone considering marriage, or even in a long-term relationship. Yes, it can happen. 1a) I don't love Amanda because I get or even expect anything in return. I love Amanda because I love Amanda. (If you don't understand the previous sentence, you haven't found "The One" yet.) 2) Kirk Cameron has come a long way from "Growing Pains". In other news, in light of last year's debacle, Amanda forbade me from cooking dinner Saturday night. Instead, breakfast in bed will be served some time before noon. -KIE
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For entertainment purposes only. EagleBank United States Naval Academy (+3½) over Wake Forest New Mexico Colorado State (+3½) over Fresno State St. Petersburg South Florida (-13½) over Memphis Las Vegas Brigham Young (+2½) over Arizona New Orleans Troy (-2½) over Southern Mississippi Poinsettia Boise State (-1½) over Texas Christian Aloha, er, Hawaii Hawai'i (-2½) over Notre Dame Motor City Florida Atlantic (+4½) over Central Michigan Meineke Car Care North Carolina-Chapel Hill (-1½) over West Virginia Champs Sports Florida State (-3½) over Wisconsin-Madison (Love ya, Than. ) Emerald University of Miami (+7½) over California-Berkley Independence Louisiana Tech (+3½) over Northern Illinois (I mean, come on: it's virtually a home game for Tech.) Mobile..er, papajohns.com State University of New Jersey (+6½) over North Carolina State Alamo Missouri-Columbia (-14½) over Northwestern Humanitarian, uh, MPC Computers Nevada-Reno (-1½) over Maryland-College Park ev1.net, uh, GalleryFurniture.com, er, Houston, um Texas Rice (-2½) over Western Michigan Holiday Oklahoma State (-3½) over Oregon Armed Forces United States Air Force Academy (+2½) over Houston Sun Pittsburgh (-3½) over Oregon State Insight Minnesota (+8½) over Kansas-Lawrence Music City Boston College (-4½) over Vanderbilt Peach, er Chick-fil-A Louisiana State-Baton Rouge (+2½) over Georgia Institute of Technology Hall of Fame, er, Outback Iowa (-2½) over South Carolina Citrus, er Capital One Georgia-Athens (-10½) over Michigan State Gator Clemson (+1½) over Nebraska Rose Pennsylvania State (+10½) over Southern California Orange Cincinnati (-1½) over Virginia Tech Cotton Texas Tech (-7½) over Mississippi Liberty Kentucky (+1½) over East Carolina Sugar Utah (+10½) over Alabama-Tuscaloosa (Bama has played down to their competition all year.) International Buffalo (+6½) over Connecticut Fiesta Texas-Austin (-10½) over Ohio State GMAC Tulsa (+2½) over Ball State BCS Florida (-3½) over Oklahoma-Norman Last year: Kinda lost track after the first 15 games..... This year: Key: Correct Correct versus spread only Correct straight up, but not against the spread Incorrect -KIE, who reserves the right to update and republish this throughout the bowl season.
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It's snowing outside right now. I'm going to be late for work because of SNOW. SNOW. (You people up north don't realize how big a deal snow is here.) -KIE
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To the new reader, I would still like to call attention to the original Thanksgiving entry back in 2006. If I get an update on those prescriptions, I will post it here. In more current news, I have a lot to be thankful for this year. My mother & I will be spending Thanksgiving in Monroe with my fiancée and her family, since my father went offshore this morning. As soon as I can get away from work, I'm headed to Baton Rouge to meet up with my mom to go to Monroe in one vehicle. Also, I'm bringing squash to cook. If successful, I will post a recipe. If not, you'll likely hear nothing of it. Here's hoping your holiday finds you well and in good company. -KIE
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Wow, first blog entry in what, three weeks? Yes, I've been doing a lot of artwork (none of it BIONICLE-related) and quite a bit of MOCing, mostly pertaining to brikwars. Me and Akirithas, my brother, are working on large landscapes and Steampunk warships. It's total awesomesauce. Other than that, nothing has happened. Nothing that's your business, anyway.
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Since XM merged its programming with Sirius this morning, all my station presets are out of whack. To top it off, the station it was most often tuned to, is now off the air and online-only. KIE is sad. To commemorate a comprehensive post that never happened, I give you the XM channels I had preset, in their order. XM 32 The Message: In my opinion, this mix is superior to Sirius 66. It's why I was an XM fan before the sports tie-ins.XM 110 Classical Hits: ...because I'm a sucker for a string section.XM 175 MLB Home Plate: A jump point for the MLB stations. Though my fiancée would disagree, MLB > NFL.XM 140 ESPN Radio: Especially since 1280 WODT changed formats, this is my only general sports radio.XM 82 The System: I am a huge closet fan of electronic music, stemming all the way back to the days I played Descent in high school. Heh, bet you didn't see that coming.XM 4 40's on 4: I should say my music tastes are varied & ecclectic, as I also am a huge fan of Big Band.XM 70 Real Jazz: Did you honestly think with Vince Guaraldi as my ringtone, I wouldn't have a jazz station favorited?XM 199 SEC Sports: The PREMIER Division 1 athletic conference, especially for football. There's one other, but I'll have to check my old channel list tomorrow to find it. -KIE
