Tuesday, November 14, 2006

Here’s hoping my geek mojo’s strong…

I’ve missed doing a few upgrades to Expression Engine, and am going to attempt to catch up. This should be fun… or frustrating as hell! Either way, it needs doing, so here I go…

Downtime’s doubtful, but always a possiblity.

Ciao for now!

UPDATE (11:25 PM): It seems to have worked.  Oh JOY!!!

Thursday, September 28, 2006

OB’s life in pictures…

I just installed this new gallery software.  No doubt I’ll be dicking around with it a bit but for now it seems to be working just fine!

Photo Gallery

Take a gander, and if you find anything weird or funky, let me know.

Saturday, July 15, 2006

Death, Debt, Deployment… Depression

Emotionally, the past month has been an especially brutal one for me.  Within 3 days’ time, tragedy struck two families I know, leaving two barely-past-newlywed, pregnant widows; one of whom I felt compelled to defend from attacks in the public sphere due to her celebrity status.  Then I was forced to come to terms with our dwindling finances (blecch!). Last, but certainly not least, I learned that a dear friend of mine is going off to war for a year an a half.

Oh yeah, and I’ve been having a few health issues, too.  I fainted one night; I think it’s the second time in my life I have done so.  The first time probably shouldn’t even count, as it was most likely directly related to the substances I’d ingested that night.

I suppose it says something about my state of mind that it’s 10:30 PM and I’m still in the little dress that serves as a nightgown that I put on last night.  I’ve been sitting outside with my laptop, smoking cigarettes while reading and posting on Pharyngula since I woke up at 7 AM, even though it was 114° here today.

But it’s time to write things down, so I can get my feelings out, get myself together and carry on.  The anti-depressants seem to work fairly well to keep the “normal” stresses from hurtling me into the abyss, and to tell the truth, even these more severe stresses seem to affect me differently now than I’d have expected.

I don’t have that crushing despair type of feeling, or constant dread; but I’ve noticed that I’ll quite suddenly feel overwhelmed with emotion to the point of crying, or nearly so. And it’s not just feelings of sadness or even only negative feelings that wash over me in such a way that I can’t speak without a sob escaping or at least a catch in my voice.

These recent emotional stressors or events are important enough, to me at least, to warrant separate posts.  Especially since they’ll be more like stream-of-consciousness ramblings and attempts to put into words those things which have of late caused deep feelings to rise to the surface, and have driven me either to tears, or to sit behind this monitor and keyboard and read/write about something… anything that provides an escape from the realities I don’t want to deal with at the moment.

Gotta get a grip… and get back to something like “normal"…

Tuesday, June 06, 2006

Celebrating 6-6-06

I’m all for celebrating (and capitalizing upon,) any and all “holidays,” and god DAMN, I wish I would’ve planned better for today!  Then I could do cool shit like Les does Check it out:

(width=666 muahahahahaha!)

I just heard on the news that Stanton LaVey, the grandson of ol’ Anton himself is getting married in Hollywood tonight at the Music Box theatre in Hollywood, where there’s going to be a show featuring Goth/Satanic bands.  Good for all of them!

Of course, the remake of The Omen comes out today, and the fundy news source is linking to all sorts of articles about 666 and Christians.  Oh yeah, and Ann(ti-Christ) Coulter’s book is also hitting the shelves today.  No link for that hateful, ugly cunt!

Well, time for me to get to work… where I sell “sin” for a living, wallowing in my godless liberalism.  I’ll be wearing my CJ shirt in honor of the holiday!

Wednesday, February 08, 2006

Home Improvement vs. MySpace Addiction

So, losing my job midway through the kitchen remodel really sucked major dick, since I only had enough money put away to install the new counters.  That’s finally done, but now I have to do all the cabinet refinishing myself.  I was originally going to strip the old cabinets and then stain them and the new cabinets so they’d all match.  After spending 4 days stripping and sanding, I was able to actually stain 2 doors—and not only did they look like SHIT, but I couldn’t even get them to match each other, which didn’t bode well for matching them to the NEW cabinets.  So, onto Plan B:  Faux finishing everything.  It’s definitely not easy, but I’m starting to have fun with it now that I’ve done a couple of doors and they came out pretty good.  Once it’s all done, I’ll get a gallery of pictures up.

A while back, I created a MySpace Page but I just recently started adding friends and whatnot, at the behest of The Infidel Guy, to help him get new members and get the word out about his show and Free Thought Media.  Darwin help me, I’m fuckin’ hooked!  I’ve found several people I haven’t seen for years and years, and have found some really cool new people that have become friends (MySpace friends that is) too.  Including one of my heroes, George Carlin!  I find myself checking for new friend requests or messages in between coats of primer, paint or glaze; and I spend altogether too much time going off on tangents by clicking on other people’s friends, which leads me to other people and their friends… and so it goes!  I really need a clone of my own so I can be everywhere I need to be all at one time!

Now, here’s a plug for one of my newest buddies on MySpace, Jesse Blaze and his band BLAZED.  I’m not just biased because Jesse’s the son of my all-time favorite front man, Dee Snider… the band truly kicks ass!  I liked their songs enough to order the CD, and I’m hoping they’ll play a gig out here one of these days because I’d really like to see them live.

OK, back to Home Improvement Hell!