the padded room

This place is not forgotten, thanks for the 'motivation'. As soon as I can I'm going to register my own site and get it up and running. In the meantime, the rough drafts are going through testing (I have several ideas actually) at http://www.american-ocean.com/dpr/

[ drainpip ] | 4:25 PM | 5 comments

Thursday, January 25, 2007

and other hallmark™ moments...

There are a lot of things happening, my oh my. I just looked at the last thing I've posted and it seems like just about everything that can happen is about to happen... if that makes sense. Serendipitousness is the word of the day.

On a side note, rather than just keep this place on some I.V. that allows it to live in a vegetable state, I'm going to give birth to it again and see what happens.

[ drainpip ] | 7:16 AM | 4 comments

Sunday, December 17, 2006

weekend of geekoutedness (checkbox) check

Hung out with a bone fide mad scientist and my old college roomie this weekend. Last minute thing, had a blast of course... I don't think we can *not have a blast. Literally right when I walked in the door (well after I was assaulted by the Aussie pup) they handed me a hard hat, gloves and held up a chainsaw with evil grins. Today, we would make a hippy cry. There was a dead pine that needed felling and fell it did. I wanted to keep going, but he didn't want to kill any good ones for some reason...

The rest of the weekend basically involved drinking some really great random ale, food, or conversations ranging from cat hair to Heisenberg and just about everything in between (including me schooling them in acoustics). Also, my job was to keep the wood stove burning, I'd do that for a living - aka play with fire - if I could.

la vida es buenas.

[ drainpip ] | 9:56 PM | 4 comments

Monday, December 11, 2006

holy christ

I don't think I've ever been as sick as this in my life. Last night I was literally every 15 minutes running to the toilet. And violently so. I remember one time when I was in 4th grade I was out of school for 2 weeks with a horrendous flu, I had to go to the hospital when I was throwing up pieces of my stomach. I think that entire 2 week period was shoved into one night... and now, although I'm not running to the toilet this morning, I'm still all squirrelly... I shall take pleasure in this day off and chill out so my stomach stops its revolt.

[ drainpip ] | 10:44 AM | 1 comments

Sunday, December 10, 2006

once more into the breach

There are quite a few interesting things happening in my life, but who in the hell gives a fuck? I sure don't want to read about it, and I'm me. I mean, I've already lived it man... if it was really that important to you, you'd hang around just to see. That would be kind of nice now that I think about it. I'd have a bunch of groupies hanging around just watching, kickin' back, seein' what I'd do next. Gotta throw them off, you know? Keep them on their toes, so like go eat an entire bowl of Jello and see what they do. I know what you're thinking... that's not so weird. Try it. It's pretty freakin' weird. I mean... what the hell is that stuff anyway? A creature from another planet that we dehydrated, added sugar and natural flavors to? Cat hair is freaking everywhere no matter what I do. So I give up for a week and then it's like... wow. So then I realize that, yeah it's a constant struggle. Speaking of constant struggles, what in the hell is with driving slow in the fast lane, then driving fast when I try to pass you? Buncha bastards.

[ drainpip ] | 9:54 PM | 2 comments

Thursday, December 07, 2006

this is it...

I was planning on doing random mini posts at work, but my boss just told me I wasn't allowed to be on the internet any more... mainly because one of the other guys was abusing it. Anyway, he just went back into the office so I figured I'd do one more stick it to da mon post. peace.

[ drainpip ] | 5:37 PM | 2 comments

another random thought for the... month...

IE7 doesn't like something in my blog, and I think it's the opacity filter. I'm going to fix it.... at work.

[insert evil cackle here]

I switched back to IE7 from Firefox because it was pissing me off with certain things. Just minor stuff, but it just doesn't work right. It does great for most websites, but some take advantage of the short cuts that IE has built in... anyway, I like it so far, just a few things changed and I'm getting used to them. Once I am and have it all tweaked, I'd say it's superior to Firefox. That being said, I love that some free software has Microsoft running to catch up. That's how it's all just gonna get better for this guy.

[ drainpip ] | 10:09 AM | 1 comments

Thursday, November 09, 2006

random thought for the day

So I had this idea for a story a long time ago, back when I thought up a lot of the stories I've been trying to write for a long time, about inanimate objects. It would be a tale about all the inanimate objects around us... chairs, toothbrushes, doors... all that stuff. It would revolve around a guy that couldn't hear all the conversations, but the things would be talking all around him, so the stuff in earshot if he had an ear to shoot... if that makes sense. Anyway, it was going to be funny, or at least I was going to try and make it funny.

I'm telling you that because I wanted to tell you this. There was this guy at work yeseterday that was all jacked up out in the parking lot. I'll preface this by saying I work in downtown Riverside, CA, so it's not exactly prime real estate - we'll just leave that there. By jacked up I mean he looked like he had been drinking, well all his life and only now was he going to vomit. I mean dude this guy was out there making these groaning noises that I could hear in the store, and I'm a sympathy puker so I had to bolt. He was holding on to this railing that keeps... well I don't know what it keeps out or safe, it's just there at the front of our parking lot... and he was holding on to it for dear life. I mean this guy looked so bad, and then he collapsed and we called the cops, but as I was describing the guy to 911 some random car came up and asked if he was ok, then he got in the car and they drove off... that's strange.

But yeah, I told you that so I could tell you this part. When he was leaning on that railing I was thinking that if that rail could talk he'd say, "Dude, turn around and puke in the street, he's an asshole."

[ drainpip ] | 8:01 PM | 3 comments