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12/29/02, 2:31am-
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12/26/02, 5:45pm-
Xmas loot: There were other things, like driving gloves and a book and carwash tickets, but it was mostly the legos and the tripod. They're cool. The Legos were an 11 hour assembly projct, leaving me with bruised fingers and sore legs, but triumphant over the most impressive kit they ever produced. The tripod (after some retail adjustment) is just what I need. yay.
12/15/02, 10:39am-
I've had this song stuck in my head since last night.
Thanks B.
12/13/02, 5:15pm-
The RAID lives. 101.2GB or Cheetah powered StorEdge goodness. The nice folks at HDO upgraded my order to the drives with Sun cages already, so the extras I bought are surplus. If you need 2GB Barracudas, I'm your guy. $7.50 each with Sun brackets.
In other news, my week sucked ass in a major way.
12/4/02, 6:40pm-
I came home from work at 11 this morning because I felt like shit on a stick. Then I napped, and I just finished dinner. Yum...garlic bread.
Anyway, you can blame Carson for these again.
I'm the
Which smiley are you?
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12/3/02, 1:15pm-
"Gee you have big hands"
Beth, providing me with yet another quote I can take out of context for my news page. There were others, but the ways you could interpret them would be...um...bad.
In other news, there's a tree in my house. It's lit and properly ornamented, and there's even a few boxes under it already. It's nice.
11/25/02, 6:57pm-
Blame Carson.
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11/16/02, 12:37am-
It's my bedtime, but I thought I'd blog a little first. Tonight there was a benefit concert for the family of Jordan Farris at SHS. It rocked. ELI, The Premiums, Electron Motel, Queen Mab and All Locked Up were there. ELI was a little too hard core for the night. Queen Mab was a little too emo, and way too out of tune. All Locked Up was in need of more practice. The Premiums would have rawked harder if they could have heard themselves better, and if they could have stayed in tune better, save Pat. He was dead on the whole time. Electron Motel closed the show and IMHO stole it. I may be a little biased, since I mixed it, but since that mix was on an EV/Tapco mixer from the early 80s and it spent most of the night clipping in a big way (when I wasn't mixing) things turned out immensely well. I was pleased, until I stabbed my pinky with my wire cutters. Accidents happen I guess.
I brought a pair of TRiKs to the show, since someone said they needed monitors. That turned out to not be the case, and my record setting 90 minute round trip to Glenview Naval Air Station (or at least where it used to be) including downtime in the middle, DURING RUSH HOUR, was for naught. Well, not really, My parents listened to the TRiKs downstairs, powered by my Crown D75 and sourced from a portable CD player. Audiogasmic, expecially with better DACs. Holy shit those sound nice, even with my ears ringing from the show. Hey Mark, wanna hook me up with a pair in birch? Please?
Reverse chronologically, since it seems that's how this entry is going, but only kinda, I spent the day and the previous night with Scott and Tamar. They rocked. There's not much to tell, since it was mainly hanging out time. We did spend quite a bit of time looking for Denny's last night/this morning, and we definately had an interesting lesson in physics, but it was remarkably uneventful, and I like that. Quiet time with good friends. yay.
11/9/02, 7:19pm-
I put in the new Good Charlotte disc a minute ago, and then sat back and read the first page of the liner notes I saw. Then I smiled. There is hope.
so it's 2am july 27 2002 and we're driving thru the middle of nowhere on our way to a show in chicago. i haven't showered in a week, i'm running on no sleep, i miss cashdogg and some kid at the show today asked me "why i even call myself punk." these may sound like complaints but actually i'm really happy. i am listening to this record. yeah I'll admit it I listen to our records and i am thinking how crazy all this is. 3 years ago i was stocking shelves at target living on ramen noodles and crashing at Billy's house. now i'm on tour. 4 kids from nowhere. we made another record and I feel just as excited as i did the first time. i say this all the time but i mean it, if this all stopped yesterday i would still feel like the guy alive. i remember going into my room after school writing letters to labels saying "you can sign us now for cheaper" and sending out demos. i laugh about it now but back then i was so serious. you know we dreamed about this all day every day and i gotta say it feels just like we thought it would. our goals have changed. i'll admit, it's not about being famous or making millions of dollars anymore. yeah, i used to day dream about that, being broke gets old quick but now I have sorta seen how it all works and I don't want to be the biggest band in the world i want to make music with paul and billy and joel. that's all. i want to tour. i want be good to my friends. i want to take care of my family. i want to meet kids at the shows. that's real to me. i see some bands and i get frustrated for them. it's easy to get lost in the whirlwind of all of this but I realize we all have to learn on our own, we are still learning. we have made our share of mistakes. we have done some cheesy stuff. but it's good to look back and laugh at how young we were. i see a lot of other bands worrying about credability and all of that and i guess I have realized that it only comes with time if we are still here in ten years maybe we will be credible. til then we just gotta do what we want to do, make music. tour. provide for our families. you know i used to fist fight every guy that told me i wasn't punk. lars asked me one night "are you gonna fight the whole world?" he was right, i was pretty stupid. it made me realize we are what we are and no one can change that, i guess we have done a lot of growing up since the last record. we started this when we were 16. it's the only thing i've ever had. it's probably the only thing i ever will have. i just feel lucky. we are four kids from waldorf. we're no better than any other young band out there and we know it. so thanx for getting our record and being a part of this. thanx for giving us a chance to do what we love. thanx for makign this real. see ya at the show benj good charlotte the young and the hopless
10/27/02, 5:47-
| de·feat Pronunciation Key tr.v. de·feat·ed, de·feat·ing, de·feats
n.
[Middle English defeten, from defet, disfigured, from Old French desfait, past participle of desfaire, to destroy, from Medieval Latin disfacere, to destroy, mutilate, undo : Latin dis-, dis- + Latin facere, to do; see dh  - in Indo-European Roots.]defeat \De*feat"\, n. [Cf. F. d['e]faite, fr. d['e]faire. See Defeat, v.] 1. An undoing or annulling; destruction. [Obs.] Upon whose property and most dear life A damned defeat was made. --Shak. 2. Frustration by rendering null and void, or by prevention of success; as, the defeat of a plan or design. 3. An overthrow, as of an army in battle; loss of a battle; repulse suffered; discomfiture; -- opposed to victory.
10/27/02, 4:29pm- Yes, I know, it's been forever and a day since I blogged last. Deal. No news is good news. I do have to say that I hate wood. Usually it's great. I can work with it and make it happy and all that. Sometimes, like today, it's a total fucking nightmare. I'll post tomorrow with the damage. Suffice it to say that Scott and Tamar may have to wait a little longer for their speakers. *sigh* 9/25/02, 11:08pm-  Take the "What kind of cone are you?" Test created by sami 9/5/02, 8:25pm- It's been a while since I last had news here, I know. I've been doing some writing elsewhere, and stressing way too much at work. My life: eat, work, sleep, repeat. When I get a chance to come up for air, I usually spend it veging since I'm tired from the weeks I put in at the office. So tired.... 8/26/02, 10:56pm- Or not. 8/24/02, 11:30pm- Jaguar rocks. My iBook has it, my tower had it briefly, and all the boxen at Ché Paton will have it soon. Oh yeah, they will. 8/17/02, 8:43pm- Yeha, it's saturday nigth and I'm home blogging. Whatever. The slides from Maui cam in...damn they'r egorgeous. I love Kodachrome. I hope to get them scanned, once I decide which ones to scan. To that end, I'm building a light box, but my plan to do it today was foiled by the lack of local availabity of 5500k bulbs and transparent white plexi. Grrrr. I've also come to the conclusion that the slide projector we have is...well...old and decrepit. Maybe if it reversed it would be ok, btu righ tnow it only goes forward, so.... 8/8/02, 6:10pm- I got back on the 6th but was too whacked to blog until now. More to follow when I'm de-jetlagged. 7/27/02, 3:20pm- before: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 after: 1, 2, 3 It's different. I've had my hair long for the better part of a decade. This is familiar...yet not. 22" then, 3.5" now. Apparently it also hides my receeding hairline and makes me look younger, in spite of the largish quantity of grey hair I have. weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.............. 7/23/02, 11:49pm- Evening with Beth. She's definately the most fun person in town to hang out with, probably because my mouth ended up hurting from all the laughing. I'm the best ever...again, as well as possibly the cutest ever. I say possibly because (as it was explained to me) if Beth thinks I'm the cutest ever and John thinks she's the cutest ever, then one of us must be lying. Or something like that. We watched a rerun of That 70s Show, looked at tons of vacation (her family's) and wedding (her sister's) pictures, and went to eat popcorn and watch Reign of Fire. The evening collectively rocked. Maybe I could clone her, so then I wouldn't have to share. Aside from the medical, physical, legal and obvious moral dilemmias, it might not be too hard. Mwahahahahaha.... Then again, without the personality, it's kinda moot. Oh well. 7/20/02, 1:21am- The word for the evening is listless. 7/18/02, 5:57pm- Katie's home. yay. 7/17/02, 10:03pm- Hooray for VR lenses, especially mine. This thing r0x0rz my s0x0rz. Having my sister spend the last few nights in the hospital is definately not as cool. 7/12/02, 11:29pm- Went out for food with John after chillin for a few hours. Friday's was fun. He and I are in the same boat right now...living at home, hating work, looking for someone, etc. *sigh* 7/10/02, 9:36pm- My horoscope said that Cupid's arrow would find me today. Well, there's 2 and a half more hours left.... 7/6/02, 1:09am- There is indeed sun after the rain. 7/5/02, 1:53am- U2's One is playing, and I just finished reading Carson's blog, where he quoted the entire song. How strange is that. It seems that song is especially <word goes here> tonight. Why? If you need to ask you don't know me well enough to deserve an answer. 7/4/02, 6:41pm- "You're my hero! You're like my best friend ever!" Beth, on the phone, after I let her cancel our fireworks and ice cream plans because of a migrane and didn't break the cadence or tone of my voice (much to her amazement). Like I could ever be that mean to one of my friends.... 7/3/02- Happy birthday to Beth :-) 6/27/02, 12:27am- It was MooV nite with Beth. Minority Report and Scooby Doo. I think everyone should have a friend like Beth. I'm quite certian that my mouth will be hurting tomorrow...too much smiling and laughing. It was good. 6/23/02- Hung out with Scott and Tamar and Scott's cousin. Drinks were served and consumed, conversation was had. Life is good. 6/18/02, 12:07am- You always say the right things. :) Love, Beth Friends rock. If only she was right.... 6/16/02, ~3am- green day rocked my lame ass. they got second billing treatment but were totally first rate. blink 182 whipped the frenzied crowd into an even more frienzied frenzy. it was......frenzied. moshing assholes keep it in the pit, not on the lawn. I smakced you down once....I don't want to do it again. back pain karma is as karma does. kiss anonymous blonde who mistook me for her boyfriend from behind. she had very nice lips, or at least my neck thought so. sigh the end of a very very very long day. steak n shake hit the spot exactly. 6/13/02, 111:59pm- My computer is at it again. Playing things like "Here With Me" and "Grace is Gone" and other sappy shit. It's got it in for me. I can tell these things. I still haven't done any of the things I set out to do last weekend. My tires are still bald, my wipers still suck, my oil needs changing, and a host of other things for my ride, not to mention for me. Ahhh, the joy of the working world. 6/11/02, 11:59pm- A week overdue? *sigh* I'm too tired to update these days. This one's for you Tamar. 6/3/02, 11:18pm- Why is it that HBO shows "The Wedding Planner" when I need to see "Die Hard"? I mean really, that's just plain irresponsible. Especially when they know that they're the only expanded basic network showing a movie made after 1965. Man they suck. In other news, I guess my kid sister has a boyfriend now. Good for her :-) 5/25/02, 11:49pm- To the guy who made the song, and the girl in the video for Puretone's "Addicted to Bass" I'd like to say one thing: I hate you. I hate you oh so very much. I hate you with the raw seething hatred of the days of old. I hate you because now, instead of just being addicted to bass, I'm addicted to your goddamn song too. I've listened to it 14 times in a row and it's still stuck in my head. <presses play again> I hate you. 5/25/02, 12:23am- The word for the evening is adrift. Can you say adrift kids? I knew you could. 5/23/02, 12:43am- We've secretly replaced Dave's normal entertaining life with one that consists entirely of work, sleep and food, and is devoid of...well..everything else. Let's see if he notices. 5/20/02, 7:03pm- Found in an AIM window: BSpamarchy (12:23 AM): You are the Trans Am to my Burt Reynolds, Dave Paton. Thanks Kurt.....I think. 5/19/02, 9:02pm- Does Chris Carter actually expect that steaming pile of low grade donkey shit to pass as a series finale? The end felt like it should have had Mulder saying "I want to believe in love...." instead of finding god and snuggling up with Scully. I'm so disappointed. For a guy who came up with a show that did so well for 7 1/2 seasons, he really managed to...uh......um......make it SUCK. 5/7/02, 8:22pm- Listening to Nelly, messing with my console, chatting with Tsui Yi. Nothing to blog really. Say La V. 5/5/02, midnight- Carson just left after a day of fun. Lunch, Spiderman, Dinner and mucho music and talking. It was cool. His brother lives here, and he claims he'll visit with some vage semblance of regularity. That will be fun. My console comes tomorrow. I need a stand for it. I hope I can find one locally. I have a moral objection to having to mail order one from 2 hours away. Ugh. 4/30/02, 9:13pm- I just made a mistake. I looked at the server log for this page. Why on earth did I make the mistake of thinking that several hundred people who visit dpaton.net each day read this, or any other page on my site? There are 6 of you who read regularly, and I know each one of you very very well. I also looked at the rest of the logs. If I deleted the contents of my website that are contained in /audio, and I removed all of the hits from dpaton.net being my IE and Netscape homepage, I'd get about 7 unique visitors a week. If I discount my friends and family I'd get 1. Why does that bother me so much? hell if I know. It's just depressing. *sigh* 4/28/02, 2:18am- Hung out with people I haven't seen in a long time, and a few I've seen recently. Who you ask? I think it was Jenni Knight, Eric Thorstenson, Jessica Barnes, Craig Drodz, Tracy Seaton, Jason Secrest, Mike Sacks, Tina Chambers, her brother Tim, and others I don't remember, but I was drinking so.... 4/24/02, 8:24pm- My DA88 and DA38 are syncing nicely. I can't wait for the console to get here.... 4/20/02, 10:18pm- Watch out, it's online quiz day! Blame http://www.qulture.net/  Which "Saved By The Bell" Character Are You?  Which Trainspotting Character Are You?  What Pattern Are You?  Which Grunge Band Are You?
I maxed out ten credit cards customizing a piece of junk into a makeshift supersonic car, and another five credit cards on stereo equipment. Too bad I never do anything but smoke weed, and creep around the suburbs so everyone can see my subwoofers set off car alarms. I could have went to college with that money. I am gonna go watch the Fast and the Furious again because I am a poser, but I will start thinking about how the hell I am gonna pay for this.
Take the Dependable Transportation Test!click here  You are Perl. Congratulations. You're chic and easy going. You can't do everything but you're good at connecting with others to gelp you overcome this. What programming language are you?? 4/20/02, 9:59pm- I dug out an old crossover kit I put together because my PC4XLa is in the PA rig for the forseeable future. I thought I'd wired it correctly when I moved it from the breadboard to the protoboards. No such luck. Now it's a very pretty, but very expensive paperweight, and I'm still subless. I can't wait for my DSP30s to get here. Vectorman is cool, but not as cool as Sonic. 4/10/02, 10:40pm- The DA-38 is here. I played with it. It was cool. My 88 and 2600mkII are supposedly on the way. I can't wait.... 4/6/02, 2:58pm- After months and months and months of occasional attempts, I finally figured out how to implement a centralized navbar system on my site, dynamic home directory and all. Hot damn.... 4/2/02, 12:17am- Helping friends kicks ass :-) 4/1/02, 9:30pm- AT4033/SE.........yum.  3/31/01, 1:56am- Jessica to the waitress: Don't hold back on the shake!" Pool, Steak 'n Shake and conversations. I had fun. It's been a long time. 3/29/02, 11:46pm- And a DA88 too, with a sync card no less. 3/28/02, 11:57pm- Shizat, I own a DA-38 now. 3/19/02, 11:08pm- all work and no play makes dave....well....it makes me like I am right now. <Note to self: play more.> 3/13/02, 11:18pm- no updates recently. not much to say. less energy to say it with. now back to your regularly scheduled monotony. 3/7/02, 11:43pm- gone. 3/7/02, 9:04pm- tomatpurdue (8:46 PM): aww... cheer up dave tomatpurdue (8:46 PM): things could be worse... you could have a job in a volatile telecommunications industry... tomatpurdue (8:46 PM): oh... tomatpurdue (8:46 PM): wait... nevermind... tomatpurdue (8:46 PM): ;-) sigh... 3/6/02, 11:42pm- Firewire is cool. 3/5/02, 10:12pm- I'm not depressed. Really. Yes, I'm lonely. I know about 4 people in the NW suburbs that are in my peer group and that I like to be around. My good friends are scattered. One lives relatively close. One lives further away. One lives further still. One lives on the far side of the damn country. It's hard not to feel a little bit lonely in a situation like that, don't you think? I'm also trying to get over the love of my life. That's all kinds of fun. It doesn't help that I work a lot. And that I'm not really able to pursue my hobbies like I used to. It's hard to mix a band live when you lack a) a PA, b) a venue and c) an audience. It's also hard to have fun with a hobby when you work all day and then some in the same subject. Things aren't fun when you do them for food. Once I get it all sorted out, work fewer hours, make new friends, and move on with my life it'll be all good. It's just going to suck for a while. 3/4/02, 11:45pm- An e-hug was the highlight of my day. 3/3/02, 12:55am- Dinner @ Friday's then Ocean's 11. Mike and Jessica are fun to hang out with. Maybe I've finally found a way to get a life. Granted it's with people I know from grade school, but they're cool. 3/2/02, 12:20am- Life is strange. 2/26/02, 11:36pm- burn·out Pronunciation Key (bûrnout) n. 1. A failure in a device attributable to burning, excessive heat, or friction. 2. Aerospace. a. The termination of rocket or jet-engine operation because of fuel exhaustion or shutoff. b. The point at which this termination occurs. 3. a. Physical or emotional exhaustion, especially as a result of long-term stress or dissipation. b. One who is worn out physically or emotionally, as from long-term stress. Did I mention my 2 week business trip to Cali got cancelled? I'll catch the next one I guess. 2/23/02, 12:42am- I haven't blogged in a while now. It's not that there hasn't been anything to blog about, because there has. It's that when I get home from an 8 or 10 or 14 hour day at the office I want to do something unrelated to sitting in front of a computer. I sit in front of the TV or a book or the fireplace, or work on my car or play bass or talk or hang out. It's fun to be social once and a while. The problem with that is that I deprive all of the readers of this blog (about 47 of you per day on average) of their voyeuristic glimpse into my life. Not to mention that I've been too tired to do the long winded diary style entries that I like to do. Recently I've been spending an inordinate amount of time working on my car. At some point I'll post the pictures of my work and write up the project for posterity and maybe even more hits. Suffice it to say I'm a big fan of Infinity and Cascade. My car sounds nice now. Could it be? Did a snippit of my misguided advice actually make it into Carson's blog? Simply amazing.... My diploma came a few days ago. It's in the cool frame, the one with the engineering fountain picture next to the diploma. I haven't hung it yet, but it looks badass. Wow. I'm a college graduate. That's a trip for me sometimes. My steero needs an upgrade. The peavey DSP controller I've been using for XO/EQ duties won't cut it any more. I'm looking at upgrading to a pair of QSC DSP-30s. They're each about as much as my Peavey cost, but 10x as good. All I need to do is to generate the testicular fortitude to place the order. I miss people. I have very few friends in the greater Schaumburg area. School offered near constant social stimulation. Work...well...it's kind of stimulating, but not as much as school. It's hard to talk about girls when most of your coworkers are married, not to mention that it's politically incorrect. Discussions of politics are strictly out, mainly due to my...liberal tendencies. Life outside of work is a nontopic, since mos of them have families. It's hard to discuss kids if you don't have any. Cars are a safe topic, but that gets boring after a while. There's only so many times you can mention the reason for making a Cobra automatic before it gets old. (With the supercharger, there was so much acceleration you couldn't lift your shoulder off the seat to do the 2-3 shift) I miss having people in my life. I need to actively fix that I guess. It's hard when you live at home and work long hours tho. Hmmmmm..... my mirror ball makes me happy. yay. 2/17/02, 9:20pm- Now playing: Dance Hall Crashers "Cricket" 2/16/02, 3:57pm- My mirror ball is up. Now all I need to do is figure out how to do the electrical stuff so cords aren't everywhere. 2/16/02, 1:30pm- I got my award today. EET sent my check and my paper. Shoot, this means I'll have to go out today and get a frame for it. PU still owes me a diploma. It's been 2 months. where is it? slackers... 2/16/02, 1:44am- a·drift (-drft) adv. & adj. 1. Drifting or floating freely; not anchored. 2. Without direction or purpose: "The report is about people in their twenties and how alienated and adrift they feel" (Tom Shales). 2/13/02, 7:45pm- ANOTHER 11 hour day comes to a close. What have I gotten myself into. 2/13/02, 8:02am- Congratulations Beth. *hugs* On February 12, 2002 at 8:40pm, I was asked a certain question... and said yes... :-) (ohmygod ohmygod ohmygod ohmygod ohmygod ohmygod ohmygod ohmygod) 2/12/02, 8:40pm- I have metal shavings embedded in my arms and hands and my fingers hurt but I acomplished something, and that makes me feel kinda good. I'm still 2 male XLRs short of finishing the conversion of my Urei 539s to real connectors, but despite that I feel good. Especially after today's day at work. It's not that it was long (it was) or tedius (yup, that too) it's just that...well....I can sense burnout approaching. I've already racked up 9 overtime hours for the week and it's not even Wednesday. 2/11/02, 8:31pm- Blame Catherine
 Ewwwww. I am sooooo not Jesus. All I are is a mock-savior, a wannabe-Jesus. I don't even know why I bothered taking this test. I am quite possibly a homosexual... or Jewish. Take the What Jesus Would You Be? Quiz 2/10/02, 10:57pm- Ken summed up one of my views on love in his blog: A man who fears nothing is a man who loves nothing, and if that is so, then what joy is there in your life? What is love? Love is not stopping half-way. Love isn't stopping when it gets difficult. Love isn't stopping when you get scared. Love isn't being afraid of what might happen, but trusting that what could happen is worth it. Love is a verb, and it means giving your total and complete being for the benefit of someone else. In doing so, you disregard your own fear and apprehension. Love means giving up the power of protection. You may get hurt. You may be disapointed. But, again, love isn't being afraid of what might happen, but trusting that what could happen is worth it. Love means giving yourself even when it hurts so much, and you're so scared, and it seems so impossible----you can think of nothing else but running away and hiding.....but...... you don't. You don't run because you know that if you truly love someone, then you will also be truly loved in return, and you can trust that. Deep thoughts. It's bedtime for me. Goodnight.... 2/10/02, 6:18pm- I just finished doing sound for, and dispensing advice to my sister's band Electron Motel. Tony (gtr), Arjin (bass), Christy (*vox) and Katie (drm) rocked. These kids have promise, I swear. Katie needs ears, the rest need a decent set of monitors. I, being the sound guy, need stands and mics and a board. Toys.... 2/9/02, 7:37pm- I went to work today. That sucked. Work, in my opinion, should be 5 days a week. The other two days are the sole domain of the person, the office is not allowed to enter them in any way. shape or form. I know that's nto how things work, but it's how they should be. I think it would make people much happier. It would make them....relaxed to know that when they left the office at 5 on Friday afternoon, that they could be assured they wouldn't ahve to think about work until 63 hours later, when they arrived at their desks at 8am on Monday. It's worthy to note that I just finished taking pictures of my sister, her freind Cathy and their dates, at the grand pre-Turnabout photo op at my house. It was cool...I shot off a roll of Max 400 that was half poses and half candids, and 1/3 of a roll of C41 process B&W that was half artsy stuff and half poses. I hope the pictures come out. Finally, it's noteworthy that I now have a flash. I picked up an SB-50dx on my way in to work in preparation for tonight's photographic festivities. It's cool. OK, the guide number isn't 119 like the SB28, but it's bright enough for me. The fact that it has a built in SU-4 is also a cool perk. Weeeeee..... 2/8/02, midnight- They Held Each Other And Kissed And Pushed Each Others' Darkness Into The Corner, Believing In Each Others' Light, Each Others' Dream Hubert Selby Jr. "Requiem for a Dream" 2/7/02, 10:07pm-  Which John Cusack Are You? Thanks Carson. 2/5/02, 9:39pm- Mouths hang agape as news spreads. The Theta Mu chapter of Alpha Xi Delta is no more. A moment of silence for a good chapter, and sympathy for it's sisters. Stay strong ladies.... 2/4/02, 8:30pm- Now playing: Dexter Freebish "My Madonna" 2/3/02, 5pm- I just got off the phone. My sister interrupted be while I was blogging the entry below and said to call Tsui Yi on the other line. It was nice. I haven't heard her voice in a long time, and my heart did a little happy dance to hear it again. I know she's my ex, and some people will tell me that I shouldn't be that happy to talk to an ex, but she's very special, so to all those people: Fah Q. Oh, if you need to find lyrics and you know the song title, album name or the band, then head to Lyricsfreak.com. 2/3/02, 4:25pm- I just watched Pump Up the Volume with my family. Well, my mom was there for part of it, but she bailed before it got good. The point of mentioning that (aside from the fact that the movie kicks ass) is that it made me want to be on the air again. For many many wonderful nights during my undergraduate career I had a radio show, with anywhere from a handful to a few thousand listening, depending on the time. I miss having a voice. I miss being an anonymous public figure. I miss how cool it felt to be behind a mic. I could never be on TV, or front a rock band, but radio was my way to be That GuyTM. Radio lets you be in front of them all without actually being there...it's great for those of us who are too scared to actually be that cool.  Take the What animal best portrays your sexual appetite?? Quiz If only. I'm the one who ends up doing the chasing. The last time I was actively pursued was....well....hmm...I think it was around the 7th grade. Everything since has either been mutual or all me. Kinda sad really. Which leads me to....  Take the Which Beatle Are You? Quiz. George. It's too bad I'm a dead Beatle. Of course, I did end up as the most talented one. I guess that's something. 2/4/02, 12:45am- Wow. According to http://members.aol.com/discanner/gtld.html, not only am I a spatial learner, btu I'm simultaneously highly gifted and learning disabled. Go figure. 2/3/02, 10:38pm- Purdue run now over, I'm making a 2 day entry. Last night was the SHS-HEHS game to decide who gets first place in the MSL-South. We won. It was cool. Posstgame festivities with Katie and her friends were interetsing too. Yee ha. I made a day trip to PU to drop off an EQ for Jeff. I met his new friend, chatted with Tom, Carson, Kurt et al, and came home. Now my neck hurts. Ow. Now playing: Kylie Minogue "Can't get you out of my head" 1/31/02, 8:02am- Why am I still at home? Why am I not on my way to work? If you must know, winter struck in the dead of night and there's an assload of snow between me and the office. There's somewhere between 8" and a foot on the ground (wind movement, etc). They only kinda plowed our street. The driveway...well, since I'm getting sick the 'rents refused to allow me to shovel,. so they're out snowblowing right now, with only some success. Maybe if I'm lucky I'll only have to go in for a half day or something.... UPDATE 9:13am- Looks like I'm going in anyway. So much for a day off... 1/27/02, 3:54am- Wow. I just saw a bunch of gradeschool buddies. We went out drinking and partying tonight. Most of them I haven't seen in 10 years. It's got it's own page now... Magnet Reunion 2002 Related notes: Janelle Van De Sample's maiden name was Scheer, for those of you who were confused. Yes, there's redeye in most pictures. I'm too tired to fix that right now. Somehow I managed to only get one picture that had Jessica facing the camera. Sorry... 1/24/02, 11:17pm- Your Song It's a little bit funny, this feeling inside I'm not one of those, who can easily hide I don't have much money, but boy if I did I'd buy a big house where we both could live. If I was a sculptor, but then again no, Or a man who makes potions in a travelling show I know it's not much, but it's the best I can do My gift is my song and this one's for you. And you can tell everybody, this is your song It may be quite simple but now that it's done, I hope you don't mind, I hope you don't mind That I put down in words How wonderful life is while you're in the world. I sat on the roof and kicked off the moss Well a few of the verses, well they've got me quite cross But the sun's been quite kind while I wrote this song, It's for people like you, that keep it turned on. So excuse me forgetting, but these things I do You see I've forgotten, if they're green or they're blue Anyway, the thing is, what I really mean Yours are the sweetest eyes I've ever seen. 1/24/02, 9:33pm- This t-shirt is so damn cool..I want one right now. Did I also mention that I'm gonna go to the Blink182/Green Day show this spring/summer? Dates are TBD, btu they'r egoing for sure. I can't resist....  1/24/02, 9pm- I got a quasi-promotion today. It's not a real promotion because I didn't get a pay raise or a new title, but it was cool. I'm basically the hardware lead on a pair of nifty projects that are actually one big project. I'm also the hardware consult on another. It's cool. I didn't really ask to have the responsibility, nor was it bestowed upon me in any formal fashion...it just kinda happened. I think it had to do with the fact that I'm the EE type who was available at the moment. Nevertheless it's cool. In other news the first of 2 subs is complete. It (literally) rocks my world. What you dont' see below is the two 15" passive radiators on the sides.  1/23/02, 11:39pm- Top Ten Reasons To Date an Engineer
1/22/02, 6:30pm- From my IM screen: there are few who will stick by you when everything is fscked up...I'm glad you're one of them <warm fuzzy> I'm glad I can make a difference from time to time. It's nice to be able to do a good deed, even if it's just being there. What was the last good deed you did? 1/20/02, 1pm- Yeah. Stuff.  1/20/02, 12:41pm- Now playing: Weezer "No One Else" Let's think about the lyrics in the chorus... <excerpted> I want a girl who will laugh for no one else When I'm away she puts her makeup on the shelf When I'm away she never leaves the house I want a girl who laughs for no one else These are obviously not meant to be taken literally, especially when they're surrounded by the rest of the song. It's about a guy who wants a girl who's devoted to him. He wants a girl who is so completely sure of who she's with that she feels no obligation to the rest of the world. She doen't feel the need to dress up for anyone else, because the only one who matters to her is her guy. Her life revolves around her man. I mention this because a few months back this song came up on conversation and one of the conversees told me how f*cked up it was, about a guy who wanted to keep his girl locked up and never let her out except with him, how it was about some kind of sick control freak. It came up while my MP3 player was on shuffle and I thought about the guy, Brian, and decided that this time it deserved a response. Brian, you're wrong. It's not about a freak, it's about unconditional love. 1/19/02, 5:53pm- Why do I feel this....dis ease with my life right now? Things seem a little bit off somehow...like something subtle changed, and I can't see it. *sigh* 1/17/02, 10:59pm- One problem with Schaumburg...I'm at least 2 hours away from any of my massuse friends, especially my favorite. Tangent: Of my 5 closest friends, three are female, and I've dated all of them at one point or another. Why am I the only guy I konw that seems to be able to not lose the friendship after the relationship? Is it because I compartmentalize my feelings until they've been quintuplezillion boxed (triple boxed doesn't cut it)? Or is it just that I'm wierd. These and other deep questions will be answered ont he next Regis. End tangent. Les Claypool is cool. I wish I could play bass as well as he can. Then I'd be cool too. 1/15/02, 7pm-
1/15/01, just after midnight am- Happy birthday to me Happy birthday to me Happy birthday dear meeeeeeeeeee Happy birthday to me Yup, that's right, I'm 23 now. What's that mean? Well, it means I get to fill out paperwork since I can't be covered under my dad's insurance any more, and my W2 gets to change, and all kinds of crap like that. It also means that after numerous hours at work tomorrow/today I'll come home, eat dinner, have a cupcake with a candle and smile a bunch. I'm planning an anticlimactic birthday. Why? No real reason, except that I can't think of a really good theme for a party. Woohoo. Oh well, it's past my bedtime. 1/14/01, 7:21pm- Welcome to the first day of the rest of my life. Today was my first day back at PreAg. Yay. 1/13/02, 8:05pm- This is the big official San Diego trip update. Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
1/6/02, 10:15pm- On Tuesday morning I'll be leaving for San Diego, for a nearly week long vacation with my friends Scott and Tamar. In light of that, my parents thought it would be really cool to give me a birthday present early. So after dinner tonight I opened a brand spanking new Nikon N80QD. I was speechless for a bit. It's an amazing camera. I'm not quite sure if I'll ever be cool enough to use all of it's features, but I think it'll pay for itself with the exposure modes and metering options alone. Damn it's cool. 1/3/02, 12:49am- Well, the second Airport base station is temporarially installed and life for those of us using computers upstairs is good. Now all I have to do is figure out how to run the cable so it's approved by the other folks who live here. 1/2/02, 12:35am- Hollywood Al's movie review of Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring As an aside, it's a bitch and a half to play shrink to my guy friends. I don't understand girls. It's damn near impossible to explain them. It's much easier to explain guys to my girl friends (the space is there on purpose). 1/1/02, 8:35pm- That was without a doubt the best new year's eve party ever. Karen P's apartment is cool, the fireworks at the lake were awesome, and the company was grand. I even got to see Al and the Karens drunk. It was fun :-) 12/30/01, 3:44am- OK, well, I was planning on sleeping, but I ran across Carson's page and had to take the "What Should Your New Year's Resolution Be?" online test.  Take the What Should Your New Year's Resolution Be? Quiz Now, those of you who know me, do you really think I have a chance to pull that one off?  |
