Fixing stuff
Working on some new things on the site so the text -> html translation isn't working at the moment
so you dont get any of the cool stylings, that you've seen in the past...but soon... soon you will.
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New Year's Eve (a year in review)
So, it has been a busy couple of weeks and an even busier year.
Here is a brief review of my year, if you are so inclined you should post one of yourself.
[b]Here we go in no particular order[/b]
haha one of the best new years parties in KC with ryan
lets see. I still lived in the house with Tim, and Ryan (Dan had just moved out recently)
if I remember correctly we had another ice storm around that time too. not that it mattered we had to keep that house set at 50 degrees because the cost to heat the place was outrageous.
I was put in charge of the RS6000(unix) support at work, resulting in subsequent raises to my pay.
registered my domain jwmaag.org
ah, created this new style of website with client side data processing in mind.
Ryan graduated and moved back to Kansas city :'(
moved in with farmer/lare for a few months while i looked for a new place
eventually got a new place :)
ah! we started our weekly gatherings at crystals
Ryan and I started at the very first Trivia Binge at the Patton Alley Pub. which would later result in two first place finishes, one second place finish, two third place finishes, and lots of fucking hilarious trivia team names
my first game of bowling that i broke 200, and later 230 (drunk both times)
concerts.. Jay Reatard, Bearsuit, melt banana, sigur ros... the not so Japanther concert :)...not to mention the ALWAYS entertaining drives with Tim
albums... too many to mention but it was definitely an era of jazz and garage music
as of 12/30 i have finished my entertainment set up (61" TV, Xbox 360, Playstation 3, Turntable, Dreamcast, Gamecube, Sega Saturn, and lets not forget the surround sound)
The shittiest birthday ever.
that night that Ryan monologued for like 3 hours straight
"You're like that 1957 model car that you get at hobby lobby"..."what?"
"I'd call you a coward but you're already yellow"
double dippin' deets
and...hopefully a new best new years party in KC
anything you remember that I missed? fucking put it on here! (facebook or my website)
also my ps3 psn name is jwmaag (same as the xbox)
"pull yourself out of the gutter. motherfucker. when you're bleeding and it feels just like you're bleeding"
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Staying in springfield for christmas!? No?.... fuck
Those of you who are on facebook have probably seen my new tv. (ha ha, fuck you, I don 't listen to your votes on the poll)
It's a 61" monster of a dlp tv...so far i really like it a lot better than using my projector (which wasn't High def). so far i've just played games and watched netflix stuff on it, blue ray is the next step and that should be covered in the next week or so.
Thank you everyone that has gotten me something for christmas (or any winter holiday)
so far:
Crystal and Kevin got me a flask and a bottle of delirium noel
My sister 's early gift was a post-it note pad with instructions to make origami figures
Steve bought my beers at Quintons (I 'm counting it)
as you can tell from the title I 'm going to be here during the holiday so i can work on Wednesday and Friday :
oh well, I 'm sure someone else will be in town and prepared for some holiday drinking... if that is you, gimme a call
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We burn the boom box every night
damn... for someone that really isn't about complications or being conflicted, I'm a conflicted mother fucker
I have forces pulling me in two directions, and I really can't decide.
but on another note i did finally beat gears of war 2... if that counts for anything. no? ... alright then.
office Christmas party is friday. depending on my mood I could be drunk or extremely drunk afterwards, though there is a slim chance that it will be neither because of a concert i was invited to go to(which i still may go to).
credit card company was being a slow pain in the ass last week as i was trying to purchase a 61" tv I'll have to give them a ring and tell them to hurry up and accept the purchase.
I haven't worked on the site in a couple of months... i was thinking of moving the comments to the main page so you aren't "redirected"
and move the comment adding code to a "popup" div tag. I think i would work better if i had a notebook to take to the mudlounge... where i could be around people...isolation never works well for me
also where in the world is carmen sandiego is stuck in my head...fuck you rockapella
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"well past the electric lights"
"yeah, where no one will know my name"
everyone have a good weekend? I sure did.
ever see a blow dart go all the way into someone's ass cheek? I sure did.
ever drink to time paradoxes in movies? I sure did.
ever play bags on the nintendo wii? that game is fucking awesome.
ever conceive a plan to tell a band you are from a label just crush their spirits? me too!
I always forget the feeling that "All Blues"(Miles Davis - Kind of Blue) gives me when i listen to it. It is a lot like hearing it for the first time, everytime. I think that opening horn will always give me chills, make me grab a friend, and enjoy a drink.
also, I was impressed with how many saves the day songs deets and I can sing.
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....Generic song lyric...
I would make a title but what i'm listening to now doesn't have lyrics so...
oh i got Mark Sultan - Sultanic Verses
and King Kahn and the BBQ show lps yesterday in my constant quest to increase my garage collection. obviously they are good albums or i wouldn't have gotten them in the first place, but if you are in a garage mood definitely check those artists out.
didn't sleep last night...running on fumes
only one person has voted on my site (i haven't voted yet so it isn't me) they say i should start looking a some new cars. I think i agree, especially after today when it was shockingly colder than expected (having a 4 cylinder engine doesn't make it warm up any faster). I have plenty save to go for a good down payment, but i can hear my parents in the back of my head telling me not to borrow money, they are still bitching about how I'm using a credit card. but as good as I am at saving money I'm not very good at considering future expenses when spending that saved money. anyways the goal is to have a new car by new years probably.
played a little gears of war with johnny laws, we eventually beat the game on insane after some VERY frustrating checkpoints. basically anytime we had to split up and if either one of us died we had to start over. RAAM was pretty much a joke as laws used the bow on him and I used the sniper. all in all a solid game, looking forward to playing the second one some this weekend.
aaaanyways. comment some suggestions of stuff to talk about. for I am tired of ranting about my random happenings throughout the week
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The muscle and bone - they encase my heart but never touch my soul.
not many new things going on,
Checked out that cajun place off of sunshine the other day. got the oyster po'boy, which i have to say was delicious (after adding some much needed hot sauce). It was also extremely quick, i did not expect to be getting my food that fast (the place was pretty packed)
Tried to play Gears with Johnny Laws yesterday, something is up with one of our network setups though because not thing seems to be working, at least nothing that involves us being directly connected... frustrating to say the least. Oh speaking of Xbox stuff the new xbox interface they are calling "NXE" (new xbox experience), that is replacing the dashboard came out this morning. didn't really get a thorough look at it this morning but it does seem to be a lot simpler to navigate and much more aesthetically pleasing. Perhaps the best feature though is the tie in with netflix, which should allow me to stream movies to my xbox without going the pay per view route that they(xbox live) currently have.
oh if you have xbox live my handle is jwmaag (duh)
also fuck you Tim I can't get the Anniversary out of my head :)
some people were concerned about why i was sadface yesterday on facebook, I'm not really going to talk about it here but you know how to get a hold of me.
anyone free on thanksgiving?, I'm going to be in town with nothing to do and nowhere to go :(
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Meet me when the grass grows tall and green
this isn't related to anything but Tim told me a story the other day. at work someone let me take their like pentium 1 laptop to just mess with and when i got back to the house i started drinking then worked on it and left it on the table. curious as he is, Tim decides to take a look at the laptop on the table and sees in word
Things to do with laptop:
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1) hey muscles, I love you, I want to have your babies
obviously i was listening to the muscles album at the time but my thinking is that i had to be drunk when doing that cause i don't remember doing it at all
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Half my heart beats fast-fast-fast for you
Booooooored!
so if you are in the medical profession you know what an 837 file is correct? contains basically everything about the claim etc. so insurance companies can pay the providers. I was told one day by someone that they were told "it is just like XML"... to that i just have to say "You are a fucking idiot and you don't know anything about XML" seriously the format is way more complicated than what it has to be... it is frustrating to write a program that reads these files and puts them in the database.
Am i the only one that finds the "very hard" sudoku's easier than most of the medium ones on daily sudoku?([url]http://www.dailysudoku.com[/url])
oh, i suppose i could tell you what happened at the Japanther concert... NOTHING
yeah it was cancelled, the funny thing being that nobody else got the memo either
so Tim and I have just driven 3 hours to stl, and now we are driving around for about an hour looking for this place (we drive past it a couple of times not realizing that it is the place) we run into 3 or 4 cars full of other people looking for the concert as well. by this time we are getting a little fed up and decide to just break into concrete land (the place where the concert is supposed to be). Turns out, that the place is pretty cool at night (almost post-apocalyptic)... anyways we toured the place a couple of minutes until we hear a police siren (getting closer and closer) and then hear gunshots.... that was the end of our little adventure for that night. obviously the park liked me a little cause the fence ripped the hell out of my pants :(
thank you north saint louis for the excellent times...ugh
I guess you all aren't idiots for not going to the concert after all....but you did miss out on jack-in-the-box so, uh, HA!
my weekend was very very boring, though Saturday I did join the nationwide protest against all the anti-gay rights legislation going around. i think around half of the people there thought I was gay, which ended up creating some awkward moments.
then went to stick it in your ear and got:
Herbie Hancock - Future Shock and
Sonny Rollins - Blue Note
not bad finds considering that I was looking for Bootsy Collins and James Brown vinyls.
Internet! don't let me down!
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Revo - Lution Ba - By
I took down the other one cause I really forgot what I wanted to write.
What's new? you might think.
Well, reader. I just recently bought an xbox 360 out of sheer boredom, so far im pretty pleased with the purchase. though i only play Gears of War and Megaman 9 as far as games go I've really been digging the movie pay per view thing, basically i like it because it is like having on demand without having cable. and i hear with a xbox live gold account you can tie in your netflix stuff to it.
as far as music is concerned i got some Andre Williams stuff the other day, along with some times new viking(awesome). the Andre Williams album is jokingly my album of the year but it is a very very very good album. maybe I'm just into that soul garage sound(I am).
Those of you that may have wondered where the hell I've been the past two weeks, probably don't know that i was sick for like 9 days. I am better now so I hope that i can start going out again.
Japanther in STL on thursday! with Tim and Kelly....I'm fucking pumped. seriously, you all are idiots for not knowing this band and not going to the concert.
That it for now, gotta continue working with shell scripts
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