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DK seems to be acting... strangely this last week or so. Since his not-discussed-promotion to 'team lead' and getting his 'own team' he has been solidly using the excuse of 'administrative work' in standup meetings for the last week or two. At random points in the standsups he starts ragging on our 'outsourced folk' with out actually mentioning them by name.

Today he "conducted" the stand up meeting in an even more odd fashion. The usual meeting starts with him babbling about stuff the it goes to the left of him around the circle explaining what they are doing today and what they did yesterday. That occurred in today's meeting, but then he required to go BACK in reverse order and verify each person had something to do. WHAT!? Didn't we just do that?

Damn.

I being the clever chap required him to verify he had work items to do as well. Huzzah.

He also has been ramping up his frustrations with meeting?'s incompetent skillz. I thought DK might even bitch slap meeting? for a second. Oh well. The life on the lowest run of management.

Toad's back together and coming to town!! Stir Concert Cove! July 24th! $25.00!

My heart rejoices and is glad!

Yahoo just announced they are closing down geocities. I was shocked, appalled, and generally disgusted. I had a website with geocities all the way back from mid 1997. I didn't do much post 2001 with it but I kept it alive with enough changes in file content to stave off the "no updates in three years; update or be deleted".

I log into the old geocities account (thankfully a yahoo password I remember) and begin the hunt for the ftp log in. Wait! What? No ftp login because it's free?! What's this 4.5mb cap an hour? Damnit how the hell am I going to get my files off in a timely manner? No matter - I took an adobe plug in, reconfigured a few things, and proceeded to let it data rape the whole 20mbs in about three minutes. THe most annoying part was the inserted javascript from yahoo I had to remove off ten or twenty html pages. Arg.

Rummy reminded me of the old geocities address: athens/acropolis/4921

Damn it still works.

I will have to raise a toast to the old page. She did me well for a long time. Not to mention twelve years of existence taking up a meager portion of the internet.

RIP 4921, RIP.

I just found out geocities is closing down. Aw shit. I have a website I moderately maintained back in high school (1997 to be exact) that I need to backup and archive. Sad. The pictures were quite.. amusing.

My presentation is chalking up quite a few slides. Thankfully I am done with the whole "let's build a project because you are stupid" and will be moving into the more 'advance' stuff which will require less slides and more interaction.

I have to say my bomb diggity graphics will totally keep people up and going... I have me the space cadet.. a few ships going "pew pew pew", a nice space background... hot damn! Hopefully it is all fairly unobtrusive.

I have a few monsters / robots sketched out.. but I need more.. like three or so more. We'll see how that goes. I think I will be sketching them out on the back of keno tickets.

I am just damn giddy about the whole thing..

I got a bit worn out on zombies and flipped to Team Fortress 2.. oh.. my.. god. Such organized chaos.... so many choices.. so many head shots! *boom!*

I have been drafted into a two hour presentation on Reporting Services. cool. My slides will rock the shit. Do not get me started on finding a freaking room in our two buildings. The "reserve via Outlook" only applies to other departments wanting to use our rooms.. no.. everyone else's conference rooms have to be reserved in person. Stupid.. stupid.. stupid.

On a side note I just broke news that DK is a lead to the team when running the standup meetin

It was picture day at work. Jefe had gathered us all as we traipsed through the building trying to figure out where to go. It ended up being the lobby, but hell if we would have waited. The big group picture was snapped with Fallout boy and I on the far right - away from Meeting? and BJ's rank ass breath.

I was ready to head back to our floor when Jefe declared we needed two more pictures of people in small groups. That was odd. She dictated that DK, BJ, Meeting?, Bloopers, and Falloutboy would be the first. Ahm Okay. I asked her 'why?' to which she responded "that's Dk's team".

Ahm. Hold up there sister. Come again?

It seems that MarkyMark, Sticks, and I report directly to Jefe.

Strange.

I had to pull up the org chart to affirm this is true. I guess she wasn't really planning on telling anyone. Stellar job there. Why tell anyone the team structure shifted?

On better news I am now giving a two hour "Reporting Service" training session in three weeks. Damn. Hopefully I get some stellar prize. Maybe I'll throw in some XNA programming for kicks.

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I just found out the free-man's 'Left 4 Dead' is 'Zombie Panic'! I had to dredge up my old steam account, and started downloading it. Stellar.. stellar... stellar. Sadly I am at 96% damn if I will leave to go to the gym before I get a game in!

The scenario is simple - you join up a server and can volunteer to be zombie-0 or a survivor. When a zombie kills a player - bam that player is now a zombie. The game goes until the objective is met, the survivors are all day, or the zombies are all dead.

There are benefits and detractors for each. The game accounts for weight as the more weapons and armor you pick up slow you down. Zombies don't run as fast but respawn health.

Shit the game's done!

*braaaaaaaaaaaaaaains*

http://www.zombiepanic.org/

Damn.. what a week so far.

Let's rewind some time.

Thursday through Current.

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After two lengthly phone conversations with my sisters I have decided the tale they told was amazingly ridiculous. I could have made millions of a Lifetime Movie script - assuming I wrote down the specifics of each call.

It boils down to one sister bluntly putting things while the other takes offense it it all. They both need to chill the fuck out and life will continue.

Middle Sis (MS) is concerned about the actual content and if Youngest SIs (YS) gets the deeper long lasting values of what is being said. Also MS is trying to make sure YS looks her best for the wedding. YS takes this as some power grab move and all hell breaks loose.

Really? Ugh. I hope that YS's comment that this alleged 'gay kyle' will be a brides maid.

Yeppie - KBomb's invite to his wedding. Stellar.

So the middle sister is acting up again. Her battle plan with my dad and his SO has gone well - she's acting normal and what not, but her new plan with the youngest sister (getting engaged, a new dog, and a place with her fiance) seems irrational.

Previous entry here
And here

The new angle of attack Lindsey is going for is she is holding her attendance at Ashley's wedding in question unless Ashley affirms her yet-to-be-had-children are raised catholic.

Ah what? When (and why) did this Aunt Connie/SuperNun paradigm shift occur? Granted Ashley's fiance is jewish, but they are getting married by a catholic priest (friend of the family) in a catholic church. Hmm.

Also why is Lindsey trying to bargain with Ashley's non existent children? Quite puzzling, and as the big brother I shall have to intercede on Ashley's behalf.

This is just patently absurd on too many levels to be legit. Are we being punked right now? Come on Ashton - come out so I can kick you in the nuts and make off with Miss Demi Moore. I'll show her a scarlet letter or two!

Suck it Trebeck

Recap of:
Wed 2009-04-01 to Tues 2009-04-07

Side note - Anders had his son in the wee hours of the morning April 3rd. Go Steen go!

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Pub: Fall 09

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Oct 09
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I know I have been a bit lax on my Real World: Brooklyn (RW:B), but I was busy okay?

The ending was pretty much as awesome as I figured it would be. There were some pranks, some yelling, tears, hollow good byes, and one unexpected twist of integrity.

I shall deem this season "Bros before hoes".

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------- April 2009 -------
GREEN LANTERN #39
Sale April 8, 2009



DARK TOWER: SORCERER #1
IN STORES: April 15, 2009

ENDER'S SHADOW: BATTLE SCHOOL #4
IN STORES: April 15, 2009

GREEN LANTERN CORPS #35
On Sale April 15, 2009

THE WALKING DEAD #60
April 15


GREEN LANTERN #40
On Sale April 29, 2009

ENDER'S GAME: BATTLE SCHOOL #5
IN STORES: April 29, 2009


------- May 2009 -------
DARK TOWER: THE FALL OF GILEAD #1
IN STORES: May 13, 2009

GREEN LANTERN CORPS #36
On Sale May 13, 2009

THE WALKING DEAD #61
On sale May 13, 2009

GREEN LANTERN #41
On Sale May 27, 2009

ENDER'S SHADOW: BATTLE SCHOOL #5
IN STORES: May 27, 2009

------- June 2009 -------
GREEN LANTERN CORPS #37
On Sale June 10, 2009

THE FLASH: REBIRTH #3 (OF 5)
June 10, 2009

THE WALKING DEAD #62
June 10, 2009

DARK TOWER: THE FALL OF GILEAD # 2
Jun 17, 2009

GREEN LANTERN #42
On Sale June 24, 2009

------- July 2009 -------
GREEN LANTERN CORPS #38
July 1, 2008

GREEN LANTERN: REBIRTH #1 SPECIAL EDITI
July 1, 2008

DARK TOWER: END-WORLD #1
IN STORES: July 2, 2008

GREEN LANTERN #43
July 8, 2008


# BLACKEST NIGHT #1 (OF 8)
7 | 15 | 2009
# BLACKEST NIGHT: TALES OF THE CORPS #1 (OF 3)
7 | 15 | 2009


THE FLASH: REBIRTH #4 (OF 6)
7 | 22 | 2009
GREEN LANTERN #44
7 | 22 | 2009
BLACKEST NIGHT: TALES OF THE CORPS #2 (OF 3)
7 | 22 | 2009


BLACKEST NIGHT: TALES OF THE CORPS #3 (OF 3)
7 | 29 | 2009

DARK TOWER: THE FALL OF GILEAD # 3
In Stores: Jul 22, 2009

------- Aug 2009 ----------
BLACKEST NIGHT #2 (OF 8)
8 | 12 | 2009
GREEN LANTERN CORPS #39
8 | 12 | 2009

GREEN LANTERN #45
8 | 26 | 2009

DARK TOWER: THE FALL OF GILEAD # 4
In Stores: Aug 26, 2009

As some of you may know, Hawaii was back in town last night. It was arranged by the eldest sister, Laura aka Ankh, and attended by a few folk. I knew most of them by sight, but the names were hazy.

The note worthy list was: Ankh, the rare and reclusive Steve (brother) aka Steve the Hedge, Audry aka Dance, Ankh's hubby, and *drum roll* Margie aka Island.

Follow the recap after the jump.

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I just a quizzical email a few minutes ago, and I frankly think it was directed at Falloutboy (but it was emailed to the whole team).

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