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I just found out in this morning's standup meeting, meeting?'s last day is tomorrow! Holy moley I thought this day would never come! I thought for *SURE* he was going to be hired on!

No..no.. DK said "while it was abrupt we are treading water while we wait for this release.

Maybe a team lunch tomorrow for his going away?

Did you hear that fanboy *squee!*? Two more evenings and I will be at Toad the Wet Sprocket. I am quite stoked.

I was promised tomorrow will be Legal Lunch. Perhaps we can find the waiter with sweaty palms again. Someone loves him.

Yeppie - an email about my high school reunion! This should be a fun event.

Work is chugging along nicely. DK has finally seemed to settle into a rut of annoyance and anger with certain team members (totally deserving), and the phrases of doom and gloom (24 hour support, late nights, weekends, "you can't leave at the end of the day if you have an active bug") continue - abet with each day a more glazed look in response.

I don't think I am allowed to go to Candlebox (the night before the move.. or is it the night after?). Bastards. Thankfully I didn't spend cash on the ticket.

I hear Our Lady Peace is coming to town with Reel BIg Fish and The English Beat. Blah..*puke*... gag.. RBF - I saw you once this year and I won't do it again. English Beat - I just skimmed youtube's videos and you are not that good. So no OLP for me.

I made a major party foul earlier this week. At work I made a comment about this post on one of the forums I read. It was a funny joke, but later on one of my lunch gang asked me what forum I was on and where the post was at. I guess he wanted to read it. I shot the forum name back then had the sinking feeling of "oh shit, what did I just do".

That particular forum has a link to this blog in my comment signature. After a quick check - yup that guy from work had been on my blog and probably read my general grousing on life.

Initially this wouldn't be an issue but with how over sensitive some people at work can be they might mistake healthy grousing with some sort of insidious plot. This can easily become a mountain from a mole hill.

So... Monday I will have to talk with this guy and inform him to keep this blog off the work radar. Not mentioning it to anyone and so forth. If he has already spread the word or for what ever reason says 'no' then I'll have to axe the blog to block any potential work related conflicts over the benign content.

*sigh*

Other related news:
I'm done with version one of my wedding ceremony, and it's time to go snag some comics for the week.

As I sit here sifting through tables on one of the databases and out of the blue I wonder how that bald headed, older guy with thick glasses, partially handicapped, loved his giant ear muffs, and constantly hung out in the PKI computer lab is doing.

I guess the guy walking down the side walk reminded me of him.

Work took an ugly turn today. DK was all huff and puff about battening down the hatches to get these bugs done.

No vacation.
Talk of 24 hour coverage.
No sign (or word) form Jefe (though the grapevine has her showing up the first week or so of August.. which would make it a 1.5 month vacation).
Mandatory overtime & weekends.

Hmm.

Falloutboy seems very stressed

Damn videocard crapped on out me after I got home tonight. I turned on the PC and bam.. got a series of beeps, a sound load, but no video. Threw in the old card and lookie here - it works.

So a trip back to WorstBuy to exchange it.

In other news Arturo Gatti was found dead in a hotel room in Porto de Galihnas, Brazil on his second honey moon. Very sad. I am certain the Porto de Galihnas police are on top of finding who did this. pfffst..

What a day.

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Busy month July!
------- July 2009 -------
GREEN LANTERN CORPS #38
July 1, 2008

GREEN LANTERN: REBIRTH #1 SPECIAL EDITI
July 1, 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 WALKING DEAD #63
7 | 15 | 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
Jul 29, 2009

------- Aug 2009 ----------
THE FLASH: REBIRTH #4 (OF 6)
8 | 5 | 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

Things.. things the magical nondescript noun.
The more you eat the more you frown.
...
Ah.. yeah.. my poetry muse just left.

Wow... today has just been a trying day at work. Maybe not for me, but for DK for sure.

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I had a surreal cliched moment this morning. About 1.30am or so I hear my neighbor's bed upstairs start squeaking. I put down my book and stared at the ceiling. There were a handful of half starts and out of sync squeaks, but I giggled as I put up my hands in the first position for an orchestra conductor.

In my best impression of Michael J Fox's "Brantly" from "The Secret of my Success" I played out the scene and laughed some more. It was getting particularly vicious as the wood was being brought to bear (so to speak), and ended with a crescendo of bed on wall.

A bit of thumping in the bed room and the to the bathroom the night was still again.

I picked up my book and finished out the chapter.

As an aside, I'm really not into this book. William Gibson's "Spook Country" is kind of "meh".