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I don’t know why, but this comic just completely cracks me up.

Ivory Tickling

Yesterday, I decided that everyday from 3 to 4 I was going to teach myself and play the piano.
So when I got home, I sat down and start fiddling around. I taught myself a Jet song “Look What You’ve Done”. It wasn’t complicated, but it’s pretty fun to play.

I’m already noticing I have more of an aptitude for it than for guitar. It’s much easier to sing to than a guitar is and it just sounds better. I think that might also have to do with the way I play guitar though. I’ve been told that when I play guitar and sing, that the guitar is there, but it’s not the focal point. I think overall, the piano is a better vehicle for my singing than the guitar is.

After that I went online and taught myself a few chords, got out some worship sheet music and started playing and singing. So enjoyable.

Clippers et al

Sarah and I went to the Clipper game last night and they dominated the stupid Spurs! It was a close game for the first 3 quarters but then the Clippers pulled away thanks to some excellent defense and star performances by Elton Brand and Sam Cassell. Very enjoyable fun.

The parents have been away the last two weekends which has afforded me a level of self-rule that I’ve missed since the days of apartment dwelling. Not that the folks are so strict or anything, but rather, the whole house is mine. Sunday I decided it would be cool to have people over for the oscars, so I invited a the Biola buddies and the Greyhats crew and we all had a great time. Sarah and I cooked for everyone and the meal was a hit. We’ve discussed the dynamics of our future home quite a bit and we decided that we don’t want our place to be ‘the place’ where people just come over whenever to hang out. However, Sarah and I both love to host, so want it to be someplace where people know that they are going to be coming over to many times a year to visit and have dinner parties or gatherings.

I was so tired this morning, I was having really weird dreams and I almost over-snoozed again. I need a new alarm-clock solution. I would put the clock on the other side of the room, but the problem with that is I have to get down from my loft bed to turn it off. If I just had to roll out of bed, meander over and turn it off, that’s one thing. But if I try to roll out of my loft, I break things…like bones. How many mornings can I honestly say I have left in me, getting down from that thing, before I break my clumsy neck? Not many. Mayaps it’s time to get rid of the loft. I have no idea how I’d set up my room though.

Sinus Sadness

a Sign of Sadness

I think I’m coming down with a cold…this sucks.
I deal with being sick, it’s no big worry, but I just don’t like getting sick on a Friday. That means my days of solace from the realm of networking will be concerned primarily with emptying my sinus-es (sinai?).
Right now I’m congested, have a bit of a sinus headache and things are a bitchoppy, vision-wise.

I think some tea and Tylenol Sinus will do me good but if I’m not feeling better when my co-worker gets in, I may leave early.

Two or three more hours of sleep would be great. But it’s like I said, “I think I’m going to have to purpose to get eight hours of sleep pretty quick here or suffer the consequences.”

Well my body is consequencing me.

Cookie Hustler

Dude, the hustler who works down the row from me is selling girlscout cookies. His daughters’…apparently.
Are they really $4 each?
Somoas are worth it.

Yesterday was an amazingly tiresome day.
My home network was down since the night before and I couldn’t get it to work with the normal tricks. So I came home on my lunch break and worked on it the whole time, no luck.
On the way home from work I bought a new router and worked on it for an hour or two - reached an impass and watched half of Life Aquatic (freakin genious) - then went back to work on it till about 7:15.

I think I may have enjoyed it if I didn’t do the same thing on a larger scale for a job. All in all, by 715 I was ready to fall asleep. Sarah came over and made me a late dinner - which was phenomenal - and I prompty fell asleep after.

I could totally fall asleep at my keyboard right now, I think I’m going to have to purpose to get eight hours of sleep pretty quick here or suffer the consequences.

We’re currently in a long haul of work weeks without days off, it might kill me soon.

Alarm Clock Failure

Yes. Failure, but not critical failure.
Basically, I hit snooze 6 times. For those of you who are familiar with the careful science and wonderful art that is snoozing, you know that a 6x snooze combo is reserved only for marginal weekend commitments such as; breakfast with the guys, watching your favorite cartoon or helping a friend move.

The point is to avoid these sit-bolt-upright, bash-your-head-into-the-ceiling, curse-through-swollen-tongue, slam-your-alarm-clock wake ups that characterize most mornings.
The 6x Snooze Combo essentially means, when done consciously of course, that you want to have a controlled burn of your sleeping state.

Well this 6xSC was nonesuch ritual. I must have hit the snooze in my sleep or half-consciousness because the last time I hit it and looked at the clock finally, it was 6:05am which translates to (accounting for my rigged clock) 5:55am. I immediately sat-bolt-upright, slammed-my-head-into-the-ceiling, cursed-through-swollen-tongue, and bashed-my-alarm-clock to the floor. Thankfully I had showered the night before and hung up the shirt I wore on Sunday, I was out the door and only 15 minutes late to work.

Now, when I was hourly, I would have had to stay 15 minutes late and explain it all to the boss. But now I just ask Elton, my good friend and co-worker, what’s up. Not in the, ‘Hey! How’s it going?’ sense, but as in, ‘What in the network is running as it should be, what’s not?’

Ya, I enjoy that.

Yesterday was one of the most chill work days I’ve had in a while. Came in at six and at nine I had a class that went till noon, went to lunch till one, worked from one till two, staff meeting from two to three and then home.

Today should be normal. Which is fine.