DLand - Mic Check - Nothing Interesting Here

Testing ... testing ... is this thing on?Ok, everybody, let's give this a whirl. I have had tons of entries in my head lately. And none of them make it online. I even wrote a very long post about the PATRIOT Act but it just annoyed the crap out of me. If you want my full opinion, just ask me. But I didn't feel up to the debate at the time. Overall life has been grand these days. I've had one of two low point, but in the grand scheme of things, I'm extraordinarily happy. Mundane updates ... My windshield is being replaced on the Mini because they cracked it while installing my roof rack (it's a very cute roof rack, by the way). Unfortunately, my rain sensing windshield is like the Rosetta Stone of BMW parts so it's taken them a week to get the part ordered. Ah, well. It will be nice and clean and beautiful once I get it back. Work has improved steadily. It's still busy as all hell, but we all seem to be getting along really well and that has made vast improvements all around the office. I haven't spent a weekend at home in over a month. Needless to say my poor little car has quite a few miles on it. Picked up my power kite from Jeremy's house on Friday. Need to check the lines and then hopefully use it maybe this weekend. It's the perfect time of year for it. I've been watching a hell of a lot of hockey lately. Between Rich's playoffs and the Leafs winning last night in second overtime, I feel like I dream games in my head now. It was painful to watch Jeremy Roenick wallop Mogilney in the kisser, though. I was pissed the Flyers were whupping up on our top scorer, but found it hard for Roenick to do any wrong in my eyes. He's like the second dreamiest hockey player in the universe. Ok, lunchtime is over and it's back to the mines. Hopefully I'll have some more insightful info soon.

DLand - Trying to Keep My Priorities Straight

I'm just ... weary. But I don't want to talk about why. It's the same story about work, only a different day.I want to talk about the great times I've been having when I'm not at work. It's hard to know where to start. I could list all the neat stuff I've been working on. How I'm feeling good because my own medieval hobby life is shaping up the way I'd like. I'm making good progress on the pavilion. I'm going to teach a class on hosen. I've come up with some ideas for the Oak newsletter that get me all jazzed. So I've been getting lots of good SCA vibes - at least in my tiny corner of the medieval universe. I try to ignore the crappy things going on that I don't like. I've been spending a lot more time around good friends. It's quite a joy. I've had several weekends now where Sunday night I lie in bed thinking “holy crap, what a great weekend. It doesn't get any better than this.” It's the closest I've come to using an ostensibly religious word like “blessed”. Makes me think about the ficticious city of Coolville - where all of your dear friends and family live within 10 miles of each other. It would have to have mountains and oceans and tall buildings and dense forests to make every one of our friends happy. But if Coolville could exist, man it would kick ass. Spring began on Friday and it really did seem like perfect timing. It was more than just the weather but like a fresh start or the beginning of a new season. The weekend was full of great memories. Playing video games that scared the crap out of me where boys yelled “nice shot, Pussyfoot” at me. Riding around in the sun with my bare feet on the dashboard. Desperately trying to convince Jake to cut her hair and dye it red while Kevin was at the event fighting. Calling Jason just to tell him I missed him. Reading BBC news reports out loud in the car. Starting an extremely intense discussion in the car with Rich about the nature of the Order of the Rose as a Peerage. Showing up to Corby and Thjora's in time to cuddle Regan then cuddle a bottle of merlot. Wearing Susie's WAY TALL shoes and not falling on my ass. Being too drunk to take care of myself and having someone there to take care of me. Falling asleep Sunday afternoon with the sun on my skin. Having far too complicated debates about comic book characters. Eating dinner with so many friends. Falling asleep curled up like a kitten after a long day of chasing string. I can see that my work week now is spent thinking about what the next weekend brings. I much prefer that to spending the weekend worrying about what the next work week brings.

DLand - Weeks at a Glance

I've been scrambling to keep up these days. Let me do the jiffy update on some stuff over the past few weeks. I've actually gone out and bought one of those “week at a glance” calendars like I had in high school to make notes of what happens in my life everyday. It helps me keep focus on things. And since I'm not seeing Gary as often it can be harder to recap my schedule. Anal-retentive, pack rat and influenced by librarians. I'm hopeless.ALA was nice in Philly except for the SQL worm virus. I spent all of Saturday and Sunday on the phone with Kevin back at the office. And Sunday, Bossman and I drove back from Philly that night to finish fixing all of our network that Cox messed up. Yay. So it was a long weekend. But I had a great lunch at Maggiano's and did my stage show for the Users Group Meeting and all was well. We worked the next weekend as well, hence my missing University. And it was a weekend full of foo and wah and communication issues. But it looks like things are picking up in that regard as well. I sold my brother my old Tivo in order to get my new DirecTV one. It's very nice other than being silver so it doesn't match my other devices. Ah, well. Made a pennant to Fedex to Susie to go on the vigilino for Andrew. I was pleased with the speed I did this one versus Rich's last year. Although, Andrew's was only one color and smaller. I suppose brevity is the soul of wit in pennants too, Corby. And that brings us up to this past weekend. Yes, it was very cold. But it was one of the best events I've been to in awhile. I co-chilled with Jeremy a bit until I couldn't stand the sulfer smell of the forge any longer. I was also pretty proud of him for getting second place in the thrown weapons tourney with an axe he had made himself. That's pretty cool, if you ask me. Now I just need to convince him to make me a pointy metal stick like everyone else wants. I got lots of Regan baby cuddles in during the night and day. Let me tell you, she was a heat machine and I wouldn't have given her up for anything. I would have put her on my toes directly if I thought I could have gotten away with it. And she gets the award for world's most low maintenance happy baby. Yesterday I spent way too much time researching and creating my character for our new D&D campaign. I even changed what region she is from because the technology and trade didn't match her background. God, I'm such a dork. But I'm pretty pleased with her overall. Here's to hoping we can keep a regular schedule for the games. That's the boring update on my life these days. I've become newly inspired to unearth my sewing table again, so great things (or maybe just pretty good things) may come of that soon. We'll see.