Isaac

sylvan1@hotmail.com — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 12:50:00 GMT

Internet will be spotty the next few days as they are routing power away from non-essentials (like phone) to get the power back on for the city. Its on now, so we'll see how long that lasts.

Power restored! (for now!)

sylvan1@hotmail.com — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 02:11:04 GMT

Power came back on about an hour ago. Was a miserable, sweaty, testy weekend. *sigh* But came through it all okay.

Hurricaned!

sylvan1@hotmail.com — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 21:45:13 GMT

Whee, back from work and ready for some rain!

Emoticons?

sylvan1@hotmail.com — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 09:58:32 GMT

So,

Was ponding Emoticon's...you know, like :) ;) so forth...

Are those descended from Decepticon's? Or is it a virus like one come forth to conquer humanity from the internet?

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

Fight the power! Fight the evil!

Return to internet land

sylvan1@hotmail.com — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 09:56:15 GMT

I'm back. Yaaay!

AT&T shuffled their collective feet for 3 weeks before finally getting the DSL set up. Wheeee!

Rudeness

sylvan1@hotmail.com — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 20:13:57 GMT

While at lunch today something happened that rather annoyed me. Mind you, I was at a Luby's so the place isn't high class, but still considered decent sit-down restaurant.

Should I be bothered as much as I am about a young man sitting at the restaurant in another booth who has his hat and bluetooth on while eating?

Or am I just behind the times?

It just strikes me as a complete lack of manners!

Bleh.

First day!

sylvan1@hotmail.com — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 13:07:34 GMT

First day at work annnnd...

ALL of my logins are broke and the building had a fire in it.

Oops.

Afterwards when we could go back in I got to spend six hours reading tech manuals. Uggggggggggggggggggggggggggggh.

Today will be better!

New Job!

sylvan1@hotmail.com — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 06:28:55 GMT

Yay!

Got a new job! Its with a security firm; supporting IT people via the company's security hardware and software.

They pretty much doubled my salary. Went through about two months of interviews and the like and they accepted me.

Left on amiable terms with my old company. (Amiable for me, they didn't want me to go...)

I start tomorrow! Wish me luck! This will be a big step up.

Merry Christmas

sylvan1@hotmail.com — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 09:57:25 GMT

Merry Christmas all! I leave you with a picture that I find utterly adorable and appropriate.

Found a kitten!

sylvan1@hotmail.com — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 09:14:47 GMT

So, we were on the way home from work and going out to the parking lot we noticed a small form under the car.

Got closer and saw it was a cat! I called for it and it came STRAIGHT to me purring up a storm and let me pick it up.

Came home with it and its been purring ever since. Gave her a bath and she's clean as a whistle!

Think I'll call her Fiona.

Pictures!

Wall of illness!

sylvan1@hotmail.com — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 20:17:01 GMT

Ugggggggggggh, got sick...

Saturday night we were enjoying a nice Star Wars roleplay and everyone was saying they were hot, but I was getting cold...

So everyone left around midnight, and I decided to take a hot bath. Despite the water being a nearly boiling I was still cold, so I went to bed.

And from there began to shake uncontrollable, was freezing, and had severe pain in my chest, back, and neck. And then started wheezing and couldn't breathe and was DIZZZZZZZZY...

Went to the hospital about 4:30am, during that time I had my vitals checked constantly, got a shot in the butt, x-rayed, and went through some crazy re-breather mask breathing treatment.

Ended up being Bacterial Bronchitis that really really wanted to become phemonia. Creeped up and slammed me into a brick wall, and stole my lunch money.

Got out about 11am and picked up all my medicines from the pharmancy and went back to sleep exhausted.

Woke up a bit ago, I feel muuuuuuch better than I did that night, but geez that snuck up so fast on me. So I'll be out from work for the rest of this week probably, we'll see what happens.

So, BLEH I say!

Anyone like The Oregon Trail?

sylvan1@hotmail.com — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 22:05:02 GMT

If you did, try this out...

http://www.thuleroadtrip.com/thule_trail/thuleTrail.html

You'll be amused.

sylvan1@hotmail.com — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 09:57:34 GMT

Your Score: Sad Cookie Cat

52% Affectionate, 39% Excitable, 53% Hungry

You are the classic Shakespearian tragedy of the lolcat universe. The sad story of a baking a cookie, succumbing to gluttony, and in turn consuming the very cookie that was to be offered. Bad grammar ensues.

To see all possible results, checka dis.

Link: The Which Lolcat Are You? Test written by GumOtaku on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the The Dating Persona Test

sylvan1@hotmail.com — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 09:46:53 GMT

Hrmmmmm, I need to get into the habit of posting more often.

Let's see; what's been going on lately.

Been on a small vacation for the past few days; just needed some time away from work. I'm on a new account now and its very stressful. The customer service and agents there are terrible; so I'm trying to help 'clean it up' so to speak. We'll see how that goes.

Played a game of 'War of the Ring' with my friend John tonight. Its a board game we've been playing lately, fun! Sorta a risk-hybrid strategy game. Typically I've been playing as the Fellowship; but we switched sides this time and poor ol' Frodo got too much influence and use out of that ring...bwhahahahahahah!

...ahem.

Anyways, that's all for now. I'll try to post every couple of days or so. I'll try!

Really!

Explosions in Dallas

sylvan1@hotmail.com — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 09:30:05 GMT

Everyone up in Dallas okay after those explosions today? Melissa? Roq? A-OK?

Death Flu

sylvan1@hotmail.com — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 15:18:38 GMT

So...ill...flu destroying body bit by bit. Snot conquering brain. Every part of body sore.

Wah...

sylvan1@hotmail.com — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 20:59:18 GMT

Happy Birthday Amy!

Do something fun!

I wish you all the best! Enjoy the day!

sylvan1@hotmail.com — Mon, 25 Dec 2006 17:48:21 GMT

Merry Christmas everyone. *smile*

Promotion!

sylvan1@hotmail.com — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 08:45:44 GMT

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!

I applied and got the Team Lead job I had been seeking at work. It took alot of long and hard work and scraping and learning, but I got it!

Wheeeeeee!

Pretty early too! I've only been here a year and some change, and most of the other TL's had been here about three before they applied and got the position.

Should be very hard, but interesting and exciting! Wish me luck!

sylvan1@hotmail.com — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 20:52:14 GMT

Oh Great Cthulhu!

I have been an extremely industrious devotee this year.

In January, I prepared an ocean voyage to R'lyeh (200 points). In December, I sacrificed kalishendell to Cthulhu (500 points). Last week, I defiled the grave of that traitor, Lovecraft (90 points). In July, I rescued obsidiantears from being sacrificed (-200 points). In February, I fed karimonster to a Shoggoth (250 points). In May, I bombed a cultist gathering (-100 points).

In short, I have been very good (740 points) and deserve to be promoted to High Priest.

Your humble and obedient servant,
izzardlizard

Submit your own plea to Cthulhu!

Dapper Crab

sylvan1@hotmail.com — Sat, 08 Oct 2005 07:45:04 GMT

Discworld: Which Ankh-Morpork City Watch Character are YOU?
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Well how amusing. Even goes in a strange way with my new icon. *Grin*

P.S.

sylvan1@hotmail.com — Tue, 27 Sep 2005 19:33:23 GMT

Ya know, the sad bit is that the moment I heard about the Contra-Lane thing for I-45 what went through my brain was:

Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Start.

Heh!

Mandatory Vacation.

sylvan1@hotmail.com — Tue, 27 Sep 2005 08:02:56 GMT

Well, that was some pretty crazy stuff. Since I wasn't able to elaborate in my last post, I'll start from the beginning this time.

Heard about that crazy hurricane coming in, to be honest I didn't think much of it at first; just media hype after what happened in New Orleans. (i.e. like what happened with the terrorist attack, etc. just media suddenly hypes up everything remotely related to such to get ratings/and or spread paranoia) but when the sucker started getting much bigger and poised this-a-way we decided to get our butts in gear.

I still went to work the last day that I could though and at the end of the shift we were bagging the phones and computers in garbage bags and putting them up as high as we could on the desks with all the cords as they expected the call center to flood. Luckily my team lead let me off early; pretty much told me to get my butt outta here ASAP. So that was cool that they were more concerned about us than the contract/call center.

A little late however.

Since by time we were ready to ship out I-45 was absolutely positively clogged we decided to wait until the contra-lanes (I-45 going North in both directions) and the heat was down a bit. We got about to The Woodlands before the AC went out and the car overheated. (cats were NOT happy about super hot car)

Thus began the next 4 hours of pushing the car in (slooooooooowly) moving traffic while it tried to cool down some.

We were joined in the pushing endevour by a pair of druggies hitching their way around. They were pretty nice, the one next to me though about every 10 minutes kept asking me if I 'smoked' (which he meant pot obviously), so each time I politely told him no. At least his friend was a bit more comprehensible.

After me and Jennifer stopped for an hour to rest and cool the car down they left to find a trailer to hitch-hike on, so we repaid them with some water.

I think about then is when I started driving about 30 mins with the heater on high blowing in the car (to take the hot air out of the engine) and resting the car for 15 mins, and repeating the process until about 6am when the car finally just overheated itself out and we knew it needed to cool for a few hours.

Luckily by then we were in Huntsville near a Comfort Inn that had its lights on (as well as a McDonalds). I went into the Comfort Inn and I must have just looked like hell. As my blue jeans were barely blue anymore and more of a dust color, my tank top about the same and covered in sweat and dirt, and my hair was in all directions and dirty as could be. Just a total mess. The manager didn't bat an eye at that and let me use the bathroom to clean up and fill my water jug (as at that point we were out of bottled water and down to 1/3 of a jug. Most of the water we had drank and we had brought -alot-) and when I came out I asked if me and Jennifer could rest in the lobby some and bring my cats in a carrier so they could cool (the poor things had been riding loose in the car as I knew putting them in the carrier for the trip would have fried them; and as is they were constantly panting and overheated with the heater on like that.) she didn't mind that either. I know one manager who's gonna get a Christmas card/ham this year.

So we rested for a couple hours, Jennifer went over to the McDonalds to get food while I rested with the cats (the McDonalds had a 45+ min wait but luckily Jennifer just walked by a Sonic's that had opened within the minute of her stepping by it so she managed to get food but quick.). We awoke to the fun fun news of that bus fire right outside of Dallas (which scared the $*@( out of me) thus we decided to change our route as that clogged traffic even more up.

Our route changed to when we got out of Huntsville to go up to Centerville and hop on 84 W to I-35 which apparently was much more clear on traffic and had gas. (On the plus side with gas I had thought to fill up the night before we left at a little corner out-of-the-way gas station and we had an extra full 5 gallon can in the car) Since my car gets freaking great milage on stop and go traffic (it just overheats after six hours...heh.) we were able to make it to Buffalo okay and go our alternate route.

We coasted into a little town named Mexia on fumes practically and filled up there. And the rest of the trip was happily uneventful as I drove as fast as I could to get to Dallas. Heh, Jennifer said for what little she was awake in Dallas (as we perfectly arrived in rush hour traffic) I was driving like a mad man. *grin* But I got us there alive.

Now, when we got to Kari's I gotta say I was totally exhausted. To boot I was dehydrated. As the only thing that kept me going that last oh...12 or so hours was caffinee and will power. I remember laying my head against the couch or the floor matress, I can't remember which and it was like someone turned off a switch in me, I was out.

I woke up a few hours later with Kari's parents basically asking if I was alive. Which is when I went to the bathroom and peeeeeeled off my clothes and took a most refreshing shower. Then while falling asleep between putting on clothes I stumbled back to bed and slept like the dead again until Kari woke me up for us to go get something to eat. We ate at IHOP and came back to sleep 12 more hours.

Staying at Kari's was nice. THANK YOU SO FREAKING MUCH KARI, they were so nice to us. And wouldn't let us pay for anything. (=p) And her dad was nice enough to look at and help me fix my car and get replacement parts/fluids. (needs more oil, drained and changed out coolant, and needed new air filter and coolant cap)

The trip back was pretty good, took the normal amount of time to get home. (about 5 hours) The only slowdown in traffic was at Conroe, and its ALWAYS slowed down, no matter what time of day or night. Only annoyance was freaking Kuri constantly whining the whole trip.

But we are back now, have power and water and just need to reassemble the apartment. Thank goodness nothing terrible happened. Phew.

Now I sleep like the dead as I have work tomorrow.

Zom!

sylvan1@hotmail.com — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 08:38:05 GMT

Evacuating tomorrow most likely. *nodnod* Just getting the valuables elsewhere (where someone has home owner's insurance just in case) and probably staying at Kari's far as I know.

Will post further as details update themselves.

Ow.

sylvan1@hotmail.com — Sun, 18 Sep 2005 07:34:45 GMT

Well, that certainly broke up the pace of work. Wheeee.

I was on my first break for the day, and at the vending machine some lady's M&M's got stuck on its vending rack, just barely hanging there. She looked helpless and grumbled as it was her last dollar. Me being a nice mind male decided I ought to give it a bump. (as goods frequently get stuck in that machine and ya gotta give it a bump to get it out)

So I gave it a quick bump and just went right through the glass.

That hurt pretty good. Luckily for me it was safety glass/plexiglass stuff; otherwise I would have been cut to ribbons. As is I only got a few minor cuts and alot of broke skin. (which ITCHES LIKE CRAZY!) The two people there were just staring at me all shocked, I took it all calm and ordered one to go get security while I was asking the other one if I was bleeding on my back or neck. Took me telling them like four times each for them to wake up and go do that.

So I had to go fill out and incident report and such. Yaaaaay.

Hopefully I won't have to pay for the glass and such. *sigh* Money is tight as is. I'll find out Monday as no one who deals with such is there on weekends.