I will have a case of the FLU with a shot of pneumonia please

Yah know...Ever since Brandi said I come up with the most interesting titles for my blog entries I've been what I consider on a real down hill slide... I know it's not a big deal but dammit I want to have witty titles... I think at this point I would just settle for something to in the title bar.

So far that is the only downside of blogger...

P.S. my day sucked...

Yeah, we saw rain, wind, more wind, 60mph wind, and yet more rain this morning. It blew one of our wireless antenna's we use to connect a remote site over... So Mike and I spent the better part of the day trying to get the new wireless system running and fixing the existing one...

WE were both cold wet and cranky when the day was done with... But the wireless got fixed thanks to the guys down in plant ops.

Yes I know I just violated my whole no work talking on blog rule... Don't care... It's not your blog and anyway the only person that comes here is Blair... I think I don't know probally my whole department comes here who knows. All I know is I'm still cold at least I'm not cold and wet that would suck beyond all recognition.

Been playing Half-Life 2 quite a bit... I'm really thinking that this is the single best game I've played in a long long long time. Doom3 was good.. Far Cry has it's moments. Half-Life 2 really is the shit. Of course you need to have a pretty good system and even more awesome video card to run it right now (don't worry kids I'm sure it will work with your video card in a year or two). If you have not bought this game do so.

Ever been in a mood and you know you want to listen to music but you don't know what kind of music because you are all punked out... heavy metal is to heavy... Tool makes you think harder then you want to, and Pearl Jam is just annoying? Yeah that mood, so of course I'm listenting to Pearl Jam at the moment but it's just one song a whole list of songs... so it will pass.

EVE... Good game.. if nothing else it will keep you occupied in trying to figure out what the hell you want to do with your character after some 30 million hours of playing... the game is that big.

Ya know I think Curtis was on to something when he said "I want to play a game where the only resource I have to worry about is ammo" Well said Curtis well said indeed.

Into the wild blue next year... Or something like that...

Well the new year is quickly approaching us... And I guess it's time for a new years resolution.


I know I know I never make one... I actually did make one last year... I resolved to stop drinking coke at home and cut down at work... Well I'm now down to 1 cup a day at work and nothing at home 99% of the time. I'm doing pretty well on that one if I do say so myself.

I thought about doing the whole no caffeine thing.. But yeah that would just make me crankier then I already am and really lets face it if you can't have coffee in the morning there really is just no reason to be getting out of bed. So I'm making a resolution that I'm pretty sure I can keep. Yes I'm going to drink more beer!

Hey don't laugh at least I have new years resolution.

1 day and I feel fine...

So I found this on Yahoo tonight when I got in from church...


[21:37] thevampire_kain: Here I am again...tired from not sleeping...Sad from not loving. I feel miserable again...here on this plane...Here on this earth. I've done it again...I stayed out all night. I feel it again...I dred this flight. Why? Because I'm sick...Sick of being owned... I write because I'm sick...Sick of being known. If I was normal...Would she like me the same? If I was just a stock boy...Would she still enjoy my name? I'd like to think she does and would...I believe in her and believe in me she should. I'm gonna lean my head against this window...Close my eyes and go to sleep. I'll wake up in the next town...With thoughts beyond deep. The days will go by as I will just act. As the days go by I can only look back...At the good times...the fun. At the bad times...the fun

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How come all the weirdo's use yahoo and why do they message me?

2 days and I have got to get some work done

Friends theme song...

Curtis-- Ghost riders in the sky; Johnny Cash

Kristina -- Judith; A Perfect Circle

Matt -- Refused are fucking dead; Refused

Kristi -- High Hopes; Pink Floyd

Scott (lil brother) -- Battle with out honor; Tomoyasu Hotei

Brandi -- Holiday in Cambodia; Richard Cheese

Clint -- First cool hive; Moby

Aaron -- I believe in miracles; Ramones

Andrea -- I believe in miracles; Pearl Jam

Shawn -- They call me tater salad; Ron White

Ada -- Ireland & Health; Lewis Black

in no particular order.. not represintive of the person just what seems to go through my mind when I see them or for some reason associate this particular piece of whatever with them

All files can be purchased on iTunes... just in case you are curious.

3 days...

I'm coming down with something... and it's not good what ever it is....

This is a good lesson to you kids... don't head bang with the window down when it's 40 outside and the wind is blowing... espically when you are wearing a t-shirt and shorts in a moving vechile.

oh this is starting to suck

4 Days and I sure could use a drink...

Being on call means one thing to me... I can't drink as much as I like... and since I like to drink (thats what I get for liking beer so much) I don't drink when I'm on call generally.


I need a guiness.

5 days and I realize that being a zonie isn't so bad...

One of the things that I really like about myself is that I take a active intrest in news and current events... more international then local, hey at least I'm mostly up with the news. I know my friends recognize this since every now and again they will ask me for a update on some obscure thing and belive it or not I generally tend to seem to know something about it.

So I was watching TV tonight and Horizon's had it's yearly editoral cartoon writer show. It's kind of neat for me since I've been watching horizons for about 10 years (yes I know I'm a geek but hey it's the only show that I can semi-level headed feedback about issues effecting Arizona (though any more Arizona means Phoenix/Tucson). I've always like the end of the year political cartoonist show... the end of year is upon us and Steve Benson comes out of his hole... much like a certain ground hog the first tuesday in feburary.

Tonight I also realized that if your local (and when I say local I mean a native of Arizona... and I know there aren't that many of us around). You've probally read Benson on more the one occasion. Benson is one of those Arizona instutions like Wallace and Ladmo... or Mighty Mud Mania. You know that kind of thing.

And all the people who come here from places other then Arizona have no clue what I'm talking about. Just know that I will always be bitter because I never got a Ladmo-Bag.

6 days and I feel old

So this weekend has been a rewind weekend on x107.5 "xtreme radio" out of vegas. The most depressing part about this weekend is 1. This is all the music I like. 2. I have most of the CD's these songs were on orginally. 3. Nine Inch Nails now has a best of out... they have 3 freaking records how could they have a best of already? So I've been feeling very old all weekend.

I don't there just seems to be something unholy about music from High School being apart of a rewind weekend. I think most of my music should in no way or shape be classfied as "rewind". Personal thought there...

And as I sit here thinking... the last CD I bought was A Perfect Circle... everything after that has been off of iTunes. When I buy a CD there is something tangiable... when I get music off of iTunes there is nothing tangiable... just a file on my computer. I keep a back up but it's just not the same as having the liner notes and all. With iTunes (and all online music stores) the music seems somehow more disposable then it did before... much like a bridesmaid dress.... to be loved intensily for a short period of time then filed away somewhere on a harddrive where it may or may not be played again.

Just something not quite right about it is all.

I don't know... I still love my iPod though :)

And the winner is....

OK so after a alot of time of screwing around with this... I came to the decsion 30 seconds ago... that the blogspot blog thingy will now be my primary creative and or otherwise "soap box"


So if your looking for the sarcastic ramblings of one sarcasticly sick and twisted person look no farther....


And for a good time call my brother he's desperate and will date anything with a pulse... and long legs.


I'm pretty sure the legs thing is optional... come to think of it so is the pulse.

Top 10 signs that you play to many video games...

10. You know the frustration of having to figure out which button is RELOAD/CHANGEWEAPON/USE ITEM in every FPS out there since now two have the same setup

9. You talk about your RPG adventures with friends

8. Your friends tell you about their RPG adventures

7. You have the approx number of hits to take out a enemy figured out after the second kill

6. Your entire body moves when your trying to avoid an enemy in a FPS

5. You remember when game manuals used to be novels

4. You still have a few of the game manual / novels lying around and you read them during potty breaks

3. Your significant other thinks your gaming habit is "cute"

2. MMORPG du-jour isn't just a game it's a way of life for 6 months to a year

1. Finally... if your reading this and thinking to yourself the something in here sounds very very familiar.

Welcome to my world.

Pain in the Ass

Man what a pain in the ass Steam is...


All I have to say is this had better not screw up half-life in a couple of years.

Lord of the answering machine...

I'm pretty sure that I've stated on several occasions that I live alone.... as a direct result of this I have alot of time in the evenings and weekends to think about stuff. And I mean ALOT of time! So instead of thinking of ways to solve world hunger, over population, wal-mart spreading like the plauge, or how to make the Cardinals win more. I devote alot of time my answering machine messages.

Did I mention that my friends hate calling me because the message gets old after the 5th or 6th time.

Anyway I've also found that my answering machines messages are a great way to make sure no one and I mean no one leaves a message on my machine unless they really want to talk to me. It certainly does help cut down on the amount of crap I have to wade through. Though it really didn't help during the election... I'm sure more then a few campaign callers were more then a bit annoyed at me.

So once again I prove to everyone that living alone is probally a pretty dangerous thing. AT the very least it's hazerdous to your sense of humor.



Kind of like the picture...

Photo time....

So since I've got the whole no talking about work thing going on I thought I would do my bi-yearly break with that "rule" and show you something completely different.

This is a honest to god picture of me working...





Damn I'm a sexy best :) <--- notice the dripping sarcasm

Tech support rates....

1st call 1 case of beer (sam adams) (12 pack bottles)

2nd call 1 case of beer (guiness) (12 pack bottles)

3rd call 2 shots of whiskey a gun and a bullet.

4th call... your on your own.

Bring out the P.C. police...I'm feeling an urge

The holidays are on us once again yes it's that time of year again in the words of Heidi "To buy crap that no one needs and get crap you don't want" Well spoken Heidi, as for me this time of year brings out my Politely Correct side... Every time I see a "Happy Holidays" it's everything I can do to keep my self from going "HAPPY FUCKING HANUKKAH... Prick" Yes I know I'm not Jewish... Yes I know I shouldn't get worked up about it... And honestly I don't get that worked up about it. Just enough to elevate my blood pressure slightly more then it already is.

Normally I'm the first to bash being politically correct... and if you've been around me for any length time you will know that I tend to really not care about being P.C... There is just something about the holidays that brings it all out of me. In one giant rush. I can't explain it... it's almost like a release for me.

I could really have some fun with this if I were atheist. Ohh the possibilities.

Next time on chatting with Tom the religious right... and not just Christians either...

Dammit....

Dammit.... I picked up EVE again.... after I dropped it a month ago... dammit dammit dammit.

Again with the blogging....

Oh I must be bored... two nights in a row... and wouldn't you know it all about the same damn thing too!

Aren't you lucky... then again your the one reading this unless you happen to be one of those "Blogspot" surfers who just happen to hit the "next blog button" (if you have not hit the next blog button you will find it at the upper right of your browser and your really should hit it)

Yeah I broke out farcry tonight.... I'm so out of that game right now it's not even funny... totally diffrent in style you need to have for Doom3. I can only guess that Half-Life will be just as diffrent once I get around to picking it up. Just not real hip on the concept of steam at the moment. I don't know... something about the possiblity of not being able to play the game in 5 years does not appeal to me.

And of course now your asking when was the last time you played a game that was more then 5 years old? Simple last week I broke out the N64 and went to town. Goldeneye still rocks.

Man it is getting cold in hell... no hell has not frozen over but I had 2 thoughts this morning going to my car....
1. it's fucking cold
2. It's cold as fuck

Yes alot of content in my thought process don't you know.

I really do like blogging like this way more then the old way... I just need to get back to calling it everything but blogging but really what is it?

I don't know....

Damn

My name is...

Hi my name is Tom, (name not changed to incriminate the guilty)

and I'm additicated to blogging.

Not just reading other peoples musing or what ever is going on in their lives, but also the whole aspect of creating and writing.

It all started about 4 years ago when I was in college. I was expermenting with various things (among them LINUX and AMD processors) and I started blogging. At first it wasn't even called blogging it was something else. Then little by little I started to reveal little parts of myself to the world. First it was everynight and I burned out then about once a week and then about once a month or so. Finally I fell into a pattern of about once a week blogging sometimes more very rarely less though. Then slowly over the course of the years I watched as other friends did their blogging. Pretty soon we started to keep up with each other through our blogs and before long before you went over to someone's house you had to check and make sure they hadn't updated their blog.

I now find myself reading blogs daily. Whether it be from my friends to the latest talking head on CNN. Blogging is a huge part of my daily routine, I have stopped watching the news I now read all the news I want on the internet. I don't watch TV I use the computer as my main means of entertainment whether it be a blog or a game. Something about watching BLING BLING IN 2004 on VH-1 just really doesn't appeal to me.

So again my name is Tom and I'm a blogger for better or worse I'm out here.