Everybody Staze...

ello ello, just thought I’d do a quick post to all the peeps.

I was feeling rather good this afternoon, then shitty, and now I feel pretty good again after a few beers and some FPS playing. Listened to some AC/DC, and otherwise just relaxed a bit. Good to get out some agression too. I miss my friends… got to see the main LIX crowd, which was nice.

Thanks to you who helped me out, and thanks to you who will help me out. I appriciate it.

With that, I’m out for the night… think I’ll get a good nights sleep for once.

Keep it real, and I’ll post more tomorrow.

Well, I’m home. Have been for hours now. We left for home at about 1… got to see a Fire along the way back, around the Black Butte Ranch, Suttle Lake area. pretty decent one… traffic rubbernecked a bit there, but after that it was smooth sailin. Was a good trip, all and all. Got a chance to relax and do something that was physical and not computer based at all. Infact, I think I touched a computer all of 5 minutes over the last 3 days. I’m quite happy about that. My mood has improved a lot… that being said, I didn’t write any kind of posts that I was going to back post… but that’s okay, gotta have weekends.

Over the weekend a lot of things happened. There was a huge LAN party up in the Portland area (TPL style… not going to get into that). Also there was appearently a rather large BBQ over at LIX. Wish in some ways I could have made it, but as I said to Sara, it’s probably good I didn’t. I don’t get to relax at parties (I’m often called upon to tend bar, and otherwise I feel some desire to entertain a certain amount… and then the noise gets to me, so I go off to some pseudo-secluded area and sit and stare at the wall). In central oregon I got to relax… so I think that is really what helped my mood out a lot. Plus, as I said but wasn’t understood, if I am at every party, I am expected by people to be there. I like an element of suprise… plus, the last few parties just haven’t been that fun (party wise). The measuring of breasts was fun… I don’t know, I think parties loose their place if you are just drinking and chatting. I was something new, something fun and different… Kat usually excels at that with her parties… maybe I’ll just have to start thinking of shit to do… but then it’s not as fun, part of it is spur of the moment type stuff. Eh, perhaps I’m just a whiney bitch.

Got everything done in Central Oregon we were supposed to, and got to travel a bit, but mostly got to have some of the best Pizza in Oregon while there. Place called Sully’s. It’s an Italian joint in downtown Redmond that has excellent pizza. Not sure if I’d put it above or below Nonna Emilia’s or not… though Sara must have gotten a bad pizza, or just has strange taste in Pizza (then again, I think that’s the case: mostly since she likes some Greasy shit).

My hunger for good Chinese continues… if anyone can suggest a good place to get General Tso’s chicken, please please please, tell me!

Well, I better wrap this up, I can tell some of you are getting bored. You know, since there are comments on this site–and THANK YOU for using them, all of you–feel free to ask me questions or pick my brain. I’m starting to be at a loss of things to say that are more than just what happened during my day. While that may be interesting for a brief moment, I can’t imagine it is as intellectually stimulating as I hope my other topics are. So please, ask away. If it’s not something I feel comfortable answering or talking about completely in my blog, I’ll atleast say something about it and talk to you about the rest in person or via aim/icq/yim.

Thanks to all of you who use my comments… I was told by someone the other day that my blog is the only one she visits that people comment on. That makes me happy.

See you, Space Samurai

Well, for those of you who don’t know, I leave for the weekend tomorrow morning. I’m headed over to Central Oregon (Redmond area) to go “camping” with my father. I say “camping” because it’s in a 42-foot 5th-wheel trailer with running water, sewage, and electricity. We bring a couple computers. Basically, it’s just a get away from the city more than a “camping” trip. My grandparents have owned the property for probably close to 25-30 years now. It’s nice. I like Central Oregon… it’s like a little desert that isn’t just sand (don’t go arguing the meaning of Desert with me, I know full well that there are Snow/Ice covered Deserts… but I prefer those as Desserts. ha ha ha).

Unfortunately, there’s no net access over there, so I will be giving up SOMETHING to go spend time away from the world. ‘s okay though… haven’t really talked to anyone at length in a bit now, so I doubt I’ll be missing anything besides my regular posts. I suppose if I’m really anxious to post, I’ll just write out a post, and then when I get back I can post/post-date the entry so that it appears when I wrote it. But don’t count on that. I suppose I could also frequent a netcafe over there… but again, don’t count your chickens. It’s nice to get away from the net now and again. I have done some of my deepest and best thinking in that trailer… though it’s also plunged me into some of the worst depression of my life.

A vacation is healthy. Gives a chance for a change of being. Getting away from the people you’re around all the time. I really don’t know if others can sympathize with this, but I’d imagine you all can. The feeling you get when you’re around someone too often, and don’t have a chance to be alone. Starts as an itch in your mind, then grows to be a great bothersome canker. You just want to scream “go away and leave me alone for a while”. Well, I can’t say I’m that bad, but time away does a body good. Makes you appriciate what you have when you come back to it. Unwinding time. Eh, you get what I’m saying.

A good portion of the time over there, anyway, is going to be handyman work. Fixing this, repairing that. Should be fun… hands on stuff is really liberating when all you do all day is sit at a computer. I relish the idea of splitting wood, or spreading gravel, or pouring concrete, or breaking up a driveway with a sledgehammer or jackhammer. There’s just something… I don’t know, physical about it (dare I say, masculine). It’s nice to have an outlet for otherwise hardly expressed testosterone once in a while. You can’t really beat on a computer and have it survive… nor your friends. I need to work out more and maybe start climbing or paintballing again. SOMETHING. eh, probably won’t happen… I’ll just want to do it, and not. What I really am going to try to do is start up working on Bonsai and my carnivorous plants again. That was a nice outlet of creative juices (at the time I couldn’t write though… so maybe I won’t be so interested). Eh, we’ll see.

On the “required” geek note, I’ll be redesigning my home network on sunday night I think. Subnetting off the wireless network, and organizing the switch to better reflect the way things are. My network has grown since I first set up the switch… so I really just need to update it. On that note, I may not be online Sunday night. Depends on how things go… I only expect a 30-60 minute outage of net connectivity. Wish me luck.

Well, with that, unless I decide to post again tonight or butt early tomorrow, I wish you all a Wonderful 3 day weekend (some of you, a 4 day). Don’t hurt yourselves (much) playing with Fireworks (a little hurt is never a problem. You have to start somewhere… I was playing with a lot of fireworks when I was much too young… and now look at me! 😛 ), and spend some time alone or with a friend, whichever is the greater vacation from “normal” life.