I'm back - sorta.

I'm going to try and catch up as much as I can on the entries I've missed, and try to post more.

Wish I was elsewhere ...

I swear I live.

I swear.

I don't know what's come over me; I've just been ignoring LJ lately - weird huh?

Anyway, I'm still alive; hating the snow; needing new tires because they suck on the snow.

Laters
 

I've been watching the first and second season of "Dexter" downloaded from iTunes, and I'm on the last episode of season two.

I'm conflicted about the ending.

To avoid possible spoilers, I'll stop there.

I look forward to getting the third season - hurry up and make it available iTunes.

It's been a while, yes, I know.  My life hasn't been real busy lately.  Christmas was good; the family all went in and helped contribute towards me purchasing new tires for my car.  I got to watch my little brother lose his mind like Ralphie and his Red Rider BB Gun when he opened the gift I got him and discovered I got him a telescope.  Sister-in-law loved the Bonsai Tree I got her - she's always wanted one apparently, and Big Brother was thrilled with the car stereo and Flip-Fold he got.

New Year's was very quiet for me; I had the house to myself and just spent it quietly, trying to stay awake as long as I could.  I've been rotated to the Midnight shift, which is where I am right now, and it's actually been difficult this time around getting re-adjusted to the sleeping schedule.  Perhaps my Night Owl is transitioning into a Normal - EEK!

I got myself a new laptop, a Dell XPS 1730 - it's pretty cherry.  I've been using to download tv shows from iTunes and watch them while I'm at work, first it was Fringe (good stuff!) and now it's Dexter (also good stuff.)  I've made one attempt to connect it to an HDTV at home, and that didn't go too well, so I need to try again, but I'm hopeful I'll figure it out - then it's Blu-Ray at home!  cha-CHING!

I'm getting really really tired right now - we call it The Second Night Blues.  Whenever someone transfers to the Midnight shift from some other shift, the first night goes just fine, but the second night, oh no, no matter how much sleep you get during the day, that second night falls on you like a ton of bricks, and bam, you've got The Second Night Blues and you're struggling to stay awake.  My buddy Mountain Dew is only doing so much.  Thankfully I've broken the back of it, so it's all downhill from here.

Wish me luck.

Merry Christmas to all!

Question:  Hey Rob, is water wet?

Answer: Depends on what state it's in.

Nope, no smart-asses here.  :-)

Just in case I was too subtle, OMGZORZ!!!

Coheed & Cambria : Neverender - Children of the Fence Edition CD/DVD Box Set will be released on 3 March 2009!!!

Yes, I pre-ordered already.

OMG!

YES!!!

1. What's on your feet?
Socks and Hiking boots.  And skin.  And some hair on my toes.  And probably some microscopic stuff that I can't see.

2. Turn to your right -- what do you see?
My workstation - 2 monitors, 2 keyboards, 2 mice, 2 mousepads, a portable dvd player, a bottle of Windex, some note pads, a pen, cough drops, scissors, garlic salt (?!), speakers, a card reader, coffee pot/server, can of cashews, cables, coffee cup, the wall.

3. What is the last thing you ate?
Egg McMuffin - desperate times an'what not.

4. What can you smell right now?
Nothing really, except the air.

5. Do you wear hats?
Yes, often.

Happy Birthday sleepymel8201 !

I realize I have been very very not-posting the last, oh, month or so, my reasons are my own, but the ones I will share are thus:

The couple-three weeks post vacation I was sick, so sick that all I did was go to work, and sleep, with the last week of that being just sleeping.  I came home from vacation with a cold acquired from my little brother.  When I had gotten over the cold, I had one day of respite, then I got some kind of infection that laid me out.  It was very cold/flu like but responded to antibiotics, once I got on them.  Weird.

Once all that was over, and I was feeling physically better, I was feeling not very inspired to be on the internet any more then was necessary, so I wasn't.  This is to include internet gaming, such as WoW.  My character is still 70, if that tells you anything.  There was/is some guild drama in the game, and that always sucks, and, like I said, I've just been feeling very blase towards the web lately.  I get into these moods from time to time, and oh shit - I need to post those tickets on StubHub!

Anyway, I apologize to any and all who were worried, and I hope that you trust that I'm feeling more inclined to internet again.  I'm not all the way back, but it's getting there - just give me some time, mmkay?

I am bloody surly today for reasons I am too surly to get into right now.

Enjoy this comic from the Penny Arcade archives: Get Your Move On

I am now even more surly because there is no surly mood.

Nice.

I have a Flickr account, in case you didn't know.

I posted all the pics, well, most of the pics, from the European Vacation this morning.

They are not tagged, but they are in a set called - European Vacation.  :-)

http://www.flickr.com/people/erekose76/

Enjoy!

We got back from Europe yesterday afternoon/early evening.

I feel like I need a vacation from my vacation. hehe

We all had a good time.

I caught Charles's cold about 5 days before we were due to come back; I still have it.

I've got a ton of pictures which I will add to my Flickr account, and of course, stories to tell, but that's all later.

For now, I rest, and recoop, and get prepare myself for, ugh, work tomorrow.

Happy Sunday!

The date with Amy went well. She very much enjoyed herself, as did I, even if the Blues lost. It was a good game, for the most part, and she even got to see her first hockey fight.

Stupid refs kept interfering w/the players - don't they know there's a hockey game on!?

We've got plans for a Big Bang Theory marathon when I get back from vacation - since we're both huge fans of that show.

She says I should watch Lost because it's awesome, I've never, so maybe that should be added to the list. :-)

Anyway, so far - so good.

We leave to meet my brother at 11, I think, then to the airport. Our flight leaves around 330. Then it's Spain and Italy. YAY!

We'll be back the 9th of Nov, entirely too soon, I'm sure, but what can you do eh?

Have a good two weeks; I know I should be!

It's 223 am and I'm actually tired for a change, but I needed to get a disc burned and a check written out, so I'm sitting here at 'my desk' accomplishing both.

I am resisting the urge to log into WoW; even though I have precious little time to get the rest of the Halloween achievements for this year done before I leave for vacation.

Speaking of, F-U very much for the achievements Blizz, I was already learning to cope w/not having all the Leatherworking patterns available to me learned, now I have to either get every stinking sonuva-bitching achievement, or learn to cope with that too.

You bunch o'douches.

I've got a date set up with Amy on Wednesday; we're going to see the Blues vs Detroit.  I'm picking her up from her house and everything.  We've been talking every couple days or so, nice long conversations, getting to know each other, that sort of thing.

It's nice.

I should try and sleep soon.

Lates

This article on CNN.com ( Super Bowl tickets will cost $1000 for first time ) got me to run some figures.

The NFL, or whoever makes the money from this party, will get $59,900,000 just from ticket sales to that bitch.

$60 million from TICKET SALES!

That's just fucked.

On September 21st, my parents celebrated their 40th Anniversary.  We didn't really do much that day.  They wanted the family to go to church with them, so we went to the 10 o'clock mass at the Cathedral in St. Louis.  I am not quite ... thrilled with their recent choices for 'gifts' as the last couple times something like this has come up, they've asked that we go to church with them.  They know how I feel about religion, and how my older brother feels about it, but they still ask, and we go, out of respect I guess.

But I digress, after church we went to, I believe it is called The Tap Room, in St. Louis.  It is a restaurant attached to the Schlafly Brewery where we had brunch.  Our server was Vanessa.  I'm usually pretty thick about such things, but as it got through my head, and everyone else noticed as well, it seemed as if Vanessa was paying a little more attention to me versus the rest of the family, as if she may have been 'into me' at least a little.  The family all needled me to pursue the interest, however, I am not one to handle such matters in front of an audience, especially one such as my family, so I declined to say anything to her, but made a special effort to recall exactly how to get back there.

Circumstances being what they have been, I have yet to make it back there.

Happy Birthday conejitadelsol !!