Ugh

Currently listening to: Dane Cook - Car Accident

Sick

As

A

Dog.

Again. This is like the second week in a row that I've been sick for different things. This sucks. I'm glad I have some days off coming up so that I can lay my ass in bed all day (and do homework).

Prints galore!

Currently listening to: Nothing (headache)

Well, not really galore. But, still cool. Last saturday, Kristin and I went down to NYC with some Nypro people. We did my standard NYC trip consisting of cruising around 5th Ave, hopping over to museum mile, hitting up one of them (the Met), and I got two new B&W prints.

The awesome part, though, was that I found this photographer whom I had bought off before. I started talking to him and mentioned that I had purchased one of his prints the previous year, and we talked a little more while I looked through his selection. They were $20 each (for the 11x14's that I was looking at) and 2 for $35. When I went to pay for the two I wanted, he goes "twenty-five bucks". Needless to say, I was pysched.

I'm way behind

Currently listening to: Dispatch - Lightning

So it occurred to me that I haven't written in a handful of days. I'm not really sure how many days you can fit into a hand, but you get the point.

Let me start with Friday and go from there. After work I hauled buns out to Shrewsbury to meet the SocComm crew for Moe's. Everyone came late. Bunch of bums...
But good times were had. I then proceeded to my apartment to mill around for a bit while I waited for the show to start.

THE SHOW. The Coheed & Cambria show at the Palladium. Oh my god. I skipped the first two bands and showed up during the 3rd. They were this really bad screamo band that played WAY too long, but, then the good stuff started. I've seen Co&Ca before, but they were over the top that night. The combination of the finely setup smoke and lights, along with the astounding performance of Claudio and his large 'fro was intense. They played for 1.5 hours with only a short break between the main set and the encore. I wasn't feeling good and almost left right when they left the stage the first time, but, I was marginally disappointed because they never played "in keeping secrets of silent earth:3", which is probably my favorite song of theirs. So, I waited around for a bit.

They came back out and started it. It has a really really slow start, but it's a distinctive start, and everyone in the room recognized it immediately and went nuts. This made me pretty happy, because I was happy to see people thoroughly enjoy this song as well as me, especially considering it wasn't the one they pumped on the radio for way too long last year (favor house atlantic). They didn't just play the song, they played the full 8 minute long version of the song. It was insane.

All in all, a great night.

I'm such a bad owner...

Currently listening to: Dropkick Murphys - The Outcast

So I'm sitting in my room last night procrastinating homework when I looked over at my shelf. I noticed my gun cleaning kit that my dad had bought me. The though clicked in my head, "hmm...that looks very new. almost...unused. I haven't used that kid yet that dad got me for my birthday. I've never cleaned my gun..."

That's right. I've never cleaned it. I've had this pistol since March, and I had never cleaned it. I've cleaned guns before and know how to, but for some reason I never got around to cleaning this one. That's about 8 months of use without being cleaned. That's bad.

When I sprayed the Gun Scrubber down the barrel, the stuff ran out BLACK AS NIGHT out the other end. Ugh. I really need to do this on a more regular basis so that the thing continues to work good.
Atleast it looks shiny as shit now and will fire smoothly and accurately now that it's cleaned and oiled.

New Computer!

Currently listening to: My Chemical Romance - Helena

So today started out like any other mediocre day at work. I was doing my stuff, bitching about my computer continuously crashing, drinking Dew, etc.

Then, it happened.

I got an email. It said in not so few words "your computer will be delivered today".

Many hours later, I am using it. It is awesome. Here's some specs for you:
19" Flat panel monitor. Fully adjustable. I'm considering mounting it on the wall in front of my desk.
P4 3.4 GHz processor
2 Gigs of Ram
160 mb of drive space

Let's just say that I'm a happy boy. :)

Why my Doctor is Awesome

Currently listening to: My Chemical Romance - You know what they do to guys like us in prison

So I've been feeling like complete crap for the past week+ and I decided to call the doctor's office this morning. Now, if you know me well, you know that I'd have to be almost dying to call. I hate going to the doctors. And not because I don't like him. He rocks, hence this post. But I'm afraid of needles. It's childish, but I know that once in a while, they like blood samples, so, I keep my distance. I'm a baby.

Anywho, prior to even discussing what was wrong with me (like anyone can even give a full answer to that question), we talked about:
1. mechanical engineering - his daughter is dating a wpi alumni and we talked about what he does and what I do at nypro
2. iPods - I had mine on and he was asking me tons of questions because he wants to buy one.
3. Tivo - he just got one free from some medical association so that he could watch medical shows at his convenience. They even pay for his subscription fee. Badass.
4. Knives - he noticed my Smith & Wesson and liked it, and then showed me his similar knife from Winchester.

Oh, also, instead of having the nurse call my name, he came out into the waiting room, looked at me, and did a double-arm point at me. It was pretty funny.
He also wears aligator skin boots.

Quayle in 2000

One of my coworkers and I were joking yesterday about this Ross Perot sign that he found and hung up in his cube. I mentioned that I had this Dan Quayle election campaign polo-shirt and that I should wear it the next day. (If you're confused about this and don't already know the story, Deej, Colleen, Rick, and I found The Dan Quayle Center & Museum on the side of the highway while driving back from Indiana 4 years ago)

I searched around this morning and finally found it squirrelled away in the back of my closet. Thankfully having no wrinkles and being ready to go, I put the sucker on and went to work.

I forgot how awesome it is the have people look down at the logo on your shirt and kinda make a funny face, and then ask "Is that real?", or "Did you work for him or his campaign?".

Ah, subtle comedy. This shirt is the best $20 I've ever spent.

Trogdor the Burninator

Currently listening to: Beastie Boys - In 3's

So Ben was asking me to put up some pics of Trogdor, my bearded dragon for those of you not familiar with my reptilian amigo.

Here's a photo of him for measurement reasons:

As you can see, Captain Cooperation was nice enough to continuously curve his tail and arch his back during this phase of the photo shoot, so, I could never get a picture of him being fully straight. So, he looks like less than 12". He's really closer to 13".