My cubicle has been moved at work. As a result, I am sitting straight under an A/C vent. Being that I work with computers, we need the A/C. So guess what? I’m getting cold.
This morning, I was freezing. I found it hard to get some work done. So, for lunch, I went a got a Snuggie at the nearby Bed, Bath, and Beyond. I ended up getting the Breast Cancer Pink Snuggie.
What prompted me to get a Snuggie? The sleeves part. I mainly got it to cover my upper chest area. My jacket yesterday wasn’t cutting it. Also, I don’t like my arms feeling constricted.
I fell for the Snuggie gimmick!
Actually, I’m not upset at myself for getting a Snuggie. I see it as a way to combat a problem preventing me from being productive. Now, I can be warm and still do my work.
When I go back to work, one of my co-workers saw I got the Snuggie. She wanted to see what it looked like and watched as I opened the box. A few other people noticed I had a Snuggie, too.
So what do I think of it? Well, the fleece is keeping my upper chest area warm. That’s the main function and it’s doing it well. I don’t really need it at full length. The full length has been getting caught in my chair wheels. To stop that, I have had to bunch the Snuggie up on my lap. Also, I don’t like the feeling of it falling off my shoulders. That’s the problem with any front loading piece of clothing. I wish there was a latch in the back to keep it stable. Notice how you never see the backs of anyone in a Snuggie ad? Also, the fleece seems to be a lower quality fleece.
Hey, as long as it does it’s job in keeping me warm and free to do my work, I will keep it. I just need it to function.
I have made it safely home to Atlanta. Nicki seemed to get better as days progressed. She’s still in pain, but she’s going to get better.
I did work while in Savannah, remotely. And when I wasn’t working, I was visiting friends and places that are home. I stopped at my pre-college place of employment and said hello to the only co-worker left there from my days. Caught up with her a bit with both my life, her life, and the life of the office. She introduced me to all her co-workers, and had to show me quickly to the boss. The boss said it looked like I hadn’t aged a bit in the 7 years I last worked there. However, I sure do feel it! Seeing the co-worker did me good. She reminded me of a tale of something my mother did for her family and how she always remember it. She said my mother would be proud of where I’m at.
That’s the thing with me. I always feel like I’ve let me mother down. I wish I knew why.
I also had dinner with Chris and Lindsey. It’s always great to see them. The are some of the best friends I have ever had. I’m so glad to have them in my life. I also had lunch with Melinda. I owed her a few minutes of my time while in Savannah.
I also spent time out at Wormsloe. I had never been out there while living in Savannah, because I had always heard it was a couple of rocks in the ground. However, I decided to finally check it out. When I stopped to pay my entry fee, I noticed there was a sign about a photography fee. Because I only had my Polaroid i1037, I was not charged a fee. Had I had my Fujifilm S5200 (which I left in Atlanta), I may have been charged it. I sent a message to Gennie about the fee, and she did some research. As a person who only uses her camera as a hobby, such a fee is discouraging.
On my way home today, I stopped briefly in Statesboro and Barnesville to take a few photos. I would like to go back to Barnesville to use my better camera. The town had a great photography feel to it.
Now that I am home, I have one little Graysie wanting me to hold her. She missed me while I was gone. I missed her, too, along with Scooter.
Nicki is home now. She was discharged today. She’s now on her computer playing her WOW and back to normal, except for the post-surgery pain.
I did work today; remotely. Actually worked about 9 hours today.
Being home has made me want to come home. And before I get into that, right now, I’m going through the process of trying to define hate. So what is hate? The definition is:
a. To feel hostility or animosity toward.
b. To detest.
To feel dislike or distaste for
And right now, I guess I hate someone in my past for being so right about me. Why did he have to be right about me most of the time? He told me if I worked from home, I would whither away and it wouldn’t be good for me. I would just become a recluse. And yet at the same time. while I know working in Atlanta is good for me, at the same time, I still feel lonely. And yet here, working from home, I felt happy. I felt happy knowing my family is right here if I need them, and so are my friends, and I didn’t feel lonely.
What I’m saying is, I wish I could come home. I enjoy my job, but I miss Savannah. If only I could get them to balance out.
Even half a world away, he still gets at me. At least I’ll admit that fact.
That’s me and Nicki in 1984 when we went to the Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, AL.
Thank you everyone that watched my Twitter account and Facebook for updates and sent messages of encouragement. And for those not in the know, Nicki was admitted to the hospital yesterday. She was very ill and required surgery today. Thankfully, it was laparoscopic surgery. As soon as I was off work yesterday, I rushed home to Savannah and spent the night with her in the hospital. She had the surgery today, spending most of the time on pain medication. In her poor mind, she thinks I was at lunch all day. Truth be told, I was waiting on here or sitting with her most of that time. She made it out of surgery OK and is in a room for the night. Jessica is with Nicki for the night. I would have stayed, but Jessica told me to get some rest.
I am off to bed for now. If all is right, she should be home tomorrow.
…Music Television (MTV), Video Hits One (VH1), and Country Music Television (CMT) aired music videos?
…Sci Fi was science fiction?
…History Channel aired history documentaries?
…The Weather Channel was the weather forecast?
…Arts & Entertainment (A&E) had an arts component?
…The Learning Channel (TLC) was about learning?
…Home Box Office (HBO) was about movies?
…Cartoon Network was about cartoons?
…Game Show Network (GSN) was about game shows?
…Biography was about biographies?
…G4 was about video games and technology?
All these channel once has a niche. Now, they all, in a way, have strayed from their original purpose? Who knew “57 Channels (And Nothin’ On)” would morph into “1000 Channels (And Nothin’ On)” 17 years later
Yesterday, I drove over to Stone Mountain and looked around the Pumpkin Festival. I didn’t stay long; I was cold. However, I saw plenty of pumpkins dressed as fairy tale characters. Above are Hansel and Gretel. I really like how this photo came out and how most of my photos came out. While there, I also saw a pie eating contest. It was more for little kids.
Once I got home, my dad and I went out to IKEA. We got a new ottoman and some other stuff. When we got home, we put the ottoman together. Scooter had to supervise. I get IKEA stuff since it’s inexpensive yet nice quality. My cat has a fixation with us building IKEA furniture.
I finally finished the transfer of one of our old photo albums into a new, more photo friendly photo album. Slowly, that is my goal. And while I did this, I found more pictures of my dear Pumpkin. I miss that cat. I love Scooter, and jokingly call him Pumpkin 2.0, but there was something about Pumpkin that can never be replaced.
Tuesday, October 20th, 2009 / Politics / Author: Shawn / Comments Off
First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a communist;
Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist;
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist;
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew;
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak out for me.
I find it classless that the Obama administration is shutting out Fox News. Actually, I find it scary. The point of the news media is to report the good, the bad, and the ugly. But shutting out Fox News like they are, they are sending the message that if you report what we don’t like, you can’t report at all. It screams to me as an attempt to pressure the masses to agree with the administration.
Had this been the Bush administration pulling the same stunt with MSNBC or CNN, you know that there would be outcries of the US turning into a socialist state with the government controlling the news! And yet, many liberals are telling those that support Fox News that this isn’t the case with the Obama administration.
Excuse me? No administration should be doing this. If the Bush administration did this, I would be just as pissed.
What scares me is that the government is taken baby steps here and there to suppress our freedoms. Sure, it’s legal now to freeze out Fox, which many people hate with a passion. But what if another news network starts reporting or airing anything that comes out negatively? Is the Obama administration going to freeze them out as well?
Some people take into account the hidden ACORN tapes. They like to say that the ACORN offices were just yanking the chains of the undercover kids. So what? The kids were trying to set up a criminal enterprise. Instead of yanking the chains of those kids by saying something like “I can get you even cheaper prostitutes,” what the ACORN officials should have said was “Stop right now! I refuse to discuss this illegal matter any more” and threatened to turn the kids into the cops. But doing anything other than trying to stop the criminal enterprise, it feels as if ACORN was approving of it in some manner.
And yet there are still people out there blind to this whole thing! Isn’t that scary?
I also e-mailed my senators as why they voted no on Amendment S.2588. I want to know their rational. Based on my research, they voted no on the amendment. Why? Was it because of the whole bill? What was it?
Saturday, October 17th, 2009 / Geek, Movies / Author: Shawn / Comments Off
My site was transferred to a new server sometime today. Something went wonky with the DNS servers, and my site was unavailable. Thankfully, my server host was quick to fix it!
Today, my father and I went to a movie. We saw Law Abiding Citizen. It was my idea to see a movie, but my father chose the flick we saw. I recognized most of the principal actors in it. I enjoyed it because it had me guessing and trying to figure out what would happen next. My dad liked it for similar reasons. I won’t spoil the whole movie, but there was one part where the whole theater gasped, my father included. Let’s just say we can never look at a cell phone the same again.
Other than that, I haven’t been doing much, except still working on the old photographs I brought home with me last weekend. I found my 5th birthday photos and only recognized one person in them. All the others I can’t remember at all. Right now, I guess connecting to my past is a way to remember who I am. It’s liberating in a way.
Since I was home over the weekend, I grabbed some old photos and decided to scan them. This one is of Pumpkin from 1985. We got him in 1984. He died in 2001.
I also uploaded a lot more old photos on my Flickr account. Included are some old family shots and Strudelpalooza 2001, a concert in Orlando that Nicki took me to.
