:: taz-mania ::

:: Friday, January 31, 2003 ::

after sleeping the day away, other than a minor bout of loud music from somewhere at 1 this afternoon which woke me up for about an hour, I am now at work. as usual, I do not want to be here, but I am. got to finish the adventure for tomorrow, and convert dax's character over to 3rd edition stats. other than that, hope it will be a quiet evening. this shift on a weekend night can be quite drama filled. if I was ever to take over the world, I would outlaw drama. it just does no good. sometimes working here it amazes me that humans have achieved so much. eitehr that or all the dumbest ones live here. there are jsut too many examples of how stupid these folks are....it would take me all night to list just a few of them. oh well. off I go to work on that module and on dax's character. ttfn
:: Robert 11:37 PM [+] ::
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why is it when you dislike someone they seem to glom on to you? the guy I have been bitching about at work, Giles Jr, stuck aroudn here tonight after his shift till almost 2 am. that is just wrong. when I am done wiht work, I jsut want to go home, and go to bed, guess that is me. even when I work that 7-3 shift I still want ot go home and go to bed. lately this place is just draining the life out of me. I hope we get some more people here, so we can have less run on shifts. but then again, I am hoping to leave here some time soon and have a real job with the company. had a weird thought last ngiht as I was drifting off to sleep. do I come across as too bossy at work? I don't think so, but then you never know how people talk about you behind your back. maybe I will start an informal poll. see what happens. I need to go off and do more work on the adventure for Saturday. have it all in my head, but need to get it down on paper. will let you know how things go, at least from my perspective. sure Dax will from his view.so, TTFN
:: Robert 3:04 AM [+] ::
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ok, I hate my work pc. it an antiquated pice of garbage. but at least I have internet. seems like it is always acting up. specially since giles jr. tried to install something and then stoped it midway through the install. but only have 3 more days of him (Big celebration after his last day) had a real nice lunch with dax today, and got to run and get him some diec and stuff tomorrow. we will be playing d&d again on saturday, and he needs dice. since I do not know of any store in md, I am picking them up for him at a store close to me.

also watched the mid season replacements on abc today. I liked veritas: the quest. cool premise, and neat premise. the other one, however, miracles, I did not like at all. the only thing it's got going for it is that guy skeet. but we will see. maybe this was just a bad episode, but then again, I am kinda anti catholic. maybe it has somethign to do with the way the catholic and then the protestant churches persecuted those of my religion (wicca) over the centuries. anyway, will not get off on that tangent.

working till 11 tongiht, and I am hoping for a quiet night. will see. working the over ngiht for the next two nights after tongiht. I am not looking forward to those, but will give me some time to work on my game for saturday. like I said, depending on how that goes, I may link it to my site. so look for it here, but after we have played it my friends, no cheating ;)
:: Robert 6:49 PM [+] ::
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afternoon all, had a relatively quiet afternoon yesterday, went out to Omega with michael and skip. skip got a bit rowdy over a political discussion we were having. seems to always happen with those two. they drink then get quite animated. after leaving the bar, michael and I did some quick grocery shopping, then off home and took forever ot bring it all up. then Michael decided to clena the kitchen and just kept breaking things. broke two bowls, and a wine glass. he was having a really bad day. I cleaned it all up and put most of the dishes in the dishwasher. I don't know why but the dishwasher in thsi apt. just does not clean on the second rack. it is quite bothersome. may have them change it out.

didn't have to come in today till noon, so ran down to my insurance agent to pay the big bill I had for my insurance. seems they can never get my address right, and when I do finally get a bill, they are threatening to cancel my insurance. so I go directly to him and pay it. I need to automatically send him a check every month, but if I don't have a bill, tend ot forget it. got to get better about that. not much else to say except that I miss my mori yuki.
:: Robert 1:26 PM [+] ::
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doing the 7-3 thing again today, but at least this time I was scheduled for it, and not called the night before. but then last night I was not answering the phone, it was superbowl. and even though I had no real interest in either team, it was a rather good game. figured it woudl be a low scorer at the start, but the TB jsut started going away with the ball, and racked up the points. I found it kinda amazing since none of their guys could catch anything brad threw at them. it was a fun game to watch, the half time show was good. could tell Shania was lipsynchimg, but at least Gwenn wasn't and the duet with Sting was good. the funniest comercial for me was the Osbournes pepsi twist commercial. just laughed my ass off to that one. all in all it was a good day. have to see how the week goes now. it is going ot be a long one. and I gots to finish that module by saturday for us to play. I am not looking forward to it. gotta figure out a big baddie to put in it.
:: Robert 7:42 AM [+] ::
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ah, another ngiht on the 11-7 shift. I think friday and saturday nights are the worse, as you get all deh drunks with the days off. but such is life. anyway, not much has happened since the last entry. started working on that D&D module for the group tongiht, we play again on the 1st, so gots to have it by then, specially since they are whining for a keep, and this will give it to em. gonna wtch the superbowl aftern my post work nap tomorrow(today) and am looking forward to that. spend time iwth my other interest...sports. I really don't care who wins, as I am not too excited about this one. none of my teams are playing, so it is just an excuse to drink beer and eat junk food and have fun. so, until later, later.
:: Robert 1:29 AM [+] ::
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yesterday was the day to kill someone for. I got a call late in the evening on wed. night that the guy who works the 7-3 shift, david, would not be in to work due to his dad having a heart attack. so I went right to bed, and tried to get some sleep. when ever I have to work the 7-3 shift, I don't get a good ngiht's sleep because I am always paranoid that I will oversleep. anyway, went to work, and discovered that we were goign to have a power outage that Virginia Electric had set up. the residents of my building are the perfect example of why round ears will eventually die out on this planet. even though we had put out several notices that power would be cut at 9am, we had several people stuck in the garage, as the doors did not open, and I even had one guy get stuck in an elevator. now the Garage was our fault, but to get in an elevator when the power is aobut to go out....shere stupidity.after power finally came back on, got a million calls, and it never seemed to end. seems the power had knocked out all the elevators, and the heat in one of the buildings. so it made for a very long day. finally got home at 330, watched a bit of tv, and fell asleep on the couch got up a few hours later and went to bed. had a quiet ngiht, needed the sleep.
:: Robert 9:53 AM [+] ::
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yesterday was a busy day at work, and then a quiet night at home. nothing too exciting happened. this morning, woke up to a nice little snowstorm, and it was quite nice. after driving Michael into work, came home, did a bit of a workout in the gym in the basement of my apt. building, and checked my mails. after that, went and had a nice lunch with Dax, it was good, had Chipotle, or as I like to call it McDonalds does mexican, as it is owned by McyD's. came home, played a bit of CivIII, and soon will go meet Michael for an evening of retro videos at Omega. hopefully there will be no drama, and then it is up early tomorrow to work at the bookstore. but am off at 1, so can nap after that, then relax at home. New Buffy Tonight, as well as a new Smallville. YEA!!! and tomorrow there is a new Enterprise. so, a good week for my programs. back to work at the property Thursday at 11pm, not looking forward to that. UGH.well, am off. talk to you later.
:: Robert 5:38 PM [+] ::
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yesterday had to go back to the property I trained at for a few hours as their desk person had to leave out sick. it was interesting. you get used to working and doing things one way, then you go to someplace you know, and you try to do things the same way out of habbit. kept wanting to lable things north or south, as we have two buildings here where I work. but it was interesting. after work went and got Jeff to fix Dax's webpage for me. he is really good at it. I may know graphics, but he can do the coding real well. after we got that done, went to my place, and had a nice dinner. then off to see The tow towers again. noticed many things I really hadn't before, but there were still the glaring errors I noted in my review...like they really would change or something. then took Dax Home and drove back, dropped off jeff and went home. finally got to sleep around 1am. made for a long day, but it was rather enjoyable. work like a dog tongiht and tomorrow, then off for a couple of days...YEA!!!. so, untill then, talk to you later.
:: Robert 5:14 PM [+] ::
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after getting off work at the bleary time of 7am yesterday, I went home and got some much needed rest. got up at 1, and got ready for dax to come over and work on his web page. got most of it done, but have a couple of things that I can't do, so today Dax and I are meeting my friend Jeff after I get off work, and finishing it all up. so, look for a link to his full web page hee soon. I don't know, I think I actually prefer to work the overnight shift to this 7am-3pm shift. at least if I am gonna be up at 6am, I know that I will be going to bed soon. I think I just hate getting up so early. also, last ngiht was a bad night. had a fight with Michael. nothing major, but it ende up with me being up till almost 1, and then having to be up at 6 this morning, it makes for a rather short night. the alarm went off, and I did not want to get up. hit the snooze twice. anyway, going to see the two towers again tongiht, but this time at the Uptown, a nice old theater in DC. it is one of the largest theaters in the area, and it only has one screen! amazing it still survives in this day of multiplexes and all.well, back to work. talk to you later.
:: Robert 7:39 AM [+] ::
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you ever have someone at work who just makes you want to either punch your fist through a cinderblock wall or their head, which ever will be less painful? think his head will be less painful, and even if it is more painful, at least it will end the pain in my life that he is. not that I would really do this, but the co-worker I relieved when I came on tonight makes me think of this mainly because he is so annoying. everything seems to be a revelation to him; even though he is not my boss, he acts like it; and the ultimate in annoyances to me at least, is the fact that he will just sit here and bother me after his shift is over so that I can not get my work done and get on to the things that I want to do, like blogg. but then, he even bothers me like that when he is workign the same shift as me. i think he is just so insecure in his life that he overcompensates here at work and tries to make himself more important than he really is. and not to offend any brits, whom i love, nor any buffy fans, we nicknamed him giles because he looks like a bizare lovechild of giles and...(any ideas woudl be appreciated here)

was reading a posting earlier for someone else, and he said that when things go wrong in his life he blames the sock people...supposedly these are the missing socks that get sucked up int eh dryer... i had to chuckle, because dax and i blame everything that goes bad on bunnies. it is another slayer reference, and if you don't get it, the go watch buffy the musical. we decided that Josh must have a problem with bunnies, because throughout the series he has picked on bunnies. not sure what the issue is, maybe his shrink does.

so, it snowed again tongiht. I love snow, but what I really like about snow would be to be inside near a fire laying on a nice soft blanket or rug snuggled up with my sweetie just relaxing and maybe drinking a bit of wine. alternating between watching the flames and the falling snow. see, I can get all romatic and gushy at times;) i don't know why, but i am no longer the ngiht owl that I used to be...grrrr. i have not been sleeping well the past couple of days, and even though i get to sleep a relatively normal hours tomorrow night, i am have to be up at 6am to go to work. i wish i had a nice normal job again the 9-5 variety. well, maybe in a couple of months. anyway. need to get back to work, enough goofing around...yea right whatever.
:: Robert 1:57 AM [+] ::
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today was a surreal day. after getting off work at 7am, I went right to bed, and fel into the sleep of death. at least until someone decided to start hammering either on the wall at the head of my bed, or on the floor of the apartment above. not sure which, but it woke me up. then, when i finally got back to sleep, the phone rang from my dr's office wanting to aprise me of some test results. all is ok. finally get back to sleep from this, and about 2 hours later, get woken to hammering again...grrr. call dax to grumble, and see how his day is going. then try to sleep again, but am now up and fully awake...I hate that. did catnap here and there throughout the rest fo the afternoon. so, I got a grand total of about 5-6 hours of sleep today. I am hoping that in the morning, things will work out better, and I will get mucho rest. can I say again, that I hate working this 11-7 shift, and can't wait till I can finally get promoted in two weeks, if there is an opening for me, and I can actually get it.
:: Robert 12:51 AM [+] ::
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ok, so the events of this past weekend, at least the ones I will relegate to here...saturday was a kinda boring day. spent the morning home watching mindless tv. except for Yu-Gi-Oh..like my anime :) then went and ran some errands and finally got my hair cut. it was getting too long and unruley. then worked the night away...kinda hating to work lately, but gotta earn the money. think this job is just not taxing me enough, and I am really starting to hate a particular co-worker taht reminds me of Giles from Buffy. but he gave notice, and will be gone at the end of the month.sunday was more fun. spent the day with Dax, then went to Jimbo's and Geeked out. I am dming again. and contrary to some e-mails floating around, I did not kill off the characters of the people who were rude enough not to come to the game. though if they miss the next session, sometiem at the beginning of Feb, I just might. we had a good time, and they ended up with uber experience. Monday was back at work at an ungodly hour, so we finished playing near 10, and went home and snored the night away, though it did not seem like enough time to me. Monday at work was hell. They were resurfacing the front desk, so I had to move to another location temproarily. it actually was goign rather smoothly till Giles came in, then he had to mess it all up. at one point, I went to another co-worker and said I wanted to deck him. she wisely told me to chill, as he only has a few more weeks left here, and very few shifts with me...i set up the schedule and had done that on purpose. so, that was my weekend. nothing too exciting, but kinda like it that way.
:: Robert 3:30 AM [+] ::
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discovered something...if i don't work this overnight shift, i don't make the time to blogg. that is bad. i need to take the time to blogg every day, at least in some form or another. couple of things i wnat to get off my chest, then will go ahead and spoil the two towers...
why is it when i get into a show on tv (don't get into too many, contrary to popular opinion) they yank it off the air. two shows I was really getting into are now off the air. the first is Birds of Prey. seems someone at WB did not like the idea of an all female superheroine adventure after they started it up, so will be yanking it off the air soon. there are rumors that it may be moving to another station, i sure hope it does, and gets kickass ratings. teach WB to keep dumping shows. the other show to get cancled is Dinotopia. ok, the series was not that great. poor writing, and it got kinda lame, but I still liked the idea of it, who knows, maybe some better writing will resurrect it?

ok. the two towers...part two of the lord of the rings, but not a sequel...one thing I got to say about Peter doing the movies all at one time, it made for a much better sequence for all. all we have to do is wait for them to finish the special effects, and then we can go see the next movie. this installment was full of cool battles, and some good scenery, but they did play fast and loose with the book. First, there were no elves at helmsdeep. second, frodo and sam never went with the humans to the city, they hung out in the cave, then went on their merry way. and finally, they did not include the part about merry and pippin drinking the water of the ents, thereby becoming the strongest and tallest hobbits in their times. now, with those aside, I enjoyed the hell out fo the battle of helmsdeep, and the battle of the ents. though I will say that off all the animation, the ents looked the worse so far. Gollumn is cool, and as far as animated anoyances go, beets the crap out of that doby thing in Harry Potter. so, all in all, I will say that it was a good movie, but bring your elvish interpreter with you for this one, as there are scenes in elvish.
:: Robert 12:42 AM [+] ::
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ok, not much happened since the last blogg, so, here is installment 1 in the movie reviews...
STAR TREK: NEMISIS. God, where to begin...ok, I love the Enterprise E, i think it is just the coolest ship in the history of ST. but, they can't make a movie around a ship, or can they???but anyway. we start off with some cool shit going down in the Romulan senate, all sparkly and fireworks, but then everyone does their best impersination of a vamp after getting hit by mr. pointy. it was great to see Will and Deanna finally get hitched, there were some humerous moments by Warf and Data...what is it with Star Trek people and trying out singing careers, but at least Brent has a voice...then off to Betazed for the traditional wedding. that is when all goes to pot and the movie really begins...first they seem to discover Data's long lost brother of sorts near the Romulan Neutral zone. hmm, strange how these plot devices work out. the car the Argo (Starblazer reference) was cool, but felt sorry for warf in that bounch rumble seat. another humerous line from warf and cool scene of flying into the waiting shuttle. back on the ship, they reasemble and clean up the new robot..b4..then the comunique comes in from Admral Janeway...ok, who'd she blow? or was adm. Paris so happy to see his prodigal son cleaned up and hitched that he promoted her for that?...bet you Kim is still an ensign. she notifies picard that the new romulan preator wants to meet with him, so off to romulus they go. once there, we get a rather nasty and huge ship decloaking off the bouw of the enterprise...cool ship, loved it...and we get to meet the hunky new preator..seems he is a clone of Picard, ok, how'd they get the DNA, and how did they know so far in advance that picard would be so famous and popular???...seems this guy and the nasty remens...think nosfaratu with the makeup and budgets of today's movies...want to take out the federation. nasty battle ensues, and in one of the most interesting, if confusing scenes of the movie, picard rams the Enterprise into the remen ship damangin the bows of both of them. the most amazing thing though, only remens are killed, no starfleet guys...not even a gold shirt, ah for the good old days of garunteeing to die if in a red/gold shirt...adn then the ships break apart. nasty bad guy desides to use his ULTIMATE weapon on teh enterprise, so picard goes over to fight him. cool battle, and rather interesting scene with data flying between the ships in teh vaccume of space...i know he is an android, but come on...data gets to the weapon chamber just in time to see picard impale his clone on a decorative spike. ther is only a few more seconds left, so data emergency beams the captain back, and destorys the device, remen ship, and himself at the last second. we have a nice, if short memorial for data, with a great tie back to farpoint, then it seems as if the movie should end, but they decide to attach a epilogue to it. enterprise in spacedock over earth, and riker says goodbye to picard as he goes off to his own command...finally...and the romulan homeworld to delegate a new peace treaty. we end with b4 and picard talking about data, and then as picard leaves the room, b4 starts to whistle the tune data had been trying to whistle back at farpoint. will there be another movie...if it is this bad, I hope not. but there is rumor that UPN may be having a new show dealing with Riker and his new ship. not sure how I feel about this, and besides, is Frakes up to doign another weekly show when he seems to be happy behind the camera in the director's chair? only time will tell. next, how to ruin a perfectly good bookin 3 hours or less, but still make it fun. I will later rant about LOTR:TTT.
:: Robert 1:26 AM [+] ::
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Ok, new year, New life. This year, I hope to do much better at keeping this thing up to date W/ rants and happenings within my life. let's see. first, gotta get some stuff out there. I want to say that I am with a REALLY wonderful man, and hope to spend the rest of my life with him. I am now DMing for the Geek Group, have a game next Sunday, and not a clue yet what I am going to put them through. I have a module I am creating, but it is taking me longer to complete than I initially thought it would...GRRR. well, I can start them in the underdark, and see how long it takes me to get this finished. we can go back to mine at another point. I may publish my adventure on here, as I doubt Wizards of the Coast will ever publish me. I have also moved and started a new job recently. The job is ok, but sometimes gets draining. I work odd shifts, like I am at work right now. and when I am not working, I am so DRAINED lately I don't feel like doing much of anything. anyway, the new job is Front desk Resident Relations Manager for an Archstone-Smith property. I like most of the people I work with, so that is good. Michael and I moved the begining of November back to a building we used to live in when we first moved to VA and out of the District. it is a nice little 2 bedroom place. think we have finally got it all set up. now just need to keep it clean and neat...Yea Right. anyway, back to work. look for a few reviews coming up of ST:Nemisis, and LOR:TTT. I will try to focus on the movies, and not the hunkiness that I saw...TTYL
:: Robert 2:22 AM [+] ::
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