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01:02 am
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We'll start with the fun stuff
Tonight, I present four stories for your approval. So get to it!
Sorry, Wrong Number
After my phone line was reconnected (which I'll talk about later), the first two phone calls I received were wrong numbers. Awesome. The second one, however, was from a person who has called several times before, each time looking for someone named Jim. I thought for sure I had talked to him before and told him he had the wrong number, but whatever. I struck up a small conversation with him, and it turns out that he's a recruiter. He wanted Jim for a tech writer position in the Fairmont area. He asked me if I was looking for a job in the IT field. I asked how one out of two was, and gave him my email address. I'm in the process of updating my resume and sending it to him. In all likelihood, nothing will come of it, but why not give it a shot?
Yellow Light
On my way to donate plasma the other day, I noticed that my gas tank was on fumes. I stopped at the Go-Mart in Bridgeport, then made my way up the hill adjacent to I-79. I got stopped at the light back around the entrance to USA Steak Buffet. There was an SUV that wanted to turn into my lane (I was in the left lane of 2). I let the person in front of me because it was the nice thing to do. The person behind me actually had the nerve to honk at me and throw her arms up in the air. At first, I was like "whatever," but then I got to the light. It was yellow. I jetted through it and left the person behind me at the light. Then it hit me. That. Was. HILARIOUS! I'll never know what gives people the stones to act like that.
The Rundown
In the past month, due to various events, we've doing a lot of driving back and forth from Rowlesburg/ Kingwood. Unfortunately, there's no CFH (critter-free highway) in the area. Have I mentioned before that I like to roll my windows down and berate animals that stand around in the road? If not, there you go. Anyway, I was moving at a decent clip one night when I spotted a deer in the road. I had plenty of time to brake, so I stopped. Then I honked my horn. This deer did not want to move! I was at the point where I just started going again. Screw it, I figured. I'm not going fast, so if I hit the damn thing, I'll just scare it. Well, it worked, and the deer ran- straight down the road! Apparently this one felt it had just as much right to the road as I did. It was wrong. Dead wrong.
Did I make you think I killed it? I didn't. Eventually, after following it honking my horn, it turned off the road. The next night, the same damn thing happened with a rabbit! As it was getting closer to bottom of my windshield, I decided to be benevolent and spare its life. The crunching sound would probably make me sick, anyway.
Instinct
I rue the day I need to get more deodorant. It means I have to brave one of the most offensive aisles (to the olfactory, anyway) at the store. Unfortunately, Friday was one of those days. My major qualifications are as follows: the scent must 1) not be too strong and 2) smell better than my b.o. Sounds easy, right? Not for someone as picky as me. I'm sure you've been following me on here (or in person) for years, and you know I won't wear cologne and generally despise "smelly" things. Anyway, I've used Axe since it came out and I discovered the line called "Touch." It was just right for me. And Wal-Mart was out.
So, now I'm standing around one of my least favorite aisles looking like an asshat smelling different deodorants. My decision came down to two, and I chose Instinct. After making my choice, I noticed that my new deodorant is infused with the "scent of rare leathers."
Double-you. Tee. Eff. Rare leathers? What does that even mean? How does "rare" have any context? I play Magic, so I know about rares. I get one per pack. I collect other things, too, and am very aware of their concepts of rarity. How did Axe procure enough "rare leather" to infuse the entire Instinct line with it? Hint: if they could do that, IT'S NOT RARE! Otherwise, it's ridiculous borderline-false advertising. It's this sort of ludicrous marketing that gives the profession a bad name.
All this because unlike Baskin Robbins, Axe doesn't have 31 flavors...
Catch you later
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12:30 am
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4000 pounds of stuff
This has been one hell of a busy three weeks. I don't have time to expound at the moment, so I'm going to post these notes so you at least know (or have a vague idea of) what's been going on, not necessarily in chronological order.
- Lindsay's grandmother passed away
- I'm unemployed
- Wave 1
- funny stories about 1) a recruiter, 2) some jackass behind me and 3) the deer I almost ran down
- No phone? No satellite? No problem. I can fix it!
- My descent into oblivion
- Michael Jackson
That should do it. No clue when I'll get a chance to talk about this stuff. I'll figure it out or something. Catch you later
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08:04 pm
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Tale of the Destructifier (condensed)
I told myself once upon a time that I would stop making posts like this one. I'm breaking my rule because on this day, June 4, in 1999, I graduated from high school. And my journey to awesomeness began thusly. It's hard to say when I got there. I've shown flashes of sheer brilliance here and there, but when did I begin to sustain that which is awesome?
I could consider the last time I failed miserably. Not the last time I was miserable because I failed, but a failure of proportions so epic that it literally changed everything. This was three years ago (not two- I don't think of that failure as mine). I let what I thought was "real life" get in the way of something extremely important to me. And some very bad things happened because I wasn't in a position to stop them. Realistically, could I have stopped them if I was there? Absolutely.
In the wake of this upheaval, I arose from the ashes as The Destructifier. The time of destructification have since passed, though only because the mortal emenies of my ideal no longer stand. I have survived and outlasted them all. I will endure. I will not fail you again.
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07:59 am
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Six things I forgot yesterday.
1) I am hooked on Oblivion. I'm going to be a master alchemist soon, and I'm a journeyman at speechcraft, which isn't even part of my skill set (I talk to a lot of people).
2) My second attempt at jambalaya was a huge success! I found andouille sausage at Shop N Save and bought some more crayfish (why is that a correct spelling and Firefox i telling me "crawfish" isn't? the package said "craw") tail meat from Wal-Mart. It was very good, and very easy to make.
3) My satellite service is on the fritz. I have no idea what's wrong with it. I first noticed it Friday night when I realized that it wasn't recording Leno's final Tonight Show episode. At this rate, I'm probably going to miss Conan's debut tomorrow, too. There's a really strange incessant beeping coming from my entertainment center, too. I wonder if they're related...
4) I had this really weird dream that unsettled me enough to get up this early. In it, I went to the Magic Pro Tour Qualifier that was held in Pittsburgh yesterday. Everybody was acting like assholes to me, but that wasn't the bad part. I apparently won my round one in some way I can't recall. Round two, which took forever to start, put me at table 13. My opp didn't show up until about two minutes left in the grace period, so she should have lost game 1 automatically.
When I called a judge over about that, he said to wait a couple more minutes. I tried to call someone else over but they wouldn't listen. I called them again and the judge made a mean comment about it. Then I said, loudly "With all due respect, if you'd do your job in the first place, I wouldn't have to call you over so much." I was also thinking that I do in fact know the rules of a tournament because I have judged large events before, even though she wa implying that I do not.
I got paired against this girl who was really snarky. Everything I said was stupid to her. Blah, blah this, blah blah that. She finally made a joke that was not at my expense, and it was genuinely funny. I pointed that out to her and she started railing on me again. Anyway,
When I was shuffling my deck, I noticed some empty sleeves. I thought "oh, crap..." then counted my deck, and sure enough, it wasn't 60 cards like it should have been. I was extremely pissed off at that point. I scooped and walked outside, wondering how I could have been so dumb to do that. Outside, I remembered that I lent my deck to a friend for yesterday, so I didn't have a completed deck. So wtf was I doing there in the first place? No idea.
In reality, I lent the deck I was going to play to a friend at Sal's on Friday. Well, most of it. There were a couple cards I didn't have, and some I should have had but still didn't. I'm a little upset about the latter. I lent them for Regionals two weeks ago and still don't have them back. I hope John found all the cards he needed.
5) There's an OB/GYN in Fairmont whose real last name is Holehouse.
6) Knock, knock.
*you* Who's there
I eat mop.
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04:47 pm
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The song was a hit, btw.
I've had some thoughts lately:
Yuengling in West Virginia? Oh Yeah.
Here are some newer songs I like a lot:
Theory of a Dead Man -I Hate My Life
311- Hey You
Cage the Elephant -Ain't No Rest For the Wicked
Papa Roach -Lifeline
I like "I Hate My Life" not because I do, but a few of the things in there ring sorta true with me (hating everyone till the bitter end, eg). I'm actually not of a fan in general of "life sucks" tye of music- I'm more of a stfu and deal with it kind guy- but it's catchy. Also, I semi-apologize for the rickroll. I was going to link to the video, however a perfunctory search of Papa Roach's YouTube page didn't produce it. So you get the next best thing.
Watching Star Trek made me want to listen to more Beastie Boys. How awesome was Star Trek, by the way? Super-fuckin' awesome, that's how.
On a side note, did watching X-Men Origins: Wolverine (specifically Will.i.am's role) make you want one of these?
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03:00 pm
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You Get Me
YOU GET ME
There's so much stuff I don't know
About living on my own
So much knowledge that I don't have
How am I supposed to be a man?
I don't like it when things don't go my way
I stole a pager for your birthday
Then for our 2-year I stole a wine glass
I can be a major pain in the ass
But I'm not the only one
Who finds what I do fun
Because even when you're mad
I know I can always make you laugh
You get me
You know my heart is true
Yeah, you get me
And I know I get you too
I'm not very good with money
I talk trash when I'm playing rummy
Sometimes I drive like a maniac
I have claw marks on my door to prove that
My jokes are hit amd miss
Unless you like to look at this
I make the worst puns you've ever heard
"Vodka martini, shaken not stirred"
But I'm not the only one
Who finds what I do fun
Because even when you're mad
I know I can always make you laugh
(saxophone solo)
You get me
You know my heart is true
Yeah, you get me
And I know I get you too
I know people wonder why
You still put up with me
But if they saw my huge penis
Then surely they'd agree
You get me
You know my heart is true
Yeah, you get me
And I know I get you too
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02:46 pm
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So this happened two months ago...
Lindsay and I decided to spend the 13th together because V-Day itself would be packed full of stuff (I had to work the morning, for one, plus the Dinner Dance.) We went up to Morgantown to eat at The Olive Garden. One of these days, we're going to go up there and get the all-you-can-eat the soup and salad lunch. It's $6.95 apiece. Not too shabby if you ask me. Anyway, after lunch ,we continued up the hill. We stopped at Best Buy to look around. Well, she thought we were looking around. This was my Valentine's Day surprise for her- we were going to get a flat screen TV!
I really wanted to just check out the TVs and when an employee came up to us, I'd say "I'll take this one." I know it would have knocked her socks off. Unfortunately it doesn't work like that when your girlfriend works in the electronics department for a competitor. She knows a lot about TVs, so I had to let the cat out of the bag early. Then, of course, we had to go check out said competitor's pricing.
I wasn't impressed with that other place's selection of TVs or their prices. Lindsay swears by Vizio, but she's the only person I've ever heard say good things about them. Has anyone that bought a Vizio said anything good about them? Then we checked out Sam's Club. The particular store we were at is managed by the same woman that ran the Fairmont store. I don't like her, but was fortunate enough to not run into her. I did run into some other people I could take or leave. But whatever. It's been 6 years since I worked there. Those people probably don't remember me. Or if they do, the first thing they'll ask about is my wife. Awesome. In the end, I decided to buy the TV at Best Buy, and I knew the one I was going to get: a Samsung 40" with 30000:1 contrast ratio, 1080i (or is it p?), and some other numbers I don't remember. It was on sale for around $900.
Of course, since I'm getting an HDTV, I need to get a newer generation DVD player, right? If I don't, my DVDs will look crappy. At least, that's the "excuse" Lindsay gave me. But I knew better. It was a very poorly veiled "Honey, buy me a PS3." In the interest of full disclosure, she staunchly denies this, and I'm probably fabricating at least some of it. The end result is the same: I blew almost 2 grand at Best Buy on a TV, a PS3, and some other stuff. No interest for 18 months is a good thing.
A second post with more stuff and maybe a picture or two may be coming later. After all, I need to cover Lindsay's birthday (today) and our 2-year anniversary (yesterday). What follows immediately is a song I've written for the occasions. Well, the lyrics, anyway. Catch you later
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10:21 pm
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And eleven days later...
I'm back! Complete with a new address, and some fancy swag. No time to talk about it now, but I will soon.
Candi, I haven't forgotten about Dexter. I'll try to get them to you by this weekend.
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11:05 am
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This sucks...
I have no internet access at home, and probably won't for about two weeks. Just letting you know.
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12:14 am
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... and two weeks later,
the Dinner Dance went very well. And, as usual, I learned a lot. One of these days I'm going to be able to pull off one of these things without a hitch. They were all minor to midrange hitches, so that's a small blessing. 43 people were there in total, which is up from last year, but still lower than two years ago. What we really need is 80 or so people. It's hard to profit off the tickets with a lower turnout because operational expenses eat the profit up.
We decided to gear the music more toward ballroom-style dancing, and I think that went well. This format also lent itself to a sort of chronology, though the songs picked from each decade weren't necessarily in order because we wanted to space out the different dances.
We hired The Green Martinis to play a few songs for us, as well. My intention was to bring them on after we played through the recorded music. I was thinking that a live band would be a great end to the night, and if people didn't like them for whatever reason, they could leave. This was the midrange snafu- they had to go on around 8 to 8:15 because of some scheduling issues. I'm not sure what happened there, but I'm not going to place any blame. They were my plan B on a short notice and really saved my bacon. Thanks guys!
The food was awesome! We picked a really good menu, and Aladdin was great as usual. You can check the whole thing out on the site, but both the Chicken Marsala and the roast beef was excellent. I could barely pick up the roast beef with the tongs because it was falling apart. I can't say enough good things about Aladdin.
I thought our decorations looked nice, too. Silk rose petals were sprinkled along the table, with 2 heart doilies (1 on each side of the centerpiece, facing different directions). The centerpiece was a 10" glass bowl with stones in the bottom, filled with water for 2 floating candles and three real rose petals. We lit the candles, but I think that was a mistake. Perhaps a more traditional method of candlelight would work better. We also bought a trellis with some fake vines to set up for a "Photo Booth." I hate the name, but the idea is really good. My LiveJournal pic (atm) is from last year's photo booth.
I was pleased with the amount of time I was able to spend with Lindsay, too. I guess that means we net our staffing requirements rather nicely. Four people could probably run the whole thing competently, but we had 6. Not too shabby.
If I had to pick one thing to be genuinely disappointed in, it's our advertising. Nothing worked out the way it was intended to. On the bright side, there's a ton of information for next year's committee.
I'll take a couple of the pictures from this year's dance and put them on the Dinner Dance web site at some point. For now, I'm going to end this without telling you how the rest of Valentine's Day went. I'll leave you clamoring for more. What sort of awesomeness did we get into? Find out next time! Catch you later
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06:28 pm
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Dead Like Me
No, this isn't an existential post. I'm watching a DVR episode of the show. I caught a marathon on Sci-Fi the other day. It's a neat show. Anyway, on to the reson for my post...
I can't shut my door. The lock is stuck in the locked position, which is preventing me from being able to shut it. Not the deadbolt, mind you, the regular lock. It sucks. I was supposed to run up to Lindsay's Wal-Mart to bring her name tag. Instead, I'm sending Dorien. See? Little sisters are good for something!
I'm supposed to tell you what we did for Valentine's Day and how the Valentine's Dinner Dance went. Maybe later. I have to fix my door. Catch you later
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12:47 am
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Irrelevance
Every time I almost type something here, I don't. It's weird, like I've hit my quota for alienating people or something. There are so many things I could be saying that would piss more than a few people off. But I don't, because I realize there's no point. Lately, quite a few of my musings have ended with that thought. What's the point in:
trying to impress someone you wouldn't piss on if they were on fire?
going above and beyond for someone that doesn't care if you even tried?
setting an example for people too stupid to see it?
answering to people that don't have to answer for themselves?
I know what you're thinking. "Josh, you're smarter than that. You know why the world works the way it does." To this I say sure, but it's that knowledge which makes it all irrelevant.
At least I'm going to get a fat tax return, I guess. Now I can pay off the personal debt I have accrued via purchase, car work, and divorce. Then maybe I can do something nice for a girl that truly deserves it- one that has to deal with me daily.
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11:25 pm
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So, the Steelers won the Super Bowl. More importantly,
I came up with two more names for my kids, Rick, and Ned. Why those names, you ask? I'll tell you. They are short for the following:
Richolas and Neodore
See what I did there?
Also, Nichard (Nee-shard).
So there you have it. Acehigh, Richolas, Neodore, and Nichard. My four kids, over Lindsay's dead body.
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10:29 pm
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You can't help me, so why should I complain to you?
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08:29 pm
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I stole this. Deal. :-)
You know how sometimes people on your friends list post about stuff going on in their lives, and all of a sudden you think, "Wait a minute? Since when are they working THERE? Since when are they dating HIM/HER? since when???" And then you wonder how you could have missed all that seemingly pretty standard information, but somehow you feel too ashamed to ask for clarification because it seems like info you should already know? It happens to all of us sometimes.
1. Name- Josh Sherman
2. Age- 27
3. Location- Fairmont, WV. I was born here then we moved to RI for 10 or so years, then back down here.
4. Occupation- I work in counter-terrorism. To be more clear, I a teller at a local banking institution and they have policies, which I follow, designed to prevent money going into terrorist's hands. Some things about the job are ridiculous. Some things about it are pretty cool. The rest could be handled by a trained monkey. But I might have a line on moving to a different department.
5. Partner- Lindsay Sanders. She turns 21 in April. We met at band camp my last year of college. Not only is she a redhead, but she's an upgrade over every other girlfriend I've had, combined. Been dating for two years in April, and have been living together for almost a year.
6. Kids- nope. I've had a few scares in the past, hee hee
7. Brothers/ Sisters- Dori, 20, 5 step-brothers and a step-sister
8. Pets- a cat named Mr. Spock. I thought it would be funny to name him that because of his deformed ear. I had two dogs, Jazmine and Yuki, but they were stolen out of Mom’s yard a little under a year ago. Dori named them both.
9. List the 3-5 biggest things going on in your life- learning how to live in my own place, relearning how to have an adult relationship, Valentine's Dinner Dance, learning how to not be so pissed off all the time
10. What did you go to school for?- Good question. Because I was supposed to, I guess. I mean, I wanted to, but never really had a full grasp on what I wanted to study. Then I stayed because I knew I wouldn’t return if I left. At some point, it is actually my intention to go through my college transcript and talk about each class a little bit and about what I can remember of the stuff I haven’t put in Joshweek. That way, when people read that it took me 8 years to get a 4 year degree, they’ll understand why. Honestly, with 2 less than half time years and three major changes, it’s not that bad.
11. Parents- Mom, 43 and Dad, 45. Both remarried older than themselves. Maybe it’s an extension of how old they feel because they have a 27 year old son.
12. Who are some of your closest friends? Jeff Ledsome and Lindsay. I don’t have a good concept of what a close friend is or is supposed to be. I know lots upon lots of people, and am friendly toward most. I’m also pretty bad at reconnecting with old friends.
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03:47 pm
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You can't be serious...
Hayden Panettiere has amassed quite a following since she began playing Claire Bennett on Heroes. I think that's possibly gone to her head. Sure, she's basically immortal and all, but apparently, she thinks she's a Jedi. See what I mean?
I've seen some of the strangest shit in the past year or so. Is there some sort of flood that only late-teen or early 20 something girls will be ready for that the rest of us will be swept away in? If that's the case, the human race is fucked. Or maybe it's a summertime blizzard, since so many of them are prepared with snow boots.
What really boggles my mind is that someone, somewhere cooked this bullshit up. It was probably some guy in his mid-30s in some office building, that thought "Let's show girls wearing a skirt over a pair of jeans in our new catalog. What an awesome idea! That's should double our sales and earn me that million dollar bonus."
If you have ever though any of the following was cool:
1) Snow boots when the amount of snow on the ground (less than 2 inches, but usually zero) does not call for it,
2) Wearing a skirt over jeans,
3) Wearing leggings under a skirt,
4) Tucking your jeans into your ridiculously tall boots,
5) Obscuring one eye by combing the entirety of your bangs to one side,
6) Wearing clothes you are too fucking fat for (if you don't know who you are, don't worry: everyone else does),
7) Wearing tight pants in such a manner that the pockets are hanging off your ass,
8) Sporting a whaletail which cuts into your love handles,
9) Showing off your tits because they are the only thing on you that could be construed as hot,
10)Anything I would decry if I could think of it right now,
I have an important message for you: You've been duped. Instead of being told what is cool (or what's not cool, for that matter), take a look in the mirror. Will you be proud of that reflection in twenty years? I didn't think so.
For a final thought, I read something today that rings so true... you can pay for school, but you can't buy class.
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08:38 pm
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I'm just about finished...
I almost have ValentinesDinnerDance.com completely up and running. All that's left is the email form I want to use. Unfortunately, I'm not fluent in the languages required to write the script for such a thing. I've been speaking to Shane Jordan (web developer for Fairmont State), and I think he's going to help me out big time. I hope so, because other than his help, I'm probably just going to say "fuck it." Since I'm talking about the site, why don't I talk about how I got to where I am?
Last Monday: Well, GoDaddy only gives me five free pages to work with... I need a front page, a "who we are" page, a page for the form, a thank you page for the form... and apparently a page with all the rest of the information that's about a mile long. Excellent.
Last Wednesday: Ok, everything's too clunky. I need to fix the formatting with tables. At least, I think that will work.
Last Friday: Sweet! That's all done. The site is looking pretty nice. Now all I need to do is send a couple emails to ask for permission to use a couple things, and this puppy should be ready to go live on Monday! All I have to do is not forget my jump drive at work.
Last Friday, 5:30PM: SHIT! I forgot the damn thing at work. Well, at least the branch is still open, I can swing by the drive-thru. That was close!
Sunday Evening: ok, there's a Dinner Dance committee meeting soon. I can't wait to show them all the progress I made. I just have to get my jump drive... I mean find my jump drive... I mean SHIT! I lost the damn thing. I have to recode the entire site. This is shitty. Supershitty.
Monday: ... hey, does Hotmail keep my sent emails? If it does, then I have a copy of two of my five pages. That would be really handy. Let's see... yes it does! Well, at least I have the huge page and the "who we are" page. Hey, since I have to recode the site, why not redesign it a bit? If table will look nice, I bet a frameset would look even better...
Tuesday Night: Alright! I'm ready to go live! It turns out GoDaddy already had a form mail script, so I tried it out. It worked! We're live in 3...2...1...
5 minutes later: Son of a bitch! You know those five free pages I get from GoDaddy? They have banner ads on them. That means there's a damn banner at the top of the page and at the top of the active frame. I don't like that very much, but I can circumvent it. I'm crafty. However, the form script returns its user to the front page. Since I'm using a frameset, that will put the frameset inside the active frame. You know those pictures where a person is between two mirrors? It looks like that. I'm officially pissed.
On a side note, I received a replay from Kappa Kappa Psi National Executive Director Lt. Col. Alan Bonner, USAF (Ret.) saying that I did have permission to use the fraternity crest and some excerpts I took from our national "who we are" page. Woo Hoo! Unfortunately, I also found out that it will cost me quite a bit to obtain rights to the other image I want to use. Boo.
Yesterday: How do I get completely free server space? Hmm... well, I remember a long ass time ago I worked on pages the American Chemical Society and the Honors Association. We used some sort of ftp for that. Maybe if I email the right person, I can get some more info on that. Tick tock, tick, tock. Finally, I get a response! It's from Shane Jordan, and he sends me a link to instructions on how to ftp. I must say, it's come a long way in seven years. Anyway, instead of hosting the site on GoDaddy, I can use the domain to forward to my FSU
Today: now I need to figure out a form mail script. Everything I've seen suggests that I need to know what the server supports first, so I ask Shane. He says that the server already has a form mail script and that I can adapt it to my needs. Unfortunately, I've been trying for hours, and it's too smart for me. I can't get it to work. So, hopefully Shane will be able to help me tomorrow. I'm going to go live without the form, by replacing all instances of a link to it with a mailto link for our email address. Once it works, then I'll go back and fix it.
I feel relieved that the majority of my work is done, but at the same time, I'm kinda like "well, fuck, what do I do now?"
Make proxy Magic cards!
If you take sandpaper to the front of a magic card, it rubs the ink off. Then you can do whatever you want with a blank. Plus, as my technique improves, maybe I'll be able to not look like a noob. I have a a few sharpies and some colored pencils. I will upload some of my work some other time. But now I have to go cook dinner. Lindsay will be home in about an hour. Catch you later
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12:32 am
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How I'd fix BCS football
There are 119 BCS teams, right (or something close to that)? 10 12-team conferences with 6-team divisions. Weeks 1-6 are round robin with one bye in week 2-5. Week 7 is rivalry week (or, if you've already played your rival, you play a random team from the other division of your conference). Week 8 is an off week unless you're playing for a conference championship (week 7 does not count toward this). For the other 6 games, a team is paired against the closest possible team:
has not already been played
has the opposite home/away designation
has played the same number of games
has the most similar record
For the bowl season:
All conference champions are bowl eligible, even if they tanked the rest of the season. The other 58 slots are the highest ranked remaining teams.
There are three tiers of bowl games: Premiere (8), Tier 2 (11), and Tier 3(15). All bowl games stay in their tiers for five years, after which they are re-ranked by quality of games played (50%), attendance (20%), and generated revenue (30%). If the top bowl in a lower tier ranks higher than the lowest team of the next tier, they will switch places, and we'll do it all over again in five years.
Each bowl in a tier makes its selections before the next tier gets to pick. The order inside each tier is randomly determined at first, then weighted by previous pick order. A bowl which is new to a higher tier will pick last in that tier. A bowl new to a lower tier will pick first in that tier.
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03:14 am
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A second blog for Magic
Now you don't have to read about my Magic escapades!
![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) fairmontmagic is my blog to talk about what I'm trying to do with the local Magic community. I should have tournament announcements, results, deck lists, and progress regarding becoming a level 1 judge.
For those reading this on Facebook, I will also be making a Facebook group for organizing the local player base.
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12:38 am
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I figured it out.
I know why I can't have a threesome with two girls. Where would I put the fourth boob?
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