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It has been a while since I have updated my blog and I am not even sure if I have used this title before   Work has left my unable to work on many projects at the moment and soon I should be uploading some new content.  Until then, …. wow it has almost been a year since my last post…

Cheyne

Chris Ronnie and Richard, originally uploaded by Seventh.

So recently I have been working a ton but I have made some time to get my photos a little better organized and uploaded (the ones I like) to flickr so follow the photo link to get the newer pictures.

This week has been the figurative “power hour” of my job with everhting due all at once both at work and in life.  Work wise I worked 23 hours on Tuesday, 12 on Wednsday,  14 on Thursday, 8 on Friday and between yesterday and today I really lost count.  I drove quite a ways with the feeling like I could not stay awake but some how I always manage to and I am not talking about feeling tired but being physically left with nothing.  And yet there in lies the issue, I get home and I am awake, sleepy but I can not sleep.  So here I am trolling the myspace and listing to War of Ages on Pandora.com.  I am also instilling the beta of Windows 7 on my UMPC (Samsung Q1 Ultra) aka my small but handy touchscreen PC and reading up on what to do if it fails on the install….  but seriously my experience with vista denotes caution. (continue reading…)

This is why I love local bars.

I am taking a break from the photo posts or movie post I have been making on a fairly updated schedule as I have been insane from work. That has limited my time to get all my side projects done, more time lapse footage for the movie I am working (nature), new logo and identity for a private school, and some regular web site updates.

I did though get a new flier done for my friends in Raging Apathy and plan on going to their show on December 26th at Scout Bar.

Also my birthday is coming up on Saturday the 13th so go by me something nice

I have been laying now these days until I get all the Dr. stuff figured out so if anyone wants to hang let me know.  While chilling at home I have been working on my website again, putting some “div”overlays on all the main page linking pictures and changing the color scheme to fit it better.  It all adds to the fun world of learning code, lots of learning.  (continue reading…)

After two, maybe three years with the same new glasses, I got some new ones.  Yes the ones you clicked on to read this post, but more sexy on me   Plus it just gives me another excuse to post about something and then find a picture (or take one), edit it and then upload it with the new layout of the site.  Oddly enough been drinking “Apple Cider Vinegar” and odly enough it helps the heart burn “yes mother, thank you“.  One day I need to actually plan for my posts instead of the way I currently write them which is almost stream of thought or something like that.  Basically what I think gets typed but with more spelling errors than I though I had and there are periods. 

Now to get my room mates kitty off my bed so I can go to sleep, sometimes I wonder if they like me better because I talk to them…

Been having some odd (scary) health issues recently like chest pains, in-ability to sleep and tension in my chest. Yeah fun, I am 25, I should not be having these issues even if I was 50 lbs more weight wise than I am now. I am just over 200 lbs and decreasing and in “ok” health as far as running goes. I have been to the ER 3 times now and the Cardiologist for a stress test / echo. Everything checks out fine and I also have low cholesterol and an in good health with nothing to worry about. So… why the chest pains and tension? I don’t know yet and now I have to go back to the regular Dr. to find out what the next step is. I was taking Nexium for my heartburn and I just stopped taking those as guess what some of the side effects where? Chest Pain, Shortness of Breath, Fatigue….. Really! So the Dr. and the Cardiologist didn’t catch that? I would have though that one of them would have maybe told me to stop taking the drugs.

So I am feeling better but still not anywhere close to how I was feeling before all this happened.

Beyond that what is new?

I have an iPhone (the older one), new glasses (makes me look sexy), and a new computer monitor (puts me to 3) for design stuff like this site and so on.

I am off today so if any of my friends RSS, hit me up I am feeling like going out and doing something as I am not dieing anymore (for the short term)

*Hum Hum * Some old song some one must have heard of….

So updates, as I have had alot of coffee and probably won’t be able to sleep anytime soon anyway and I am jamming some old FIF (Five Iron Frenzy).  I haven’t listened to them in ages and I own all of there CD’s minus one I think, though I am not sure.  I like to listen to music from different times in my life because it brings back memories from years prior.  I think I was listening to FIF when I was in Jr. High going into High School when I lived in California, ah the memories and 70 degree weather.  Back in the old ’97.  I wonder if everyone has the same reaction to music that was important in certain stages in life.  I distinctly remember first getting turned onto FIF in 1997 on a trip to the desert, I believe it was Joshua Tree National Forest and I think I still have pictures some where.  When I listen to the songs I can remember the desert air, blue sky, crisp breath and the sandy rocks that we where climbing.  I remember it like it was yesterday though I haven’t had time to remember in a while.  I always liked exploring and I guess that is the same reason why on some days off I just go driving with the windows down and try to take everything in.  Things like the smell, wind, sounds of different places that I have never been before.  I have no idea how I have gotten into this old memories kick but I was not like this earlier, it has to be the music.  Or did I put on the music that I knew would help trigger the felling of then…emo.

I need to actually write out these blogs before I just start typing what ever comes into my brain.

In other news I was in San Antonio again for work and they where kind enough to put me up in the river walk.  It was alot of fun meeting all my other peers in my area and getting to drink with them.  It is far easier to learn about people when you have been drinking though I think I have made a name for myself as a “fun” guy.  Every meeting I go to I seem to have this “fun” reputation about me and I think I counted the saying “lasers scare me” at some point during that trip.  On the work side of things I learned alot and had alot of interfacing with the peers and got to learn different perspective as to how I operate on a daily basis.  Positives from that trip:

Meet other ROS’s.
Learn about new things coming up.
Get drunk enough to quit smoking

So yeah smoking a ton of menthols after 11 jager shots and waking up will be a great solution to the whole smoking “issue” goes away.  I think the official day of quitting was the first of March, so I am almost onto the third week of quitting and I have no need for them.  I am proud of myself though I think I have a long time to go before anyone I know will actually belive me as I have quit so many time before, and failed. 

I do like this whole writing thing and I should do it more often, really, it is a good way to get all the grey stuff out of my brain before it explodes.

Though having a non scripted blog means that I tend to jump topics, sorry but the warning came to late if you made it this far.

I have been working on a few side projects as usual.

ragingapathy.net – Images and such, hmm I need to get those stickers done…!
thecoreministry.org – Formatting and pretty much all of the back end stuff minus the template.

And a song I like and have forgotten just came across media player from the album Upbeats & Beatdowns – “Cool Enough for You”, ah ska how I miss you.

To the spellcheker Batman.

*BAM*

Posed!

I don’t know why but I use that excuse far to often even though I have been busy, I think that lazy is the proper word.  I have had quite a bit of things going on lately:

Work, Work, Work, Computer Games, Bands, and Design Projects. 

So for topic one, Work.  Somehow after I became salary my job requires that I work more hours, wha?  Yes, I think there is some plot to get a person to try just hard enough to get a better position in a company and then get them to give away there hourly rate.  I like what I make but it just seems that I wasn’t making as much as I was before with overtime.  Oh well, it keeps me from being bored.

On the computer games front, I have found myself playing alot more games than I usually do, namely World of Warcraft and EVE Online.  Also a good boredom eliminator and plus my room mate plays so I have some one to play with (I feel that the last sentence reverted me to second grade).

 Beyond that I have just been keeping up with band fliers and logos for my friends band “Raging Apathy”.  I also have been working on a few other projects that once complete I will post about.

On the Technology front, I now have a Q1 Ultra UMPC and I love it.  It is a demon spawn of a PDA and a Tablet PC but it = happy.

 More at a future date when I can read and write better