Not much happens when not much changes. Or rather, not much worth talking about happens when not much changes.

I stopped by Starbucks yesterday and got a free cafe mocha ’cause my friend Liz hooked me up. (She’s the woman I knew back when we were in high school.) I like mochas and I like ‘em better when they’re free.

Work is going well. I’ll start working the late, late shift after next week — my shift beginning before Conan O’Brien and lasting much, much later. Can you say “Good Morning, America?”

Note: Something is wrong with your social life if frustration emerges at not being able to watch TV shows the day they show.

That is all.

Categories: Life, Work
Tags: Starbucks

I saw a beautiful movie and I saw an ugly movie this weekend. Serenity, as I preemptively reviewed, earned five stars. Amazing. I speak not only as a fan, but I can say the guy I went with who hadn’t seen Firefly liked it to.

Into the Blue sucked. Unless you like horribly contrived plots involving cocaine dealers, treasure hunting, and sharks eating people by mistake.

My new hard drive is beautiful. I bought a new 120GB hard drive on Saturday. It’s now resting happily in my machine. Combined with previous drives, I’ve got 200GB total and I’m using less than a third of it at present. I reinstalled my operating systems (Windows XP and Fedora Core 4) and am currently trying to get things back to status quo. Seriously though, I like doing this kind of stuff — and I’m getting halfway decent at figuring out things on linux. I’ve still got to figure out how to reconfigure my boot loader to operate properly though since XP killed it.

Gotta reboot to finish some installs. Peace be with you.

Categories: Life

I had a friend in high school named Liz. A used to hang out w/ her and a guy named Jeff. When outside the halls of high school, Jeff and Liz were the only people from school I spent any time with. I graduated in 2000. I saw Jeff at some point in 2001/2002. I haven’t seen Liz at all since summer of 2000.

A few weeks ago at work, I was trying to get a quicker way to look people up on a whitepages website. Randomly, I chose the name of someone I knew from Longmont to test it out. I typed in Liz’s name. Surprisingly, it gave me her address and phone number. Yesterday, I finally called her number.

She made me dinner. We talked for five hours. I’m quite thrilled to have run into an old friend again. She actually lives less than two miles away in the apartment complex one of my brothers lived in as recently as three months ago. A lot has changed for each of us over the course of the last five years including plenty of good and not good happenings, but that’s life for you. I’m just glad to have the chance to reconnect with somebody here in town who I used to know.

A <brief interlude> from serious matters of discusion:
On a non-related note, whoever you are and however little money you have, go see the movie Serenity. No, I haven’t seen it yet, but I’m going to preemptively assault you with my review: five stars! I’m basing this on my preknowledge (Firefly) and hoping it lives up to it.

Also, oldskool MxPx is still amazing. It fills my punk needs at the moment.
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At work, I should be less than two weeks from switching to a permanent shift-schedule for the remainder of 2005 and 2006. People call it the “Graveyard Shift.” Meaning: I work from 2100 hours to 0700 hours on Wednesday through Saturday (but the last day’s shift actually ends Sunday morning). Craziness, eh? If you envy me, raise your hand. I’m actually glad about it, mostly because I’m tired of changing shifts every week or two since January. Nine months of uncertainty will make you happy to get the graveyard shift. Add onto that the fact I’ve been staying up till 3AM most nights anyway and it’ll be easier to adjust to.

So now you know … the rest of the story. If you can call it a story.

Categories: Life