Is it wrong if I recognize landmarks in the real world because of a video game I played in a virtual rendition of the city? How about if said game was almost about destroying said city? Anyway much new, slight sum up:
Wedding plans are going well
Family is coming down for Thanksgiving, and we might actually have both side meet for the first time. This should be interesting
Rally is on tv in HD and I found a local go-Kart track. Sweeeeeet
Cats still in charge of house.
Brutal Legend is cool.
I'm practicing with the cappuccino machine.
Long weekend way back when in Catskills was awesome.
and other stuff that I keep meaning to post about but never get around to.

This concludes our broadcast day see you next whenever.
ps, I hate loud people on trains, probably a good thing I dont carry a taser.

I'm loving the fact that Apple is finally getting some press for their ridiculous actions and in some minds are not being seen as the savior anymore. With the google voice debacle that has the fcc looking at them to their latest act of stupidity they have now decided to censor a dictionary.
http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/apples-new-low-censoring-a-dictionary/

So when they aren't denying apps that they have arbitrarily decided "duplicate functionality" (hmm didn't they rail against another company for just bundling a program but not forcing you to use it?) they feel we are not able to handle words their own dictionary will show us.

There was a great quote in the comments from one of the articles that sums it up nicely..
"Want to feel like an overprotected child? There's a phone for that!"

Well I'm moving my way out west this week, at the moment I'm in Columbus Ohio. Should be interesting, if nothing else I have nice rental car. That in itself was a challenge as for whatever reason the place I finally went with was less than half what the others wanted to charge me, and I even got a Mitsubishi Eclipse too. So I'm having fun with that, but not too much as Ive heard stories about the cops and speeding tickets in Ohio.

Later this week I head to Seattle which can be fun as Ive never been there but have wanted to for a while. Plus I may be able to swing by and check out a jewelry place for the ring designs, and then its a fun (sarcasm) red-eye flight home for the weekend. Cant say I'm really looking forward to the amount of time Ill be in planes this week. Anyhoo, thought id have more to say but seems like my brain is shot now. So heres hoping my classes tomorrow go well.
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This was just too good to pass up, and yet knowing my pets both current and past I'm not really all that surprised. But still, cute and funny...

http://jalopnik.com/5310130/drunken-german-badger-blocks-traffic

Fox Business Channel: First place in the race to cluelessness

Well here I am in DC, now I know what you're thinking. Ugh heres the part where he complains about something. That would be incorrect in this case, which is partly why I'm actually posting now, if for no other reason that to prove its not all doom and gloom.

And yes, I can hear you not believing me. Stop that, you're making Raziel sad.

Now to prove how things dont actually suck, the day wasn't bad (it did rain though)...((stop that)) but after work I got back to the hotel in time to watch Batman, The Brave and the Bold. Which if you haven't seen it is a hilarious cartoon. Aquaman was never better, which after saying it doesn't mean much. But here he really rocks in a comically ridiculous way. And where did I watch this (you already said it was in the hotel) ((yes yes I know)) you might ask? In one of those massage chairs. Add to that the hotel has free shoe shine service and my shoes actually look one shade of black its been a nice few days minus one thing (bonus points if you can guess what the one thing is)

So see? Its not all doom and gloom. (it'll probably rain this weekend)

ahhh crap.

ugh, sick tired and beat the hell up. been a while since i felt so sick that i have trouble breathing from time to time. one more day to go till i can go home, then next week im in virginia. joy.

ughhhh

Mondays Suck, I can say this especially after the Monday I had but I also have many Mondays of experience to draw upon for a thorough analysis if need be. Between my media hard drive going under due to a Seagate screwup, missing the train by 3 minutes, having a cabbie try to take me to 115 and 5th not 115 5th, it gets better when I get to wait over an hour for a train that doesn't leave NYC due to a "police action". Lovely. So Ill eventually get home tonight at I'm assuming 9, with enough time to get my crap together for a flight to Milwaukee for the rest of the week.

If my back feels the way it does for the rest of the week I have a feeling I'm going to go over the dosage of aleve.

Oh yeah, my "doctor" sucks too.

rant over.

Wow, I really need to write more here. ( it continues.. )

need sleep.
probably wont get sleep.
dont want to give seminars tomorro...... this morning.
screeeewwwwwed.

So here I am in Ithaca, NY. Its cold and Grey… But in some ways its quite beautiful up here in the middle of nowhere. On the plus side the hotel is kinda nice and it has more channels than most of the hotels I stay in…. too bad there’s nothing on TV to actually watch. Besides that there’s a starbucks and an Irish pub connected to the hotel. I’m crossing my fingers for cider, I could use that about now as my back is killing me.

Works been meh with the constant running around with not much of an end in sight and I’m actually getting sick of looking at my laptop. I’ve just started playing with the alpha versions of next years products so that’s cool at least.

Anyhoo this has been an interesting trip so far, as well as the weekend preceding it. And so far its been kind of a mixed bag, some good, some driving me insane.. and some just pissing me off.
( it continues.. )

Well I'm in the train again coming home and working most of the way back, both on my things and the offices. I have to admit though, its kinda cool to be using my laptop, connected online via my phone, working on clients files wile working on my dvr computer at home all at the same time.

My only gripe is I have so many little side things I want to do and either don't have time for them or when I do have time they are the last thing I feel like dealing with. My goal is to get several of them taken care of in the next two weeks. I'm figuring the easy ones will be the ones I don't really need to be home for, since I'm back in Florida next week. I guess by putting them up here Ill amlost be guilted into getting them done.. yeah I don't know either.

Anyway I figure I should be able to get the dvr sorted to the point where I wont be futzing with it for a while, and start to learn .net programming. Id also like to get my unread work emails under 50. Those should be relatively easy, getting a dentist appt for myself and the kitties (preferably not the same place) shouldn't be hard except for finding an available day. Same thing for taking one the exams for the ARE. The hard one would be getting the Scorpion running again, stop laughing Ang, I can her you from here ;)

oh well, who knows. mayby it really does want to run...

heh, I'm all ready to post about how the trip has been annoying so far and I notice the last post I made was pretty much the same.... hmm going to have to change this trend I think.

That said Im still going to bitch, but then I'll get to the normal or other things That may or may not be ( interesting to you. )

So here I am in a hotel once again. The trip only partially sucked, although I found out that the hotel I'm in is the one that I diddnt want to be in. I now have a lovely view of the construction at the Airport and unless I take a cab somewhere I'm living on room service for the week. Yip-fukin-ee.

So its been a "fun" Monday, at least the client down here is cool, and the DVR I built is working, since as usual the channels I watch aren't on the tv in the hotel. Kinda cool watching the transformers episodes from down here though.

Well on the interesting side Ive just noticed there was a movie made in 2001 called Dagon based on a H.P. Lovecraft story playing on SciFi. Not sure if Ill watch the whole thing but its definitely something to see on a slow day.

On a more sad and interesting note has anyone else been following how the Church of England is bitching because there is a video game set in an alternate reality where humans are fighting off an alien race and there happens to be a scene that takes place in a famous landmark that happens to be a church.

http://www.joystiq.com/2007/06/16/church-of-england-thanks-sony-for-apology-its-not-enough/

If I needed one more reason to be sick of sonys business practices, cowtowing to a whiney church who wants a "substantial donation" is a good one. Ugh.

Well after seeing that Raf ended up as the Misfits I had to try this out. I cant say I'm disappointed. I would just have to preface this with, This should mean the old Metallica. You know, back when they actually were cool and badass and not whiny and trying to find themselves.

Link: The If you were an 80's metal band Test written by Kidfromthe80z on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the The Dating Persona Test

52 Gaming Similes To Describe Your Relationship
http://www.mathewkumar.com/2007/04/10/320/

I just had to share this..

Even the ones in the comments are hilarious:
"Duck Hunt: You’re not much to look at and I probably wouldn’t normally bother but DAMN you’re fun when I’m drunk."

So its been a while… hmm where to begin… well on the plus side I haven’t seen any tentacles reaching out of the darkness towards me recently.

So basically its been a long friggen time since the last post. Didn’t mean it to happen and I’ve had many a post written up in my head that “I’m gonna write that up later tonight once I get done with this…” and either I didn’t get done with whatever I was doing or I just didn’t remember/ have the energy to think and write. The holidays were really nice and I thoroughly enjoyed being with Mo and her family as they are just as insane as mine. So things went smoothly and there was much rejoicing… and some explosions. Ahh the sounds of merriment at the holidays… “watch this……. BANG!! Heh, wasn’t supposed to just explode like that..”
I honestly cant wait till July 4th between the yearly gathering with my old fencing buddy where a wrestling match eventually takes place and the possible explosions with relatives it should make for fun times. But anyway, back to the past.

The past few months have been interesting at work, with me getting grinded up to finish a series of events that we were going to run. Unfortunately the team had little to no time to actually get the work done and the majority of it was on my plate. In some ways I prefer this as I then have the control to make sure its done the way I want it. But I would have liked to have had the time to be able to have others more involved. As it was I only had one other person to really make the content with me. As the events came and went my desire to strangle and kill became slightly… err more pronounced. I had gotten sick from running myself ragged and wasn’t very pleased about that as well as the amount of my own free time I had to blow to get the work done.
In the end I know my work is appreciated and they try to take care of me. In fact they sent Mo out to Cali with me on this last run so we could actually see each other for a few days. That was really nice. Its kinda interesting out here, it’s a weird feeling driving through a city intersection where you can see the top of a sky scraper at eyelevel and you cant see the road you’re driving on because its falling away from you. Nice city though, I still say I don’t think I could live here, but its definitely a nice place to visit and will check out a few other places the next time I’m out here… which will be in two weeks. ug. And next week I have to fly to Florida, ug. But after this run is done I might get to stay in one state for a little while…. I hope. I’m going to be training one of the new hires to do much of the work I’m currently doing so I can concentrate on more advanced topics and issues. Hopefully a side effect of this will be I can stay near home more often.

So at the moment I’m stuck in an airport waiting for a delayed flight home. Of course since I don’t get in till morning Ill be stopping by the office for a while before I get to go home so I can take care of some things before I collapse. And since mother nature is still on crack my hope of getting to finally ride my bike this weekend is dashed in the snow. Hopefully Ill be able to get that out soon and then get the car running again before Carlisle comes around. So before this gets too long (too late) Ill sign off and try to post more often as I think it can be somewhat therapeutic…

I just hope no one snores on the plane…. I would prefer to not get arrested for trying to “fix” their problem….