Just bought Bejeweled Twist for the DS. Couldn't resist the urge - I love the PC version.

You can see how our minds think!

Fun, fun, fun. I owe some dough and I'm owed some dough.

My mom got me and her tix to see Blue Man Group later this month. Pretty cool. It's the next day after the Alive show I'm going to check out with LD! Also, went to the bookstore this afternoon but nothing caught my eye, ended up just buying a computer mag and a really good mag about tropical fish I get that's imported from England, Practical Fishkeeping.

I've also been comparing 24" and up computer LCD monitors to replace my aging 19" Viewsonic CRT monster. Upgrading itch starting to appear....Well, that was quick. I just ordered a Samsung that got kicking good reviews. Can't wait to begin using it in a few days!

In unrelated news, for some reason the light on the hood of my 55gal fishtank is not operating properly. WTF?

Update: This is quite an upgrade! 2 thumbs up!

Update: The biggest thing is I'm shifting over to a different group at work. Still under the same general umbrella but will be reporting to a different set of folks. Also, although I'll still be involved in mapping work to a lesser degree (I am the Mapman afterall and will still do anything AutoCAD related that comes my way since I'm the only one there with a lot of experience with that or little GIS jobs here and there that pop up all the time as well as our legacy projects of which I have a lot of institutional knowledge), I will be getting more involved with various web developers to help update and maintain certain govenmental websites - making sure they're updated, optimized, complient with various rules, accessible, and so forth. It's sort of an offshoot of all the work I did over last summer to help out the blind folks. I made a good impression and the knowledge I took from that should help me in this new endeavor. A funny thing is these particular websites that I'll be dealing with this go round all basically deal with sex and venerial disease and stuff like that - a resource for people who want or need to know about things like that, like parents and their children. So most of the afternoon today was spent getting me set up to access their systems so I can make the updates and changes. It's a new direction for me but I think in the long run, it'll work out pretty good with these folks. Funny thing is it was sort of all precipatated by a collegue of mine leaving the biz, which changed the dynamics of the group I'm currently in (which we never truly synergized with overall - pretty much all did our own thing with a little project help overlap here and there but not much). I'm really sad to see him go, he was a great help to me over the years and he's an awesome dude but everything happens for a reason and it's just time to be moving onward. I like to be off and do my own thing anyway. If it doesn't work out I could probably go back but I'm going to give this a try and see how far it goes.

Wish me luck! (and LD can continue to assist me with my 'anticipatory anxiety!' I love how she knows the terms for all these various psychological events I go through at times!)

So why not?

Uhmmm, why?

Interesting PacMan Outfit

Gobble gobble!

Score!

Not sure about this one.

Now its off for some breakfast grub!

Bat Boy!

Fun fun fun!

Here's me as a manga character. You can try it out yourself here. There's other types you can try as well, such as asian and ape-like.

But I did it.

There was a weird thing that did happen to me on the trip though. A few days before the trip I drempt of a certain giant statue. Later when we drove along, I saw the exact giant statue that I saw in my dream, in a place I'd never been before and of a statue I'd never seen before except in my dream, exactly as it appeared. That really freaked me out.

It was a good trip! Oh and our presents? Well we both got many but our big ones were as follows. I got LD an authentic Gucci wallet and she got us a Suite Box to an upcoming Celtics game. Right now I'm going to assemble a tabletop foosball game LD's sister bought me!

Thanks for your support folks, I'll be back sometime around the second week of January and we'll get to do it all again!

How to win an eating contest.

Along with a couple of other tips, like amping up a laser pointer and getting around proxies.

P.S. Bang Camaro broke up. Sadness.

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Must start reading Ribbon of Sand, a book about the Outer Banks of North Carolina. An early gift from the Ladydoc to me to learn about where we're hanging out for the holidays.

Let's enter! Been playing bums!

Knight Rider Festival in Las Vegas, NV!

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Went to see Hunter Valentine at the Middle East last night - good show! Couple of pics up in a day or so. Also finished all my Xmas shopping! YAY! Today I hang in with LD and perhaps read my book on Archimedes. What a party animal I've become!

That time o' year again!

"The last thing he needs is tweets about his beets."