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Wednesday, April 28, 2004 Ouchies I threw my should out or something yesterday. Hurts like a mutherfucker. Actually, it's down my should blade towards the center of my back. If I turn too quickly, it'll flair up again. I actually couldn't sit at my desk any more and had to go home. Tine gave me some meds and, while it generally made the area better, the side effect felt like I has swallowed a bowling ball of lead. This week just isn't working out. posted by Evil Wayne | 11:38 AM 0 comments Tuesday, April 27, 2004 Would Help If I Hit Publish It appears that I forgot to hit the Publish button and the last couple of posts just sat on the server for what, a week? I'm brain dead. posted by Evil Wayne | 1:35 AM 0 comments Sunday, April 25, 2004 Oddly Disturbing I downloaded a mod for Battlefield: 1942 this weekend. Desert Combat turns the WWII FPS into a modern combat FPS based around the Iraq Conflict. I think it's more modeled on the first Gulf War. Some of it is pretty neat. You get tanks, jets, helicopters, scud missiles, all modern stuff. I particularly like the No Fly Zone maps where it's all jet combat. However, some of the other maps, the more solider vs. solider stuff takes place in cities and towns (some desert maps that are all armor) and that stuff is oddly disturbing. I didn't really notice it until this one map that pits the Coalition forces at the bottom base with a couple of Blackhawks against a town at the top. You have to take about 10 flags all within a very small area. But the Opposition (Iraqis) come from everywhere. There's no real way to fully defend an area. You take a flag and they just come at you from behind. Now, I've never been in combat. And I'm quite sure it's about a billion times more scary, but I was freaking out at how difficult it was to hold onto one area. Maybe it's because of the way the world is right now. But that map and then subsequent other ground combat maps seemed a little too real. Which is odd because why shouldn't the WWII stuff have the same effect? I mean, Omaha Beach was a hell of bloody battle, yet I look at the game version as only a pain-in-the-ass map. I don't like it because it's not fun for me. There's something disturbing about that mod. posted by Evil Wayne | 11:33 PM 0 comments Thursday, April 22, 2004 Bring the Brats to Work Today was Bring Your Kids to Work Day. But work decided to give the kids a taste of the real world. They coordinated it so the kids got "interviewed" and "hired" for jobs about the building. How odd. I mean, do they also get to experience the malaise of not being hired? "Sorry, Timmy, we're just looking for someone who doesn't eat so much paste. I mean, that's a monkey on your back kid." The kids then did jobs. I saw someone at the copy machine and heard one of them on the intercom. Oh boy. So were they also fetching coffee and proofing books? Designing a layout? How exciting can it be? Seem a little more like Slave Labor for A Day... posted by Evil Wayne | 5:40 PM 0 comments Thursday, April 15, 2004 We Have A Winner! Ron's funky fridge just refuses to be ignored and we must submit to the will that is his Chicken Void Fridge. So I've chosen Ron as the winner of the What-The-Hell-Is-In-Your-Fridge Contest You can check out the whooping two fridges I got pics for over at this contest page. I actually got three, but someone got the directions wrong and I got a pic of a door instead. Is it wrong for me to ask that directions be read? Apparently, the answer is yes. Anyway, Ron wins a digital banner and a cheap-ass fridge magnet whenever I get around to it. Congradulations Ron! Now, for the love of God, go buy some food. posted by Evil Wayne | 9:37 PM 0 comments Tuesday, April 13, 2004 Happy Birthday Atikay There's no real text that goes here, just this note that today is Atikay's birthday. And that she's 24. Holy crap, she's 24... now I feel old. Hey, Atikay, I'm listening to The Drovers. Here's a crappy drawing of a cake. And, yes, it's your gift. 
posted by Evil Wayne | 5:20 PM 0 comments Monday, April 12, 2004 Holy Cow Am I Tired. I've been burning too much time at night and just not getting enough sleep. It is finally starting to catch up to me. Today I spent a large chunck of time at work fighting off the fatigue. While waiting for something to print, I closed my eyes and felt that subtle falling-forward motion that I feel when I know it's coming. Man, was it bad. Even now, I feel really punchy while writing this. I'm not even using Word to type this, but the blogger editor. Hell, I won't even bother to spell check this one. I really have to start being better to myself. It's just not worth what I had to put with today to have and extra few minutes at night. Although, I was cataloging a Lego set that I was sure was missing pieces. I was right, a few Technic pins are missing - a real rarity for Lego. Whatever. I'm staying up for the 10 o'clock weather and that's it. I promise. posted by Evil Wayne | 9:00 PM 0 comments Wednesday, April 07, 2004 Just One Week Left To enter the What-The-Hell-Is-In-Your-Fridge Contest . You don't want people to call you a sissy do you? Snap off a pic of your fridge and email to fridge@evilwayne.com and you could win Absolutly Nothing! Good Lord, how can you let that opportunity pass you by?!? You know you're going to be kicking yourself if you don't do it. So stop reading this and surfing for porn. Grab your digital camera and take that shot! DO IT! 
posted by Evil Wayne | 1:17 PM 0 comments Sunday, April 04, 2004 Lost Time SciFi is doing some month-long miniseries event and they kick it off with a reshowing of Taken over two days. When it was originally on it was two-hours, every night for two weeks (M-F). That bad boy is 20 hours long. And don't I end up watching a huge chunk of it again! Oddly, it was easier to watch in marathon form than spread out over two weeks. I think its original run was a real commitment and I know I was happy to get my life back when it was over. But this time it just sucked me in from the moment I turned it on. I think, knowing what was going to happen was a plus this time as well. When I got to the end last time, it was slightly anti-climatic. Not terribly, but slightly. Funny how you think about something when you only get the previews and you have to take it and make up the rest so you can decide if something is worth watching. Then you watch it and it's nothing what you expected. If they do an okay job with it, you can still be disappointed that it doesn't match your inner movie. But the second time around, you know what's coming, even if you don't remember it all, but you won't be disappointed. Taken was like that this time. It was better knowing the payoff; you could see where things were going and what they were buliding towards instead of trying to guess. I know, that sounds antithetical to watching a movie. Sometimes, things get better with repeated viewings (like just about every Simpsons episode, for example). You catch things you didn't really remember from the first time around. The plot can actually come out stonger. I have to say that I think was really well done overall (duh, or I probably wouldn't have tuned in again). Regardless, I lost another 20 hours of my life but at least it was in a two chunks (well, really only 18, I missed Part 6 because of the time change). But in the end, I am just an idiot. posted by Evil Wayne | 11:26 PM 0 comments Saturday, April 03, 2004 Muthapusbucket. Okay, let's try that again. First, I finally have some time blocked to work on something and I can't locate the LAN files to work on the page. Okay, fine, they're probably downstairs and I'll get them later. So I feel the need to do something. To not blow the freakin' time here. I sequestered myself upstairs in the bedroom and am finally getting some use out of the notebook since I tucked it away in the little cocoon I put it in three weeks ago. Like that's not been a waste. But now I sit here and I don't know what to do. I want to write something but I can't really focus and now I'm starting to feel pressure to come up with something and that's stressing me out and round and round we go. I hate this crap. Then, I get through a blog entry - no, not this one; close, but no cigar. I get through one and, because I'm working in Word and I don't feel like porting over any of Microsofts Bitch Goddess code, even by accident, I get the bright idea of pasting it into notepad and then tranfer to the blog. But I cut it, then decide I was a shortcut to notepad on my QuickStart menu. So I do that and it clears the clipboard of my blog entry. Only now, because I used "Cut" instead of copy, it's gone from Word too. Garrrr... I haven't been sleeping good either. Or eating good. Or breathing good... or whatever good. It's all been downhill lately. I'm having a hard time breaking out of the funk. posted by Evil Wayne | 8:37 PM 0 comments |
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