Good Morning, 2010! The Princess' Diary Intarwebs Edition

[Luther Lansfeld]

Go see it in 3D, girl. It'll be awesome.

[Cotigo]

Went to Denver, saw LCD Soundsystem.  Spent a lot of money, drove for 15/48 hours.  Worth all of it.

[Lady Door]

Things that have made today awesome before 9am:

1) I ran for 20 minutes without stopping for the first time in, like, ever. And it felt -good-.
2) It's FRIDAY.
3) It's raining! Yay for fall.
4) Because it's raining, my lameness for going to Starbucks for breakfast has turned into awesomeness: I get to have hot chocolate and a pumpkin scone for breakfast while it's chilly and rainy outside.
5) Andrew had last night off, so he took the dog for a long walk this morning so I didn't have to.
6) I got to sleep in an extra 30 minutes.
7) It's pay day, and I have 5 hours of overtime.

I'm now at work, so the awesomeness is likely to sharply decline, but I'll consider that a great start and try to run with it.

EDITED AFTER WORK: Nope! Still mostly awesome day. Adding to it: I finagled myself into the "company blog manager" position, so woot for that! Less woot is still having to go through the bureaucratic gauntlet when trying to do things. Oh well. Tinkering with web stuff is fun times.

[Bardiche]

I can't access Google.

What.

[Idun]

Fucking hell, it's not even in 3D.


/slitwrist

[DjinnAndTonic]

Really? Now I'm actually interested. 3D shit always feels gimmicky and pointless to me. But I've never regretted seeing a movie in IMAX. There's actually a noticeable difference in quality. A positive difference.

[Lady Door]

Soooooo the power was out from about 2:30 until 8:45. That was really boring. :| The exciting part is that the emergency lights only stayed on for an hour, so the hallways and stairwells were pitch black. The leasing office didn't even bother to check with PG&E re: expected restoration of service; when I asked them what PG&E said, they sounded annoyed and said they were "in the same position I was," and I should call them myself. This, after I asked if they had an answer for the dangerously dark hallways and stairwells. The answer was "Nope."

Then they left for the day (at 4, when they normally close at 6) and posted a note on the door that said as much, and to call PG&E for info.

Gee, thanks.

[superaielman]

Had nothing to read? Also, that is some quality service you got.

Got virulently sick this morning. It's just terrible timing, as I had a physics test that I missed and have a ton of things to do today. I'd honestly rather have had that yesterday, at least I would have had the time to get better.

[AndrewRogue]

Look DL, I'm a pro-writer now.

I'll repost it shortly >_>

[DjinnAndTonic]

Yeah, you have to get rejected a lot to get accepted somewhere. I wouldn't worry too much. Just keep submitting to places. It's time-consuming, sure. But if it's what you love, it's worth it, right?

[Shale]

Also, I'd just like to point out that only suffering comes from New Jersey.

[Hunter Sopko]

What'd I ever do to you, Shale?

[Grefter]

My connection is being completely fucked at the moment, looks to be a network issue most likely, might be a bit intermittent in chat for a while.  Currently I can't keep a consistent connection to any internet service.  Can browse slowly, nothing wrong with our hardware, done all your normal trouble shooting there.  Can't even connect to IRC at the moment even though it worked just before I last rebooted the modem.

So fucked.

[Idun]

Worked 10AM-11PM yesterday. I needed the money. Or at least, the additional money that taxes would have taken away. Laying in bed all day now.

[Captain K.]

Passed my state exam to be a Journeyman Electrician.  Wootness.

[superaielman]

Congrats!

Power brick on my laptop died. SHIT

[Idun]

Congratulations ! ! ! CK! YAY~


Dear OK,

I haven't heard from you in a year, and our baby is sick. I will be in Philly December 1st, as that is a Wednesday where the majority of professors for an AH program will be available for a campus visit at UDel. I know you will be prepping for a minimeet, but your child would like to see you for once. "Where is daddy OK mommy?" I can't keep him behind the curtains much longer ! ! ! I'll be willing to see you on my own accord prior to your trip. Holla at ya' gurl.

-Dooniemeister

[Scar]

A rather somber update to my buddis situation.

He is still being held up somewhere in Miami, however the mother of his child was just shot and murdered today by the hands of her ex-boyfriend.

So now his child has no parent. The court system HAS to take this into account when trying to deport him. I would hope America has some sort of decency where they want this child to have some type of parent figure in his life growing up.

[Shale]

Oh my God. That's horrible.

Not that his situation looks a bit better, but that the woman is dead and the child could end up with neither parent. Ugh.

[DjinnAndTonic]

Scar, you live in strange and scary circles.

I find it particularly worrisome since I thought you lived in Florida, near where I used to live.

I never had any friends who had troubles with murdered girlfriends and deportation and I have to wonder how you managed to get yourself into that kind of life?

I don't mean any disrespect, but your somber posts always seem like Lifetime original movies. And I personally hate having any evidence that there is even a grain of truth to anything Lifetime produces.

[Scar]

Huh?

I'd say my life is more exciting then that of the average person, but I guess we look at things differently.

I'm always positive, but this is kinda crazy. I mean this is my longest frienship and it's about to go the way of the dodo.

This story just adds even more tragedy in what was an already sad state of events. I just hope (not that I am gad this girl is dead midn you.) the courts take the fact that he is still the father of this child, and has had no reason or court limitations to his rights of parenting to possibly keep him in the states as the sole legal guardian of this child.

Then again, knowing my friend and his lack of luck, I'd guess the parents of that girl are going to try and take custody of the baby now.

The man deserves a break!

[superaielman]

He have a decent lawyer, at least?

And that entire story is terrible. I hope he gets some good news. Did they at least catch the asshole who killed the mother?

[Scar]

The guy killed the girl drove away in a rental and drove into a vacant house and killed himself.

And no lawyer that I know of.

[superaielman]

*Blinks* Seriously? He should have some kind of legal advice for a situation like this.

[Scar]

He was arrested by homeland security. What exactly can a lawyer do for him in this situation? He wasn't arrested for anything he did at the time, more like what he did in the past.