• I fixed pennyhero.net! omg! (and made two posts! omgx2!)
• I found, registered, and started Networking Essentials class
• I started Intermediate drawing (photos of art at some point soon)
• Holy crap exchanged facebook emails with a cousin I haven’t seen in something like 18 years!
• I’ve danced every day because I’m not playing WoW

On the to-do list for the rest of the quarter:

• Upgrade website to wordpress 2.7 and get a theme that plays nice with sub-categories Done!
• Finish reading Finding Time and End of the World Blues
• Lose 5-10lbs (i.e. work out and eat less.)
• Finish Metroid Prime III (ow this game hurts my wrist) and Zelda TP
• Get back in touch with some friends and try to go hang out with them more (you’ll know who you are shortly)
• Go to the Oregon Brewers Festival
• Go visit my mom in Utah looks like this will be next quarter.
• Go to the dentist
• Dance every day because I’m not playing WoW!

If you’re curious why I took a break, all the usual reasons apply: I wanted to focus on “real life” and get a healthier perspective on things… fix some priorities, get back into reading for fun and drawing again.

The first week of the break was everything I hoped it would be; I was super energetic and happy to have all kinds of free time. I kicked serious butt at work, I read half of an ENTIRE BOOK, and started on a second one. I did all the research into taking advantage of education benefits at work, signed up for one class (lined up a second one too) and started attending, and I got brave and asked my manager if my “I feel like a slacker at work” feelings were visible to anyone else besides me (No, he said they weren’t.).

However, now the honeymoon is over and I’ve got to make a conscious effort to keep working at fixing my brain. I know there’s a real chance I’ll get sucked into some other addiction… Even “reading the internet” can be a dangerous activity for someone like me. But at least I’m conscious of it and actively working to refocus my sanity. There’s hope. :)

Anyway… time for sleep.

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There was this guy see.
He wasn’t very bright and he reached his adult life without ever having learned “the facts”.
Somehow, it gets to be his wedding day.
While he is walking down the isle, his father tugs his sleeve and says,

“Son, when you get to the hotel room…Call me”

Hours later he gets to the hotel room with his beautiful blushing bride and he calls his father,

“Dad, we are the hotel, what do I do?”

“O.K. Son, listen up, take off your clothes and get in the bed, then she should take off her clothes and get in the bed, if not help her. Then either way, ah, call me”

A few moments later…

“Dad we took off our clothes and we are in the bed, what do I do?”

O.K. Son, listen up. Move real close to her and she should move real close to you, and then… Ah, call me.”

A few moments later…

“DAD! WE TOOK OFF OUR CLOTHES, GOT IN THE BED AND MOVED REAL CLOSE, WHAT DO I DO???”

“O.K. Son, Listen up, this is the most important part. Stick the long part of your body into the place where she goes to the bathroom.”

A few moments later…

“Dad, I’ve got my foot in the toilet, what do I do?”

I’m not really sure if this is spam, or a real person. Maybe it’s a spammer who sends out jokes ahead of spam links so that schmucks like me approve the comment, getting themselves on wordpress comment whitelists, and then they flood the web with really spammy links that get auto-approved.

If this is true, I’m screwed because I approved the comment. Oh woe is all of the internet. Shame shame shame on me. :)

What’s happened to me since my last post? Here it is in ROUGHLY chronological order:

• I got the job.
• I moved to Mountain View
• Had a Bad Person come to my apartment and had to call the police
• Had my car broken into and my stereo stolen
• I met some friends from HDK in person
• I moved OUT of my Mountain View apartment for safety reasons
• Got my car partially fixed (Thank you Shadowfox!)
• Polvi moved down here finally
• Polvi and Friends and I went to Palo Alto and poked Facebook
• Went to a SMASHING PUMPKINS CONCERT

I’m generally having a good time at my new location and my new job. Making new friends, traveling some. I went back to Oregon once for our family reunion, which was awesome.

So in short: life is good, even when your car gets broken into.

My next short-term goals are to finish doing all the official things related to moving (like registering my car… I wonder how bad the fine/fee will be). I still have a set of shelves to build and pictures to hang up, and such.

We’ll see how that goes.