Rollingskull

So all day at work I was thinking about things I wanted to write about once I got home…. you know a hard day of working on PACS Stuff will do that to you. I get home… I have a beer… and now I’m drawing a blank.

I think that the drive home is relaxing me to much.

That or having a pitch black beer that is not guiness on a empty stomach was not the best thing that I could have done.

Either way… I can’t think of anything to talk about other then that damned my space site. Though I did find my Field Engineer from Kingman when we were installing the PACS system up there. It was good to see that she is doing well.

Actually Kingman has come up in alot of discussions this week at work with regards to PACS systems and coworkers at SHC getting ready to leave. It’s kind of funny, when you are working at a place every one makes it sound like the world will come to a screaching halt if anything would happen to you. That was the feeling that I got from some folks when my decsion to leave KRMC was made public. Other people seemed to care less.

6 months later… I know I made the right choice (yeah like it was really that hard). I’ve found that I really didn’t think about KRMC almost at all in the last 6 months and it’s only been this week that people have activly brought it up in conversation. It’s odd to talk about KRMC in the past tense so dismissvley. I guess the really surprising part is that the only contact I’ve had with KRMC has been the X-ray department. Which considering that is where I basically spent my last year I guess it’s not that surprising.

It was no secret that I was unhappy. I don’t know if it was Kingman or if it was KRMC. Part of me thinks it was one… the other part thinks it was the other… and yet a third part thinks it was both things. I know that there are loose threads from my former life there that will never be cleaned up. I think about those threads from time to time too. They are just that though… threads… threads makeup the cloth of the person (hey that’s pretty good I should drink and write more often) Eventually those couple of loose threads will get woven into the cloth and they will just be apart of my life instead of dangling out there for me to look at glaringly every time I think about her.

Catharsis? I don’t think I really have one at this time… actually I don’t even know if I know what “Catharsis” is… I know has something to do with the projection of emotions or feelings onto something else.

There is something else that has happened since I moved… that whole thoughts and feelings things… holy crap that next thing you know I will taking about retirment plans and what I would like to do as a small venture capital firm.

Oh no… I’ve grown up…

ROOT BEER!

I was at the safeway down the street from my house yesterday and I’m going through the aisles I’ve gotten all of the stuff on my list now I’m seeing if there is anything that just strikes me as a gotta have it item. And there in the junk food / soda aisle is the greatest root beer ever devised by man.

Henry Weinhards Draught Style Head Root Beer. Seriously this is the best root beer in the world. think of it as a micro brew of root beer! Weinhards is to A&W what Fat Tire is to Coors!

Wow how about that last posting… never before have I gotten that many responses… which really is kind of sad… I talk about alot of diffrent random things who would have that a post about myspace would generate that much chatter.

So things to not talk about with people
Politics
Religion
Pizza
My Space

I guess I should also add to that list “mythbusters” is it really true or not. Lets face that one though it is all very true!

So tonight I’m in something of a confessional mood… and I don’t know how some of you are going to take this…

Some of you may abondon me others of you may find a new way to connect with me.

I have had a addiction for a while now and I’m just now coming to terms with it… No it’s not gaming… anyway that’s not an addiction it’s a way of life.

Somewhere along the line I became addicted to myspace… sad I know.

Other people have problems with drugs, cars, alcohol, nicotine, the list goes on.

What are my addcitions… Freaking social websites and LINUX.

I really have to wonder where my parents screwed up… by all counts I should be on the 3rd marriage and have barely gotten out of high school… nope not me… had no problem getting through high school and college. Not married no kids… just a bunch of computers.

Somedays I confuse myself… today is one of those days… I’m done now go talk amongst yourselves while I go play a game…

Just some food for thought there….

So what do I think of living in the valley 6 months after moving down?   Well the traffic bites, but I knew that walking into it.  Other then that I have no complaints.  Which I have to say is really a first for me.  Normally by now I’m bitching about something.  Nope not a thing.   Just traffic, and lets face it when you move to any city traffic is almost always a given.

Something on a bit more personal note.  A person I have known for several years now has had a rather large tragedy occur in her life.  It was rather sudden and really no one saw it coming.   I find the whole situation interesting… this person was basically abandoned by every one they knew as a direct result of their significant other.  I always tended to float on the outskirts of the circle of friends along with a couple of other folks and knew them more from their brother then anything else.  I didn’t so much abandon as faded into the background.  Point is I wasn’t around and have been watching the events unfold from a somewhat impartial view of the 3rd person.

Anyway getting back to the subject at hand I’ve been watching this situation over about the last week now.  Not through email or gossip but from first person accounts on blogs.  It’s a different way to watch someone deal with a great loss in their life.  As blogging becomes more and more prevalent through what is effectively the geezer generation on the Internet my observation has been that the blogs have become less personal and more on selling one’s self to the outside world. I don’t know if it’s because there are more people out there doing the blogging thing or if it’s because I’m reading the wrong blogs I don’t know.   Where am i trying to get to in all of this?  I really don’t know.

Interesting observations but, it’s to early to really be making much sense of anything really and I can’t pass a personal judgement on anyone for they anything that they may or may not have done until after I have taken a good long look at myself.

You know there is a lot to be said for prep work. Prep work in all aspects of life… home, job, night out with friends. Yes a little time investing in drinking water and eating some food goes a long way to making sure that you don’t feel craptastic the next day.

So this is 2006? I’m still waiting for the meal in a pill and the moon base with a black monolith… that was supposed to show up what? 5 years ago? I guess that is what you get when you get people from 35 years ago writing about what life was supposed to be like 5 years ago. We still have a shot at a Soviet / American stand off in the Pacific over something… what do you mean the Soviets aren’t around anymore? They have been gone for 15 years? Where have I been?

Thank god we have the Xbox 360… you know don’t spend to much money on cancer research and working on a cure for aids. But really we need Hi-Def games in our homes.

I knew I should have taken the red pill.

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Having lived in small towns up until 6 months ago I never really had a concept of the “Christmas Shopping Season” until this year. Before this year my concept was… there were alot of people on the weekends and the weekdays were a little heavy. Turns out the weekdays are almost as bad as the weekends. Holy crap it took me 45 minutes to get out of Best Buy last night.

I don’t mind Best Buy, but I don’t love it either.

Anyway… yesterday Serenity was released on DVD. I know you all saw it and all already own it. (If you don’t stop reading NOW and go buy it!). Anyway I thought I would go to Target and buy Serenity since I needed to get a few other things and didn’t want to deal with best buy. Well turns out that target is a mad house this time of year as well. But that is beside the point.

I find my way back to the DVD’s…. find the New Releases… and there is a giant hole in the new releases and I don’t see Serenity. I look at the tag… the hole belongs to Serenity. Well that makes me feel good, lots of people have already bought serenity… I however have not and I must own it.

I bring my mind into focus… I must venture to the dreaded… BEST BUY! *que ominous like music*

I goto Best Buy… it’s busy as all get out…. I find my way to the New releases… they have Serenity!

Only 3 copies…

2 of them full screen….

1 Widescreen…

I snatch one of them.

And with that I got the last Widescreen copy of Serenity in my area. I’m proud of myself and I know more will come in.

good times… good times.

On the drive into work this morning Nine Inch Nails came on the radio.
I like NIN and I’m sure I’ve written about them before… Their current album is pretty good. Nothing ground breaking but defintly harder then
most of the stuff that is out there. Now when you think of NIN who do
you generally think of ?

Trent Reznor….

Trent Reznor is NIN, and so there I was sitting in my truck driving up the 101 and I had the next thought. “Is ‘Trent Reznor’ his real name?”
Really think about it, the name flows off of the tounge yet it sticks in your mind… I don’t know I think that the name is made up personally.

Parents name their kids things like “Jack Johnson” or “Jack Black”

I don’t know I may be totally off base with this one or I might be right on but at either rate I think I have entirely to much time to think each day when I’m driving.

“I don’t know what I ever did before I had a computer Tommy”

What my grandfather said to me when I told him that I had his computer fixed and was shipping it back to Kingman.

He’s only in his early 80’s and was in his mid 70’s when we bought his first computer… Incidentally when he bought his first computer it was better then the one I had at the time which caused me to go out and buy a new one about 4 months later… that computer is still sitting in my closet since I can’t bring myself to throw it away. That and I’m not sure whats on it since I haven’t used it since college.

The first computer my parents bought was because my mother saved the money teaching a side class. The original computer purchase was quashed by my father when he got mad at me for spending $200 on a Super Nintendo (my own money no less!) and as a matter of principal wouldn’t buy a computer. He said something to the effect of “Why should I buy a computer for the kids… it will just become another video game machine” WOW now if that isn’t fore shadowing I don’t known what is.

I really don’t like typing in M$ Word, it interferes with my natural writing style. Which is to use lots of “…” and basically mangle the English language in anyway I see fit. I least I’m not doing comma splices like I did back in school.

Actually grammar has never been my strong suite, English was my weakest of the core subjects in school. Which is odd since the guidance counselors always wanted to put me in the advance classes and I always was working to keep up with the regular classes. I guess 90% of appearing smart is knowing what classes to take to make you look that way to everyone else.

For the record, I consider my self to be slightly above average in intelligence…. But higher then average in my Role Playing Skills and Hand Eye coordination.