Cream Cheese Warlords

I've been doing some fixing and the search and categories work again. I've also been thinking that this page has outlived its usefulness. Everybody who posts or comments here is on facebook and checks that more than they check here. What would everybody think about locking down this site and creating a CCW group on facebook? And by lock down, I mean all the information will still be here for nostalgia and the logins will still work if there's something you want to take down or alter, but it won't allow the posting of new comments or content.

Thoughts?

Excitebots is a mad fun game. The mouse is a surprisingly effective little car...

Happy New Year!

A toast to y'all!

MERRY CHRISTMAS Y'ALL

So who is doing what and may be back in the north country when for the christmas/new years season.

How's life?

I need a nap...

Hi everybody!

As of yesterday at 5pm, I'm unemployed. Or rather, on a forced leave of absence (called a furlough) because my company can't afford to pay me. Welcome to the world of small startups.

They put us on furlough instead of laying everybody off because there's still some hope that we'll get another round of funding. If that happens, it should be the last time: the company is doing very well. One more round should cover us until we break even and start generating our own profit. It's frustrating because we're so close to being able to stand on our own and heartbreaking because we may never get there.

But, I won't know if we have funding or not for another couple of weeks and in that time, I'm more or less unemployed. Which means anything I had planned for the future has been canceled and that includes coming home for Christmas. Who knows, maybe this whole thing will blow over in another week, but if it doesn't I'm looking at months of job interviews.

On a brighter note, it means I have absolutely no reason not to do NaNoWriMo this year.

I just saw a commercial for the 12th Wheel of Time book....made me miss you guys :p

So...any one got their holiday schedule yet?

Gotta say I watched all of 5 minutes of the debate tonight and well I can tell you what you need to know. Hoffman isn't ready to be mayor of Worth let alone in Congress, Owens doesn't have an opinion of his own, and says he needs to talk to someone about everything. Scozafavva knows what she's talking about and frankly the only one who knows anything about the area. Owens and Hoffman had no clue as to anything about the seaway and Hoffman even said that he didn't know anything about it, which if I'm gonna vote for someone to represent this area I'd hope they'd at least attempt to get to know the area before they go on tv and try and talk.

So, yesterday I was supposed to attend a premiere geek show called w00tstock. Adam Savage, Wil Wheaton and Paul and Storm are the headliners and they're joined by a few other people. But due to my procrastination, I had 30 pages of a screenplay to write and 3 days of work to do between 1am monday morning and 6am tuesday morning. I got it all done, but going to w00tstock was out of the question. As was sleep.

I'm using this as a turning point, as fuel for some good ol fashioned neuro-linguistic programming. Because of my chronic procrastination, I missed out on a once in a lifetime geek event. Now, whenever I feel like putting something off, I'm saying out loud 'w00tstock' as a bitter reminder of what procrastination leads to. It's been a good motivator so far, I hope it keeps working.

I'm also taking another look at my sleeping habits. I'm unable to sleep for more than 3 hours at a stretch and have been for the past month. This is a good recipe for walking zombie syndrome, so I decided to use the extended period of sleep deprivation to my advantage.

Who knows what the everyman polyphasic sleep cycle is?

Basically, I'm going to be sleeping for 3 hours at night and then take 3, 20 minute naps during the day. I'm taking advantage of the sleep deprivation to speed my body's transition into the new sleep cycle.

The last few time I tried this, I couldn't work out a schedule that would let me take the naps at the times they needed to be taken. But now that I live 5 minutes from the office, it's not a problem.

I'll update in another month or two to report how the whole "let's not be lazy" / "don't be tired" thing's gone, since I know how much you all love seeing me go loopy.

On a writing note, I'm still working hard on the screenplay I started back at CCA. It's changed a bit, but it still focuses on three NNY losers who accidentally get caught in a turf war between two meth smuggling Montreal crime families. Some of the bizarre elements include a fixation with Tim Hortons, a love of synchronized swimming, using showtunes as a method of torture, a slap fight bar brawl, the professional execution of a store mannequin and Quebec Separatists. I'm having a lot of fun writing it and I hope I can do something with it when I'm finished.

I also have a reading with a few members from my CCA class on November 1st. I'm writing something new for it and I'm leaning toward an urban fantasy story featuring a teenage Necromancer who can't get a date. I have 15 minutes to play with, so it should be interesting.

In other life changes, I've pretty much stopped drinking alcohol. It wasn't really planned, I've just lost my taste for being drunk. I still drink on occasion, if there are really good beers on tap or if I'm in the mood to be writerly and sit down with an old fashioned glass of good scotch. But it's become one of those "once in a blue moon" type situations, something you do purely for the enjoyment of the drink itself. And I love my old fashioned whisky glasses etched with the letters "/dev/null".

Let's see, what else? I moved again. I've been in my new place for a month. It's great in that it's really close to work and the writing studio and I know the area really well (it's the same place I lived in when I first came out to San Francisco).

So, that's my life. Lots of busy, lots of plotting and every couple of months, I move.

Now I'm getting annoyed by them, and they can be stopped. You have my whole-hearted approval to rid the world of them Lyle.

So I just heard about the Congressional race going on in NNY on NPR. I looked around a little online to see what sort of stances there were on issues in addition to what was mentioned on the radio. I'd love to read some more about positions, but of course those are incredibly difficult to find compared to poll numbers. I did find this link on labor things:
http://www.watertowndailytimes.com/article/20090830/NEWS03/308309968

Anyone have anything else?

Oddly enough, I find myself drawn to the Republican candidate to start off, Scozzafava. She was/is? assemblywomen up there. - Eh, reading more it's not as great as I might have hoped, but Owens isn't all that wonderful either. Of course either would definitely be better than Hoffman. Boo, hiss...

If you hadn't heard, McHugh is now Secretary of the Army.

So yeah I may be starting a job finally. If I get the job I will be working from home doing internet and phone company support. The good thing is that I don't have to have a land line. So no dealing with Verizon.

Also I sold my WoW account for 435 dollars.

My uncle bought a car for me so I can just pay him for it. Its a 96 but a cars a car at this point so I don't care.

I think that's about it for now. The Our Lady Peace show was amazing probably the best band I have ever seen live.

There, that wasn't too painful!

If you can see this, you're looking at the new host! If you can't, then you'll probably be seeing a lot of php errors.

Enjoy! ;)

I've put this off long enough. This is probably going to break some things, but if you see this I've locked all the database tables and I've started transfering the site to the new host. I'll post another message when the transfer is complete.

Yar, such is life for me.

Anyways, taking a break from that paperwork which is never ending to update here.

So for those who havn't picked up on exact dates and such yet...kc and I are having a wedding this year. Shall be the 27th of June in NNY. Those of you going to kenny's, keep going to kenny's, we'll see you there :p (that means you far away folk especially...no spending mucho moneys to come up twice in one summer, I mean it!) It's gonna be pretty small and family oriented. Anyone who doesn't show, we'll throw cupcakes at you through the mail to make up for it :p

That's about it for now..gotta go hunt down people and ask why they took the database passwords off the internet while I was actually attempting to work on my dissertation today...*shakes the angry fist*

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Hey everybody. I just wanted to post quick cause I had a post typed up earlier and the site ate it when I hit preview but I had an interview this morning at Bradly's Military and they offered me the design based position that they needed so I took it and will be starting there on 9/23. Its definitely a step in the right direction and I'm excited about doing it.

*cough*happybirthdayadaylatelyle*cough*