posted 2004/07/28 at 11:18
Tree: Again, thank you so much. You have no idea how much I needed that.
Mom: Happy birthday.
For the rest of you: cute kittens.
posted 2004/07/25 at 03:21
Okay everyone, a few weeks back I had hinted that some big changes were going to come to the .org. I can now say that those changes were going to entail installing Movable Type on here, now that it offers authenticated commenting via TypeKey, and removing the .forum (since it was mostly intended for commenting purposes and has pretty much died a slow death this past year). That was the plan, anyway.
But now things have changed. First of all, I didn't want to go through the rigamarole it would have taken to move all my archives to Movable Type. Second of all, MT isn't free anymore, and I'm trying to save my money for more important stuff. The most important thing, though, is that I've finally gotten .forum fixed so that new members can register. So if you've been wanting to comment on the .forum but haven't been able to create an account for yourself, you have no excuse now. Hopefully we can get an infusion of blood into the .forum now, and get it more active again. (That means for those of you who are already registered, go post something already!)
posted 2004/07/23 at 04:59
Dammit, dammit, dammit. I swear, for the past three hours I've just been here in my room, trying to get myself up to doing something, anything. Granted, I'm coming off an illness here where I pretty much had to conserve my energy by limiting my actions extremely, but physically I'm feeling a bit better -- I should be back to a normal DDR schedule sometime next week -- and mentally I think I'm pretty close to 100%. But I just try to get going on something, even a small thing like putting my clean clothes away, and I just can't commit to it. Seriously, this is really maddening, and I don't know how this is going to get fixed but it needs to get fixed fast because I've got a lot of stuff I need to get to.
posted 2004/07/22 at 05:51
New on Backwash: "Better Not Said". Basically my take on the proliferance of "leet-speak" and improper grammar online, as well as further thoughts on the kinds of things that I've heard people younger than me saying. I'm getting pretty fucking crotchety here, aren't I?
posted 2004/07/21 at 23:08
I'll have a new Backwash column in a few days here; for a while there even trying to type something intelligent up was enough of a struggle while I was sick ("So why start now, Sean?" "SHUT UP."), but I'm finally getting my head clear enough to feel good about writing stuff. There's just other stuff I've got to get written before I can get back to Backwash.
Oh, and happy birthday, Chantelle. Whatever you're up to now, I hope you're having fun -- and not as sick as I am right now. *cough cough*
posted 2004/07/20 at 23:39
I really should be reporting this over on the diet log, but I tried DDR again earlier tonight and it's still messing me up. It's infuriating enough that I would get a cold like this in the middle of freaking summer, but normally I have these things pretty well shaken by this point. At this rate, I don't know when I'll be able to diet and DDR again, and it's driving me batty.
I mean, this summer's pretty much sucked, but at least I had my weight loss and my DDR. Now it's just ... like this past week has been a waste. And it feels like things will keep being a waste for the next few days. Gah.
posted 2004/07/17 at 22:33
So yeah, I'm still real sick here. Not as bad as I was a few days ago, but if I'm not feeling well enough to DDR, well, that's just not well enough, is it? I feel like I can leave the house if I need to, and in fact I may go out shopping later tonight just so I can get out of the house and get some fresh air (it'll be a mild night here in Toledo). But still, if you saw the stuff that's coming out of my mouth and nose right now -- oh, you weren't eating dinner, were you? Oops.
I suppose the worst part of all of this is just how I feel like I've wasted the past week, just doing what I could to distract myself from all my head troubles while suffering from a severe lack of energy. I only got a decent night's sleep for the first time earlier today, and it's just now that I'm actually feeling mentally alert enough to do stuff like drive.
posted 2004/07/14 at 22:22
So, yeah, if you haven't been keeping track of my diet log, I'm so sick right now it's not funny. I mean, seriously, I haven't gotten more than ninety minutes of continuous sleep in the past two and a half days, and while things have gotten better, I'm still seriously wiped out.
See, what happened is that Sunday I woke up and was showering, and for the past few weeks I'd been having a bit of sinus trouble when I woke up. I could usually just cough it up, though, so I tried that. Only it felt like I coughed too hard, and there was this little one millimetre-round piece of bloody tissue I hacked up. I had a bit of throat trouble after that, but I didn't think it was that bad.
Monday I wake up and have a sore throat, and I think it's just whatever I did the day before. But then my sinuses kick into overdrive, and I know something's bad.
Since then my throat's gotten alternatively better and worse, I've been producing more mucus than I thought was humanly possible, and earlier this afternoon in the shower I was coughing up this brown stuff that's just -- yeesh.
So yeah, most of the past three days or so I've just been watching TV, bouncing around various Web sites, just trying to distract myself from all this garbage in my head. The ironic part is that I haven't played any video games at all; it's almost like I've forgotten about every other video game since DDR came into my life. But it also feels like I don't count DDR as a video game, since I see it more as a fitness tool at this point. I don't know. But if I don't get to feeling better here soon, I may go insane. Seriously.
posted 2004/07/11 at 22:49
Quick question: why didn't some right-wing asshole get the idea to make a bunch of those flags you stick to you car, except set at half-mast, after Reagan died? Aren't capitalist pigs supposed to think of stuff like that?
Oh, and happy birthday, Heather.
posted 2004/07/10 at 03:40
You know, it won't be my day off my diet until I wake up tomorrow, but I swear, right now I just want to stay up until the breakfast places open up and I can get some french toast. You really needed to know that, didn't you?
So I haven't had much to say lately. I'm fucking depressed, deal with it.
posted 2004/07/08 at 02:42
Did you know that if you Google "alton brown sucks", you get no results?
We should all really do something about that ...
posted 2004/07/07 at 05:10
So after a full night of working on my father's busted computer, not to mention $70 I had to shell out to get Norton SystemWorks on his computer, I am ... nowhere. Oh sure, he'll bitch at me all day about the porn sites I visit, and yet who's the one who comes down with the major virus infestation? Him! And who gets roped into fixing all his messes? Me!
Okay, I need sleep now. I swear, though, if he wakes me up in the middle of the morning telling me to look at something, I'm just going to scream at him until his ears bleed.
posted 2004/07/06 at 18:18
I keep forgetting the most obvious addition to Sean's Shit List in recent days: the readers of GameFAQs.com, who this year didn't even nominate Aeris Gainsborough for the Character Battle. Just to give you an idea of how fucked up it is this year, CATS is one of the contestants. As in "All Your Base" CATS. Yeah.
I really, really do not want to leave the house right now to go exercise, simply because I do not want to deal with people. Any people. But since my Cobalt Flux is busted, and I don't want to do yoga, I'll pretty much have to go out here. And it's too damn hot to go walking in Wildwood, where I might have been able to scout out some side-trails and get some privacy. Crap.
posted 2004/07/04 at 06:05
New on Backwash: "The Space Between". Yeah, in case any of you couldn't tell, this isn't just my usual exceedingly high level of depression at work here; I don't think I've hit this low in forever.
So yeah, how about them Tigers, huh?
Fuck me.
posted 2004/07/02 at 13:45
Okay, let's add some more to Sean's Shit List here:
The people at The N for obscene and ridiculous censorship of their repeats of Daria. The network where one of the teenagers from Degrassi can say "go to hell" in a commercial that runs thirty times over the course of one hour of watching The N, but Jane Lane can't say it during a show. On top of this, all of the showings of Daria are well into the evening when the little'uns have long since snuck off to bed, so I don't think there are any ears to be traumatized when Daria utters the phrase, "sandwich on my ass".
The University of Toledo, for making me get up before noon today to go in and fill out some paperwork. What part of the phrase "summer vacation" don't they understand?
And Tommy's Used Cars in Chadron, Neb.
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