06-AUG-2010 :: Creeped-Out / Finger
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I am totally
creeped-out ... This morning I tried to go to bed at about 1am and
could not sleep. My mind would just not shut off. It kept recalling
events long forgotten from St Catherine's school. I got up several
times to have a ciggarette, and Just past 5am I decided I had to get up
and try once again to search for information about my biological
father. Even before I typed his name into Google, I
*KNEW* it would finally give
me information about him, and that it would be his obituary. He died 13
days ago.
The Obituary had enough information I knew already to confirm who it
was, as well as a lot of other information I never knew about him.
(Including the names of my half-siblings.)
I thought about leaving a comment in the guest book, but decided
against it. Save for the one uncle, I don't think these people know I
exist and I have no wish to hurt them or tarnish their memory of their
father... but I am really creeped out by it all.
FINGER NEWS: It's been two and a half weeks since my bicycle accedent.
The left ring finger no longer feels like it's being cut off but is
still a little sore, although I can type with it again now.
29-JUL-2010 :: Bicycle
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I finally went off
the deep end and bought a bicycle. I had been threatning to do it for
some time, and Ray bought one about a month ago after hearing me talk
about it.
For the record... the old saying about not forgetting how to ride a
bicycle is aparently true. Even though it has been almost 40 years
since I last rode one, I was able to. (Even if a little wobbly.)
I have also had my
first crash (and injury.) I was trying to make a U-Turn on a dead-end
street and misjudged the angle of the turn. I thought I was going to
run into the bushes at the side of the street so was braced to push off
from them when the bike went into the rain gutter and suddenly stopped.
Of course you can't keep your balance on a bike when stopped, and I was
braced the wrong way. I landed on my left side with the bike on top of
me and ended up with a skinned shin and a badly sprained finger. (DAM
that HURT!)
In other news, my daughter Anna has disapeared again. We were playing
DDO when she litteraly disapeared. She had mentioned she was planning
to move in with some friends in Long Beach (CA) which I wasnt too
thrilled about ... which aparently she did.
04-MAY-2010 :: General Update
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It has been a bit
strange sleeping in an actual bed. Especially one with actual linens
and everything. Thinking back, I don't think I have had a bed since I
was at St.Catherines when I was 9 years old.
I have been
working very hard on several things. Last month I programmed a whole
new mail server for rexx.com from scratch.
But the better
news is that I am working on a new scenery. This time for Aerosoft's
City Bus Simulator. They released their sim with scenery for New York's
M42 route. I am working on scenery for Los Angeles which should be done
in about 3 months or so.
15-APR-2010 :: Bedroom
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I did indeed
deck out the other half of my bedroom this month, and had a couple of
adventures doing so. This is really the first time I have "decorated"
rather than just shoving in whatever was found at the goodwill thrift
store cheap.
Not to say I
didn't bargain hunt. In fact, my bargain hunting is what
caused one of the adventures. Leave it alone to say I won't be shopping
online at Walmart again.
So here is the
bedroom I managed to put together for myself. (The desk is just off the
left side of this picture.) The bed is a modern "platform bed" by south
shore, the matress is from Ikea (and designed for a platform bed so it
dosent need a foundation or box spring.) There is a feather-bed/matress
pad and full sheets in addition to the matching comforter and curtains.
I had an
interesting experiance with the matress too. Ikea shipped it via UPS by
squishing it flat then rolling it up. It kind of caught me off guard
when I punctured the plastic bag it was in and the thing started
expanding. I found myself trying to get the plastic off it before it
was damaged but I was laughing so hard because all I could think of was
the 1950's "just add water" joke. I must have been quite a sight.
20-FEB-2010 :: Furniture
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I finally found
time to update my news pages; I have never been good at keeping
a journal. Not that too much exciting has happened to me over the past
several months.
Last week I decided it was finally time to work on getting furniture
for the house, now that I have recovered a bit from moving and buying
the house (and have my credit card mess somewhat under control.)
The first step HAD to be to move my personal computer out of my office.
That was always the intention, to have a separate office/work area and
bedroom/personal space. (I also wanted to be able to not have to keep
disassembling my flight-sim controls to be able to work.)
After quite a few hours browsing online looking for everything I
needed. The result was a Cyborg workstation:
I am planning to finish my bedroom next month (or perhaps in April,
depending on my finances.) After that I want to get a new office desk,
then do the dining room and kitchen. I haven't really decided exactly
what to do with the living room or family room, but I have already
picked out a bed frame and nightstands for my bedroom.
I guess I just want to FINALLY have a real home again. And I'm getting
too old to sleep on the floor :|
WAMBLYVILLE NEWS: I have taken Wamblyville BBS offline, permanantly. No
one was using it and it was just wasting electricity and my time.
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