Okay, I'm thinking my sleep schedule is screwed up again. No, I'm not wide awake at 3am like I was a few months ago. I am, however, pretty awake right now at 12:28 am. Actually, I'm more awake now than I was at 6pm. I had a headache then so maybe the two are symptoms of a larger problem. I may be coming down with another cold/flu. If I am, this'll be my third this season. I feel fine now. I am a little tired but I should be at 12:31am.

I'm typing this on my room mate's PowerBook G4 whilst sitting on my bed. Wireless broadband is a nice thing. I haven't seen him since I left the house at 10:30 this morning. Since he isn't back yet, I'm thinking he may be out of town for the night. I hope he doesn't need this computer tonight or in the morning. It has a DVD in it. I hope he won't need that either. Of course, I could've typed this on my computer downstairs. But, to me, it feels more natural to blog just before going to sleep.

good night. y'all

I like Kleinfeltersville Road. Not only does it have a long name that I find strangely entertaining but it's fun to drive on. It doesn't curve very much and it isn't a straight, flat piece of road where you can drive recklessly fast. It does, however, have a section where the powerlines run along side of the road as it climbs the (small) mountain. The trees on the powerline's side are all trimmed from the ground to their tops. This gives the feeling of driving through a canyon about 60 feet deep and 30-40 feet wide. It's a strange sensation but I enjoy it.

I wish I had brought my camera, my film camera. I was leaving for PA from VA and thought about taking it. The problem was that I left it at work and I was leaving from home. I didn't want to take the extra 20-30 minutes it'd take to go get it. Besides, I had my video camera with me. Well, here I am in PA, wishing I had my good old Pentax K-1000 with me. Why? because it snowed yesterday. It was the first good snow on Christmas day in these parts in a long time. It's a pretty part of the country anyway. There are fields and barns and covered bridges and other photo friendly scenes. Now all that stuff is covered in snow and it's pretty. I drove around taking still pictures using my video camera, but it just can't capture the detail that my film camera can. *sigh*

I'm a little tired but I'm thinking about going to WalMart... around 1 or 2 am. I haven't really done much Christmas shopping yet. Yeah, it's pretty pathetic. I barely have ideas about what to get for who. It's kind of hard to write clever things and watch TV at the same time. I guess it's clear where my priorities are.

Oh, BTW, The video was a hit at the party and afterwards.

woah, the time on blogger must be messed up. The last published indicator says it's 9:03pm. On the post itself it says it was made at 5:03 am, I made the post at 12:03am. The prefs are set at -5GMT for eastern U.S.

It's too late for this sick boy to be up still. Good night.

oi, today wasn't a bad day but it had its frustrations. Most of them were computer/software related. If I were the cursing kind I fear the paint would have peeled off the walls from the verbal assult. As it was I just declared things idiotic and stupid. My voice sounds a bit different because I have a cold or something. I'm working on something that's due tomorrow by 1pm. I'm not totally happy with how it's coming out but its just a little video for a company Christmas banquet. It'll get done some how.

Hey what do you know, it snowed.

I spent most of the day inside the house. I got bored and I wanted a soda so I decided to go out around 8 or 8:30pm. It took a while to clean the crust of ice and snow off my car. I live at the bottom of a small hill on a road that hasn't been cleaned off yet. I had to back up and get just a bit of momentum before I could go up the hill. The world outside was fairly active, there were several souls driving around looking for a sense of being somewhere. The Taco Bell was closed along with several of her cohorts. I ended up at a McDonalds Drive-Thru for a Coke and a cheap chicken sandwich. Now I'm back at home typing this in and thinking of how interesting this tale would be if I were a better writer. :)

Also today I slept in, wrestled with an incooperative computer, received and installed a new CD Burner in another computer and fired some bottle rockets across the ice encrusted snow.

One of these days I might just write a rant about some opinion I'm having and you'll say, "hmmm. he has a point there."

TTYL,
Dana

It's 12:39am here in VA. I wanted to be asleep over an hour ago. I've been to bed twice already but I'm just not that tired right now. I'd blame it on the caffeine but I only had one 12 ounce can of soda today and that was for lunch. I did have several pieces of chocolate but that was over 2 hours ago. Sure, that stuff has caffein in it but it also has sugar in it. Sugar, of course, gives you a quick boost of energy but then leaves you feeling deflated. So why am I telling you this? Well, what who else am I going to talk to now? Okay, there are a few people on my IM list that are up now. I don't know. I guess I just wanted to add to the old blog. Poor poor you. You have to put up with all my drivel.

Actually, it's not uncommon for me to be up until 1 or 1:30 in the morning. I'm trying to change that a bit though. You know, Early to bed, early to rise. Etc.

Oh well... Good night. I hope you're sleeping well these days.
Dana

"Did you have a good weekend?"
That's a question I'm not eager to field, unless the weekend was somewhat unusual. A usual weekend consists of spending too much time alone watching too much TV or just playing around on a computer not really accomplishing anything. This weekend is going alright I guess. A friend and I went out and got some food, hung out a bit and then went to see a movie at the cheap theater (which happens to be the best theater in town).

Saturday, on the other hand, was much less interesting. I watched TV and surfed the web till around 11 then I got bored and went for a drive. I ended up looking around at Lowes. After that I came back home and shortly thereafter went out again and got something to eat. Ummm I'm not exactly sure what I did for the next several hours. I spent some of that on the Internet again (looking at expensive computers and customised cases... what a nerd). I was tired for a while. I eventually .... oh well... I've already given you too much detail on a rather dull day. I hope Sunday is better. Maybe I'll skip town after church. Next weekend I might go visit friends and family in PA. That should be a little more interesting.

Sorry if I bored you with this one. Eventually I'll tell you what I think about something instead of what isn't happening.

oh, BTW I also did laundry today. Yippee.

Howdy Howdy Howdy.
Well, guess what. We got broadband here at the house so I don't have to bug my room mate for his AOL password to get online. I have a pretty fast connection at work so I didn't really miss not having it at home. The down side of that is I didn't have a connection available to me when I'm most likely to write in this here log. Now that I do have net access here, at the end of the day, you might just be hearing more from me.

I just got back from a costume party 15 minutes ago or so. It was fun. I originally wasn't going to go because it's the same night I have small group/house church. This week church started early and it was a short one so I was able to go to both. I feel a little bad for telling so many people so adamantly that I wasn't going. But then I was feeling a little bad because so many of my friends wanted me to show up and some of them put a lot of effort into the planning and cooking and decorating etc. I'm a bit asocial so big gatrherings don't thrill be too much but I thought I'd better show up at least for their sake.

Anyway, I left house church around 8, I came home and through together a costume. I had it 80% planned out ahead of time. I had a couple of ideas but I thought one might be in poor taste. Oh yes, I thought it'd be funny, but I could see how some people could be offended by me going as a black ghost (black sheet and an afro). I decided to go with an "evil clown" costume. I'm not really a fan of evil or of clowns or a mix of the two. I do have, however, a big yellow rubber suit (the kind used by people working with toxic stuff) and the afro wig an ex room mate left here. I didn't have make up so I made a mask using an old pair of ruined khakis (if you cut a leg off up at the thigh it'll fit over your head), some markers, some fabric paint and some oil pastels. The whole mask making took nearly an hour. I ended up making two because the first one didn't turn out right. The second one worked. It came out effectively freaky/scary. It seemed to intimidate people, but it got a lot of compliments. I think the entrance helped too. The party was outside and I walked up the long driveway and right past the main gaggle of people, not even looking at them. I walked right up behind some of my friends who were getting their picture taken. No one knew it was me until someone lifted the mask and saw my mouth and chin. Of course, since they didn't think I was coming they were a bit surprised to see me.

Anyway, it was fun. Shortly after I showed the party moved inside and I took off the costume. I put it on briefly for another round of pictures, but I'm really not a psycho-evil-killer-clown.

P.S. No alcoholic beverages served... It's not that kind of party.
P.P.S. I'm not super-keen on celebrating Halloween in general. I made an exception because of the people involved.

adios