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And we could blaze it up on your block if you want to

So as Trevnor pointed out I should update this sucker. Its actually been something on my to do list for a few days now, just had life keep popping up to keep me busy and not updating it. Yes Super Street Fighter IV counts as life. Plus, since my readership has diminished significantly (not that it was ever huge) I have less urge to update it as I am trying to figure out the best thing to do with it. Yes the two are related. However for now it will continue being random updates.

Been listening to some newer music lately, so I figure I can start there. There are a few Wu Tang mix tapes out there, Wu Tang vs The Beatles, and the Wu Massacre – Avenging Eagles that are both fairly solid. Picked up the Jaydiohead albums, as well as the Beastie Boys – Double Check your Head and the Mos Dub mashups as well. All of them are pretty solid, you can google them and find them fairly easily. Best part is that they are free. If you dig the artists in the name, check em out.

Skipping directly to work, I applied for a new job a week or two ago. Who knows whether or not I will actually get it but it feels good take some proactive steps towards getting out of my department. Speaking of my department, I will shortly be up to my 8th or 9th supervisor (if you count the times I didn’t have a supervisor at all) in the 4 years I have been an official FTE. Yeah, talk about smooooooth. All of that without me actually changing my job. Not a pain in the ass at all I swear! But enough about work, I am sick of it anyway.

Two nights ago I red ringed my 360. So I went out last night and bought a new 360. Sure I am a bit of an addict, obviously. On the other hand, the new arcade system I picked up does in fact come with Viva Pinata so I can … I don’t even know what that game is about. But it has achievements so I will certainly play it some. Why not after all. Otherwise been playing a lot of BFBC2 and SSF4. Beat Mirrors Edge a few weeks back as well, it was interesting. The controls didn’t feel as tight on 360 as they did on the PS3 when I played in Korea and the combat continued to be atrocious but whatever right? Need to set some time aside to play through Dead Space, which has been started but I am too addicted to certain other games (see BFBC2) right now to want to take the time. Its just too much goddamn fun to run around with my AKS-74U and kill bitches. Or to snipe people from approximately 30 miles away with the M95. But enough about games for the moment I think.

Other stuff going on…. hrm, been sick for the past week. Getting better slowly but surely I can tell that much but its not going to be a super quick recovery I can tell. Mostly because its been almost a week already. But I am on the road to recovery. Mother’s Day is this weekend so remember to call your mom and wish her a happy one (or in my case go out to brunch with her). I have to fast on Sunday evening anyway for an unrelated medical thing so I suppose brunch works out best for me anyway.

Starting to gear up for a trip out to Colorado towards the end of this month. Looking forward to seeing some friends and also looking forward to meeting a few guys I play with on XBL. Plus, a vacation will always be fun. Starting to think about a trip somewhere this fall as well. Possibly going to Greece or Boston or somewhere else. Who knows, its tempting but its also entirely possible that I will end up going nowhere at this point. Its one of those “time will tell” things.

Installed a new OS on my main computer. Ubuntu 10.04. Its interesting. I like some of the changes and dislike others, as with any new distro release. Its fairly solid but far from perfect, still I have no illusions that any distro will be perfect unless I build it myself and I am too lazy to do that. Part of the reason I did that was some hardware updates to my main computer though. Now I have a video card that only ~2 years out of date instead of 4! And a nice shiny new HDD as well.

Other then that, not a ton of anything going on right now which is kinda cool. Had a hilariously bad first date last weekend but thats kind of a neither here nor there thing, so no point in putting the details out there really. In fact its kinda nice that it went badly since I love having downtime. So here is something for you to chill out too just a bit, as we enter the weekend.

I debated writing about two different news stories, the George Rekers scandal and another news story right now about a woman who lost her job due to technology… But I think I will save that until later this week so that my ideas can be a bit more cogent. Although I have a strong suspiscion that people who know me can already guess my reaction to Mr. Rekers.

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