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Thursday, July 9th, 2009
6:40 pm	Familia Reunion Trip Day 1 I'm at el rancho with Madre and PadreDiablo and things are looking up: 1. Doppelbock and Dunkel biers in the fridge where before it was crappy light beer. The German house guests didn't do that good of a job "cleaning out the refrigerator". I can handle this one. 2. High speed Internet access where before it was dial-up. Now I can catch-up on things but damn, PadreDiablo's PC needs a memory upgrade -256mb doesn't cut it for XP. Current Mood: chipper (Comment on this)
Wednesday, July 8th, 2009
9:55 pm	Animated Strife – InfiddlevestCorp Style Returning from lunch yesterday, I noticed a large group bunkered in the Htown room. Tension and defensiveness oozed in a way I haven’t ever seen in the near three years I’ve been at InfiddlevestCorp. Project Paul-Tango-Raunchy isn’t going well. Internal Busy Machination now recommends what amounts to re-engineering. These consultants have sat in the conference room for months and now that we’ve gone “live” they tell us it should be different? Big surprise. I’m not directly involved due to the z10 project but imagine I will be soon in order to give the other team members a break so they can take some time off. At this point, a re-work won’t be radical but I do wonder if the business units will be asked for more funds. That’s when it will get entertaining. Current Mood: giddy Current Music: Crimson Glory - Burning Bridges (Comment on this)
Monday, July 6th, 2009
10:34 pm	No Relations with Relations “I remember while reading the pervert section of your copy of Texas legal code, I saw that relations with even a distant family member that is adopted is considered incest, correct?” “Yes.” Replied HermanoDiablo, a Dallas police officer. “What about if they’re a second or third cousin?” “Best to just stay away from that sort of thing entirely.” You guessed right, it’s time for the annual Diablo familia reunion. I’ll be taking off for FBG on Thursday to stay with the parents, and then come the weekend, visit with the other family members that I didn’t see at AbeulaDiablo’s funeral. With the 100+ degree heat, I don’t see doing much with the chainsaws. You know, I just thought of a loophole – if I hook up with a family member that doesn’t share the great Diablo name, then that should be legal. Current Mood: amused Current Music: Patrick O'Hearn - Simpatico (Comment on this)
Sunday, July 5th, 2009
10:21 pm	Sunday at The Libertine The Libertine Bar features half-price food on Sunday and it’s a great way to end the week, especially today –low traffic, green lights, good parking, all Sunday chores done in record time. I even ran into Mr.&Mrs.Third-eye there. Nice to catch-up. Libby’s has about nine taps so they rotate out most of them while keeping standards such as Stella Artois and Guinness. You’d think with it being Summer time the line-up would reflect seasonals, which it does but there were some anomalies. Old Guardian – Barleywine, 11.3% abv. Great in the winter time. Trois Pistoles – strong Belgian dark, 9% abv. Maybe with dessert. Monk’s Café Belgian Sour – 5.5% abv but a sour is rough in 100+ F heat The first two are probably going to sit for a while but they’ll keep. Current Mood: relaxed Current Music: video: My Name is Bruce (Comment on this)
1:47 am	System Alert: Switching to Hard Liquor I'm out of beer and switched to hard liquor four drinks ago. Given the hour, I will be shutting down Internet access, hiding firearms/pyro and forgetting I have an iPhone. One other thing: Black Sabbath still owns your ass. Current Mood: Heavy Fucking Metal Current Music: Black Sabbath - Disturbing The Priest (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, July 4th, 2009
10:33 pm	Movie Recommendation: Matando Cabos Matando Cabos is a Pulp Fiction-esque movie made in Mexico [w/subtitles] and I highly recommend it. One brief scene features an ex-masked wrestler hallucinating about getting attacked in a car by a werewolf. Need I say more? This is on Netflix. Current Mood: cheerful (Comment on this)
5:22 pm	From the Accusatory Chair Tröegs Flying Mouflan troubled Blake Runner on Friday and I was more than glad to give him a hand with this 9.3% abv Barleywine, and the Otter Creek Imperial IPA too. We both agreed that the Mouflan needed aging. The website suggests four months, I suggested 6 months to a year and Blake Runner went up to two years. Beer talk consumed the evening and at one point, I –of all people- was accused of being a beer snob. Blake Runner’s travels have taken him to Europe for beer –Belgium- multiple times and knows his brew. I consider this a badge of honor. Current Mood: hot Current Music: *conference call* (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, June 29th, 2009
9:42 pm	Kiddie Party Liquor Store Run “Bring me a bottle of vodka, I can’t go out because parents are here. Momma needs her devil water.” “Titos? Club soda & limes?” “That’s why you’re my favorite brother.” HermanaDiablo’s text message this past Friday indicated things were already looking dire but what could you expect when the night’s celebration centered on a 1-year old? Add to that Madre and PadreDiablo were in town as it was SobrinaDiablo’s first birthday. A Brief Glimpse of Hell Beer would’ve helped pass the time and mute out the screeching of the niño’s but that would’ve made things rough for PadreDiablo, who’s on his best behavior when in town. Half of my brother’s wife’s family is Muslim so that pretty much kills the liquor supply. Plus it seems weird to me, boozing it up Diablo-style around children. Bonus: I created an intellectually challenging game for four-year olds called, “French-fry Head”. It involves using a cardboard tube from giftwrapping paper to hit your opponent over the head while calling them a “French-fry Head”. Somehow, I believe this will appeal to boys more so than girls. I totally took advantage of the height and weight difference and easily won against all challengers. Now, who’s the “French-fry Head”? Current Mood: sleepy Current Music: Steve Roach - Void Memory 4 (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, June 28th, 2009
6:11 pm	Vacation Planning - July 2009 July 23rd, I'll be headed to Portland Oregon for the Oregon Brewer's Festival. Aside from Apizza Scholls and Voodoo Doughnut, does anyone have suggestions for places to hit? Current Mood: planning (Comment on this)
Saturday, June 27th, 2009
8:06 pm	The Book Checks Itself Out We had a CEC [mainframe processor] go "bye-bye" today. Rejoicing occurred on the kinky level as this isn't supposed to happen on a concurrent repair and there will be "autopsical" fun, starting Monday. This occurred at the site we're building so there's no loss. Imagine a battle scene with someone sitting bored, in the middle of the field. Such is the way of things. Just another Saturday of stunt work and seeming like nothing getting done. Current Mood: bored Current Music: Morbid Carnage - Possessed by Metal (Comment on this)
Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009
10:29 pm	Listing Meme gloomchen  inadvertently dangled the bait and I haven't done a meme in about the time it takes me to drink 3 kegs of beer, so what the hades... Name ten books, CDs and/or movies that you own that the police would cite as evidence against you at their press conference. 1. 1984 -book 2. 1984 -movie 3. Lone Wolf McQuade - movie 4. Insane Poetry - Grim Reality CD 5. Sineater - by Charlee Jacob -book [check out Dread in the Beast; Haunter; This Symbiotic Fascination;Geek Poems;...anything really] 6. To Mega Therion - Celtic Frost CD 7. Haunted George - Pile'o'Meat CD 8. Meet The Feebles - movie 9. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People -book 10. Wising Up the Marks - book Nevermind the books,CD's,movies I didn't post. Good thing this didn't include firearms, animal skulls, Mexican wrestling masks, Santeria candles and a high class beer supply...oh, wait...damn-it. Current Mood: Getting Sleepy Current Music: Agent Steel - Extinct (Comment on this)
8:25 pm	Me +Me +X = Me Came across this print and had to get it as it's me. I feel there's a third element missing but it doesn't come to mind just yet. Current Mood: melancholy Current Music: Unholy - Gray Below (Comment on this)
Sunday, June 21st, 2009
9:44 pm	Freedom Tastes Like Beer A whole weekend to myself – no work or family- is a rare thing. For the past two chaotic months, I strived to get personal business taken care of amongst work and family –with little downtime, I made this weekend’s sole focus downtime. What Happens When 20+ Beer Freaks Enter a Room Meeting up with the Cap&Hare Brewclub at Franconia Brewing guaranteed a good time. When it came to sampling the beers, the brewmaster operated with a “self-serve” philosophy that fits my way of life. I love drinking beer at a brewery, it feels so right. Jorg’s Café Vienna hit the spot for dinner. I got the schnitzel with a paprika crème sauce and Jorg hooked up Assurbanipaul and I with some Austrian moonshine-like schnapps. Jorg also let me know that on Sunday there would be a featured menu item of particular interest to me. Finishing things out, a few of us hit Trinity Hall [new: Harpoon Leviathan IPA] and The Gingerman [new: Monk’s Flemish Sour] followed but we called it at 01:00, nothing further going on. Rise and Shine…Time for Pork Schweinshaxen makes for a fine meal that REALLY sticks to your ribs. This one was slow roasted -would've been better smoked. Once again, hit up Jorg's Cafe Vienna if you're ever in the Dallas area. 85-plus miles an hour to the Angelika to see "Sleep Dealer", which is being dubbed by some as the "Mexican Matrix". I wouldn’t go that far. The setting and concepts are more engrossing than the storyline but I think that’s the point. Plus, I grew up in a border town and understand the issues a little more than most. It’s got a hip, electro-español soundtrack that I’ll be picking up soon. Current Mood: full Current Music: Peligrosa All Stars - Ritmo de Juventud Orion (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Saturday, June 20th, 2009
12:47 am	A Damned Satir-Day Temptation fought the work-free weekend and I blew off visiting Rahr Brewery's usual Saturday showcase. Always nice but, I need to move forward on my cure for terminal diseases. I'm not much of a drinker anyways. ;> Assurbanipaul let's me know about the secured tour of Franconia Brewery today, followed by dinner at Jorg's. I do recall the experiments needing to carry through to Sunday... Current Mood: okay Current Music: Cacophony - Black Cat (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Friday, June 19th, 2009
5:34 pm	About This Doing Nothing Thing Finally getting in the groove of doing nothing –related to work, key here is to not have the alarm set and to go back to sleep if you wake up around the time you normally would for the job. Aside from a much-delayed PC memory upgrade [XP & apps, too fat], I scored well at Kegs & Barrels. Didn’t know Andygator was available in Texas but that’s what happens when you spend a month immersed in little else but work. More leisure and reading tonight. Current Mood: calm Current Music: Archgoat - Tribulation Of The King Of Worms (Comment on this)
Wednesday, June 17th, 2009
10:10 pm	The Leisurely Pace Begins I slept late, lounged on the couch and did the bare minimum. This is a "staycation" without the usual vacation escape but will serve to mainly get my mind off of work and re-focus on personal pursuits. The machines tend to get in your brain and prohibit thought outside of their service. Think of a really, really needy cat. Beer is the anti-venom. Upon missing out on some investment opportunities in 2Q09, I'm reading up on finance and getting more organized for investing. I've always been good with money but this job divides my attention, slowing my response or realization to shift capital.  Additional organization will be a framework for checking/evaluating and acting upon information. Current Mood: mellow Current Music: Archgoat - Angel Of Sodomy (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Tuesday, June 16th, 2009
8:22 pm	061609 Release from Captivity Sunday wasn’t the end, neither was Monday. I put my touch onto fallout from a fiber switch move as only I –and alcohol- can. OK, it was 99% pure industrial hooch but you see the relation to where my beer-omantical powers come into play. The switch trunks are clean, no more logrec errors or abended jobs. As Machines and Modern Life get Faster, the Tolerances for Errors get Smaller Monday yielded a stress-load equivalent to a week. Ms.Ed’s vacation buzz suffered a 40-grit brush with death. Things are coming to a head with the staff ability/size and her lack of organization. On top of it, the workload is too much but I believe some of it could’ve been overcome with an organized approach but, hey -I'm in the trench. Moral of the story, don’t shoot from the hip, that’s for when you’re caught off guard and not for using a position as a stepping stone by hoping your staff can run itself. As a way of life, it will catch up to you. I laugh and flip off the machines because...now they call someone else to say they’re broken… Current Music: Black Sabbath - Breakout (Comment on this)
Sunday, June 14th, 2009
4:21 pm	061409 Day 7 of Captivity Harassing sniper-shot phone calls continued but I got large enough blocks of sleep that I’m not miserable. Small fallout from a switch migration caused path issues but it was due to attached tape drives, rather than the fiber or new switch. Now more things are logging errors and I will be going in to make repairs. Time to go persuade the machines to not call me to say they’re broken. Current Mood: busy Current Music: Solitude Aeturnus - Falling (Comment on this)
Saturday, June 13th, 2009
7:09 pm	061309 Day 6 of Captivity A couple of calls ended my sleep bliss. The highlight was consulting with the network group regarding the reboot of a switch due to a repair, which shouldn’t be necessary but then again, that’s network/open systems for you –Wild West, Shoot-from-the-Hip. Documentation is the key to working in the tech field. If it’s lacking, you will find yourself in uncertain hell, calling anyone and everyone that might know something about what you’re working on. Neatly Laid Plans or Hide/Hoard SME [subject matter experts] exist for many reasons. Year of experience, training class[es] or the only one that bothered to pay attention. SME’s also exist when there’s no documentation for projects that someone’s working/worked on. This is due to negligence or the false assumption that it buys job security. Correctly done, planning documentation becomes the final documentation that is easily referenced by Operations and your co-workers. For me, this prevents others in my group –when they’re on-call- from calling me to figure out a problem. Last night, I had no issue waking up a co-worker at 01:15am due to lacking documentation [guess who didn’t update the documentation?]. If I’m going to be woken up, you’re going to be woken up. Now to bide my time until the machines call me to say they’re broken. Current Mood: full Current Music: Rocket From The Crypt - Can You Hear It? (Comment on this)
Friday, June 12th, 2009
10:26 am	061209 Day 5 of Captivity One sleep-sabotaging call at 13:00 that didn’t last long but was enough to keep me from re-entering deep sleep. I think tacos are in order for lunch; the spice extends life and consciousness. ;> Tomorrow, I get to sleep late –barring saboteurs, of course. Now to bide my time until the machines call me to say they’re broken. Current Mood: Obeying the Taco God Current Music: Dissection - In The Cold Winds Of Nowhere (Comment on this)