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Wednesday, November 25th, 2009
11:15 am	I'm Off Today and It's a Good Thing Because Damn you, keep the glass night at The Gingerman. Current Mood: Moving a Little Slow Current Music: Black Flag - Loose Nut (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, November 22nd, 2009
7:10 pm	Thankskilling Looks like a turkey in more ways than one... Current Mood: amused Current Music: Borgia - Éxtasis (Comment on this)
Saturday, November 21st, 2009
1:49 pm	The Accordion Tolls for Thee Ludwig the Accordionist passed away last week. Dinner at Dallas German food restaurants will never be the same. Not many 80+ year-olds are young at heart but Lou managed this with aplomb. I'll have a stein full of doppelbock tonight in his honor. Current Mood: sad Current Music: Them Crooked Vultures - Spinning In Daffodils (Comment on this)
Friday, November 20th, 2009
10:56 pm	Freedom to the Third Power I have a three-day weekend due to working this past weekend and don’t have much planned due to the lack of “happenings” in DFW and that’s fine by me because… Not Dead…But Dreaming Last night, I went to bed at 10:20pm and finally arose about 8:30am. Sure, I woke up a couple of times but I refuse to get out of bed if there’s not deadline or start time looming. I needed some sleep and lots of it as evidenced by the two-hour afternoon nap. I’ll continue to recoup through the weekend and next week with the holiday. Normally, I’d be on-call but Ms.Ed assigned Butch-the-Temp to this since he’s a temp brought in to relieve the regular staff from suffering during a holiday week. Temps get paid by the hour so I don’t feel sorry for him. Bonus: I hear the InfiddleVestCorp procurement group isn’t doing much end-of-the-year negotiating which means that 2010 might provide a civilized for work life. Current Mood: Drinking Beer Current Music: Borgia - Habemus Papam (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
6:59 pm	Kill With a Borrowed Lunch Tray For $4 you can get a mixed Thali at Subzi Mandi, an Indian grocery chain that recently opened a store near work. Not bad for the price, it’s a home-style vegetarian meal that works to fill the hungry spot. Hopefully, they’ll get it together for quicker service though it’s too early to tell. I’ll revisit in a month. Check out this picture, it’s like Indian food night at Riker’s Island: Current Mood: cheerful Current Music: Coven - Black Swan [1976] (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
10:16 pm	Make Love to My Tongue or 111709 The End of Self-Deprivation The seductive curves glistened with the moisture that hugged her body…then the juices spilled out over my face. The hop spice and tiny bubbles oozed over my ready and willing tongue. I drank deep. Damn, I love beer. Current Mood: satisfied Current Music: Roy Orbison - In Dreams (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, November 16th, 2009
9:25 pm	111609 Self-Deprivation Day Six Twenty-four hours left and then I taste Xanadu in beer form. The break-fast beer, which is always tasty. Not sure of what it will be though Sierra Nevada’s Celebration is frontrunner. I’ll see where the day takes me but I'll keep it at two since it's early in the week. Things are calm at work now that Paul-Tango-Raunchy is live. I might even get some things out of the way that have been bugging me since March/April. Yeah, yeah…I don’t let go…it’s what I do. Current Mood: thirsty Current Music: Numina - Recluse (Comment on this)
Sunday, November 15th, 2009
6:24 pm	111509 Self-Deprivation Day Five Roughly forty-eight hours to go and I re-visit my old friend, beer. Next week, I’m on-call back-up which means I’ll be off unless Ops can’t get a hold of the main on-call and this week, it will be “The Wizard”, so I have clear sailing. I’m taking Friday off and need to figure out what to do with my three-day weekend. But there will be beer…oh yes, there will be beer. Current Mood: thirsty Current Music: Uncreation's Dawn - Cold Venom (Comment on this)
Saturday, November 14th, 2009
8:04 pm	111409 Self-Deprivation Day Four Once again, you’re having fun and I’m not. No beer for the past four days and this extends into next week. I resisted getting after finishing up at work. Why? Before going further with troubleshooting an important device, I pointed out a flaw in the plan to Ms.Ed. Now, technically we’d be reducing the “bulletproofing” as opposed to the redundancy, yet it was obvious that we hadn’t thought everything out the day before. [what a difference medicine and a night’s sleep makes] It’s Just a Step to the Left “We can’t repair or replace this configuration item if a problem is encountered or found/caused like our normal process, which entails a vendor be either onsite during or within two hours with parts available –this isn’t in place and wouldn’t be for days/week.” “Just check this, check that…” Now I ran this by enough people, including Big Blue to have witnesses before I proceeded. I hate the possibility of introducing more complexity to a problem. Pain management, if you will. [approved change control ticket in hand as well] We got lucky and everything that was touched, came back. Current Mood: thirsty Current Music: Borgia - Albedo (Le Jardin Des Plaisirs) (Comment on this)
Friday, November 13th, 2009
10:11 pm	111309 Self-Deprivation Day Three No beer for the past three days and this extends into next week. Wednesday, I relapsed and today the DoctorDiabla declared it’s a sinus infection, which is something I think it was [or brewing] when I paid her a visit two weeks ago. With horse-pill antibiotics and more nasal spray through Sunday, I’m continuing on my beer-fast in order to optimize future ale intake. Current Mood: thirsty Current Music: Thom Brennan - Blue Depths (Comment on this)
Thursday, November 12th, 2009
7:11 pm	Pumpkin by the Buttload St.Arnold's Divine Reserve #9 will be an Imperial Pumpkin Stout. It will inlcude 720 pounds of chocolate malt, brown sugar, molasses and a buttload of pumpkin. This looks to be a sugar bomb but I'll give it a shot all the same despite being $12-16 a sixer. Current Mood: tired Current Music: Örk Bastards - Fucking City (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, November 11th, 2009
9:43 pm	Dentistry in a Porn Script “I’m going to shoot goo into your mouth”, said my smiling dentist. [new impressions for a nightguard] My dentist is a she and kind of a square, which made this even funnier. When I think of it, I’ve never seen a porno that had a dentistry setting but would rather not… Current Mood: amused Current Music: Thom Brennan - Submergence (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, November 8th, 2009
11:18 pm	State of BeerDiablo Address This year, it’s obvious work has been getting in the way of beer/metal/etc. though this isn’t anything new but for this year, I’m way down in hijinx, schemes, etc. The rest of year looks to be better with Project Paul-Tango-Raunchy’s major milestone going live next weekend. After that point, I’ll be on “easy street” for the rest of the year with Butch-the-Temp taking the bulk of my on-call due to being off for Thanksgiving and year-end slowdown/freezes. First, I’ve got to “come to” in order to get things in perspective. Current Mood: hopeful Current Music: Dead Can Dance - Anywhere Out Of The World (Comment on this)
Wednesday, November 4th, 2009
6:04 pm	A Proper Day Off HermanoDiablo and I visited The BulletTrap, to utilize their indoor pistol range to prepare for defense against the marauding, zombie hordes. Not bad, considering I haven’t shot since late July. Ruger .22 calibers are a major-puta to put back together – but one must keep weapon[s] clean for vigilance against the walking dead. The post simulated-battle feast was held at Jorg’s and afterwards, we hit Kegs & Barrels, where I picked upa few new beers. More on those tomorrow. Current Mood: hungry Current Music: Wolves In The Throne Room - I Will Lay Down My Bones Among the Rocks and Roots (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, November 2nd, 2009
9:37 pm	Fires in the West Chatted with Madre and PadreDiablo this evening to catch up. Due to his International influence, PadreDiablo once again assumes diplomatic duties at this year’s Terlingua International Chili Championship. Very important stuff you know – things like drinking beer and eating chili while watching topless women cavort about the campgrounds. I doubt these ladies qualify as Playboy material but it’s the principle… Meanwhile, Back in the Greater Hell I’m stuck at work with the punishment of puppeteering/shepherding Butch-the-Temp, who’s acting as weekend manager for this weekend’s changes at InfiddlevestCorp. It's like doing it all myself but with a lombotomized imp disturbing the productivity. No weekend plans yet but I think it will entail beer at some point. A desert vacation would be great [last time was in 2001] and Terlingua would be nice to visit when it’s not crowded. Better add this to the list for next year. There’s always the Indian Lodge in Ft.Davis. Current Mood: depressed Current Music: Embryonic Devourment - Self Inflicted Cesarean (Comment on this)
Saturday, October 31st, 2009
7:21 pm	¿I Can Has Cheese-Booger? Driving home from InfiddlevestCorp’s datacenter, I saw a woman in a cat costume that was picking her nose while driving. Yes, I almost wrecked due to the laughter. Yet somehow, after dealing with work –I’m not that festive for this hallowed eve. Having Butch-the-Temp to back you up is pretty much working by yourself. Time for a beer. Current Mood: annoyed Current Music: Creeping - The Reckoning (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
8:19 pm	Manhole Fire 101 Backhoe incidents are common in IT – someone digs up and breaks a fiber optic route, severing connections to other sites. No network/data connectivity. Truly, darkened fiber. Unprotected Circuit$ – What Do You Expect InfiddlevestCorp, being the cursed entity that it is, encountered a new occurrence in my career [others as well] in the form of a manhole fire this past Saturday going into Sunday. Being “offline” I didn’t get pulled into the fire. I found this interesting as to how it could occur and here’s a nice, short explanation [barring napalm wielding madcaps and/or the supernatural]. There is no end to the bizarre, monkey wrench celebration that is my current paycheck. Current Mood: apathetic Current Music: Enshadowed - Hell's Reality - Recognize (Comment on this)
Sunday, October 25th, 2009
10:22 pm	Night of The Living Dead Manhole Fire The automatic contact high by spending time in Austin was complemented by tonight’s checking my work email – things[once again] went to hell, though this was outside of anyone’s control. But really…is a manhole fire in New Jersey beyond anyone’s control? Loosely Scheduled Events Nothing exciting happened in Austin except a mellow time. The Day of the Dead tribute festival was small but nice, unfortunately HermanaDiablo didn’t dig it so we broke things up by hitting a second story bar, called Shiner’s Saloon – a psuedo tribute to Texas' heirloom beer. Good music and a nice dinner lead into the extended violence that is a pay-per-view event marked by a name on a hole in the wall. Why One's Ass Should Not Be a Billboard UFC isn't the excitement it used to be, especially with how the under-paid fighters are now lending their fight gear for advertising. I find myself looking for unintended entertainment -which is a plenty when viewing UFC. To be a badass, and I forget which rule number it is but you shouldn't have the words "Condom Depot" on the ass of your trunks. It just doesn't conjure images of unleashing devastation upon enemy platoons. Current Mood: cheerful Current Music: Juno Reactor - The Heavens (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, October 23rd, 2009
10:56 am	Road Trip Viva La Vida Fest on Saturday, taking off today as vacation to hit some of Austin's beer spots. (Comment on this)
Thursday, October 22nd, 2009
10:39 pm	Roll Out the Coffin... While dining at Jorg's tonight, a waiter mentioned that Ludwig the Accordionist [found out he's in his mid 80's ] is in bad health. Pneumonia + Stroke has him in a rehab facility. No other word at this time. Some people transcend their generation and Ludwig did so and is one of the hippest 80 year old's around. He was a fixture at Dallas area German restaurants playing polkas, his left ear was pierced and enjoyed making fun of kitchen staff in Español. Fucking smart-ass. Bummer. I hope the guy makes it back but I know how these things go... Current Mood: sad Current Music: YOB - Breathing from the Shallows (Comment on this)