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Woke up on the wrong side of bed this morning, I was feeling grumpier than all of my four Grumpy dwarves combined. (yes, I collect grumpies). After breakfast with boy, I took the car out for a spin, fed him, showered, and then hit Old Navy for some retail therapy. I have the 80s station blasting, sun shinning in thru the roof, arms hanging out, I swear, if my aunties weren't busy, I'm almost tempted to get on the interstate and drive till I hit KY.

They say the house is the sanctuary, for me, it's my beloved Shadow the Grey Jetta.

Now my mood is almost back to normal.

This weekend...
I'm gonna put my brain to good use - on strategizing and learning something new.

Yes, I plan to play AOE II this weekend, it helps me unwind tremendously. Then after that, I'm going to tackle my freelance project. Although it sounds like work, I am actually gonna have fun doing it. It'll be good to break down other people's code, see how the site is structured, and learn from that.

Also, I've printed out tons of PHP material that I hope I have time to get to as well. You can call me a geek, but I still get all excited when I get to learn something new, even though I know lots of you out there are thinking, "PHP, that's not new." Well, to me it is, so I'm gonna have fun with it.

Plus, I have my own personal guru on standby. If I run into anything I can't quite grasp, I'll just holler, right honey? A chef and a programmer roll in one, that's exactly what I need.

Now back to the mind numbing work. Once again, it is sad how I look forward to going home so I can work on all my side projects. Sigh.

Good ole Curd
An old friend of mine recently appeared on my website. I haven't seen him in years, but everytime I see someone named J. it always reminds me of J. Curd, whom I used to work with.

He was an intern back in our now-defunct company. He seemed young and crazy so we got along pretty well.

I remembered early one morning, I walked by his cube, and he's already sitting there coding away, but I couldn't help but saw the tag from his T-shirt hanging on the outside. I did not say a word. Two minutes later Koetting walked by, laughed and gave him crap about wearing the T-shirt inside out. And then apparently he just took of his shirt on the spot, turn it inside out, and plopped it back on again. Not in the restroom, but at his cube, in the office!

And another morning, at 10-ish, Curd's cube was empty. Nobody knows if he's showing up that day. So Koetting called him to find out what's up. Apparently, his poor dog drank a whole thing of Lysol and then puked all over the apartment.

Then there are stories where him and his friends ran into the mounted police while playing golf after midnight at Forest Park. And the time he got caught speeding doing 35 on a 20, and went to the court to represent himself, and got off scoot free. And also how his apt always smelled weird: he suspected that the kids downstairs are manufacturing "ya-know-wha" in the apt... I think one day they got busted by the police.

Oh, and his jeep. That red wrangler has these huge-ass tires that come up to my waist. Inside the jeep it's like an police secret ops van. GPS, DVD, and remote controls for everything, fire extinguishers, parachute-style safety harness...etc, and a bunch of programming textbooks. The one and only time I rode in the jeep, I have to pull myself up with two hands on the handle in order to get into the jeep, and when I got off, I have to jump in order to get back to the ground.

When Koetting's was going through a tough phase, Curd and I put together a CD compilation featuring all the obnoxious rap music, took a photo of Em|nem in his sweatshirt and baggy jeans and his blinks blinks, photoshopped in Koetting's face instead, and left the CD on Koetting's desk. We all had a good laugh for days.

I remembered when I registered for this site's domain I had to ask for his help. His reaction: "what the hell is 4 aunties? why do you call yourself aunties?" and then proceeded to laugh and threatened to tell the whole office about my domain.

I saw him stopped by at the chatterbox couple of days ago. It'll be nice to see him again, and listen to him and Koetting rap crap while I roll of the floor laughing.

whiff
I was standing in line waiting to get my lunch when my nose caught a familiar scent: Aqua Di Gio for men. I turned my head instantly, scanning the crowd for my friend Skye. But it wasn't him, it was just some regular dude that walked by.

Scary how one's nose works.

Elaine used to only use EA Sunflower. I can usually tell if she's at the apt or not by just relying on my nose. When we go to the mall together, I'll use my nose instinct to find her when we got seperated.

Southern Boy uses Hugo Boss, or as I called it, the Grenade. I'm starting to develop a scent-association for that as well. I'm sure it's not a bad thing.

Putting the word out there
If any of you reading this site knows where I can get a copy of The Today's Show for Monday April 21st, 2003, please leave a comment or email me. Thank you so much!

Switching gears into advertising mode:
Read this on my usual Adcritic updates:

Coors Light Rocks On
In the newest Coors Light spot from FCB/Chicago -- the agency that brought us the now famous twins in a spot called "Here's To Love Songs" -- the brewer salutes those who rock, not with one song, but with four. The anthem, directed by A Band Apart's Wayne Isham, is backed by a mix fashioned from four different tracks: "King of Rock" by DMC of Run DMC, "Rock the Party" by P.O.D., "So You Want To Be A Rock And Roll Star" by The Byrds, and the Scorpions' "Rock You Like A Hurricane."

"Between the agency and myself we came up with a list of songs that we really liked," says Dave Curtin of DeepMix, the Hollywood-based music house that created the track as well as a remix of Tom Jones' "She's A Lady" for an earlier Coors spot. "The agency wanted to see what it would sound like to blend songs together. And of course the theme was rock. We kept submitting versions until we found one that worked." The original list of "rock" songs also included tracks from The Clash and AC/DC, and Curtin says he had several remixers work on the project, picking and choosing the songs they wanted to use. The final version, created by Curtin and noted ambient producer Rhys Fulber, was complete before shooting began and was used on the set. And yes, it does rock.
--Adcritic.com

I haven't had a chance to catch it on TV yet, but my instinct tells me it should be really cool.

Another thing
The big match between Real Madrid and Man Utd. is tomorrow. I sucks that I don't have Fox Sports World anymore. Oooh wait...

*checking on ESPN 2's schedule*

Woo hoo! All the more reason not to show up at work tomorrow. Reality shucks.

Math
The price of happiness is directly proportionate to market inflation and ones age.
I'm a cheapskate.

All I want...
The only thing I want for this monday is for today to be Sunday.

Glad it's not over
Boy, am I glad today is sunday. Time to recuperate. After having dinner with Grace and friends who are visiting St. Louis from Wichita and Decatur, southern boy and I promptly sat our ass down in front of our computers, and started an all-nighter game of Age of Empire II.

Gosh, I haven't been up playing computer games all night since college *I think*, when Elaine and I are always up playing Red Alert with our friends two doors down.

Now I'm up and in front of the computer again, trying very hard to retrain myself from going to the Start menu and clicking AOEII. Ooops, need to run to Blockbuster before noon. Ciao.