2010.07.07 Wednesday

Dang, already hump day. I'm not even ready yet, silly week, going too fast.

For lunch, some rudy's that other people didn't finish eating. For dinner, leftovers from Habibi's brisket. I think that's enough protein for a couple days.

Stayed late at work so we could just roll over to the kickball fields. Ended up feeling really tired and fatigued for the game, could it have something to do with the my diet? We ended up losing, but at least we kept our high spirits. Especially Whitney.

I tried out installing Ubuntu Studio. It seems a bit more sleek and clutter free than Musix, and also much more error-free. But less clutter typically means less features. The installation took probably twice as long, but startup and shutdown times are pretty darn quick. Maybe the time wasted during installation is made up for by the super fast startup and shutdown times.

2010.07.06 Tuesday

An early start to today. Kelc needed to catch a flight back to DFW and get her car out of parking there. I can't imagine how terrible a parking bill must be if you somehow manage to forget that you parked a car there. Actually, once they closed down Mueller Airport (after they opened ABIA), they figured out how many cars people had ditched at the airport. Honestly, that's pretty smart. Why bother figuring out where to ditch a car when you can rack up an imaginary bill on it too.

Made it to work pretty darn early. Yay. Had to restart my computer to push some updates or something...20 minutes to reboot. Not yay.

Cranked through my work and headed home. Had an unexpected passenger on the way home. Sometimes, cables just, ya know, snap.

Spent a good deal of the evening trying to get a nicely flavored Linux dirstro up and running on an older computer. It's called Musix and just happens to be based in spanish, but is also translated to english quite well. Unfortunately, the wireless adapter I've been using with ubuntu doesn't work well with musix, and I couldn't get the sound adapter to work, and I was getting some weird errors about the OS failing to gain root access when it needs it. Otherwise, the OS seems pretty cool. When you log in, it has different profiles, or interfaces you can choose from depending on the type of work you want to do. Very cool.

Old vegetables and leftovers for dinner. Yum.

2010.07.05 Monday

Got to sleep in quite a bit today. Felt pretty awesome. The lake house has less background noise than most places I sleep.

Used this downtime to beat some SSX tricky and Ace Combat levels. Ate some leftovers for breakfast.

Left late afternoon for home. Grabbed some chik-fil-a for early dinner or late lunch. THAT'S RIGHT BEACHES, got to end the weekend with chik-fil-a. How often does that happen?

Watched some smallville, showered and zz'zz'zz.

2010.07.04 Sunday

The plan was to wake up around 10:30-11 and clean up any messes and get things ready for family and friends. Actually woke up to the sound of car doors closing and vehicles leaving. Whoops.

Did a quick run around to pick up some stuff, but not too much longer and people were arriving.

Kev was really energetic about doing some diving. His dad had other plans for us initially. We helped fix a post that was cemented in the ground, but ripped out by the power of wind and water (just happen to be my two more-favorite of the Alchemy Index Thrice Albums). After that, we cooled off with a plunge to the bottom. Well, walk out about 15 feet from the shore and you may be up to your knees. After a little bit more out, it gets about 5ft deep; then right after that there is about a 6-7 foot drop (some very interesting rock formations to explore aquatic life with). Eventually we were able to find what we call our "Pier". It's a large rock structure that we built both above and below water (because the lake fluctuates a lot). What purpose does it serve? Well, when it's completely above water, it's pretty big and amazing that we moved those rocks into place. When it's below water, it becomes a nice habitat for marine life. When the water level is right below the top of it, it can double as a jumping point.

After that, we tried our luck at resetting one of the anchors for the dock. One of the previous anchors snapped right off the thick wire line, causing the dock to float closer to shore (putting the boat and jetski at higher risk for damage). Of all the people I have gone to the lake with, only Kevin and I bother with diving and exploring the waters. Also, not trying to brag but Kevin and I have gotten pretty good at conserving air for extended underwater pillages. I think I can hold my breath slightly longer than Kevin, but he has the ability to re-set his ears for the change in pressure. Once you hit about 20-25 feet, trust me, it starts getting quite painful. If only we could combine forces...

Took care of business. Then gathered a group together for a boat ride. We cruised up the lake and found a bend that seemed to be avoiding the high winds of all the storms rolling through. This allowed us to get some knee-boarding in. I only went for a few minutes, but man am I out of shape. Out of my two runs, I wrecked really awesomely on the first. I went out of the wake, did a spin, then was coming back across the wake and hit some weird edge, causing the board to shoot up and out while I did some weird starfish-style sideways cartwheel across the surface of the water. I could tell it looked awesome, but surprisingly didn't hurt that badly. My second run, I got those spins and wake crossings down better, even caught some minor air before calling it quits.

Back at the dock, I convinced Kelc to take a ride out on the jetski, just us two. We cruised around as quickly as the choppy water would allow. Also, we are both a bit timid about catching air with that thing.

Ate dinner and played games with everybody. For the sake of your ears and the health of those around you, please refrain from letting Korey do vocals on Guitar Hero or Rock Band.

Played some table games, then everybody left. Except Kelc and I...

2010.07.03 Saturday

This weekend started off as a mass of uncertainties. I was either doing something, or figuring out what would happen in 5 minutes or so.

Kelc just got into town. I'm trying to figure out what everybody's plans are.

After a ton of errands and running around like a mad man, I think we figured it out. To the lake house batman.

A handful of us went out to Kelc's place to watch fireworks and possibly do lake activities. Well, only a few of us were able to actually do lake activities (jetski) before a nice dark grey cloud rolled in to say Hi.

We played some games, ate lots of MEAT. The rest gets kinda hazy, both in the weather and my ability to stay awake.

2010.07.02 Friday

For those of you with blogs of your own, you may have noticed that blogger is starting to make some changes. Both good and bad, of course. Bad that I'm now slightly slower at posting, but good in that the interface has more features. Time was never really an issue anyways, so for you this will seem like normal.

Also was able to see some statistics about my viewers around the globe... or lack thereof. Tell all your friends!!! LOL just kidding around. Do people really want to hear me rant about things, talk nonsense, or just blabber on about boring life? A handful do. Maybe some lurkers too.

Work went by pretty quickly. Lots of people are taking off early to get a start on their weekends. Don't really blame them.

I ended up passing out once I got home. Everybody else went off to grab drinks at the bar while I fell asleep to some Science Channel show about building stuff. I'm so cool.

Eventually woke up and made myself some dinner. Friends came over and games were played. Can't really argue with that.

2010.07.01 Thursday

Whether you like it or not, the year 2010 is halfway over.

Weather, you like it or not?

Starting to feel like I need coffee/caffeine to function. Guess I screwed that up. I started drinking coffee at a pretty early age, and probably had way too many sodas through high school thanks to band.

Today I learned that coriander is the more official name for the cilantro plant. Thanks Mark. Also didn't know that you can consume the roots and seeds/fruit from said plant. The more you know...

Speaking of plants, I went home in the evening to hang out with the family for a bit, and pick up some items. My dad already transplanted the extra tomato plant I had, and replaced it with jalapeño plant. Sweet. Now I just have to keep it alive and growing.

Prior to leaving for my parent's place, I called to check if they were going to be around. The instant we hung up, it started pouring outside. Later on, I drove back to my place and parked, about to go inside, and it starts pouring again. WHAT HAVE I DONE TO DISPLEASE THE RAIN GODS?