I guess I did have something to write about…

I feel like blogging… but I have not a thing to write… not really, anyways… I had hoped something would come to me… I did have one thought, but it’s kinda vague.. .but hey, it’s been a while since I’ve been vague, so let’s be vague…

disclaimer: this vagueness is not even vaguely connected to other vaguenesses that are being vaguely discussed with other peoples…

poetry… you know, with everyone posting some kind of poetry or talking about writing stories on their blogs, I almost wish I still did creative writing. Most people might not peg me for being a writer, but I am/used to be. I have a novel floating around in my mind. It’s been there for two, almost three years now; and it’s all there, start to finish. The characters are defined and have physical description as well as attitudes. The places are all in my mind, with some even on paper… I used to have all the dialog, but it’s fading away… it’s all fading away… Every day I don’t write, another page slips from my mind, but I just don’t have time to write… One of my initial motivations for starting the blog was to have a place to type little things to myself when I felt like it without having to be behind my computer, but well… it just turned into something completely different which isn’t bad…

oh, back to poetry… I guess one thing that bothers me is I’ve completely stopped writing poetry. It wasn’t a gradual thing… I just stopped. And it really is something that bothers me… Any time I have tried to write any poetry since then, I cannot help but think of the last poem I wrote… It was pretty much the best poem I’ve ever written, but it wasn’t the one that won me a medal in poetry (which yes, I have one), in fact, the last poem I wrote has never been shown to anyone, except maybe one. It really was something to write… It just came out… Most of the time, if I wanted poetry to rhyme, or be in a certain rhythm, I had to think about it or work with the words, but this one just sprang out, all at once, without ever correcting anything. The entire thing was written in a matter of moments, and in leaving me that quickly, it left a scar… I guess you could say that you really have to cut deep to pour out that much so quickly. So now when I look inside to that place where all poetry should come from, I can’t help but see the scar and turn away…

It’s kind of ironic, but my appropriate quote of the day has now become an extremely appropriate quote of the day:

“As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.” — John Lancaster Spalding (1840 – 1916)

Here ya go… .useless knowledge to pass your day:

Today is national day in Tonga.

Edward VII, Duke of Windsor, is credited with inventing the Windsor knot, when in fact, it was created by his father, George V.

Today marks the 13th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre.

A Hierophant (HY-er-uh-font) is an interpreter or explainer of arcane knowledge or cults.

Today is Dr. Ruth’s birthday.

Here’s an appropriate Quote of the Day:

“As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.” — John Lancaster Spalding (1840 – 1916)

heh… If it wasn’t slightly sacreligous, I do believe the phrase “Jesus Christ on a pogo stick” would become my phrase of choice for a while… it’s a good one

welp, I made a mistake…

went in to drop off my time card and I stopped to talk to the guy there. He asked me how it was going and what all I had gotten done, so I told him about how I had spent the last two days doing nothing… Well… I kinda forgot that his dad is my boss here, so as I’m walking out I hear him on his cell phone, “hey Dad…” yeah, so at exactly 3:10pm, boss comes back (hasn’t been here all week), and we spent the next hour talking about what he wants done. He gives me a software package still in the shrinkwrap, and tells me to go have fun for two weeks, but to absolutely know the software at the end of that time. He tells me exactly what he wants out of it and said it’s up to me to go through the software and make it happen… so, yeah… I can do that…

anyways, the moral of this story is don’t complain until monday…

Also, for anyone else who doesn’t know what BOFH stands for…. go here

took this off a webpage I read this morning… I thought it was worth posting here

Be Nice to the DM

The DM takes a big risk by allowing a kender in his campaign. A kender shakes things up and can easily cause the party to stray from the path in which the DM originally intended. Therefore, be nice to the guy. He’s obviously either very brave or very stupid, but he’s still a cool happening guy. Also, he reserves the right to have a rock fall on your character, so it really helps to behave yourself.

::sings:: I’m so excited… and I just can’t hide it… I’m…. ::stops singing:: sorry, didn’t know anyone was listening….

anyways… so I meant to post something about my job tuesday, but here it is a day or three late… job is ok… pretty nice with one exception. I have my own computer which is good… it’s actually spiffy… 1.9 Ghz P4, 512 Meg ram, 120 Gb HD, geforce2, LCD flatscreen monitor, cdrw, dvd… yeah, you get the point Unfortuately to use it, I had to change my name to Joe. This was apparently supposed to be Joe’s computer, but he left, and rather than let me create my own login, the stupid computer guy here just told me to log in under his account… fun fun… Anyways, the computer is probably the spiffiest in the office… Overall, the job is good. I am doing blackhole engineering, so to speak… I go into a hole and no one sees me until I’m done or have a question. I’ve already had two projects in three days. One was a spreadsheet which is still in progress waiting for people; more on that later. The other was a database, and I have to say that I got dad gum good at programming the little quirks of MS Access in a day. I built a database robust enough in two days to show them that Access is just not capable enough to handle what they want. So I was supposed to go back to the spreadsheet, but it turns out the lady in charge doesn’t know what’s actually supposed to go into the spreadsheet… awfully hard to build what you don’t know. And she even was like “can’t you just build a general database and go back and fill in stuff later?” riiiiiight…

so here I sit… I have been sitting here for two hours with 30 minutes left to go. I have surfed everyone’s blogs, I have read dilbert, and now I’m blogging… life is boring when you don’t have any work to do, but you still have to stick around. Sure, I could leave, but I’d lose out on $25, and every little bit counts these days… besides, it’s not like I could go visit deedee like I did two summers ago… I’d just go home and sit and surf, so I might as well stay here and get paid to do the same thing.

I had a pretty spiffy idea for a character last night… can’t write anything about him here, though, because he will be in the upcoming campaign I figured it out and he would need to be 8th level to pull off what I want, and I figure a single 8th level character should be a pretty good challenge if made up properly man… I’m really gonna have to call someone and tell them about it because this is just cool

well… 15 minutes to go (I was typing with one finger to kill time)… makes capital letters challenging I think I’m gonna bring some headphones for tomorrow in case they still don’t have anything for me to do.

10 minutes to go and I’m typing by dropping a pencil on the keyboard…

oh yeah… just thought of two things… 1) I get to round to the nearest 15 minutes, so I can leave 7 minutes early and still get full time 2) I came in 5 minutes early today, so I can leave at 5:25… take 7 minutes from 5:25 and you get 5:18. Now, it’s 5:23… you know what that means???

I’m outta here!!

should not… have eaten.. chocolate cheesecake… ugh… bleah….

I am the great and powerful wizard of oz… or maybe not, but I really felt like saying that…

so, how does everyone feel about getting together thursday to hash out characters, history, and some general crap? I don’t like just throwing stuff together at the last minute because I like to focus more on story than just hacking and slashing… I was originally thinking 7 levels per person, but now I’m thinking I might bump it up to 11th if everyone has played before… it could let people play with some prestige classes if they wanted. I won’t say that’s for certain yet, but I would be interested in everyone’s opinionss (comment below).

one reason I want to get together to do this is because I like to be involved in character creation. I want to be present for the rolling of stats since I have a unique way of rolling stats. Also, since we’ll be starting higher level, you’ll get a certain amount of money to buy equipment and magical items. I also have to approve all magical items, and can trade higher powers for potential offsets, etc… Character creation is one of the funnest parts of gaming, imo, and I just like to be involved plus, knowing the characters and their histories, helps me to setup the campaign.

if anyone has any character ideas they want to discuss… email me!!! email me at tmberwolff at hotmail… (sorry, but I didn’t want to write out the address online, even though it’s probably on this page somewhere) I’d even entertain character ideas from a specific world as long as we can work it in…

gotta run.. more later….

well… I just finished catching up on some blogs that I haven’t read… and I see that there are just as many votes against my website as there are for it… unnamed reviewers have said things such as “the navigation is … arbitrary” and “I think there is a problem with the words mixing together”… I feel crushed… my one attempt to join the scripting world has failed… oh well… I should have known I couldn’t compete with any real web designers… but hey… only when one of those web people put together a better interplanetary mission proposal or write a better grid generator will I be truly beaten and will throw myself off of the chapel of memories tower… twice… or more…

there… the old page is back up…

Now, for everything else… to sum up what’s happened since I last updated… first, I decided to leave boulder… packed up and left the next morning, drove to los alamos. Hung out there for day or three and visited the base there and watched episode 2 from the second row of a small theater (not to worry, saw it again in the digital theater at majestic… spiffy)… got up saturday morning, drove home all in one shot… 17 1/2 hours… lots of time to drive and think… only got tired the last 30-45 minutes or so.

I may have a job now… find out tomorrow for sure… Reeves-Williams home builders wants to exploit, I mean hire me for the summer. I basically will be creating a database/3d spreadsheet to replace their current budgeting software, plus stuff that it doesn’t do. On top of that, I have to learn prima vera something 3.0 and create a schedule for their home builders. They want to shave 11 days off their constuction time and it would seem I’m the man to figure out where these 11 days come from. Then I have to create a single schedule for all their homes that all the different crews can use… Then I have to integrate in all the different construction sites into this software package so they can build like 80 homes a month without a single subcontractor scheduling conflict… now, my uncle does database programming, and he gets paid $125/hour… now granted, he could probably do this in 3 hours, but still… and for the entire scheduling thing?? I mean, really!! he said he wants to hire a permanent IT person in the fall…. I hope he’s gonna pay them more… so guess how much I’m getting paid… no, really… guess…. nope… $10/hour… better than their first offer of $9, but it’s still explotation, I’m pretty sure…

Welp, chelsea’s throwing a fit… I gotta run…..

Later

p.s. I get to see deedee on friday!!!!!!