"Day at work, night at gym" written by Paul on estrip.org

Category: gym

07/16/08 10:33 - 74ºF - ID#45047

Day at work, night at gym

Work
Work was great today. I had a meeting about my new position and get to move on the stuff I planned on working on as they seemed to vibe good with the VP and the auditors. I have so much responsibility now. My plan is to let the groups of people that use the specific languages, which there are many, decide on the standards, co-incding with industry ones. It is going to be fun to work on standards for languages like COBOL that I will have to leanr a lot about.

Then we had a meeting about the intranet and decided on the people for the focus group. I think the ideas I had are pretty radical and what Roswell needs to get by in for a new progresive intranet. It will be such a huge, yet fun undertaking. It is amazing how big my projects are and how much influence I have had over the direction of how things are going. It makes all those endless hours of programming, teaching, studying and practicing seem worth it. Before I thought I was throwing my life away being bound to the computer for so many years and now I realize it was just laying a foundation for something greater.

The Gym
Speaking of laying the foundation. Man, I am getting way buff. Tonight I worked out so hard I was exhausted afterwards.

In the lockerroom, I was talking to this gym friend of mine about documenting life on the internet and how sometimes I am scared of what would happen if the political climate changed and gayness was more frowned upon with some sort of reprocussion. It is kind of hard to pretend when your whole life is in google cache. He seemed kind of amazed at how much of this generations life is online. Imagine gen Y. I mean I am only X.

paul writes at 12:49:01 10/05/11 - Comment #65339: I miss the muscles.

metalpeter writes at 07:02:52 07/17/08 - Comment #37123: I misunderstood sorry. I hope that doesn't happen. But I'm sure there was a time when Jews thought being in Germany was safe so if it can happen there, we must learn from that and not let it happen here, oh wait it did with the Japanese I mean let it not happen again.

tinypliny writes at 06:48:23 07/17/08 - Comment #37118: I hope we humans don't get more insular and segregated as we evolve!! That would defeat the point of evolution.

Anyway, I would LOVE to be a part of the focus group, if you are still recruiting. :)

paul writes at 06:15:10 07/17/08 - Comment #37107: I meant more like the government rounding you up and putting you in concentration camps kind of dangerous, not street dangerous.

metalpeter writes at 06:03:32 07/17/08 - Comment #37106: Maybe I'm just a little bit crazy. But if i understood what you meant is that if things changed and being gay publicly became dangerous. I think it is important to know that it can still be dangerous. I think that there are areas in each city and each state where acceptance is different for gays, blacks, woman and others. For example the Elmwood strip you might see girls holding hands (i have) or two guys shopping in Wilson Farms who are together and you can tell and no one says anything. But at the same time there could be places in Buffalo that the same activity could get you into trouble real quickly. I'm guessing that there are places that if you where out and on the internet it wouldn't be safe (the sterotype is small towns and the bibble belt) not sure where those places are. I think that most people who don't approve won't get up in your face about it. I know that in the military they have that stupid Don't ask Don't tell policy but I wonder if you where found on the net but you never said anything if they would let you join, or if later they found stuff but it had no military link like that you where a soilder I wonder what they would do?

hodown writes at 11:51:01 07/16/08 - Comment #37085: Wow sexy!

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: housing

07/14/08 11:33 - 67ºF - ID#45020

The rental property

The top apartment at our rental propert is coming along. We redid the kitchen floors, we painted, new appliances (still have to get a new fridge as the other one molded on the inside), finsihing new counters and light over sink - then it is done. It is looking really good finally.

It sucks doing work and having it not be the house you live in. We spent a lot of the weekend working on it.

The kitchen

The sink counter ends still need to be fabricated

The dining room. What to do with the hutch? Should I leave it?

The living room looks nice in white.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: linwood

07/14/08 11:29 - 67ºF - ID#45019

The yard and squiddy

These flowers are pretty but not as prettyy.

A lilly of the nile

And some Holly Hocks - we got japanese beattle traps that saved them this year.

But not as cute as squiddy.

He wants to go in the house so bad.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: buffalo

07/14/08 07:25 - ID#45016

Damn someone had a bad day

I noticed this new hypodermic needle jammed through the window in one
of the buildings Kalaeda is buying near main and north. Having it
occupied should really clean up that section of town.

Here is the building that got stabbed.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: food

07/14/08 07:22 - ID#45015

Paul's grilled chicken legs

I made these last night and they were so freakin tasty. Marinate in
olive oil , garlic and thyme. Then turn half the grill on. Cook on
non fire filled side for 20-30 minutes with the grill closed. Then
move to fireside for final 5-10 minutes. Yum!

Some more tasty protein yummies. I love tuna.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: pets

07/13/08 09:12 - ID#45010

How can you say no to this?

I am having a severly asthmatic evening.

tinypliny writes at 11:31:56 07/14/08 - Comment #37033: Thanks. :)

paul writes at 10:13:58 07/14/08 - Comment #37028: I brightened it up.

jon writes at 02:08:25 07/14/08 - Comment #37021: And this... :::link:::

jon writes at 02:04:35 07/14/08 - Comment #37020: Why I don't like cats... :::link:::

dragonlady7 writes at 11:17:31 07/14/08 - Comment #37019: There are a lot of allergic people who keep cats and survive. My team captain's boyfriend is severely asthmatic and allergic, and she has come up with all kind of coping mechanisms. Her cats are both long-haired cats, and one of them, she just shaves every few months, the poor thing. She also vacuums religiously and they got rid of all their carpeting and have leather couches because cat hair doesn't stick to leather. But they have a much smaller house so there are fewer places for poor allergic Walt to retreat.

Most important is KEEP THE THING OUT OF YOUR BEDROOM. You need a cat-free space to retreat to. Be really strict about this, even to the point of not keeping dirty laundry in there that might have cat hair on it.
I mean, that's only if he's coming inside at all-- but really, restricting what rooms of the house he can go into is a really good idea if he ever comes inside. Keep doors shut and so on.

A good-quality HEPA air filter in the cat-free space will also help. I know these assholes fired me, but their HEPA filters are for serious-- www.austinair.com -- and they're good for chemical sensitivities too. If you're interested in one I'll give you my old sales manager's contact info-- he's still a nice dude and could cut you a deal.

www.allergybuyersclub.com is a good website with various allergy coping mechanisms-- faithfully brushing the cat (preferably outdoors) to keep shedding and dander to a minimum, but they also sell like these baby-wipe-like things that you can wipe the cat down with now and then to get dander off it so it doesn't become airborne.

Does your kitty have a name? He looks a lot like Chita so I am automatically a sucker for him and want you guys to totally keep him. The more proactive you are about keeping him from annoying you, the longer you can keep him without, you know, dying. So really I'm being selfish in telling you all this, but also I don't want you to die.

hodown writes at 10:42:19 07/14/08 - Comment #37018: I can not believe you have left me alone in the cat haters club. thanks paul, thanks a lot.

tinypliny writes at 09:56:53 07/14/08 - Comment #37017: I had the Gamma values set to zero all these days!! Oh foolish me. No wonder all my monitors were so dark and my work monitor was too light! Aaargh.

tinypliny writes at 09:53:33 07/13/08 - Comment #37013: Can't see a thing...

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Location: Buffalo, NY

07/13/08 07:23 - ID#45009

Believe it or not

Yes, that is my lap and yes that is my cat. Well, temporarily my cat
- squiddy.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: stress

07/13/08 07:20 - ID#45008

Things that stress me out

This tree humping my house. It is my neighbor's tree and the reason I never do anything about it is because I feel bad having them cut such a big ole beautiful tree. On the other hand it is fucking up my roof.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: programming

07/13/08 02:05 - ID#44995

Mobile posting from blackberry email

I think mobl posting via email should work with blackberry now too.
I would have rather gone dancing at HEMF on grand island but seeing
a nobody got back to me I just programmed some more, lame.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: mobile

07/12/08 09:16 - ID#44985

I love my new iPhone

I love my new iphone. Here I am, blowing it kisses like a new lover. I stayed up all night writing a program so I can picture blog from it via email in an effort to bring me closer to my 3000th blog post. If you have an iphone amnd want to try it, message me. I am also working on a blackberry version for (e:fing). Apparently, bith OSes don't let you upload files from the browser, lame.

I am so glad I didn't wait in the four hour line yesterday (e:paul,44928) . They had plenty of them this afternoon and the line was only 10 minutes. The tricky thing is that they have to remove all corporate discounts from your phone in order to activate it. Then you have to go to the AT&T store to rreapply the discounts to your account. I bet lots of people forget. How tricky is that. They say its a computer glitch, whatever.