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11/30/2007 00:02 #42336

I have stuff I want to talk about
Category: life
Movies
I don't ever want to see another movie where they shoot children. I am over violent movies altogether really. I just don't want to see movies anymore. I hate movies. All of them.

Surebert 4.0
I released surebert 4.0 but the website still reflects the 3.21 version until I get a chance to update that. Right now it is at No one cares probably.

Death
Someone died but I am not going to talk about it until later... It is no one that you know.

Food
I went to Pho 99. I am not a big fan of asian food under $10 as it usually is substandard ingredients. Pho 99 usually tastes good. I mean, I like the lemon grass chicken but what are those chewy odd shaped bits that taste ok.

However, today the hair in my eggroll just kind of ruined it for me. I took a picture so everyone could want to vomit like I did. I guess I ate the other half of the hair. At least it was deep fried. I managed to make it all the way through lunch without telling everyone so that they weren't grossed out. It was really hard to do that.
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Stomach
My stomach still hurts and is causing me a huge amount of stress.

Neck
My neck no longer hurts and I can turn it. Do I bother going back for my scheduled follow up at the chiropractor tomorrow? I have to say I feel great but am seriously a little scared to go back.

Lungs
I ran home in the freezing wind because of the news and my lunsg hurt for like 25 minutes afterwards. Don't run in freezing wind.

Drugs
I need some sort of anti-anxiety drug in high quantities right now. I am seriously about to have a nervous breakdown about nothing particular, which is not a fun feeling.

Time off
I have like 3 days left to take off 13+4 hours which is impossible with my workload. Great!

Haircut
Last night I cut my hair.
Before
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I had this horrible zit/cut/scratch/infection on the back of my head that was seriously stressing me out so much that I shaved my head. Will it please get the fuck off of me now. Either that or consume me quickly and just end it. But let me tell you zit, that if I die, you die too.

At first I thought there were only a few white hairs
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But then there were so many
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After the haircut
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Obligatory Paul is a cyborg with a new phone shot.
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This is how I feel tonight
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The fuckin' bridge
Is it going to be a signature bridge or a twin span. NO, because it is like 40 feet long so finish it already. Everytime I look at it, it makes me think abou tall the stupid things that never get completed. (e:jim) says it started on fire, and it is definately a bit crooked now. How hard can it be to either put it up or knock it down.
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james - 11/30/07 17:36
Sorry you aren't feeling your normal super-Paul self.
If it makes you feel better Jim keeps telling me about Surebert. yippy!

The haircut looks good.

And to follow up on (e:mike)'s comment. I saw a bacon candy bar at premier.

feel better Paul. If you need anything just let me know.
museumchick - 11/30/07 14:01
Hey... take care of yourself. I hope you'll be feeling better soon:).
fellyconnelly - 11/30/07 09:45
sorry you aren't having a great time right now paul.. but to reiterate leetee - i like your hair short.
also i'm loving the colors on surebert 4.0 and it looks like you did a great job laying that all out.

also... (e:mike) are you kidding about the bacon candy bar? please provide documentation!
paul - 11/30/07 09:38
Thanks for the hugs leetee,
I also thought that chiropracters were not real but seriously, my neck has been messed up for about a year and now it is just about totally fine. I mean I had constant headaches and everything. It made enough noise that I think something really happend and by shoulder is no longer crooked. I would say they probably can't sure everything but they definately can do something about neck and shoulder alignment.
mike - 11/30/07 00:44
you know what cures everything from stomach aches to gray hair to boredom to unbuilt bridges...bacon...seriously it cures everything ...and goes with everything...i actually heard there is a bacon candy bar coming out soon...DELICIOUS!
leetee - 11/30/07 00:42
I'm so with you on movies that have violence towards children. Creeps me out.

Yay for Surebert 4.0!

I am so sorry to hear about the someone that died.

Never been to Pho 99... where is it? I don't mind eating hair... i kinda feel like being a hairdresser i ate a lot whether i meant to or not. And it doesn't look like a pube....

Stress can cause stomach issues (the story of my life), so i hope you are not in a vicious cycle!!

Yay that your neck doesn't hurt. Don't as me about chiropractors. I think they are all fake snake oil pushing bastards.

Glad your lungs feel better... and i am sure i will not be running in any kind of wind...

I wonder if anti-anxiety drugs will help your stomach issues?

Good luck with the time off situation!

I like you better with shorter hair... you look like a cute lil raver boy... with a few grey hairs. I wonder if you can convince people you coloured them that way on purpose?

How come we can't see your naked butt in any of the new "i just cut my hair/beard and got a new camera" shots anymore??!??

Don't walk on the bridge until it's completed!

(((((((((( (e:Paul) ))))))))))

11/28/2007 19:00 #42322

Catching Up
Category: life
I am going to write a journal about my experience with Chiropractic but I am waiting until after my second appointment on Friday because the Chiropracter is hyperlocal and does not have a web presence so whatever I say is going to kind of define that for him.

So far it is going good but I don't want to speak too soon. I can at least turn my head without wanting to throw up. Really that is so much better.

Here are some pics with me and my new phone.

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Last night I watched Star Trek on it in bed. The episode was a voyager episode but it had Diana Troy in it. When (e:matthew) caught me watching it he was so mad that I had cheated on him with Diana by watching her without him. I thought it was funny - I hope he wasn't really mad, he loves her.

It is the eve of surebert 4.0 I think depending on how I feel in the morning. I am on this new kick where I am refusing to program outside of work until I can not be sick but I find life really boring otherwise - at least in the winter.

Okay, I am off to see Mist. I am sure I will have something to say about it.
james - 11/28/07 20:40
beware Stephen King books made into movies.
tinypliny - 11/28/07 20:05
Oooh, so that's where all of you were headed to. But why go and see the mist. It conveniently enshrouds you nowadays, anyway.

11/26/2007 17:33 #42289

writing from my new phone
Category: mobile
The keyboard on this phone is much better than my old one but still not as awesome as the sidekick2. Maybe I just need to get used to it thlught because I can already type really fast on it.

The GPS is nice but like 3 said I don't go anywhere. Okay next step is to watch startrek on it.
james - 11/26/07 20:37
If only people were as enthusiastic about one thing in their lives as you are with phones.
paul - 11/26/07 18:20
Okay, the cell phone is nice, but it really didn't help my stomach feel any better ;(

11/26/2007 10:09 #42282

My Stomach
Category: health
Like right under my stomach has been hurting for about a week now. No matter what I eat, no matter what time of day - it just kind of hurts - sometimes it feels a little better but mostly hurts, especially after I eat. I suppose maybe I should see a doctor, but I keep telling myself that it will go away - hoping it is a flu like symptom because (e:matthew) just had a flu.

Please don't let it be an ulcer ;)
jim - 11/27/07 23:20
Let me know how it went with the chiropractor, I might go too having some trouble this week myself.
jenks - 11/26/07 19:15
try pepcid or prilosec or something like that and see if it helps. If it does, it could be a refluxy kind of thing.
tinypliny - 11/26/07 19:04
:(

\m/ Get well soon!! Massive dose of good wishes coming your way!! \m/
james - 11/26/07 14:27
Paul, as a feel-rite alumni you know that you can cure every ailment known to mankind with flax seed oil and colonic irrigation. Preferably simultaneously. ick.

Hope you feel better.
museumchick - 11/26/07 13:30
I think maybe it would be good to go to a doctor. They might be able to give you some meds. to alleviate the pain.

11/25/2007 22:05 #42277

Resolution and relationships
Category: life
The way the garden looks, is how I feel right now.

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I guess at least the new phone is coming tomorrow, although at this point nothing can really make me happy. I think it is time to join the gym again. This time I am going to try Allentown Athletix, which is just around the corner form us.

I got into a huge fight with (e:matthew) yesterday about a random chimney shaft in our bedroom wall that connects to no mantel. Based on previous pictures I had taken with a web cam on a 6 ft USB chord, I thought that the tunnel went down and to the left but what I thought was a "floor" and a tunnel to the left turned out the be an odd brick of the side of the shaft wall.

I thought that brick or whatever it is was the bottom in the usb webcam view and that the hole on the end was a turn to the left.

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When I switched to the 7MP camera with flash I got a much better view.

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I wish I didn't get so angry about it at 2am last night. Sometimes, I can be a jerk. I am embarrassed for the way I acted but I was so sure I was right.

Anyways, the good news I think we can switch the Den and our bedroom and get a wood or gas burning insert similar to the one that (e:enknot) has at his house and have it be direct vent. This is a much better alternative to the next vented ones that make me ill.

You can see the chimney straight up and it looks easy enough to line it ourselves considering it is just a straight trip up.
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I thought someone might find this amusing

Look at the clipart they used in this professional article about the iphone in Europe. It is a freakin' old white ipod on a slide phone, running windows mobile. Seems like no one fact checked that one.
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I am switching from qmail to postfix and got my book in the mail today. I am not sure why. I just wanted to try something new and got sick of setting up qmail on the new server although I did it before on the old one.
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There has been lots of progress on the new site, don't think I forgot! I just hurt my neck and it is slowing me down, argh.
tinypliny - 11/28/07 20:12
I read this journal and I have the same burning question as Carolinian! Why was the direction of the shaft tunnel important? Is it some Vaastu/Feng Shui thing?
carolinian - 11/26/07 13:02
Why were you fighting over where the shaft lead? Was there a practical reason, or was it just for the sake of the argument?
fellyconnelly - 11/26/07 08:18
yeah the new phone will totally make youf eel better
jenks - 11/26/07 05:18
Sorry you had a crappy day. I bet new electronics *will* help you feel better, though. (always works for me!)