Ever since I started living and working in a two block radius for most of the time I forgot that the sun comes up over buildings sometimes. Even in winter.

Conventus looks much nicer in the sun




This week I've been losing sleep getting up for an 8:30 MLM class (another story) at work. Since I get out at 4:30 instead of 7:30 this week, it seems crazy bright outside. Spring ( and daylight savings) is almost here.

Speaking of sleep, I've had some crazy dreams lately. Mostly programming related but my brain has been super weird.

Last night I dreamt I was struggling to stay awake and program Squeaky. So I decided to take meth to stay focused. (e:terry) tried to warn me but I didn't listen. instead I ended up with a >200bpm heart rate and I was so stressed I couldn't work at all.

To relax we went to Cleveland, which was so beautiful, warm, had great transit, people everywhere and fountains made of gold. Paul didn't want to go, but at the last second he rode his bike down (for the gold fountains maybe?) and met us on the Detroit-Superior bridge. The sky started turning black and I woke up.

The night before I had sleep paralysis but remember only laughing uncontrollably. I think it was real.

The week before I had a dream I was physically trapped in a surebert framework Index controller. I'm not sure what that means really but that's what I took from it when I woke up.

So close to warmer days and barer butts.

Sunday I went over to my parents house to chip ice off their roof that started a leak in their house. It was so freaking thick - I probably chiselled off a foot, and had to get the rest off with a giant torch attached to a propane tank. What an environmental disaster. The pyro in (e:paul) would have loved it.


Got to chill with Mid too

While I was there my mom wanted me to go dehoard some old electronics for recycling. She still has the old 3.5" floppies we used to play. Probably one of the first games I remember playing was this DOS game called "Barbie Supermodel". My sister and I would go insane trying to play it



I don't remember ever beating it or getting past the second level. I also remember not having a sound card so the motherboard speaker would just kind of screech the games music.

Transferring data with physical media has been irrelevant to me for so long now I almost forgot how terrible it was. Floppy disks becoming demagnitized and getting that WIndows "Abort, Retry, Ignore" message, CD's and DVD's becoming scratched and failing out halfway through loading, I almost never even use USB drives anymore. Why would you when you can scp almost everything. I'm so glad we're past that.

I did keep my favorite old game, Sim City 4. I usually can't keep interest in most games but little engineer me put thousands of hours into this game. I almost want to play it now. It was to me what Warcraft probably was to (e:terry) - it kept me up all hours of the night.

After the burst pipe situation (e:joe,59857) we headed out to bear night. (e:mike) and (e:libertad) were able to join. It's really how crazy bear night gets when there's literally no women around. (e:paul) thinks it's kind of how all male social clubs were. I'm not sure about that.

We met beardsly, another Roswell employee. He has the most amazing beard and speaks equally amazing German.





The whole night turned into a shirts off dance off.

Afterwards the half of the bar came over to our house, where (e:terry) immediately started snoring. (e:mike) came up with a hit musical, <<Goldstar Gay>> (can I post the video of the lead song?)

Scheiße. The freezing subzero temperatures froze our pipes along e basement wall last week. I've never dealt with frozen pipes before but because it started confined to the lines to the washing machine, and shutting off the water in that line meant shutting it off to half the house we never turned it off. We just went without doing laundry for a week and bought new underwear. (Tightly whities)

When we came back from skiing, we found all the water gushing from hot and cold pipes, flooding the basement. It was so crazy I didn't even manage a good picture.

(E:terry) and I were able to get the water off and shopvac pump the water down the drain. Thankfully we were able to have bathroom hot water.

While the cleanup happened (e:paul) cooked a delicious spaghetti dinner with coconut oil, which we shared with Jeremy and Chris.

Today we went down to Allegheny with Jeremy and Chris to cross country ski.

It was crazy fun and not too cold. I love working to climb up a hill and then speeding down. I wiped out a few times at first but by the end I think I got pretty good. (e:Terry) was freaking fast.

We spent most of the time slithering down the snow snake trail, which is black diamond. Alleghany is real nice in the winter. they even have a shack where you can rent the skis and buy snacks.

I want to go downhill (e:YesThatCasey) but I think I'd hate the mechanical part of it.


Jeremy had an interesting park job in the driveway.

City living in Elicottviles historic Tim Horton's Lofts