Merry Christmas to all my compatriots, friends, and (strangely enough) the folks who find my blog interesting enough to read! =)

Got spoiled something fierce this year. Feels nice. =) wOO! 25th anniversary Transformers boxed set! I'll be reliving my childhood for a long time to come... I have no idea how …

Well, I bought a new computer about a month ago or so, and got my Win7 upgrade disc today. I've got Vista on one drive, and Fedora 12 on the other (Vista is around for gaming and that's about it). So I decided to go through the steps of the …

I'm in crunch mode right now... wrote 2400 words today, another 4300 to get back on target (need to write 1167 words per day to make the 50k target at the end of the month).

Not an excuse, really, but this was a stupid work week with stupid little things …

So last year I participated in National Novel Writing Month but didn't pull it off. The idea is to go nuts and write a 50k word novel during the month of November. People all around the world do it, and it's quite fun but very time consuming and pretty crazy …

Every time you turn around someone is posting about, talking about, writing about, or otherwise having something to do with H1N1. While I get this is a new flu, and the media have a job to do in increasing sales and readership, the sheer volume of "OMG! H1N1!" is frightening …

Blogging has been on my short list the last two weeks. Yesterday the contractor we hired finally finished putting up new insulation and vinyl siding on the house, and I have to admit he did a fantastic job and it looks bloody sharp. Pics to come (the eavestrough isn't up …

My Flickr account now has pictures of the work I got done last Saturday. The sleeve is getting close to completion! Yikes... three sittings in 2 weeks. What was I thinking? Feels like as soon as the burning and peeling and itching settle down I'm off to do it again …

So my Flickr account now has pictures of my new in-progress sleeve. The first session was just the line work and that was done on July 18th and took 5hrs. Sessions 2 and 3 added color; session 2 was done this past Monday (the 17th of August) and took 6 …

Last night I attained "Legendary Status" on Rock Band by doing the never ending setlist (84 songs), on the drums, on hard (not good enough to do more than a handful on expert). It took me about 30hrs to accomplish (left the xbox on overnight hoping it wouldn't fry).

Talk …

Read an interesting piece on Lifehacker that pointed to an article entitled Working From Home: 10 Unconscious Cues to Create a Work-Life Balance. Being a remote worker for Red Hat, and before that Mandriva, I've worked full-time at home for about 10 years now. (Man, I feel old!)

Anyways, there …