I could should be working right now. But I really just have no motivation to. I’d rather go sit outside with a cocktail and a book that I could feign reading before drifting off to sleep. Right now it’s a gorgeous “Fall” day in Houston [No comments on REAL seasons from The Other Professor Middents]. After the typical humid summer, I’m definitively enjoy this.

Two weeks from tomorrow L & I will be married in Santa Fe, NM. I’m a mix of nervous, excited, and exhausted. I didn’t think I’d get nervous; hell I’ve done this before, right? But I strangely am. It’s not cold feet, or question whether this is right, it’s just nervousness over taking that step. And obviously the excitement needs no real explanation. I’m thrilled to have the opportunity to spend the rest of my life with this woman. And as for exhausted… Fuck, I am so tired of wedding planning and minutia-level details. I just want it to be done, and get back to pre-wedding planning life. I look forward to getting back to things like trying to make something interesting out of this site, the podcast and all my other stupid projects that are simmering somewhere in the back of my brain.

I’ve been working [albeit at a snails pace] on a handful of things

• Blog research/review on mobile computing platforms
• Blog research/review on Post WEB 2.0 gateway services and productivity enhancement
• A handful of Steampunk design projects [both graphic, decor, and "invention"]
• New [And regularly posted] Podcasts
• Music Reviews
• Redesign of the wedding-soon-to-be-married web site.
• Stuff…

I’m just want to try to get back to whatever it was I use to call normal.

Anyway, I suppose I should think about building a mass email that needs to go out Wednesday for the office. Blarf.

 

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I don’t really care how time is reckoned so long as there is some agreement about it, but I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind. I even object to the implication that I am wasting something valuable if I stay in bed after the sun has risen. As an admirer of moonlight I resent the bossy insistence of those who want to reduce my time for enjoying it. At the back of the Daylight Saving scheme I detect the bony, blue-fingered hand of Puritanism, eager to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make them healthy, wealthy and wise in spite of themselves.

Robertson Davies, The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks, 1947, XIX, Sunday.

And damn you too, Mr Franklin for even the notion.

Anyhow, last week was filled with last minute preparations for this decade’s Y2K of computer shenanigans, and as expected, Daylight Saving Time came around with not so much as a fart from any computer system under my authority.

That aside life has been quiet and busy.  I’d like to say that I’ve been working on the next podcast, but right now it’s just a note in my widget notepad.  but rest assured it will be coming soon enough [Though I GUARANTY it will not be this week, for reasons I'll discuss in a minute].

I did Houston’s Annual AIDS Walk again on Sunday and had a great time as always.  And the after party at my friend/former boss’ house never disappoint either.  After that is was on to see Snow Patrol @ The Verizon Wireless Theater.  I managed to finagle tickets to said sold out show with my new Live Nation connections here at the office.  Sadly, I missed 90% of the first opening band, whom I really enjoy, the Silversun Pickups.  Ok Go, was, well ok as usual.  I saw them open for Death Cab for Cutie here at my own Theater back in February, and I tried to give them a fair shot, but they’re just kind of lack luster I suppose.  Though I:

1. Have to give them points for doing a great cover of Electric Light Orchestra’s Don’t Bring me Down
2. Give credit to the fact that these guys get the whole [Noun] 2.0 aesthetic, and know how to market themselves to their audience.  Not content to be held be the reigns of traditional, you can only see/hear us on MTV/Radio bullshit, they release their stuff themselves and make it easily available.

And Snow Patrol, were, simple awesome.  Great stage presence, lots of energy; you could really tell they ENJOY doing this.  I had my lingering fear of the "Grey’s Anatomy/One Tree Hill, I’ve only heard Chasing Cars" bullshit, and don’t get me wrong, there were a fair share of those folk there.  But, to the bands credit they played a pretty even mix of older songs vs. newer songs, not content to just play the "hits".  My only [meager] complaints:

• Too much strobe.  I had to turn away and close my eyes to avoid educing a seizure more than a few times.
• The crowd SUCKED.  I pogo.  A LOT.  And the crowd just wasn’t moving AT ALL.  LAME.  Dance, bitches; enjoy yourself.

Oh well, those tiny gripes aside, I had a great time.

Now I just have to sit here and not climb through my skin for the next hour waiting for L’s plane to arrive from Florida.  She’s been gone since the end of December, and I miss her something awful.  Sadly she will only be home for about six days before heading off yet again, this time to North Carolina for another gig, but I will take the time I get.  That being said, I’m going to be largely "Off-the-Grid" this week, making the most of the time we have together this week.  Back in a few days…

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I have become unspeakably negligent of this poor site, specifically in the past month, but surely not exclusively.

Well, obviously, and as most of you who read this blog know, L and I are now engaged.  On November 4th [our one year anniversary], I proposed to her at the Byzantine Chapel.  But beginning at the beginning…  We started the day of driving around to different furniture stores in search of a new bead and mattress, as:

1. We had been given a generous gift of money from the sale of some furniture that had been given to us that we had no way of actually claiming.
2. Our old bed a a futon [a nice futon, but a futon none the less] that was taking a toll on both of our backs.

After a trip to the "the Dump" [For those of you out of town, it's a store full of overstock, etc., with DEEP discounts] we purchased a top of the line hand-stitched pillowtop mattress [cliche as it may be, it's like sleeping on a cloud].  And less than an hour later had found a the bed frame that we had really liked at a different store, but in the correct mattress size AND $200 less.

Later, we had dinner plans that night for our favorite restaurant, Divino’s, but I told her I had a surprised planned before dinner.  So we got dressed for dinner and headed out.  Near the intersection of I-45 and I-59 I told her she had to close her eyes.  We arrived at the Byzantine Chappel and I guided her inside.  I then made her stand at the back of the church, facing the back.  When she opened here eyes and turned around there I was, on one knee, holding this:

Yes, that is an LED light built into the box…
and yes, I am that big a geek

So, yeah, she said yes. [Well, to be exact she said "Oh my God!  Seriously?  Yes!"]  We are planning on getting married on November 3rd, 2007 in Santa Fe, NM.  Detail and documentary of all the planning and our thoughts [I'm trying to get her to TRY to blog during this period] will land on our newly acquired site www.lydiaandjoel.com.

Elsewhere in life, work has been busy.  The Radio City Rockettes [or as we call them at the office, Evil Bitches from Hell...  I should note, the Rockettes and just about everyone with the show is very nice, it's just the fact that we are all tired as hell from 58 performances of the same show in less than 30 days] have been in the theatre, but their last performance is tomorrow afternoon.  After which all of us at the office will start new years about 11 hour early and start popping open the corks.  So yeah, life on the work front is busy.

And Christmas has come and gone.  I put away the Christmas decorations today and threw out the tree.  After which I set loose the newest member of our family Nunu, the Roomba, to handle the aftermath [I wanted to name it Suckey, but L didn't like the name].  I am quite surprised by just how effective it is.  My floor is spotless and Nunu is took itself back to it’s charging station.  Morgan gets major props for this gift!  The better gift was just having Morgan home for a few days, as I haven’t seen him in close to a year as he is finishing his education elsewhere.  It was nice to have a holiday with the post-nuclear family; Morgan, L, the Goblin [and now Nunu :)].  Other notables include a new 80 GB iPod [as my 4th Gen 40 GB is nearing death], the Riedel O-Series Sauvignon Blanc/Riesling wine glasses, A Scanner Darkly on DVD, and a massager for my recliner.

And that brings to the present.  L is away for about three month in Sarasota for work.  The Goblin is currently on Christmas vacation in Illinois with her mother, to return later this week.  And me, well, I’m just here, doing my thing.  Looking forward to a slower time at the office so I can clean my office [with a Bulldozer] as there is a great deal of crap my predecessor left, well, EVERYWHERE.  I also hope to spend more time working on this site and get some mixtapes up in the podcast soon and maybe a few music reviews.  And of course wedding planning will own my life a great deal this year.

So begins a new year and a new chapter…

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