I'm ready to die in obscurity...

  I'm not all that much for holidays. I guess, for a man like me, all they really represent is what's missing in my life. You can bullshit yourself and say you've got the stamina to run the whole race by yourself, but sometimes you realize that there're certain things you missed out on in life.

  I spent my Thanksgiving hung over on my couch watching football. I didn't really plan it that way - actually, I didn't really plan it any particular way, that's just how it worked itself out.


lady on the lake

  I was off from work for five straight days. It's okay, but I'd really rather just go back to my job. I always say that I'm no good on my own. I need structure and boundries. I don't like to be off of work for more than two or three days - anything beyond that, and I can get into trouble.

  Sunday was neat. Rob came over. We watched football, ate pizza, and laughed our asses off for most of the afternoon and evening. It was a great day for football. The Bears won. The Raiders actually won against the Chiefs, and Philadelphia played their guts out against New England. We watched Michael Moore's new movie, Sicko after the eight o'clock game was over.

  I spent the rest of the weekend at Ole Tyme Charlie's gettin' loopular...

  I also picked up a nifty little cold, which blossomed a bit in my lungs today, and kept me from getting work done on my car this morning. It sucks. It was cold and raining out today, and I didn't want to take the chance of going out in it and making myself worse. I have to go to work tomorrow no matter what. If I don't, I'll lose three days of holiday pay, which at this time of the year would totally suck for me.

  Other than being a walking snot factory, I'm not feeling all that bad. I've been fighting this off since Friday, thinking it was the sudden change in weather affecting my allergies. I dunno...

  It's a bug. It sucks. I'll probably be feelin' like total shit at work tomorrow.

  I think now I'm just gonna eat some leftover pizza, while I can still taste it, and maybe go back to bed...

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  Filthy mouth, no excuse, find a new place to hang this noose...

  It was an interesting weekend.

  Wood Street in Wilkes-Barre is progressively becoming more and more boring to hang out at on the weekends. So yeah, I've taken to frequenting Ole Tyme Charlie's in Plains. It's a great bar, with a wonderful atmosphere. Some of the people I run into down that way, man - it's cool. I saw people this weekend I haven't seen in ages.

  Site update alert...

  I had a pretty full weekend, but I managed to get some stuff done on the server.

  For one thing, I'm now the proud owner of NEPA309.Com - which will be the new home for the webcams I have pointed out of my kitchen window, looking at Route 309. There isn't much there yet, but I'm hoping to get it all put together this week.

  Also...

  The banner exchange didn't go anywhere, and is still accessable on the blacklist's main page. I just haven't decided on the best way to integrate it into damnage's new design.


my initials?

  Rob and I spent the day watching football on the widescreen today. It's a lot of fun. We order food in every Sunday now, and just watch the games and bullshit. I'm thankful for every day I get to spend with the man. I mean, when I think about how different everything could be, with his brain trauma and everything - I've become incredibly appreciative of my best friend. Today he bet me that the Colts would come back from their incredibly bad start against the Chargers. He lost, and the bet was, if he lost, we had to sit through First Blood and listen to Stallone's commentary on the movie while watching it (Rob HATES Sly's acting with a passion). He lost, and we spent the rest of the night laughing our asses off at the movie. Seeing him sit through that was priceless for me.

  We're talking about having a Superbowl party here at the end of the season. I haven't hosted a party in a long time, and man, I think it would freakin' ROCK! Buckets of food from Januzzi's and everything? Oh DUDE...

  We didn't get to watch the Raiders vs. the Bears - I had a pretty wild night last night, so I slept through most of it today. We didn't miss much. We were keeping track of it on the laptop in the living room (thanks to NFL.Com ), and the game sucked. It was tied up most of the time at 3-3 until the Bears mobilized a bit and started scoring. I'm used to the Raiders losing by now anyway. It isn't a question of if the Raiders will lose every week - it's a question of how much they'll lose by.

  Oh well...

  Time for bed. We're having another Kaizen Event at work this week, and with so many people participating in it in the plant (including my second-in-command), it should make for a pretty interesting week at work for me.

  By the way - NO UNION at work! They got handed a crushing loss at 51-13 in the vote on Friday.

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  Fly over me evil angel...

  Leave me to die here...

  Help me survive here...

  Alone.


put me to sleep evil angel...

  Damnage.Com went an' got itself a new look, didn't it?

  Yeah...

  It's an idea I came up with while I was at work on Monday night, and I've been obsessed with putting it together ever since. I've been working with this boast machine blog script more and more, and I really like it. Well damn - I guess I like it so much that I'm now using it to run like ninety percent of the site, huh?

  and yeah...

  This is all that was mike.damnage.com - combined with damnage.com itself. It's the third time I've messed with this script, and I think I've got it refined down to the point where I'm really comfortable with it. Again, so much so that I'm using it to administrate most of the domain.

  Don't worry...

  If you don't see something here that used to be here, it'll be back. I just got a little anxious to get the new design up and running - so yeah, some things didn't show up yet. Some of the archaic perl scripts that were running here are gone for good though - like Matt Wright's message board. I feel that what this script can do far surpasses what my ol' "blogulator" variation of Matt's board script ever could do.

  If you haven't heard from me in a while...

  I've been busy? I mean like really busy. I mean that intentionally pissing all over a Teamster local in order to vote 'em out of my plant an' keep 'em out takes up some serious personal time. Between all that, and running a department, and redesigning an entire web site...

  ummm...

  yeah?

  My time is pretty much consumed these days. I'm barely sleeping.

  What I'd really like to do is just take a little jaunt around Mountain Top with my new Kodak and just photograph some of the cemeteries we have around here.

  I dunno...

  Maybe this weekend...

  Not this Sunday though...

  It's the Raiders vs. the Bears - and Rob and I are gonna make it a point to watch that game together. My prediction? I think the Raiders are gonna pull this one out o' their collective asses and win. Their season is pretty much hopeless this year anyway, but I think they have this one in 'em...

  Enjoy d-com's new look...

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