Disheveled Rambling's

Yeah, so I walked into work wearing my gym clothes, as I have been doing this week, to go work out.

But, in dropping my laptop off, I got sucked into a meeting,

And here I sit.. HOURS later, wearing a Huey Lewis and the News T-Shirt, shorts, sneakers, and my red sox hat.

so, yeah, casual thursday anyone?

39 days till Otakon

So I saw WALL-E today.

1) The bonus short at the beginning is Portal: the movie.
2) You'll laugh if you own a Mac
3) There's a robot named M-O. (teehee)
4) For some reason I kept wondering what the Barenaked Ladies would think of this; the movie coincidentally shares a common theme with the band's 2003 album "Everything to Everyone".

On a completely unrelated note, I really really want to fly on Midwest Airlines because they serve hot, fresh-baked chocolate chip cookies on every flight. =0

Well at least not yet, apparently the odd feeling I'd been having wasn't the combo of bad sushi and sleeping on an air mattress at Mom's house when I popped up to CT for a surprise visit. It turns out to be a rather evil kidney infection. Yeah, who fuckin' knew.
So a very frightening er visit, a re-check @ my reg. dr. and a trip to the specialist later, I'm confined to bed rest, on massive doses of antibiotic and painkillers, crossing every finger,..hell every appendage I've got that I don't throw up or break a fever, as not doing those is the only thing that's keeping me out of the hospital.
I'm sleeping most of the time, and when I'm not my rather amazing soon-to-be-hubby has been sweet enough to loan me his laptop and run to the mailbox for Netflix checks. I have to be pretty damn ill cause I don't even have the desire to sketch, stitch or read while I rest. Totally not like me.
This slight entry has just taken the wind out of my sails so I'm going to sleep now. Posts will be forthcoming but random as always.

42 days till Otakon

1. Post 3 things you've done in your lifetime that you don't think anybody else on your friends list has done.
2. See if anybody else responds with "I've done that."

1. At a Pokémon TCG tournament, defeated someone who was later crowned national champion. (I also became an award-winning graphic designer the very same day.)

2. Carried on a PictoChat conversation with a total stranger while using the lavatory of a commercial airliner in flight.

3. Visited Okaton, South Dakota.

when he has a question, uses Lotus Sametime to ask it (an internal realtime chat software)

Well, he always starts it in spanish.
I don't know Spanish, but I know movies....

Unfortunately, he didn't get my Fletch reference:

him: "Hola Hermano, que tal?"
me: Teirra del Fuego
him: huh?

Is how to handle when someone asks you a question you think they should know the answer to.

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I know, it's an easy place to go, like John McCain is old, Christians are crazy and hypocritical,.... the Molina's are slow...

"....just after Bengie Molina hit a hard ground ball into the hole between short and third, Kansas City’s Mike Aviles dove, smothered the ball, got to one knee, recited the Gettysburg Address, solved two Sodokus, took three ballroom dancing classes, grew a full beard, became fluent in French, got his Masters in finance, recorded an album of Tom Waits covers (oh no, wait, that was Scarlett), invented a practical electric car and then threw to first where he just barely threw out Molina by eight steps"

But it's still funny...

Here's his blog

46 days till Otakon

It's been 121 days since I posted something here. =0 Golly. Anyway, here's a story.

This weekend, I flew home from Sacramento, where I had been visiting family for my cousin's college graduation. The first flight segment was US 378, from SMF to CLT on a former America West A320 (registration N673AW (click for pictures)); despite the new US paint job, it still had America West logos on the upholstery and bulkheads.

Long story short, for about half the (red-eye) flight I was on PictoChat with a girl three rows up that I'd met in the gate area before the flight. We would have been chatting the entire flight if her battery hadn't died. She lives around Charlotte, plays a lot of Call of Duty 4 on her PS3(!), and she even knows about Russia Jr. on the Baltic coast. Many people I know have never heard of Russia Jr. and when I try to explain it to them it's pretty mind-blowing.

I gave her a high-five at the gate after we landed at Charlotte. It was my first time at that airport, and I noticed that they have extremely well-designed signage.


(Click to enlarge. The joke here is that B6 (the gate number) is also the airline industry code for JetBlue, which of course is characterized by its conspicuously blue corporate identity, just like these signs. Except that this is a US Airways gate. Ha ha, get it?)

The other two flights were uneventful, except for the happy discovery that US didn't lose any of our bags, even after two connections. However, the baggage carousel at BGM had broken down, so they just brought all of the bags from our flight, US 3644, from PHL to BGM, on a De Havilland Canada Dash 8 turboprop (registration N943HA (click for pictures)), to the baggage claim on a couple of big carts. It was probably faster then putting them on the carousel anyway.

George Carlin passed away last night. I found out just moments after I had read that he was to be honored as this year's Mark Twain Prize for American humor.
I was looking forward to hearing his take on the upcoming election.