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Wednesday, May 24, 2006



























Your Deadly Sins


Lust: 40%
Sloth: 40%
Envy: 20%
Gluttony: 20%
Pride: 20%
Wrath: 20%
Greed: 0%
Chance You'll Go to Hell: 23%
You'll die from overexertion. *wink*

Thursday, May 18, 2006

Ahh! Wedding!

I'm getting close...and things are piling up. Just bought the last of the groomsman/minister gifts today, lined up most of the wedding day plans before the photos, got the last of the reservations made for the mini-moon post-wedding made on Monday, working on vows and ceremony now, still need to work out the dance routine and clean up house and yard...crap we're almost one week away! Panic!

Previously in Alex's life...
I did Bachelor Party 2: Son of Bachelor Party on Saturday and ye GODS did I get hammered. I've been hearing stories that I don't remember at all - I remember everything including the drinking at the bar, the 5 hours in the strip club, and of course the chair dance with three lovely brunettes...and then nothing. So it worked out :)

However the recovery has not been so hot...slept 20 hours on Sunday (!!) and most of the day Monday. Ate my first full meal since Saturday night on Wednesday. Yeesh.

And on the Crafty front
I'm sure you all have seen the sneak peek of the new website, yes? It's almost done in the first iteration - there will be changes and doubtless some things that come up while it's being utilized heavily, but for the moment we seem to be pretty much good. New site's going to have a lot of cool new features and bits and bobs for you to explore, so hopefully we will achieve greater utility than the previous site. DNN has been much harder to use than it first appeared, but at least I didn't have to learn &*)#ing PHP.

And in case yo uwere wondering what happened between Star Wars and Empire...

This reveals all. Hi-larious.

Monday, May 01, 2006

Update

Well, I finally got my computer back online this weekend - ended up that my mysterious reiterative crashing of Windows Explorer until nothing would start was caused by a faulty video card. Only took me $500 to find that out, too :\ At least I got a slightly improved video card and a 300gb SATA RAID array out of the deal - now i never EVER have to worry about a hard drive crash wiping out my vital data ever again. Yay.

Also, if you haven't heard or seen Stephen Colbert's address at the White House Correpsondent's Dinner this past week, I heartily recommend downloading this clip. I advise for the larger and higher quality Quicktime version. It's sheer political humor genius at work, striking very very close to the mark (and apparently, to the president's good graces). Kudos for someone to have the bravery to not only call out the White House on its bullshit, but to call the press to the mat for not reporting the news or looking for the truth.

Bravo, Mr. Colbert.