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September 8th, 2009

11:51 am - Back from the Burn! Spent an amazing week in the desert. Trying to recover a bit this early afternoon before tackling the unloading this afternoon, and getting the rental cleaned & returned tomorrow. Looking forward to Decom, but missing home. Current Mood: worn out Current Music: Lady Gaga - Poker Face

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November 25th, 2008

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September 8th, 2008

03:24 pm - Hokie Football Ramblings After a game against I-AA Furman, there's not a lot to talk about as I didn't see the game or listen to any coverage. Since I didn't see the game, I really don't know what happened. I expected Furman to be held to 7 points, but I also expected the Hokies to score more than 24. Next week's game is the first ACC tilt of the season, so hopefully it was enough of a tune-up. The best news from the weekend, though, was ECU's defeat of WVU. First off, it seems every college football writer will now reference WVU along with ECU, and might also mention Virginia Tech. It doesn't make it better that the Hokies lost the opener, but at least the 'eers can't harass any Hokies much about it. (This is most important because my sister went to WVU...) Current Mood: blah

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August 30th, 2008

12:12 pm - Hokie Football Ramblings First off, congratulations to the East Carolina Pirates. I think they just gave every other Hokie opponent a playbook on how to beat our team this year. And shown that BeamerBall, by itself, isn't a lock to win a game. It probably shouldn't have been as close as it was, but I'll take it! The big question for those Pirates is if they can do it again next week against the Mountaineers.... And now I wonder how the coaching staff & team will respond to this. Early reaction on the main board I check (TechSideline) is calling for our offensive coordinator to be replaced, and lamenting the poor performance of our 5th-year (aka redshirt senior) quarterback. The program has a 'phenom' waiting in the wings, who didn't redshirt last year because the redshirt junior quarterback was struggling. The coach wanted to redshirt him this year, but after today's performance the TV commentators are calling for him to play. I'm agreeing with the commentators. The way I remember it, Michael Vick was a redshirt freshman (aka 2nd year in program) with a new group of receivers and a mediocre running back, but it changes how defenses have to cover your team. That gives everyone else just a little bit more opportunity to do something game-changing. And it worked in 1999, although that team had a solid, veteran defense. With the current quarterback, we just don't have it. That QB can be good when his accuracy is there, but it's hit and miss and (right now) it's missing. And the pattern has been that it's miss when he's the clear #1, but hit when there's competition. If the new 'phenom' can live up to his billing, there is the chance that this season becomes, "Why didn't we play him the first game so we'd be undefeated?" I think the board people have a point, though, about the offensive coordinator's performance. As a fan, it seems that we do not have an offense that takes creative use of the talents available. I think Ricky Bustle (the coordinator for Vick's run) was much better in that regard. The current coordinator was on staff then, and may be great as a position coach, but I think a new coordinator would be a great change to have been made over the off-season. I don't know that making that change right now will help the team at all, though. The most I would predict is that the head coach may give much more direction on game strategy et al and provide less free reign. Current Mood: blah

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July 2nd, 2008

04:46 pm - In Japan, they'd call it Fan Service... "A girl in a bikini, with each hand on the butt of another girl in a bikini... that's the PERFECT picture for an article about the safest sunscreens!" Right? *snicker* EDIT 10:34PM: "Hey... I got a better idea... let's have a sunburned girl pulling down her bikini bottom to show how sunburned she is! At least that one's got some sunburn in it!" Safest Protective Sunscreens Revealed In New Report Teehee! Oh I love making stuff up! (And I wish I had a screencap of the original, too...) Current Mood: amused

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June 5th, 2008

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April 18th, 2008

09:26 am - What Fuels the Angels? I saw an interesting van on the drive to work this morning. The back of the van had two Angels logos and some generic "baseball" logos. It was going slower than I, and I passed the van on the left. As I drove by, I saw the gas tank access with the notation "STEROIDS AND HGH ONLY", and some faded marks for whatever text had been there before. Commentary on baseball? LOL... the truck was plain white, other than the logos and text described above. I wish I had though to check the plates... hehehe... Current Mood: amused Tags: driving

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November 26th, 2007

11:01 am - Back to the Grind I had a great trip to see my family, including my 5-month-old niece, for Thanksgiving. We flew home on Saturday, but our bags didn't make the trip with us. *sigh* Fortunately, though, our bags were delivered on Sunday - around 10pm. *double sigh* And then the 'baggage delivery' people insisted that I had to carry my bags up from their vehicle, so I had to wake up (having fallen asleep on the couch) to retrieve the bags. We didn't open them last night, but this morning I was able to confirm that two large bags of pecan tarts (that my mom had sent with us) had survived the trip, so that was a minor bright spot in all of it. This morning I got up at my normal alarm time and took a drive over to the vet's office with Dee (stopping at a drive-thru for breakfast for us on the way) to retrieve the cats. This time, though, they needed us to come back to the boarding area to get Peanut out of her cage. It sounded like Peanut was being unfriendly towards the staff. *sigh* Of course, I opened the cage and Peanut seemed very happy to have me picking her up, and she didn't fight getting into the carrier. Well the kitties were home around 7:45am, and I stayed home for a bit to give Peanut some attention before running off to work. So I got into work a little later than usual, but I'll leave at my regular time anyway. *snicker* Oooh, the 15 minutes will be a killer, I'm sure. I'd rather be home and slacking off. But it was much better to have the extra day to prep for the trip, rather than to recover today. That doesn't mean I won't bitch about being back to the grind today, heh. Current Mood: tired

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October 22nd, 2007

08:59 am - Fires Traffic on the 5 was slow in Irvine, but everything started picking up south of the 405 merge. It was clear driving the rest of the way down to Carlsbad, but I could see the San Diego smoke plume as I drove in to work. I'm at work now, and I'm just the second person here. Most of the other employees seem to be taking care of fire issues close to their homes, or staying home in case evacuation is necessary. I'm not expecting the office to get many more people in it today, though it sounds like one person (who's on the phone with the other person here) may be coming in to pick up materials. I'm not sure how far away the fires are from here, but I don't smell much smoke in the air. I could just be desensitized to the smoke scent, too. Current Mood: concerned

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September 7th, 2007

08:44 pm - Jobless! Oh my god... I'm Jobless! Well... until Monday, that is. ^__^ Current Mood: sm@rt@ss

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September 1st, 2007

04:56 pm - One down, thirteen to go... Today's 17-7 win against the East Carolina Pirates wasn't the beauty that many Hokies were hoping for, but it's better than being a Michigan fan tonight. The team will need to perform much better next week to have a chance against LSU, but it was reassuring to me that the team didn't melt down when ECU got an early 7-3 lead. At the end of the pregame show, Lee Corso put on a t-shirt with a quote of his own, from 2001: "I don't know what a Hokie is, but God is one of them." That quote was originally meant as a funny line after Corso's rental car got hit by lightning in Blacksburg, but it meant a lot more to me today. I've got a lot of kudos for ESPN. I don't remember them as being part of the 'swarm the campus' crowd in April. It wasn't a time they should've been there, anyway. But today, this was their time to be there, and I think they did a very good job with their coverage, at least from a Hokie point of view. I'm quite happy, though, that there's something more significant in the college football world tonight than Virginia Tech's first football game since the shootings. Current Mood: content

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July 28th, 2007

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July 3rd, 2007

03:26 pm Ongoing construction means ongoing openings of new restaurants. I tried the new Quizno's location in The District at Tustin Legacy, since a sandwich sounded good. The food was on par with my Quizno's expectations, but the cashier's familiarity with the register was not; assistance was needed from a manager, and the manager then needed assistance from another manager because the first two couldn't find the key on the register for my sandwich. Current Mood: amused

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July 1st, 2007

10:26 am - Objet d'lust As much as I had waffled on the thought of getting an iPhone before this week, the steady stream of information releast from Apple whet my appetite and I left work at 5pm on Friday to get one. ( Stop One: at&t Store at Tustin Legacy ) ( Stop Two: Fashion Island Apple Store ) ( The Apple Store Experience ) Overall, Apple had a great "experience" in the store, and getting the iPhone home was even better! I waited until about midnight to activate the phone and had no problems. And on Saturday I finally got to sync the iPhone with my desktop and load my tunes and photos. I ran out for breakfast stuffs from a bakery this morning and finally verified that the iPhone works with my car's receiver. The iPhone warns that the device isn't "iPhone compatible" and recommends putting the iPhone in Airplane Mode to reduce audible interference; I said No, and could hear the "GSM clicks" sounds like my old RAZR. So I guess "iPhone" accessories need better shielding! Current Mood: content

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June 20th, 2007

08:03 am - Just call me "Uncle Sam" At 11:52am yesterady (19 June), I went from just "Uncle-in-law Sam" to plain "Uncle Sam" when my sister gave birth to Juliana Brooke G. She was born 7 weeks premature. This morning, I had an e-mail from my mom with the first pictures of Juliana. Well, instead of signing her e-mail as "Mom" it's now signed as "NANA". *giggles* I think I'll be planning many more trips home to West Virginia now, though. Current Mood: chipper

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May 23rd, 2007

06:02 pm - Mark your calendars... Spring 2008: New York Yankees vs. Virginia Tech Hokies Before tonight's game, the Yankees announced a $1 million contribution to the Hokie Spirit Memorial Fund. They also committed to playing an exhibition on or near the Virginia Tech campus sometime during 2008. The HokieSports.com front page is currently billing this as "Spring, 2008." Current Mood: surprised

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May 11th, 2007

05:12 pm - Still.. Was browsing the Tech Sideline message boards, and found a link to a blog about the recovery of one of the injured students from April 16th. It appears to be posted by his mom, according to information on Tech Sideline. I was fine until I read the May 8th update... and how they want to make sure he doesn't "blow his chances of Mack and Manco's Pizza this summer.". To me, Mack and Manco's is a family-owned pizza place (well, multiple locations) in Ocean City, NJ that I love too, and part of what I enjoy about joining in on the "family vacation" for my mom's side of the family. The injured student is from New Jersey, so I expect that this is the same Mack and Manco's. I really hope he does get to have some Mack and Manco's this summer. Current Mood: blank

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April 20th, 2007

04:24 pm Joe Saunders is the starting pitcher for the Angels in tonight's game. He played baseball at Virginia Tech, and is the only Virginia Tech alum currently in the Major Leagues. In the Player News section of this profile, they had this quote from him: "I was going to put a 'VT' somewhere on my hat, but I guess you can't do anything on the uniform (because of major league rules)," Saunders said. "I'll do it on my cleats instead and write Virginia Tech on the back of the mound." Current Mood: surprised

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