friend of the built environment

Well, I’m finally feeling conscious enough to update. A new month/year begins, with its requisite web site maintenance duties. Had a wonderfully incredible time with David for the past few nights, and unfortunately managed to acquire an awful bug yesterday afternoon.
But no matter how horrible I feel in the morning, I will have to go [...]

More than 48 hours later and my stomach still isn’t feeling entirely normal. If this lasts more than another day or so, I’m going to Herr Doktor.
In other news, my day at work was surprisingly manageable thanks to two things: my dad wasn’t around to drive everyone into a panic, and all the problems he [...]

The ailment continues with no end in site. Somehow I managed to get absolutely nothing done yesterday, as well. Not like I have meals getting in the way or anything. I wish I could actually manage some solid food right now…
Anyway, I’m getting mildly annoyed by the frequency of porn and sex searches on this [...]

I filed my state taxes today. The Feds won’t take my return until the 10th, so not only did I not get Dubya’s $300 extortion refund, I have to wait those additional excruciating days to find out how much my real extortion refund will be.
Anyway, Sacramento was kind to me, and I may actually be [...]

I decided to convalesce alone this weekend. Which would be best, I suppose, considering my recent gastrointestinal status. Strangely, however, I awoke today feeling intriguingly normal. The test will be when I take a break from my all-too-comfortable lethargy to grab a Torta Carnitas from SuperTaco. It’s been over a month since I’ve had one. [...]

Spent most of last night e-window-shopping, except for a few choice purchases. Including two new domains. No immediate plans to put them to use, but I at least wanted to grab ‘em up. I’ll prolly be doing little more today.
I’m actually quite proud that I avoided doing anything even marginally social last night. I like [...]

…To Amy. It’s foggy and chilly and I’m in good health. A rare combination, and I’m in a good mood today. All in all, I think this will be an exceedingly pleasant weekend…
I’m spending entirely too much time on the 2000 Census site today, which surely isn’t helping me lighten the load of work since I [...]

From my search report, it looks like some of you have forgotten where I hid my dirty stories. If you really want to see them, I might reveal their location to you if you ask nicely.
I was glad to have something to replace the defunct Goth.Code. Enter The Blogger Code. Not quite so all-encompassing, but still [...]

Monogamy plays a very dubious role in our society today. It is seen as the highest of virtues by the majority of individiuals - whatever their moral alignment in most other matters. The reasons behind the worship of monogamy are based either on archaic religious mores or irrational philosophical premises, and the demands which such [...]

David is gone, and I’m contemplating how to change the way calendars function so that I can spend more than 2 nights at a time with him… O well, impractical thoughts, I’m sure. Besides, the immense amount of sex is becoming somewhat detrimental to my sensitive winter skin…
At least I managed to make it to Tower [...]

Still not completely getting the hang of the machine… But it’s at least helping me with my forthcoming updates… I think it may even be worth it, if it just turns out to be an expensive type of digital camera.
Nothing much to update today. I skipped Open Mic. Interviews tomorrow for the new receptionist. I’m [...]

Superfluid Helium 3 has a new music download site at IUMA. It looks like I’m actually gonna have to brave the Gravity Bar in north Fresno in order to catch those guys next month… Pity.
In other news, the first day of interviews landed me who I think will be our next hire. I don’t want [...]

I’ve been having this recurring dream where I’m just walking around the old Thrifty in Clovis, reading comics, eating ice cream, rummaging through the toy aisle, etc. For some reason, they’re really detailed dreams and yet nothing much happens in them. I think it has something to do with the fact that this particular Thrifty [...]

In case you haven’t noticed, I made my search utility a little artier and less obvious, since its use wasn’t exactly optimal anyway. Most people were using it to search for my dirty stories, not realizing that pages which aren’t linked within the site aren’t crawled by the search engine… So anyway, if you want [...]

Some people are really difficult when it comes to deciding how to politely shuffle them out of your life. I have never really been a fan of the hard-to-read or high-maintenance person, and thus I’ve decided that I need to distance myself from a certain someone who is really becoming too much of a burden [...]

Whilst roaming around Fresno taking some pictures for some new site features, I discovered that one of my old standby bars is open again. It used to be The Cave, now it’s called The Den. I have yet to step foot back inside since the reopen/change of name… Soon.
I’ve got some really irritated skin going on, [...]

Andrea mentioned the recent Kmart demise, and it made me reflect on all the hoopla about Enron lately.
Most people are parading Enron’s affect on the economy as proof that capitalism is bad. I beg to differ. Everyone who lost money in the Enron case deserves what they got. Including the pensioners, investors, speculators and governments. [...]

I have discovered the miracles of Gold Bond. I’ll leave that alone from there, though.
A new band is up on my local bands page - Rains In Velvet, a project among Vince and Eric from SleepyD, Marcos from Superfluid and a British boy named Simon, who knows how to wear jeans. I also changed the [...]

It goes to show - fraud and lying are just another way people escape reality. And if you try to cheat reality to the extent that the head honchos at Enron have, reality will have its revenge.
I decided against the beer last night, since the last thing my skin needed was a dehydrating agent. Instead [...]

New secretary started today. I’d be far less stressed if my dad weren’t so skeptical about her. I admit I was as well, at first, but after she pretty much had her whole job down by mid-day, I figured she was the right choice. Unfortunately, I have yet another mild bug today. I’m sure it [...]

I ordered an iPod today. I’m just cooler than shit now.
No more snow. Thank bloody gawd. But it’s still way too fucking cold. I want to move to Palm Springs…
I have avoided the State of the Union like the plague. I think the thing is a joke these days. It was meant to be the [...]

Another month comes to an end. Intriguingly, even though I put in 110% at work for a month, it turned out to be rather enjoyable converting the whole office over to my “system”. It’s good to be in charge, and be able to have things my way. Me? A control freak?
Now that the new secretary [...]