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Hi Again !
Damn, I’ve been posting like crazy last few hours… And also managed to make a quick web page (the gargage transformation, linked under the webcam above all my entries) talk on the phone to lissa forever, and even spent a little time on CU checking the regulars out. Wrote a couple emails too. Sometimes I scare myself how fast my mind is going. Anyway, I said a while back I’d post pix of my closet when it was done. Well I never did so here they are.
Here it is rough, before any shelves or racks, just the new doors. Here’s the left side, and now the right. Yeah, I have almost 30 linear feet of shelf space now, woohoo!
Like I don’t have enough going on building a whole cottage apartment, I decided to gut and redo my bedroom at the same time. It’s almost done, just need to paint the windows and walls, and lay some carpet. But my room has seven windows, (here are a few of them) so fixing the woodwork up and priming/painting them is going to be a project!
OK, ya wanna see more? Here’s the view out my kitchen window. And here’s my dining room, but there’s always stuff piled on the table, so not like anyone can ever eat there… And last but not least, here’s where I’m sitting right now, the computer room is prolly the most used room in the house, wow, that sounds kinda sad. But the kitchen and bedrooms aren’t far behind.
Alright, I’m gonna go watch a movie and TRY and stay offa CU tonight…
G’nite-
-Steve
What Should You Do With Your Life ??
Trust me, you don’t want me to tell you !
No, really, if you have ten minutes to spare, read this article, and thanks to Gee-O for sending it my way.
Link !
And Gee-O, stop surfing so much and finish the family website. A couple paragraphs of text doth not a site make!
-Steve
OK Girls, Here’s The Inside Scoop !
Some Things You Should Know About Guys-
* We’re not as big of perverts as you think we all are (well some of us are).
* We’re not horny all the time like you think we are (well some of us are).
* No matter what you say, your ex-boyfriend is an asshole.
* We like you to give us hugs and kisses sometimes too.
* Don’t argue with us when we call you beautiful.
* Don’t treat us like crap, what goes around comes around.
* Don’t treat us like crap, what goes around comes around.
– Yes, that merits saying twice …
* We know you’re pretty, that’s one of the reasons we’re going out with you.
* Don’t go into detail about your period. It scares us.
-PLEASE, be sure to click the “more” link below, this is only the beginning!
Continue reading For The Women
**Relationship Advice **
Hey, I found these whilst surfing, and they ring so true it’s not even funny.
Not like I’m involved at the moment and have anyone to make me this misreable, but I can definitely relate, in a big way!
So, for your amusement, or possibly education, here goes…
Top 10 Signs It’s Time To Break Up With Your Significant Other -
1. When she makes a minor alteration to her general mode of appearance, you find yourself unable to approve of the change, even though it’s obvious that she is proud of herself and much more satisfied now.
2. Long conversations you once looked forward to are now filled with silences– and I’m not talking about comfortable ones.
3. You start confiding more about problems in the relationship to family and friends than you confide to her about issues in your life.
4. You become resentful of ways in which you have attempted to alter your life/identity in order to be more palatable to her.
5. There is a sudden resurgence of an old flame in your heart.
6. It becomes harder and harder to find ways to spend time together; you wonder how you ever thought you shared common interests with this person.
7. You realize that she will never make good on her promise to experiment more with you in bed, because she’s perfectly comfortable with the way things are.
8. You find yourself wondering about what it’s like to be in another relationship, any relationship.
9. Your face-to-face talk-time seems to have gone from 90% sexual innuendo, 10% amicable bickering, to 10% fond remembrances of sweeping plans for a shared future, 90% destructive criticism and guilt trips.
10. Within a span of 5 minutes, you go from being so happy that you are grinning so hard your face hurts, to being filled with self-loathing and suicidal impulses– and the only thing you did in between was get out of your car, go to her apartment, and step inside.
1. You used to rush for the phone; now you screen all your calls, just in case it’s her.
2. Her voice used to thrill you to the core with its sultriness and sexiness; now I just don’t care.
3. The sight of her naked does absolutely nothing for you except make you wish she’d hurry up and get dressed.
4. When you are having a conversation with a group of friends, you realize how much troubles she really does have following what’s happening “between the lines” – she really just doesn’t get it.
5. She says the exact same kind of things to you that people say in order to impress you with how cool or wild they are, in spite of their age.
6. Rolling your eyes is far more likely to happen than giving her goo-goo eyes.
7. In fact, the look you give her most often is the one your mother used to give you when you were in trouble.
8. Most of her comments and habits no longer seem cute, they just irritate you.
9. When you consider whether to break up with her, you try and figure out just what it is that is keeping you with her, and it seems to be only one thing: sex.
10. When you think about going out and having some real fun, she doesn’t fit in the picture – and she never really did.
1. You don’t like her anymore and yet don’t let her know.
2. You don’t want to be with her anymore and don’t let her know.
3. You don’t care about her and don’t let her know.
4. You don’t think about her and don’t let her know.
5. You don’t find her attractive and don’t let her know.
6. You don’t think she’s good for you and don’t let her know.
7. You don’t let her know.
8. You don’t let her know.
9. You don’t let her know.
10. You don’t let her know.
K, that more then sums it up for me. Been there, done that.
Reminds me of my favorite definition of Insanity- “Repeating the same mistakes and expecting different results”
hehe, that’s all for now !
-S
K, I know it’s been awhile…
So lemme tell ya what I’ve been up to, and obsessed with, K ?
Friggin’ CUseeme ! Yup, I haven’t played with it in years. I used to have a bit of an IRC problem too. Like up every night until 3 or 4 in the morning on some out there channels. Well seems I’ve got the bug again, but this time strictly for CU. And I have to recommend Doc’s reflector, there are a bunch of nice folks hang out in there. Ah yes, the occasional lap cam pops in to say hello, but not as many as on other refs… Truth be told I’ve been trying to connect as I type this, but it’s full so I can’t get in. Guess it’s still a little early.
Shit, only got two hours of Zzzzz this morn, need to sleep, finish tomorrow, K ?
Alright,
I got a lot accomplished today, and still had time to relax for a change…
My Father and Brother came down from New Hampshire last night to hang for a couple days.
So, we woke up this morning, drove all the way up to the South Hills Mall to go to Loews, and I bought a new washing machine. Got a nice super capacity Maytag. Haven’t had a working washer in almost a year, and tired of going to the laundromat (usually I just have them wash my stuff, but it’s still a pain).
Then we went to the “modular closet” isle and I got all the stuff to do my closet. Came back here and finished it, and wired the two light fixtures inside it as well. Lemmee tell ya’, it is the nicest closet I have ever had! Talking over 25 feet of shelf space for storage, and almost 10 feet of hanger space. That should help me get my room organized, huh?
Plus I got my new bed delivered and set up Friday, so I had the best nights sleep in a looong time. Lets just say my old bed was worn out a lot of years ago. But I never had a spare grand for a new one, so I have to thank Paul for hooking me up with a good deal, thanks Man… One thing is thse new beds are so damn high though. Takes a little getting used to but nice nonetheless.
Went down to Pace for the usual Saturday night gig, then out to eat.
Oh yeah, today is my Birthday. So All my kids (Sam, Maggie, Sarah, and Danny), Dad, Guy (who supposedly has transformed and looks just like me, but only with more hair) and Todd all met up at the usual place. Damn, I can’t even begin to tell you how much food there was. Lets just say a boatload, well, actually two boatloads! And they brought out a birthday cake for me. That was so sweet, I know they went out of their way to get that, they don’t even have cake…
Man, I am so full I can hardly move. Good thing I’m workin’ my butt off tomorrow and Monday here at the house, need to burn off all the extra eats I’ve had thrown at me this last week.
OK, I’m fried and need to sleep so I can get up early and get to work. Want to finish all my windows so I can paint my room during the week. I’ll get some pix up from tonight (and of course of my new closet!) tomorrow.
Also maybe I’ll be just a tad bit more witty and insightful and actually have some social commentary (cloning anyone?) I’m just too tired now to do anything but dully recount my day…
Oh yeah, I did go see “Personal Velocity” Thursday night, it was good. I’ll touch on that tomorrow as well, K?
Need, sleep. Yes, sleep….
outta here,
-S
Hey,
It’s snowing, but just a tad. Nice on an x-mas morn’
Yup, has me thinking, where the hell did I put my X-mas shirt, the old SD Cycles one I wear but once a year…
Was pouring a cup of coffee and heard Gray Cat meowing at the door, guess she spent the night out and about. So here’s my favorite pic of Gray – and look out the window, nice and warm and sunny and green. And I had grass, now my whole yard is mud and backhoe tracks. Yeah, yeah, all in the name of progress. Gonna have a lot of landscaping to do in the spring. Cool, get back to the land. Like working outside with earth and green stuff. I like smellin’ the smells, feelin’ the feel. Hmmm, I like doin’ that inside too, but shall we not digress for once?
I have some great pix of the kitten, Dave (whose actually almost as big as Gray nowadays) but I have to drop the film off to get D-veloped. These days I just take pictures with my phone, it’s convenient, always have a camera with you! The display is 16-bit color, it really is a beautiful phone, best present I’ve bought myself in a long time.
Soooo, speaking of warm weather memories-
Santa, are you listening?
THIS is what I want next year for Christmas, alright? This pic is from Fathers Day this year. Damn, that bike was fast as hell. She was actually startin’ everyone elses bike for them when they couldn’t do it. She finally hopped on hers and everyone around was just in awe, it sounded damn healthy. She’s lookin’ kinda serious here, but she had a kick ass smile, guess I would too if I had a ride like that. Shit, got the ‘tude, the ride, and a gearhead to boot, is that what they call the whole package? Hmmm, methinks I’d just be getting myself in trouble if I went back to those places. Have to remind myself that whenever the yearnings come… Riiiiggghhhttt, I’m a responsible adult today with people that depend on me.
Speakin of teasers, I’ll dig up the link to the original Steve’s World and post it up here soon. It was an old (really old, blinky gifs and the like) web page I made about 6 years ago. Have to hand it to Geocities, it’s still up.
K, I’m gonna throw my paintin pants on and get to work up in my room. I’ll write a mini-review of whatever flick I see later when I get in tonight.
Enjoy the holiday and your loved ones, if you’re alone, keep your heart loving, your mind focused, and your spirit strong and steady, lifes too short and the world needs more people doing it for the right reasons.
Alright, without getting all philosophical I’ll steal a great quote I read somewhere-
“All I’ve learned about life can be summed up in three words- it goes on”
True it is…
-S
Merry X-mas !
Yup, quite contrary to what I imagined, I was actually feeling a little of the old ‘oliday spirit earlier.
Busy day. Woke up yesterday and started priming my bedroom. Then off to get a few last minute presents. Yes, the stores were insane busy. Then home depot to get more pipe for the cottage (forgot I have to run the heating lines too).
I got some really cool paint for my room. Actually Glaze and base coat. Ralph Lauren has these cool techniques for doing walls, you get the tools and the paints under that label. So I picked a kinda bright, but warm, greenish “chambray” pattern treatment. It looks like a pain to do, will take about 5 days to complete, but it should look great.
Then I dropped Sam of at his Mom’s so he can spend a could days with her and his sibs. Went to Pace, then picked Maggie up and went to eat, yes, usual place. Holy shit, Brian hooked me up, Soon-Ei just kept bringing plates of sushi and food out, the whole table was full of dishes. And I hadn;t gotten a chance to eat all day, so I gladly finished it all. Maggie surprises me, she tries everything, octopus, fluke, kimchi, whatever, she’s open to new things, which is cool. Most kids will only do california rolls!
Then we went downtown (or really uptown) to midnight mass at St. J the D
Wow, it was incredible. Really really beautiful. If I could wake up early, or stay up a few more hours, I’d go back for the morning service. The music was great, organ sounded as impressive as ever, and the chorus and soloists were impeccable. That place just amazes me. And it’s great for people watching. Maggie was surprised when I pointed out the woman sitting next to her for an hour was in fact a man, guess life is a little sheltered down in Irvington, eh? And also, I was surprised to see how many folks go there solo, I’d thought midnight mass was a family/SO kinda thing.
Then we went downtown, got a capp and piece of cake, and headed home. It was snowing pretty good down there and I guess the snow and the city I’ll always hold dear just got me in the christmas mood.
Odd but I had apprehensions about today. This is the first time in last 3 years I have had no kids around Christmas morning, no stockings to open in bed, no sounds of excitement and wrapping paper slowly encroaching upon every square inch of living room floor. But I feel strangely calm and at peace with everything. I guess this is how it is supposed to be, and I’m actually OK with it. I’m going to wake up sooner or later, once I go to sleep of course, and start prepping the windows in my room, putting trim and molding around them, filling holes form years of shades and curtain rods, and then sanding and priming them with Kilz.
Alan invited me over for desert at his house, said he didn’t want me to be alone all day. Nice offer, I guess I kinda have to stop by, it’s the right thing to do. Just for a short bit though, I really don’t feel like being around a bunch of people I don’t know, making small talk and the like. Plus I have so much to get done around here, really hae a schedule I have to stick to. And I have no clothes, what are the odds there’s a laundromat open today ? Prolly won’t be crowded if I find one.
Sent out my usual mass mail happy holiday e- and with that I’m all done. Presents are delivered, I’m all set to get back regular day to day routine stuff. But like I said, I did have a few hours of holly jolly feelings, so leave me alone about being a scrooge, K?
Ya know, now that I think about it, I’m fu**ing tired as all hell. Gonna go crash and tomorrow I’ll add some links for photos I took tonight to this post.
What, you wonder what to get me for christmas, kinda late, no ? OK, well if you can’t find me a sub curious about taking the plunge into a 24/7 lifestyle, then next best thing would be to look at my wish list on Amazon, you know, you just look it up by my email addy. And no, it wasn’t me added all that kinky shit. But I’ll peruse it….
Alright, again, have a very Merry one, you and yours.
Sorry for the dull content, just tired and really nothing that interesting to note today, just puttin’ one foot in front of the other…
K, l8r again-
-S
Just came back from seeing Gangs Of New York with Sam. It was alright. Cinematography was great. Storyline good, just a little slow. Long flick. But kinda neat, very good job depicting Manhattan mid 1800’s.
I dunno, maybe it’s me and I watch too many indie and foreign films, but Hollywood movies are usually a disappointment.
Speaking of good films, in the last couple weeks, I’ve watched “The Object Of My Desire” which was great, “Vertical Ray Of The Sun” which for me was incredible the way light and color is used. “In The Mood For Love” and “Falen Angels” both by Wong Kar-Wai, “Lies” which is a an eyeful, and “Ghost In The Shell”. And I have a few more new discs here I haven’t even opened yet. Hmmm, I guess I need to stop buying DVD’s someday soon. My friggin’ wish list on Amazon is like 3 pages long these days.
Glad to be done with work today. I have the next three days off and have a lot to get done here. Besides working up in the cottage I just tore my whole bedroom apart. Re-wired, insulated (yes this house was built before they ever thought of insulation) and sheetrocked it. Also tore my old closet out and re-framed so now I have one almost 10 feet wide with sliding mirror doors, so one wall is a giant mirror floor to ceiling. Also have tie downs built into the wall around the bed, in case, well, you need to “anchor” anything. Speaking of, I threw my old bed out as I’m getting a brand new one this Friday, platform job, with a couple drawers in the base (probably good storage for the whips and tie downs, huh?) and a super duper comfy king size mattress to replace the 13 year old one I just chucked that would fold in half if I didn’t have 3/4 inch plywood underneath it! So in the meantime I’m crashing on an old twin bunk bed in the spare bedroom and I wake up every moring with my neck or shoulder killing me, it sucks…
So tomorrow when I wake up I’m gonna prime all the walls in my room and fill all the old nail holes in the window frames and prime them too. I’m going to do up my new closet with those cool ClosetMaid wire shelves and racks and stuff, so I shoulkd have a ton of storage and be able to get rid of one of my dressers. Looking to unclutter this place. Throw out as much furniture as possible and minimize my posessions. Not an easy task. This is a guy who still has some of the same stuff in my junk drawer I had as a teenager. Well, to be honest, one whole dresser is nothing but junk drawers, no clothes. I think I need to streamline a bit, to put it mildly.
My big dilemna is what color to paint my room once it’s primed and ready to go (sound familiar?)… Much as I like the dark dungeon type theme, I want it to be kinda soothing on the psyche and easy on the eyes. Really I spend any inside time at home in the kitchen, in front of this keyboard, or in my room watching movies. So it’s key that the colors are mood enhancing. Any ideas in that department? Please post them as a comment to this entry, K?
Actually this cute girl at Home Depot’s paint department was all smiles and flirty when I asked her a question the other day, but I was in a rush to get back here and back to work. I shoud go back and feel her out on it (the paint, stop thinking like me).
OK OK
That is a good segue into the next thing. Which is something I promised the other night. Nope, not the crush thing, I’ll do that next time (maybe, depends how bold I’m feeling). But nobody really reads this crap anyway so why not, right?
WHY NICE PEOPLE SUCK-
Well, have you ever heard of Clarkes third law ?
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”
So that is very close to the way I often feel- which is
“Any sufficiently nice person is indistinguishable from someone who likes me”
I mean, it’s a pain in the ass enough as it is. Then throw in the confusion of readng signals right and not interpreting that smile with “that” smile, shit, it’ll drive you nuts. Bad enough that half the time the people who “like” you are not who you like, and the ones you “like” don’t like you “the same way”. Then when you do finally have a mutual thing and you build on it, sooner or later it’s just not worth it, it ends up being “too much headache”.
Aaagggghhhhh, shit, just insert appropriate Peanuts strip right here, one where Charlie Browns mouth is open to the size of Wyoming! Then top it all off with most of the people I come into contact with are bona-fide dented cans (and I don’t like to defecate where I consume nourishment) and it is even more fucked up. And there’s this one can I could be smitten with. And she’s gonna kill me with that fuckin’ smile of hers. Puhleez, leave me in peace! Hell if I ate canned veggies instead of frozen, she’d be a number ten can of Lima Beans. And I real y like Lima Beans, sometimes I just eat a package of them for a meal, little butter and some herbs on top, mmmm.
So what’s changed here? Not much, still confused half the time. Been long enough since my last relationship that I’ m reverting to “dog-mode” as Lissa puts it, well she doesn’t put it that way. She just makes constant “you’re such a dog” comments to me. And of course I have to protest, I mean, I’m a male of the human species, it is normal, thank you. So Lissa, when you read this, I may be a dog, but I am trying to figure out why I keep getting involved with psycho girls (or better yet, why am I a psycho magnet) and that’s more then most dogs can say!
Has anyone noticed I don’t spell check any of these things ? Really, I am an excellent speller, can spell almost anything. Problem- I can’t type to save my life. So I know there are tons of typo’s, you don’t like it, you wanna come over here at 3 in the morning and fuckin’ proof read it all ? Didn’t think so.
Wow, I hears some great tunes on A-V at work today. Gonna start jotting down the names and I’ll get some links here, like real soon. And I have all the pix from the work party cropped and optimized for the web. Once I figure out how to get the pop-up code working here I’ll make a thumbnail page and do some humorous captions. I tried to get the web cam page to be a pop up, but for some reason the same javascript that works in a static page doesn’t work here. Not that these pages are dynamic. I settled on Grey Matter as the blog code cuz I don’t have time to do a serious site with database driven backend. I have a couple running in development, but writing code to customize all the templates is just too tedious. Maybe one day, but I have too much to do around here to become a code junkie these days.
One more thing kinda cool. I’ve got a cat door on the second floor! How’s I do that you ask? Well it wasn’t easy teaching the cat to shimmy down that tiny ladder I made… No, what I discovered is that if I keep this one window in my bedroom wide open (yes I know it’s December, but I have the thermostat wires grounded out in my room now so it’s like an oven upstairs, just temporary since I demolitioned my room, I have a new thermostat to put in this week) Gray cat can jump out the window onto the little roof over the kitchen door, and from there she jumos down to the ground. And I guess she can do the same in reverse and let herself back in. Tonight I opened the kitchen door and the kitten, Dave, was outside, looked at me, meowed once and ran in the house!
See, Dave has never been outside. Well, he was a stray kitten someone talked me into taking (thanks Lissa, the fuckin’ vet bills added up to the cost of a nice purebred kitty) and I’ve never let him outside yet. Was afraid he would wander off and not make it back home. Lately though I’m almost wishing he would do just that. Gray Cat is allowed to come and go as she pleases though, always has and never had any problems. Speking of the kitten (really a cat now, but still trippin’ like a kitten), lemme give you one piece of advice guys-
Next time you’re all in love with some female, and she happens to like cats. DO NOT, I repeat, DO NOT, think to yourself how neat it would be to get a kitten. When she’s gone and that side of your bed is again empty, the damn kitten will still be around. For a looong time. In fact, depending on how much the woman like to over-analyze everything, she may even make a point of commenting to you how it may have been “impulsive or less then responsible” to get a new cat, “it’s a long term commitment” and stuff like that. No shit hon, I have four kids, I know about long term commitments, trust me on this one…
Hehe, just couldn’t resist that piece of advice. Speaking of kids, I’m going to Midnight Mass at St. John The Divine tomorrow night with Maggie. Kinda cool she will do stuff like that with me. Either she really wants to spend time with me, she really wants to get away from her Mother, or she’s bored. Maybe a little bit of each. But she really is a great kid. Smart and funny and insightful, old for her age as only brilliant frustrated teenage girls can be. Man I love her and am glad she wants to hang with me these days.
OK, it’s late, or early, I need to sleep as I have way more work to do tomorrow then is humanly possible for three people, so if I get half of it done I’ll be doing good. Oh yeah, I have to do CXhristmas shopping and wrap a few presents too, damn, that close to X-mas, time flies when you’re sitting here writing whatever pops into your head…
l8r,
-S
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OK, On with the posts –
-Steve
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