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Merry Christmas, everyone, and to all a good night.


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Today marks the first anniversary since I started this blog, YEA! That's 365 days ago and it also means that I have sketched up 365 sketches, too. I didn't really expect to keep this up for this long, but I really needed to try and do more art. Maybe it's become habit, and a good one too, I suppose. Need to work on more paintings and more time on the sketches themselves. That's the hard part, Time. I guess only time will tell.


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Scream! Just scream! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!


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What an absolute waste of a beautiful day, I'm sure only one of the few left before the real rains start their annual trek across this region. I say it was a waste day because I had to spend it in the gloomy office. The big push is ON to get all bugs to zero before the holidays. I only had five easy bugs to kill by end of day Friday, but nearing the time for my departure home, ten bugs crawled into my cue before I left. I had little choice but to kill them today. And of course, such tasks always take longer than anticipated, and so a half days work turned into a full days work. Now there's only one.


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As I'm working away on reducing the memory stream size for one of the new "zones" for the WII port of Godfather, my nose was suddenly assaulted by one of the foulest of smells! It was so foul that the moment it touched my olfactory caused me to wince in disgust. I think a tear started to form from the pressure of my eyes closing shut. And as in the immortal words of the Discourser, "I just threw up in my mouth". My immediate reaction after that was to shoot an extremely dark look behind me through the other side of the cubical wall. There was no mistake as to where it came from. I can hear him munching away at the stench that he calls food. Four smells came to mind that made up this stench: rotten fish, shit, kimchi, and salt, what a combination! I’m all for bringing food from home to save a little cash, but obviously his sense of smell has been decimated from many years of eating this stuff. At first I thought I could just work through the fog, but even when my olfactory is numb from the constant assault, I can still smell it!
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Can’t take it any more! The streams will have to wait till tomorrow morning. Hopefully the HVAC system will have cleared out the entire floor! If not, I'm taking a sick day. Homeward bound and more episodes of The Shield - season 4 - on DVD;)


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The past two weeks have been tough. Energy levels were quite low and so were my moods. I think I'm finally getting over it.

Thursday night was a friend's birthday and he wanted to go to La Fondue in Saratoga. I've never eaten fondue, so I didn't know what to expect except for a hefty bill at the end of the night - I was warned ahead of time. So the dinner came in three courses. The first course was fondue. We had chosen two types of cheeses as well as some salad. I was warned to go easy on the salad because one has to leave room for the main course and desert. They were not kidding. The Main course was an assortment of meats, poultry and fish chunks that we had to cook ourselves. All of it in garlic butter. The meats consisted of Buffalo, Elk, Beef, venison, and a couple of others I don't recall, along with two types of marinated chicken, tuna, and some other fish. The final course was desert. Desert was two choices of chocolates for dipping an assortment of fruits, marshmallows, cheese and rice crispy balls. By the end of the night, I had consumed enough fat and calories for an entire week, and the gaseous bubbling that began to fester in my tummy was ready to look for an exit! Unpleasant odors escaped all night long. Not fun!

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a sketch a day - November

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"Lonelyness, I feel loneliness in my room"


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Lost Data
It's strange to be thinking about the lost of a hard drive. All those data lost due to a mechanical, or electronic failure. All that data that's been building up over the lifetime of the drive. New data at times, every single day of the week, are gone, unless you have back-up procedures in place. Which gets me thinking: Death sucks. It sucks, because all that knowledge and experience that one person have collected, "data", through out his life, is lost forever. Only small, incoherent interpretations are ever left in the forms of photographs and letters and memories. Memories of that person will eventually disappear by the continuing life cycle. As friends and family pass away, the memories of that person fades away. All that "data" lost. No one will ever hear a brilliant musician play, see a talented artist paint, and no one will discover who he or she is at a later time because there's just no data on him or her. What a shame.


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So, I'm teaching a co-worker friend to bowl last night and he was doing pretty good. It was the last frame of the second game and I think he was getting the hang of it. First ball...gutter! I can only shake my head. Second ball...SPARE! Woohoo! The score was ninety eight. Only two pins needed and he'll break a hundred. The tension mounts! He steps up and throws the ball! A GUTTER BALL! Mr. Choke city. I can only shake my head in disbelief.


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For Some reason, I had this urge to go bowling tonight. What a strange urge it was. The last time I went bowling was about a month ago for the "wrap-up" party for the completion of the port of Godfather to the 360. You know the company's pinching pennies when you have a wrap party in a bowling alley. Don't get me wrong, it was fun, but it surely was not like the previous wrap parties where you go to a fancy restaurant with an open bar, or tickets to circ de sole, or, well, you get the point. Anyway, I went bowling. I'd decided to go to Bel Mateo Bowl, even though I knew that they had synthetic lanes instead of natural wood lanes. You see there's a big difference between the two. When I started bowling decades ago, there were nothing but natural wood lanes, and so the ball that I purchased back then was made for wood lanes. But since the bowling industry switched to synthetic plastic lanes, the way my ball reacts is totally different. Instead of hooking the way I would expect on natural lanes, my ball just slides and goes straight. What's the fun of that? So my expectation was not too high for a high score this night. But to my surprise, the lanes were not too bad. Why? Because they had very little oil on them, so I was able get some hook to my throws, hee, hee. First game was a decent 170, second was a 184, and the last game was a 201. It's only a little above average, but at least I got a two hundred, woohoo! I guess Tuesday nights are specials at Bel Mateo, because it's twelve bucks for three games. Each additional game cost only one dollar, plus it's also a dollar for Miller Lites and two dollars for Sam Adams. Needless to say, I had a couple of beers!


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It's Alpha today. As the definition goes, everything that's supposed to be in the, should be in the game. But as is always the case, it gets pushed back due to failures. So that means another few days as the testers go in and verify the contents. Content lock is the 17th, but we have to help out the outsourcing company hit their milestone for the WII port. The WII is interesting in terms of it's simplicity, i.e., it's just a Game Cube with a little more memory and a little faster processor. Nitendo is totally laughing all the way to the bank for that console is, I'm sure, cheap to produce unlike the next-gen consoles. I have to say that I'm not entirely convinced the new controller they are putting out is "all that" It's quite an interesting concept to play a game with motions and gestures, but to do that for hours is quite another thing. I think some games will lend itself quite well to the new system, like fishing or tennis, and maybe driving. But I guess we'll see if it's the way to go.


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