My city's still breathing (but barely it's true)
through buildings gone missing like teeth.
The sidewalks are watching me think about you,
sparkled with broken glass.
I'm back with scars to show.
Back with the streets I know
Will never take me anywhere but here.
The stain in the carpet, this drink in my hand,
the strangers whose faces I know.
We meet here for our dress-rehearsal to say " I wanted it this way"
Wait for the year to drown.
Spring forward, fall back down.
I'm trying not to wonder where you are.
All this time lingers, undefined.
Someone choose who's left and who's leaving.
Memory will rust and erode into lists of all that you gave me:
a blanket, some matches, this pain in my chest,
the best parts of Lonely, duct-tape and soldered wires,
new words for old desires,
and every birthday card I threw away.
I wait in 4/4 time.
Count yellow highway lines that you're relying on to lead you home.

The Weakerthans, Left and Leaving

I haven't metamoderated in over a month. I haven't had mod points in over 3 months. And here I'm sitting pretty with 5 mod points. Muahahahaha!

So who needs things modded up? And a better question, why isn't it Friday afternoon yet?

I wish slashdot would add a way for friends to tag a single comment line onto a friend. That way I could tag the Atlanta folks on my friends list. And I could tag people that listen to good music. I'd also tag the political people who only post drama about talking heads, so I'd know who's journals to generally avoid :-)

I just want to be able to put a single sentance with each person's name, that way when I go and try to slim down my friends list I make sure I'm not deleting someone that I might care about but have forgotten about.

Is that too much to ask?

Okay, anyone that enjoys good punk music can feel free to comment.

So I'm renting DVDs from Netflix again.. and I want to know if any of these bands would be worth checking out: Subhumans, Earth Crisis, or The Exploited.

Com'on, thoughts or comments? Do I rent DVDs from such bands or would I be better off renting Barney The Big Purple Dinosuar Does Dallas?

I compiled perl v5.8.7 under Cygwin. It was mostly painless.

I changed the build.sh script to use -Os instead of -O3. Booyah! Now I have a "small" perl and "small" libraries that load quicker and don't cause me to swap ram to disk.

Now I get to do this all over again tomorrow on my work computer. Yay.

Tonight is the first night of summer quarter. I'm taking "Fundamentals of Speech". I hope the class is full of Southerners with thick accents so that I have a better chance of being ahead of the bell curve.

I have some tunes [1], I have a compiler [2], and a goal. I'm ready to enjoy a nice lazy Sunday of doing nothing :-)

Later a friend is supposed to call me when she gets off work. Then I'll drive over to her house so that we can walk around her neighborhood for 30 minutes or so. We may do dinner after that (assuming we both don't stink to high heavens).

So what are your Sunday plans?

[1] Pennywise has enthralled me today
[2] /usr/bin/perl.exe counts as a compiler

n/t

A snippet of the BASIC code I'm working on today. And no, I don't need line numbers.

            IF X$"" THEN LET CUST$=X$
            STMA 7,1
            GOTO 00540
00949 STOP
00950 REM INPUT AMARILLO OR BLISH MIZE
            PRINT @(3,5),@(-32),"USER ID: ",FIRST$
            PRINT @(4,5),@(-32),"USER PASSWORD: ",LAST$
            RETURN
00960 PRINT @(6,40);
00970 INPUT USING "",@(-10,20),CUST$

Holidays at my house are always low key. My immediate family (brother, SIL, mom and dad) get together and we eat and talk. And thats about it. Oh, and my brother always likes to make sure he's the center of 90% of the conversations. Today I made the mistake of taking control of the conversation for a bit and he started being an ass, and just wouldn't let up even after I tried to point out that he might just want to let it go.. but he didn't. He told me that I make too many snide comments, and (stupidly) I refrained from ripping his head off and walking out of the resturant. Instead I kept my cool, looked at my dad to check his expression, and apologized for the supposed transgression. And then I didn't say more than 10 words to him the rest of the night. I figure I can't make snide comments if I'm not talking to him.

Other than that bit of drama, things are going well today. I hope all the fathers had a good day!

Atlanta Symphony hosts Final Fantasy music on the 24th and 25th.

An ex-coworker of mine flew out to LA to listen to Final Fantasy done by a symphony and said it was spectacular. So if you're into Final Fantasy (or even good symphony music) then I suggest you go see this.

Last night I primed 9 Chaos Space Marines. I also primed 10 Nurglings.

I can't wait to get home tonight so I can start to paint them. I may even destroy and old brush so I can create some liberty spikes on one of them. I think that would be pretty chaotic for a warrior to go into battle like that ;-)

So today I log in to slashdot so I can read about two other folks from Georgia (USA) complain about the weather this weekend. I didn't realize I had that many other Georgians on my friends list.. anyhow, on to the miniatures talk.

I put together 8 Chaos Space Marines, and one Thousand Sons. The other 7 Thousand Sons are still in the box, because I hate gluing metal minis together. Putting the origional 8 together was simple (but not a snap, since the snap-together marines are Imperial only right now). I was hoping to use my spray on Citadel brand primer to coat them all in black, but it seems the weather here in lovely Lawrenceville, Georgia wasn't cooperating. Friday and Saturday I put them together, and Saturday night it was too wet out. All day Sunday it rained and drizzled. So I was never able to prime the minis, which means I can't easily paint them this week. The weather had better play nice this week or I'm going to have to move both cars out of the garage and spray paint in the garage and hope the moister in the air doesn't ruin the paint.

So.. anyone here play any Games Workshop games?

Today should be Friday -- Its my new campaign slogan. I want to be World Dictator 2006, so I'm going to start campaigning now.

On Friday I get to pick up my slacks from the seamstress. On Friday I get to play D&D. On Friday I get to prime my new pewter miniatures. On Friday I get to hang out with my really awesome friends.

Oh, I get paid on Fridays too, so I love Friday!

What is ya'lls favorite day?

I went to the Monster Bash yesterday. Its a small get-together in Atlanta that is held at the only drive-in theater we have. $13 to see quite a few bands, hang out with your friends, and then watch any of three different movies.. quite worth the money.

I got to meet Elvis (no, not the singer. The photographer) and I saw Photognome and his famous kilt. Many models that I'd heard stories about were there, and I met a few of them.

All in all a good time was had.