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missroseroseBeen a while, I know. Go figure - I start poking fun at people for not updating their blogs more regularly, and then suddenly I disappear for two weeks. Which isn't to say that I haven't been keeping up with things; more that I haven't really felt like I've had anything worthwhile to say. But, I seem to have recently regained my sense of self-absorption to the point where putting down various minutiae from my life is interesting again, so here goes.
--Christmas vacation was a lot of fun. My mother's new condo is beautiful, and we all had fun exchanging presents and whatnot. I also got to see a couple of people I hadn't in a while (Taktuk, Ian) and didn't see some people I hadn't in even longer (my father, John). So apologies to those I wasn't able to get together with, and thanks to those that I was - it was cool seeing you all again.
--I recently got back in touch with a guy friend of mine from high school. It's been an interesting paradigm shift - all the while this whole botched war in Iraq's been going on, I haven't had any real connection to it, mostly because I haven't had anyone I know go out there. Suddenly, I find out that someone I used to hang out with fairly regularly in high school has not only been there, but was in one of the first platoons to get shipped out and was in the platoon that captured Baghdad. Listening to his descriptions of what he's been doing the past five years has been somewhat eye-opening, especially compared to what I've been doing the past five years (not a whole lot, by comparison).
--Adam's been here in Juneau working for us for a couple of weeks now, and I have to say I'm pretty happy to have him around. I can tell that it's easier on the Brians to have an extra person to pick up the slack that they can't get to, and he's been doing a remarkably good job keeping his head above water, given our usual modus operandi for new employees (toss 'em in the ocean and see if they sink or swim). So, now that I'm out of metaphors, I want to send a general "thanks" in his direction - it makes my job a helluva lot easier when we have someone available to tackle emergencies when BD and Brian are both tied up. Plus, y'know, extra friends in town are never a bad thing. =)
--Time for a painful admission and a little bit of self-indulgent angst: I managed to pretty royally botch the idea of sending a demo in to Nightwish, mostly due to my procrastinate-until-it's-too-late tendency. To be honest, I've been feeling kind of discouraged with my singing, partly due to lack of opportunity and partly due to apparent inability to frelling get it right. I know that I need to practice if that's what I really want to do, but it's really discouraging when I have so many other things that I can do so easily but what I really want to do is something that I can't seem to get right without help. Maybe I need to take more lessons? I dunno. I don't want to just give up on singing, but whenever I've tried to lately it's just been a royal pain in the ass. Maybe I should just resign myself to being another soulless corporate drone? At least the pay would be steadier...
Okay, whining's done with. You can open your eyes again.
--I have to say, I'm seriously tempted to order some of these postcards just so I can send one to my father for Valentine's Day. But I suppose that would be out of line with the "politely distant" attitude I've been adopting towards him, wouldn't it?
--Funny story for the day: It's been snowing lightly but steadily all day today, so when I was coming back into work after lunch I wasn't too surprised to hear that there was a rollover accident on the highway near where I usually pull off to head to work. In order to avoid the jam, I took the alternate road that runs roughly parallel to the highway and ended up behind someone who was going about 35-40 mph (the limit on that road is 40, but most people usually go 45-50 if the road is clear). So we're cruising along and suddenly we come up on the intersection with the accident; there's an ambulance parked on the side of the road, next to a car that's rolled over in between the highway and the side road, so we got a good look at it as we slowed down to go around the ambulance. Eventually the person in front of me sped up again, but I noticed a distinctly different trend in road speed - the entire rest of the way we ewre going about 25-30 mph.
Amazing what a little illustration will do to people's conception of security, hm?
--Christmas vacation was a lot of fun. My mother's new condo is beautiful, and we all had fun exchanging presents and whatnot. I also got to see a couple of people I hadn't in a while (Taktuk, Ian) and didn't see some people I hadn't in even longer (my father, John). So apologies to those I wasn't able to get together with, and thanks to those that I was - it was cool seeing you all again.
--I recently got back in touch with a guy friend of mine from high school. It's been an interesting paradigm shift - all the while this whole botched war in Iraq's been going on, I haven't had any real connection to it, mostly because I haven't had anyone I know go out there. Suddenly, I find out that someone I used to hang out with fairly regularly in high school has not only been there, but was in one of the first platoons to get shipped out and was in the platoon that captured Baghdad. Listening to his descriptions of what he's been doing the past five years has been somewhat eye-opening, especially compared to what I've been doing the past five years (not a whole lot, by comparison).
--Adam's been here in Juneau working for us for a couple of weeks now, and I have to say I'm pretty happy to have him around. I can tell that it's easier on the Brians to have an extra person to pick up the slack that they can't get to, and he's been doing a remarkably good job keeping his head above water, given our usual modus operandi for new employees (toss 'em in the ocean and see if they sink or swim). So, now that I'm out of metaphors, I want to send a general "thanks" in his direction - it makes my job a helluva lot easier when we have someone available to tackle emergencies when BD and Brian are both tied up. Plus, y'know, extra friends in town are never a bad thing. =)
--Time for a painful admission and a little bit of self-indulgent angst: I managed to pretty royally botch the idea of sending a demo in to Nightwish, mostly due to my procrastinate-until-it's-too-late tendency. To be honest, I've been feeling kind of discouraged with my singing, partly due to lack of opportunity and partly due to apparent inability to frelling get it right. I know that I need to practice if that's what I really want to do, but it's really discouraging when I have so many other things that I can do so easily but what I really want to do is something that I can't seem to get right without help. Maybe I need to take more lessons? I dunno. I don't want to just give up on singing, but whenever I've tried to lately it's just been a royal pain in the ass. Maybe I should just resign myself to being another soulless corporate drone? At least the pay would be steadier...
Okay, whining's done with. You can open your eyes again.
--I have to say, I'm seriously tempted to order some of these postcards just so I can send one to my father for Valentine's Day. But I suppose that would be out of line with the "politely distant" attitude I've been adopting towards him, wouldn't it?
--Funny story for the day: It's been snowing lightly but steadily all day today, so when I was coming back into work after lunch I wasn't too surprised to hear that there was a rollover accident on the highway near where I usually pull off to head to work. In order to avoid the jam, I took the alternate road that runs roughly parallel to the highway and ended up behind someone who was going about 35-40 mph (the limit on that road is 40, but most people usually go 45-50 if the road is clear). So we're cruising along and suddenly we come up on the intersection with the accident; there's an ambulance parked on the side of the road, next to a car that's rolled over in between the highway and the side road, so we got a good look at it as we slowed down to go around the ambulance. Eventually the person in front of me sped up again, but I noticed a distinctly different trend in road speed - the entire rest of the way we ewre going about 25-30 mph.
Amazing what a little illustration will do to people's conception of security, hm?
