How the Feline Fellowship Saved Christmas

I promised a friend of mine that I would post my newest story on my next post, considering that my previous post was my next post, I'll post it here, now. I'll be leaving for Wisconsin (via car) tomorrow at 4AM. To everyone who still has a happy holiday, Merry Chrisrtmas.

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“I have a deliciously fiendish plan in my head!”
The tyrannical Dr. Catopolis said.
“While all of Paragon sleeps in the night,
Saint Nicholas will come with sleigh a flight.
He'll land on the rooftops to deliver the gifts,
and when he does, the presents we'll lift,
and give them to all the bad girls and boys,
so the good kids will not have a single toy!”
And at that thought he chuckled a loud,
a chuckle that hung like an ominous cloud.
And when the night came he readied his group,
to turn the Christmas Cheer into a depressing soup.
And down came Saint Nick, on the very first house
and was attacked by the Doctor's good friend Mr. Clause.
So that the gifts were stolen on Christmas Eve.
Such a horrible tragedy could one conceive?
So off in the night did the fiendish cat fly,
But who followed him did we spy?
None other than the Fellowship that numbered a few
and after him did they pursue.
And Mr. Clause tried to harm the kittens
He shot and he shot and he even threw mittens.
But not a single Feline that night was harmed
and this caused him a measure of alarm.
Enough for him to have sighed and swore
to the point where he didn't see the floor
And into that he made such a clamor
that the Paragon officials came and threw him in the slammer.
But the presents were all rescued that very eve
and the good kids were rewarded with the gifts they received.
And the Fellowship thought they heard near star light
“A Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night.”

Death Be Not Proud, Though Some Have Called Ye Mighty And Dreadful, Thou Art Not So

I was planning on having a very long blog post today, including everything thing that had happened, but one thing has happened that, well, my Grandmother, she, well, she wasn't doing to well and today at six pm, she, the funeral hasn't been scheduled yet, but it might occur on Tuesday, which means we'd start our trip to Wisonsin on Friday, so we can be with Grampa and other members of my family. I mean, she's gone... My mom was in tears when I came home today, along with my sisters. When they told me what happened... they gave her until May, not December. I hoped she could see my sisters graduate, but that's not going to happen now. Not that she would have had the strength to see them graduate, but we could have recorded it for her. BUt now I'm never going to see her again. She was probably the best cook in the family. And she was a good person. I know I barely mentioned her on the blog, and I feel horrible about that, espically now that she's... my family never told me what her condition was, though. I should have asked them about that. I might have called her and told her how much I wanted her to get better. I should have... but now? I work tomorrow, so I'll tell my manager that I probably won't be in Friday, or most of next week. I'll tell him the reason why. We'll be renting a van to drive up there, with their being five in my family (my self, my sisters, my mother, and my father.)Then we'll try to get a hotel in Abortsford (I think that's the name of the closest town with a hotel.)It'll probably be on Christmas Eve, or Christmas Day that we'll check in. Thinking about what we're going to do when we get up there, instead of what has happened, feels better, I guess. Anyway, if I'm not too busy packing tomorrow night, I'll try to post again before the trip...

60th post

Well, this is my 60th post. That's the longest I've ever recorded my thoughts and actions. Considering I started this thing in late July?, that's August, September, October, and November that I recorded my lack luster doings. Soon to be December, too.

Ya, no colored font today, not really in the mode for one. Truthfully, I'm not really in the mood to do much at all, but I do feel obliged to at least make a pretense of updating my life's story. I'm just not in a good mood, I guess. Been feeling down for pretty much the entire day, but I get this way during winter. And I guess summer too...

Anyway, I'm friends with the manager at the local EB, and they are short staffed, so he asked If I could fill in for the holiday break, so I submitted my aplication. Now I'm just waiting for the confirmation.

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Sorry about the begining of this post. Wasn't really feeling too well last night, and I didn't really get a chance to post anything, just a few quick words.

I took my final exams. I know I have an A in two of my classes, I'm just hoping for a B in the other two. The worst I can do in the other two classes would be two C's for me to retain my current GPA. I won't say no to higher grades though...

My parents and I paid for my next semester's classes. It was expensive. Like 3 of my paychecks expesive. And I still have text books to purchase, and Lab Equipment to purchase. Stupid Chemistry and Physics class.

Haven't had a lot of time to play CoH or CoV (Isac Asimov is a good Author.......), but I do think it's neat that they are doing Christmassy stuff. I know it is a lot of work for them, but I think the CoH community appreciates it. Don't quote me on that, since I haven't been on the CoH boards recently.

Found the band Stratovarious to be a good band. Their Elements Part 1 cd is pretty good. Has a lot of neat melodies in it.

I know it wasn't a lot, but that's all I have for today. I apologize for the short posts that have plagued my blogg recently.

Not much to say

Well, not too much has happened since my last post. Somehow, I started up KOTOR2, I picked up a few Christmass gifts for family members, had a final in one of my classes (the other three classes have finals next week! =( ).I'm kind of worried about my networking final. I'm not really too good at networking and figuring out network configuration, so I'm going to have to study. My calc test will be simple, assuming I memorize my trig integerals and my trig defriantials. And I'm probably going to be exemp from my human relations exam (yay!!! A! =) ).

Right now I don't have any plans for Christmass, but I know I'll figure something to do at the last minute. I'm not too sure what, but I'll figure something. I'll probably just hang out with friends, or something like that.

Anyway, I apologize for the short post, I'll try to post tongiht after work, when I have a little more going through my head.

Processing with the power of words

I now have a word processor on my computer. Until today, when ever I typed stuff up, I'd just use notepad, but I finally found enough time to download open office. What I've seen of it so far, I like. It's like Microsoft Professional office, but with even more officey goodness, not that I'll use spread sheets, but it's there in case I need it. In case anyone wants a copy of Open Office, one can go to openoffice.org . It's worth the download, and even worth donating to.

Finally got the Luca Turilli CD in. Demonheart is a good albumn, it's just a little short on songs. But it does has a harpsicord. How many modern bands have that? And I do not mean a synthetic harpsicord sound, I mean a real harpsicord. Of course the vocalist isn't that good, but what does one expect from a band that focuses on the instrumental? Add to that that this band is basicly an offshoot of Rhapsody, and one finds why the vocals aren't the world's best.

These past two days felt like they would never end. They have just been long. Really long. And it doesn't help that I'm not the happiest person during the holiday season. Well, I guess I'm really not the happiest person, regardless of the season, but it just seems worse right now. At least I'm starting to feel the good effects of leaving the lab. My head no longer feels like it's going to explode from stress, and I now have time to sleep. I don't know how my check book feels about my idea, but I'll find that out soon enough. But I am happy I left the lab. It just wasn't worth the effort I put in their, and the amount of time I spent getting their. Of course, a few other things in life feel that way right now, but they always do, so no neeed to worry.

Today at work my manger and I got to know the fun of moving all the junk out of our storage unit into the empty office in our second location. There were two truck loads worth of stuff in the storage unit. Two very heavy truck loads, that aren't easy to lift. Tables and boxes and desks and things. But I got an extra hour out of the day, and I got to leanr that the IT department is way over budget. My boss, who gets overtime almost every week, was budgeted as part time at the begining of the year, and I myself, who almost has fulltime hours, was budgetted for 19 hours a week. That's a minor change in the budget. But I might have been better off with out this knowldage, for I'll probally end up thinking that it's my fault that the IT department is over budget, despite the fact that this type of thinking makes no sense. But when it comes to nonsense and overly paranoid thinking, I am in no short supply.

I'm thinking about making minor changes to my blog. I'm not too certain what I'd want to do, but maybe something to snaz it up a little. You know, maybe some javascript or something. Or maybe something differnt. Or maybe just a new way to display posts or something. I don't know. I know it looks nice how it is, and I really don't want to mess with that, but there has to be some other ways to make the blog look nicer, right?

Right now, I'm working on another story. I'm going to write up a decent bio for the Silhouetted Lynx, that others may want to read. If it all goes well, I'll have it posted on my blog the next time I post. But judging by the last story I started, which is still sitting unworked on, it might take a whil.

Anyway, I'm going to log. Night!