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 +Monday, January 30, 2006 - 9:58 PM Well.I didn't really think it was possible. But I have completely lost my faith in humanity. Good night everybody. +Saturday, January 28, 2006 - 1:43 PM I have a huge request from everyone... all five of you that read this.I just found out today that a friend of mine's mother passed away yesterday. She had been fighting and waiting for a liver transplant for some time, and it sounds like her body just gave out. If you want to read more, go to this site. I ask that all of you please keep my friend and her family in your prayers, good thoughts, etc. Thanks so much. +Tuesday, January 24, 2006 - 2:47 PM Well, I didn't think I was going to have time to post, but hey I didn't think a lot of things were going to happen on this trip. I just have to tell the stories about yesterday. If yesterday is the precedent for this trial, I'm not planning a thing from here on out.You know that saying, if you want to hear God laugh, tell Him your plans? That was in full force. Yesterday morning, we all headed to the courthouse, started setting up for voir dire and arranging things for presentations later in the week. Both sides. The judge then came in and announced that she's going to let a murder trial pick a jury first, then our case, and then the murder trial would try their case first. We would start Thursday, Friday at the latest. Our jaws dropped. Both plaintiff's and defendants' teams. All of us but plaintiff himself are from out of town. A phone call from the judge on Friday would have been nice. The only thing we can think of is that the judge only allows Mondays to be jury days. And that's fine. But we could have saved our clients a couple of days and had them come in on Wednesday or Thursday instead of Sunday. So yep, we're stuck in the grand town of Marshall, Texas for two days with nothing to do. Needless to say after we picked a jury, we hit the bar early yesterday. Then comes part two of the fun. A friend at work recommended a restaurant in Uncertain, Texas for dinner. So we decided to be adventurous and go there. The first bad omen was when both Mapquest and Yahoo! Maps could not locate the actual address of the restaurant, only the street and general vicinity. Steve said let's try it anyway, so off we went. If you know small towns in Texas, then you know that the roads have NO lighting and they are not marked well. So after going 12 miles out of our way to end up in Jefferson, we wove our way back along the dark roads to finally find our turnoff for Uncertain. Then we ended up on a dead end road. We pulled into a pizza place to ask for directions again to be told that the restaurant we were seeking is closed on Mondays. Thank God we all have good senses of humor. So I think we're sticking to restaurants in Marshall for the rest of our stay. No more off the beaten path for these city slickers. However, at least I'm not in some awful Motel 6 hotel room. I'm in a suite! I have a bedroom and a mini-living room/workspace room with a TV in each room with DVD players. And my bathroom is huge, complete with large jacuzzi! When we checked in, Steve asked me if my room was okay. Are you kidding? I was expecting your typical room with a bed and TV and tiny bathroom for the week. Oh yeah and there's wireless internet in the rooms. I've been able to log into my computer at work and get some things done while we're waiting for the murder trial to finish. So yeah, it could definitely be ten times worse. Look at me being all positive and finding the silver lining! I bet you don't even know if it's really me typing this now, do you? +Saturday, January 21, 2006 - 7:04 PM I'm leeeeavinnngg on a jet plane... don't know when I'll be back again...Okay it's nothing that drastic. I'm heading out to deep east redneck Texas tomorrow morning for trial. Whooo hoooo! I am bringing my laptop with me, but I'm not sure how much time I'll have to bloggeroo so here's something to keep you all entertained. God bless Google Video. Oh and Family Guy too. +Sunday, January 15, 2006 - 7:13 PM WAAAAAAAAAAH! No Colts in the Super Bowl! Sniff. And I really thought that this year was Peyton's year. So I guess I'm going to have to root for the Steelers in the AFC Championship just because I hate the Broncos so much.Just not a good weekend for games for me. I played X-Men Legends for a couple of hours just to die over and over in the same spot. Nothing I would try worked. It was just depressing. And it's only level three. So I decided to take a break and play a different game to get my mind off of it. So why I picked Wind Waker is beyond me. Granted, I haven't picked up the game in three years, but I had no idea it would be so hard. If I didn't have the strategy guide, I would have had no clue what to do. Maybe I'm a complete idiot when it comes to reasoning in games, but I would never think of getting out of room by uh, lighting all the torches in the room. Or lighting a stick and standing in one particular spot so you can throw the stick at the wooden door and catch it on fire. The funny thing is that after doing it a few times I wouldn't have to think about it anymore. Hey, not all the torches are lit and the door is locked. Maybe I should light the other torches so a key will appear. Or smash all the pots... sometimes that opens the doors too. So I guess the key is that when in doubt, throw bombs, smash pots, or set things on fire. That would make an interesting T-shirt. When Shawn came home, we discovered that the chinchillas in their adventures out of their cage chewed a few holes in the connecting cord on the Playstation 2 controller. So Shawn said that was probably one reason why I wasn't doing so well in X-Men Legends. He's so sweet. But I know the truth. But I'm not going to give up. I need something to distract me from spending money on cels. Yeah I know, I'm hopeless. +Friday, January 13, 2006 - 1:44 PM Can you hear the cherubim and the seraphim singing the Hallelujah chorus? Oh I can. LOUDLY. Our wood floors that we started in, oh JUNE, are finally finished.+Thursday, January 12, 2006 - 8:51 AM So...Chinchillas got out again last night. They somehow pried off the wire Shawn welded on enough to push it out of their way so they could get out. Luckily this was midnight and not 5 a.m., so there wasn't as much of a rush to wrangle Pikachu back in the cage. Once he was in, we rolled him back to the back bedroom, closed the door, and worked out plans to keep them in the cage. I checked on them this morning. Pikachu was in the cage... good. Chernobyl? Uh, Chernobyl? Who do I see in the pillows on the bed? Arrrrgh. Don't have time for this. So I chase him everywhere to get him back in the cage. While doing so, I noticed that he had some fun gnawing on things in the night. Window sill, DVD box, artbooks... wait, artbooks? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! I was glad none were all that damaged, but I was most upset that he chewed a few bits of the Trinity Blood artbook. It came in a pretty black felt box, a pretty black felt box that now has little teeth marks on it. And it was the most expensive artbook. Imported from Amazon Japan. Why do they always go for the most expensive things to chew up? I stopped chasing him to put the DVDs and artbooks out of further reach in case the little Houdinis find their way out again while I'm at work. This time after shutting him in the cage, I jammed up our extra laminate floor planks up against the 2-inch gap they've been squeezing through. I think I'm going to talk to Shawn about welding sheet metal to that gap. That may be the only way to keep them in. +Wednesday, January 11, 2006 - 12:37 PM I'm beginning to feel like I have too many e-mail addresses to keep track of. I have work, paypal, fansubbing, Advanced Media Network, and a couple of personal e-mail addresses from my websites that I haven't decided what I'm going to do with yet. Do I continue to pay for server space so I can keep my e-honea.net address or do I send out another e-mail saying that I'm moving to an allenschezar.com address? Or do I just accept the fact that I love my google mail account, I probably won't ever leave it, and use it as my main e-mail? (As of now I'm just using it as a catchall to collect my webmail addresses.) Decisions, decisions. I should make that a New Year's Resolution as well... figure out my e-mail address situation.New quote on the quote wall today from the hilarious Francesco Marciuliano. You might have read his work if you read Sally Forth in the newspaper comics. He has a hilarious blog and webcomic that I encourage all to read. The quote itself is a comment he left on someone's blog that was articulating how much Ted Forth is his hero. The best part of this quote is that I e-mailed him asking for permission to quote him (I usually do that when I'm quoting those that I find on personal websites) and he not only took time out of his day to write me back giving me permission, but he thanked me for finding him funny. I know, I know, it's not that big of a deal, but it is to me. I get excited when anyone writes me back, especially those that are actually published. Well, I hope you went and read the quote before finishing this paragraph, because I'm afraid that I might have hyped it up to Matrix proportions. +Tuesday, January 10, 2006 - 3:14 PM Haven't had one of these in awhile.Fun with depositions! Q: But it's sort of like hitting your head against the wall? When you stop doing it, it feels better? Well DEAR GOD I hope so! Labels: depos +Monday, January 09, 2006 - 4:59 PM Ever have one of those days where not much goes right? That was last week.It started with the chinchillas escaping their new domicile and Shawn almost stepping on Chernobyl in surprise. So at 5 a.m. we're on our hands and knees trying to capture him. I know the books say to never chase a chinchilla, but seriously, when you have to get ready for work, I don't care how traumatized he might get. They live 15 years... he has plenty of time to get over it. That was Tuesday, the day after Monday when we were the only business in Dallas open and working. Then the next day as I'm stepping over an open box in my office, my heel caught the box and I tumbled into the bookcase to keep from falling completely. I then frantically tried to catch my balance as I didn't want to bring the bookcase down on top of me. I made a LOT of noise. I don't know how everyone didn't hear and come to see what the ruckus was. Arti later asked me if I dropped a bunch of books earlier. No, no books... just me. Friday was the bad day. First, it took me over an hour to get to work. I-30 was a parking lot from my house to past my exit for downtown. I never got to see what the problem was. I think that's more frustrating than waiting in traffic. While waiting in traffic, I looked down at my watch, that I just got fixed the other day, to see that had stopped again. My first work related thing of the day was a nice e-mail from a doctor telling me that I'm unapproachable and rude for e-mailing him, when it was him that told me to e-mail him when I called him the day before. The final straw was walking back to the building from the courthouse. My heel caught a hole in the road on Main and I went sprawling to the ground. In front of a bunch of people. I checked to make sure that I didn't rip my pants, I wasn't bleeding, and then I ran away. This was all by 11 a.m. I was even going to be good and resist a Friday donut, but falling in the street warranted a donut. So I'd like to ask that I don't fall again in 2006. I think falling twice in one week fulfills my falling quota for the year. +Thursday, January 05, 2006 - 6:33 PM Where does the bleach go? In the laundry room of course! (Thanks to Shawn for the awesome Bleach wall scroll!) +Tuesday, January 03, 2006 - 9:12 PM Got the chinchies set up in Cage version 3.0. I think this will set them up for life. If they outgrow this one... O_O They might eat the dogs... +Monday, January 02, 2006 - 9:41 AM Happy 2006!!I hope everyone had a fabulous time ringing in the New Year. Shawn and I celebrated a combo party for Nicole's birthday and the New Year. Nicole's friends are very much like mine: scattered into groups. Shawn stayed outside with one group most of the night and I stayed inside (non-smokers) to mingle with the rest of Nicole's friends. I was a little nervous about going just because I get antsy when I go to parties where I know no one but the host, but it was a blast. I'm VERY glad I didn't get drunk as we got in late enough as it was and still had to get up for a New Year's brunch with my family. I drank more champagne there than I did at the party. I was so close to falling asleep on the couch it wasn't funny. My aunt came around with the last bottle, and I had to protect my glass from getting refilled. Any more and I would have taken a deep, deep nap. Shawn would have had to carry me over his shoulder, and that's never fun because his shoulders are bony and they leave bruises. Well as is tradition with the New Year, hear come my 2006 resolutions that I will once again try to fulfill but probably won't.
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