So at some point last night, I went to bed. I remember going to bed. I just don’t remember when. Which kinda sucks because I was watching Monday Night Football. And after watching highlights on SportsCenter, looks like I missed a helluva game. Denver ties it up with almost no time left on the clock, and then Green Bay wins on the first play in overtime.

Apparently the Tigers got a shortstop lastnight in a trade. I’m

not sure if I like the trade, since we traded Jurrigens, who was a solid talent. Also, the short stop we got, Edgar Renteria, is 32. But hell, Dave Dombrowski has put together a Tigers team, that well, doesn’t suck.

I think TV lied to me. A commercial for Brothers brand printers tells me that following Plan B is wearing ugly pastel shirts.  I guess it might mean plan B. B for “Bad Fashion Sense”.

I am so not ready for Nanowrimo. At all. I mean, I do have part of my story plotted and most of the setting ready. I’m just not ready for it mentally. Last year I went into blissfully unaware of the hell I was getting myself into. This year, I know all too well.

And now for your moment of Zen.

Me: God I hate you Math Nerds.

Eric: That’s okay, we hate us too.

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Today is a typical fall day in Michigan; rainy and damp, but so far it’s been a good day. I did get Qdoba, which always makes for a good day.

I had a therapist appointment today. I think, for the lack of a better term, this time around is gonna be a “One and Done”.  This time, I’m just having touble with anxiety, not depression. Basically what it boils down to is I need to get out and exericse, lay off the carbs and try to focus my thoughts away from things I have no control over.  So I’m go to start walking and taking the other things he mentioned to heart and see if it that works. If it does, sweet. If not, I’ll make another appointment to see someone.

I meet Rachael up at Panera today and I just realized that not only is this the first time I’ve been to Panera with the new laptop, but it’s also the first time I’ve been to Panera without a “I read your e-mail” sticker. I feel kinda nacked. I mean, people are glancing at me suspiciously.

That’s all I’ve got for now, I’m actually going to try to get some planning for my Nano done.

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My current quarter is over half over, and although I am doing well, I can’t help but feel like I’m slacking. I haven’t kept up to date with my readings as I should and I know that if I continue like this I’ll get my ass kicked in the later quarters.

In an attempt to “get things done”, I purchased a moleskine notebook and using several ideas I found on Lifehacker, I’ve made a planner/idea book out of it. I’m gonna give it a whirl and hopes that it makes me more productive.

Nano is around the quarter and I’m planning on doing some planning for Nano. I do not want to go into it unprepared like I did last year. It was a good experience and and I did enjoy writing Nova Titan, but Mike and I kinda want to use this a script eventually. So I’m atleast going to write a crappy outline, hopefully more.

I broke my laptop. I went to pick it up off my desk at school and the cord was wrapped around the arm of the chair. I broke the end of the plug and the socket where the plug plugs into.  So with some finacial help from the parents, I was able to purchase a new laptop, a Dell 1501 from Sam’s. So far I’m happy with it but the first thing I did was install Linux on it. Vista Home Basic is a “slice of shit”.

That’s all I’ve got right now. Good night. Go Boston.

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A new week, another blog post. Last week wasn’t too exciting or interesting. I won some money at poker and that was about it.

For anyone who enjoys playing low limit cash game poker, may I recommend Small Stakes Hold ‘em by Sklansky and Melmuth. I’ve only read a bit of the book and I’ve found it very informative and interesting. Turns out there were some pretty big holes in my game and I didn’t even realize it.

Ubuntu 7.10 comes out Thursday and I’m considering all but ditching Windows completely. I need Windows for my phone, unfortunately, but I’m positive that I could limit it to one computer and use Linux for everything else. I don’t have anything against Windows, but I don’t game much anymore and I really like Linux.

That’s all I got. A blogger is me!

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Hello Internets,

Long time no talk.  Things are about par for the course with me. I’m still single, still going to school and working, still having a love/hate relationship with the game of poker. My life is monotonous, but I’m not sure if I’d want it any other way. Yeah, it’d be nice with something or someone a bit more random than me in my life, but I’m not going to complain.

I’m considering getting a second job because while my current job is better than the food library, but I would still like have more money. I’ve got a couple of ideas lined up and I’m going to check them out this week.

In the next couple of weeks I’m going to purchase a barebones kit off of Newegg or TigerDirect or some such. Not sure if I’ll use it as a dedicated Windows box or as a test Linux box.

I want to get more involved with the Linux community and I’m sort of doing that by getting more involved with the Michigan LoCo team. I also want to get involved with the kUbuntu testing team, but I want to make sure that I have a dedicated machine before I do that.

You know, it felt good to post this. Kind of a lame post, but whatever.

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