Slacker HQ, now with internet! And update of the week.
Friday, September 30, 2005First off, those blogger people are lying bastards. One hour downtime my ass...
Anyway as you can tell by the time the last post was published, I have internet at The Condo now. Slacker HQ is finally wired. In addition to the HD Cable for the 42" Plasma, we have the first half of a wireless network up and running. If anyone has tips on getting two Wireless Access Point Routers to talk to each other, I could use it. Router one is in the living room attached to the Cable Modem, router two is in the office as part of a two computer network.
This means all that crap running through my head when I can't sleep, I can blog about. ADD and sleep don't always go well together. So far I'm the only person I know who can sing Row Row Row your boat in two or three part round in the head. My brain has about 35 channels, and usually a dozen are on at the same time. It still remains to be seen if writing at night's a good thing or not...
Anyway, the last two days have been very busy.
Weds:
Since we couldn't arrange a time to hang out on Tuesday, Orientation Girl and I got together. Since she was in town to help recruit engineers to work for her company, her and the coworkers had dinner and then they came and met me at Stub and Herbs. As is tradition, I brought the 101 Shots and Shooters list, and we polished off another good chunk. Started back in the late 90's we decided to finish the list. We managed to knock 7 more off the list (in order):
1. Flamin' Blue Jesus - Sambuca, Blue Curaco, 151, light it on fire, blow it out, drink.
2. Mighty Mango - Mango schnapps, Smirnoff Orange, Oj. It was the lowest number, not already done.
3. Pineapple Hooter - Pineapple schnapps, Coconut Rum, OJ. Ordered by OG's English coworker (now living in Texas) who doesn't understand doing shots ("Gotta savor it!"), I think he just wanted to say hooter.
4. Junior Mint - Rumpleminz, Bailey's, Creme De Cocoa - OG wanted something smooth.
5. Bronx Cheer - Razzmatazz, Vodka, Lemonade, Sprite. Sounded refreshing.
6. Fuzzy Dick - Kaluha, Grand Marnier, Cream. There was no way those words were coming out of my mouth. Bartender: "So, did it taste like a Fuzzy Dick?" Me: "I wouldn't know, nor do I intend to find out!" Bartender "Good Answer!"
7. Pineapple 'Tini - Vodka, Pineapple schnapps. This one was done to heed the cries of the Texan Englishman. We agreed to sip ("Savor") it over the span of 10 minutes. This would have been fine had it not been shitty vodka.
8. Undercurrent - Blue Curaco, Vodka and Sweet and Sour, with Chambord drained into the bottom so the bottom chunk is dark while the rest is light. We had already done this one, but it's OG's favorite so we had to do it. We do it with the whole drinking arms linked through each other thing too. Very fun.
Anyway, so that was the drinking. The rest of the night was spent talking about work and world events with her and the Texan Englishman. Later in the night though, came a possibly alcohol assisted heart to heart. As I mentioned previously I always would have loved for us to date, but it never happened. This time though, the whole "We shouldn't date because I don't want it to screw up our friendship" thing went to a whole new level. Don't ask me how it started, one of those 8 shots erased that tidbit, but it did start. Basically she admitted that all along she's felt a lot the same way I have. We have something that's way above and beyond friendship, soulmates if you will. There's a stronger connection with me than with anyone else she's known. That four letter L word did get tossed around a good deal as well. This all would come off like the usual, though much more elaborate, let down if she hadn't gone to long lengths to explain that she definitely wasn't playing the "It's not You, It's Me" card. I also found out I'm the only person she called when she was back in town. It all came down to the same result though: The problem is if we did take it to the next step, and it didn't work out, it's incredibly hard to go back. So we're back to that fuzzy grayness. For the foreseeable future it wouldn't work out well anyway though. Minneapolis to Grand Junction, CO (Soon Denver) isn't exactly a short commute. So who knows. We did however make a vow to stay much more in contact. None of those months without talking crap. She's now one of VERY few friends who knows of my blog, so you all might see her around...
Anyway, after that I made Jello shots for kickball the next day at 3am... yeesh.
Thurs:
Never did make it to work. Not enough sleep lately caught up with me again. I REALLY need to get back on a decent sleep schedule.
Got the cable modem running after about 45 minutes of run aromatic with the cable company. I call tech support to give en the MAC ID, they say I need to get the sign up process for internet finished first, apparently already paying for the first month of service didn't do that. The billing center didn't have access to give the promo rate we were supposed to get, so I had to call New Accounts. I finally get the account working, then get transferred to Tech Support again to have the MAC ID entered and get cut off. Call again and FINALLY get the cable modem working. I got the Wireless Access point running and got internet to my wireless laptop. Half the battle down. I could get the laptop to talk to both of the access points, but for some reason the computer on a LAN line to the second WAP router has decided it won't communicate with it so it's making it hard to see if the two routers will talk with each other.
Anyway, went and played kickball, took the Absolut-ly Grape jell-o beans and jell-o shots. They were well liked. The game wasn't all that fun for some reason though. Maybe because the refs really weren't paying all that much attention, so it got annoying.
After Kickball we headed to Grandma's Saloon and Eatery drank for a while and played some Flip-Cup until ten. Got a little bit of flirt on with a girl from my team. Since her name reminds me of one of my favorite cars, I'll call her Lotus girl. Fairly cute, athletic and lots of energy. We made plans to meet up and go out for drinks next week. Yup.
After some Flip-Cup me and some of the guys from the team headed across town to see the midnight showing of the new movie Serenity. Based on the short lived TV series (It didn't even make it a whole season), Firefly, has a total cult following. It's a good movie though, good comedy and a couple kick ass fight scenes. You should all check it out! Smuggled in the left over Jello and got a free t-shirt too. It was a good night.
Came home and felt like writing, and thus the post below became the first every post direct from Slacker HQ.
And that was the night.
Disappointingly, but fortunately after-work football just got cancelled today, so I can go home and nap before going out for Oktoberfest tonight! Gatshof's can be good for meeting chicks, and I'm going with G-Spot and a group of other friends, including her super hot Friend with a Boy's Name, though she may have a date. ;O) So which me luck.
Oh an by the way, the questions weren't really mean to be answered, just things going through my head. That and feeling a little poetic. A quote from Serenity: "Yes, I've read a poem, try not to faint."
Later all!
posted by Chief Slacker @ 2:33 PM,
5 Comments:
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At Fri Sep 30, 06:58:00 PM,
Kira said...
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No.
No.
No.
Both of you CHICKEN SHITS (and I hope she reads this too!) should just ROLL THE DICE and gamble it! Don't let her go! She shouldn't do it either!
Believe me when I say that I went from having a fantastic friend, to dating him, to having it end in screaming, to RETURN to being the best of friends! It's WORTH THE RISK! If you're that good of friends now, then if the relationship fails, you'll probably remain friends. Gav still calls me like once a week even though he's nearly engaged and I have Alex, and our sig others love Gav and me.
I know I said there are a number of people who could be the love of your life out there, and I am truly a firm believer in that fact. But, SHE IS ONE OF THEM.
So don't be a chicken shit! Neither of you! It's worth the risk! -
At Fri Sep 30, 07:09:00 PM,
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"There's a stronger connection with me than with anyone else she's known. That four letter L word did get tossed around a good deal as well."
Bahahah!
Dude, I'll give you a little bit of tough 'l-word' here.
You don't get any reward without risk. Look at stocks. You either have low-risk, low-reward or high-risk, high-reward.
Sometimes you've gotta just give'er. You just nut up and do it. It's fun, and damn, you just have to step outside the comfort zone once in a while. Have her over after the bar, watch TV, then kiss her. Nothing fancy...if she already TALKED about it, especially in the open like that, she WANTS you to make a move but SHE doesn't have the courage to - it's up to you.
Fuck locations, fuck the timing, fuck it all - just do it. Act first and think later, man! If it's good, then all the details will work themselves out afterward.
You want her. She wants you. Do it. -
At Sun Oct 02, 08:53:00 AM,
Sunny said...
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I agree with Kira and C/B.
Some things you just gotta do- and a female only admits something like that to you if she wants it but can't get up the courage to do it herself- Takes the ball out of her court and leaves it all up to you.
Go for it- you'll be able to tell whether or not you wanna go further after that first kiss.
And don't wimp out with a quick peck either......go for the GUSTO!!! -
At Sun Oct 02, 05:14:00 PM,
Kira said...
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YEAH! Full on tongue humping ;)
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At Mon Oct 03, 09:10:00 AM,
Chief Slacker said...
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Kira - It's not about letting her go, she's already living in Colorado. So that's one big poblem to work out. Who knows. And I have tried to push for it in the past...
Cap B - I've made moves before and they were almost always shot down.
Sunny - A female agreeing with Captain B. The world is not right! :O) And like I've said, I've tried before, but all that was a while ago.
Kira - Wouldn't mind it!
Wolfgang - I agree with you except for the one major problem, distance.