Bum rush of visitors...

Wow. I posted my last blog on MySpace and within minutes it had 36 views. I'm one popular bloggin-mofo. Who the hell are you people? I can't even think of 36 people that I know let alone 36 people that would want to read the trash I write on this thing. I thought maybe it was because I hit refresh a few times so I refreshed the page like 50 times and nothing happened. So I'm guessing 36 kinda real people sorta read my blog today. Wow. Two blogs in one day too! Wow!

I watched part of The Net tonight (that one movie with Sandra Bullocks) and it got me thinking more about my whole "cyber terrorism" from a couple blogs ago. The Net was just a movie and it came out back when people still used floppy discs and the Macintosh computer was on par with a Fisher Price toy but the whole premise still freaks me out. You laugh but you won't be when all of the sudden you get pulled over and the cops double penetrate your ass with nightsticks because all of the sudden you have 8 warrants in 6 different states for being a child molester when in reality someone just dicked around with your record. Scary shit huh? I think so. Every bit of our information is sitting on a hard drive somewhere. Hospital records, on a computer. Driving records, on a computer. Library info, on a computer. Blah blah and blah all on computers. Pay $19.99 and I can have access to my complete (albeit small) crimial record or social security number. Whatever! Shit like that freaks me out. Maybe because I like to fly under the radar and am comforted knowing that I'm not on the grid. Much (sorta). I've already had my credit card information stolen twice in the last 7 years. And one of the times almost $10,000 was racked up before I even got my monthly statement. All because some jackass.

It just freaks me out that's all.

I'm back from Pennsylvania (duh) and it was awesome seeing Angela again. I'll be seeing more of her soon enough! I can't wait. As predicted this trip was laid back. Well, other than after Angela picked me up at the airport and was tired so I drove us back to York from Baltimore. Well, I tried anyways. I got us totally lost and I had to ask for directions from a toll-booth operator. It was freaking cold back there and the snow wasn't snow at all. It was ice. Gigantic piles of ice everywhere. The roads back there are already narrow as can be but when you add 4 feet of ice on each side of the road it's like 1/2 a lane of clear road. I've added a few pictures we took to my pictures section if you haven't already noticed. The moment we got to the airport before I had to leave I started missing Angela real bad. When I had to board my plane and go through security I almost lost it. I'm glad that we will be back together shortly and this time more permanent (I hope!).

I should probably go to bed or something. Yeah.

-mbh signing off...

Bloodlocked...

I love my iPod. The greatest invention of this century. I can't even remember the last time I used a compact disc. I think it was to rip all the music off of to put on to my iPod. I am still using an OLD generation 3 (I think?) 4GB iPod Mini. The thing is indestructable. I've dropped it on pavement from like 4 feet, I've accidentally stepped on the click wheel and crushed it into the casing (it popped out by slamming it into my desk a few times) and almost totally submersed it in water. I keep hoping the damn thing would die so I could buy a new bigger one... say a 400GB Video iPod? Then I could fit my whole collection on it. Okay, so I probably wouldn't put my entire collection on it (can you say Wingers Greatest Hits?). I have a hard enough time as it is with 600 songs so I couldn't imaging having 30,000 to try and sort through.

So, has this week gotten any better? Not even. I woke up yesterday puking. Orange juice isn't very fun to puke up. At least I didn't have to go to work. There was a massive snow storm and traffic got all fubar'd and they had to close the freeway down for a bit. Also, my windshield cracked! This is the 4th vehicle in a row I've owned where I had to replace the windshield. Audi windshields are expensive too!

Ugh, I just drank my first Dr. Pepper and now I want to puke! I don't know why I don't like the stuff I just don't, and this is coming from someone who likes to drink Nyquil because it tastes fricken gooooood (Nyquil/Lortab smoothie anyone?).

Is it five yet? I want to go home.

-mbh signing off...

God and Government...

My mind isn't for rent for any God or government.

Today was bad. Fucking bad with a capital FUCK. Seriously! If 'it' could go wrong today 'it' did. With 'it' being everything I did from the moment I woke up to this very moment.
I am inspired. Well I was anyways. Moments ago when I was driving around out in the blizzard. I really need to mount my laptop onto my steering wheel so I can blog while I drive because my most inspired moments come while I'm behind the wheel.

When I have really bad days I think way too much about life. Not just my life but the small insignificant lives of the universe. We are nothing but small specks of dust in the universe and we are all going to hell in a hand basket. Well, it just seems that way. I do live in America after all; the greatest country in the known universe. I'm not one for politics or government issues (kinda). I'm the type of person who tries not to focus on things too far removed from my own control (therapy does that to me). Republicans and Democrats can both take one of my nuts each and lick em (G. Dubya B. can have both of them at once!). Sure I don't know squat about politics and I've only listened to Sean Hannity a handful of times (the guy is psychotic). I bring him up because I watched a documentry of Hitler before he came to full power and it brought Sean Hannity to mind. Hilter was fucked up, seriously. My opinion is that most people invovled in the government and/or politics have sold their souls to satan multiple times over (that's why most of them are lawyers, coincidence? I think not!).

I'm still waiting for iRevolution or NWO (nerd world order). The people in the world with the real power are the people that control the information. Just imagine if all the geeks and nerds united under the skull and bones and made the Jolly Roger proud? Seriously (kinda) though... almost the entire world, USA especially, is run by computers. All of our information is connected, stored and out there. Take over that and you take over society. It's only a matter of time before the retarded terrorists figure that out and begin an era of cyber terrorism. You can't fight that with troops. I'm convinced as a nation we could wipe any country off the map with our military and nukes. Not that I'm saying we should being somewhat of a violent pacifist (I play violent videogames what do you expect?) but our information infrastructure could be comprimised probably easier than our borders. Cyber terrorism would be a bitch if it really got out of control. Pffft.

Anyways, enough of my opinion for today. That is all it is, my opinion. Ramblings of a madman and a large amount of BS. I really don't know anything that I talk about.

That's entertainment!

-mbh signing off...

Over and Out...

This week is finally over and I'm outta here.

I left work today with a pant load of work to do which means when I get back next week I will have two pant loads of work waiting. Ugh. Maybe I shouldn't have thought about that right now.

Just maybe.

I'm all packed up and ready to roll. I'm going to leave here in about three hours and head up to the airport. If the weather permits I should be landing in Baltimore a little after noon (EST). I don't plan on writing anything or even logging into MySpace for at least a week. I don't even want to touch a computer for at least that long. I just want to relax, eat, watch some My Super Sweet 16 and most of all, spend time with Angela. If I can accomplish at least 3 out of 4 of those things I would say my trip will have been a success.

My feet are cold and I should try and get a little more sleep before I have to go. Hopefully I can crash out on the flight.

Okay, enough.

-mbh signing off...

One More Day...

That's it. One more full day before I get to give Angela her Valentines day gift. Me!
I'll finally get to see Angela again. I'll wake up, go to work for half the day, go shopping and get some errands done and then finish packing (which I started tonight). I'll sleep for a bit then in the middle of the night I'll head up to the airport and catch my super early flight. Then I'll go back to bed.

I can't wait to come down the terminal to baggage claim and to see Angela standing there with a big smile on her face as I run up to her and give her a big bear hug. It's going to be so awesome! I seriously cannot wait to see her.

Anyways, I have to get a lot of sleep tonight.

-mbh signing off...

Power to the people Marty,Power to the people Cos'.
-Cosmo & Martin Bishop

Wired up...

I fell asleep way early tonight and now I'm wide awake. I've been sleeping like crap lately. I'm super tired during the day and keep falling asleep at work. Then I'm all wired up at night for no reason.

Ten more days before I fly out. Ten long days. I'm really excited and can't wait.

Work has been decent this week. I've gotten a lot of work done (when I'm not dozing off) and the days have gone by somewhat quickly. They've reorganized the teams for this development cycle which means the team I'm on lost two people. A third person had surgery on his ACL so has been out of the office for a while now too so it's been down to four people. They are moving where we sit too. There goes my awesome window seat and my awesome view across South Jordan. Oh well, I guess they don't pay me a pant load of money to sit dozing off staring out the window all day (somedays it feels that way).

Well, I'm getting tired again and it's really cold. My toes are like ice cubes that could cool down a diet Coke if I dipped them in one.

-mbh signing off...

Big bang generation...

I've been lazy butt this entire weekend. I can't believe I have to get up for work in about 7 hours. This weekend went by way too fast. That's what I get for sleeping all day yesterday and today. All I did was sleep and play Nintendo. Since I slept all weekend I'm not even tired now when I should be. I'm great at screwing up my sleeping cycle on the weekends. Oh well, I could always sleep through my Monday meetings.

I was able to get the days off I needed at work. Floating holidays kick ass. So In less than two weeks I'm outta here! Now if I could just make the next two work weeks fly by...

It's funny. Everytime I post my blog I get about 20 views within minutes. Who the hell reads this thing anyways? I don't even have that many Myspace friends and most of them are music groups. I'm pretty sure Trent Reznor or the band members from Duran Duran aren't reading this. Oh well I suppose. As long as it entertains you then I'm guessing that is a good thing.

I guess I should really try to get some sleep now. Have fun and enjoy reading my blog all you strangers!

-mbh signing off...

I'll see you in Baltimore...

It's official. I'm heading back east in a little over two weeks. I fly into Baltimore International on Saturday the 17th where Angela is going to pick me up. Then we'll head up to York, PA for a few days. Last time I was there was back in the middle of October so I'm really excited to go see Angela. This time we won't feel obligated to do all the tourist stuff and can spend more time just enjoying each others company. Gettysburg and Amish country were cool but it felt like we spent so much time trying to see everything that we were rushing from place to place. This time we'll have more time to relax.

I got a great deal on my hotel so that makes up for the too expensive flight. Now all I have to do is get a couple days off from work and I'm set. I don't think that will be a problem. Speaking of work, I got some good news today. The 2006 bonus will be on my next check which I get a couple days before flying out. The whole trip probably won't even take up half the bonus so it's like I get a free trip. Not to mention my tax return should be coming soon too. The extra money will make it so Angela and I will be able to do pretty much whatever we want when I get there. Yay for expensive food and shopping sprees!

Once I get back from Pennsylvania Angela will be following soon after. It will be nice having her back close by. Then she will be able to get settled in and maybe go down to Las Vegas and California to visit her friends. I know she would like that a lot.

-mbh signing off...