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Catching Up… Kinda.

Posted on March 5, 2011

Been a while but since I posted but a lot of fun and interesting stuff has happened in the last few weeks. Lots has gone on since the last time I posted. Here are some updates.

I was really into this years Super Bowl. Both teams have long history in the league & were very entertaining during the regular season. I was not really a big Aaron Rodgers fan until this game. That dude is a baller. I was afraid that the game was going to be a blow out but the Steelers made a game of it. It was by far one of the more memorable Super Bowls of the recent past in my opinion. Something told me that the Packers had it in them all year, even through all the crazy injuries they suffered. I was glad to see such a great game, and did not care who won. But the Packers really did impress me.

I’m not like some people that I know that think they get more than a day to celebrate their birthday… but this year my week rocked, kinda. I only got one present for my thirtieth birthday, and it was from a very unlikely place. Raises and bonuses were announced at work during the week, and… Continue Reading

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Ya win some, Ya lose some, I lose most…

Posted on October 17, 2008

Zoinks yo. Last week or so has been bonkers. My sister’s wedding was fabulous. The reception was good fun and it was so nice to see people I hadn’t seen in years. Really was glad to see that the day went so well. At least it went better than Sunday. Damn Redskins.

Tailgating was fun. We switched it up and did cold sammiches instead of BBQ. Good stuff. The game was craptastic. The Rams had not won a game all season, and they beat us in the last seconds by kicking a field goal. Fuckers only scored 12 points on FG kicks. To think how bad the score could have been if those were 4 touchdowns, not so shitty. But come on. 0-4 team makes our last two wins against division rivals seem like nothing. Dammit.

Went and saw The Autumn Offering and Mushroomhead on Wednesday. That was pretty tight. I needed a night to leave the house and just let it all out. Mission accomplished. I had not seen TAO before, and have seen MH many times. Every time they perform a killer show. This time was not to disappoint. The crowd was mad into it and they were feeding off of it. They had to end 2 songs early cuz some… Continue Reading

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Yeaahhh, but I don’t wanna!

Posted on September 19, 2008

… Get out of bed this morning. Fridays are the only work day that I get to sleep in, and it is the most magical time ever. Even if it is just 1.5 hours more sleep than I get any other night of the week. As if I needed some sort of excuse to like Fridays… pfft.

I got absolutely nothing done at work yesterday and it sucked balls. My production install went smooth (for the third week in a row – BONUS!) but then the rest of my day was shot by so many damn meetings. We had a super long lunch meeting and I was damn near falling asleep. If I wasn’t goofing off with a colleague I would have just zonked out and slouched over. She is so goddamn awesome. Her sense of humor is the best. We were making fun of these people in the videos that were playing. Her boss was joking about how he wanted to switch seats with her so he could see what was making me laugh so hard. I knew it was her making me laugh that hard, but told him that I was looking at icanhascheezburger.com to cover for it. Smooth operator in action. Look out!!

After that, I did not even attempt… Continue Reading

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Zoinks yo, what a crazy week!!??@#$

Posted on September 16, 2008

What a week it has been! It started Saturday… Fucking POURED all day. The shit from Hurricane Hanna made its way up here and it unleashed some serious rain & wind. We needed it and all, but it was crazy. It started Friday night and did not end ’til about 7pm Sat night. I do not mind being a couch potato at all and enjoyed sitting on my ass and watching NCAA football all day. Played some video games, had a nice dinner with my Mom, Sister and her Fiance (MMM Outback) and then had a buddy over for more gaming fun. Good times.

Sunday was an awesome day of football! WEEK ONE!! I got to watch the ‘Skins on Thursday so they were not playing. Instead, I got to watch Brett Favre play his first game on his new team. That was kewl and all but the highlight had to be when Tom Brady went down for the season 20 minutes in with a serious knee injury. I have wished for 3 seasons that he would get his head taken off and it finally happened, well kinda. But YAY. It sucks and all, you never want to see anyone get hurt, but I totally dislike the guy and his coach. Maybe he… Continue Reading

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Time flies when you’re having fun…

Posted on September 4, 2008

Thats for sure! Holy hell. What a busy past few days. Last Tuesday I was planning to meet some coworkers at Dominion Brewery, which is a local brewery here, but it also had a pretty decent restaurant. Anyways, the damn thing was shut down. That sucked. I really enjoyed that place. Had lots of good times there. At least I have those… Instead I just went home and jammed on some Rock Band and went to bed early. Boo early meetings!

Wednesday was much of the same. Just kickin’ it trying not to work too late. I managed to get some relaxation time in before taking a really nice walk. I don’t do that enough. I been meaning to buy a nice bicycle, but haven’t done that. Guess as the weather gets shittier it would kinda be the time. Maybe I can get a good deal on a sweet ride. I should ask my buddies at work… They seem to know more about it than I do. Some crazy shit out there, that’s for sure!

Thursday I went to a local bar and hung out with my buddy Josh. He is taking off to St. Louis with his family and I am happy for him. It was good to hang for one last… Continue Reading

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Weekends are the best!

Posted on August 25, 2008

We have this thing at work called “Summer Friday” where if you have your work for the week completed and are in a position by the middle of the day Friday, you could leave work early to enjoy a half day. As developers some of us never got to actually have one. But this past Friday, we were super slackers and left at 1:30. Fuck yeah.

I was really looking forward to this Summer Friday. Josh and I had been planning this Friday for a long time. We were going to see some of the Subnoize Recording Artists up in Baltimore. We missed some of the opening acts but were able to sneak through the admission line and catch the majority of Hed PE’s set. They fuckin’ rocked! Jahred blabs too much and they could have gotten 2 more songs in, but whatever. He always has funny shit to say. It was also nice to see him doing his civic duty by signing boobs after their set. Fun times!

Tech N9ne came out and rapped for a long ass time. He is pretty tight. The crowd was really into his performance and the place was packed so it was kewl to see everyone going nuts. This group of young idiots next to me… Continue Reading

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Rockstar Weekend

Posted on August 18, 2008

I love fun weekends. For real. I needed a super fun weekend before going back to work. That’s exactly what I got. On Caturday, I got to see Jenni and have her work on me. I got a neat tattoo. Kinda secret right now but I’ll post more later. Hurts like a bitch. Now its time to heal. Ugh. I hate healing. Chilled with her and some other peeps after and had some dinner, played some Rock Band (I got a 565 note streak on one song playing lead guitar – OH SHIT) watched the Skins game (3-0 preseason FUCK YEAH) and read more of my book. Shit is awesome.

Sunday was the ROCKSTAR Mayhem Festival down the road a bit. It was pretty awesome. Lately, I have become more of a fan to see shows at bars and clubs. The big venues are cool, but I really don’t like people that much so it kinda sucks most of the time. We saw Mastodon, Disturbed and Slipknot, and I went over to the second stage to catch Machine Head. They destroyed – as usual – and it was really kewl to see the side-stage crowd getting hardcore into their performance. See my previous post but it sucked cuz Phil collapsed during their second… Continue Reading

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All work and little play makes Brandon a dull boy

Posted on July 28, 2008

Which is why I got to play on Saturday with my friends. We went to the Bob Marley Reggae Roots fest up in Baltimore Maryland. It was real neat. The pavillion sat right on Pier6. We could see lots of water, boats, neat scenery and got lots of breeze. We had lawn seats so the Sun was pretty bad but the big awesome clouds came to bully the Sun away and save us.

I have not seen live Reggae much so this was a new experience for me. It was hella kewl. I had a blast. There were lots of chill people and we met a few of the musicians from the different bands. We ended up hanging out for the entire afternoon. We missed the first few bands but caught Soja, Barrington Levy, Ziggy Marley (acoustic set, YAY) & Stephen Marley. Damien came out to do some songs as well. It was really awesome. I gotta admit, they really had the crowd into it and they were very talented musicians.

Being the white-guy-that-cant-dance that I am, I learned a few moves from the back-up singers. They had some moves! So I dedided to dance around like an idiot for a bit and enjoyed myself. This kid passed out on the lawn so… Continue Reading

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Another Super Awesome Monday…

Posted on July 22, 2008

Wow. What the fuck. That was crazy. I mean, Mondays are usually eventful… lots of meetings at work, going home and being bored… but today was the best Monday ever. Aside from the lame meetings, anyways. I had to get to work early for my weekly video meeting. My thing the past few weeks has been Karate Bagels on my Monday. (For those of you who don’t know – the local bagel shop had a very similar sign to the Karate dojo next door and it looked like there was a store named “Karate Bagels”) They make a very yummy bagel. MMM.

I got to work and walked to my telesuites meeting from my desk. My man Sean holds it down during that meeting. Its awesome. We did our thing and afterwards I walked to my desk and rocked out on the iPod. The day was pretty un-eventful, but I did manage to give a good demo of my channel template at 2. My manager even decided to show up which was kewl. After that, my day was going well. Until….

I went outside at 4 to get some sun and kinda take a break from the hectic day. There is nice courtyard right outside our offices so I decided to stroll down… Continue Reading

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Another Crazy Week…

Posted on July 20, 2008

I have been bored as hell today and have been dreading the upcoming week. If this past week was any indication, the next 2 weeks are gonna be hell before I peace the fuck out for vacation. I’m hoping to finally get some face time with my manager after practically begging him to chat with me. There are so many things wrong with my team right now… its really dis-heartening. I still have hope though. A couple of us deserve better and I’ll be damned if we don’t get it!

I am supposed to give a big demo at work tomorrow and an even bigger one on Wednesday. I really hope that I don’t fuck up. The Wednesday one has me kinda nervous. The CTO will be there. Zoinks yo. I should do fine though once I get in my comfort zone. Basically, I just need to man up and not be a big wuss. I’m not used to all of the exposure that I have been getting lately on some levels.

I get to see Cavalera Conspiracy tomorrow night up in Balitmore. Not looking forward to going alone, but it is what it is. I do not wanna miss the show. There should be a couple of work happy hours this week.… Continue Reading

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Fun times at the office!

Posted on July 10, 2008

This week at the office has been the most fun week ever. My manager is gone you know what they say… “while the cats away, the mice will play…” Kelly and I started a whiteboard drawing of our manager and have put all kindsa of kewl shit on the board.

First of all, Kelly did the face, and it looks just like him. She started the body off as a stick figure but changed the arms the other day to be buff ‘n stuff. We found a kewl kanji tattoo on the interweb, and put it on his arm muscle. We also made a “spring break” band around the arm which is kinda funny. We added his famous PDA & laniard and put a sombrero around his fat cartoon head. The sun is beating down on him and he (including his moustache) is burned… and it is fucking hilarious.

She has him saying – in his party hat — “make sure you do your timesheets.”

She is gonna be out tomorrow but I am gonna add some sand castles and maybe a few sand toys. We cannot wait until he comes back on Monday to see our creation. I will post pictures tomorrow to share the glory of our awesome creation. I hope… Continue Reading

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