Am at Jimmy’s Pub in East Lansing for the Round Table Attempt 2. Hope to see you here. :)
Author Archives: David Crampton
New FoF today!
It’s Friday, so there’s a new Fight or Flight comic up at the site!
Thoughts From the Day Job
Motivation seems to be returning. This is good.
- Phone tech support for Hunter’s grandma.
- Replaced CPU fan on Wren’s desktop, thereby allowing it to boot.
- Updated video driver on Nikki’s laptop, which while improving the overall graphics, did not solve the flickering problem.
- Keeping today’s food log updated.
- Got writing done on my lunch break.
The candy canes on my desk (SweeTart and Life Saver) and the chocolate bells in the candy jar (Reese’s and Butterfinger) are tempting me. Oddly enough, I haven’t eaten either because I don’t have the nutritional information.
At home, moving our pantry shelves into the basement has prevented me from snacking as much. Laziness about going down and back up the stairs has made me abandon the desire to snack about 60% of the time. The witty plaques have returned to the kitchen wall, and I will soon have a dishwasher. This excites me in ways that kitchen appliances should not.
Ground my own coffee last night, and brewed it again on the timer this morning. It feels good, and right, and I have no idea why. In the past, I have put off brewing my own, preferring to go to a local coffee shop, even if it was to pick up on the way to work. Even chains like Beaners and Tim Hortons have benefited from my lack of desire to brew at home. Maybe it’s the enormous thermos in which I’m storing my coffee. Maybe it’s that I’ve ground the beans myself (the aroma of the beans as they’re grinding is just… indescribable). I’ve brewed -good- coffee at home before, but I’ve never really enjoyed it this much.
Also, delicious.
Looks like the drive home will be slow and careful. My guess is 2.5 inches of snow, but I haven’t checked with any weather services. I feel for the southeastern states right now; they’re not used to this sort of thing. Lizard popsicle?
Making with the videos and the pictures.
Helpful advice.
Here’s a helpful hint from Saturday morning: When experiencing your first migraine headache, don’t drop your only bottle of Sinus Blend essential oil mixture. Not only does the store you bought it from no longer exist, but the neck of the bottle, in all its smallness, will shatter, sending miniscule shards of brown glass all over the tub. Also, the oils will discolor same.
You will be moving so slowly and painfully that your wife, who has far too much experience with migraines, will clean up the mess while you stand there like an idiot. She will also discover that the tub is no longer draining. At all.
Just don’t do it, kids.
P.S. – Both brainmeats and tub (jerks) have since resumed normal functionality.
Round Table – Attempt #2
Sunday, 10 January 2010, 6ish (in the PM)
Jimmy’s Pub – http://www.jimmyspub.net/
Smoke free, wifi, alcohol, and food. Also me.
Contact me with any questions. And yes, this means you. :)
Thoughts from the Day Job
Brought some delicious Traverse City cherry coffee to work today. Got it at Horrocks, ground it in Nikki’s white elephant gift from the Cramptons (which ended up being mine, because she spoils me something fierce), brewed it in my coffee maker, and brought it to work in my white elephant gift from the Cramptons. Did I mention that it’s damn tasty?
I spent most of the Micro Center gift card that I got from my parents. Let’s see if I can tick off the ways in which I spoiled myself:
- EVE Online
- Logitech ClearChat Premium PC headset
- 3-pack of compressed air cans
- USB Jump Drive wallet
Still have a bit left on the card, for future miscellaneous geekery.
Horoscope for 23 Dec 2009:
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): According to astronomer Mark Whittle, the Big Bang began in silence. Soon it crescendoed into a majestic major third chord 50 octaves below middle A. Then it transformed, over the course of a million years, into a wistful minor third chord. In my vision of the first two-thirds of 2010, the music of your life will have a similar pattern: It begins with silence. Next, it progresses into a lush major feel, with spirited and complex contrapuntal themes. Then in June, it evolves into a dreamy, contemplative phase. By late September, however — unlike the Big Bang — you will move into a third act, in which the music of your life returns to the lively mood it had at the start, only now with the gravitas that the reflective phase has instilled.
Horoscope for 30 Dec 2009:
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): My Taurus friend Jill had a dream in which she stopped by a blackberry bush on a summer afternoon. All the ripe blackberries were too high on the bush, just out of reach. She stood there gazing longingly up at them for a long time. Finally three people in medieval garb came by, as if having stepped out of a deck of Tarot cards — a warrior, magician, and priestess. “I really want those blackberries,” she said to them. “Could you give me a boost?” They stooped down to make their backs available. She climbed up, but still couldn’t reach the berries. “Oh well, we tried,” she said. “Follow us,” said the priestess, and she did. After a while they came to another bush whose blackberries were lower and easy to pluck. Then the four shared the feast. After analyzing the omens for 2010, Taurus, I’ve come to the conclusion that Jill’s dream is an apt metaphor for your best possible destiny in 2010.
Fight or Flight goes live!
Fight or Flight, a webcomic written by yours truly, drawn by Richard Schlaack, is now live!
The first page debuted at midnight on 01.01.10 (GMT/Zulu). A new page will come out every Friday on the same schedule. I’m so excited about this I could implode. I can’t wait for more of the story to unfold, and to share it with everyone. :)