rocking the Meta shirt today!

Memories of a sweet ass coffeehouse fill my mind.  I want to do that one day, mix the magic of coffee with the atmosphere and the sophistication needed to make it all work.  Bring the youth to your door, bring their parents along with them to enjoy my brew.






on a side note, I'm highly motivated to do very little today other than chill with the girlfriend and possibly go out into the woods and fuck around.  I have this great desire to cook some shit on a fire, which might be awesome and also might be dangerous, more to follow on that.

Oh yeah! Friday we got some Focaccia from the local bakery, great looking bread, we decided to church it up a bit and make it into amazing bread.










A little butter, garlic, basil, and a hot oven produced this majestically piece of wonder!

Some quick made pizza sauce on the side made this the best bread-stick setup in the state.

I have another in the car, waiting for another magical creation to be made... no clue as to it's final destination, but i'm sure my belly is en-route.

the Saturday morning blog.

This morning has started off with the Joe Rogan podcast video blog, quite possibly the best podcast on the internet and you guys should all go check out his stuff.  This morning has also solidified another suspicions in a completely different matter.  I'm so convinced that the podcast will eventually replace mainstream media.  I think of a system where maybe we have a screen and sort of on demand on your tv box can choose the podcast with the topic you want to hear, news on demand.  The only thing needed to move to this system, is mass storage online.  Huge hosting companies that have insanely large pipes, feeding massive amounts of bandwidth to these storage farms / cloud servers feeding to the world.  Internet would have to go from being a pay-by-the-month to a free to the world system.  When the internet becomes free for all, the world will change massively in a moment.  I'm really excited and waiting for that day, when I can select my news anchor and my content. 


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Today I think I want to knock out some more letter in the Gonzo letters Volume II by Hunter S. Thompson.  Very excited about this book, and have found lots of great information that I hope to apply to my life.  Hopefully maybe I can share with some of you what I've learned as well. 

In other news, My camping adventure with Joseph begins this Friday.  Sort of a bittersweet event, on one hand, I really want to go, and I really want to take part in the experience.  The other hand wants to spend more time with my girlfriend, as of late she has been taxed with work, and our time has been waning.  I'd like to spend more time with her, I think after this camping trip, it will happen.

The sounds of Josh Garrels bounce off the walls in my room like a cathedral ceiling, it's that loud, and that good.

So this blog has taken me an hour so far, this is not good.  I think the problem is lack of coffee.... we shall see...

Pause for consideration-

Thanks for waiting, Coffee is made, and Banana is ingested, now maybe we can get on with this.



Today is also my 8 month anniversary with Heather, that's quite amazing.  A quick glance at the last 8 months is dotted with moments of pure elation and the inverse. New York was amazing, mom getting cancer was terrible, must take the good with the bad though.

New York was the last place I felt truly free, which brings about great atomicity for the current place I reside.  Great change is in the future I feel, hopefully soon, maybe today.  The world is changing, I only hope I can evolve fast enough to keep pace.  I find when I am around good people my mind races, and my thoughts are pointed. As straight as the compass points north, my mind moves towards a progressive world filled with hard work, much effort and great rewarding accomplishment.

( There we go, the coffee is starting to kick in, I can feel the fog starting to lift.)

So to explain what happened with the computer

So here's a brief overview of what happened with the windows box.  I got a virus, and my virus scan said OH NOE I CAN'T FIXED IT!?!?! 

Next thing I see is a prompt saying 'hey buddy, your hard disk failed, sorry man.' 
Following that I decided to see what disk it was, of course it was the one with all my music/photos.
Post this check, I decided to open the disk ( it was grayed out and had an X through it.
empty.


Panic panic panic.

My music was still working in Itunes...
My photos were still visible when I input the Direct link in explorer.



we open all the containing folders in an application ( 100+ folders)
Watch as the screen fills with boxes and chaos.  Three kittens got their wings because of this operation.
Decide to ask Alex d. if they still had hidden files, he confirms.
Three clicks later it's all visible and I'm rocking and rolling.

Great motivation too backup, complacency is not cool guys, back up or prepare for disaster.

It's fixed.

So after five minutes of work, and one click of the mouse, everything is back....


Life can now continue on as normal..



Also, using dollars as book marks is for rich people, I use paper, or the receipt

This is the first day of my life... Or Friday.

As it would be, It's Friday, this is both good and bad.  Good in that only one more 8 hour shift until I'm free from the clutches of " the man" and bad in that I am one 8 hour shift away from being out of the clutches of " the man."  This weekend I think it would be rad to do some barbequing, maybe some beer drinking, ( Heather found one more six pack of Hopslam, pretty excited!) maybe some reading, not sure.  It's supposed to be warm, and possibly rain, and it's looking like the possibly is actually code word for 'will'.  Never fear my faithful readers, I will make the most of it, or at least do one of those things.


In other news, Alex is also going to come and help me try to find my directories today, which will be fun, or at least stressful.  I've almost accepted that I lost all the music/movies/ect but what hurts is the pictures.  I don't know if I even want the music back, it might be an interesting opportunity to change my thought process when it comes to music, change my scene maybe.  Also I had an insane amount of low quality music, and It might be fun to move to full HQ music, all 320k. 


So I heard that the government might take a shutdown or something to that effect.  I'm not sure how I feel about that, as It might mean I wont be getting paid for 21 days, on the same token, it also means I wont be working.

Off to work, have a good one!

man, things seem to be starting to come back together...

didn't lose everything per-say, but it's all scrambled.  The music and photos are there, but they directory files are all deleted, so I need to figure out how to make this work.  So when you open the page, you see nothing BUT when I go to add a folder of the same name, Ie 2010 it declares that this folder already exists!  Well there's no folder in the directory, so there's an issue here!    Alex is on it, and I have full confidence that he will figure it out, and that he can somehow fix it.  I remember a time when I was a computer wiz, now I feel burdened by other things, and my computer knowledge is slipping away... Which I think is fine honestly...

And there you have it...

NO!!!

I can handle getting all of my music deleted, that's acceptable.  However what is not, is losing my photos.  I lost a huge amount of photos, every photo for the last two years in fact, today.  Very sad, makes me quite depressed actually.  I need to start burning them to dvd.  This is just a great reminder, complacency is horrible, and I am sad i fell into that group.


In other news, made an amazing egg sammich, and my kitty was looking incredibly cute so I decided to take a picture, and she did not approve.



Then she decided she wanted to take the camera and try her hand at photography.  The photos came out quite weird and less magical more terrible...  I'll spare you...

So yeah have a great night, sleep well, and Drink some apple juice, it's great stuff.