Lots of wine making stuff going on lately. Other than that, same old same old. I've been working on a Bill costume for Halloween, including growing a beard. I have combat boots from when I was in the Army. I bought an olive drab BDU shirt at a surplus store last weekend, along with some cargo pants from REI (that I needed anyway), I ordered a beret and 1st SF group patch and nametags online and, last night, I programmed a micro-controller to beep and flash an LED for my makeshift pipe bomb. A bit overkill, I know. I just need to get a toy 9mm and M-16 but I'm having some serious problems finding toy guns. I figured that would be the easiest part! I can't believe how pussified our society is becoming.

Every year, on the day before Thanksgiving, I go with a friend and his friends on a drinking trek across San Francisco, from Fisherman's Wharf, along Columbus, to downtown and then to Anchor for a tour(at which there is much drinking), and then on to more drinking. It's great fun but I would like to do it with a group of my friends and Shan has never gone. I am going to plan my own trek during beer week 2010, probably on Thursday 2/11. The tour is free but I will probably have to call way early to get reservations for the tour during this auspicious week, so I'd like to get an idea of who would be interested now. No need for commitment required right now but, if you think you might want to do this, let me know. Jeff, you are already confirmed, whether you want to go or not.

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I'm a little zombieifed today. I didn't sleep Saturday. I went and got my hair cut in the morning, had lunch, then I got bored so I installed Starcraft and started playing through the human campaign. When I got up and walked out of the garage and saw it was daylight outside I realized I had pulled another all nighter. Went back and kept playing all day Sunday too, heh. I forgot how addictive that game is! I did the human, Zerg and half of the Protosss campaigns. I also forgot how frustrating some of the Protoss missions are.

I've been watching Battlestar Galactica lately, the original series. It's kind of corny but it's still pretty good and I've been enjoying watching the episodes. Sunday I tried watching some other old TV while eating dinner. Buck Rogers and the A Team. I couldn't get through a single episode of either, they were so bad. But I loved those shows when I was a kid!

Half day today. Man, our schedule is bare. Not sure why. Maybe because people are losing jobs/health insurance? Maybe just a lull. Anyway, did my 2.5 mile run when I got home. When I got back I was starving and started looking through the fridge. Shan still had a bunch of cut up onions from the BBQ so I threw them all in a pan with some butter and cooked them down while cooking 1/2 pack of left over bacon (I know, "left over bacon" is an oxymoron). I broke up the bacon and threw it in the pan with the onions, then dumped a bunch of shredded cheese on that, then scrambled up some eggs and poured them on top. Now I'm baking the whole thing. It smells so good and I am even more starving than I was before. I can't wait 'til it is done. Then it's going to be Beatles Rock Band time.

Ahahaha, this is the shit: "This is the entire N.W.A. Straight Outta Compton album edited down into just the 'explicit' content."

(KC I stole this from your FB comment)

Ok, who on here used to say tickety-boo? I saw it on the front page of The Septic's Companion (thanks Rue!) and started snorting.

edit: Oh wait I remember now, it was Canadian Sue(erm, subdoo)!

I mentioned a while ago that I had set up BarTor on my G1, so I could start torrent downloads on my home PC remotely. It works great, but I don't like leaving my computer on at home all the time so I started using it less and less and was bummed out when I wanted to use it but knew my PC was off. I've always been intrigued by Wake on LAN, but never had a reason to use it until now. I enabled it in my BIOS and was able to wake the computer up from a networked machine but couldn't do it online, which made it useless. Then I remembered that DD-WRT could do Wake on LAN, so I installed that on our router and configured it and now it's all set! So, with a single click on my phone I can wake up my home PC, then submit a torrent download using BarTor and, tada! Whatever I want to watch/listen to is downloaded when I get home. Pretty snazzy!

OF COURSE I only use it to download non-copyrighted media!

Back in school. First day was pretty good. Already finished my homework due Saturday. Rock.

Speaking of school, I have the lamest assignment ever for our next class meeting. We are doing this exercise where we have to act like an animal or something in the environment and talk about its issues. In order to cut the cutesy aspect out of the assignment I am going to be enterococcus faecalis, muwahaha! Oh yeah, did I mention I have to WEAR A MASK/COSTUME for my presentation? Fucking hippies. I'm thinking of dressing as a big piece of poo.

Running is going well. Today is my first two mile run after doing all walk/running for the last month. It's been making me feel really great lately though. I'm sleeping really well.

Cleaned out my closet on Sunday. Came across my "thin" jeans. Hanging on to them. I hope I can wear them again soon.

Having a BBQ this weekend. We're going to be brewing and having a beer tasting. If you didn't see Shan's post about it, and you're local, come on over! Picking up a keg of Sierra today.

Drinking coffee in the morning makes me not hungry for lunch. I bet I will be starving tonight.

Patients coming in 30 minutes. Time for a smoke!