lets not forget

lets not forget the night shot, but still tweaking it... the bright blues and reds in the middle are annoying me

most recent pano

My most recent pano...thought I'd share.  Vancouver, BC:

(click for fullsize.  10741 x 2614)

last minute

Leave it to me to leave my glass project to the last minute.   I've been working on it for weeks, but for some reason, whenever the holidays come around, I always finish at the last possible moment.

Late last night I patina'd and polished my project and sat in it's glory.   It's beautiful.  If the receiver doesn't absolutely crap themselves I'm going to force it out of them.  This one deserves the crap, lol.

Obviously I can't post pics until after Christmas.

I wanted to get a lot more done, get projects done for more people, but it just didn't happen.  Like always, people are going to get I.O.U.'s from me.

In other news, Andrew made a cheesy log and put it in the work kitchen.  It's so good, I can't even tell the obvious jokes.  nom nom nom.

how a dork spends his lunch hours

 

written entry 2

accessorize, bitches!

emailing: my boss is cool

[Boss]:

I realize it’s really late to be putting in a request, but I put a time off request in your office for next Monday.  Didn’t realize it wasn’t already off!

Not sure if your checking email while out today, just thought I’d give you a heads up.

You can always tell me no now and I’ll go rip it up and cry under my desk for an hour so you don’t have to see  :P

Daniel

 

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[Boss Responds]
Sure, you can take next monday off.... as long as you don't have a buzz cut!! ;-)

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[Me]

DAMNIT!  Ok I’ll be here…under my desk, with my tissues.

I might have a labret piercing too… *sobs*

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[Boss]

What is a labret piercing?

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(I email a picture)

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[Boss]

Oh God, never mind.  You can have the day off even if you did get a buzz cut.  :-)

hopped up on fudge

My co-worker, Rachel, is always hopped up on sugar.  See that smile?  That's her "I just had too much sugar!" smile.  It's a pretty constant thing as you can imagine.

She's totally fun to sit next to and is that one person in the office who is always in the know on everything.  I feel so in the know by association.

My favorite is when she's having a problem with a database and starts swearing like a sailor.

Good times.

I like it rough

So the joke around the office now is that I play to hard with Malcolm's sac.

He had loaned me on of those stress balls, which I've been squeezing non-stop.  When he stopped by my desk this morning I showed him that it had a little weak point on the seam.

"Would you be mad if it broke?"  *squeeze squeeze squeeze*
M: "No, just as long as it doesn't get all over me"

of course the evil thought raced through my mind, I grabbed it, aimed it him and squeezed!!  Just when I started laughing at being dumb, it pops and pink ooze starts squirting out of the ball and straight towards Malcolm!!  The look on his face was priceless.

It fell short and hit the big tin foil box (aka the ez bake oven) that sits near my desk.  i was laughing so hard i had to put my head down.

if only it would've actually hit him!  DAMNIT!

so hungry

 

So this morning, I went through the cabinet trying to find food.  I had the campbell's speghetti's style soup..which i killed from lack of hydration.

Then I grabbed cream corn.

Now I sit here staring at my sad can of corn... starving, but not thinking I could stomach that crap.  Why did I think I'd want this?

feeeeewd.

And then, to kick me when I'm down, Malcolm walks over and says "You know we don't have a can opener, right?"

It didn't even occur to me.  I'm so stoo-pid!

I'll just sit here and stab at the can with one of my pens.

bad day

Even when you are having a really bad day...

Someone will still screw you.

 

(thank you, tim!)

nothing like it

I brought a can of spaghetti O's to work for lunch, put it in a bowl and heated it.... and just before I ate it I realized I didn't add water to it.

I ate it anyways.

There is nothing like some noodles mixed with tomato paste in the morning.....mmm mmm *hork*

death...yay

 

Notice how the thought of killing Malcolm makes me grin.

He's lucky he stopped me with that foot.

lolly

car woes, morning surprise

 It's been a mixed morning so far.  I took my car to the shop this morning to have body work done, which is good..  then I sat around waiting for enterprise to come pick me up, which was okay.  Then upon signing everything I find out the car I'm supposed to get isn't even clean yet, so I sit around for a half hour waiting for it, which is not so okay.  Then when I finally get a kia sorento, it's banged up and dirty inside, which was sucky!

I'm debating whether to call the guy at enterprise or just stop being such a snob and deal with a semi dirty car.  The part that gets me is that I paid more for an SUV so they wouldn't stick me in a tiny neon or something again.

When I finally got to work my coworker brings me a gift.  Hello kitty note paper and a multiple color crayon pencil!! WHEEE!   She said the kitty paper had skulls all over it and made her think of me, heheh.

I can't wait till I have to leave someone a note!

New friend, deaf adventure

So last night after work I decided to meet up with a new net friend for coffee.   I've been working so much that it's hard to get out and make any friends... so I jumped on the offer when he mentioned he wanted to do something and had the night open.

I met up with Karl at the nearby sculpture park 20 minutes later.  Who knew getting coffee would turn into dinner, drinks and a night of fun.

11 o'clock hit and he had to run off and grab his partner from work.  It was a great night and I didn't want it to end.  Karl is by far the nicest person I think I've ever met.  I can't wait till we hang again.

 

Today has been dull and riddled with conference calls, setting up my car to be repaired and fixing minor issues on web sites. 

 

The highlight of the day was when I walked down to the lobby a few minutes ago and found 2 very lost deaf people.  They were trying to say something but was very hard to understand.  I signed to them "What are you trying to find?"   Shock spread over the girl's face... "YOU SIGN!" 

She told me they were trying to find a gourmet coffee shop to meet a friend...she pointed at a drawn map, which just showed the general area, but not which shop.  I signed, "There are 2 this way, 1 that way and 1 in that direction."

Dismay again.

"Come, I'll help you."

We got lucky on the second shop.  Not bad.

My good dead for the year is done.   Yup, 1 dead, that's all I do.  Peace out, Karma.

being scary

More and more I'm realizing I'm a big scary dude. I keep getting comments about not wanting to meet me in a dark alley.

For example, just a few minutes I was outside and Mr. Perfect body from accounting walks up to me and tells me "Your the nicest scariest guy I've ever met."

So I come up stairs to my desk and I tell Malcolm that another one is afraid of me... so he asks Shyla if I'm scary. She told me that other than the million earrings, the nose ring, the skulls and the general sense of death that surrounds me... I'm just a big teddy bear.

so I learned

So I learned yesterday that a free lunch, no matter no poor you are, is not worth a 4 hour meeting. 

And then jumping into another meeting right after didn't help either.

Yup, my whole day... in meetings.  It sucked. 

 

I was afraid to look at my calendar this morning in fear of more meetings.   Once I got up the courage to do so I found it completely empty.  YEAH!  woot woot!

bleeding is hot

Argh! Another cut.  I was making really good headway last night on my project until I sliced too many fingers over and all my glass was turning red.  Hehehe.

Took a while for it to stop bleeding and they keep breaking open today.

Bleeding is hot.

Sticky note conversations with myself

written entry

good weekend, crappy Monday

Saturday, I moseyed upstairs for my coffee where I found big cotton balls falling from the sky.  I guess pleading with the heavens for snow can actually work.  It was beautiful outside.  I felt sorry for the Canadians coming down to visit, but otherwise it was pretty.

By Sunday it was already slush and today it was flooding on the way to work.

Short lived but appreciated.

THANK YOU UP THERE... hehehe.

Malcolm is the mother of God

no soop fo u!

photo ganked from kidmissile

Friday is Bagel Day at work. We come into work and bagels are provided in the main lunch room.

Last week I got the last bagel... the dreaded salt bagel. This week, however, I got nothing.

Why can't we order more bagels so we have enough? Why you gotta ruin my Friday by taunting me with a bagel and then not having any?

You know the day is going downhill when you don't even get your free bagel, heh.

eat the raisin...eat it!

 

I came home last night to crying kitties who were out of food.  Damnit, why do they need to eat?  Like I'm not poor enough.

"Here monkey, eat this raisin...eat it!"

Well she didn't want the raisin, so I had to head off to the store before they decided I was expendable and edible... well either that or converted to cannibalism.

I could totally turn this into a bitter post about how someone stuck me with their cat and promised to pay child support.  I could mention how I never saw a dime and still has his damn cat and storing a lot of his crap  ..or you know how they still owe me money for auto insurance...  you know, like..whatever, i'm totally cool with getting screwed over. 

So.. since this isn't a bitter post... happy happy joy joy.

 

wheres my snow

Hey YOU.  Up THERE... Where's my snow??

 

Word around Seattlelites this week was that we were supposed to get snow.  Well... where's my damn snow??

Work is productive and slow.  I can't wait for the weekend to begin.  Needing a break from it all.

In other news, it appears i'm not the only one miffed with bicyclists.   Seattle PI: Bicyclist shot

desktop greenhouse

My desk flowers are flourishing after neglecting them for only a week.  How exciting!

one more

one more test

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case in point

See!  This is what I'm saying about those damn milk jugs!

the fountain

Malcolm and I went for coffee yesterday morning, as we often do.  Whilst passing the fountain in the park I thought I'd share it with you.  So.. I snapped a quick shot.  Take it all in bitches :P~

hey...just be glad it was the a shot of the little boy statue.  that would just be wrong.

Cant get enough

Can't get enough Daniel? My spewage is now mobile! Point your mobile browser at http://blog.danielkenneth.com (Can you tell I was bored during lunch?)

$100 challenge

$100 left until payday next week.  Oy!   My challenge, that I am forced to accept, is to make it a week+ (knowing that I probably have a guest this weekend) without bouncing my account.

I've never done it before... lets see if I can make it.

Yeah, I'm already laughing knowing it's impossible.... but let us pretend that it is not.

at least I think it's a hundred... I did some spending in Canada that hasn't cleared yet.... maybe it's more like $25.

*slam head on desk*

the suck

the new milk jug is the suck.. i've never spilled so much milk after opening a jug. sure it's great when it's half empty.... and doesn't take that long to to get half empty cuz you spilled half of it already!

conference calls are fun, mm'kay?

conference calls are sooooo long and serious.....ugh.

anger... brewing......rage.....building....

Almost done with my current side project.  It'll be such a load off my mind when it's done and it'll be awesome to have my nights back.

I feel the rage today... not sure why.  I think it's just a lot of pent up aggression towards people in general.  Sometimes I feel like just breaking free and beating the crap out of some random person.

Maybe I'm one of those people they should've put through intensive psych evals before hiring.   I might like go crazy and rampage or something.

Nah.... I don't think anyone is worried about that.  A manager told me a week ago that I was the nicest guy he ever met.  I'm sure he was just sucking up... I'm really quite an asshole.  Besides, even if they were to worry about me rampaging, I think we all know that there's only one person going down if any one of us goes postal.

new jewelry

my tummy hurts

i know it's old, but i keep watching it and laughing so hard my tummy hurts...

wotd

Word of the day:  shuga'betes.

Use-ification: Good lawd, Mah shuga'betes was in an uprawrs last nights.

i stepped outside

I stepped outside and found it quite brisk...frigid almost... like my soul.

I found myself staring at some flowers and thought "DIE FLOWERS DIE!!!"

looming

one nasty looking cloud is looming over downtown seattle.

it just keeps getting better...

So after the whole scraping incident, I decided to pout and take my pain out on a bagel.  It's bagel Friday, after all! 

I go up to the 5th floor lunch room and find one lonely bagel left.  The cursed salt bagel...no wonder it was left.  I mean really, who needs this munch salt?  So I scraped most of it off, much like the paint on my car...

Overly-Salty Salty Salt bagel...you mah only friend.

i made a boo boo :(

the damn cement post in the parking structure had it out for me...i swears!

wireless

After a two hour conference call yesterday, Rachel found me a wireless headset.  The highlight of my day was being able to walk to the coffee machine during my call today and still be able to participate.

We all know coffee comes first.

drew something

So I finally drew something out last night before leaving work.  Found an interesting drawing online that I really liked and converted it to a glass window.  I'd post it but I'm going to do it as a gift for one of the friends.

Please send drawings/doodles, I'll need more projects soon :)

Now... to find time to work on it...hmmm.

lacking creativity

 

 I feel like making something in glass.  I finally have a small desk in my room cleared off.  It's been a while since I've made anything.

I want to make a panel, I think.

I'm just lacking creativity to draw anything out.  I have a few ideas, but nothing has really solidified in my mind.

Anyone feel like drawing me something? 

my mug stirs itself...

because i'm just too damn lazy to find a spoon.

so tired

It's 3am and i'm sitting at work after having driven from canada.  Quarterly financial reports are to be posted at 4am so i'm sitting and waiting.  Been here for an hour already.

I'm going to be hurting in a few hours when the alarm goes off.

please? PLEASE??

if you love me, you'll buy me these swear boots.  size 46...

4am? oh man

Yay, I get to be up at 4am on Monday to post my company's quarterly statements for the investors.

Hrmph.

snl

Malcolm showed this to me when I got to work a few minutes ago... had me laughing.  Great way to start the day!

inspiration

so, like, omg... i like, inspire people.   and stuff.

 

http://www.electronic-replicant.com/archives/2007/11/entry_258.html#258

 

i feel special :) not special-special...but you know, like... special.

cool guy, check his blog out from time to time...  and junk.

cleo

Cleo made it onto icanhascheezburger.com today...

http://icanhascheezburger.com/2007/11/05/i-can-has-mouf/

analytics

So I stuck Google analytics in my journal since I was using it at work on another project.

Guess what the number 1 search term is that gets people to my journal?

Granted it's only been a week or so of collecting data, but still... It's "itchy nipples".   And I'm far from the top which makes me wonder how many people's nipples are itching enough to dig through 20 or so pages of results.

getting passed around the office

I'm the biggest fatty...or so I'm told.

One of the managers catches me in the hallway and stops me.  He tells me he was talking to some guy here in the office and they decided I'm the biggest in the office..

I asked who said this.. and he described him but I didn't recognize the description.

"Yeah, he says he only weighs like 350lbs so your the biggest."

I just glared at him and said "I don't weigh 350."   Just pretty much ran away after that with me shouting "THANKS A LOT!"

 

Seriously, WTF!?   This comes out of no where... Telling me I'm the fattest in the office.  And he's a manager!!  Wouldn't this be part of those people managing skills your supposed to have as a manager?

It takes a lot to offend me and I can't even remember the last time I got rubbed the wrong way... but for some reason this pissed me off.

My evil half says go to HR.   My not to evil, but still evil side, says just let it go.

As a compromise, I decided to draw this quick doodle and bitch about it in my journal.

lost earring

Me: I'm here about the lost earring you mass emailed about..
Receptionist:  The email said it was lost in the women's restroom.
Me: Don't judge me.

YAY! Winter is coming, WHEE!

Why you gotta be like that asp .net

taco kisses for my ben!

Happy Halloween, ev'rybody!  I didn't even remember it was a holiday until a giant taco walked through my office.  We already had our house party (pics probably gonna be downloaded tonight) so Halloween already seems over to me.

I have this feeling it's going to be a big distraction today and am not going to accomplish a darn thing at work... which is making me wish I would've just stayed in bed.

I hate holidays.