Wow.. almost a year.
It's been quite awhile since I've last posted... 4 months shy of a year. I'm trying to remember what all has gone on since then but to be honest it's been a big blur. Finances and work seemed to set me into a minor depression for awhile but I've managed to work my way through it with help from others. Speaking of work, I started with a new manager about 3 months ago and recently got a raise as well as went salary as apposed to hourly. With the pay increase it's helped me pay off somethings and now I feel like I've got some breathing room and can see the light at the end of the tunnel.
The holidays were good to me, plenty of good food and good times hanging with friends and family. The guys in my department and I decided to go out for drinks before Christmas and we had a good time. It's the first that I've hung out with any of them outside of work; they're good people. Christmas was nice even thought I wasn't able to go home. Lara's mom and my brother came down Christmas Day and left the following Saturday. I got enough money from gift cards, checks and cash to get an XBox 360 so that'll be cool, I'll probably get it the week after next.
If you got notice about the post via my RSS feed, the feed has been updated. It was sorta broke-ish, although it still worked, and a friend of mine was like "I didn't know you had a feed!", mainly because I didn't include the statement in the page like I thought I had. I added it into the page and updated the feed to include the correct date format and added a little bit here and there. I'm still debating on whether or not I'm going to do a site layout change, again, who knows. I get bored with it so easily.
And.... WE'RE BACK!
it certainly has been a long time since i've posted here. not a lot has gone on really. made lots of changes yesterday, if you visited the site and things weren't quite in order.. i apologise. anyway, most of everything should be good to go now.
i've disabled the chatbox for the time being, the chatbox post view was showing like 750+ pages showing. it looks like something had changed and my mail notifications that a chatbox post had been made wasn't working so i had no clue, and there sat 13000+ posts that hadn't been reviewed. so if you did make a valid post and it's not showing, i apologise again, i deleted everything that i hadn't reviewed because i wasn't going to go throught them one by one. no sir, i won't do it. i also added my twitter badge in the sidebar as well as updated my bbstyles page, 12 more have been uploaded.
again, everything should be functioning now, if you find something that isn't working right let me know.
Musnack Episode 001!
My first podcast has been released! Hopefully I'm just getting started podcasting and will keep going. The first episode includes some new tracks off of the PMN and some that have been around awhile.
- X-Ray Dogs - Alta Plaza
- Jake Hook - Elusive You
- The Lascivious Biddies - Hell Of A Boy
- Matthew Ebel - I Know You're There
- Bill - Panacea
- Panic! At The Disco - The Only Difference Between Martyrdom And Suicide Is Press Coverage
- Munk - Blow Away
Direct Show Link
been far away.
it's been a long time since i've done or said anything around here. so much has happened since i last posted. as you can see, i havn't started my music podcast, yet. thoughts about it are still in the works.. i've got so many projects going on right now it's not even funny. we'll see.
so lara and i moved into our new apartment on july 1st and got 2 baby kittens the next day :P. their names are hank and liza. they are the cutest things in the world, but man do they like to get into trouble. not too long ago liza got herself stuck in back of a big bookshelf that we have all of our dvds on sometime while lara and i were both at work or on our way home. the bookshelf is so high there is no way she could've jumped out and the edges were right up against the wall. poor thing. anyway, we also got furniture last month, that's right.. real furniture. we got a couch, loveseat and dinning room set. it feels like an actual home now and not some cheap college dorm.
i started a new job recently too. i now work for region, i'm an IS Coordinator. got a raise coming into the department and i have a review in febrary where i should get another raise. *starts singing pink floyd - money* the job is decent, better work, more work, stuff geared more toward my degree, no talking to people on phones like i was (thank god). it's something that feels rewarding... and like i actually have a future with the company, even though i'm still a peeon.
that's just about enough out of me. i'm thinking about going down to exersize, working on one of the webprojects, eating (i'm starving) or maybe watching some tv. adios.
back again, kentucky trip, music podcast..
it's nice to be back in pittsburgh. no matter how much i've bitched about pittsburgh in the past, it's nice to be back to a city that makes sense to me. lara and i left for kentucky on saturday morning to help a couple friends move into their new house. they each had their own apt and we had to box pretty much everything in both apts and into the uhaul. louisville is nice but they really need to learn how to label their streets because there was a significant lack of signage.
we left at 10am yesterday morning and we didn't get home till around 7pm lastnight, seems kinda long for a 6-7hr drive, right? well, on the way there was a bad accident on 71 in a work zone no less; a dodge magnum was smashed up a bit and it looked as if they had to rip the doors off to get people out. we had the car turned off for awhile and it was probably an hour/hour and a half that it took us to actually get moving again. we stopped at cracker barrel around 2pm and i pigged out. 6 pieces of french toast, 5 slices of bacon, an egg with cheese, baked apples, 2 orange slices, 2 biscuits, half a hashbrown cassarole and a glass of water. now mind you that was my full order plus about half of lara's :P eating like that isn't going to help my waistline anytime soon. after we left there it seemed to take forever to get into pa but once we did there was also traffic issues on 79 and 279 as well. oi, anyway, that's how my memorial day weekend was.
i mentioned music podcast in the title. i am in the process of creating a music podcast of my own to put out there. you'll also be able to get to the site via another domain, http://www.musnack.com, which is short for "music + snack machine b". with our up and coming move the first weekend of july i'm not quite sure if i'll have one out the door by then but hopefully i'll be able to do at least one to kind of get an idea if it's something i want to do. anyway, i should've started getting around for work like 15min ago.
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