TITTWIS 41: In grind mode, tryin' to get that bank

argh, I'm so excited about this job. Ever since I was "let go" from my last one I've been saying 'it's for the best. a better one will come along." But I was starting not to believe that. This job is designing and building web sites for about 14 departments on campus. It pays more than I've made since . . . well a really long time. The other two people on the team are really friendly and laid back and some of my friends from my last job are in this department too. hurrah!

this morning the cable guy's coming to hook us up and home depot says our fridge will finally be delivered. big things afoot at the new house!

How's everyone else doing? Pink, how much longer do you have?

our water's still turned off. :(

Not fun!

Hey, Sam, did you get the link to my photos from the last TITTWIS?

I need to take more house photos today as it's a bit more done.

Are your floors OK?

Fortunately the rooms that flooded were either a. slab waiting for tile or b. old tile waiting to be removed. So in that aspect we were blessed. G. is worried about mildewy smells though as the water went under the walls and came out the outside!

speaking of it's about time for me to start tiling. .

haven't been around for a long time...things are not good. i guess i don;t know what to say except that we lost our baby.

so we've been taking some time off and working things out...life is shitty sometimes.

i know how nice you all are and what not and may want to send something or something, but i ask you don't.

take care guys.

I broke up with Jen at the beginning of the year and moved to Portland, which is great. Portland is great, I mean. The breaking up part not so much, even though it was definitely for the best.

I live a short walk from Mr. Casuistry now, so yay!

Also, there are other things to talk about, but enough about me...

I'm a year in Austin now, a rough year. but things are looking up. We've recently bought a house and I'm starting a new job on Monday. :)

Wow, I'm still saving enough money to adopt a few cats. Heheheheh... A bunch of my more collectory and unused effects pedals are going up on eBay pretty soon. Also, I may be moving back to NYC again (of all places!) in a year or two, so the idea of putting down any kinda roots is sorta, well, hard to imagine for me at the moment.

I didn't have to get a new job to move, which was great because the job market in Portland is not so hot. At least not in my line of work... I still telecommute to a company that is actually located in Nashville, so they don't really care where I live as long as my infernet is high speed and I'm willing to be around during Central Time zone work hours when there's a meeting or something. With any luck I'll be able to keep this job for a while and move at the merest whim for some time to come!

owning a home is quite cool. I feel like it's another pet or part of our family. our little house has feelings mang!

Hi sarah!

Also, Sarah, I put a F@ke F1ct10ns song on a mix I made for someone recently. So yay!

I will hopefully be done with my album by the end of June!

How does that work, exactly? :)

I don't know what to tell you about your mom Luna. I think that shall be my situation soon. This hospital round has highlight some of her problems and we (family) can't ignore them anymore. I'm feeling like whatever resolution is tried it will end up with she and I no longer speaking. and that's just the way it is.

Oh hell, I don't know. Nevahmind.

Anyway, I don't know, maybe it's not a good idea here, so I'll just put the whole notion to bed for now, but you know, if anyone ever does become interested, lemme know.

what's lined up for you next?

Way to go, Huk!

I'm sorry to hear about the family dramas. I'm glad though, Sam, that you are ready to do something about it, even if you're not sure exactly what yet.

I feel like I don't have much to report myself. I spent the last two weekends at music festivals, festivaling it up. It's 92 degrees here in Chicago with some god-awful heat index. We lost power last night for at least an hour. I very quickly grew to appreciate our little window AC unit.

Our band keeps playing shows. We had our cd release mid-July and it went pretty well. Nick and I are still on to get married June 2nd, 07. :-D

Either way, I suppose congratulations are in order.

i miss it here. hope everyone is good. its 98 degrees here.

But yeah, no, not exactly what I mean. I dunno, some things sound like such good ideas at times, and then in the cold, harsh light of day, they just... don't.

Forgive me for not knowing the mechanics of this message board community well, but -- why? Why would there be this huge controversy over something that's as simple as that which you proposed? Does this have any relation to the seeming existence of "golden children" on this forum? You know -- offend the wrong people for whatever stupid reason(s) they propose and instantly encounter hurricane-strength wrath? I say just go with your idea and "fuck the hataz", as the young people of today would put it.

sam and luna, best wishes to deal with icky family situations. luna, i think you did well to not hit a certain someone upside the head with a frying pan (like people do in cartoons, but never seem to do in real life).

m.white, i was giving you as an example of the kind of guy that could wear a seersucker suit and get away with it. do you have any?

sarah, glad to hear the band is going well, i really hope i can hear you guys sometime when i visit chicago.

yay for huck finally quitting your job!

not sure if i have an opinion about the girl-slanted board alternative. i spend more time on another site at the moment that's mostly girls, and it's generally more polite and stuff, but there can be some really nasty and mean stuff. but you don't get the random noize dudes, either, so that makes things less annoying if you're trying to be even a little serious...

hope everyone is having an ok monday

My mom called me Saturday afternoon. Didn't apologize exactly, but said she missed me, missed Spencer, and just felt terrible about the whole thing. We talked about it a little, but she still doesn't want to hear that Eric isn't the devil here, but I think I got her to admit to as much as I can for now. I took her shopping yesterday, like I do most weekends, and we chatted idly about everything BUT what happened last week, but you know, I think that's okay for now.

The best news she had was that Bryan is leaving for Thailand on Wednesday.

How have the rest of you been doing? It feels freeing posting here again under a new username, but awkward because it means I could not make a successful disconnect from ILX. *shrug* It shouldn't matter, really. And it doesn't, not now. I'm perfectly happy just having fun around here the way I should've since the beginning.

And when are we all going to converge for a TITTWIS FAP? Or is that completely off the schedule?

http://video.google.de/videoplay?docid=-6497257644936185526&q=genre:comedy

Anyway, enough about me -- how about you guys? What's going on with you?

M. White, that video was hilarious. Taking into consideration its entertainment factor, necessary for our gray Thursdays, it was apropos of EVERYTHING.

My mother's back in the hospital. They let her out last Sat. and then Mon. she had to go back. For one day we thought she had lung cancer until they said "just kidding! that wasn't a tumor." Gee, thanks. They still can't figure out what's wrong with her lungs though.

My mom is on all manner of medicines for all kind of ails. But it's become obvious to us that there is a problem with how she uses her pain medication (OxyC0tin for one).After consulting with other family members, yesterday I called her doctor.

I shared our concerns with her and gave her some examples of the misuse. She said she would "confront" her about it and get the pain mgmt. specialist to look her over and consult.

I tremble. My mom's going to think either my aunt or me started this and then we will be sent to Siberia. Oh well, it needed to be done.

It just felt weird doing that.