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For some reason today, while sitting at work, I decided it was time to get my hair cut short.  For those that didn’t know, I had grown my hair very long over the course of 2 to 3 years.  The barber was in shock that I wanted it cut due to the way my hair naturally curls when it is long.  I pretty much wanted short hair thanks to the super hot summer and the tons of maintenance long hair requires.  So, within a half hour, my hair was made short.  I donated my 10inch segment of hair to a program for cancer patients so it could be put towards making a wig.  I like the long hair but this year’s weather doesn’t like it!

Looks like I’m about to work a 6 day work week starting Monday.  I don’t mind the overtime much since I don’t get it very often but it means only one off day to fool around with.  I haven’t been posting here as often as I should because I can’t seem to think of something to post that would be of any interest.  Maybe I should just come up with a rant about something or post something educational.   Then again, I love my lack of motivation, hah!

Well, after some guys at the office mentioned about going to Blizzcon this year, I figured I’d go as well since we could all car pool there.  As of 11:01am this morning, I got my tickets for Blizzcon so looks like I’ll need to make plans for the trip in October since that’s when they are having the convention.  It’s pretty exciting to think about since I’ve always wanted to go.  I’ll have to gear up my camera for pictures and what not so I can possibly share them here.

That’s right, May 5th was my birthday but I don’t actually feel another year older.  I do feel wiser though.  Wise enough to know to take vacation from work on my birthday, haha!  It was a nice vacation and birthday.  No stress to deal with and I actually felt good about it.  For the past few years, I can only remember how stressful my birthdays have been since I’ve always worried about other stuff that I didn’t have to worry about.  Go figure!  Maybe with age I’m starting to worry less about things.  I have a habit of putting the weight of a problem on my shoulders and it can be unhealthy at times.

I have vacation coming up next week and everyone advises that I go out of the area for a little bit.  I’m torn as to what I want to do.  Course, due to my ill timing it seems I’ll be flying solo no matter what I choose to do.  It’s sort of depressing but so is the life of me.  Grin and bare it!  I’ve got a few ideas from coworkers but not sure which I’ll settle on.  I should just compile a list and look each up and see if I can afford a trip there or not and then plan it out the rest of the way.  We shall see though.  I have an entire week to make up my mind yet!

Windows 7 has all kinds of neat perks and tricks that anyone can take advantage of if they know where to look or do to use them.  Since beta, a friend of mine had wrote a few blog posts about Windows 7 and ways to tweak or use it.  You can find him and his rantings here.  I would have linked to every article but it’s better if you actually browse through his site since he has quite a few useful articles on all sorts of things.

The boys over at maximumpc.com have also done something similar about windows 7.  There’s quite a few pages to what they posted but its all good info.  If you haven’t checked these 2 sites out and you have windows 7, then I guess you need to haul click-butt over to them now!

I haven’t had much to post about lately.  It’s been so busy with work and company that I just haven’t had the time for much else.  Next week I should have something to put up on here.  Until then, hang in there!

Well, last Friday I purchased an enchilada lunch plate that was for a little league charity fund raiser and ended up with food poisoning.  It didn’t kick in until 8 or so hours later.  That was one ugly twist of the stomach and body aches all over.  I had to work Saturday and that’s when my symptoms kicked in.  Man, lets just say the toilet gods shined on me since I was the only guy in the building Saturday.  I made so many trips it looked like I was doing drills!  Needless to say, that killed my gut’s appetite for mexican food for awhile.

As fate would have it, I have decided to experiment with facebook.  I have created an account as a means of communicating with some friends that chose to create an account for keeping in touch.  That was an odd line.  Anyways, I’ve never been one for social engineering sites and I didn’t jump on the bandwagon when it passed on by but I’ll take this opportunity to see what I’ll like and dislike about facebook.  Who knows, I might grow to like it or loathe it.

The subject speaks for itself.  That is all!   *wink*