Well, at least I got one day in...

So... I *don't* get to work 2.5 days this week after all... but I did work yesterday. And it was fun. I hired 2 people. Hiring people can be fun. Sometimes.

I bought a printer last night... actually Mom & Dad bought cause they paid me back for it. I'm going to work on scanning all of their old slides and printing them out. I have a suspicion that this particular printer was actually an "open item" that they forgot to put a sticker on.. but it works, so I guess it's not too horrible.

Have I mentioned that, since moving back to KC, no less than *five* people have told me that "there's someone I know that I'd like to set you up with."?
No, that's not complaining your hearing in my voice... but it was out of the ordinary for me.

< xander >
"But it was still disturbing... and not the natural order of things, and do you think it will happen again? 'Cause...[Xander is cut off by Giles breaking into song]"
< /xander >


Learn to love the randomness.... be *one* with the randomness.

And did you see I have a new reader?! Say hi to Lindsey, everyone. :-) (Lindsey being one of only two people to actually leave a comment on this site.)
I figured that the 2004 email might generate a few responses, even if it were just a few chuckles.
(If it made you laugh, then dammit, let me know!)
You see, I'm an attention whore.
That's really the only reason I write in this thing. ;-)
Later, kids.

Hell has frozen over.

Seth has a date.

Ok, ok, so it's just coffee... but that's still pretty darn close. :-)
Her name is Dana... we're meeting Thursday at 6.

And, amazingly, when I asked her if she'd be up for going for coffee, I *didn't* turn into a bumbling idiot. I was very proud of myself.
I am *way* better at this than Warren Cheswick. :-)

(20 points for the obscure reference... Michael, you don't count.)

Later, kids.

That thing I was talking about earlier...

The following is an email that I typed just a little over one year ago, when I was a 2nd-semester grad student at MSU living in a Lansing apartment. I feel compelled to share this now (and yes, some of you have probably already seen it...) because, I believe that this is truly some of my finest work. Enjoy.

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Greetings, all!

It is currently 0200 (in the morning).
Eastern Standard Time.
On a Sunday.

AND its really kinda hard to type effeciently with no lights on... so hold on a second....

There... much better.

(Yes, this means that the two seconds there *while you were reading this*, I was turning ona light. No, really, I was.)

So, I'm having one of my random insomniac times, so I figured I'd type a bit. It seems like everyone has a web journal these days.. I don't, so I'm just going to send this out directly.

So, what is it that I have to say at 2:00 in the morning? I'm not really sure, other than the fact that I just spent a good 2-3 minutes typing about ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. Wait a minute, I'm still doing that. Bah... it's a vicious cycle.

I have a class in exactly 5 hours and 57 minutes. I just made a sandwich a few minutes ago... It had ham and Dijon mustard and Mezzetti roasted red peppers. It was quite good, I highly recommend that you all go out and buy some. as soon as possible. You never know when there might be a sudden run on roasted red peppers, and then you mihgt not get any, and then you'd kick yourself for not taking my advice.
And we wouldn't want that to happen, now would we?
(Random movie quote jumps into brain)
Tim Curry in THree Musketeers: "But now we'll never know... *will* we?"
(We now return to your regularly scheduled incoherent early morning rant, already in progress...)

I'm seriously thinking about getting a dog.
No, I'm not.
No, really, I'm not. The place I'm going to live next year doesn't allow them. And I'd have to feed it and walk it, and that's just a big pain.

But perhaps I should buy prescription shoes... I noticed the other day that every pair of shoes I own leans drastically to the outside. Its too bad we can't rotate our feet like we can rotate tires.

I wonder how much a cup of sugar costs.... cause a single package of Koolaid is only 29 cents... It's entirely possible that the cup of sugar it takes to MAKE that one package of Koolaid is more expenisive than the Koolaid itself....
Hmmm,, it only LOOKS like a bargain. The powerful sugar industry is actually gouging Koolaid drinker for all they're worth. It's a world gone mad, folks.

OK.. I was just amount to make a comment about a certain "shocking moment" during the Super Bowl halftime show.. but then I realized that in doing so, I would continue the awful trend of paying attnetion to silly little celebrity people who think they are way more important than they really are (wow, that was really kinda hateful)
So, I shall decline.
(IF YOU IGNORE THEM, THEY WILL GO AWAY. Please don't feed the celebrities, it only encourages them.)

I found Denis Leary's "No Cure For Cancer" album on Rhapsody earlier this evening... and ah, the memories of that CD. It's awful, but funny....therefore making it awfully funny. "Capital N, small y, BIG F***ing Q!!!"

[Quick note from 2005... Yes, I know the following few sentences are pretty dumb. Deal with it, it's historically accurate to what I typed. =P ]

I haven't yet decided who's going to receive this email, so for those of you who might think it silly for me to censor that last sentence.... well, OK.... Fuck. There. I said it... well, typed it, I suppose. This email is now officially rated "R". Well, I think at ONE point, the "F" word meant an R-rating... I bet you could probably get away with it in PG-13 now. (For reference, there is one fleeting use of it in "Sneakers", still one of the best movies ever, and it was PG-13. I think)
I will award 10 points to anyone who can identify the scene in which it occurs, the line of dialogue spoken, and which character says it. Michael, you don't count, cause I know you know this one. YOU (and only you) can have 20 points (ooooh) if you can tell me... oh, come one, what would be a REALLY good question.... if you can tell me how Dr. Gunter Janek met his untimely demise. Oh, OK, anyone else, if you know it, you can have the points, too.
And, no... I dont really keep track of them.
*Inspirational speech*
THERE MAY COME A DAY... WHEN I KEEP TRACK OF THE POINTS....
BUT IT IS NOT THIS DAY!!!!


Some people won't get that. But I'm OK with that.... really.

0225 (AM)... in the morning.
I work for the Bureau of the Office of Redundancy Department. Efficiency fears us. (That last sentance may *look* awkward... but that is actually what I mean. Look at it again.)

You may be wondering exactly what mind-altering drugs I'm on right now.... but be assured: I am NOT sharing with ANY of you. :-)
THey're MINE, I tell you, ALL MINE.

OK, since *I* was disturbed by that last outburst... I shall officially retract it. You never read it.. it was jsut an illusion. The fact that you can scroll up and read it again does nothing to prove that it was not an illusion. Trust me on this... would *I* lead you astray? *innocent look*

0231....4 hours, 29 minutes until the alarm will ring.

I bet I'm going to have coffee tomorrow morning. Fortunately, there are a few times during the day when I'll able to take a quick nap. All will be well.

Enough about that... On to religion and politics... the two subjects GUARUNTEED to start a fight and get at least 2 people mad at you.
Well, actually, I might give you a rant on these two subjects, If I HAD a coherent position on either of them.
I'm seriously thinking of voting for Kerry if he's the nominee, but probably not if it's Dean. Can't really tell you WHY I dont like Dean... call it a bad vibe or whatever. But I havent totally given up on Dubya, either. None of them are perfect. (Of course) It's just a matter of deciding which issues are worth compromising on, and which aren't.

[Hi! 2005 here again... and for the record, I'm not entirely sure *why* I said that... Although another interesting (?) piece of election trivia about me is that I called two friends of mine with opposite political leanings from the parking lot of my polling place, and asked them to convince me why I should vote for their candidate.]

But enough about that.
That paragraph was not very fun at all.... now I'm not quite in the ZONE.... I'm having to THINK about what to write next...
Come on, come one, back in the zone, back in the zone.

FISH!

There is a piece of tape on the back of the "Best Thespian" plaque in Mrs. Hayes' office. That piece of tape is now 10 years old. Impressive life span for a piece of masking tape. I was there the day it was placed there. 100 points to the person who can tell me who put it there. (Apologies to those of you who have NO idea what I'm talking about).

ANd with that, Ladies and Gentlemen, I believe I shall retire.
Tomorrow shall be a good day.
"Too early for flapjacks?"

Good night, my friends. This rant is taking the place of my yearly "New Year's email", since it is now offically one month past due. Sorry about that. I suppose this one wasn't NEARLY as deep.... but deep is sometimes depressing.

Anyway.... give a holler back. (Yes, I just said "holler" Get over it.)

Intil-zha, veni
Illegitimus Non Carborundum

-James Seth Farrow, 02 February 2004, 0253 EST

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Ok, back to 2005 now.

So... I guess that this "reprise" of earlier attractions is *also* taking the place of *this* year's "New Year's Email"... cause I didn't... do one of those this year.... either. Wow, I'm a slacker.
Later, kids.

"Semper lactum habeo"

haHA! The preceding was Nesh's reply to one of my earlier posts. I laughed heartily when I figured it out. :-)

"It's 3 AM, I must be..."

Enh.... really more bored than lonely. I finally got my new wireless network toys working today... but not until after a few fits of cursing, wailing, and gnashing of teeth. Included in my reaction to these minor frustrations was the il-conceived idea of taking a nap from about 4 to 7 this afternoon/evening. So, of course, I am now awake. Bedtime will probably be about 4 this morning.
Oh, BTW, the "Ground Beef Teriyaki" wasn't too horrible. I do need to go to the store and get milk though, so this situation does not repeat itself in the near future.
Sean, Adam, and I went to lunch at Genghis Khan's today... a little Mongolian Barbecue place down at 39th and State Line... where there are lots of neat places to eat. (I obviously know that Kansas City is right on the Kansas/Missouri border, but I didn't realize until today how close that border is to my *house*) [Yes, I know I don't have a house per se... but shut up; I don't care.] =)
I just had a thought... there's something I should post here. More on that later.

An experiment in progress...

Ok, so I thought to myself, "Self, let's cook lunch.. there's plenty of Hamburger Helper boxes in the cabinet, as well as some hamburger in the freezer."
So I thawed the hamburger and started cooking it, and then went to go pick out which box of easy-to-cook goodness I wanted. (Note: Look at boxes *before* cooking hamburger.)
As it turns out, all of these boxes require milk.
Yeah... guess what I ran out of *last night*.
So, I keep looking, and find a box that *doesn't* require milk... and it's a box of Chicken Helper.
Mind you, the hamburger is already on the stove...
So, In about 10 minutes, I will see if "Ground Beef Teriyaki" is as good as "Chicken Teriyaki".
Can't be that bad, can it? :-)

NOT-so-sunny skies...and *brrrr* pretty damn chilly.

Ah, well.... It's good to be home, though. Good ol' Kansas City.
Oh, yeah! Other news: It is now official: I am to be the Senior Area Supervisor of Park Services for this coming (2005) season at Worlds of Fun... only the 2nd person since Sal Terranella to hold that position (and number: 206). I'm really excited about it... of course *everyone* is excited about the beginning of the season this time of year... the trick is staying excited about it once July gets here. :-) But... this season will have lots of new challenges and quirks to figure out, simply because there are some new jobs to do, some new procedures to implement, things of that nature.
So... apparently... there was some sort of sporting event last night?... ah, well... I spent that portion of yesterday evening unconscious on my parents' couch, cause I'd just gotten off a plane about an hour previous to that.
Later, kids... there are things to be done around the house now.

"My visual says.... Sunny skies and 70 degrees..."

"Oh, look: the sun has come out.... it's a miracle."
:-)
75 points for that one.

And that's *exactly* what it is here in beautiful Los Angeles, California. I really like this place. If I could, I would come live in California every January and February.
I'm here for my second ever ACDA National Convention (the first being New York City in 2003, which was also freakin' awesome). New experiences so far: staying in a hotel that actually had bellhops carry our bags up to the room, and cruising around downtown L.A. in a Sebring convertible (my friend David from MSU rented a car). The plan is to go to Hollywood and eat at In-n-Out Burger this afternoon before coming back to see the concert session this afternoon (on which is performing the SMSU Chorale, of which my friend Lindsay is a member).
Returning to KC on Sunday, where I will have to start wearing a jacket again.... Stupid midwest weather. :-)