Dot-squad is back woo! And it’s back in the form I always wanted it to be in since highschool. A group site where me and those connected to me on the internet can post stuff to. I’m excited because it will be the first time in forever that i’ve done a group blog, and the pressure is off me to be the soul content provider.

So, if you want to contribute and are on my good side, drop me a line and i can set you up an account over there. And now.. to fall over and sleep.

Considering my last upgrade was version 2.4, lol i missed out on .4 revisions of this crazy version 2 they have going on. Good thing is that I was able to get rid of a few of the plugins I had to upload a picture to my post with thumbnailing capability since they included it here.. and everything is more slick looking.

I worked till 10:30pm today and am shit ass tired.. of work that is. I couldn’t do anymore, well i’m sure I could have but i really didn’t feel like it. So what did i do? i cam ehome and tinkered with word press. Some notes:

• Manually upgraded NextGen Gallery plugin so i could have my snazzy side bar styled how i want (over here->)
• Had to mess with akismet comment spam blocker again to get my non-fancy spam frags on the side bar (also here ->

pimpin’ with my dad in front of my place

… and image align-center doesn’t work by default. lame

So, things that are new with me that I feel is important enough to post about:

I recently have had the urge to shave my head.. yet again. I tried this stunt back in 2005 which resulted in a super low maintenance hair cut and my mom not talking to me for about a month haha. Well, now that I’m out on my own and not under the watchful eye of my parents, i went and bic’d my head. Maybe the correct term is Head Bladed. Took about 30 mins in total to use the clippers to shave off the mop, then use the Head Blade to give my dome a new car smell. It only took so long because of the stupid area behind the ears and that pesky blind spot on the back of my skull.

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So here are a few pics from the weekend. There was a few from a gravel pit thing under the bridge but at ISO3200 they look like butt to me after off loading them on the comp. These ones didn’t look too bad considering my idiot camera settings.

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What a great Memorial Day weekend. I got to come back home and see everyone, cook like 20lbs of meat for dinner over some propane powered phire and most shockingly of all, I washed my car at Washworld for two dollars. This is quite a feat considering its 2 dollars for 4 minutes of spray time and what i usually do is skip the pre-soak, go straight to soap, then to scrub brush and lather up my slutty car. I’ll scrub a few mins longer after the pumps stop since there’s so much soap everywhere it doesn’t matter but when i went to put my 2 back in to finish the job with a finishing scrub + rinse + spot-free rinse.. i dumped the coin in the ‘out’ slot.  The clerk guy didn’t seem willing to give me the 2 stuck in the slot, and instead gave me 2 tokens.. i suppose cause he’s trained to do so and to lock down my 2 dollars. Little does he know i was previouslly an apple thief and had tweezers in my car. So after a deliciously free 4 minutes of rinsing, i freed the jailed deuce and left.

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This Friday I will take my first steps into my new place here in my new “home.” It still doesn’t feel like home to me, hence the quotations, but it is leaps and bounds better in asthetic than my current aboad at aboda (alliteration unplanned).
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No, I’m not reviewing my Chemistry 11 notes, but staying positive is something that is hard to do when it feels like the world is crashing down on you (or you). Much like my car, we all need fixing in some way or another, and as content as I am being who I am, I wouldn’t feel at ease if I had nothing I wanted to improve about myself. I like to think it’s the drive that keeps us going and to get better. So just to weigh in on what’s goin on with you twos: as much as it sucks, find the pussitive in your situation and run with it.

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In response to my loathsome post last night, I will take the advice and put it to use. My “new” hobby will be to try to update my blog with things I’m learning while living abroad.

This last week, I learned my body is failing on me. Not 7 days ago, my knee swelled up to the point where I was unable to bend it enough to get into my car to drive the measly 5 minutes to work. Instead, I used my imagination and pretended i was in a 3 legged race to get back to my couch so I could rest my thrashed leg. 3 hours and an equal amount of x-rays later, I’m told I have what looks to be a bone shard sticking out of my tibia. Wonderbar.

*sigh*

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“You Ess Ay! You Ess Aye!”

Somehow I’m not chanting the american competitive sports war cry. Okay, maybe not all competitive sports, but this is what watching the Mighty Ducks movie series leads me to believe. I’ve been here about three weeks now and I’m finding that I miss my old home. It’s not that bad here I suppose, but I’ve never been one to completely devote myself into my work so I’m having a hard time adjusting to life.. mainly because I don’t have much of one here yet.

Work is fun and all but there’s a reason why HR representatives drone on and on about having a work-life balance. Maybe it’s all just marketing and they want to sell the company onto us employees but i’ve always been able to find a medium. The problem this time, is that there isn’t anything to “balance” over here, not yet. So it’s just work. Drag.
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Going for a painty look this time

Don’t know if i will change it yet, but using colors first is pretty cool.

Edit: redid the bg for this to look not so mspaint-like. still ridiculously happy looking.. don’t know if i wanna make it mega dark though hmm. oh well, check it out “after the jump.”
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