easier than writing by hand…

i signed up for a gym membership at the place next door this afternoon.  then i went and got a pumpkin cheesecake bar at the tully’s across the street from the place, because that’s how i roll.

word. 

first day.

as i drove to work and then home again over the last few days of my employment at boeing, fighting despair at the prospect of another 45 to 60 minute commute, the only way i kept from going apeshit, hopping the median and driving north in a southbound lane was by consoling myself with the knowlege that today, finally, i would be able to enjoy the glories of only working 10 minutes from home. and then i had to drive to freakin bellevue this morning (on the otherside of the lake across the perpetually clogged WA-520 floating bridge for those of you not from seattle) to go to the HR company that ventripoint contracts with to handle payroll and benefits.

i figured since today was my first day, i probably should try to make an effort at a good first impression and not, for once, show up in my regular jeans and a t-shirt ensemble. with this in mind, i went downtown yesterday and bought some new dress shirts and pants. when i materialized today in a brown button down shirt and charcoal pants, i think there was a mild bit of well disguised shock and later when all 5 of the ppl in the office (i.e 71% of the current company) were standing around kinda joking about it and i was basically told not to dress like that again. i just looked to damned good i guess. but seriously, this is a start up after all and we are in seattle. if you show up to work in a dress shirt and slacks, you either work at a bank or you’re a pretentious bastich and i dont think anybody in this town owns a evening jacket that’s not made out of goretex.

sorry for the lack of updates. i shall try and be more regular. or rather, i shall try to post more regularly, lest there be some confusion there.

aiight george, enough ignoring my public. regular posts will begin again tomorrow.

immediate news is as follows: i will be leaving boeing for a new job on october 2nd. i’ll describe it tomorrow in more detail, but the basics are that it’s a biotech/med-device startup in lower queen anne (i.e. seattle)

happy aniversary to my folks today. the only reason danielle and i know when it is, is because it’s three days after ours. i made d a new piece of jewelery for our 2nd aniversery and i’ll post a description and some pics tomorrow or in a few days.

and no, no babies yet man

in the meantime, if you’re jonesing for blog content, this one is worth your read.

new orleans murder blog

i’m sure you can guess who’s writing it, but since he doesn’t actually include his name anywhere in there that i can see, i’ll leave it out of here.

i had just laid down to bed when it dawned on me that i had 15 minutes to throw a 150 word post together and that i had completely forgotten about it. the review isnt finished (basically because i got side tracked today), so it will have to wait til tomorrow.

gaming aside, i’ve found that even with school over, i’m pretty damn busy. today for instance. i started with a 9AM breakfast officers’ planning meeting in mukilteo. by the time i got home and, well… took a nap, i only had about an hour to help d with her gardening project before we left the house for the evening. kevin (of the black saab, orange stripe fame) and his wife anzara are apparently season ticket holders to the rat city rollergirls roller derby league and they offered us their tickets for tonight.

today was also the seattle (gay) pride parade and apparently the rat city event was tied to it. they had the tallest drag queen i’ve ever seen do a pre-bout routine where she skated around in a skirt suit with a tie, singing “i need a hero” from footloose and then stripped down to a super(wo)man outfit, complete with cape. the halftime activities consisted of a drag queen relay where they pulled two strait guys from the audience, made them run back and forth while first putting on a dress, then stuffing small soccer balls in them for boobs, putting on a wig, then lipstick and then doing a lip sinc routine to either girls just wanna have fun or i will survive.

then they had two sets of strait girls put on flannels and bandanas and do a u-haul (with wagons) race to pack up all their stuff and do a lap around the track. apparently the joke goes like this.

Q: what does a lesbian bring to the second date?
A: a u-haul!

i have to admit, i can guess that’s supposed to mean they jump into moving in with each other quickly, but otherwise i dont get it.

after that we went across the street and bought $110 worth of mariners tickets for $20 from a scalper trying to finish off the night (it was the 5th inning), went to safeco field and watched til the end of the 8th and then came home to watch x-files on dvd.

yes, ladies and gentle men, that is my exciting saturday evening.

i have one minute to post this, so no pics.  or formatting and pretty colors.

see? this is what i was saying regarding my doubts about making interesting posts everyday…

danielle seems inadvertently hell-bent sabotaging this exercise right from the start, by always wanting to do stuff in the evening.  yesterday was evil because of the extra trip to ikea, but tonight’s walk to ballard for dinner was particularly heinous, since tonight is raid night on karazhan and i need to be online by 8PM in order to assure myself a spot in the raid.

fortunately however, i remember hearing on the radio one day that the appeal behind being a blogger, as opposed to a professional journalist or editorial commentator, is the lack of time required to produce an article.  according to this particular piece, a blogger wasn’t beholden to minimum content length or a deadline.  one could have an idea or insight, have it written up in 30 minutes and have it published to the web in another 1 or 2.

so this is a test.  a test to see how much i can pump out in 30 minutes.  aaaaaaaaand, that’s gonna be it for tonight.  more prolific tomorrow hopefully.

meanwhile, topics you can look fwd to at some point during the next 30 days

1.    job search
2.    world of warcraft is a timesink of epic proportions
3.    sailing
4.    allergies suck a$$
5.    this seasons race car (not a diesel) and race results
6.    diesel engine rebuild.  (yes it’s gonna happen)
7.    weird al yankovic is a god amongst men
8.    mormons and science fiction (i’m sure this will get hate mail)

as i write this, i’m keeping a constant eye on the word count at the bottom of the screen.  just for the reocord, this one comes out to be 276.

Dear Zane B. Miller,

Your department recommended approval of your Spring, 2007 request to receive a MASTER OF MEDICAL ENGINEERING and this recommendation has been sent to the Graduate School. Any departmental comments are noted below. If you have any questions or concerns regarding this recommendation, please contact your department’s Graduate Program Assistant (staff member) or Graduate Program Coordinator (faculty advisor).

regular updates to resume shortly.

minor threat was NOT just a band

but the other stuff?  sure, i’ll buy that.

my current plan is to return this place to a semblance of quality no later than 9 weeks from now.  at that point, school will be over, woohoo!

so why start today? three things that are kinda related. kinda. begin by reading scott’s link

Scott says:
http://www.komotv.com/news/tech/6613202.html

Scott says:
uhh how can you not know your pregnant… h n/m….

Miller, Zane B says:
dude, you’d be surprised

Miller, Zane B says:
that happened to a girl i was living with in holland

Scott says:
I think she better buy some slim fast… and I mean fast

Miller, Zane B says:
lol!

Miller, Zane B says:
booyah!

Miller, Zane B says:
nice pun

Miller, Zane B says:
she kept thinking she was having bladder infections

Miller, Zane B says:
she even went to the doctor and they misdiagnosed her

Miller, Zane B says:
one night, we went out on the town

Miller, Zane B says:
came back to the house to find that the dutch student house master guy (like an RA) had taken her to the hospital

Miller, Zane B says:
where she had given birth!

Miller, Zane B says:
W…T… F…

Miller, Zane B says:
we had all noticed that she was putting on crazy weight

Miller, Zane B says:
but none of us (except a few of the older women in the house) thought she might be pregnant

Miller, Zane B says:
crazy

Scott says:
whoa crazy indeed

Scott says:
it’s like single today mom tomorrow’

Scott says:
oh what 24 hours can do

Scott says:
talk about drastic change

Miller, Zane B says:
best part was, she had been lying about being a virgin

Miller, Zane B says:
lol

Miller, Zane B says:
ooooops!

this is further proof of john gabriel’s greater internet fuckwad theory

aaaaaaah penny-arcade. ever so insightful!

Zane B says:

Zane B says:

William says:

Zane B says:

Zane B says:

William says:

William says:

Zane B says:

emerson would not have considered this an existential question. i’m almost positive

so yeah, as advertised, i forgot to post something yesterday. homework and some other things got in the way.

one of my problems with blog continuity is my cool temper. i just calm down way to fast. often what will happen is, i’ll be in the car, listening to the news and get the rampant stupidity and just about go nuts. i’ll compose a whole blog entry in my head, complete with cleverly constructed one-liners, only to ultimately calm down after picking up d and losing the drive to put it to “paper” when i get home. of course this happens when i’m listening to music and think of something to write about as well, so maybe it’s just cause i’m lazy. hmmmm…

a few weeks ago, gerald ford died. regardless of what your opinion of the man was, he was old. he was gonna die. life goes on. the REAL tradgedy that week this.

Foxtrot to Cease Dailies

a generation mournes!