Author: papa

honeymoon

so we returned from hawai’i, much more tan than when we left and much more married as well. we had so much fun in hawai’i, it was insane.

i will maybe post a diary that chels kept on our trip later, but just wanted to put a quick post up while i was thinking about it.

if you are ever in the position where you are debating wether or not to go to hawai’i…  GO!!  it’s awesome.

the one thing about hawai’i that i really like is aloha.

if you read my blog religiously, and i know you do, then you know i’m all about the plur.
plur is an acronym that stands for peace, love, unity, respect.

aloha is a much more emotional version of plur.  it, too, is an acronym (from what i’m told, although i’m not sure if the acronym was made to fit the word, since ancient hawai’ians had no written language), although it’s in hawai’ian.

aloha (from a sign in the honolulu airport):

A stood for the word aloha meaning welcome, what i have you may have, share with me.
L stood for the hawai’ian word loko maika’i which meant, what i have said comes from my heart, good intentions.
O stood for the hawai’ian word ‘olu’olu meaning happy. this is part of our heritage – a happy hawai’ian people – happy doing for others.
H stood for the hawai’ian word ha’aha’a meaning humility and meekness. we welcome you, we do things for you, because we are happy and very humble to serve.
A stood for the hawai’ian word a’a ka maka which meant, our eyes are wide open but our lips are sealed. if you have taken all from us, who are we to say, for we knew what we were doing.

thats just cool.

so plur and aloha

marriage

man, it’s so crazy how the little things are what kill you.

everybody always talks about how wonderful thier wedding was, or how wonderful yours is going to be when you have it, but nobody tells you what a nightmare it is planning it. and it’s not the major things, either. it’s the little things: the seating arrangement; the decorations on the table; the gifts to the groomsmen, parents, brides maids, and anybody else; the way your hair is done, and i’m a guy; and everything else that i have forgotten, and won’t remember until it’s too late.

everybody also always asks me if i’m getting nervous…  nervous?  who has time to be nervous, i have to crop pictures for the seating arrangement cards, print them, buy the wine, get my hair done, pick up the engravings, get the rings, clean the hot tub, build a deck, bolt down the canopies, give my two cents on the decorations, help with the dinnerware, buy some serving platters, build a playlist, figure out where the speakers are going, edit the song for ‘the walk’, burn the cd, buy some speaker wire for the deck speakers, mow the lawn, make the rehearsal dinner, and on and on and on.

holy crap.

ask me how it was when i get back…

i’ll tell you it was wonderful, wink, and leave it at that.

computers… blegh

i have been so frustrated by my computer at work lately that i about threw it out the window. i came into work a couple of weeks ago and my computer would not boot, it just kept restarting. so i booted into safe mode, but it never finished, just booted up to one point and stopped. i asked my it boss what was going on and she gave me some pointers which i tried with no success, and finally reinstalled windows, but now the computer won’t recognize the hard drives.

there were two rather large drives in a raid span and only one of them can be recognized at a time. sucky.

so i’m running this data recovery software and hoping that not all is lost, but i fear that it is, and if it is, then i’ll have to rebuild the computer and all my lost data from scratch and that will take me at least a week of solid working. not to mention all the little things that you always use but never think about…  i’ll have to find those, too.

stupid computers, but at least my computer at home is being wierd, too

bachelor party

i’m having a bachelor party this weekend and am a little worried about what is going to be going on at this thing.

i know we are going to be playing airsoft in the day, but after that i have no idea, and it’s a little frightening when you don’t know what people have planned for you.

probably getting super drunk, but that’s all i know.

strange, i’m usually in more control than this…  so when i’m not, it’s an odd feeling.

graduation

wow. it is so crazy that i am going to be graduating in like 2 weeks. it seems so far away and yet so close. i have no idea what i am going to do after, probably go to school for it something or other and work full time when not in school, but still…

i am really hoping that i pass my current classes because it wouold be not so good if i had to go back just to take one stupid class over again and then not get my degree until after next semester.
anywho…  just wanted to express my bewilderment at this point in time.

it seems like i’ve been in school forever and now it is really over…

until i start again. because i’ll miss it too much.

plur

comment spam

i stated in a post back when i switched over to this blogging software that one of the best things about it was that it automagically blocks all incoming spam.

well…  it’s still doing it and rocking it like nobody’s buisiness. last night i got about 15 emails letting me know there were comments waiting to be approved and not a single one of them was legitimate.

if i hadn’t switched to wordpress, i would have been sifting through my blog searching for all of the comment spam right now.

now all we need is a way to really piss them off when they try to spam us. by maybe freezing thier comp for a while everytime they try to send spam, so that if they hit the wrong place thier comp freezes for the rest of the day…  yeah, that would be cool.

stupid spammers. it’s not even like they’re trying to get you to buy something cool either. i mean, really, who gets a spam and think, “ya know, i’ve been meaning to have my penis enlarged, i should give these people in that third-world country a call, i bet they could do it really well.”

nope, doesn’t happen.

rubik’s cube

guess what ?!? i solved a rubik’s cube the other day without looking at instructions or anything for the first time !!  and did it several times, just to make sure that i could.

it’s crazy how easy the thing really is when you finally figure it out. when i started playing with a cube at my friend’s house, i had to look on the internet just to get the thing solved, and because i was reading instructions or using the cube explorer, i couldn’t look at the cube to see what the various moves were doing.

but then i got the first face and the first row all figured out and had troubles with the second row (but i was pretty drunk when i was trying to do it, so don’t blame me).  then  i got the second row and it was pretty easy as well, once i figured that out, but the final row…  man that one’s tough. so i looked online at a rubik’s solution and solved a rubik’s simulator on my computer (i don’t actually own a rubik’s cube) while looking at the instructions. i solved it a few times looking at the instructions, then turned them off and tried to solve it without looking. when i got to the end, i didn’t even realize that i did it until i was sitting there looking at the cube, wondering what move to make next, then noticing that all of the sides were solid. i even turned the cube over and over to make sure i hadn’t missed somthing, it seemed so unreal. so i did it again, and again. then i met a situation i hadn’t seen before and had to consult the instructions. but i’ve done it several times since then and feel pretty confident i can solve the cube any time i want now. which is dope.

but now i need to learn how to solve the 4d magic cube.  i’ve solved up to five moves, but after that it gets all messy and i have no idea where to flip the thing. it’s tough, it’s like a rubik’s cube on steriods.

but i think the ultimate rubik’s solver is the LEGO rubik’s cube solver built by j.p. brown !  man that has got to be the coolest thing on the planet !  and it actually works, too !  i’ve seen video of it working.
it brings together everything that is geek and puts it all in a nice neat package to exclaim to the world, “I AM GEEK !!”

it uses lego’s in cunjunction with computer code and function to solve a rubik’s cube, how much more geek do you need?

wedding creepin’ up

man, this wedding is gettin closer and closer and it seems like nothing is getting done. not for lack of trying though, it’s just there’s so much to do that you never even think of. like the centerpieces, i don’t know why, but i never even thought about those, maybe i thought they just happened. guess not. and the location and officiant. we have the location down, but now we have to figure out where at that location we are going to put all the people for the reception. it’s crazy. and we have an officiant, but she basically fell into our laps. but now we have to figure out what we want her to say and what not to say, etc. etc.

but the invites are almost done, and they look pretty good, now i just have to see them in their final, finished form and get them mailed out.

so, if your lucky, maybe soon you’ll get one…