I’m really bored ok? Anyway…
With all the craze of iphone madness i’m quite content with my newest toy. It’s got wifi built-in, along with bluetooth, and many more bells and whistles yet to be explored.
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I picked up Negative earlier, and the people at Going to Grandmas’ had nothing but praise about him, and his demeanor. They also mentioned that he wants to be an agility dog, and I agreed, and told them about how he likes to sit in chairs, and “climb”. I had thought about this before, I think it would be great fun for me and him. Maybe I’ll look into it a bit more seriously.
I’ve been in California since Saturday night. Had the opportunity to see and hangout with some friends I haven’t seen in a while.
The doctors appointment I had on Monday went great. He wrote a STAT(not status) report, and I picked it up today, for my Valentines (Court) Date. His report was very good.
I went to bed last night feeling slightly under the weather, and this morning, woke up feeling like death.
That said this trip is going well so far. I have another appointment next month with the good Doctor, and treatment is in my future.
I would probably be more ecstatic about all this if I didnt have a cold/sinus thing going on. But I generally am susceptible to getting colds. I was hoping to hangout more with people, but I don’t feel that possibly getting anyone sick is a good thing.
I’ve also had my fill of sushi, and Vietnamese food. I went to this sushi place with my father, and an old work friend of his called Kura, in Costa Mesa, it was pretty neat environment, it has a rotating sushi bar, which revolves around the entire restaurant. I’ve also eaten a couple times at one of my favorite Pho places in Costa Mesa, Pho 99, that I eat at whenever I’m in town because one of the people who work there recognizes me each time, which you do not see very often in employees working in the food industry.
ok, why does a “quickie” update, usually turn into a longer post? I had just a few thoughts I wanted to jot down, but felt compelled to write a little bit more.
2 nights, and ~1 day left in California, then the trek back home. Maybe another post or two before I leave…
A total of 6.5 million people, one-fifth of the state’s population, do not have health insurance, far more than in any other state.
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The proposal would prohibit insurance companies from denying coverage to people because of their age or health status. They would also be required to put 85 percent of their profits directly into health care services.
[nytimes]
85% of their profits huh? That’s a lot of money. Especially if their “profit” is 66% of the $1 they just charged a company for the insurance premium. I’m just predicting this but this 85% profit “tax” will not apply to Worker’s Compensation, because they’re special, they ride the short bus.
I’ll be in California again for a couple days next week. I’m flying in Sunday, leaving on Tuesday. ( 2006.01.07 to 2006.01.09 )
Right now I don’t have anything to look forward to after getting there except for maybe the return trip.
My sister and nephew are coming out on the 9th to Arizona to visit for my fathers birthday, 2006.01.11. I haven’t seen them in a year or two.
All day Monday I have appointments from Newport, to Costa Mesa.
Open Invite, if anyone would like to meet up for dinner Sunday, or Monday, that would be most excellent.
I would throughly enjoy the company, and a break from the isolation of BFE Arizona.
stop here. over emotional below..
Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house
Nothing was stirring, but my keypad and mouse.
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,
In hopes that a SCIF email should have be there.The injured worker unable to sleep sound in his bed,
While visions of required treatments danced in his head.
And father in his ‘kerchief, and I in my cap,
Had just settled our brains for a long winter’s nap.When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter,
I sprang from the bed to see what was the matter.
Away to the window I hobbled in pain,
Tore open the shutters and threw up again.The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow
Gave the luster of mid-day to objects below.
After months of delay, and years of deceit,
What arrived next was the postal receipts.With a little old driver, so lively and quick,
I knew in a moment it must be Postal guy Nick.
More rapid than eagles the vultures they came,
And he whistled, and shouted, and called them by name!“Now Donovan! now, Dino! now, Sanchez, and McCall!
On, Margret! On, Philip! I can’t name them all!
To the top of the porch! to the top of the wall!
Now dash away! Dash away! Dash away all!”The injured worker cramped in a plane headed off to fly,
he kept meeting obstacles, and mounted to the sky.
So up to Orange County the pilots they flew,
With the documents, bad memories and had been lied to.Restless and waiting, I heard on the roof
The bad faith musings of each little goof.
As I drew in my head, and was turning around,
Down the chimney the Judge came with a bound.He was dressed all in fur, from his head to his foot,
And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot.
Previous rulings he’d made have been ignored by SCIF
And now the injured worker pays for their mischief.His rulings were just! his smile how merry!
Why shouldn’t the injured worker believe in his theory
His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow,
And again I have to write my name the snow.The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth,
And the smoke it encircled his head like a wreath.
He had a broad face and a little round belly,
That shook when he laughed, like a bowlful of jelly!He was chubby and plump, a right jolly old elf,
And here I am now, in spite of myself!
A wink of his eye and a twist of his head,
Soon gave me to know I had nothing to dread.He spoke not a word, but went straight to his works,
He ruled on my cases now get to work you jerks.
And laying his finger aside of his nose,
And giving a nod, up the chimney he rose!He sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave a whistle,
And away they all flew like the down of a thistle.
But I heard him exclaim, ‘ere he drove out of sight,
“Your settlement will be fair, and all will be right!”
(No, I don’t mean EFnet.) 
Damn all you Orange County California mofo’s and your attachment to having a phone number for every gadget in your pocket, the 2+ phone lines at home, fax machine, and even one for your DSL line. Already a lack of phone numbers only ~10 years after the last split, which created the 949 spawn. Damn the over growing suburban population.
So yeah, today in the mail along with my netflix, I received a notice of public hearings for 714 area code change from Cingular. But your not in the 714 anymore you say? I am at heart. My mobile phone is a 714 area code number. I lived in the 714 for about 23 years. Wireless Number Portability says I can keep my number which I have over the last 4 years from moving away from the area. The proposed changes may affect that however, at which time I will be pissed off that I have been paying into a system, which was supposed to guarantee my number for as long as I pay for it. Isn’t that a contract?
My out of state status means that I am obviously unable to attend the public meetings, (unless SCIF happens to ship me out that way for my workers compensation during the same time as the hearings), so I submitted my comments below via the California Public Utilities Commission website.
I no longer live in California, however, I chose to keep my mobile phone number which is within the 714 area code, I believe it has an Anaheim exchange through Cingular Wireless, which I purchased when living in Huntington Beach.
Ideally #4 cuts the county in a more logical fashion.
But I would prefer the overlay, so that I am guaranteed to keep my phone number.
I have been paying added fees each month on my wireless bill, which are supposed to offset the costs of number portability. What’s the point of having number portability, if what is being proposed is going to take that number away from me.
714.642.xxxx
After viewing the overlaypdf, and two proposed split plans #4pdf, and #6pdf, I would prefer the overlay.
Since it was not completely obvious to me I would have to guess that if the split is approved area #A will keep 714, and area #B will get some new number.
I’ve had this domain for a long time it feels. I just renewed it today. Someday I’ll put something on it.
When I purchased this domain on 1998.12.18 it was unique, in that it was the most amount of zero’s you could have in the domain name within the .com TLD. Twenty-Two Zero’s period com for a total of 26 characters.
Of course things changed over the years, and the domain name system changed and grew up, to support more characters for the second level as of the pool of available names started to dry up and eventually support languages and characters other than English.
I got the idea for this domain after seeing one of the customers at the company I was working at, purchased lots of domain names which included many 0’s and “-” marks for at the time, search engines regarded these characters for higher ranking in the alphabetical sense.
Now there is a limit much higher than just the original 26 characters. 63 Characters + .com = 67 Characters.
000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000.COM
The new zero domain, unfortunately is not mine.
Hurray!
Right now I’m sitting in the living room with a wall of my stuff which lived in California for the last two years without me. It feels good to be reunited with my nice huge cal-king bed, and other missed material possessions. Now that I have my bed again hopefully I’ll sleep better, when I am able to sleep.
The storage unit my dad and I procured here, is waaaay ( few more a’s) to big for all that I need to store, which is good, because, well my dad has plenty of crap to store, some which has just been living in the garage since he moved in.
Interestingly; Fox bought MySpace and later stole bones’ URL, for fox’s crappy TV show of the same name.
Who owns the URL? Well it would appear that the original band does since MySpace gave it back.
Fox better not come up with a show called PX. MySpace is shitty now, with spam artists and fake profiles I wonder when their bubble will burst. GigaOm has some numbers.
Arizona Preliminary Election Results, from yesterday’s elections.
http://www.azsos.gov/election/2006/General/2006_General_results_query.htm
Today it seems Rumsfeld has done something good. Maybe finally retire at 74?
Something cool just came to my mind, I’m thinking of a WordPress plug in which displays tag selected or all images around the date of the post(s) which are being viewed. I was just taking some pictures of my stuff now that it is here, just because it’s good to take pictures of your stuff for insurance purposes.
The spell checker is pretty useful in Firefox 2.0, just wish it was easier to add new words with mixed capitalization.
ignore the static on the line.
I’m sitting doing some breathing exercises and a thought process I had been thinking of before came to mind and, although I’m sure someone else has made this observation before me, I’m making it for myself.
blogs are a decentralized form of web based bulletin boards.
when categorized and tagged this information become the glue that turns these posts into communities of conversations that exist together in an open forum.
this site is a bit of a petri dish of all things.
watching my logs as i do sometimes i sure get a lot of hits for something i wrote about having an issue with a couple months ago while trying to get VMware working properly. I’m not sure how much it’s actually helping people, but for the things i wrote about on that page, people seem to have an interest in going there from search engines.
One of the many things I despise about bulletin boards is when indexed by search engines, they many times give up information to the engine, which if browsed by a human would require you to give contact information to create an account. Why, when your most likely going to only need to use the page for 5 minutes or maybe not at all if only the search blurb seemed relevant and the content on the page is lacking immensely.
i’d like a wiki rich text wiki style interface to wordpress.
the ability to easily tag everything and form mind maps between the ideas.
it’d sure be great to be able to whip out a web enabled pda, push a key, and then instantly start inputing the free form thought into a post that is analyzed for individual thoughts, or even just sentances. using line breaks as seperators would be simple solution to real logic. later being able to expand upon each idea as needed.
an exoself. i’m slowly reading mind performance hacks.
i think dave’s OPML editor would be a great addition to mine, but I still can’t seem to get it happy in Wine.
free form organization.
modular information.
server side logic transforms
plain text microformats which add features like post rating, comments, polls, to individual posts, pages, tag group selections, etc.
features use formated templates to allow visual artistry.
blah.
i dont like links and addresses. changing a url is difficult. i hate using tcp port 81 to host my website.
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Workers’ Compensation Dreamin’
It’s all too often that I am unable to sleep, sometimes for days on end. There are only two days left of 2006. This time in my state of being awake, and looking at my logs for referrers I’ve come across some more interesting stuff to process. The lack of required mental health care and physical treatment has left me altered to say the least. I am emotionally unstable, I cry almost daily, and days I don’t I hold back my tears some how. I write in a blog because it is MY outlet. I don’t have a professional to talk to regularly anymore and this feels like the healthy thing to do. I honestly feel homicidal at times, and suicidal the rest of the time, again I fight my urges, feeling exhausted. I didn’t used to feel this way, I feel the medications that were last prescribed to me had a huge effect on this. You may have heard of it, Cymbalta. But I will get into that later.
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