online diary for the masses

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Month: November, 2007

really botched this one up

Man… (sigh)
I mean, how do you recover from this one? Seriously, it’s pretty bad that Jon forgot Colby’s birthday last week, but this? This is an all time low from D.O.
It’s really a good thing I have a blog that’s viewed by “the masses” allowing me to humbly admit my fault in an attempt to [...]

(unofficial) people of the year award

As I entered my house in Bryan, TX around 9:45pm I greeted my roommate Jay while donning my new jacket I’d just removed from the closet because our house was barely warmer than 49 degrees Fahrenheit (and I’d been wishing I’d packed said jacket all week). Jay and I briefed one another on the happenings [...]

giving happy thanks

I’ve been thinking about how I wanted to go about handling this post for at least 2 weeks. The process began when I first saw this sign in my neighbor’s yard during one of my contemplative strolls around Cavittville.
I thought about going on a rant regarding the funny ways that we choose to proselytize [...]

wordpress + odfm = (heart)

Your eyes are beholding the first official post that online diary for the masses has ever published on wordpress. My heart is happy that your eyes are here. I’ll take a moment to make you aware of some things that will be a little different for you, the reader, now that I’m at wordpress.
1. Comments: [...]

mom, look what I made (vol. 1)

I assume you readers who are parents love having your kid come home from school or church with a piece of art in their hands, raised high for you to see, often accompanied by the words, “Mom! Dad! Look what I made!”
You readers who are still in [grade] school know how much you love completing [...]

this makes me want to cuss

When I open up my Internet and see numbers like these, it makes me want to load up my car and drive North. Seriously. Eighty nine degrees for the high on November 14th? That rounds up to 90. This, friends, is not acceptable. That 73 is a glimpse of hope. I’m sure humidity will be [...]

3-in-1 post on mortality

If somebody asked me today where I would go if I could go anywhere, I think I’d bend the conventional rules of the question by answering “my own funeral.”
I’ve not been to a ton of funerals, but the ones I have attended always bring the same thought processes to mind. I think, “how cool that [...]

ladies and gentlemen, I give you the…

No, I’m not the loser because of the awesome mustache I had in that picture. I’m the loser because, well… this is how it went:
(A real phone call that took place last night between Mikey Mills and myself)
D.O.: Did Laura see her post on my blog?
Mikey: [turns to the side and asks Laura]… No, hold [...]

ladies and gentlemen, I give you the…

As promised, I’m giving the winner of my poetry contest a award as great as any I’m able to give… blog recognition. Our winner was one Laura Nutter who came up with the correct answers Ogden Nash and Joyce Kilmer.
For those of you who don’t know, Laura is one of my sweet friends from the [...]

gimp 2.4

The fine folks over at GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) have gone and outdone themselves. GIMP 2.4 has recently been released in its stable version and is available for free download here. It’s been available for a while, but the stable version hasn’t been available (to my knowledge) until a few weeks ago. Either way, [...]