ixnay's journal of journalness

ixnay37 @ 2008-11-04T21:41:00

2008-11-05T04:42:24Z

YES
WE
DID

ixnay37 @ 2008-10-30T22:58:00

2008-10-31T05:13:50Z

Oh man I certainly don't update this thing any more. This is what, only my third update in 2008, and the only one longer than a single sentence?

I'm just looking back at things and haha, it's my LJ entry from 4 years ago

I have a sneaking suspicion that next week things will end a little better. We early voted last week and I am taking Monday & Tuesday off of work to volunteer and help get out the vote.

So, assuming anybody actually reads this, be sure to go out and vote.

YES WE CAN

P.S. The Crystal Method's remix of Obama's DNC acceptance speech is totally awesome and you should download it and listen to it 5 times a day between now and Tuesday.

Also I guess you can leave a comment if you want to ask me anything since I never update this thing any more.

ixnay37 @ 2008-06-12T15:45:00

2008-06-12T21:49:43Z

I just won this TV which was the grand prize in this contest

Holy crap!

ixnay37 @ 2008-01-20T20:15:00

2008-01-21T03:16:00Z

DAMN IT NO NO NO NO NO NO

WORST

SUPER

BOWL

EVER

ixnay37 @ 2007-07-01T23:53:00

2007-07-02T05:59:05Z

I am off to venture further east than Chicago for the first time since a trip to Disneyworld in the 2nd grade.

I hear this "East Coast" has many things I have only read about in myths and legends, such as roads you must pay money to drive on, major cities less than 200 miles apart, and states that don't require 5 hours to drive across.

Amazing!

We have a house

2007-03-31T06:08:14Z

Front of the House
Originally uploaded by ixnay_1.

Hooray!

We closed on our new house today and it is AWESOME.

We took pictures of it and you can view them here:

Our new house

ixnay37 @ 2007-03-13T22:40:00

2007-03-14T04:42:46Z

Inspired by my wife's entry (and as a test to see if anyone actually reads entries from me), give me a number between 1 and 7349 and I'll upload a song from my music collection for you.

ixnay37 @ 2007-03-02T17:27:00

2007-03-03T00:30:07Z

The offer we made yesterday was accepted, so we will be the proud owners of a new condo next month!

3 bed, 2.5 bath, 1600 sq ft, 2-car garage, hardwood floors, end unit

There are so many awesome things about it.

This will kick so much ass and I am looking very forward to actually owning a place now.

ixnay37 @ 2007-01-04T20:32:00

2007-01-05T03:36:08Z

If you haven't had a chance to see the movie my friends and I made for a class project back in high school (6 years ago D: ) you can now!

I've put it up on the interwebs thanks to Google: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4342150188527019866&hl=en

You might like this movie if you enjoy:

Action
Spy movies
Mexican ninja terrorists
Explosions
Gunfights
Fistfights
Car Chases
Red Vines

ixnay37 @ 2006-12-25T10:33:00

2006-12-25T17:33:49Z

Christmas haul:

Final Fantasy XII
Venture Bros - Season 1
Home Movies - Season 4
Paul van Dyk - The Politics of Dancing 2
The Onion Presents: Our Dumb Century
Deathnote vol. 9
and $250 to go in our house fund

ixnay37 @ 2006-11-07T01:09:00

2006-11-07T08:09:32Z

Picked up Guitar Hero 2 at midnight over at walmart!

But there's these things called "sleep" and "work" that are going to get in my way. Curses!

Tomorrow is shaping up to be a great day: GH2 and Conrad Burns swept out of office.

It's ours!

2006-09-02T22:47:23Z

32 inches :O

This will be so sweet when it arrives on wednesday.

ixnay37 @ 2006-08-25T20:07:00

2006-08-26T02:07:52Z

Happy birthday to me :V

ixnay37 @ 2006-06-21T00:41:00

2006-06-21T06:41:26Z

This is an actual local public service announcement that we saw on ESPN today.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUESbKAC5ks

I'm not kidding

ixnay37 @ 2006-06-16T21:09:00

2006-06-17T03:09:15Z

Hooray: We won our softball game tonight, 9-8, after scoring 7 runs in one inning to win the game.

Not Hooray: It looks like I have a bruised rib from practice last week and it hurts to run.

ixnay37 @ 2006-06-09T17:14:00

2006-06-09T23:13:57Z

You purchased 2 tickets to:

Aquabats W/Supernova, the Phenomenauts
Fri, Jul 21, 2006 07:00 PM
House of Blues San Diego
San Diego, CA

Hell yeah!

ixnay37 @ 2006-05-15T19:03:00

2006-05-16T01:05:21Z

Who is a finalist in Google's DaVinci Code Contest?

Oh yeah.

ixnay37 @ 2006-05-07T02:07:00

2006-05-07T08:07:37Z

Well, it's official.

After the ceremonies earlier today I now have a fancy piece of paper that tells me I have a degree in Computer Science.

Hooray!

ixnay37 @ 2006-02-12T00:48:00

2006-02-12T07:48:19Z

Adventures in Chicago!

2006-01-25T04:59:16Z

So, for those of you who may not have known, I spent the past weekend in Chicago as a part of the annual Pro Services Forum my company has. Basically everyone in my department (Pro Services) flies in to one location for a weekend of training and stuff since the department is spread around the globe.

I had an enjoyable time though it got pretty miserable near the end. Stay tuned over the next few days as I relate a day-by-day account of my wonderous adventures!

Thursday, January 19

I woke up at 6:00 and made it to the airport for my 8:30 flight. Things went smoothly and I made it into Minneapolis-St. Paul for a layover just long enough to eat lunch. After running across the entire airport ("Hey, this map says there's a Quizno's here. Oh wait, it's still under construction") I had some lunch.

Side rant: Screw you, states with sales tax. I got 29 cents in change exactly from my lunch and went to buy a Cinnabon which was listed as $3.29. After handing over a $5 bill and my pocket of change, I am told that it is in fact $3.50 and people are looking at me like I am stupid.

My second flight went okay, thankfully. Some of the employees who went through Denver got stuck on the runway for 4 and a half hours because the plane was rammed by a de-icer and the wing was damaged. I checked in to the Swanky hotel on Michigan Avenue which was indeed pretty fancy and waited down in the lobby. A group of us had a reservation at a nearby sushi place. However, since half of the group was still stuck in Denver, we went with just a few people. I had some really good sushi and some sake. At this point it was time for the welcome reception back at the hotel. I conversed with people and had a rum & coke that was about 75% rum D:

About this time, the rest of the group got in and decided they were going to go to the sushi restaurant anyways. I went back with them because the alternative was hanging out by myself and that's no fun. We all stayed past closing time and wandered outside to meet another group of people from the company. Some of them wanted to go to a nearby bar so they waved over 4 taxis. I got in the last taxi with 3 other people who had no idea where we were going. We told the taxi driver to "just follow the taxi in front of us" and she did - right through a red light. And with our luck there was a policeman nearby!

After the taxi was pulled over and the driver got her ticket, a cell phone call got us the name of the crazy-ass piano bar everyone was at. I stayed for a while and had a Guinness. The show was pretty entertaining and everybody got to sing along to Don't Stop Believin'. At around midnight I decided I was tired and walked the few blocks back to the hotel, and was only accosted by a single homeless person. I took a shower to get the disgusting bar smoke smell off of me and went to bed in anticipation of the 7:30 starting time in the morning. Meanwhile a bunch of people stayed out singing and drinking until 3:30.

I'll write up about the rest of the trip in the next few days.

Windy (snowy) city

2006-01-21T04:40:51Z

So, I'm updating this from my hotel room in downtown Chicago.

I'm here along with the rest of my department on business and I'll go into details on everything when I get back Sunday.

But so far, I've walked around in a massive snowstorm, been in a taxi that was pulled over by police for running a red light, and eaten at a sushi bar twice!

Sadly, today was an 11-hour day of listening to presentations for work, so I had no time at all to do any sort of sightseeing/shopping. Doesn't look like I'll have much luck tomorrow, either.

Do the math!

2005-12-30T00:16:22Z

$75 Amazon gift certificate from work

+ $150 rebate

= 80-hour Tivo for $25

Why not; I'm bored

2005-12-28T18:27:41Z

How many songs: 5,846

Sort by song
First song: "Call me Daddy" Killing - BT - Music From & Inspired by the Film Monster
Last song: Zoo York - Paul Oakenfold - Bunkka

Sort by time:
Shortest Song: Five Iron Frenzy - Give Me Back My Sandwich [0:04]
Longest Song: BT - Sasha's Voyage of Ima [42:45]

Sort by album:
First Song: 10 Years in the Life - BT
Last Song: Youth - Collective Soul

Top Five Most Played Songs:
1. BT - Somnambulist
2. BT - Lullaby for Gaia
3. The Chemical Brothers - Surface to Air
4. BT - Animals
5. Coldplay - Talk
(Last.fm)

First song that comes up on Shuffle:
Mindless Self Indulgence - Tom Sawyer

Search for:
"sex", how many songs come up? 47
"death", how many songs come up? 27
"love", how many songs come up? 132
"you", how many songs come up? 480
"me", how many songs come up? 2166

Merry Christmas

2005-12-25T19:24:15Z

My loot:

4 pounds of

These shirts:

As well as some stuff that's not exciting to post pictures of: An omelette pan, new spatula, new can opener, and an iron.

All in all, a super Christmas :D

ixnay37 @ 2005-12-13T09:49:00

2005-12-13T16:49:07Z

So this is how it ends.

Finish my last final, then come home for a few minutes and go to work a little later.

I would have thought finishing college would have a bit more fanfare to it. But hey, I don't mind - I'm done with school and that's perfectly fine for me.