How I Met Your Mother: Top Ten!

This is an extended version of Barney's Top 10 Things I Would've Called My Truck If Ted Hadn't Been A Jerk And Given It Back. This is a great show I'm reallllly looking forward to season 3. along with Heroes, Smallville, The Office, The IT Crowd, ER, etc etc.



And the slap bet? there are still three slaps left!

Do I like the pain?

Today is a slow day at work and I'm cleaning some of the crap off my Treo including old text message conversations when I stumbled across some messages from a girl I talked to about a month ago. I know I still think about her from time to time, and I fell for her pretty fast. Like The Man Johnny Cash said, "I Fell For You Like A Child; Oh, But The Fire Went Wild." So knowing what would happen I start to read the text messages. I then looked at some of the emails we exchanged, and even visited her blog to see what was new. I got a pit in my stomach and thought to myself, "wtf am I doing?" I'm trying to move on with life, not live in the recent past and dwell on what was.

Maybe I wanted to remember the fun messages, IM conversations, emails and the one time we meet and had coffee. It was always fun, the messages always put a smile on my face, and I miss that feeling.

But when I meet someone else and they send me messages will I think of them, this girl i got coffee with one, or just the feeling?

fuckin a...

Ubuntu here I come!

So like any good nerd I've repartitioned my hard drive, install grub, and install Ubuntu Linux! I'm now updating the OS and hoping it picks up my wireless card's drivers. I'm plug into my switch right now.

All in all it was pretty smooth, I had to defrag my windows XP install first. And let me tell you it was baaaaad. After that I just ran GRUB from the Ubuntu install CD, resized my XP partition, create a grub and a Primary EXT and off I went!

Like I said I"m running updates now and I'll play with it a little bit at the office tomorrow. I'm really happy this work b.c I tried it on my desktop and it was hell (the install saw both disk instead of the hardware RAID1 I have setup). I'll update the post in the morning!

----
9:56am EST
So Ubuntu is all updated, desktop effects have been turned on, and i'm up and running! Though we have hit our first snag. When I left my house I suspended the session and when I opened my laptop it awoke from the suspend but all i could see was the mouse. So one hard reboot later I was back into Ubuntu. I was surfing around, installed Songbird, checked out some of the desktop effects, and I was pretty happy. But now i'm at work an I have to use Windows if for nothing else Exchange Email. blah!! I'm going to mess around with VMWare this weekend to see if I can use my windows Partition as a VM like I did with Parallels and my Macbook Pro (way back when..).

But thing are moving forward and I'm happy nothing has blown up yet :-D

The Friends Theme and Sugar Ray

I Started the Blog with this guy, thought it would be a nice way to continue it...



Rob Paravonian uses the theme from Friends and the Sugar Ray song Every Morning to show that if you listen to the lyrics of a pop tune, it becomes really difficult to enjoy it anymore

Mystic River Sunset

MYSTIC RIVER SUNSET
Originally uploaded by snowriderguy

This is an amazing shot of the sunset on the Mystic river. This is a few blocks from my home and although i've lived there for a short amount of time I see this bridge almost every day and it reminds me that I'm home. I've never seen it quite like this before.

The Search is over

The Search is over
Originally uploaded by Being Boston

So while parking my car on Friend St I did a very tourist thing an I took a photo of The Greatest Bar.

Never been there before but I'll have to go now to see if it lives up to it's name!

Why do I run?

This Nike ad nails it dead on why I go running.

Lego imitates fine art

Who knew you could set up such realistic 3D versions of fine art and classic movies with LEGO? That's just what Flickr user Udronotto has done. That's his takeoff on Edward Hopper's painting "Nighthawks" above, and he's got an entire 42-pic set that shows you the depth of his talents. Pretty impressive art work. I would be proud to have any of these in my apartment, maybe in a shadow box? Oh the ideas!

read more | digg story

Eggs in a hole time!

On of my all time fav way to cook eggs is Eggs-in-a-hole. My mom used to make them for my and my little brother. It's a very under rated breakfast. enjoy!

EGG-IN-THE-HOLE Breakfast

Mr. O'Brien and guest

Nothing screams "you are single" more then weddings. I got the invite for my best friend's wedding and the card said, "Mr. O'Brien and guest". So is this putting pressure on me to bring someone? Or should I fly solo and save them a dinner. I would like to bring someone but I don't have anyone to bring. I would like to invite Mary or another friend of mine who became single recently, but that would be a huge step and I would have to put myself out there and i think we all know how i feel about that one... i'll wrestle it over in my head this week, i have til the 30th to mail it back.

Red

Dating 2.0

So I'm out and about again putting my toe in the water. I've been talking to this girl that had a post on CL and it's be good. We'll send emails back and forth, chat online, and last night we met face to face for some coffee.

We talked for about an hour and it couldn't have gone smoother. She was as cute as she sounded on the phone and I left there with a smile on my face and was thinking what we could do next time we get together. Then I met up with a buddy and I tried not to drum it up too much, telling myself that it's only the first time we've met.

Good thing I did that because I got an email this morning from her saying that she's not over her past even though she thought we went met up. It took guts for her to tell me that. But it kinda crush me a little because although I tried to tell myself it's only the first time I met her, I did have a crush on her and I did want to take her out again for something more then coffee. Oh well, so now I'm back to square one. who knows whats around the next bend.

i gotta stop wearing my heart on my sleeve.

A Potter Wasp

A Potter Wasp
Originally uploaded by Kaipu

That is just damn cool. There's no two ways about it. It's an amazing shot of a Wasp. And to see one this clear and close is something else.

Kinda looks like an alien.

Just about the creapiests music video ever

This is a killer video. Reminds me of Donny Darko

EMC's the way to be

Well I finished my EMC training this past week. I passed all my test, got the hand shake from the instructors, and reported to my Office this past Monday. I'm shadowing right now so it's not that exciting but my mentor is pretty cool.

I put an ad on CL, go a few replies but nothing that caught my eyes or my attention for more then a few mins. So I went on the offense and replied to an ad. I've chatted with her online for the past two days and she sounds pretty cool. i'm heading home for this weekend, but when I get back I'm going to see if she wants to get some coffee or drinks.

I've started to run around Eastie more since i've been back and I got the sore legs to prove it. I'm also trying to clean up the area in the back of my apartment. It's small but it's a fucking mess. Broken glass, trash, little toys from the boy on the third floor. I do all this to clean it up and when I get back from a run I find a new bag that was thrown back there. If I find the fucker I'm going to give them back their trash.

ugh...

thoughts not even a run could clear out of my head...

I don't mean to dump my shit on you but I just need to talk to someone. I feel like a broken record when it comes to girls. I talk to some girls but my head keeps going back to her.

A few weeks ago I was asked to help with training. we were using internet dating to show how data transfer works. I was asked what I like to do: camping, sports, movies, and hanging out. My instructor laughed and said good luck finding her. I didn't think too much about it then until today. I was talking to her and she said she was bored and want to do some reading so she put an ad on CL looking for some dates. I read that and thought to myself I am that guy, but what was the missing spark between us? was it the timing (i was a month removed from breaking up with my ex)? the fact that i just lost my job? idk... but it's fuckin bouncing around my head. I tried going for a run but that didn't do much to clear my mind. I want to tell her that I want a second chance at going out with her but like i've said, i don't want to lose a best friend, they are not as numerous as blogs on google... i'm not expecting you to have all the answers but i just needed to put pen to paper and get my thoughts out...

maybe it's time for me to put my own ad up and see what's out there again...

Police Station Cat Stolen

Police are looking for their cat. Police said a white man on a bicycle took the station mascot from 900 South Street around 11 p.m. Wednesday. Help Philadelphia find Cuffs! Anyone with information should call the South Street police station at (215) 922-6706.



read more | digg story

The perfect cake?

it's old news that i'm not getting married, but if i was this cake would so be there. It's the perfect man cake. No flour, no frosting, no cream. Just meat, potatoes and ketchup! The only thing it is missing is corn. If I ever learn how to make meatloaf this is the first thing i'm making! I'll prob start with one layer though, idk who the hell would eat a three layer meatloaf cake!

so as you can see it's a reallllly slow day at work at NEU... oh well. i'm still getting paid.

I heart The Office

Nothing is easy today!

omg... i'm starting to have flashbacks of O'Brien vacations past. Mary and I are leaving for FL tonight and it has been nothing but road blocks today. Mary is still sick (not holding that against her, who could), the baseball tickets were lost by UPS for a few hours (but they got off their ass and found them), there is a school meeting tonight that Mary has to goto (they never told her about it though) so she has to dash to the airport with less then an hour to spare, and i have to pick up the luggage at her place tonight so that i can bring it all to the airport and check it in. It's crazy, i'm going to be sooooo happy when i get to Tampa and crack open a beer.

Am I too honest?

So we all know about Mary and me. She is good friend of mine and idk where i'd be today without her. This past weekend I went out with friends for St. Patrick's Day and told Mary to meet up with us before we went to the Dropkick Murphy's concert (which was a fan-fuckin-tastick time! more on that later). She came out and then Shannon said she was around the corner so I told her to come by too. Bad idea?

I've been honest with both of them letting each other know where they stand with me. but i'm starting to think that maybe somethings are better off not said for the three of us. I fucked up this past weekend... twice... and called Shannon Mary... not kosher. It doesn't take a genius to see what could have happened. This bugged Shannon more then she will admit and i'm sure Mary was a little embarrassed by it but in my head that just means that I'm at the same level with both woman.

Mary and I have plateaued off because we are friends, and that is were Shannon and I are currently, but I want to take it further with Shannon. I think that this will make a difference but I guess we'll have to see.

Idk who I thought i was thinking I could keep two girls with the same first initial strait while being friends with both at the same time. I want to date Shannon but she is Shy (like i've been in the past).


What's a guy have do to for a herald around here?
I hate having more questions then answers....