my first reds game!

Tonight Emily took me out to my very first Cincinnati Reds game! It was my first baseball game ever, actually. I had SUCH a great time, I have this huge giant smile on my face just thinking about it. It was the whole experience, too - hot dogs and beer for dinner, ice cream sundae for dessert (in a little reds helmet, too!) and the reds won the game, too, with Ken Griffey Jr's 603rd career home run! I can't wait to go back and see another game with her. Her dad got us awesome seats, since it was my first game, which was AMAZINGLY cool of him, too.

Anyway... it's late... time for bed. Just had to brag about how awesome my baby is.

pictures from the wedding

So, in case I didn't mention it, (and I don't think I did)... I did the lighting for our owner's daughter this past weekend at the Freedom Center in downtown Cincinnati. It's an unlikely choice for location for such a happy event, but it turned out to be a really nice venue, and I had a lot of fun programming the event. There ended up being a lot of other bullshit attached to the event, in the way of last-minute favors for my boss's boss, but whatever. The pictures look pretty sweet, so have a looksee for yourself over at my photobucket.

emily again

Again, for those not in the know, or not able to figure out how to click on Emily's name in my facebook profile - this is my sweety!

emily!

So, for those of you not keeping up with me in real life or on aim or facebook, I've been seeing Emily quite a bit recently. I was missing her a bunch when she went away to California for her DG convention, but I'm so glad she's back. She came and visited me at work for lunch again today, and we went to Montoya's. It was SO much fun to see her in the middle of the day - really made my day. :)

I didn't really have anything else to write about... just wanted to brag a little, and let ya'll know how happy I am these days and how awesome Emily is. That's it!

roller coaster few days

It's been a roller coaster of life for a few days running now. Kinda up and down, but mostly up. I actually had a really awesome day today. I'm so glad Joe works with me now, he's so much fun to have around the shop, and I know Jim is gonna like working with him on productions. He's a real go-getter, and always pays attention when there's something to be learned, or even just a better way to do something. (Or, even if it's not better, and just one of my or Jim's idiosyncrasies.)

Anyway, the stuff that happened over the weekend that I won't mention here was awful. And those who know what I'm talking about know enough already. I just was really upset by all of it - not an easy thing to deal with. Monday was kind of blah, and Tuesday turned out to be an awesome day. So not really a roller coaster, I guess, so much as... a hill?

So, there you have it. I think the 89230923rd post I concluded with a paragraph starting with "Anyway".

panda dance!

So, I finally met this WAY cool girl on jdate (I know, I know... I'm a dork for sticking with the online dating thing after... ahem... previous bad experiences, but whatever, shut up.) Anyway, her name is Emily, and she's definitely way cool. As I already said.

Anyway, I've been talking with her on aim for like... four hours now... and it's just a lot of fun.

That's it... nothing else really going on this weekend, just wanted to post to say w00t!

ready? set? bored!

Today at work is looking like it's going to be pretty boring. Almost nobody is here today, for one reason or another, and there's nothing going out of the shop for at least a week. Tomorrow I'm getting some freelance labor into the shop to get started with prepping a couple pallets of new Source4s for a big sales order for a church. They're white, which sucks, because it means we have to wear gloves to prep all the fixtures. (Sidebar: you can get all-white L520 connectors from hubbel... who knew?)

Anyway... there is no anyway. That's all I got.

you can't make this shit up

dave yergin
12:00 AM
and hot.
mean, and hot.
a dangerous combination.

feig2
12:00 AM
they only had 200+ VL's & 16 synchros

dave yergin
12:00 AM
wait
wrong window

feig2
12:00 AM
lol

dave yergin
12:00 AM
ROFL
we'll just pretend that I typed that to jessi, and not to you, to avoid how weird that would be if I had actually typed that in this window.

feig2
12:02 AM
ahuh
so im not hot?

dave yergin
12:03 AM
no, no... you are
but not mean.
you're sweet.
and cuddly.
my widdle cuddly feig
a woozhooo hoowoowoo feig?

feig2
12:03 AM
ok thats scary

dave yergin
12:03 AM
LOL

mr. fixit

...or mr. fixti as I mistyped on aim a bit ago.

I spent the better part of the weekend helping out at Amy and Rob's house preparing it for the (rather unexpected) arrival of Rob's mom, Carol, as a result of our shitty American healthcare system. Carol was summarily booted out of her rehabilitation care center following a stroke earlier this year, without explanation, and without time for the appeals process because the guy who does the appeals process was out of town. So... they're paying out of pocket right now to keep her there for a couple more days till the house is ready for her to move in. I was there to install things, move heavy things, and generally be me... you know... goofy. And in the way sometimes. But mostly goofy. We had a great dinner saturday night, consisting of pita and hummus, various cheeses and summer beef sausage, as well as Rob's amazing (and, I hear, famous) pasta salad which has a ranch, not vinegar, base. I was an instant fan of it.

Anyway... sunday was uneventful. Nothing happened of note, I basically slept in all day long and sat around the house. I even thought about taking off work today just because it felt like such a blah day, but decided to come in anyway, cause, hell... can always use money, right?

So, there's my weekend, summed up in two paragraphs.

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