Blog of Josh Hall

“Life is just a series of coincidences. Or a comedy of errors.”

 – Brad Dourif (Lt. John G. Coleman), Luke Wilson (Jesse Reilly)

 in the movie “Bestmen” -soundbite-

1.  a gay midget carrying a Chihuahua yells at you for jay walking.

2.  you pull up to the parking lot gate around 11pm, and right before you insert your card for the arm to lift, the power goes out…and doesn’t come back on before you have to go to work at 4 am.

3.  Your step dad tries to be a nice guy and take care of getting your car repaired, even lets you borrow his for a week, and when he brings your car back to your apartment, your dead asleep and don’t hear him knocking.  man i feel like an arse.

4.  you’re life is so busy, you have to schedule things that overlap, and end up sleeping through both of them anyway.

5.  you’re room is a wreck, but you’re barely home/awake to notice/care/clean.

6.  the one night you have some spare time to work on your hobbies, which involves being online and a computer, the power is out.

7.  You tell your new roommate/cousin that power should be restored soon, since you live blocks from downtown, you’re in a high priority area to be restored.  When you get into work, you find out that duquense light routed all your power to downtown.

and this one just in…when you look at the statistics on your site, you see that people are being directed to your site when they search google for “innie nipples”   yeah, that does wonders for your self-esteem.

just got back from the metro parks cleveland zoo this weekend and thought about a new way to do the maps.  they should give you a durable plastic one with a gps tracker in it.  Then you can have a dynamic “you are here” light.  for large groups or families that split up, you could add their tracker to your screen, so that you know where they are all the time.  that would help coordinate meeting times, meals, and just supervision. 

 I was just thinking a static layout of the map painted on the screen, but maybe it could be more like a tablet pc, and the park can update if the animals are outside that day, if a new exhibit is open, the times of shows, etc.  Certainly wouldn’t be cost effective to replace maps, but maybe for $20 extra a group could use these, then i bet they would catch on.

feeling the effects of all the crap i do this week.  touchtown calls, crazy hours at mellon, cornerstone, dragon game, car crap, family crap, miscellaneous crap, personal crap, apartment crap, social crap.  and it’s only wednesday.  Something is going to give very soon.  It just might be my sanity.

went down to pittsburgh guitars to pick up a pick up (how many times do you get to say that in a life time?) for my acoustic, and i checked out a martin guitar i was interested in.  there were 2 martins that i liked, the second one being a little more expensive than the one i just looked at.  I’d like to see that one before i make the purchase, but i plan on buying a martin in the near future.  martin is going to have to custom make one for me in a left handed version.  it is going to take atleast 3 months i am told.  its worth it for the bragging rights of having a custom made guitar though 🙂

i am going to cleveland this weekend.  gunna check out the rock and roll hall of fame, maybe the zoo, whatever the heck i want to do.  i didnt go anywhere this summer, and i friggin need a break.  since europe doesnt celebrate labor day, i have to work monday.  no big deal though. 

alright, i am off like a light switch.  wish i had something cool to post.  i guess a link to the new imac will have to do.  the imac g5 is still my mistress.  and a fowl temptress she is indeed. 

a brazillian hacker decided to stop by and upload a malformed image in the gallery the other day.  Ended up corrupting the database and messing with the dragon game.  So i have upgraded the version of the gallery, and still tweaking it to get the old pictures back.  With in the next week or two, i will be upgrading the version of PHP nuke as well.

just letting you all know i am still kicking.  working from 4am – noon is a little rough.  It’s london’s 9-5 though, so i just have to think of it as i am a european trapped in an american’s time zone.  i end up sleeping from about 1pm-6 or 7 each night.  so getting 5-6 hours of sleep is a huge change from what i am used to.  some nights i will sleep again from 1am-3am before going to work, but that doesnt always happen.  I think it makes me more tired anyway.  They are paying me well for my lack of sleep though.

emily is moving in this saturday.  hopefully all will go smoothly.  It looks like it is just going to be the 2 of us, for the time being anyway.

alot has happenned since last i updated, and a lot to come.  keren going to school, went to kennywood with the family, trying to install dan’s old cd player in my car, got a really nice table from chris’ mom, and just a bunch of other crap.  so much more crap to come too.