never lose your cellphone

2002.07.13 21.19

So I am at home tonight, Saturday, here in Houston. I lost my phone around 3 PM and didn't find it until a few minutes ago. Stupid pockets. I hate them. They are the bane of my existence. If we could eliminate pockets we'd be a lot better off. Women with no pockets have the right idea. I just got through listening to my voicemails. One person got ticked off. One kept calling try to find me. And yet another called to see if we could do something. Now I'm ending up not doing nothing. Bleah. I could be in the Best Western Ft. Washington doing this.

Plane trip yesterday was uneventful save for the fact that this very large drunk guy was harassing the dude sitting in front of me. He was all ''F this'' and ''F you'' and ''I know you want me to F off, right? Right? Right?!?'' to the guy in front of me. I avoided eye contact and looked pissed off while I wasn't sleeping, so I got away scot free. I was prepared to burp, dribble, snort snot and fart if necessary. Stupid obnoxious drunk guys suck. Stupid obnoxious drunk girls, however, may contact my manager for an appointment.

I am trying to put together a decent machine to game with my fellow Java developers. Specifically Quake III is to be the means with which I slay my coworkers over and over. Unfortunately I can't find a machine on hand that can do OpenGL so it looks like another trip to MicroCenter is in my future. My cable modem in Philly is no where as good as the one here in Houston. I am considering running a server here (no graphic card is necessary) and using that machine whenever a one on one with a cocky framework developer needs to happen.

The trailer for ''The Truth About Charlie'' came out today. I updated MarkWahlberg.com with some new flash on the home page. Check it. I also have some updates for Jim Wahlberg coming soon. He has a fundraising event in October that I hope to attend and cover as far as photo/video. The premiere for ''Truth'' will also be happening that month, so I assume these things will be related. Not sure if Universal will hold the premiere in Los Angeles or Paris. The film was shot in Paris so I'm getting my passport renewed, dude. I'm tentatively bringing the sistah with me if things are stateside. I need to start making movies, right?

I have gotten a little eBay crazy in the last month. As I mentioned last month, I bid (and won) on a Star Trek flying ship toy, a replica Back to the Future prop, and a pinball machine. A Charlie's Angels pinball machine. Yeah, well, I was looking for something interesting with a digital display and affordable. I know, I should have just bought a digital clock, right? To top off the week, I also stopped into IKEA and bought three unfinished pine clocks (one set to Houston time, one set to Philly time, and one permanently set to 10:04 PM), two transparent chairs that have a light in them, nine 4''x6'' unfinished pine picture frames, a small unfinished pine table (notice a pattern yet?), a shelf for the bathroom (yes, unfinished pine), a light fixture with red, green and yellow buttons that can be lit independently, three of those wooden doll wire thingies (see the picture below and look to the far left) and, last but not least, 30 glass tea candle holders and a bag of 100 tea candles. I don't get why they call them tea candles. They taste like wax.