i would update this more frequently if i could be certain it wouldn't end up being just paragraph after paragraph of profanities.

u2: still awesome, despite me being increasingly more irritated at bono. but yes, they put on a fucking tight show, musically they're the best they've ever been, and they're always fun.

what wasn't fun: having a splitting headache from about 3pm until about midnight. it kind of tainted my opinion of the show. also, working in an office, you forget that standing for nine hours fucking hurts.

and then on the car ride back i got to listen to a soundboard quality mix from one of the last NIN shows, and that was totally awesome too.

so: 9.5/10 -> 5.0/10 with headache, but the first number is still valid. i mean, fuck, they played "your blue room" during the soundcheck and "ultraviolet" during their set. awesome. oh, and "unforgettable fire"! yay.


i wish i had the wherewithal to write something coherent and which didn't make me sound like a fucking troglodyte right now, but it's late and all. tomorrow at work i'm sure i'll feel like i have to justify liking u2 to some of the metal snobs i work with.

dropped my sister off at college today, ten years to the day since i moved into BU for the first time. christ i'm getting old.

new WoW expansion announced today. *geek out*.

i got these awesome black sheets for my bed (they are awesome mainly because they are black), but i didn't think it all the way through and now all the cat hair shows up in stark contrast. oops.

i just have an amazing amount of respect for trent reznor. i really, really wish i hadn't missed the last tour. i hope it's not the last, as trent claims it will be.

sound: Nine Inch Nails - 5 - Echoplex [The Slip]

i'm so fucking tired of winter

former president george w. bush

Who would have thought that shoveling wet snow for thirty minutes would make the infection-induced motion sickness to which I have been subject the last two weeks even worse?

Like a Hardy Boy, I eagerly anticipate the stunning conclusion of... The Mystery of Whether Brian Will Throw Up Wednesday Morning!

I dreamt this morning that I was some sort of Jane Goodall figure among a society of gooballs (from World of Goo). Their mayor (they had a mayor) was a small, elderly Japanese man who claimed to be African-American. After a large rally (all of this gooball society attended, arranged by color and function), I was witness to one of them traversing some sort of platformer region.

Seemed like a pretty cool game idea, actually.

coffee: it is something i really like. i make (and drink) a lot of it.

being newly unemployed, my daily routine has shifted about two hours later than usual, so i often find myself taking my late-morning coffee in the mid-afternoon.

as a consequence of living in new england, late evening in late november begins at roughly 2pm, and the interior of my apartment is, for all intents and purposes, pitch-black.

this means:
* i have to pee a lot,
* i've walked squarely into the door jamb of my bathroom no fewer than five times in the last six days because i can't see where the door is, and
* my shoulder is sore

my heat stopped working earlier today. i didn't notice, really, until it got down to about 59 and i went to check the thermostat, which was properly set. i went downstairs to push the little red reset button on the furnace, to no avail.

then i hoped the problem would go away if i ignored it for a few hours, which it did not.

so i disassembled the thermostat and shorted the furnace controls. no dice, thermostat probably fine. i decided to go downstairs again to make sure there wasn't a tripped breaker and then i noticed in the back hallway two oil burner emergency cutoff switches. one was on, one was off. risking god-knows-what (michael bay-style explosion?) i flipped it. my furnace started.

now, as far as i know, those switches don't behave like breakers -- i'm pretty sure you have to actually flip it yourself to turn something on and off. i did, however, hear the upstairs neighbor go up and down the back stairway this afternoon.

do i have an enemy?



i mean, another one?

Brasscraft Basin Wrench
Model T151 X
$11.33/EA

• Heavy duty steel construction
• Reversible head ideal for working in tight places
• Spring-loaded jaw securely grips nut

*crosses legs*

the fuck is with people raking their lawns into the street? is that legal?

i saw the who tonight.

this should go without saying, but pete townshend: fucking awesome.

sound: The Who - Eminence Front

(frikkin) house centipede in the (frikkin) kitchen i should (frikkin) move...(grumble) (grumble)...

geology nerd alert!


fucking cooool

i can't find my cat and i'm freaking out

update:
my mom came home at noon, called him once, and he came trotting up from wherever the fuck he was hiding. fucking cats.

i tore the house apart looking for him. literally...i pulled insulation out of the wall of the oil tank room in case he was hiding under the basement steps. i looked in ever closet, every cabinet, and under everything more than an inch off the ground. i have no fucking clue where he was.

fucking cats.

good scotch.

guess who just got an invitation to the wrath of the lich king beta? hint: i did. it was me.

i wish i had time to play. oh well, can't hurt to install the client...