Thursday, February 14, 2008

Calling all Portland Looky-Loos...


Yeah, I'm talking to you Portland Looky-Loos, the ones that backed up traffic for ~10 miles, and for what? An accident, yes an accident, THAT WAS IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION on I-84.

I hate you all, made my commute go from 1 hour to 2, jackasses.

Saturday, February 02, 2008

New Bike = Not Smoking???



The idea is that I'll be riding my bike to work, therefore life will suck if I keep smoking (15 mile ride to work).

Well that's the plan anyway. I was supposed to stop smoking last week, but I had a hell of a time, here's to this week!

Sunday, January 20, 2008

Where I spend my days...


In my cubicle, yes I have CRT monitors, those will be changed to LCD's when I get my permanent cubicle. Also yes I have 2 computers, I support both Windows and Mac software. This is actually the first time I have used a Mac extensively since high school, though OSX is nice (it's basically Linux with a pretty window manager), I could never justify the exorbitant prices Apple wants for their hardware, so PC and Linux it is for me.

Thursday, January 03, 2008

Hears the The Internet Stalkers


Nice try! But look here ____________^_________ I just take a break and everything you say is gone. I hope you have a Great New Years.....(insert sarcaism)........ and on to the Next day :0

Wednesday, December 26, 2007

New Jorb...

Just got done with my first day at the new jobby job, so far so good. Though there are things I will miss about working in construction, I think there are more things I will like about tech support (particularly the lack of working in the rain).

Tuesday, December 25, 2007

Merry Christmas

Well I know that Im the only lonley loser that checks this blog anymore but This is Just a friendly Merry Christmas message to The Mire.

Friday, November 02, 2007

I am teh awesoming...


Made myself a pipe, fer umm tobacco of course. All the tools I used are in the pic. I already tested it, and it works quite well!
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Friday, August 17, 2007

It is past time...

...that i make a return to the Mire. Alot of crazy shit has been going down in my life this past couple of days and Soon I will need a place to vent before I burst

Void, canceled, simply annulled.
Endlessly aching, unconsoled.
Life without you, cause without reason.
Touch without sense, time without season.
I face life now facing a cancerous sore,
A sordid parasite that eats at my core.
All that makes me whole, all I hold deep within,
Leaving me lifeless, or at least not livin'.

A shallow face, anguished and marred.
An empty space, scaled and scarred.
Sweetly abiding to a cynical charade.
Secretly hiding 'hind a fictitious facade.
Still, lost within this heart of glass,
This fragile and yet unfeeling mass.
Lies the remains of a love that glowed,
The gift to you I once bestowed.

But honor and pride now bereaved-
By your love for me so misconceived,
Ripped from my inner depths, impeding-
Mind and body and spirit, bleeding;
Now's crushed to sand from thy ruthless hand,
A cold stare I just can't understand.
I feel that somehow, somehow I'm dying,
At least my soul and all that's underlying.

A simple void, is that what I've become?
The hollowed sphere on a pendulum.
Swinging back and forth, emotion to emotion,
Never once stopping, nor slowing the motion.
No reason, no answer, no justification.
The creation of a sterile imagination.
Just passing through time as time passes me.
Merely a nothing- nothing, merely, left to be.
Sightless and soundless, unseen and unheard.
Mindless and boundless, obscure and absurd.
All empathy lying ungraced, unemployed,
I live my life dying, unembraced, a void.

Friday, August 10, 2007

Busy Little Bees!


Working in Utah, I used this title because the Utah State symbol is a beehive... Damn those productive Mormons!!!


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Wednesday, August 08, 2007

Yay!

I'm home for a week, it's nice to be back in Portland, I forgot how much I love this place.

So glad to see Steph and Lilly too!

:D

Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Murray Retirement...




Clean slab, ready for framers...


After two days of framing...


After two days of framing...


Taken while hanging on to the forklift from 65' up.... Yes according to OSHA illegal, but god damn, its fun... I can't wait till the crane gets lit up (then I'll be 100+ feet up)

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Saturday, July 14, 2007

Checking in from Utah!

Well even though everybody else fails at updating The Mire, I'm checking in from my new home for 3 months, Salt Lake City Utah!

Assistant Foreman Jacob (soon to be Foreman Jacob!)


At the Salt Lake City Jazz Fest


Hiking in the mountains above SLC


My dads dog Hack, I found that hat outside my jobsite, and just had to put it on him. :D

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Saturday, May 05, 2007

Socks Should Be Predominantly White

Now thats a short-bus I would ride!
Do you have white socks sir?
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Thursday, April 19, 2007

Framer Russians?

I was thinking about that post way back when that Jon did talking about Roof Russians, and got to wondering if Jon would consider my boss a Framer Russian since he is a framer, and he's Russian.

It's cool to listen to him talk, he sounds like Boris the Blade.

Wednesday, April 18, 2007

I Hate Being Sick...

It sucks, especially when you JUST started a new job, and have to call in sick after only working there for 4 days. Kinda makes you look like a flake.

But at least I knew I was getting sick yesterday so I told my boss I might have to call in tomorrow. He was pretty cool about it.

Oh and THIS is who I'm working for now, they make some fatty (phatty?) howsezzzzzzzzzzzzz.

Now time for more off-brand Nyquil.

Tuesday, April 10, 2007

Watch Out...


Someday soon she'll be driving, and you know what happens when redheads drive!
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Monday, April 09, 2007

Bishhhhh! It's a cat!


Cory and Noahs cat, dave you remember Cory yeah? Anyway just showing off my photography skillzzzzzzzz. They compliment my bowstaff skillz.
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Friday, April 06, 2007

Delicious!



Looks like fun eh?
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Propaganda of the day: Boy on skunk cannabis butchered a grandmother

Boy on skunk cannabis butchered a grandmother
3rd April 2007 - dailymail.co.uk




A teenager who was crazed by high-strength cannabis butchered a grandmother after 'voices in his head' told him to stab a woman.

Ezekiel Maxwell, a paranoid schizophrenic, launched the horrific attack after years of smoking super-strength 'skunk weed'.

The 17-year-old claimed 'gangster voices' from the ultra-violent computer game Grand Theft Auto had set him on a mission to stab a black woman.

He is the second teenage cannabis addict in a month to be found guilty of killing others after smoking the substance. Thomas Palmer, 18, was jailed for life for murdering his two friends with a hunting knife near their homes in Wokingham, Berkshire.

Maxwell prowled the streets with a kitchen knife until he came across Carmelita Tulloch as she walked to her job at a photocopying firm.

He stabbed her seven times, leaving her to die in a pool of blood as he fled home to his family. The case highlights the dangers of the highly potent 'skunk'.

The number of under-18s treated for smoking the drug has doubled to nearly 10,000 in a year and medical experts said the link between it and mental health problems is now impossible to ignore.

Maxwell attacked 51-year-old Mrs Tulloch on September 5 last year after a night smoking skunk and playing Grand Theft Auto.

He believed he was one of the principal characters called Carl Johnson, who carries a knife in the Playstation game, Croydon Crown Court was told.

Judge Warwick McKinnon said it was "a vile and quite senseless killing of an entirely innocent woman".

Simon Denison, prosecuting, told the court: "Maxwell had been planning to stab a woman for seven days, it had to be a black Afro-Caribbean woman. He didn't know why he had done it, he just had to do it."

"He described the voices as taking over his thoughts and his body. They made him do things like cut his hair so he looked more like a gangster.

"Maxwell said in the months before the killing he was playing Grand Theft Auto to the exclusion of anything else.

"He had smoked cannabis the night before, he took a knife from the kitchen and went out to stab someone. After he stabbed Mrs Tulloch he ran home and told his mother what he had done.

"The psychiatric assessment is that he is a great risk to others and will be for many years."

Maxwell lived 500 yards away from Mrs Tulloch on the same housing estate in Kennington, South London. He attacked her within five minutes walk of her home.

The youngster started smoking cannabis and skunk as well as taking cocaine at 14. He had previously been given cautions for possessing cannabis and has two convictions for mugging and assault.

Maxwell said he started hearing voices after smoking the drug and was referred to a psychiatric team by his GP in June last year.

He was prescribed anti-psychotic drugs and his case was reviewed four times. It was due to be considered again the day after he attacked Mrs Tulloch.

Instead, Maxwell went to a police station with his uncle and solicitor and handed himself in. He told officers: "I am given medication for my head and eyes, I don't know why I have been told to take this medication. I have not taken it for two weeks.

"On September 4 I played Grand Theft Auto until late. When I got up I felt a bit unhappy and aggressive. "I went out of the house at about 10am."

"I have a knife with me. I didn't know why I had a knife, I saw a woman, I stabbed her with the knife, I stabbed her three times, there was a lot of blood. After I stabbed the woman I ran home."

Maxwell has since been diagnosed with schizophrenia. Yesterday he was detained indefinitely under the Mental Health Act after pleading guilty to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility.

Paul Jenkins, chief executive of mental health charity Rethink, said: 'While there can be several triggers for mental illness, we know that if used by people under 18, cannabis doubles the risk of psychosis.

Professor John Henry, a clinical toxicologist, said: "People are beginning to realise that cannabis is not the puff and relax substance that people used to use."

Studies show there is an increased instance of schizophrenia in cannabis users, in some people as much as a ten-Marjorie Wallace, Chief Executive of mental health charity SANE, said: "This has all the hallmarks of similar stories where a paranoid schizophrenic has not taken medication but has used cannabis.

"Cannabis, especially skunk, can act as a trigger to psychotic relapse in which someone may lose touch with reality and become a serious risk to himself and others.

"We expect the inquiry into this case will reveal the same faultlines underlying many of the 55 homicides involving mental illness each year."

Mrs Tulloch, a receptionist, was married to Prince, 42, and had two adult daughters, Claudia and Andrea, from a previous marriage and a threeyearold granddaughter called Tianna.

Her sister Carol Smith said: "Someone has to take responsibility, how can he commit a crime like that and no one is responsible?

"There need to be regular check-ups for people like him."
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Ok, so the kid smokes some bud while playing GTA, then goes to sleep. The NEXT day wakes up, hears some voices and goes out to kill someone.

How can this possibly be blamed on bud? He's a schizophrenic! This article is nothing but blatant anti-drug propaganda, pure and simple.

Wednesday, April 04, 2007

Portland2Oroville2Santa Cruz2Sacramento2Oroville2Portland=1686miles

Had a great time down in California, though I am glad to be home now. Went and saw my Santa Cruz peeps, they all seem to be doing good. Had some mushies with Stuff and Jess in Sacramento, that was awesome!


Parking in the fire lane at a Wolf Creek gas station, oooh I'm a rebel!


She gets loopy after driving for 5 or more hours


RyGizzle, doin' what he does best!


Ryan, Chuck, and Steph checkin' out West Cliff in Santa Cruz


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