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Been away from LJ for a while, I didn't jump ship for Myspace(but I do have an account there). I was laid off at the end of October 2004, not long after my last post. I used to login from work for time to time to check things. Well anyway. I worked as a contractor, worked for Bright House(again) and finally have settle working at the American Cancer Society, pretty much doing the same IT stuff I did at the lawfirm, except I am on a team of 4 with a boss who is technical directly over us. I work with a good friend and 2 fairly dynamic people(which is good). Other then that I graduated from HCC with my AA and now I am working towards my BA in Anthropology at USF. Work and School keep me busy, but I also got involed in the Kendo Club on campus, and of course Family and Friends take up the rest of my time. Life is, if nothing else, busy. I love and miss you all, in a totally non-gay way..:-P
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Well its been a while since I have made any really significant updates so I figured I would do so now:
Reunion:
Over this past weekend was my 10 year High School reunion. Yes 10 years have passed. It was amazing fun. All the classmates I met were great. Everyone seems to be doing okay. Some of my classmates have met amazing women and are doing some of the most amazing things. One of the guys is writing and directing plays off broadway in manhattan, and another is a producer for shows like "last comic standing" which we both shed a tear for. But he is moving in to other equally exciting projects. I drank heavily, I was buzzed just enough to be REALLY relaxed with everyone and insanely honest about things, the funny twist I have found when one is insanely honest is when I find out how un-alone one is. A lot of guy B.S. stuff.....but funny none the less.
After the Reunion a few of us, Tom, Anthony, Tino, Kevin, and their respective wifes (except for Tino and Me)went to the cheesecake factory. Where we had good conversation and hung out. It was great to have the gang somewhat back together. I only wish more could have made it but I understand their prior-commitments. I suppose there is always the 20th year reunion.
Brothers:
If you didn't know this me and my brother Jason live together, he and I also have made some plans to purchase another place together sometime soon (I hope) anyway, I have noticed as of late that I really enjoy sitting and watching TV with him. He is typically fairly reserved and I am usually a bit too loud, and we usually have way to many people over, but there have been a few times in the last couple of days when it was just him and I. Like last night watching the Bucs game (more on that crap later), it was really comforting. We shared some of the same jokes and comments. It was very peaceful, and for someone like me who tends to overcomplicate things, it was simple. I appreciate it.
Bucs:
Well this season hasn't gone the way we would have hoped and I guess its kinda made even worse because the Bucs don't seem to have players that I care to root for. I mean I miss John Lynch and The Arron Stecker. I miss Warren Sapp, because he was goofy to watch. I miss seeing a fired up Derek Brooks (who I feel is being crushed by being the last "Old Leader"). I wish we stuck it out longer with Johnson I think there could have been some good things, but I know he doesn't fit in Gruden's plans. 1 and 5 just 2 years off the super bowl win.
Who did we beat then, oh yeah the Raiders, who did we get most of our off-season aquisitions from, oh yeah the Raiders, huh, imagine that we don't play that well together........
I will say Michael Clayton kicks A$$ I only hope he isn't soured by his expierence here with the Bucs, like poor Peter Warrick was with the Bangles.
Money:
SO my mom calls me last night and says my Grandmother gave her 10,000 dollars and she wants to give me, Jason, and Adam a 1000 each to do with as we please. As much as I would like to have a lot of fun with it, I owe Jason 300 and my remaining dental work will cost me 640. So that eats it up a lot. BUT it will be nice to have all that covered and the rest of my money free. So YAY!!!
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Okay Be well all... |
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Oct. 6th, 2004 @ 09:34 am
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Rest in Peace, Rodney, You made me laugh everytime I saw ya, I regret I never got to see you in person.
May you find the Respect you were looking for...... |
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For some reason a few people have made plans for NOVEMBER 19th....now its exceptionally busy day,
Piratefest starts on Nov 19th www.piratefair.com
friends wedding also on the 19th.....
KUMATE a open martial arts fighting thing that the roomates went to a while back, well the heavyweights are gonna battle out on the 19th. I was thinking of going but now guess not.
all this before Thanskgiving......gonna be giving thanks for having less to do.....:-P |
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Some quotes I wanted to rememeber
Heaven is where the police are British, the cooks are French, the mechanics German, the lovers Italian and it's all organised by the Swiss. Hell is where the chefs are British, the mechanics French, the lover's Swiss, the police German and it's all organised by the Italians.
-- Eliane Kirchner
You say that I have no power? Perhaps you speak truly, but you say that Dreams have no power here? Tell me -- what power would hell have if those here imprisoned were not able to dream of heaven?
-- Morpheus
Still no pics from dragon*Con up because I am a lazy bum....
Soon Soon Soon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sep. 13th, 2004 @ 05:02 pm
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Well back from Dragon Con
Had a blast,
Will post some pictures on the old Pirates Cove site.
Met leeannslytherin hung out with my brother jasonjm20 and the roomate and my friends Ryan, Jen, Mike, and Niel.
I will probably go back next year. Just gonna try to spread out the expense, hotel, air-fair, and con-badge.
Take care all...
Mike
Sep. 7th, 2004 @ 10:48 am
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I applied for graduation from HCC yesturday, I am sure there is something that has been screwed up so I won't be able to pull it off until Spring, but it felt good to go over everything with an advisor and here her go, well I think your gonna be alright.
Then its off to USF.....YAY!!!!
Aug. 24th, 2004 @ 09:49 am
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Stolen from the guy over at Angst
# Weightlifting commentator at the women's Olympic Snatch and Jerk Event: "This is Gregoriava from Bulgaria. I saw her snatch this morning during her warm up, and it was amazing."
# Ted Walsh - Horse Racing Commentator: "This is really a lovely horse, and I speak from personal experience, since I once mounted her mother."
# Grand Prix Race Announcer: "The lead car is absolutely, truly unique, except for the one behind it which is exactly identical to the one in front of the similar one in back."
# Greg Norman, Pro Golfer: "I owe a lot to my parents, especially my mother and father."
# Ringside Boxing Analyst: "Sure there have been injuries and even some deaths in boxing - but none of them really that serious."
# Baseball announcer: "If history repeats itself, I should think we can expect the same thing again."
# Basketball analyst: "He dribbles a lot and the opposition doesn't like it. In fact you can see it all over their faces."
# At a trophy ceremony BBC TV Boat Race 1988: "Ah, isn't that nice, the wife of the Cambridge president is hugging the cox of the Oxford crew."
# Metro Radio, College Football: "Julian Dicks is everywhere. It's like they've got eleven Dicks on the field."
# US Open TV Commentator: "One of the reasons Arnie Palmer is playing so well is that before each final round, his wife takes out his balls and kisses them. Oh, my God, what have I just said?!"
Aug. 18th, 2004 @ 10:22 am
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BUT
I enjoyed the Aliens Vs. Predator movie. It had a good amount of action and the story while cheesy/campy was pretty interesting.
I mean its Aliens Vs. Predator.........I wasn't expecting oscar winning material..I just wanted to be entertained.....I imagine the directors cut will probably be pretty sweet........
I love dem critters......
**SCHOOL UPDATE**
I think I might have managed to pull an "A" in my ASL 1 class...if I did I will be very happy.....
**WORK UPDATE**
Gamestop wants me to come back, but my brother thinks I would be an idiot to go work for 5.50 an hour....why can't I say no....would be kewl to check out games again tho....
Aug. 17th, 2004 @ 12:25 pm
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I was born.....heheh imagine that....
Well here I am turning 28......wow.....first birthday that I have spent at work in a really long time. I wanted to take it off but I NEEDED to get this server problem resolve. Beauty of it is I have managed to get most of it resolved....YAY
Other side of the coin
Went to the dive shop with Dave, getting excited about our upcoming shark tooth dive.....were gonna try to collect......shark teeth.....straight outta the horse's mouth....errr sharks mouth...:P
As a whole not a bad birthday......cannot believe I am turning 28 but its all good...I haven't made a lot of head way in the relationship game, but I have some really great friends whom seem to like me, and a wonderful family, what more can a man really ask for.........well maybe a ship...:P.....I am working on it....:)
Gonna try to get some sun this weekend. I could use a tan bad.......
FRIDAY!!!!!!!!!!! AVP.......aliens vs predator.......the movie event of a lifetime..........
Oh BTW saw the village really disappointing.....just kinda felt blah about it.....wanted so much more......
Okay....>AVP<.....go see it......lets make it the movie that knocks off titanic..:P....wouldn't that be a hoot......
Aug. 11th, 2004 @ 02:44 pm
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Help me get a free ipod and then stay around and get one for yourself:
http://www.freeipods.com/default.aspx?referer=7197932
Aug. 3rd, 2004 @ 04:51 pm
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***WRITTEN WHILE I WAS A PINT LOW(GAVE BLOOD THIS MORNING)***
Well JE never called me last night, for all I know she was at the Dave Matthews concert with some bloke.
I would like to think things will work out for us in time. In a dream once I met a woman who I thought of as my wife. In that dream the woman looked a lot like JE. That was several years ago. Then I wen to JE's wedding so that kinda killed all that. Then I heard she was divorced. Then I heard she was living with some guy. Then I ran into her at School.......What a twist of fate that is.....perhaps I needed to just relax, things have a way of working out.....in time and never the way you expect.
She isn't ready for that serious of a relationship, and you know I don't think I am either. Although it would be nice.
So I am gonna trudge on, take one new day at a time. Work on continuing to be the best Michael that I can be. One foot in front of the other. What will happen will happen, even if I want it faster........I need not worry about the path, heaven knows the way.
Jul. 30th, 2004 @ 02:11 pm
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Not much of an update. Been a pretty "blah" week. Managed to get my car back to progressive to get some minor things cleaned up. I also managed to make it to one of the Deaf dinners at the Westshore mall.
But on a damn is mike stupid note. I have been overly dramatic about JE. I mean lets accept somethings here, I am crazy about her. If any of you all didn't realize this before then ya might want to get your empathy motors tuned up. My friend Kevin even went so far as to point out that before I was never happy, just okay. But since I started seeing JE I actually was happy. So that build up a lot of pressure. Now lets go overboard because well thats what I am good at.
Betrayal, JE asked me once what I thought my biggest flaw was. This is it, I fear betrayal, and I always think I am going to be betrayed. I dis-trust so many people around me always worried about their own agenda. I have a pretty good idea where this stems from, but I haven't managed to reign it in.
Emotion, I am a friggin emotional roller-coster, who isn't, but mine carries a lot of Drama. My shield for this in relationships in the past has been, fail me once, then I sever ties. Well JE has failed countless times, not in the future sense but in the present, but I found that I didn't want to sever the ties, why the heck is that. I just don't want to walk away from her.
Freedom, I might need to just let her go......besides I don't think she feels the same way about me as I do her. Freedom also stands for myself, I am so suppressed sometimes it drives me mad. I know it has to be because I am so overwhelmingly attracted to her, while all the while I cannot imagine myself with someone so lovely.
So this is the Drama that I am carring and I have force on to her. How unfair is that........She told me once that she wished she had held off on dating me......I am sure I have made her regret not waiting......all I seem to be doing is making things worse......God help me.....
Jul. 29th, 2004 @ 04:31 pm
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Well my relationship with Julie took a cruddy turn. I am not sure I can weather this storm and come out to the fair skys I was hoping for. We had a good dinner thursday night, I called her Friday left a message, I called her Saturday, left a message. Decided I might be coming on to strong, so I haven't called since. Sadly niether has she.....:(
But today I found two quotes that I liked one came from the nicest partner in our office, if not the nicest attorney, "Life to the fullest, nothing held back, give it all in everything" and the one in th papers answer to yesturday's cryptoquote, "He who is firm and resolute in will molds the world to himself." - Johann Von Goethe
So maybe its time I let the pirate in me take over, maybe its time I freed the caged lion that is my heart, maybe its time for this phoenix to burn, burn in the fires of his own passion........Maybe......Nothing Held Back........My Will...........
Jul. 27th, 2004 @ 03:35 pm
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Help me get a free Ipod and you should get one tooo....
http://www.freeiPods.com/default.aspx?referer=7197932
Jul. 20th, 2004 @ 02:16 pm
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Friday, Hung out with the Goodmans, Doug, and My brother for a bit.
Went home, had the gang over for some gaming.
Saturday, woke up early feeling a bit restless. Went and played raquetball with D-rock and Ryan. I lost, badly, broke my racket too....and sprained my ankle.
Saturday night, wanted some guidance so I went to Church, the readings applied, the Homily did to, but I still felt hard to console, Went by the parent's on my way home, Mom's are always good for the ego, but then they are Mom's. Went and saw I, Robot with Tom, his wife, Brit, Kevin, and his wife, Melissa. It was good, we went to the Tampa Ale House afterwards, nice place, we talked a bit. Mostly they wanted to know about JE.
Sunday, Went to JE's house to study. We decided to take her son to a McDonalds with an inside playground for him (he is almost 3), however the McDonalds had gotten rid of the playground and replaced it with video games and tv's, now I am a big fan of Video games, however, it stinks for the little guys, he is at that age where its fun to crawl through the tubes and go down the slides. Heck its still fun I am just way over the hieght/wieght limit of most of those places. So we drove around so he could sleep, we looked at Houses, townhouses, and a few duplexes, both her and I are craving our own home, not together, mind you.
Eventually we got back to her place, set up the lad with some videos and then got to studying. Studyied most of what we needed to go over. Then we broke for Dinner and that was all she wrote.
All in all it was a nice day together, I think I might have violated too much of her personal space. I am so pensive when I am around her? Anyone know why the heck that is? I mean I know I like her? That much is obvious. But why can't I just relax more?
Is it just me or is my friggin blog just full of moppey S#@%
Funny thing I think I remmeber teasing someone else about stuff like this.
Jul. 19th, 2004 @ 11:16 am
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Questions
1. Who are you?
2. In one or two words, how would you define your relationship with me (or just how you know me)?
3. If you could give me one piece of advice, what would it be?
4. My three best and three worst characteristics?
5. What historical personality or mythological character do I resemble?
6. I should wear more (fill in the blank)...
7. My personality= earth, fire, air, or water? Why?
8. In your opinion, the ideal profession for me would be?
9. Memory of me that stands out?
10. If you didn't know anything about my religious beliefs, what religion (or spiritual path, etc. what have you) would you think I'd be?
11. Something random that reminds you of me?
12. If you had to give me a sobriquet, what would it be? (A sobriquet is a descriptive that follows someone's name, ex. Catherine the Great, Ivan the Terrible, Jess the Gypsy, Mary the Big-Bosomed, etc.)
13. Just knowing my personality, what subculture (if any) would you put me in?
14. If you had to plop me in a historical period, which one?
15. What animal would I be and why?
16. Will you put this up in your journal to see what I say?
Jul. 16th, 2004 @ 03:22 pm
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