travis' brain dump

ok, so let’s see here…. in trying to stay awake I have just consumed a jumbo honey bun in 0.3 seconds, reinstalled my work computer and i’m about to down a couple of cokes…  or perhaps a combination of coke and mountain dew… i’m seriously nodding off at my desk here folks. mmmm… cheeto’s flamin hot limo.

this is what I feel like right now, minus the riced out car, horrendous hat and bling. Still a retardedly funny picture however. 🙂 

So why am I so cracked out? try being up for 29 hours with 1.5 hours sleep in the middle of it. It’ll get you messed up man. *sniff* Actually, 10 years ago, I could stay up for a couple days if I needed to… now it’s a struggle to stay up 16-18 hours so 29 is just unfathomable. LOL

Ugh… I’m so not going to the gym today … I might dare to mow the lawn though. We’ll see. It truly depends on how I’m doing once I get home and maybe sneak in a small nap. *shrug* we shall see.

Anyway, I’m starting to nod off typing this so I need to go find something else to do…

Can I just say how glad I am this week is coming to a close? It’s honestly been probably one of the longest, roughest weeks I’ve had in a long time. I’m not going to complain about individual items because that’s pointless whiney nonsense but yeesh, I hope next week isn’t anything remotely close to this one.

I turned 29 this week… and that’s all I have to say about that… *sigh* the countdown to the big three-oh has begun.

Got a start on the family room remodel which will be the final piece in completing the entire downstairs. Pictures are going to come shortly and there will be a constant blog of the progress since this one is going to be so much fun. (hint of sarcasm with a side order of mild excitement) It should be pretty interesting though. Putting a real ceiling into the room instead of that crappy drop ceiling nonsense, widening up the stairway going down there by at least a foot if not more, installing a gas fireplace, expanding the jacket closet on the living room floor (it’s tied into the family room oddly), streamlining the hallway and laundry room, installing a swinging bookcase, a pocket door on the bathroom… the list keeps going. It’s definitely going to be a fun storyboard of pictures and to add to the mix of things, the goal is completion by August. How’s that for pressure?

Did I mention how glad I am tomorrow is Saturday? I’m turning off every phone, turning off the doorbell and if you beat on my door you *WILL* get the business end of the weapon closest to me when I come stumbling out of my room in your face. I am looking forward to sleeping in and if it is disturbed people *WILL DIE*! Hopefully I’ll get some time to do something relaxing this weekend. We shall see.

I want to take a nap at work but I know how uncomfortable that would actually be. I have no desire to wake up with either my head stuck to my desk in a puddle of drool or have my contacts dry out and stick to my eyeballs (which happens when I sleep with them in *shudder*)

6.5 hours to go. *bangs head on desk* hmmm well I guess I better get back to work. I have so much to get done today. This whole week has been one giant game of catch-up. heh… there goes the MPLS link here at work… bye bye cities… 🙂

I know Andy will thank me profusely for finally doing this. LOL

After all the hard work we put into lifting his truck a couple weekends ago and no love from my blogsite I’m just waiting for the gentle nudge in the comments on here and the phone conversations to turn ugly fast. hehe jk, Andy’s just excited his ride is finally done. For the record Andy, the other post wasn’t so much more noteworthy, but it required less pictures to be uploaded to the site. I not only had to upload these to the gallery, but then drop them into the blog… After we completed the first round upgrades, there was no where to go but up, literally.

For the record, after we finished this project I was wiped out for three days… literally. We started on Friday at about noon-thirty and ended at about six hours later. I was so wrecked I went to bed at 9:30 that night (record I think) and despite having gotten almost 10-11 hours of sleep still found a way to pass out on the couch for a few hours on Saturday without it harming my normal sleep routine Saturday night.

For more photos of this, please look in my gallery, i’m not spamming my whole blog with this. -> Lazy Shortcut <-

Here’s where we left off:

We took a little comparison photo first off. This is Arwen’s bike next to the truck… not to impressive. 🙂

We started in the rear and worked our way forward… when all was said and done, this is what we ended up with. A thing of beauty. 🙂

By far one of the coolest mods to roll away from my garage. I’d have to say next to the turbo-charging of the Corolla, this one is my favorite. 🙂

horrified or appalled, maybe a bit of both…

So I discovered today through a link (http://music.msn.com/music/blockwatch?GT1=7702) passed to me by Artificial that the New Kids on the Block are reuniting for new album work and a tour… c`mon guys, you’re what… almost 40 now? That’s a little old to be reviving the “boy band image” don’t you think? I mean seriously guys, you should have teenagers of your own that are out making music or something.

Sorry folks, I think about as highly of NKOTB now as I did when I was 11. I didn’t like their music then, and I’m certainly bothered that somehow exposure will happen again.

On a funny note… I’m humored by one of the promotional photos. It reminds me of a police lineup. hehe