Did I Mention That I'm Hungover?

So...

2008-05-16T02:07:39Z

Well, I'm moving back to Portland here in a couple days, and I have a bit of a conundrum. Well, not a conundrum really, but I'm going to be homeless. I am looking for a place, so if anybody knows anyone who is looking for a place or a roommate, get in touch. I'd prefer to not crash on my parents' futon for too long.

Damn, it's been a while

2008-02-28T20:47:42Z

Awesome, it's been well over a year since I've updated my livejournal. I feel proud. Anyways, quick update for those of you who haven't heard from me since. My story left off with me working at Qmedtrix Systems, doing machine learning algorithm implementation for automated medical bill classification and fraud detection. Fun, interesting stuff. Well, about May I believe of last year, I was laid off from Qmedtrix, and spent about a month and a half unemployed. That was good and fun, let me tell you what. Well, after that, around mid July or somesuch, I got a job working for a company called Bio Optics International. They make opthalmic and optometric microscopes. I design new microscopes. This involves a lot of MacGuyvering of miscellaneous parts to make a prototype of a $20,000 instrument. Also, it has involved learning a new programming language/environment (Pascal/Delphi). Which is a fun situation in and of itself. They moved me out to Florida 'for the winter'. This for the winter as it was told to me is now quickly becoming, 'ad nauseum'. So, I'm stuck here in Florida as the days get hotter and hotter and my time away from my friends and family gets longer and longer. I miss Portland every damn day here, and just want to get back. Unfortunately, I'm in that wonderful position where I don't have enough money to just leave and not have to worry about it if they fire me. So, I stay, and my excitement for the possibility of stock options in the company has been pretty much completely drowned by my loathing of Florida.

As far as personal life goes, since I'm in Florida I don't get to see my friends. I'm still single as always. Ummm... Beer is the one friend I get to see regularly out here.

On the bright side of the whole Florida thing, I at least get to go back to Portland for my birthday, which is only a week and a half away. So that's nice. Also, I am getting pretty close to just saying, "Fuck it, I'm out," and damning the consequences. I'll stick with it for a bit longer at least though, as just after I get back here from Portland my dad's going to come out and visit for a few days. So yeah, if anybody's around Portland on March 9th and wants to come chill with me for my 25th (that's right a quarter century. ah, yeah), give me a call or drop me a line. I'll fill you in on the plans.

More has happened in the last year plus, I'm sure. Unfortunately, I need to get back to work now. Perhaps there will be more common updates. You never really know with me.

rob_lad @ 2006-11-30T04:12:00

2006-11-30T12:12:03Z

for anyone local that reads this, my phone is currently MIA... so, at least for a couple days, email and/or AIM will be pretty much the only way to get in touch with me...

AIM: psynexus6
EMAIL: rob.dayreynolds@gmail.com

oh, and my hand is mostly healed at this point, which is a pleasant surprise as far as i'm concerned, as i thought that it would take another month or so to heal this much...

rob_lad @ 2006-11-18T08:43:00

2006-11-18T16:43:21Z

i'm going to go watch the ducks (hopefully) beat up on the arizona wildcats in a football game...

sweet.

i suck

2006-11-12T12:26:03Z

i really don't like myself right now...

i always want to help my friends, but it recently seems like when i try to help, i tend to do more harm than help... this is a fairly recent (at least i hope it's recent) development that i i really dislike. and of course since it's me, it makes me hate me.

rob_lad @ 2006-11-04T11:15:00

2006-11-04T19:15:45Z

please feel free to offer feedback on my poetry (sarah and liz, i'm especially hoping for constructive criticism from at least the two of you - though if you really don't like it, please e-mail me so that my shame is more private).

i haven't written any poetry in years, but i'm interested in what people who regularly speak and write in english, rather than math and computer-geek-speak, think of my angsty high school poetry.

if people somehow like my angsty high school poetry though, i recently found the notebook with all of my equally angsty shakespearean-style sonnets that i wrote in high school, so i can post some of those... sometimes i miss being the person that i was in high school, when i cared about shit so much more and always looked at the future as years full of wonderful possible paths that i could explore, rather than a few niches that i could try to fill.

i still often miss being as naive as i used to be, and i always wish that i still believed in love the way that i used to.

from when i believed in true, pure love

2006-11-04T18:47:27Z

When I'm near you,
It seems as if I'm partaking of the forbidden fruit;
Disobeying some unwritten, but very real law.
One wouldn't thank that any earthly thing
Could make me experience the emotions you cause,
But every time you're near,
It seems as though I'm being blessed by something celestial.
My body starts to melt into nothingness,
As my consciousness blends with my celestial being,
Allowing me tosee the greater meaning in everything.
In short, you help me reach a higher plane.
Without you, I'm nothing.
With you, I'm everything.

rob_lad @ 2006-10-31T23:03:00

2006-11-01T07:03:12Z

so, total sweetness on the hand front... looks like i may be able to get by without surgery. went and got a second opinion, and the doctor basically just grabbed my hand and popped the bone back straight and put a special splint on it. totally sweet. though hopefully i'll still get some pain medication, since it hurts like hell. but yes, hopefully no surgery.

10-29-06_1352

2006-10-29T22:02:58Z

10-29-06_1352
Originally uploaded by rob_lad.

here's a picture of my x-ray... in the next couple days, i'll go get some titanium rods shoved into my hand to hold the bone in place...

rob_lad @ 2006-10-28T09:44:00

2006-10-28T16:48:07Z

so, i know i don't post much, but just in case people are interested, i broke my first bone a few hours ago... got pissed off and was stupid and punched a wall. got what is apparently called a boxer's fracture... snapped the bone for my pinky that is in my palm. hopefully, i will soon be able to post the scan of the x-ray. fun and excitement.

i hate me.

Rock Show at Sabala's tonight

2006-08-03T00:04:26Z

So, I know this is last-minute and all that, but Live Wrong is throwing a fundraiser rock show at Sabala's tonight... Doors open at 9 or so, The Shiny Things, Stunt Doubler, Delta Dawgs, and Dirty Pink and the Brownstars will be playing. $5-$10 donation. Good times, good causes.

rob_lad @ 2006-05-30T02:13:00

2006-05-30T09:17:39Z

Wow... Been a while since an update I suppose. High time, eh?

Well, let's see. I'm still working for the same company doing computer programming and algorithm research, though the company is getting bought out, and the work that we've been doing is being spun off into a new smaller company. Thus, the CEO of the company that I work for is sending me to a management training / business major's training program crappiness at the beginning of June. On the bright side, I may also be getting a free trip to Las Vegas at the end of June for a machine learning conference. Also, I will probably be getting a raise, and I should have a job until at least next fall.

Also, I had surgery about three weeks ago, and have been unable to do any of the wonderful summer activities such as riding a bike or going golfing or any such nonsense since then, which has been uncool. I am mostly healed now, and should be able to ride a bike by mid to late June, which will rock.

Hrm. Don't know what else is really going on in my life, it's been rather boring other than that "entertainment". Lots of beer and a fair bit of BBQing with just enough money being spent for me to make no progress on paying of my debt. Rock.

And now, it will probably be another month and a half before I post again, because that's just how I roll. Or something.

rob_lad @ 2006-04-13T16:16:00

2006-04-13T23:16:55Z

ugh... so a couple days ago i badly sprained my toe and tore some ligaments and possibly muscle... now i'm all gimpy, and it sucks. bleh. oh well, guess it's not the worst thing that could have happened. just an annoying thing to happen.

DON HENLEY MUST DIE

2006-04-08T12:57:15Z

See above. ^^^

rob_lad @ 2006-04-08T05:54:00

2006-04-08T12:54:17Z

my job just kept me awake until 6:00 AM... i was up until 4:15 or so being designated driver for people's birthday party, then tried to get to sleep and couldn't sleep because i was thinking about a new algorithm to try for my job.

hey, at least i'm intellectually stimulated by my work, right? :P

bike stuff

2006-03-24T22:50:52Z

so, my bike situation is finally becoming better again (it's funny how a tax return can do that, eh?)... i've got a working bike, frankensteined from my road bike and my old mountain bike... still have a couple changes to make to it, but hopefully, it will be my all around, fendered, racked bike in the next couple days. also, i should soon have a working fixie again, as lennon's old fuji track bike frame + partially complete track bike from craigslist = mostly complete fixie for me. still need to put the finishing touches on it, like a bottom bracket, and cranks... and a chain... and brakes. and handlebars, but still... should be pretty much done with that by some point tonight. rock... bikes are super.

sickness

2006-03-22T22:27:48Z

ugh. so sickness seriously sucks. i woke up at seven o'clock yesterday with serious stomache pains, and then proceeded to lie on the couch for three hours tossing and turning until i finally threw up everything that was in my stomache at about 10... in and out of the bathroom and napping it was all day, and then sleep at about 12... then, wake up at four or so and throw up everything that i ate all day (meaning the seven baby carrots)... fun and exciting. i hate being sick.

rob_lad @ 2006-03-09T00:12:00

2006-03-09T08:08:50Z

it's my birthday!

rob_lad @ 2006-03-03T02:52:00

2006-03-03T10:51:04Z

so yeah... calling friends to see what they're up to early in the night (by early i of course mean 10:30-11:30) and then getting no response throughout the night tends to frustrate me... am i alone in this, or is it a commonly felt frustration?

rob_lad @ 2006-03-01T06:04:00

2006-03-01T14:04:29Z

so, for anyone that knows me and reads this who i don't talk to regularly, my birthday is march 9th, and i am having a hand-rolled sushi night in celebration... so, if you (you refering to the people mentioned earlier in this post) are in or around portland and would like to join in on the joy of the celebration of my birth, drop me a line. it will be rockin'.

rob_lad @ 2006-02-19T14:11:00

2006-02-19T22:11:26Z

so, you know how i had an awesome working bike? well, i don't anymore. it is dead. apparently, when i hit the curb and went over the handlebars the other night, i buckled the bottom tube (down tube), thus making the bike unsafe to ride. so, i now have a mountain bike, which is annoying as fuck to ride and super heavy, and i have a completely worthless $300 bike and nothing to ride around with people. fun and exciting, let me tell you what. fuck it all. i hate this shit.

rob_lad @ 2006-02-13T21:15:00

2006-02-14T05:13:49Z

new tiki! w00t.

www.tikibartv.com

rob_lad @ 2006-02-09T03:33:00

2006-02-09T11:37:09Z

(Isaac and I drunkenly watching "Jesus Christ Supercop")

Me: I love that it's a Nintendo 64.
Isaac: No, it's a Sega Genesis.
Me: No it's not.
Isaac: Oh, you're totally right. It is Nintendo 64.
Me: The Genesis totally had black cartridges.
Isaac: Well, some of them were grey. Steve Madden Football was grey.... Umm...
Me: You mean John McQueen football?
[both of us crack up laughing for a good three minutes.]

If you don't think it's funny, I feel sad for you. And you should try to put yourself in the moment... Because it was quite the instantaneous (sp?) reaction on my part, and it was fuckin' great.

Smarts quiz thingy

2006-01-29T22:13:22Z

I am so smart. S-M-R-T sm- no, wait... S-M-A-R-T smart. Right.

Naturally Smart

You're a naturally smart person. Your intelligence comes to you naturally, rather than from instruction - and you are better with applied or more real-world things... which comes in handy, here in the real world.

20% applied intelligence
100% natural intelligence

Take this quiz at QuizGalaxy.com

rob_lad @ 2006-01-26T16:47:00

2006-01-27T00:47:17Z

I hate it when I get broke enough that I have to take bottles and cans back so that I have cash.

It sucks the major ass.