Twitter...

So, I signed up for a Twitter account yesterday. I've been messing with it today. It's strange to think that someone might want to know all of the mundane activities of my life... I woke up. I took a shower. I went to work. Blah, blah, blah. In reality, I don't think anyone does. And I don't really care. There's something strangely satisfying by updating it. I dunno... it's like, I feel like my life will not be forgotten this way. Like everything I do isn't just a dream because I can go back and look at it, and possibly even remember this day.

Anyway, I added a Twitter feed to my blog to the right. Or, you can add me using my sixy.com email address if you sign up for Twitter.

I'm also debating on a website redesign, moving the blog portion of my website to blogger hosted so that I can use the Blogger Layout feature. My impression is that it works like iGoogle. Apparently I can continue to keep my domain by creating a cname record for it... I'll probably use blog.sixy.com.

Potpourri

I'm just going to ramble for this one covering various topics.

It's nearly Thanksgiving. Jenny, my mom, James, Ariel, John, and Jennifer were going to come over for Thanksgiving, but on Friday instead of Thursday. I'm not sure if that's still going to happen due to some health issues with my grandmother. Jenny, myself, and Ariel may go to WV instead for the weekend. I need to find out what's going on at work, and if I can either skip work Friday and just be on call, or maybe work until noon or something... and that it's okay that Ariel go with us. I dunno yet... I haven't really decided, and I really need to feel out how things are going.

I had a good time last night... John and Jennifer called me to invite me to go to dinner with them, and then a movie. We went and watched the new Bond movie, which was my first ever Bond movie. It was.... mediocre, but for free, I can't really complain. Jennifer's sister works for the company or something, and apparently everyone there knows her, so she can get us in for free, which is awesome.

While I'm on the subject of movies, Darren Aronofsky has a new movie coming out in January, The Wrestler. It looks depressing, which I always seem to enjoy. :P

If anyone caught the UFC 91 that was on last weekend, it was one of the best UFC's in a long time. Only one fight, which was a preliminary fight, went to decision, and it won fight of the night because it was so exciting. It was a excellent PPV. I'm also excited that Affliction has another event in January with Fedor vs Arlovski. This should be a very exciting fight, but I anticipate Fedor's victory via knockout. It's a good superfight though with two excellent fighters.

I'm cleaning the house today. It's quite fun. And I'll be taking some more stuff to Goodwill tomorrow, and probably stopping to see if someone can put rear brakes on my car.

Also, since I wasn't out of town this week, I started going to the gym again every day. I feel sooooo good now that I'm going back. I'm so much less stressed.

And I think 24 comes on tomorrow evening. I haven't seen it since Season 3, but I used to like it okay. You just have to kinda suspend belief in reality for a little bit. :-P

Like I said, random thoughts... at least they're coherent though, not like when I'm depressed and everything's all a jumbled, unintelligible mess of words.

Woot.

Fenton Glass Part 2

Here are the vases I spent too much money on...

Jefferson, WV featured on the Daily Show

Brian found the old video I'd captured where Stephen Colbert from the Daily Show came to WV. So, naturally, I uploaded it to YouTube.

Fenton Glass Factory

Although I grew up in WV, I'd never gone and visited the Fenton Glass Factory, so I took the opportunity to go since I had a day off. My mom and I drove about 90 minutes up to Williamstown, WV, and went on a tour of the factory. It was a fairly short tour where we watched them blow glass, add handles, break glass, it was kind of neat. Then we saw where the artists designed and painted pieces.

Here are some pictures! I'll post more of the vases I bought when I get home and get them unpacked.

Vista Returns...

I recently put Vista back on my laptop. I had issues getting all of the hardware configured and working like my webcam, memory card reader, and even the volume control. It just wasn't working out, so Vista makes a return.

I'm a big proponent of free and open source software, so I thought I'd share the list of software that I have recently reinstalled and recommend.

Internet Apps
Web browser: Firefox
Email: Thunderbird
FTP: FileZilla
IM: Pidgin
BitTorrent: µTorrent

Multimedia Apps
MP3 Player: Winamp
Video Player: VLC
Photo Manager: Picasa
Photo Editor: GIMP

Other Apps
ZIP/Unzip: 7-Zip
Office Suite: Openoffice.org
Text/HTML Editor: PSPad
Encryption: TrueCrypt