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....This Dude Would Now Be Dead!

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So, I'm beginning to think that blogging has become the way I exhibit my menses because it only seems like once a month that I get the urge to share my flow of randomness onto the unsuspecting masses, which I'm sure by now means all two of you who check in to see if I've updated or not. Either way, I've been trying to dig myself out of what can only really be described as personal doldrums.  I

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Well, lookee here...   I'm back. I really wasn't feeling the urge to blog lately, and it isn't like there hasn't been a lot to report or anything like.  My dedication with blogging went downhill as my addiction to Facebook began to rise, and I guess I was just more enamored with the instant gratification of the status update instead of the writer's block of blogging. All of this changed this

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The first four months of the year I totally kicked ass in the fitness department.   I was easily reaching my goal of physical activity on 50% of the days, and I was happily weighing myself on my Wii Fit every morning.  While the weight wasn't going down as quickly as I would have liked, my  body was shifting and my firming up again.  I was in a pretty good place. Then May hit, and I don't know

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Anyone who knows me knows that I love to bake. The trouble with being so busy is that my will to bake anything (not to mention the time to do it) has been pretty damn low. Thankfully, today I've been able to dust off the cobwebs, and I am going whole hog on the baking. The impetus for this is a 4 way birthday party I am going to tonight. I've made some things for it in the past, so I was asked

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I know that the majority of the country is dealing with rain, but I'm going to add my rant to the blogosphere. I am so tired of rain. I literally think it is driving me crazy. The fact that we managed to have a mostly clear day on Saturday for Pride is a minor miracle in itself. Argh! Between snow in the winter and rain in the spring and summer, I'm about ready to throw in the towel and move

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Well, *ahem* hello to all the two readers that are still coming to my never updated blog. :-) It has truly been a crazy busy time for me, but with Circle City IN Pride finally behind me, I will definitely be able to blog more often, even though July is typically a crazy ass time for me at work. All in all, Circle City IN Pride was pretty amazing. We had above average crowds throughout the week

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I know. I've been a horrible blogger lately, but between work, Circle City IN Pride planning, AND my cable not working at home, I just haven't had the time. I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. When June 15th rolls around, I will finally be back to a semi-normal schedule. I promise to blog more after that :-) If you want to check out what I've been working on, go to http://

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So this week has just been one of those weeks where I've not wanted to do anything, and indeed, I haven't. I've spent much of my non-working time on the couch, and considering that I've been without cable for over a week now, it is kind of surprising I haven't gone out of my freaking mind! Thankfully, I had some DVDs that I hadn't watched yet, namely Caprica, the new show in the Battlestar

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Actually, maybe we should weep for my lack of cable. Anyone who has ever read this blog knows that I am a MAJOR TV junky. Last Wednesday, when I got home from work, I turned on my husband (my new 40in LCD), only to give me a blank stare. Unfortunately, the weekend was so packed with activities, I just couldn't make the time for the cable guy to come out. I could have had him out yesterday,

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I was planning on writing this yesterday, but I got busy at work. Then I got home and my cable is out, which possibly means no internet or cable ALL weekend. I might die... Anyway, so Kris Allen has won American Idol, and the wailing of the gays has begun. I really do not understand why, every time a gay loses something, it has to be because he's gay? Speaking as a gay guy, there were very

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I had every intention of posting yesterday (just like I had every intention of working, too), but I woke up still exhausted from the weekend. I have to say I use the term exhaustion pretty interchangeably with sleepy, but yesterday, I think I truly knew what being exhausted meant. This past weekend was very busy. Friday at work was crazy, and while I had fully intended to try to stay in on

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I will be 34 years old at 7:17 pm on Sunday, May 17th. I don't really have much of an opinion about this birthday. Frankly, I find it funny that we spend much of our 20s worried about the big 3-0. I have to say I've been happier in my 30s than at any point in my life, and you'd really have to pay me a trillion dollars to even consider going back to my 20s. I want to shout out to my readers.

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Frequent visitors to this blog know that I complain about being busy. Well, I wouldn't exactly say complain, because I generally enjoy what I'm doing, but it certainly is a theme in most of my blog posts. Anyway, this has been a crazy week on many levels. I've been busy at work with report deadlines, there have been two Pride meetings this week (one Board and one Organizational Committee),

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I make no bones about the fact that I'm a control freak, which is pretty problematic when I am put in charge of something, especially when it has to do with create endeavors. This year, I am in charge of Publicity for Circle City IN Pride, which is the LGBT Pride celebration for Indianapolis and the surrounding areas. Since I've always felt I have a marketing and PR person buried deep in my

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So, in less than an hour, I get to go in front of 15-20 City of Indianapolis bureaucrats to talk about my plans to shut down a portion of Mass Ave so that Indy Pride can hold its annual tricycle race. The fact that I am doing this a little over a week and a half before the event is supposed to be held is only mildly irritating (okay, strike that, I'm trying to remain calm). Everyone says they

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To say this was a busy weekend is probably the understatement of the century. While I did spend a lot of the afternoon on Saturday and Sunday trying to just relax and enjoy the weather, which was finally not resembling the Amazon rain forest, post-work Friday and Saturday evening more than made up for any level of pseudo-relaxation. I've been going to karaoke at the Metro for well over 12

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I've started two blogs each morning of the last two days, and both days, I've been prevented finishing them. It is kind of ironic that both of them were about how busy I've been lately, and how I made my calendar out for May and almost wept. Ah well... I vow to finish this one today. So, anyone who knows me knows I've been on a fitness kick lately, which is due mainly to the fact that I got

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Kind of too busy to blog :-) Sorry, folks. I did go on a 32 mile, 2.5 hour bike ride yesterday, and it was glorious! Today I am trying to work while it is going to be 82 and sunny, which will be the first time in a long time it has been like this. The weekend is going to be rather busy. I'm meeting with my girls to go watch some firemen. Hopefully, I get to see a pack of the model hot ones.

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For those of you that don't know, Indianapolis is a pretty desirable place for conventions. We have a large convention center attached to a stadium (well, not at the moment, but more on that soon), and a large number of our hotels are connected to the convention center and Circle Centre Mall by covered walk way. So, even if you have to suffer through bad weather, it isn't like you have to go

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As promised, the second part of my weekend fantasia, which ended up being way too much drag, but it is not like it wasn't entertaining. After being an extremely good boy on Saturday night and getting into bed around midnight, I got a good night's sleep. My goal in the morning was to find DVD-RW that work in my father's video recorder so I could record the Indy Pride Bag Ladies Country & Gospel

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So this was a very busy weekend (I know, when have I actually reported a NOT busy weekend).  I left work a bit early on Friday so I could run some errands: hair cut, tan, and a little shopping.  Friday was a pretty quiet day, so I didn't really feel that badly about leaving early.  Plus, I had had a busy first bit of the month, so I felt I was due. By the time I got back downtown, I had a little

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Life working in a Not-For-Profit can be a wild experience, especially if you've only ever worked in for-profit endeavors.  The way I run my daily job is to pretty much pretend I have no budget, which is not too far from the truth, but that makes it pretty difficult to be Director of IT.  As you can imagine, my job goes way beyond maintaining the network and desktop computers. I have to deal with

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I actually started this yesterday, and since I didn't get it done, I want to finish it up and get it out the door.  I may post again today, because I have a pooh story to share. Anyway, what I want to talk about is TV. Anyone who read this blog before knows that I am a massive TV junky, and while I could sit and lament my dearly departed Battlestar Galactica, I want to talk about a couple shows

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...always get me down? Eh, not so much really, because I actually have today off. I'm not sure who made the decision at work to give us the Monday after Easter (or Easter Monday for you Canadians..at least according to my Tolkien calendar), but as much as I would have preferred to have Good Friday off, I'm kind of liking this change up. The weekend was a bit of a cluster f$%^. I met up with

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