11/30/2000 02:54:00 AM

Only (certain) AMIGA (software) makes it Possible!

Hello, and welcome to my first ever Amiga-produced-blog. I wrote a whole big one earlier using a different Amiga Browser, "IBrowse", but it erased it without posting it, but it looks like Aweb is working like a charm and I'm blogging up a damn storm. Not alot to report, but this is a momentous occassion for me, to address the nation through the magic of the Amiga, so I have to write SOMETHING.

Something

Since we last spoke, I've been to Perkins with Brent and Lafff and I atemoe than I needed to, because I didn't raelly need to eat anything, so I am now overstuffed. It's an awkward and sad feeling that I am all too accustomed to. I don't want to be touched, I just want to sit back and ride it out. I probably overeat more than most fat people, since there's so much pressure out there in the media and mainstream america (my parents/relatives/friends/relatives of friends) to eat more. Phrases like "You need to put some meat on your bones" hurt and only drive me into the sick cycle of eating like there's no tomorrow in hopes that I willone day fit the fat-american mold. All I can say is I'm trying. I'm eating for you. Happy?

Laff is anice guy and he made a bunch of awesome MOD files a few years ago that welistened to in Brent's car. Laff gets praise because I now know that he actually reads this site once in a while, and I have to keep my constituents happy if I want any repeat offenders. So, if you want any shameless praise, let me know you're out there. Oh, and dude? Your sister is totally hott.

User: Boney

11/29/2000 11:26:00 PM

Dude, your sister is totally hott!

THe above title is the phrase that I'm attempting to beat into the ground tonight, and it's been working pretty well so far. I mean, you'd be surprised how often you can slip that into casual conversation. Well, you wouldn't be surprised at how often I can do it, if you knew me. Anyways, Orlando has been rocking my socks off since I got here, complete with a new haircut thanks to mom. You can see the haircut from a link at brent's blog. You gotta look for it, and try every link. My mom just can't stand to see me walking around looking all shaggy and alternative. Now I can comb my hair forward to look like spock, or just kick it pushed up in front to blend in with corporate america, when I eventually try to get another job. When I had my old job at the patent office I always felt like I was infiltrating some big corporate evil headquarters. I'd walk around looking bewildered and trying not to touch any surfaces with my fingers so i wouldn't leave any prints. I haven't been caught yet, so it must have worked?

I caved.
Whatever the case, I'm in orlando, I played 18-wheeler at Rocky's today, which is a driving game which costs $1, which is pretty far out of my league, but I did it anyways, twice. I think that ever since "Crazy Taxi" won me over to the world of 3-token games, I've gotten soft and I end up spending $4 or more at the arcade without batting an eyelash. I am what's wrong with this great nation. The game was fun, if difficult to control, but I doubt it was worth it. However, now that I have a story to tell, and you've read it, it was very justified.

I can't do it with you watching me
This blog has been hard to do, because I've been writing it with Brent right next to me, observing the whole blog process, which is uncanny. Sure he's usually reading it about 10 minutes after I write them, but not immediately... Its weird. I got the runs. Gotta go.

User: Boney

11/28/2000 01:20:00 PM

Technological Breakthrough!

Through the magic of the internet, I have managed to synthesize the PERFECT FRIEND. This being has all the sass of Kevin McGowan, and the hair of Brent Elliott. What more could you want?

I'm leaving in an hour or two to start making my way to the airport. It sucks that I've started to get excited about making Flash animations and now I'm going to Orlando where the computers just can't do the Flashing. I'll have a good time, that's for certain, and Rocky's will make it alllll better. You can see my laatest flash stuff on various pages of my webstie, there's three of them. Maybe I'll make a contest and whoever finds them all can win a free Reduced Tape. Erm, Reduced Masking Tape Section that is! Bwahhaha! I don't have the time (I'm lying) or resources (lying again) to make a reduced tape for everyone who emails me with the correct locations (zero). But, WHile you're emailing me, you can help me make a christmas list so my parents will know what to buy me. I have no idea what to ask for since I usually buy stuff I want when I want it, which is why my money is leaving me so quickly, which is why jobhunting is just around the corner. Anyways, tell me what YOU want, or what you THINK I want, and that way I'll get some ideas. Your quest begins here.
Thanks!

User: Boney

11/27/2000 02:03:00 PM

B-b-b-back from thanksgiving and fnow I'm freezing. Kevin says it isn't cold enough but I disagree. Sure, I COULD put on some pants, but c'mon, I'm unemployed.

Past:
The trip to Roanoke was fun but it went by really quickly. We spent thanksgiving at Erica's grandparents near Richmond and played Magic with her little cousin and tried to keep him from cheating too much. We traded pokemon with him (on gameboys) but he wasn't being very cooperative, so later that night we snagged his pokemon game and caught ourselves some choice pokemon that we can't get in our version. Sometimes you have to take matters into your own hands, especially with stubborn kids. Later that same night Ihad to use the bathroom, and the toilet got clogged, and I tried to clear it but I broke their toilet brush. It was mad-cap antics a-la "Meet the Parents" as I tried flushing the toilet 6-7 times before leaving a note on the seat saying "The toilet has a lot to think about, please be careful" and heading to bed. Then in the morning the toilet was leaking to the downstairs and while they told me it wasn't my-doing, I still think otherwise.

Present:
Now I'm back in DC with a pile of cookies donated by Erica's relatives, and a cold-cold house to live in. I've been working on some Flash stuff, which can now be seen using the link from my ear (the one that was always broken) on the main page. However, for those die-hard Joel-enthusiasts who read this page, I am adding a special link to my very first Flash composition. Sure, that'll come up in this window unless you open it in a new one, but it's not worth the trouble to fix that right now. In bad news, the Patent Office finally decided to bill me for the sign-on bonus that I owe them for leaving before 2-years of service, which means I'm going to be out about $1700, and that's never an easy sum to let go of. I'm still spending like crazy though, which means that next month will require a little bit more effort in the job-hunt-scene.

Future:
I leave tomorrow for Orlando, on a trip which isn't really necessary, but will be fun. I'll hang around there for a week and then Brent and I will drive up here for a week with Brent in DC, which is something this whole house has been eagerly anticipating. What kind of zany fun will I have down in Orlando? That's the type of question that will bring you anxiously clicking back here as often as possible, isn't it?

Epilogue
Geocities is working with Blogger again. hooray.

User: Boney

11/27/2000 01:35:00 PM

1am, thanksgiving early morning
Erica and I are here in hanging out and relaxing and having a great time. Even when you're unemployed and you spend all day doing what you want, it's still nice to take a vacation and get away. So far we've eaten at a Japanese Steak House, where the chef was actually pretty skilled and pretty into it. My family goes to the Kobe Steak House in Orlando every chance they can, so we've gotten pretty used to the same old tricks and unenthused waiters, but it was really nice to see a fresh new face doing fresh new tricks, like shooting shrimp into patrons mouths (no, not ours..). He threw a lemon into the air and caught it on a fork, and he wasn't afraid to use fire to pander to the kids at the table (he made an onion into a volcano by filling it with that flamable liquid they use, then he put some on his fingers and held his flaming hand in a little kids face). It was nice, reallll nice. Today we went to the Natural bridge which is supposedly one of the 7 natural wonders of the world. NATURAL wonder, not the famous wonders. On the way there we ate at a family-type restaurant and both ended up feeling sick shortly thereafter. maybe there was animal grease in the fries or something, but erica got it bad and I guess I just have a stronger gastrointestinal track. I'm the best! The natural bridge itself was pretty cool. Just a huge looming rock formation, but I'm usually more impressed with big sprawling mountains than pretty cathedrals and quaint townscapes, so it worked for me. Jefferson built a cabin near there and Washington tagged it with a "G.W." about 23 feet up the face of the rock. It was nice to see the vandalism of our forefathers, preserved for future generations. Apparently T. Jefferson issued a patent on the natural bridge to either him or George, and that made no sense at all since it was naturally occuring, but I guess when you're the first 'patent examiner' ever in the nation, you can take some liberties with what's "patentable". I'm just glad I'm not one of them anymore. Alright, I tend to ramble when i write and sometimes it works and sometimes it drags. If you're still reading this, you win the prize. Congratulations. I'm going to eat alot of stuff later, so I better rest up.

User: Boney

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