First Snow

Just wanted to show off a photo I took late this morning on my phone.

This was the first snow of the year. What you see here is about an hour's worth of snow. Nothing too spectacular, just a sign that winter is here despite what the calendar says.

We're supposed to recieve more tonight. Infact here's a portion of the weather advisery that was issued earlier today:

... WINTER STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON CST MONDAY...

OCCASIONAL SNOW... HEAVY AT TIMES... WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE OVERNIGHT HOURS... AND INTO MONDAY MORNING WITH TOTAL ACCUMULATIONS OF 5 TO 7 INCHES POSSIBLE.

ANY TRAVEL IS STRONGLY DISCOURAGED. IF YOU LEAVE THE SAFETY OF BEING INDOORS, YOU ARE PUTTING YOUR LIFE AT RISK....

Just thought I'd share that with y'all.

Peace,
Skoo

Thanksgiving

First of all, I hope that you and yours had a good Thanksgiving.

My Thanksgiving started like most of my days... getting up early to go to work. I actually didn't mind. It's a holiday, meaning that I get paid more, and it's a really easy day to work. Easy enough to only have one other person in the department besides myself.

As expected work went fairly easily. The morning had enough for me to do as long as I did it leasurely. Being that my boss wasn't around, I took numerous breaks upstairs where they always leave deli meat & cheese available with some chips and other snacks laying around for us to feast on. They also leave the pop machines open, so I was well wired off of Mt. Dew after a while.

Once the afternoon came around, I spent my time milking the clock and watching Peyton Manning single-handedly dismantle the Detroit Lions.

Finally, I leave work for the day, come home, and pass out in my Lay-Z-Boy with the cat. Fairly easy to do watching the Cowboys and Bears, I might add.

After my sleep, I filled myself on ham (cause I was sick of turkey by this point), sweet potatoes, green bean casserole, cranberry sauce, and stuffing followed by pumpkin pie.

My Thanksgiving was mostly quiet, which is the way I like things. I just like for people to stay out my way so I can sort my thoughts and collect myself. Holidays are about the only chance I get to do that.

Overall, I'd say things went ok.

Peace,
Skoo

Trillian 3

Last night I discovered that an alpha version of Trillian 3 had been released. For those of you naive to what Trillian is, it's an all-in-one instant messaging client that combines Yahoo, MSN, AOL, ICQ, and IRC and lets you have multiple account running for each client. It also has plug-ins available for Jabber, Novell Group Wise, and Lotus Sametime (the last two being mainly business chat clients). So, naturally, I decided to try out the new version. I have to say, so far, I'm really pleased with it.

They've added some features, obviously. There's two I've really taken liking to. First, they've added support for chat rooms on MSN and Yahoo!. Also, they've added support for voice chat. I've found the voice chat to be a little shaky in chat rooms, but then again, it's an alpha (or extremely early release). I've yet to try voice in pm.

Another thing I really like, as you can see in that screenshot, is the interface. It's an extremely friendly interface to use and look at. They now allow for me to select one buddy icon for all my clients instead of making me indivisualy setting my icon for each account. The other thing I really like it that I can see my friends' icons in my buddy list next to their names, much like Apple's IChat client, along with their status below their names.

Overall, I'm really happy with it so far. If you want a closer view of the screenshot above, just click on it and a new window should open up for it.

Also, if you'd like me to send you the instalation file for the Trillian 3 alpha, let me know. Just know that you'll be stuck with the basic version, unless you find a crack somewhere, because I'm not releasing my registration information. I'm not crazy.

Anyways, that's all from me.

Peace,
Skoo

Boredom

My boredom has to be at it's highest that's it's been in a while. I don't hear from my friends like I used to, for various reasons out of my control. I'm almost convinced I need a new group of people to be around. It's not that I want to, I've known this group of folks for the majority of the time I've lived here. It just seems they can't find the time out of thier busy schedules to give me a simple call. Makes you wonder you know?

I have already made the decision to move out on my own in the spring. I figure, my own place, my own rules. I've had 26 years of other people's rules.

But, back to my boredom. I'm watching the Sonics-Kings game right now, so, that's curing my need for entertainment for the time being. It helps that the Sonics are up double figures.

It seems though that even the things that are fun to me are becoming boring. I'm not sure what to think of that quite yet. But, it sucks not having a car. Won't have one of those until early next year sometime. So, I'm really limited in what I can do. Usually I have work to keep me from getting bored, but I'm in the second day of a four day streach where I don't work. In a way, that's a good thing. It gives my body a chance to heal. My muscles especially. Between my jaw (I have TMD) and my back, the time off has been good. Besides, the weather sucks right now. Last time I checked, it was raining and we have a windchill of 25 degrees. There's even a slight chance of some snow over night.

But, anyway, life goes on right? Like Common said, "it's a dog eat dog world, you gotta mush on."

Enough of me bitchin'.

Peace,
Skoo

The Definition of a Man

Baltimore Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis was charged with double murder in Atlanta, Georgia in January of 2000. Those charges were later dropped after a plea bargain.

Since then, Lewis has gone on to dominate the NFL with his play on the field. His passion, heart, and determination has been something I've admired over the past few years. I fully respect Ray Lewis as a football player.

Then comes the war of words between Lewis and Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver Terrell Owens. A few days after the Eagles victory over the Ravens on October 31st, Owens was still talking. Getting personal Owens said, "You have a guy like Ray Lewis, who I thought he was pretty much my friend. This is a guy, double murder case, and he could have been in jail, but it seems like the league embraces a guy like that. But I'm going out scoring touchdowns and having fun, but I'm the bad guy."

Now, most people in America would of at least tore Owens apart verbally, if not accually doing it literally. Ray Lewis, however, had this to say:

If I ever as a man offended Terrell Owens, I would definitely have to say I'm sorry. Because my heart wouldn't allow me to offend someone... who as a man, if you haven't found yourself in a dark place in life... if you find yourself there, call me. What I went through four years ago was real. We're talking about people's families that he's bringin into this situation. You know, when you speak about things so loosely and unselfishly... so, do I take it personal? No. But, what hurts the most is, I'm tellin this person "I have nothing against you brotha. Never will, never have. I enjoy your game. And don't look for your praise through man, don't look for nobody to praise you. Man only builds you up to tear you down." So, when he scores all these touchdowns and he's arguably the MVP right now in mid-season, take pride out of it for a minute. Forget "I". Don't walk in the room with an "I" additude everyday. Walk in the room with how I'm going to get my team better.This room was struggling with how to get my team over the edge. And, that's what I think he's missing. He's missing that "forget me".
T.O. man, I'm going to always love this guy, because, he brings a different energy to the game of football. He didn't know what he was saying. You know, don't worry about effecting me. My foundation is simple. My foundation is God. My foundation is if you want to go back and pull up my past, be careful. Because, as deep as I've been dug up is as high as I'm about to go. You know, and that's what I wanna tell another young man. Be you and choose what you know is right and that's love. And if T.O. walked into my house right now I'd tell my momma to cook him a dinner. He's my brother. He says, "I thought he was my friend", I'm more than a friend, I'm a brother. And when you don't feel appriciated, and when you do feel attacked, I've been there. My phone number's simple. It's easy to find me. So, as a man when you don't know how to get through that, you can always call me.

After the Eagles following game against the Steelers, Owens announce that he and Lewis had cleared the air. As for Lewis' words, words to live by.

I'm in loooooove with a pothead

Nah, I'm not seriously in love. And no, I haven't smoked weed in a very very very long time. But, I am gonna marry a pothead.

I was talkin with my girl in Cali and I was tellin her I had the munchies. She suggested that I get some salsa flavored Doritos. Maaaaan, these damn things are off the damn ringer. Now, I'm sure someone who didn't smoked weed could of suggested these chips to me too. But, I do believe there's an increased likelyhood that a pothead will find this kind of thing first.

Believe me, I know about this.

I smoked weed before and I always came up with good food. So have some of my high ass friends. I've eaten everything from stuffed porkchops with the sides to go with to salsa burgers with nacho cheese to dip em in. I eat good around weed.

So ladies, if you're cute and you're high, HOLLA!!!!! LMAO!

Peace,
Skoo

Go Vote!!!

Please people, go vote tomorrow, November 2nd. As Sean "P. Diddy" Combs would say, "Vote or Die".

Seriously, if you think about it, "Vote or Die" is a good way to put it. Your life is effected by the choices that our legislature makes. The only way you can have any control over what they do is to vote the people who are going to work for you. The more people in Congress down to your local legislatures that speak the same thing you do, the more your voice will count.

So, GO VOTE! Because, like Martin Luther King Jr. once said, those who do not speak up for the cause are just as bad if not worse than those who are against it.

Peace,
Skoo