“Enter the name of a band you like, and this website will graphically represent other bands that you may dig(g). The closer the bands hover to your selection, the more probability you’ll like them.”

I am however a little confused as to how the Peacemakers are so far away from the Refreshments. I’ve poked around here a bit and although I have little way of telling how accurate it is in comparing and recommending outside the realm of bands that I’m familiar with, it certainly gives you a direction to go in when on the hunt for new tunes. Click the read more link below to try it out for yourself.

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Or was it a good bad day? I woke up with what felt like a dislocated shoulder, which I quickly righted by thrusting down on my left shoulder with my right hand, and it felt like my collar bone reattached itself to my frame. My inexplicable sleep related injuries serve as evidence that I fight crime at night as a subconcious driven incarnation of justice, who soundly gets his ass handed to him judging by the way I feel when I get up.

Speaking of fighting crime I’ve put most of the finishing touches on the first Cow Defender illustration that I had been working on for Steven. I’m mostly pleased with it’s progression as I practically started it over again this afternoon and brought it to its current near finished state. If anything else thre’s a bit of small adjustment and tweaking to be done, cleanup work mostly. I’ll thank marvel comics for the inspiration. I’d also like to thank the people at Intuos who designed this slick new drawing tablet. Keep up the good work people.

Today ended up being an adventure day as the weather was tame and my roommate returned from his holiday outings. We took a long, aimless, yard cutting walk only to end up at a liquor store after about 2 hours of ambling, and purchased a couple of six packs of Miller 1855. We’re geniouses. I highly reccommend the beer though as its easily one of the best tasting I’ve had as far as American brews go, and it’s Miller on top of that. That’s all the free press they’ll get from me.

So I’ve put quite a few posts on here thus far and am finding no unifying thread between them aside their mostly being little slices of life that appear on just about any blog you’ll find. Within the next few weeks I’m hoping to give a little more direction to the site, as well as some Gravatars for those of you kind enough to leave comments. But for now I part, as I’ve actually got work in the morning, as strange as that is. Great things to come.

So I got some interesting things for this most giving of holidays, granted I asked for some strange things to begin with. I won’t list them by any means, aside from the pixel blocks which I’ve already begun creating with in the form of Dr. Mario virii:

I’ve also had the odd luck of receiving more creatures of the stuffed persuasion than I think I’ve owned over the course of my life, although this would be the first time I’ve had any of the Python persuasion. So aside from opening some gifts and making a few phone calls, it’s been a relatively normal day. Watched March of the Penguins, did some laundry (discovered that my rat has chewed the ass out of at least one pair of my boxer shorts) and ate some lasagna. Still tired from my bizarre work schedule I’ve been a lazy sod the last two days, and I’m seriously hoping that there’s no work for me tomorrow as the powers that be forgot to put me on the schedule for this week, and I don’t much want to wake up early. Sleep rhythm is something I’d like to have back. That and I have several art projects to work on, and days off are nice for that.

Today I uppercutted a moose.

That was during my first work shift of the day. Twas a mighty uppercut indeed, sending it careening up and over my head into a pile of boxes behind me. My coworker stood in awe at my mighty moose crippling blow.

That would have been a perfect end to my work day, but I have to go back for the second grueling all-nighter this week. I’ve slept very little the past 5 days, and what sleep I have gotten has been during odd hours leaving me in a half awake haze and fighting off the sleep monster so I can make an attempt of being productive in my free time. Everything starts to seem a little less real when you’re sleep deprived, and I’ve also come to realize that it’s very easy to keep up a non-sleeping pattern if you can only fight through a wave of tired every day or so. On the positive side of things it means that I get to have Christmas Eve off, the less positive side is that I’ll have worked 17 out of the last 24 hours. These things happen.

I wasn’t expecting to have anything in particular to look forward to for the holiday but Pam had offered to perhaps shoot some pool with me on Christmas Eve. As everyone else I know is either out of town or will be out of town by tomorrow the company will be much appreciated.

Which leads me to another thought I was having earlier of the possibility of the previously mentioned plans probably not happening at all, and my subsequent reaction would be something in the area of an apathetic lack of disappointment, as I’ve come to expect people to never come through on the things they offer. I don’t like to have expectations of people because they can’t let me down if I assume they’re unreliable. I know that I’m unreliable in terms of the things I tell myself I’ll do, so I write everyone else off as being equal to or below my level of trustworthiness. I give people no credit, as much as I give myself no slack in my crippling perfectionist vision. I believe that the world’s players are here, if not to put me down, then to raise me up just enough that the fall hurts a little bit more. I believe I suffer from a broken spirit.

But at least I uppercutted a moose today, and that was fun.

So I’ve just finished struggling with this page for the evening, and I’m somewhat exasperated at all the hidden extra undocumented steps that it requires in order to get special features to work. I played with the email posting options for the better part of an hour only to end up with it as non functional as I started. Apparently it requires much more than an email shot to a confidential address. it also requires the uploading of several plugins, and the configuration of a command line inquiry that is, at the moment, beyond my scope. It would be less infuriating if, since the entirety of the documentation is in wiki form, someone would fill in all of those holes where explanation ceases and it merrily skips to the next step in the process.

In better news I’ve gotten the Opera and IE browser displays to be similar, fixed the comment pages so they display properly, but the sidebar is non-extant in IE. I can’t even force it to display by changing positioning radically. It’s in the source code, simply not showing up. Little progress is still progress, I suppose.