July 31, 2003 | Filed Under Dating & Girlfriends, Life, Movies | No Comments
Yesterday, I took J to see Pirates of the Caribbean. On our way there, we stopped at one of those grab-bag candy shops where you get 1/4 pound of candy – mix and match your choices for about two bucks. We each smuggled our candy bags into the movie. (I realize this is “against the rules” but what they don’t know won’t hurt them.)
I thought the movie was good, she thought the movie was ‘the best thing in the world’, although I think this was partly based on the fact that J. Depp is on her list of five. (If you don’t know what that is, read this for an explanation). Anyway, I liked the movie. We ate too much candy and pop corn and then at dinner neither of us was really all that hungry.
I am staying busy with the end of the summer coming and all. Labor day around the corner – that is a busy day and I get to work it.
Can you believe August is here already? I mean, where did the last two months go?
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July 28, 2003 | Filed Under Insomnia & Sleep, Movies, Television | No Comments
I am not sure how much sense that makes, but that is how the words came into my head – just a few minutes ago. I realize, reading them again, that they are beyond comprehension. So much for sounding profound.
I think what I meant to say was, that when I have to be awake, I want nothing more than to go to sleep, and when I am trying to go to sleep, I simply can’t relax enough to do so. (I am aware that what I just typed is most definately a run-on sentence, I am just too tired to care.)
I watched TV for a few hours last night, the movie choices being The Ghost in the Darkness, which is a good movie I had seen before. I started to flip the channels for a while, settled on Cheers and decided I needed to just go to bed and try to sleep. I fell asleep in about half an hour, and woke up about every hour or hour and a half. (or maybe even more often). At 5 a.m., I gave up. I’m tired but I can’t sleep.
I realize that a lot of people will see the post below about the coffee and they will think, “Well, duh, Pero, you idiot… stop drinking so much damned coffee and maybe you won’t be so tormented when you want to sleep.”
Yes, thank you for that – I also noted that possibility. However, the last caffiene I had yesterday was a second cup around 10 a.m., and that is (at least for me) a record-breaking low as far as average daily caffiene intake. I am currently contemplating exactly why I am having this problem.
For as long as I can remember, I have had periods of sleeplessness; quite literally, since childhood. I remember times when I was as young as six, lying (?) laying (?) in my bed waiting to fall asleep. Once I did fall asleep, sometimes hours later, I would have strange dreams and wake up often. Out of fear of my parents, I did not get up and wander aimlessly around the house as I do now.
It’s seven fifteen. I am yawning. I am tired. But I am willing to bet that once I lay down and drift off… the phone will ring.
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July 25, 2003 | Filed Under Coffee, Just for Fun | No Comments
I was reading and checking links at random on my site– (I do this often so I can find any problems or broken links) — and I started noticing how often I mention coffee in my weblog posts and in my stories & rants. Almost every page on my site mentions coffee. I am starting to think that I may actually have an addiction.
[Google Results]: Search perotheus.com for ‘coffee‘ – (all five pages of it)
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July 23, 2003 | Filed Under House and Home, OCD, Wine | No Comments
* I am sorry for the delay. Maybe for my next post I’ll fill you in on what my computer has put me through this week.
What the?
Last weekend, I finally got around to cleaning out the junk drawer in the kitchen.
When I did I found this:
A post-it note with “Rotling Halbtroken / Ravaner U. Dornfelder” scrawled upon it.
That is all that it said.
? What does it mean? Why do I have it? What was I supposed to do with it?
I may never figure this out, but I have given it a lot of thought and I have two theories.
Theory #1 - Somebody suggested that I look into these people (maybe they are authors?) and they gave me the wrong spelling for both names.
Likelyhood of Theory #1 being true: Very High.
Theory #2 - I have TDS (Tyler Durden Syndrome).
Written on that scrap of paper are the names of alter egos that I use when I *think* I am sleeping and having strange and vivid dreams. I just might be ruler of some underworld or street gang. (Hey, it could happen!)
Likelyhood of Theory #2 being true: ??
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July 21, 2003 | Filed Under Life, My Computers, My Site | No Comments
How do you spell Bad File Allocation Table?
The post I was originally going to publish was saved on the partition that just ruined my afternoon. Once I fix the problem (by throwing this hard drive out the window and running over it perhaps) I will re-type it and post it. Of course, when you have to re-write a lost post it is never as good as when you originally wrote it. Sometimes it turns out better – more often it isn’t as good.
What annoys me most is – I save posts in notepad to avoid losing them in the first place, and I lost that post and a bunch of other stuff (music, photos etc.) that were saved on the drive.
(sigh)
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July 16, 2003 | Filed Under Just for Fun, Life, Product Pushing | No Comments
I’m exhausted. Last week went by so slowly I thought it would never end. This week is passing with even less ambition. I am ready for the weekend, especially since this particular weekend I don’t have to work.
On Sunday, I broke my Eurosealer. It has a magnet on the back to store it on the refrigerator door (or some other magnetic surface). I dropped it and the plastic part of the hinge broke. When I attempt to seal a bag, the back end of the thing slips off. This makes it hard to get a good seal on a bag of chips.
It is not a very expensive thing, and it does not come with a warranty. I was admantly bitching about it, and yesterday I came home and there was a new one sitting on my counter. Anyway my point is… you all need one of these things – I’d tell you to get it on the web but the site I originally found it on discontinued it. I got mine here . -(beware of the immitations – they are not Pero-tested products).
Play a game – Blobs!
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July 15, 2003 | Filed Under Wordalizer | No Comments
Slowly but surely, I’m making progress. Thanks to everyone who helped by reporting broken or mis-directed links; or sent in a question for the RAQ’s – and everybody who submitted words for the Word-a-lizer (now with 470 entries!).
– updated 29 April 2010 –
470 entries? SERIOUSLY? That was so long ago! It is really time for another update (currently 1740 words… soon to add about 400 more).
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July 9, 2003 | Filed Under "Blogger", Life | No Comments
Hi, yes, I am still alive and kicking. Vacation went well, I am not finished writing about it yet and most likely when I am done I will put it with the rants & stories. I’ll be sure to let you know when it is posted.
With the new changes to Blogger, it seems they finally got around to migrating my weblog while I was away. This means that my comments may be whacky for a while while I straighten out all of the source code for them. I do have a memo on the fix for it, I just do not know if I did it properly. This will affect both the new post(s) as well as the archives. SO– if you can comment, it worked. If you get an error, I will fix it, everyone will get it and I probably already know about it. [UPDATE] – They do not work (yet) I’ll get them up soon.
Most importantly — I appreciate your patience while I fix the issues. 
I told you I’d be back. There’s a promise you’ll regret me keeping.
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