News Archive - June, 2006

Katie is awesome because she makes good burgers and always has beer. She also also has perfect olive skin and likes 8 Mile she's a lesbian.

Carrie is awesome because she hits Katie when Katie hits me. She also invited me to Friends and Family Night at Dick's where I bought a ton a stuff, including a $150 poker table for $35 she's a lesbian.

Jess is awesome because she cracks her neck and back like crazy just like me. She also has a pit bull/lab mix that Chester got to play with today she's a lesbian.

Hmm...I'm starting to notice a pattern.

Last Sunday Chester's eye got infected; I noticed it right before I went to bed Sunday night, but I thought it was just that gunky stuff that builds up in your eye over night sometimes. When I woke up Monday morning, his eye was so swollen he could barely open it. There was also a large amount of pussy discharge that had built up around his eye.

I wiped off the puss as best I could with a tissue, but his eye kept pussing at a disturbing rate. I ended up staying home with him all day and had to take him to the vet. He was prescribed antibiotics, anti-inflammatories/pain killers and ointment for his eye. The pills weren't bad because we were able to hide them in peanut butter like we've done for everything else we've ever had to give him. But he didn't want to have any part of having ointment put in his eye. It took almost the whole week to figure out how to get it in his eye without him resisting so hard that the ointment just ends up all over his face instead of in his eye.

The swelling was gone by Tuesday morning, and the pussing had decreased by about 90%. His eye looks fine now and today was the last day for one of his meds. He has a follow up appointment this week so hopefully the vet will say that everything is fine.

I'm finally making some headway with Gallery. After hours of frustration (and annoying Doug) I finally figured out how to get the "Add Comments" link to show up in my theme.

Apparently I didn't need to spend hours digging through code trying to understand the class structures or how the parameter arrays are constructed and parsed. I just needed to use the UI and add "Item Actions" to the list of blocks to show on photo pages...

I still need to figure out how to change those settings through the theme, but at least I have some idea of where to look now. Anyway, now that I've figured out how to get comments working, I should be putting up my photos pretty soon.

Friday was Bill and Dawn's wedding. Bill (AKA Crazy Bill, AKA Crazy Fucking Bill) was my supervisor at Krispy Kreme; well, he was the one I usually worked with. We'd spend most of the night goofing off and part of the night working. There were lots of nights when trays were thrown all of the production and processing areas because customers would come to the drive-thru while we were running our production. We were the only people who could run an entire shift with just two people. In fact, we were so good that eventually the managers started sending the second shift production workers home early so they could save money (those cheap bastards) because they knew we could do the production without a problem. One day we thought it'd be funny to do the first half of first shift's production and processing before our shift ended just so nobody would have anything to do for their first four hours — the managers were not very happy.

Working with Bill was awesome. Between the 1099 powder bombs, five pound cream doughnuts, fuck yeah shirts, super blueberry doughnuts and sleeping on the processing table there was always something to keep the job interesting.

Not too long before I moved to Harrisburg, and consequentally quit my job at Krispy Kreme, Bill's best friend, Crazy Donnie, started working production. He was going to work third shift, so Bill and I were training him, and suddenly things became crazier, funnier and messier. Donnie didn't really like production and ended up quitting before he completed his training; but the few days I worked with him were quite an experience.

The wedding was a lot of fun even though I didn't know anyone other than Bill, Dawn, and Donnie (who was the best man). I got to meet Dawn's family, some of Bill's family and Donnie's dad. My first order of business was to get Donnie drunk (despite what you'd think by looking at him, he's actually a lightweight so this was easy). We started off with Shannon Shamrocks (really called Green Eyes, but they changed the name for the special occassion). There was an open bar all night, but Donnie was drunk before the cocktail hour ended...

Bill and Dawn's wedding was by far the most fun out of all the weddings I've been to and I think it has a lot to do with the fact that it was a small wedding. There were only four people at the head table and they spent most of their time walking around and mingling with the guests. I really enjoyed being able to spend a lot of time with Bill, Dawn and Donnie throughout the wedding and I hope Bill and Dawn live a great life together.