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A fun and simple game I found on the Internet. Great time waster!

It was a valient effort, but alas… We fell once again to the opposite team by the score of 3-1… I believe, could be wrong on the score. But lose we did, at the hands of our own teammates!?

See, the other team was short players, and we had an over abundance of players. Our team is mostly implimentors, so they are all in town this week for UGM. That won’t be the case in the coming weeks as I am sure our attendance will dwindle with more and more people out of town.

Back to the game, the opposite team didn’t have enough players. Since wa had many, they had few, we loaned them a few players for the game. So it was Us vs. Us & Them… weird. It was a close game at times, but we seemingly took to long and kept kicking the ball too far forward of home base. Our team mates on the other team had a rock’n game! Too bad it counted for the other team… Oh well, good times were had by all.

Speaking of good times, I need to have a wrap-up of UGM. It’s our User’s Group Meeting for all Epic customers. We normally put on this big production for the customers around a central theme. This years theme: Superhero’s of Healthcare. I was in the multimedia presentation for the session. That was fun! I was Super Doc and have the pictures, trading cards, and 6-foot cutout to prove it. Feel rather sheepish about the entire thing really, seems like a lot of attention for just a little part.

Ahh, the fun of Latin dancing! Luther’s Blues had Madisalsa there tonight. The odd thing was, there was not much of a crowd. Last time I was there to see Madisalsa, it was packed!

Tonight was a much smaller draw and not many of my friends made it. Katie & Cory came along and Amit wandered in a bit later. So a noticable unbalanced ratio for dancing. I danced with a few random people for a song or two, but they were not that great of dancers. I was hoping to dance a bit more, but I was lost my steam after a bit trying to teach folks how to dance. I came to dance, not teach.

Otherwise it was a good time. Overall the day was very laidback. Laundry finished, pizza supplies readt for the shindig tomorrow, rented some movies to chill out to. All in all, a relaxing time… but I fear it might not have been enough. I need to have some chill out time, things are getting to be a bit much and rather frustrating.

The party tomorrow should help. Packers vs. Bears, noon, my place. Call or IM me for directions. Fresh, home-made pizzas, beer if desired, and other snackables. Not to mention some good ol’ fashioned packers heckling from yours truely. See you then.

Amazon.com: Books: Going Postal : A Novel of Discworld (Pratchett, Terry)

Oh yea! New Discworld book!

Current Electoral Vote Predictor 2004

Daily predictions about the US election. Also provides a lot more information about the upcoming election.

US-Election.org: The world’s voice, the world’s vote

Interesting site on how the rest of the world views the US elections. See how the rest of the world would vote if they were in the US.

Behold, the power of beer!

That seemed to be the teams downfall. Most of the team was a sober (my state during the game), a wee bit tipsy to flat out hammered. While we lost the game 10-2, all the drunken folks sure made the game interesting! The bar next to the fields has the best after game snack, $1 tacos! Kickball and tacos, who could ask for anything more!

On the work front, I had my first session of my new Reporting Workbench class. It went over great! I have some ideas to add into the course and things to revise, but the initial pilot was well recieved. That was the highlight of my day.

Now to sleep. I have not been getting enough of it, and it’s showing. Been a little run down and mentally down and out from being too tired. Some good sleep tonight, and I will be right as rain tomorrow.

Speaking of the weekend, sounds like most everyone is going to be gone. Looks like it might be a quiet weekend. Know of something going on? Email me or give me an IM on AIM @ uwflatlander.

Arg!

12 hour days suck. Now that’s two in a row under my belt. I will be glad when I get this new class out of the way for the first session. I’ve been getting too engrossed in the details of it. Been weirding myself out over the smaller details. As Tim K says, get it made first, then we’ll worry about making it perfect.

Well, it’s made as much as I can make it before tomorrow. Here’s to getting at least some sleep tonight. I need to make it to work on time so I can get to the class I am attending in the morning before my new class I present in the afternoon. Long day, but it will have n end. That is the good thing.

On a plus note, it seems my efforts are being noticed. Lisa stopped by my cube to thank me for the work I am doing. It’s training that has been needed, and she is thankful to get. It is nice to be thanked now and then.

Ahh, the joys of Karaoke!

My friend Hillary was having a bad day, so Gerald and Dennis took her out to dinner to help her out. I wanted to go, but I stayed at work till 9ish to get a new training course mostly finished. I will have the finishing touches on it tomorrow. Good times.

We were going to go to Pat McCurdy, but Karaoke called! Perdos on the west side has Karaoke on Tuesday nights. Plus, it wasn’t that crowded.

Hillary and I banged out Summer nights. Hillary and Dennis belted out a glorious version of Cecilia. I did my personal favorite of Ring of Fire and a new favorite, Save a Horse (Ride a Cowboy) If you haven’t seen the video, go to Launch @ Yahoo! and find the video under the country section. You won’t be disappointed.

Then imagine me singing it. Oh yea! Love the visual eh?

Day two of contacts going well, but my left eye keeps going screwy. It goes in and out of focus and I havn’t been able to figure out why. It was suggested it mought be inside out, but I tried both ways and it still comes up odd.

And why contacts? (Been asked that a few times) Well… the doctor suggested it, it is a free initial pair, so I thought, what the hell! Let’s try it!

Why the move? I developed the old system, Mad.Thought, but it does not do everything I want it to do. I could add the features myself, but I don’t have the time or the motivation to anymore. I am officially ending the Mad.Thought project. If someone would like to pick it up on the slide, feel free.

In the mean time, I will be working on getting the old posts ported into the new system. I don’t want to lose all that history, good and bad. Stay tuned!

Wow, contacts are great!

Got my first pair today from the folks over at Dean. I managed to get pretty good at taking them in and out pretty quickly, only about 10-15 minutes. It feels so weird not having my glasses on. So far, the vision has been great! Not to mention the joy of being able to wear normal sunglasses for the first time in years!

Find me and check me out simetime. I am still working on getting my left contact to stay in place or something. It keeps going in and out of focus, rather annoying really. After some time though, it should be back in line with the right one.

Today marks the first go at the bowling league for my team, Epicdemic. We are an intense group of bowlers showing everyone how it’s done (or not done) every Monday at 6.30 pm at Schwoegler Parktown Lanes.

The team:

• Tim Schaab
• Jeremy Hung
• Jennifer Tucker
• Gerald Godwin

Of course, we are all Epic representatives. Hence the name, Epicdemic.

This first game we established our averages, so we are not sure how we did until next week. Jeremy and I had strong finishes, each finishing in the upper 400s for total pinfall. My personal best score from the day, 170.

Stay tuned for next week to see how we did against our competition!

The first game of the Madison Midwestern Unusual Sports Association’s Kickball League for Balls of Steel was an impressive powerhouse showing!

In our first attempt at kickball glory, we came out on top! We played verse Git R’ Dun, a more experienced team. How are they more experienced? They brought beer……. shamefully, we did not. Next game though, alcohol for all!

The next game, I’ll try to bring my camera… and some beer!

Next game is Thursday, 16-Sep-04 @ 7.30 pm in Brandt Park in McFarland. Here are some Directions. Our competition this go round: Nexus of the Universe

See you at the game!