catching up
My left foot is killing me. Woke up yesterday with pain, and I can’t put much weight on it. As the day goes on, I can walk (I try to ignore the fact that it hurts). It really hurts when I haven’t been on it for a long period of time; I practically fell out of bed this morning. I don’t know if it’s a pulled muscle or a sprain or if something’s broken (CL laughs at me). This has happened before, and it took a week for it to go away.
Pepsi/iTunes promotion – Free songs to date: 70! This ends Monday, 4-11. After that, I’ll try to clean up whatever caps are still on the shelves (caps expire in May). Thanks again to everyone for their donations.
Vacation is a little over 2 months away. We’ll do the Disney thing the first week with the family, then everyone leaves while CL and I head on to Tybee Island, Georgia for some serious RnR. I can’t wait to not have a care in the world for 2 weeks.
Work has been ok. I hate it when I’m there. I feel I’ve rubbed several people the wrong way since I got in trouble, and there’s this cloud over me when they see me coming. I shouldn’t worry what others think, but they were my friends, and now I feel like I’ve been shunned. I’m sure someone’s been talking about me. Damnit, I hate gossip.
My playlists
The job search has been difficult. I’ve found another technical apprenticeship in Southern IL that I applied for (cross your fingers). I may have to start looking for “assistant” type jobs instead of techie ones. I certainly need to go back to school.
I mentioned yesterday that the playlists on my iPod were gone. I noticed when I got into the car that there weren’t any, and it made me think my home PC wiped it clean again. The music and podcasts were on it, but not a playlist was to be found. Once I got to work, I plugged it in. Thankfully, they reappeared!
I don’t just listen to songs or albums anymore. The beauty of using an MP3 player is the playlist feature. You’re basically creating your own mix. I like to use random playlists, so you never know what you’re going to hear (sort of like listening to my own radio station).
- What’s on Teny’s iPod
- Pepsi/iTunes promotion – Free songs to date: 60!
- The Scribbler – if you like to draw, try this out
Spoke to Sandy this evening. She’ll be at Severs tomorrow evening after 5! Hope to see you there!
“Tenyrsgon”
I thought I’d discuss the origin of the name “Teny”. When I first ventured online nearly 9 years ago, I was really into chatting. Particularly in chat rooms on AOL. I made lots of friends in a 2-year span. I don’t really chat anymore. It got old pretty fast.
Instead of the usual JSmith0704 format, I created a different screenname. Seeing all the different names people had, I couldn’t come up with anything real creative. I decided on taking my favorite Led Zeppelin song and making it my name. Ten Years Gone was the song, but due to the character limit imposed by AOL at the time, my name was Tenyrsgon. My profile was another play on Zep tunes (Name: Poor Tom, Location: Over The Hills And Far Away, you get the idea).
When chatting, people tend to cut your name short if it’s too long to type. Instead of calling me “Ten”, it was “Teny”. And it stuck. A circle of friends knew me by that name, and it spawned various screennames: TenysBack, TenysHere, and CL’s favorite, TenyBear. After moving to the Midwest, I couldn’t use TenyBear (at the time AOL had restrictions with using names on different accounts). So Teny jr was created and is still used to this day.
Next time, I’ll tell you how Teny met CL.
"Tenyrsgon"
I thought I’d discuss the origin of the name “Teny”. When I first ventured online nearly 9 years ago, I was really into chatting. Particularly in chat rooms on AOL. I made lots of friends in a 2-year span. I don’t really chat anymore. It got old pretty fast.
Instead of the usual JSmith0704 format, I created a different screenname. Seeing all the different names people had, I couldn’t come up with anything real creative. I decided on taking my favorite Led Zeppelin song and making it my name. Ten Years Gone was the song, but due to the character limit imposed by AOL at the time, my name was Tenyrsgon. My profile was another play on Zep tunes (Name: Poor Tom, Location: Over The Hills And Far Away, you get the idea).
When chatting, people tend to cut your name short if it’s too long to type. Instead of calling me “Ten”, it was “Teny”. And it stuck. A circle of friends knew me by that name, and it spawned various screennames: TenysBack, TenysHere, and CL’s favorite, TenyBear. After moving to the Midwest, I couldn’t use TenyBear (at the time AOL had restrictions with using names on different accounts). So Teny jr was created and is still used to this day.
Next time, I’ll tell you how Teny met CL.
Hump day
I received an interesting e-mail regarding a new “patriotic” can that Pepsi is supposedly putting out. The e-mail claims the Pledge of Allegiance is on the can, minus the words “under God”, and the author requests a boycott on Pepsi. Pepsi issued a statement to clarify the issue.
As for my free songs, I’m in a bit of a slump; I’m stuck at 51.
CL was off today, and she stopped in to take me out to lunch. We ate at Jack in the Box (coupon for a free sandwich). We hadn’t had lunch together in a long time, and it was so nice to get out of the office. I need to go out for lunch more often.
Puppy got a bath and a haircut today too. He looks so prim and proper! I’ll upload a pic as soon as I can (he hates cameras).
Reminder – Severs, Wednesday, March 23 after 5 PM. Hope to see you there!
Free songs!
I’ve been drinking Pepsi since the iTunes promotion began on January 31. I’ve bought between 6 to maybe 10 sodas a week. I’ve won around possibly 12 free songs (out of maybe 30 sodas??).
Including everyone’s contributions and my winnings, to date, I have 41 free songs from iTunes! Last year, I won 14 songs. A very special thanks to everyone who’s been donating their caps from their soda bottles (Pepsi, Diet Pepsi, Mountain Dew, Diet Mountain Dew)! I’m only taking caps from people who won’t have any use for the free music, so please, keep them coming!
Unfortunately for me, I gave up putting new stuff on my iPod for Lent. I can download songs to my computer, since I’m not putting them on my iPod. And I do have until May to redeem a free song (but I’m sure I’ll have done that well before then!).
Obviously, I changed the way my blog looks. I thought the other one a bit bold at first site, then more “blah” as you read on. I like the one I have now; it looks a little more organized with an even balance of color. As I said before, I plan to include more links and pictures as time allows.
As for Severs on Wednesday night (3-9-05), I’ll have to cancel my plan to hang out. I will post the next time I plan on being there.
I’m missing 24!! Gotta go …
