Tony’s Journal

Off! to the mountains for a few days. Back Friday or Saturday.

Merry Xmas!

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So in the middle of the night last night I am chatting with a friend on IM, and I notice that his buddy info says that we should try to name the song with the following lyrics:

so all y’all wit da dr seuss riddles
you can get the finger — the middle

And I don’t know what’s sadder – the fact that I knew the song off the top of my head, or that I already had the mp3.

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Sing Glory, glory! Hallelu!

Cable and internet service have been restored!

Triumph all ye seraphim!

Time to be an American! Bye.

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Shouts out:

HOLLA! to CP&L. They got our power back on at the 2-9-D by 4 pm Thursday — a mere 16 hours after it went out.

HOLLA! to Washington State for beating UCLA, thereby knocking over the dominoes to put Notre Dame in the Gator Bowl with us. Notre Dame is everything we hate about UNC x10. Bandwagon and elitist don’t even begin to describe them. I’m thinking of a bunch of t-shirt slogan ideas; at this point they mostly revolve around some combination of Lucky Charms and a variety of colorful obscenities.

HOLLA! to newegg.com — they send me computer parts with the quickness.

HOLLA! to Fountain Dining Hall sunday brunch. Biscuits and gravy and eggs — oh my!

HOLLA! to Billy for agreeing to help me with SysPrep on the laptop cart.

HOLLA! to the guy who let Bridget and me into the Biggie/Tupac movie for the student rate.

“I give a HOLLA! to my peeps on welfare /
Tupac cares, if don’t nobody else care”
   -Tupac, Keep Ya Head Up

HOLLA! to everyone who showed up for the basketball game on Wednesday – all 3,833 of us.

HOLLA! to the portly ESA usher, Steve, who offered to let Billy and I move to a better section during the basketball game last night. We took him up on that.

HOLLA! to the giant oak tree for not killing me in my sleep.

HOLLA! to Melissa HOLLA!day because her name fits.

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And now the university has been completely closed today. Due to, uh, wet roads and maybe some branches. I don’t know why really. I thought the delay was enough. Guess not.

See, the thing is, I have power and heat here, and I don’t at home, so Page Hall it is. . . for now.

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ICE STORM PUMMELS THE PLACES I FREQUENT

MAYHEM PHOTOS HERE

Yeah. . . power went out while i was in the shower at 12:50. I kept showering cause hell, I was already there, then got out, everyone else was asleep. I drank a vanilla coke and looked out my window. Every now and then I heard branches breaking and some little ones hitting the roof. Eventually I went to sleep.

And then at about 4:15 there was a terrifying BOOM on the roof — it shook the house. Everyone got up. Billy and Chris checked the attic, no holes. So I put on my robe, went downstairs, opened the front door and saw that big one sitting right in front of our door. That appears to have been the boom-culprit. Billy and Chris decided to move their cars to the street to avoid falling trees. We hung out for a while and went back to bed.

Then at 6:00 BOOM! another one. We all got up again (maybe not Mandy). This time it is the one kind of by the corner of the house; it kind of fell on the big one from earlier. Both fell above my room. Billy says he is astounded that I did not soil myself at some point during this barrage of catastrophic tree failure.

Then at about 7:30 i woke up and heard cracking, i looked out the window and BOOM a big one falls right next to the neighbors’ house, and BOOM about 5 mintes later BOOM that one in the backyard and POW a flash of light from the telephone pole across the street. We then went outside, I took some pics, and Billy Chris and I went to work.

There were way more impacts on the roof than branches on the ground, so we must assume some are on the roof still. The icy surface, as Billy pointed out, works in our favor, as all these branches that made it to the ground first hit our roof and luckily slid right off.

Anyhow, we find that NCSU is closed till 10. This is hard to find out about with no power. Anyhow, we’re here, along with a few others, and work beckons. I don’t know how many people are coming in today, but I bet it won’t be a lot. A lot of campus is without power, not to mention all over the area. Many schools are closed. . . a weird day at the NCSU. I have work to do, so I think I’ll do it.

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Since Monday, I have been in a pretty good mood.

Here’s why:

• I had just spent a week with my lady.
• I went to Mitch’s for lunch on Monday. Mmmm. . . Mexican Salad.
• I ran into The Miss Laura on the way out of Mitch’s. I held the door for the people coming down the stairs, and it took a while, and I was not really paying attention as I walked away after the lady who came down behind me said “thank you” to me. Then she said “Is that Tony?” and I turned around and there she was – The Miss Laura, and she was smiling at me. We chatted it up for a moment, and she actually seemed happy to see me. Chatted about Dayo and Eric and Thanksgiving and how I’ve been meaning to stop by. She thought that a good plan. It made my day because I hacen’t talked to her in literally years, except maybe on the phone one time when she was calling to harass Chris or Mandy. It made me feel good.
• I bought a new packpack thingy. My old one, which I got sometime early in high school, ain’t cutting it for the home-to-work commute anymore. It has a hole in the bottom, it only has 2 pockets, and it feels and looks funny when I am dressed warmly. Anyhow, I am getting this new bag and it should arrive tomorrow.
• I bought a TV Tuner, optical mouse for work, and a 3-to-4-pin connector for my nerdputer yesterday. Should be arriving in a few days. The TV tuner will allow me to record programs off the television. I can set my computer to record The Price Is Right and I can then watch it at 10 pm if I like! and burn it to CD if the Showcase Showdown is a classic that needs to be preserved for future generations! What a country!
• My finances are in order.
• I am going to Florida in a few weeks. I am looking forward to that very much. Very, very much indeed. I hope our tickets to the Bowl are good. Charles might come to FLA with us, that would be fun. I do have confirmation that he enjoys the roller coasters.
• I am now listening to The Ventures.

Enjoy it while you can, folks. My good nature is seen as often as the yeti.

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Holy crap, it’s December.

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