Ten Tentacles
So many arms, so little time.

I first took ship at twelve years old…

March 31st 2006

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Ah, more Pirates goodness. I’m so happy they have galleys with sweeps and lateen sails. The Barbary Corsairs were always my favorites. I especially love the xebecs.

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Saber: Week 32

March 30th 2006

There are a couple of new things happening here. The first thing is the title of this post which is clearly neither a song lyric nor a movie quote. The second is that this is the first entry in what I hope will be a weekly exercise to help improve my fencing. I’m starting a [...]

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I’ll surely miss your tender kiss…

March 29th 2006

So, I was chatting with eevieivy, like you do, and I was relating the story of the tight shirt, I mentioned earlier, when my gayness, pimp bitch that she is, rolled up on me, cracked the window on the broham, and popped a cap in my ass.
See, I went to the store to buy King [...]

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I’ll pick you up and it will be tonight…

March 29th 2006

It occurred to me this morning, on my long commute, that I haven’t made a post of any real substance in a while. Oh, sure, there have been lost of pictures and anecdotes and meme type deals, but no real hey, world, this is where I am and how I’m doing sort of thing in [...]

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I bet my whole checking account…

March 27th 2006

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It’s kind of a smooshed water tower, but it looks almost done. I’m sure there’s lots more welding to do, but the basic structure is up and all tack-welded. Hurray, water tower!

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Wouldn’t you like to see something strange…

March 26th 2006

Well, I did it. I caved. I submitted to the social pressures and, really, the indignity of it all and I joined MySpace.Com. It’s awful, I know, but you can find my profile here. I did it so I can be found, whatever that means. I won’t be updating that blog and I seriously doubt [...]

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For I am your bold deceiver…

March 25th 2006

A while back I got my pirate name. It’s a good solid pirate name. I like it. More recently I’ve been doing that whole changing my online persona thing; El Cuervo Negro is sort of a pirate alter ego. With all this pirate stuff going on, it occurred to me that I needed a flag. [...]

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Four, four, four for my headaches…

March 23rd 2006

I got tagged by Kelly (I think she’s still getting me back), so here goes:
Four of the jobs I have had in my life:

Kitchen Manager/Cook - Souplantation, Point Loma, CA
Press Operator - Image Plus, Rancho Bernardo, CA
Research Assistant - Computer Intelligence, La Jolla, CA
Senior System Engineer - ESM, New York, NY

Four movies I would watch [...]

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Cannot face the fact I think for me…

March 23rd 2006

On Monday I mentioned that Devin lost a tooth. Well, it was his first tooth, and he called me on my cell and left me a voice mail telling me all about it (I was still in Dallas). I promised then to post the sound bite, and here it is:
[ Devin Loses a Tooth ] [...]

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You consider me the young apprentice…

March 23rd 2006

So, last week I mentioned something about plans in August, and was all mysterious about it, and then I mentioned it again a few days ago. This was not an attempt to build suspense over anything, but more that it had to be mentioned for the topic at hand, even though I wasn’t quite ready [...]

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