I was thinking to myself last night while watching the news about the heatwave in Chicago right now "Pfft, it’s hot, but how are there heat-related deaths and such?"

Well, I said that while sitting on my couch with the A/C kicking out ice cubes.

About 5:00 last night, the power at our house had 2 minor spikes. Turned off for seconds, and then back on. I didnt think of it as a big deal since that’s bound to happen when everyone that owns a Air Conditioner is going to have it on during a day like this. Then about an hour later I’m starting to get a little uncomfortable, so I walked over to the vents in my living room to find out what the deal is with the cold air, then find… there is no cold air. Durning that power surge, it somehow f’ed our A/C. The blower on the furnace is still going, but the actual Air Conditioner outside stopped working. I’m thinking it’s some sort of fuse problem since the circuit it’s on is fine, but I’m not electrician, and there’s no way I was sticking my hand in that fuse panel on the A/C unit without knowing wtf I was doing.

So last night was unbearable as shit trying to sleep. We opened the windows in hopes of catching some breeze, but when it’s still 90+ degrees at 8:00 at night, it’s just HOT. Right now it’s about 85 degrees in the house, and it was impossible to get a good nights sleep last night. Any time I would nod off for even a few minutes, I’d wake back up because of the heat.

Hopefully we can get it fixed tonight since it’s still in the 90′s here. After today it’s supposed to cool off a bit (meaning 80′s, hardly COOL!), but I can only imagine how hot it’s going to be in there for the next few days.

Our cats keep coming over to us whining like crazy because of the heat. Deal with it, Jen and I are!

So this is warning, if I’m crabby w/ anyone over the next day or two, I’ll just give you the URL to this post as an explanation

[Listening to: Nothin' But a Good Time - Poison]

Well last night was the championships in our softball league We won our first game, so we were in the finals, and then it happened. The ump was actually calling a pretty fair game, and then on a grounder to short.. the throw to first, it beat me, but the first basemans foot was off the base *OUT* wtf? did you just say OUT? The arguing started. This was a big call. We were down 3 runs in the 6th inning. Blown call Even the first baseman said (AFTER the game of course) that he was off the bag. I wasnt going crazy I knew I was safe. Such bullshit. But in all of it, I guess it wasnt meant to be. What a turnaround we made in this season though. Last year we were pretty much the league whipping boys This year we were playing in the championship game, and came THISCLOSE to winning. Ah well, Fall ball starts up in a few weeks, we’ll be back.

well I finally had a few minutes to post just a couple of our honeymoon photos we took about 300, but for simplicity sake, I just took a sampling of them. They’re from hawaii & vegas http://mikecompton.com/pics/?path=honeymoon

I’ve been on this new project at work for the past two weeks or so, and I’m actually really into it. I basically get to redo part of my company’s backup system, as well as migrate us off of old hardware. It should be nice working w/ new equipment, new operating systems, and FASTER equipment instead of some servers that are less powerful than my desktop computer! Putting out fires on those legacy systems was becoming unbearable. It rules that my company is looking at I.T. as a profit center instead of a cost. For instance, we’ve got a tape autoloader that’s been in production for about 5 years, that was on it’s last leg probably about 2 years ago. It had two drives at one point, and the second has been repaired so many times that I’ve stopped calling in for service on it, it’s just considered *dead* at this point and we’ve been limping along on one tape drive. I ran a full backup this weekend on the new system, and it finished in half the time, and used about a 1/4 of the media that it would have under the old system. Back to work I go

[Listening to: Mother Father - Dave Matthews Band]

So here’s my morning. I’m running late since I told the alarm to f-off this morning, so I’m now in a rush to get ready. I finally get outta the house, and I catch the train one after the normal one I usually get, and shit, it’s pretty packed. I sit down next to this guy that’s snoozin’ away. I’m all bored, so I break out my Blackberry and start playing Texas Hold’em. The guy wakes up and immediately starts leaning over to watch the screen on my Blackberry. Ok, weird, but stranger things have happened on the train. Blah blah blah, playing my poker hands, and then I notice that this guy’s breathing so loud through his nose that it sounds like he’s been snorting snow pea’s into his nostrils or some shit. It’s really starting to get annoying, and I glance over at him in one of those "wtf jerkoff??" type of looks and I sware that I was looking at some cult leader. Looking at him, he’s got this cropped grey hair, and he’s wearing something akin to a Members Only jacket. He crosses his leg and out if the corner of my eye I catch this plain Black Nike’s w/ the white swoop. I thought I was sitting next to Marshall Applewhite of the Heaven’s Gate cult. I was checking to make sure he didn’t have a little Dixie Cup full of apple sauce laced w/ Phenobarbetols. The guy is starting to freak me out w/ his staring at me, so I get up to go stand in the vestibule of the train for the last few minutes of my ride into downtown. No sooner do I get there, I turn around and mini-Marshall Applewhite is standing RIGHT BEHIND ME. Just get me off this goddam train!

so tonight I’m going to hang out w/ my family for a while
apparantly some police chief thought my brother was worthy enough to be a cop under his jurisdiction, so I’m going to watch my brother be sworn in today
now picture this, my brother is 23, about 6’3″, 150#… yeah, that’s right, 150#. the most un-intimidating mo-fo you’ve ever seen, but I guess that anyone
that carries a gun can be somewhat intimidating…. he just better not miss or he’s SCREWED!

we went looking at guns Tuesday night, and it’s looking like he’s gonna pretty much get the standard Glock 17 fucking plastic guns, but whatever. it was a pretty nice gun, and he was fairly accurate w/ it, so I guess that’s the point

although I *DESTROYED* him when we brought the .22 rifles out. At 50 feet, I was able to totally knock the bullseye out of the target (sidenote: I cheated like a bitch, I had a 9x scope on, and he was just using his bolt action .22 from about 25-30ft) haha

Watching: Barenaked Ladies DVD *nice*

3 months from now I will be married
I cant believe it’s so close now
I remember about a year/half ago somebody said “oh, time will fly and it will be here soon”
fuck, I didnt think they were for real! haha

anyway
Love you Jen!

So I had a few days to take off work by the end of the month or I lose them, so I went shooting yesterday.
I called my buddy, who’s apparantly turned into a fucking Teletubby when he goes to the range

Click here for a video!

[Listening to: Creeping Death - Metallica]

My Altec Lansing speakers and bass tube that have been w/ me for about 4 years now have finally decided to give up. I’ll miss you. Now I have an old co-workers ghetto ass monster size speakers. Stupid Dell. At least this thing has a SWEET sound card so I can just mess w/ all the settings on it instead of my speakers.

[Listening to: Rapunzel - Dave Matthews]