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However measured or far away.
A different drummer 
4th Apr 2009 03:01 pm - A noisy day in the life of Curtis
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  • 20:51 Well, I'm back at Grandma's - she delayed getting back for another few days. Maybe she figured I'd starve the cats? #
  • 20:52 At any rate, my family's got tickets for General Conference tomorrow morning, so we'll be going to that session! #ldsconf #
  • 07:29 Time to leave for Conference! #ldsconf #
  • 09:00 In SLC now. Be @ conf. in 5 mins. #
  • 14:34 Just got back 45 minutes ago from Salt Lake. Will be a journal entry late tonight. #
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3rd Apr 2009 03:01 pm - A noisy day in the life of Curtis
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  • 10:55 Did a lot of programming yesterday... so close! #
  • 11:05 Two interesting tweeps: @strryeyedgrrl @allisonrandal #followfriday #
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2nd Apr 2009 03:01 pm - A noisy day in the life of Curtis
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  • 21:11 I thought I was going to tweet yesterday. At any rate, went to LDS Employment Resource Services office in Logan today. #
  • 22:01 Whoa! Talk about an ending for Life on Mars! Certainly different than the BBC ending! #LifeonMars #
  • 22:21 Interesting video... Maybe we'll see this lady on season 10 of AI? www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKNAJx2NtyM #
  • 22:26 Make that season 7 of Canadian Idol. Oh, well. #
  • 01:12 Goodnight! #
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No, haven't disappeared, just working hard the last few days - when I didn't get taken off with.

At any rate, just finished watching the last episode of the US Life On Mars TV series - way different ending than the BBC series! I wonder if they had to come up with something quick because they were cancelling the series... probably. I did like how they linked it in by calling the mission Hyde 125... I'm still giggling 5 minutes later!

Interesting video below... She should go far.

30th Mar 2009 03:01 pm - A noisy day in the life of Curtis
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  • 22:50 Busy day today, btw. Got a 3rd calling (I'm my ward's mid-singles rep now, as well as doing the bulletin board and teaching EQ once a week) #
  • 22:54 Also visited extended family this evening, (had to cook some manicotti over at Grandma's for that... too many things in the oven at home) #
  • 22:57 Time for bed. Will tweet tomorrow. #
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27th Mar 2009 03:01 pm - A noisy day in the life of Curtis
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  • 15:40 Uploaded Perl-Dist-WiX-0.161.tar.gz to CPAN - find it on your local mirror in a few hours! #Perl #
  • 09:28 Awake and ready to go seize the day. #
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26th Mar 2009 03:01 pm - A noisy day in the life of Curtis
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  • 19:26 Picked my brother up - Heading home now. Snowy in Ogden. #

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25th Mar 2009 03:02 pm - A noisy day in the life of Curtis
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  • 22:14 Well, we're going to pick up my brother tomorrow from Salt Lake. We'll do it about 12 noon. #

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24th Mar 2009 10:16 pm - The shells upon the warm sands... [family]
mission
...have taken from their own lands
the echo of their story...


Well, we're picking up my brother tomorrow - some of you down in Salt Lake and environs might have ran into him - he's been going by Elder Whalen the past few years.

In other news, my site has everything I can think of at the moment - including all my Perl code, a RSS reader, a guestbook, and a comment page.

Gotta get up early tomorrow.
24th Mar 2009 03:03 pm - A noisy day in the life of Curtis
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23rd Mar 2009 03:01 pm - A noisy day in the life of Curtis
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  • 10:13 Mom has visitors coming today... gotta do laundry, then programming. #

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22nd Mar 2009 03:00 pm - A noisy day in the life of Curtis
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  • 16:32 Quiet day. #

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21st Mar 2009 03:00 pm - A noisy day in the life of Curtis
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  • 22:23 Back to grandma's - writing more perl code. Movie was quite good. Good night, twitter! #

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19th Mar 2009 03:00 pm - A noisy day in the life of Curtis
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  • 21:08 It turns out that she's staying where she is until Friday night. So back at Grandma's, and now the hot water heater is fixed, too. #
  • 14:54 Grandma wont be back until the 1st now. Going to movie - Race to Witch Mountain. Should be interesting. #
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Well, I'm setting up a new personal web site:

http://csjewell.comyr.com/ is where it happens to be.

Check it out, tell me what you like or don't like, and what you think should be there!

Don't worry, I'll still be posting here on LJ. I just haven't posted because I've been so busy at Grandma's, setting this site up, programming (you can see the results on http://csjewell.comyr.com/perl/) and applying for a job or two. (I've got to get back to somebody tomorrow, in fact. I'm hopeful.)

I may twitter more than be on here, but then, my twittering is posted here, anyway! So don't worry.
18th Mar 2009 03:01 pm - A noisy day in the life of Curtis
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  • 17:55 Getting my personal web site updated... it isn't complete yet, but will be interesting soon. #
  • 09:32 I'm at Grandma's - was getting my personal site updated and eating breakfast - now it's time to pack up and leave. #
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17th Mar 2009 03:01 pm - A noisy day in the life of Curtis
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  • 16:38 Mom should be home soon - I've got to head somewhere in a few monutes. #
  • 16:38 (to church - help clean up for a funeral tomorrow.) #
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16th Mar 2009 03:00 pm - A noisy day in the life of Curtis
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  • 13:28 Dad's sick and getting fuzzy... I'm having to stick around while Mom takes my sister to the dentist. #

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15th Mar 2009 03:00 pm - A noisy day in the life of Curtis
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  • 20:45 Heading over to Grandma's again... #
  • 14:44 Got through my lesson at church today. Next, sleep. (regression testing can background...) #
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14th Mar 2009 03:01 pm - A noisy day in the life of Curtis
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  • 08:05 Well, Grandma has an escape artist for a cat - she broke out of the cage she needed to stay in. #
  • 11:26 Back home, brother wants to get on the computer again... #
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13th Mar 2009 03:01 pm - A noisy day in the life of Curtis
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  • 16:15 Back from library, working on the perl module at the moment. #
  • 21:13 Back at Grandma's house - left the door to her room open. oops. #
  • 13:09 Letting my brother on the computer now... #
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12th Mar 2009 03:01 pm - A noisy day in the life of Curtis
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  • 17:50 Paying bills done. Also looked for bunk bed. Getting taxes done for family. #
  • 13:54 Returning some books to the library. #
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11th Mar 2009 03:00 pm - A noisy day in the life of Curtis
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  • 23:14 I'm at my grandmother's setting this up. Connected my phone in. Then to bed. #
  • 07:18 Up now. #
  • 12:55 Going to pay bills. #
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Well, I found the song the Primary sang the Sunday before last (MP3 link).

My sister's back from California - and she has pictures!

There'll be a few more updates before April for Perl::Dist::WiX (the new Strawberry Perl builder) - I'll testing one to put up.

I'll be staying at Grandma's for the next week - she has to go someplace and needs somebody to feed the cats and stuff.

Tatiana is back on? Hard to believe. They must want some craziness on Idol. My family all hates her.
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Things are stressful right now. 0.13_04 has one warning that pops up repeatedly. It's not affecting anything, but best to get rid of it, so 0.14 will be released today.

I'm also sending a version of the Perl::Dist::Strawberry and Perl::Dist::WiX modules to their author today that has been updated to use 0.14.

In other news, my mother broke her ankle Monday. We have some concrete walkways in front of our place, and she was going out at 6:30 to feed a cat when she slipped. So she's down for a few weeks.

Sunday, the Primary kids sang a song for us in Sacrament meeting. Let's see if I can find it on YouTube. (nope) Beautiful song.
23rd Feb 2009 05:10 pmUnknown composition
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Well, just uploaded Perl-Dist-WiX 0.13_04 to the CPAN...

Hopefully the project will be done soon.
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Well, finally got my project almost finished...

Right now, I'm running Devel::NYTProf over it so I can see if I can speed it up any. (It does take a while - 50 minutes+ per distribution made.)

Then it's time to write the tests for Perl::Dist::WiX and I'll be done, pretty much!

My new bishop (The prevoius bishop got released and he just got called 3 weeks ago) wants to see me tomorrow night... I wonder what about? Right now, I'm teaching elders quorum once a month at church - maybe he figures I have more time than that and I'm getting a different calling?
3rd Feb 2009 10:48 am - @ Denny's
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How many of you went to Denny's today for the free meal? I did. It was fun.
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I've been busy these last few weeks programming... and it's almost getting to a showable point. I'll probably have pictures up within the next few days, but here are some URL's:

Strawberry Perl release page mentions my project... ("We are focusing the new .msi installer for April")
Journal entry from the main writer of Perl::Dist - *blushes*
Here's the "changes" file - and I've done some since then!
The SVN repository I'm posting to.

(Explanation: I figured "Why not?" and started writing on Perl::Dist::WiX a few weeks ago, and it is going very well...)

If you're wondering, WiX (Windows Installer XML) is a program that creates .msi files (Windows Installer files) - they're the recommended way to install software on Windows, and they make it easier for network administrators to install across the whole network and that sort of thing.

You've probably seen them, either alone or "bootstrapped" (an .exe wraps up a .msi - or multiple .msi's and other stuff if the program has prerequisites.)

It's not ready for public use yet, but I wanted to make sure I didn't appear to drop off the face of the earth!
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OUCH! NOT good news!

http://valleywag.gawker.com/5124184/the-russian-bear-slashes-a-social-network

I hope LJ doesn't go down (I'd call it "flip of a coin" or worse possibility.. maybe 25/75... but the possibility is there! I don't like the rumors.)

I've been here for over 8 years (I was an "early adopter" - I remember when invite codes were ADDED, and I remember when they were taken back off again) and I'm trying to get LJBook to work for me to get things saved off - apparently they're super busy!

I hope LJ doesn't go down (can I say it strongly enough?)

Just in case, I've started an InsaneJournal account (http://curtisshields.livejournal.com/ is the address... "curtis" is already owned.) and if LJ DOES decide to go down, I hope to see many of you there!
devour soul, kitten
It's New Years Day already?!?

Sheesh, time goes fast.

Well, one new years resolution this year - I didn't do so good on the last year's ones.

If I get a job, that'd be great, but my resolution this year is that I need to start praying daily and to continue reading my scriptures daily (been doing that for the last 3 months.)

One question - I sent in a resume to a job online (it's an IT auditor job) and they want me to send my credit report to them. Sound legit to any of you?

Appropriate song for this new year's for me...

Video and Lyrics... )
terabithia
We've barely dug ourselves out - going to dig Grandma out soon.

Got a pair of jeans, a shirt, a movie (Iron Man) and $25 for Christmas. (We just finished opening the presents.)

We're going over to my aunt's for lunch in order to finish the food everybody brought over yesterday for the party (There were 18 people there...)

Video )
heroic
Today's the first anniversary of when I've gotten out of the hospital - and tomorrow is Christmas! So it's all good. Sent a resume out for a few jobs on Craigslist yesterday (maybe I should ask some of you on how to improve it - would any of you be willing?) and got one answer back - which was obviously a scam! I'll have to see how the job hunt goes after the Christmas season.

(sorry, not a good video, try http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ds6oTHYmqRc for the official video... unfortunately, non-embeddable.) (Edit: oops. Wrong video.)



A quote I'm keeping...

I hear always the admonishment of my friends:
Bolt her in, and constrain her!
But who will watch the watchmen?
The wife arranges accordingly, and begins with them.

  —Juvenal's Satire VI, "Against women" (c. AD 60–127), 6.O29-6.O34
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  1. What would be a good name for you right this moment?
    Grumpy

  2. How do you style your hair?
    Style? What's that? Some incomprehensible thing that females do?

  3. What's new in your life right now?
    Nothing much.

  4. How many colours are you wearing now?
    three

  5. you an introvert or extrovert?
    An introvert.

  6. What was the last book you read?
    Taking Chances by Shannon Guymon.

  7. Do you nap a lot?
    Quite a bit.

  8. If the person you secretly like is already taken, what would you do?
    Find someone else.

  9. Is there anything that has brightened your day lately?
    The snow outside.

  10. How many books are you currently reading?
    Four.

  11. How long does it take you to get ready in the morning?
    About 10-45 minutes depending on what I need to do and where I'm going that day.

  12. What websites do you visit daily?
    Fastmail.us, LJ... Others near-daily (4-5 times a week)

  13. Do you write fic? What was the last fic you wrote?
    Nope.

  14. Do you like to clean?
    I don't particularly care for eating up the block of time, but I do like to be able to get around. Call it I tolerate it.

  15. What's the last song that got stuck in your head?
    "Thank You" by Amy Diamond.

  16. What's the last movie you saw?
    I'm currently watching Dan In Real Life.

  17. Would you enter a relationship with your ideal partner, even if you knew he/she was seriously involved with/married to someone else and would never leave them?
    No. Absolutely not.

  18. What is your least favourite thing to do that you have to do every day?
    Wake up.




Video and lyrics )
dust in eyes, dust-in-eyes
I had a nice Monday - went to a party for one of my cousins. Didn't go to any of the other christmas parties or the singles dance last night - maybe next month I'll get to the singles dance.

Did take pictures of how cramped my room is right now - next entry, OK?

Also been chatting with an interesting person - maybe in a month or two...

Yesterday it seriously snowed for the first time, so I had to shovel us and my grandparents out.

Tonight I have a birthday party - except that I had double-scheduled something on top of it before I knew my family was going, so I might not go.

The movie of Twilight isn't as good as I thought it would be, but it's still decent. I think you'd have to be a fan in order to really like it. (I'm not, but I have read all the books and like them)

Also saw Vexille - I liked that one, and tried to watch Definitely, Maybe (which was cuter in the trailers than in the actual movie.)

This song reminds me of my last two girlfriends (Deidre and Erica) in Missouri - I have to admit I had a "learning experience" to call it the least with those two...

Lyrics and Video - Amy Diamond - Thank You )

Next few entries (what I've been listening to lately):
Gisela - Casanova (Andorra's entry)
Dima Bilan - Believe (Russia's entry, and the winner)
Amy Diamond - Rocking Around The Christmas Tree, Graduation Song
Billie Piper - Walk of Life
Agnes Carlsson and Måns Zelmerlöw - All I Want For Christmas Is You

Yes, my music seems to run in spurts, and right now, I'm on a Europop/Eurodance spurt.
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Lyrics and video - Charlotte Perrelli - Hero (Sweden's Eurovision 2008 entry - she won it for them in 1999 with 'Take Me To Your Heaven' - this time, only 18th in the final.) )
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Just listening to an interesting song, and thought I'd post the video and lyrics to it.

Did some Christmas caroling Monday night for the Single Adult FHE... that was fun, too. SHould have brough gloves, but I wasn't too cold otherwise.



Lyrics )
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OK. We're looking into work-at-home medical transcription jobs for my mom and I. Any ideas on places to contact, etcetera?
god, child, religion


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25th Oct 2008 12:35 pm - Posted using TxtLJ
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Well, i'm at the Single Adult conference in Tremonton. Should be fun, especially since I haven't been able to get to activities these last few months.
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