Dan Mayer's Blog

To all the old friends out there, that you never see enough, email enough, or call enough... because it is so great when you finally do hear from one of them.

Best wishes to everyone, your all in my thoughts.

Well I don't have much to say right now. I am just amazed by the way things work sometimes. Sometimes stupidity just makes you want to give up, what is the point of trying when the stupidity of the world just never ends. Oh well perhaps it is just stress, perhaps it was just a bad day, perhaps, perhaps... either way I am not in a good mood right now, this hasn't been the best week.

After people wanting the reviews in alphabetical order for years, I actually found the code to do it today, I was working on other parts of the site, but it is quite cool to finally have that feature finished... So onward to the next biggest complaint what should I be doing to make the Energy Drink Reviews site better?

While the weather may not agree,
this week feels much better for me.

Anyways, it was a mildly crazy stressful week last week at work. Then a mildly crazy weekend. I had my car battery die on me when I was running late (stupid auto dome light), which just seemed to top off my anger and frustration. Luckily a good friend always willing to help hopped out of a bar, walked home, grabbed his car (only 1 beer were good), came and gave me a jump. So to the friend, I want to give one big hell of a shout out, glory be to all things Inappropriate Dave. Seriously I am glad to have you as a friend.

So after some fun, a good workday, and some relaxing, everything seems back on track and going much better. So while I haven't gotten a chance to write about my various thoughts and reflections over the last few weeks many things have passed through my mind. In time perhaps I will find a moment to spill some of my mind onto these electronic pages for my friends, family, and spies to pick through and ponder on. Until then stay tuned for the same Bat time on the same Bat channel...

I need time to paint or work on some drawings... who wants to lend me a day?

Flobots USA went down for about 5 days, it is back up and better than ever with a few new fixes, and hopefully some more features just around the corner.

The Flobots will be rocking out a show this Sunday in Boulder that Dave is putting on so you should be there.

Many thanks to Ruby and its dev log for saving the flobots DB that was almost lost in a weird mystery. I am starting to dig, Ruby pretty well.

So sometimes your cleaning through your desktop and bookmarks, so you find all sorts of little goodies, from simple things like, Cool eye trick, Cool Sketching, and Words to live by. You also wonder if you spend to much time on the computer and you should follow others advice about, Why every man should lift weights or visiting the 12 great places you haven't heard of. I guess it all just depends on your happiness and what you like, but sometimes you do wonder, is Hef really having a better time at the Playboy Mansion than you are at home? I don't know, but I feel like I cleaned house a little bit and hopefully shared some of the weird things that pass through my head.

Some days they make me proud to be a nerd...

This just cracks me up,
Mozilla Bug Report

Well where am I, in my little trip of life? Could I possibly know how far I have come or gone? I don't really know I feel like I am exactly where I need to be, but at the same time I don't ever remember dreaming of this part of my life as a kid. Being perfectly happy, amazingly happy, but completely unsure of which way to direct my life (in my dreams their is only one path).

Should I really be pursuing the things I do? Follow love at all costs? Should I work harder, make more, or do this and do that? Is this the feverish early 20's where I have my last big chance to really focus and make a discovery and change the world and it's thinking on a topic, because hardly any of the great discoveries and ideas come out of people over 30? Why focus on that if I will miss the chance to start a family? Is starting a family as good or better than a world changing idea in your field? Is spreading love and happiness to and through the people more important than just spreading it through your family? Are those the same things. I don't know, I feel like I am completely on track, headed the right way, but still as lost as ever on this trip through life.

I used to really believe the older adults, the parents, the teachers, the married couples, and such had this all figured out, but they don't. As I have become older, as I have had more real conversations with these people. I realize they are very good at many things and can always teach you, but they are never more sure of their life or the choices they have made in the past, than I am as I make my choices today and tomorrow. So here is a day and night that I think I made only the right choices, and I lay my head down happily to the pillow to sleep and dream of all the perfect possibilities of my future. I am scared and excited... So what do you think are we as a world headed the right way?

Well there is a quick 30 second brain dump of the things I think about now a days when left to my own devices... I stare off thinking about this and the world to a beat in my head, one that I would surely attempt to rap to if I had a drink or two... hehe

It is 3:20 in the morning and the wine party is over, and it was great.

Well thanks to everyone that helped make the party such a success, we were tired and had to drive down to Boulder to see a show, but coming back cleaning wasn't too bad. I was feeling pretty good all day just tired. Erin had a little head ache, but while cleaning up we found that we had gone through 15 bottles of wine. Seeing as at the peak we probably had 15 or so people, it looks like each person had a bottle of wine, which is a pretty good ratio.

Pictionary was a blast as per usual, and it was great to see some friends that we haven't seen for awhile. So thanks for coming by, and for bringing delicious wine and snacks. It is great to see some many friends just having a great time and smiling together.

peace...

I don't think Score her has been getting enough attention lately, perhaps we haven't put enough time into it, but for awhile the site was doing quite well, now it is doing OK, but on a down swing. I think my writer friend has done a great job writing for the site, and we are now over 200 articles strong, which is pretty sweet. We get decent search engine traffic, but our article links are pretty low. So I am asking my friends, readers, and bloggers out there to check it out and link up their favorite post. Just pick one you found interesting, amusing, or informative... trust me karma will get you back sometime soon, and it always feels good to help spread the word...

Some of my favs:
Mind your manners
Hot Girl Syndrome
Women Only Want Tall Men

So go find some articles you like and link em up, Dating advice articles

Tuttle a personal shout to you for this one.... because I also think your writing is under appreciated!

I am lame this will be like the 3 year in a row I don't have any outfit planned, nor do I really have time to figure one out for Halloween. So I will through something lame together the night of some costume event (likely the flobots Halloween show). Anyways apparently to get into the spirit of the holiday celebrating, the killing of witches in New Salem, as best I have gathered, we went to haunted houses last night. I haven't been to a haunted house in 4 or 5 years, so it was amusing, we went with a bunch of Erin's friends after grabbing some really good Mexican food. There were a bunch of 13-15 year olds, kids that were dropped off by their parents. Some older 16-18 year olds, then a very small amount of people our age. I felt old, but overall it was still a fun good time. The girls screamed and ducked, while the boyfriends laughed and held onto them, funny and amusing, but at $50 for two people to go through the haunted houses, I really can't imagine how it was worth the money. (just for others we went to the 13th door, and Curse of Slaughterhouse Gulch")

After a night of frights, we all got together at my place chatted had a beer then headed out down town and went dancing. It was a good time, fun stories, a couple drinks, some good dancing pictures, and a long cold walk home at the end of the night. Anyways, it was fun to go out with a group of all Erin's friends, then come back and stay up talking until about 4 in the morning, I didn't really accomplish anything yesterday except taking my friend to the airport at 4:45 in the morning, but I had a good time.

Anyways suggestions for quick, easy, and fun Halloween costumes?

It looks like a friend of the flobots released their video for handlebars. It is worth taking a look...

Flobots Handlebars video

I am looking for new apartments all around Denver if anyone sees any really good deals please let me know.

It is fun to go grocery shopping when your in a relationship you talk about all the nice meals you will make together, talk about your future. Sometimes it is nice to be the sickenly cute couple. We were walking around the grocery store arms around each other, being that couple and I just thought well we should just enjoy it now because soon she will be in Honduras.

We did the Halloween Flobots concert Friday night which was a good time. Dave, Erin, and I went to the show. I still haven't been feeling that well so I was DD, Erin and Dave got there drink on and I got to meet a good friends new lady so that was nice. The show was great, and they played a new song for the first time that sounded awesome.

Last night we went to Erin's old house in Boulder for a costume party. It was a pretty good time, both nights we went out, I dressed as dead Shrek, Erin painted my face, it was fun. Erin went as a masquerade person to the show, then she was a cereal (morning food) killer on Saturday night. So we all enjoyed ourselves and Erin got to see a bunch of old friends so that was nice. It was also nice to drive around Boulder a bit, just to see some of the crazy and really well done costumes. I have said it before and I will say it again, Denver doesn't know how to do Halloween like Boulder.

If you haven't heard I am in the news all over from a AP article on energy drinks, yippie for that so here is one of the many reprints of the article...

Energy drinks in the news!