goodnight moon.
there comes a time to say goodbye,… mine should have come a year ago. i stopped writing anything here due to many things … two life changing relationships, my daughter being born (and her other mother kept me quite busy during her pregnancy), my professional life taking off like i could have never expected, etc.
99% this is what i have been doing.
currently i’m doing more photography than i could have ever dreamed of and loving it, working on a book that i had thought of writing for over a year, and am working on a new music project that looks like it might develop into a new band. i have been working on a new website, but it will be at least another two months before it’s ready to go.
so for now i am currently using:
http://fallenaphrodite.tumblr.com
http://twitter.com/fallenaphrodite
i’ve enjoyed this blog and all it was/could have been. so this is my goodbye here, however it would not be proper if i didn’t share some recent pictures.
if we were straight we'd be even more deadly together.
playing in the rain
Andrew, myself, & Vanessa.
Meagan, Derek, & Jenn = three of my favorites.
perfection.
The Changing face.
Every now and then life gets a few bumpy rocks in the road. Occasionally these rocks are actually boulders that leave behind some holes to get stuck in. Some times you need to get rid of the clutter, smooth it all out, and start looking at things with a new perspective.
Orange Elephants blog, is changing.
The blog largely in-active for awhile now will be coming down, and possibly re-booted as part of a larger personal portfolio/website I am developing. What this means folks is that OE-Blog will no longer be for multiple people, and will have some more focused direction.
Ugghhh
I needed a place to vent and I suddenly remembered that there was this wonderful blog that my friend let me post random things on….. so here I am again!
A little background. I had been married for the last 6 years to what I thought was a wonderful woman. The last few years have been very hard. Her mother passed away and it was tough for her, but I was there for her every step of the way. Then December 3rd, 2008, 3 days before his 13th birthday, my son Cameron passed away. I got the phone call while I was at work on a towboat in Southern Louisiana. She sounded distraught and hysterical. I couldn’t believe what was happening.
She went with me to the hospital where he was placed on life support until they could get a hold of me to make the decision to pull the plug. I hope nobody ever has to go that. Anyway, after that, she seemed distant. I could not figure out why. Little did I know that since October, she was seeing another man. Ugh. I don’t really want to go into details, but how sad is that. What kind of person does that? A tramp… that’s what kind of person does that.
All I wanted from the whole marriage was my ferret Nemo. I gave her the house… the car… most of our possessions (I kept the PS3, Wii and my computers), and even gave her all the furniture. Just let me have Nemo!!! But nooooo, she had to be difficult. I thought we were gonna have to have joint custody lol. Finally after a heated discussion, I made her so mad that she went outside to smoke and I quickly snatched him up and took off like a bat out of hell! That’ll show her!
Anyway, I’m slowly getting back my old self and I decided to get back in the swing of things. So here I am! I’ll probably post quite a bit more often now, so put on your seatbelts because my thoughts can get very random at times. :)
it’s the face of a bright new age
Assignment Day 5
I have returned! What took me away from blogging,.. mainly being social. So right now I’m ignoring my phone in an attempt to resume my week of favorite things. Before I get into that though a brief what I have been up to …
McKenzie has left for Florida which has saddened me greatly, so he shall be recording his parts of the album there and mine I will be doing in not so sunny New York. I have had the pleasure of hearing the next Draculatron album which will be coming out in late April/early May. All I can say is your minds will be blown away … however my lips are sealed about everything else with the album. Aside from music I decided to start working at the only gay bar in the city, of course right after I decided upon this more lesbian drama than all six season of The L Word broke out. I am Switzerland, end of story.
I have evolved. (and yes I'm wearing glitter)
Time for my favorite things that start with the letter “T”:
Tea
Required for warm spring mornings.
Techno
It’s been an addiction for over ten years.
Do you remember what life was like before twitter? I don’t.
Tattoos
I enjoy tattoos that have stories, special meanings, etc. Personally right now stars hold a certain power over me.
The L Word
This should be quite predictable and should need no explaination.
The Frustrations of too many social-networking options.
Today the word on the inter-webs is buzz. You know, that new google thing?
So this brings the question to my mind of how many things I really need. I thought I had it set up pretty darned efficiently. I have a facebook which I rarely ever actually drop by the actual site unless I get a message notification to my email. I have GTalk and MSN for communication, GReader for checking all my RSS feeds and Blogs. My Twitter is just about the only thing I actually GO to outside of my actual GMail (which subsequently has my chat and reader). Twitter feeds to facebook, and now to my Gbuzz which then updates my GTalk Status. What more do I need?
Well a while back I tried to use GamerDNA to keep track of my gaming. I’m honestly curious how much I play. Theres a problem here however, it doesn’t ever seem to want to feed to my Twitter no matter how many times I tell it to. It isn’t picking up on game-play it says it should, so I have to manually go to the site and update. Which wouldn’t be so bad if they had a bulk-updater so I could go once a week and say I played a game X amount of days. They don’t I have to manually click each and every day and what games I played and when and how long. Which is frustrating to say the least.
So along comes RAPTR, which I found via some folks twitter updates. They offer a downloadable client which boasts the ability to detect when your playing a computer game, and will let you get your Gtalk/MSN/ect for communications. Cool. They also pull all the info off the XBOX360 so you don’t have to go to the site to update that. But it doesn’t (yet) support auto-updating from the Wii as far as I can tell. It also isn’t pulling down my past info from STEAM – no auto-feature there either. Then there is the PS3 which I’ve been playing MAG on quite frequently lately. They say SONY doesn’t like to share, so they did at one point (apparently) have it going to your PS3 profile page (which is new by the way) and grabbing that info, but have since taken that functionality out. Darnit all sony! I really don’t want to go more places than I have to! Bah, at least Raptr links to it I guess.
It would be nice if Raptr also supported additional PS3 accounts since most of the time I don’t sign off Zehaeva’s and into my own. That won’t really matter until SONY decides to allow us players to track our game-play live anyway. While I’m on the topic of sony and MAG let me just point out one more frustration. The new sony-player site does track trophies, but not game-play time as far as I can tell. MAG has some awesome non-trophy related stats (similar to what you might find in most mmo’s) medals and ribbons, detailed characters stats ect. Neither the MAG site or the SonyPS3 Player page show this info! Or at least not that I can find.
All of this however will auto-update to twitter, and thus to everything else of mine. Then I discovered something. I would have thought their desktop client would mean I don’t have to go to raptr.com to update my PS3/Wii play status. Nope, there doesn’t appear to be an option for it. I have to go to the site, and manually tell the darned thing what I am playing! Well, since it IS feeding to twitter its a step in the right direction I suppose. So now I have a GamerDNA, a Steam account, and a Raptr account all trying to track various aspects of my gaming.
I wish it were all simpler somehow. In my mind the less places I have to go, the better.
So, Gbuzz. What can YOU do for me? Well so far it’s receiving twitter feeds, and I saw somewhere it was supposed to grab your Greader stuff too. Perhaps its only the Greader stuff you manually tell to share. The in-line conversations (similar to those in facebook) are interesting, and it pokes me in my email so I know more happened to the thread. Convenient for forgetful me but it might become annoying at some point if I start using it heavily.
On the other hand… there is some functionality I wish it had. If it does I haven’t found it yet.
1: It will pull in twitter, but only my updates so I still have to go to twitter to see everyone else chit-chat.
2: It doesn’t seem to support facebook connectivity, so again If I want to read whats happening in facebook I have to go to facebook.
3: Why can’t I update my status directly IN buzz and have IT send off to twitter/facebook? Or even just twitter since twitter forwards to facebook for me?
Bah. So let’s see here, I have to…
1: Use Raptr to update game-play info which forwards to twitter>Facebook/Buzz.
2: Use twitter which forwards to Facebook/Buzz…
3: Go to facebook to see what the people who don’t use buzz or twitter are saying.
4: Go to twitter to see what my twitter peeps are saying.
5: Go to buzz to see what conversations are going on there.
This seem’s like an awful lot of effort on my part.
Assignment Day 4
So this should have been done yesterday, but I was busy celebrating AzureCrush’s birthday … which was a perfectly good reason to drink a bit of vodka on a Monday. Of course it was also a good reason to get a group of lesbians together somewhere other than the bar.
02.08.10 we probably could have fit more people on the bed
So before I go off to do my running around and go to the gym here are my favorite “M” things for my belated Monday post.
Mocha
The taste of autumn for me is a well made cafe mocha.
Music
It is my life, it is my true love.
Mangos
My absolute favorite fruit.
Matches
I prefer matches over lighters any day, the smell of a match after it goes out is one of my favorite smells.
Malibu
If I am going to be drinking rum, it better be Malibu. Entertaining tweets happen after consuming Malibu.
Mayorga
If I could only drink one type of coffee for the rest of my life this would be it. Absolute favorite and absolutely perfect.
Assignment Day 3
So I didn’t roll out of bed until about 2pm today. Last night a group of us went to Albany to celebrate AzureCrush’s birthday (which is Monday). When I woke I was still covered in glitter (I love glitter!) however it seems to get on everything and never wants to come off. Anyway Kayla let me have a cup of coffee before dragging me off to the gym for over two hours, it is quite awesome that she is so motivated. So now that my short day has already been productive it is time to continue the pattern with more of my favorite “S” things for Sunday:
Assignment Day 2
It has been such a lovely Saturday for Central New York in winter. Spent most of it working on music, but now lets move on to my favorite “S” things:
Studded Belts
There’s something quite sexy about girls that wear studded belts well.
Sangria
I love red wine, so my love for sangria is a given.
Sunsets
Pacific coast sunsets are nothing like what we have in NY, they make me want to fall in love.
Seattle’s Best
I am a coffee addict, and Seattle’s Best comes in second on my list of favorite coffee.
Skinny Dipping
Do I even need to explain?
South of Nowhere
One of my favorite television shows, still wish there had been a fourth season. Also wish there had been something like this on when I was coming out as a teenager.
Assignment Day 1
