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I don’t know why she loves me. Anyways, here is an email from my wife that you may find of interest. I believe the post that she is referring to is “Multiple Personality Disorder, Depression, and Anxiety“.

I read Your blog and i saw what you said about me and MPD. i think you are rightr on allot, and we have had our days.. and as much as it has hurt it has been twice as wonderfull if not more.. As the years go by i find myself loveing you more and more.. i can’t think of life with out you…. last week i woke up in a cold sweat from a night mare and had an angxiaty atack that lasted for about 40 minets afterwards. i did not get sick but i had all the other debilitating effects at which point i just broke down and cryed. G Dot called that morning and came over and smoked after i took my meds and i started to feel allot better. i Also talked to mother befor he got here which also helped.. Lately i have been haveing Angxiaty and i’m not sure why.. but that morning when i woke up i woke up from a dream where i lost you…….

What scares me most is at this point in my life i feel i could handle anything *even my mothers death [which i have been mentaly preparing myself for for years now]* accept loosing you….i know we don’t always see eye to eye.. and i know some times we seem like strangers.. but you always come back to me and i always see your love for me in your beautifull eyes and i can not imagian being in any one elses arms when you hold me. You’re probably on your way home from work now.. Basicly i just want to say I Love You. Allot… and as long as you can handle me.. i’ll always be here.

It worries me that she wakes up with so many bad dreams where she is losing me. I don’t believe that I have lost her in any of my dreams yet. She has been angry at me in my dreams about things, but that is just about it.

Angel has many friends that come over to comfort her. I don’t mind it much because they can offer her the friendship that I can not. I’m a clam when it comes to emotions. I’ve been opening up with my emotions to her little by little. The thing though is that I live a little too deep inside my head. I don’t interact with the world much except through my occupation, shopping for supplies, and blogging.

Tags: Angel, Love, MPD, Wife, Anxiety, Depression, Dream, Nightmare, Worry, Marriage, Email, Multiple Personality Disorder, Time

Lewie at work,
originally uploaded by lewismoten.

I’m a really scrappy guy at work. I don’t shave often and my clothes are a mess. It’s a really classy environment. So how do I get away with it?

I’m a miracle worker. I have all the answers, or at least I can find them with speed. I am heavily multi-tasking throughout the day. If someone has a question, I stop what I am doing rite then and there and help them out.

It is a lot of hard work though. It beats my mind down from time to time to be doing so many things. What really beats me down most is if I am working on a difficult problem for which I can not see any leads to the answer for a long period of time.

This week has been a difficult one. With so many people communicating from different places and telecomuting, none of them can see that I’m working on other problems and that I’m busy. They do understand when I tell them, and a few even ask if I’m busy. When I am deep in thought on a problem, I get really agrivated when I see one of my messaging windows blinking for my attention. Argh … It’s tough to be smart.

It’s days like this when I just go home and go directly to bed. I do not pass “GO”. I do not collect $200.

Tags: Work, Scruffy, Hygene, Smart, Knowledge, Tired, Cube, Cubicle, Cube Farm, Multitasking, Messenger, Stress, Master

I just got an interesting piece of news from Geocaching.com. It appears that this fun sport is going to be featured on Law & Order next week.

May 8 - Geocaching featured on Law & Order: Criminal Intent

Geocaching is on the (fictional) police blotter next week! Set your VCRs or DVRs to record the May 8 episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent. The upcoming episode “The Unblinking Eye” reveals the plot “A young actor is wounded and his fiancée killed, leading detectives to look into a high-tech treasure-hunting game called geocaching.”

For those of you that don’t know what GeoCaching is, I’ll summarize. It is a treasure hunting game. People get a container and hide it in a tree hollow, under some rocks, or somewhere near by (but not burried under dirt). A few items are stashed in the container (known as a cache, prounced “cash”). Then, they take a GPS device and record the Longitude and Latitude coordinates. Once they get online, they tell the world where the container is located.

As a fellow GeoCacher, I look for these cordinates using my own GPS device. Once I get there I start looking around for the object. My GPS device is accurate within 35 feet in most places - so I have a 70 foot area to look for the treasure.

Once I find the cache, I log my visit and swap an item I have brought with something that I found in the container. These are usually kids toys that you would find in a cereal box, a happy meal, or at the dollar store. You can also find things like crayons, match box cars, and the likes.

Although the prizes are childs-play, the adventure is not. Treking to the location is a great way to find out about places that you didn’t know about in your own area and is a great way to meet people who may be on the same adventures. I’ve met two families so far.

Search my blog for "geocaching" and you’ll see what it’s all about and some pictures of the stuff I found.

Tags: GeoCache, GeoCaching, GPS, Treasure Hunt, Law & Order, TV, Game, Fun, Longitude, Latitude, Cache, Criminal Intent, Adventure

I often wonder who my wife is. Yes, I know her on many levels - but I still get a lot of questions wrong if I am asked. What is her favorite color? What does she like to eat? What kind of movies is she into? What is her favorite book?

It isn’t that I don’t know. I sometimes do know (or did). She has such a free spirit that her favorites change more often then I can keep up with. Sometimes it is on an hourly basis.

Any how, I saw a pin-up quiz over at Aurora Borealis’ blog that she posted her pin-up quiz results on. I decided that I would have a go at it and see if I know anything about my wife. Maybe I can talk her into taking the same quiz and see if we both think of her in the same way.

Here are my results:

You’re Brigitte Bardot, a sultry-eyed, pouty-lipped French beauty. You can bring a grown man to his knees with your little girl lost/sex kitten dichotomy. Make ‘em cry, gorgeous.

Dichotomy is a word that I hadn’t known before. I don’t think it applies to Angel. She has many more personalities then just these two. By the way - this is the same pin-up that Aurora got!

Here are her results:

You are Lili St. Cyr, artist of the burlesque stage. You bring drama and flair to everything you do. You are an innovator and a star, and an exotic beauty no other can match. Stay true to your calling, and you will be on top.

We actually chose the same answers for many of the questions. There were a few that neither of us really knew what to say. The good news is that both Pin-Ups fit her description very nicely.

Tags: Pin-Up, Wife, Model, Sexy, Quiz, Marriage, Angel, Thoughts, Brigitte Bardot, Lili St. Cyr, Beauty, Quizilla, Dichotomy

I was playing WarCraft and decided that I wanted to see how other classes of characters and races played out. I started off with a Dwarf Hunter since these guys can have pets. A nice thing that like is that they can shoot prey from a distance with a gun. I got my dwarf up to level 7 in a few hours and then went back to playing with my Night Elf Druid again.

The next day, I heard that priests were one of the most underplayed characters. I created an Undead Priest because it sounded like an oxymoron. After playing for an hour or so, I was invited to a guild. I joined up and found that the person who invited me was the guild owner.

I was asked my age and I replied 29. The guild owner was 29. Someone asked where I was from and I replied Woodbridge. The guild owner stated that he was from D.C. I said that I practically pass it every day near the mixing bowl on my way to Fair View Park. Oddly enough, he said he worked there too. From this conversation, I was thinking that they were putting me on, as I was giving out the information first that they could play on.

Fairview Park is a buisiness park of a few delux business buildings surrounding a Mariott hotel. The whole place looks like … a park. The guild owner worked in the building accross the pond. Interesting enough, I wokred in the building facing the pond. We were neighbors! He had just started working in Fairview just a week ago.

We met on Monday and I showed him the MTS building and the cafeteria where you have a really good selection of food to choose from. Today, we met up again and he brought a friend with him. It is so odd to have a life outside of work and the Internet. I can manually speak with this guy. How cool is that?

Tags: WarCraft, Characters, RPG, Night Elf, Druid, Friends, Life, Guild, Fairview, DC, MTS

As some of you are aware, my flickr accounts expiration has been doubled for what I had originally paid for (1 year) it since I paid for it while it was still in Beta. Along side of that, I also received two Flickr Pro accounts (1 year each) that I can give away. I’ve been giving some thought on how I want to give these away.

I want to have a contest where my readers dig deep into my past to find out a few things about me. So this is what I’m going to do. There will be 2 contests.

Lewies Challenge

The first contest is for you to come up with 10 questions with four multiple choice answers each that you would think are unique, interesting, and can be found on my blog. I’ll judge the entries and award the person who I think has really come up with some cool questions.

Submit as many entries as you want to lewismoten@gmail.com before May 7th. I also need your name, email, blog title, and blog address. If you win, I’ll contact you with further information.

Lewies Ultimate Challenge

I’ll take questions from different submissions that I find interesting (and maybe add a few of my own) and make a giant quiz to see how well you gals and guys really know me. If the first part of this a big success, then the later will be massively awesome.

I’ll try digging around here to see if I can come up with a 2nd and 3rd place prize as well.

Being funny can help you win, but make sure to keep these questions and answers clean.

Tags: Contest, Flickr, Challenge, Images, History, Lewie, Quiz, Idea, Question, Answer

I’ve recently been adding tags to each of my blog entries lately. I’ve been adding them at the bottom. A tag is pretty much blog-related. They are very much like keywords. I am able to put in a tag to let the technorati service know what my content relates to. In turn, they list it along with other blog entries that have the same kind of content.

With the blogger service, things are pretty limited when it comes to categories. The blogger folks suggest to create a second blog and use frames. Bah! I am looking into a way to categorize my entries using the Technorati tags.

So what does a tag look like? Here it goes:

<a href=”http://technorati.com/tag/[tagname]” rel=”tag”>[tagname]</a>

Simple eh? The cool thing is that you specify any URL you want in that HREF part of the link. You don’t have to link to Technorati. I’m always at a loss for trying to find places to link to, so I just link to the tag on Technorati by default. It’s a little slow though.

Eventually, I would like to build my own tag map of my website. If anyone has used Flickr, then you’ll know what I’m talking about. Flickr lets you assign tags to your images and you can navigate around your site by clicking the tags.

Anyhow, that is what the tags are all about. It seems that they are a little slow cataloging me, so I can’t realy give you an example of the end results with my own blog. However, clicking on the tags will take you to see links to other blogs that have been cataloged.

Tags: Tags, Technorati, Blogware, Links, Features, Code, HTML, Blog, Service, Experiment

I was up until 7:00 AM this morning playing WarCraft. I didn’t realize what time it was until I walked out of my bedroom and noticed there was daylight outside. I have all of my windows covered so that it is always dark in my room.

I took a short nap until Mom called to have me come and bring my sisters daughter over to visit as well as my nephew. I had a tough time waking up and Mom called me back to make sure I was getting up.

I ate a piece of cake from my sister in-laws boyfriends birthday party yesterday and then went about on my way. Mom wanted to stop by the store to pick up some ice cream and snacks for the kids while they were visiting. Angel wasn’t aware of the change of plans and left a message.