Author: RadialMonster

On September 2, 2008 we were married.

By October 6, 2008 she already left me.

I haven’t seen her since.

Still, I wait for her return and continue to see how much my love she is. Last night she kicked my ass in Starcraft. Although she insists it was because my computer was messing up, it wasn’t. She controlled all the resources and wiped out all the offenses I threw at her. I was left broke, with no way to gain more cash. I told her I love her, then gave up. She still continued to play for 30 more minutes, insisting on destroying every one of my buildings before ending the game.

That’s ok. She’s still a long way off on winning in Unreal Tournament.

I awoke on Saturday, July 5th 2008 morning in my hotel room in Washington DC. My Birthday. 31. As I was getting ready in the morning, I saw on the dresser beside my bed a happy birthday note from my girlfriend. I tore it from the notepad and stored it away in my suitcase. I went to her house and picked Mylene up for the days activities. I had already planned out the evening. But the day was basically open.

She wanted to go to the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. Facts about this temple from the wiki page include it being the largest Catholic church in the US, the eighth largest religious structure in the world, and even the tallest building in DC. There are 70 individual chapels within this one building. In my own words: it’s freaking huge. Me being not very religious, and definitely not Catholic, I was more interested in the idea of such as big ass building, seemingly inlaid with gold and various shiny things throughout. Ever nook and cranny seemingly has a little church, complete with altar, pews, and artwork on glass and or inlaid in the walls, floor, and ceiling. It is hard to convey the size of the main worship area, but this image gives a good example. Notice you can not see the ceiling. In the back above the pews is an enormous pipe organ. In front of the pews is a large ceremonial area I guess. To the left and right of the pews is a walkway, which connects to numerous other rooms that have their own chapel.

Then we went downstairs.

Downstairs is the crypt. The crypt is a large area with walls covered in names of people who I assume passed away and paid to have their name put up there. In the crypt, there are also numerous small chapels, and then one really large chapel. In the back was another larger pipe organ. They were doing a ceremony in there so we did not walk around much.

I created a Photosynth of the church. I suggest clicking on Grid view to get to different sections of the church, and then switch back to 3D view to navigate. Not all of the images meld together, so a full walk through can’t be completed, only due to that I did not take a picture of every single wall and area. But clicking the Grid view and choosing a new part, then 3D will give you another area to tour. There’s plenty of pictures of this place on my flickr you may enjoy if you’re into the church thing.

Afterwards, she found the way to the nearest metro station where we did the park and ride. I figured we’d be abandoning the vehicle here for the night so I got all my belongings.

We decided to go towards food while wasting some time until my evening plans. We got off the metro and went into the National Portrait Gallery. There’s paintings and photographs of American history and the people involved. Lots of famous paintings of each president here.

You absolute mother fuckers. I’m pointing at you spammers, or spam bots or whatever. Gaining access to my website, (actually my other website, whootah.com, I need to check this one out too) and spyfully adding in hidden div’s and links and funky things to dvd movie downloads of all sorts of shit. Take a sneak peek at the back end area, and look carefully at the html coding to find the hidden messages. These have been there for weeks, and today I just noticed them. Now I have to go through each post and clean up this mess. Sigh.. You should check out your page code also if you have anything similar. Screenshots below. If you see any weird looking posts let me know as I may screw up some of the real code deleting the spam code.

In other news. I’ve started a while back using a content delivery network for some of the larger videos at my sites. Hopefully, you’ve never noticed it but if you’ve downloaded the 2 latest videos you probably actually got them from elsewhere. Enjoy the large download files and speeds. Eventually I’ll get all the large versions up. I’ve also switched to using Vimeo for the streaming of video, and may switch that in house via the cdn also. Why Vimeo? Less bullshit, more mature users, awesome looking page with customizations, ability to download the file, and the key thing is videos are not limited to 10 minutes.

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Armed with a new interest, we started to talk quite a bit. Luckily I already purchased an unlimited text message plan. We talked about how great a time we had before, that perhaps this could turn into something. But how exactly could that happen. It’s not like she was right down the road and we could go out. Not to mention, her family didn’t really want us to see each other anyway. While I was there, they grilled me on why I was in VA Beach, and just couldn’t believe that I came up there just to see Mylene. Their parting words were much more Nice to see you have a good life, than It was good to introduce you into the family hope to see you again. With growing frustrations by not only that, but other things going on, she looked at other options. She had some family in Florida she could stay with who were already wanting to meet me. She talked with them a bit about moving down there, as they didn’t have a problem with Mylene and I but I had to explain that Florida was much farther away than Virginia and that just wouldn’t work. Finally, she ended up moving in with some family in Maryland, just outside of Washington DC.