Erin Hughes.com

I am slightly dissapointed. Friday night I saw a few friends I hadn't seen in a long time and one commented how my face was skinnyer and that I looked like I lost some wieght. YEAH!!!! But then Saturday night I stayed at my buddy Bawdos house and got on his scale and it said I was 93 kilos. WTF? That is heavier than I have ever been and I have been dieting my ass off. Only Diet Cokes, and only one beer a night at home..... almost every night. But damm 93 kilos I am sure I have lost some weight in the waist and I have been excessing too. Damm 93 kilos Bawdo you need to get that scale fixed. E./

So we were all talking about our desktop preferences and what we love/hate. I use KDE 3.5. I started on Gnome and tried XFCE and am thinking of going back to that. On my next install but it will have to have KDE installed cause of 2 favorite programs konsole and Amarok. To me every thing else is the same cause I use the same set of applications no matter what the desktop is. Firefox, Thunderbird, and Gedit. Allot of people say that KDE has too much eye candy and is to clunky. Not so sure about that. So I thought I would post some shots of my desk top so you can know how I roll. I use virtual desktops ALLOT and my layouts are highly dependent on what is happening in each one. Top right is my main work window. I have a long window for working on different servers and Konsoles tabs help keep the servers separated. In the same window I have my IRC client SCREEN/IRSSI and Gedit open below that to use as a paste buffer and for making notes. Then 2nd and 3rd desktops (clockwise) are pretty simple Thunderbird and Amarok on one and Firefox on the other. Usually they are full screen but here I was just showing off some of my photos. Finally the bottom right is the my 4th desktop and is mostly my personal workspace. Posts to my blog Digg and what ever else I am reading up on and in the konsole my personal servers including the local desktop, in case I need to start a program or grab something from home. I have a tool bar at the top of the screen but it is the absolute smallest it can be and the only icons that it has are running programs and 3 to start my most frequently used programs. I might consider loosing it all together but I like the clock there. I know some people may not set things up that way but really this is how I work and it works well for me. I recently started working on some key bindings to make it quicker to get around but I haven't gotten to any thing that I find really use full. YET. KDE may be a bit of a drag CPU wise but I really pleased with it and I have managed to bend it to my will so it is good for me. Let me know what you think. E./

Why Chris? I knew Chris Beniot the same way millions of people did from what he said and did every week on TV in the WWE. I thought he was a great wrestler and a seemed to be a great man as well. Apparently I was wrong. From ABC News -- " June 25, 2007 Font Size Wrestling star Chris Benoit, his wife, Nancy, and their 7-year-old son, Daniel, were found dead in their suburban Atlanta home Monday. The deaths are being investigated as a possible suicide and double homicide, authorities told ABC News. " Why Chris? There are so many times that my wife says or does stuff that completely makes me loose my temper. Never that completely. Never even enough to raise my hand to her. If it was that bad then why not LEAVE? From Wikipiedia--- " police are investigating Benoit's house following the discovery of the bodies. Lieutenant Tommy Pope of the Fayette County Sheriff's Department reported to ABC News that sheriffs entered his home on a "welfare check" after missing several appointments, leading to concerns. Pope also stated the police are not searching for any suspects outside of the house, as the instruments of death were located at scene of the crime. The same day Detective Bo Turner of the Fayette County Sheriff's Department told television station WAGA-TV that the case was being treated as a murder-suicide, and the station reported that investigators believe that Benoit murdered his wife and son over the weekend and committed suicide sometime on Monday." I seriously hope that Detective Bo Turner was wrong. Killing your own son?? WTF??? I think we can all agree that there is nothing that a 7 year old can do to deserve this. Why Chris?

RIP The Crippler??? FUCK The Crippler

You bitch! You killed your own son!

I hope you FUCKING ROT YOU PIECE OF SHIT.

RIP Nancy Daus, and Daniel Benoit these are the lives we should mourn the loss of.

E./ [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Benoit

As I sit here now my neck and shoulders are sore and stiff. My knees are scrapped and swollen, my right calf still has a knot in it that I can not stretch or massage out and my left elbow is black and blue but still operational. Yesterday I played my first full game for theTokyo Gaijin Rugby Football Team. I feel great! It has been a long time since I felt that much a part of something and worked myself that hard. I knew rugby as that other game like football when I was a kid but I never played. I have been going to practice for the past few months and learning the drills and trying not to get in the way to much which is possibly the hardest part for me. Going into the match there was a bit of a downer mood. The team we were up against was Ryutzu Keizai Daigaku. A college team full of young studs who were very well drilled and practiced together 4 times a week. The feeling was that we were gonna get killed. That was till Shaunne scored a try on the first kick to us. Instantly the doom and gloom was gone and we were ready to bring the pain to these young bucks. The first half went well and for myself I tried to stay in the game and in the right position. It is tough on a constantly shifting pitch just as I think I am in the right place things shift and I need to adjust... but I am catching on. Within minutes I was involved more than I am usually in practice. It seems like a mistake every time the ball lands in my hands but I tried to make the most of it. I do not think I directly caused any turnovers, which was a personal goal of mine. I had a great pitch to Shaunee that I threw a moment too late and took a pretty hard shot for it, causing me to move a little slow for a few minutes, not that I ever move that fast. A few minutes later Al took the ball up field and got hit HARD by 2 guys and went down. I was the only one there to pick up the ball and pass it away.....My mind was in a panic I had no Fing idea what to do but I saw Al do it. So I did like he did picked up the ball and stepped back and pitched the ball to Sato-san another new guy like myself, who charged ahead another 5 to 10 meters and went down but by now the rest of the team was there and I did what I was supposed to and charged right over top of Sato-san and with some help from Mike and Dave drove the opposition back off the ball and gave our guys time to set up. In the first half there were so many brilliant plays by the rest of the team. Joe and Mauro's brute force, never give up, charging forward tries. There was so much happening I could not take it all in. I didn't cause a turnover but right towards the end the first 1/2 someone pointed out #9 on the opposite side and the likely hood of him getting the ball. From my angle as blind side flanker I could see him perfectly and knew if I saw him with the ball in the next 10-15 seconds that I was going to level him. Almost. Everything went exactly as planned the scrum the kick back of the ball their players and the pitch to #9. He was mine I zeroed in RUNNING AT FULL SPEED. ARMS OUT READY FOR CONTACT.... I closed my eyes for a split second in anticipation of the contact. BLAM! In that split second he switched direction JUST enough that I could not get a solid hit/grab on him. He bounced right off me like he was rubber and made it another foot before Al who is 1/2 my size completely dropped him. --Pissed I realized my mistake and promised not to make it again. Although I am rarely in a position to make a hit that cleanly. In the first 1/2 the team saw allot of success and played well as a team but we were getting worn down. But so was the opposition. We had them out sized and out played and there frustration was starting to show in the mistakes intentional or not they were making. At times it seemed they were blatantly cheating other times they just seemed to be dumb to the rules. To compound the problems the referee was new and a member of our opposition team. This caused us all to get a BIT hostile. Embarrassingly so as it was pointed out afterworlds. Lawrence had an outstanding hit on in which he hit the guy so hard or at the correct angle that caused the ball to pop out and stopped what was a sure try. Gas another guy who came out for his first time. In the 2nd 1/2 and ran down a guy going for a try that I could not have dreamed of catching. My final debacle of the game came when the ball was kicked high down the pitch near where I was. I charged for the ball as Jo another player came up for it. Sensing Jo was going to get it I simply obstructed the player from the other team by slowing down in front of him and placing my legs where he was tring to run. That move earned me the GOAT of the game. My hope was to trip the guy coming down the field. It was also my hope that the reff would see the blatant trip and realize he had been letting too much shit slide. Alas that is not my job, that is the Capitan and Coaches jobs. I will try to address my grievances through them in the future. We were up by 2 tries at the half. When it was all said and done we lost by 2 tries (I believe). But all was not lost we kept our heads, about the game and continued to play AS A TEAM! Something we had been struggling with the past few games. At a huddle after the game Mike said something that made me feel the best about playing. "We did well as a team because of the people who have been showing up to practice every week, learning the moves and plays and practicing the basics of the game." I am one of those people. We went upstairs and drank some beer and talked about the match. I was a little bummed out that some of our real core players did not opt to hang out and join us. A team on and off the field. I also understand we all have other commitments to other people besides the team. This was evident when Eric and I turned up at home at 7 pm to a VERY understandably angry wife. I did tell her we would be home at 4 pm....... whoops. I am still working on being perfect.