By the way...I'm a Virgo.

Call it something neurotic if you will but I have a certain way of working. Sometimes that way of working clashes with the way others in my lab work especially those that I work closely with. So I'm going to compare and contrast the way I work with the way others work in my lab.

-Adam likes to plan his work in advance by using a piece of technology called a calendar.
-Others like to do their work in no particular temporal progression.

-Adam likes to make sure he has all of the necessary materials before he starts something.
-Others like to throw conniption fits when they find that they are missing a key component after passing the rubicon.

-Adam likes to think about the execution of his experiments before he attempts them.
-Others like to make up the strategy as they go along which usually results in something being spilled.

-Adam likes to complete one task before starting another.
-Others like to stop something midway and commence something totally unrelated in an attempt to "save time."

-Adam has a positive outlook on new endeavors and embraces when things go wrong and learns from them.
-Others like to be pessimistic from the start and get discouraged and depressed when things don't go according to plan.

-Adam likes to stick to the original plan that he made so as to avoid error and confusion.
-Others like to change aspects of their experiment as they go along and end up with confounding results that are inexplicable.

Sometimes my patience on these issues wears very thin and my cordial jocular nature is pushed to extreme limits. There are times when I wish I could just do everything on my own. Did I mention that I'm a Virgo?

Congrats and Thank You!

I'd like to congratulate some fellow bloggers/podcasters for making it into the top 100 in the Audio blog category on iTunes!

Coming in at number is fellow gay Dallas podcaster the catty Michael Glenwick who does his podcast with his hag Fonda Cox.


Coming in at 31 is the loveable and candid Nathan from Nathan Exposed.


Coming in a 57 is the modestly sexy bottom from Boise, Donnie of Fresh N' Tasty.


And me at number 94! Thanks for listening everyone! I cannot tell you how flattered I am. So cool, thanks again!


Oh and also everyone, register your podcast or check out podcasts at QPodder. Its a great place to find other GLBT podcasters and also opt to have your feed added to the NellyGator feed aggregator. A big thanks to the PodMother of us all Madge Weinstein for putting those two resources together.

Krebs Cast #9

In this cast I discuss how I self medicate when I'm stressed out, childood nightmares, and memories from my Catholic past.

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A Texas Sized Conundrum

For those of you that do not know in November Texans will go to the polls to elect a new governor. The incumbent, Rick Perry, is disliked by and large and as long as Diebold doesn't have anything to do with the election he will most likely not survive. That leaves us with Carole Keeton Strayhorn, the tough talking Texas grannie who turned Independent so as to be assured a spot in the race. The Democrat, Chris Bell who spoke at a Stonewall Democrats gathering last year in Dallas and refused to utter the words "gay" and "marriage" in succession but was very keen on saying "civil unions" over an over again. And finally, the other independent with Jesse Ventura's campaign manager at his side, Kinky Friedman, the ex country western signer turned mystery novelist who has gone on record saying he supports gay marriage but also supports prayer in school.

Here's the rundown.

Strayhorn is not really an Independent. She makes no effort to hide that she is a Republican and that she changed parties so as to avoid losing to Perry in the primaries. I think she might be trying to play the Ann Richards card by presenting herself as a straight talking Texas grannie but I'm concerned her politics are no different than the usual song and dance of Rick Perry. The last thing we need is to see more sessions of the state legislature wasted on issues like redistricting and gay marriage while the state budget, education, and state infrastructure go ignored. However it is early and we'll see what she has to say in the coming months.

FYI: the Texas legislature does not meet year round. They meet for only a portion of the year and attempt to tackle all the issues during that time. Sometimes perverts get distracted by things like rigid cock going up supple ass and nothing gets accomplished.

Bell is a Democrat...err strike that. Pansycrat. He is your typical run of the mill slippery pete who likes to say all the right things so as to not offend anyone. How I feel about that kind of political posturing was put very eloquently in an article by Molly Ivans this past weekend on CommonDreams.org. Her atricle, I Will Not Support Hillary Clinton for President, highlights everything thats wrong with the populist politically correct failure factory that is called the Democratic Party, or as she calls it "Republican-lite." I refuse to get whisked up in the anyone but (insert Republican nemesis of Democratic candidate name here) frenzy ever again. I want some real leadership with definitive stances on every issue that cannot be labeled as centrist. Again, its early and we'll see if Bell can present himself as a strong leader.

Finally we have Kinky Friedman. He certainly is different. He speaks his mind and is not an insider to politics. He says he supports gay marriage but that topic is moot now in Texas after the passing of Proposition 2, but at least he said it and that counts for something in my book. My reservations with him are: He supports non-demoninational prayer in public schools and can he really deliver or is he just hoping that everyone is so disgusted by the other candidates that the public will chose him?

I'll be watching the candidates in the coming months and its going to be difficult to make up my mind. Texas has a very colorful history in the realm of state politics and I think this race is truly up for grabs. Texans have been unpredictable in the past and I think the recent indictments of Delay may have opened the flood gates of a free political system in Texas again. It may come down to stances on a handful of issues or the overall package, I don't know. One thing I know is that I will vote my conscience this election year and avoid the pull of the party line.

Curmudgeonly Yours, Adam.

I feel exactly like Tornwordo today. I have nothing to say thats all that insightful or interesting but unlike my fellow blogger I am going to bitch and moan.

The reasons why today sucks (with commentary from the voices of Adam's Mom and Dad that exist in his head):

-I had to wake up early for weekly lab meeting. (Deal with it.)

-I forgot that I had an experiment to analyze today and therefore skipped lab meeting to prepare for that in a hurry. (Thats your own fault. You should have checked your calendar before leaving work on Friday.)

-Did not have time for breakfast. Nobody is safe from the wrath of a hungry Sicilian. (Oh poor baby. You have to have something to tell your therapist later.)

-I had to make my coffee with tap water because I didn't have time to stop and buy spring water on the way to work for my coffee machine. I believe that good coffee starts with good water. (Again, deal with it.)

-Only drank half of my cup of coffee before it got cold because I was preparing for the experiment I forgot about and didn't have time to enjoy my coffee and blogs in the morning when I got to work. (Shouldn't you be working when you get to work in the morning?)

-I deeply deeply dislike moving. (Sometimes you have to do things that you don't like to do, thats life kiddo.)

-I deeply deeply dislike that one has to apply nasty stinky grey primer to a wall before painting it "Vintage Merlot." (Did someone force you to paint the dining room that color? You made your bed now sleep in it.)

-I'll be too tired to go to the gym after work today. (I think you'll live. Stop pouting and get to work.)

I think thats it. I feel like I'm 14 again and the world is against me. I have to admit that I'm somewhat enjoying my angsty emotions but its taking a lot of effort to keep my causticity from boiling over onto my colleagues. Hopefully I'll simmer down by the end of today. Wow, I'm a high maintenance bitch aren't I? Love ya Mom and Dad!

My Desktop

I'm late in doing this but better late than never. Fellow Dallas blogger Sam from Madlife was curious what all of our desktops look like. Here is mine. Let me just say that my desktop image changes every five minutes (a feature of OSX that I love to use) and this is the one that I captured when the mood took me to participate.

Exhausted

I am exhausted. Brad and I tackled painting the living room of our new home today with the help of our friend Melissa. If it weren't for her assistance we would have never gotten it done so well and so quickly. The result is fantastic and I won't post any pictures until all of our stuff is inside. Tomorrow is the dining room. I'm glad we're taking care of the painting now. I think if we had waited we would have never really done it.

This morning we went to the Home Depot to pick up paint and paint supplies. While waiting for our paint to get mixed I was able to observe the Saturday patrons of home improvement warehouses. I realized that we are part of a new faction of the gay community, a faction I have deemed the homowners. Our Home Depot is perhaps the gayest place outside of the gayborhood. I was pleased to see that at least 50% of the shoppers were homowners. Most all of them we're coupled but I did see some single ones, or at least they were alone. So for those of you that are single and not into the bar scene, have you tried Home Depot?

We also met two of our neighbors today. They both seemed very nice. One of them has a W sticker on his car and normally I'd be cursing his name up and down but he was sincerely a nice man. I'm not going to fixate on it since he is living in the gayborhood and and our condo complex, of eight units, is mostly gay. One bright side I thought of having a Republican in our complex is that he would most likely not support spending of HOA money on frivolous projects. I'm trying my best here people.

So based on an idea that I think originated from an article at the The Huffington Post about the White House demanding internet search engine records from MSN, AOL, and Yahoo, lets give the White House something to read. Go to one of those search engines and type your favorite anti-Bushism. I like "George Bush sucks cock." If enough people do this when the White House requests the search engine records from any random day the President we'll know we're thinking of him.