mouse: like comcast... on demand

Bullets:

- Almost 90% packed. Just have to go through the attic. I'm putting it off. The attic is both full of rats and hot. If there wasn't valuable Halloween decor items up there I'd leave it.

- Going away party next Saturday. Haven't sent the invite yet, but I thought about it so that at least half counts.

- Been stalling all morning on going to the gym. So sleepy.

- Got a lot of stuff sold on craigslist, don't know if it was worth it. Human beings in general are a pain in the ass. And every single person that has shown up has been a dollar short. How this is the exact amount the universe decided to screw me on per transaction, I'll never know- but every time.. dollar short.

- Everyone keeps asking me if I'm scared. Don't really see what there is to be scared about. Honestly, I'm not really anything. I've gotten choked up once so far but that was inevitable. Saying goodbye went better then I expected but was a lot harder on me then I counted on. Still don't know if I'm going to invite him to the going away thing yet. If e-mails were hard, I can't imagine how badly I'm going to take drunken hugging.

- Still have a to-do list as long as my arm and like 8 days to get it all done in.

Ready to go now!

I had to cut out getting hobby related things. No new gaming books or video games while I'm unemployed.

La la la.

Nothing is going on today. It's all quiet here. The owner and number 2 are out golfing right now. Keeps the outta our hair for the time being, so that's a good thing.

I spent some more time thinking. Bob asked if I'd be able to handle the MCSA class that I'm trying to get money for. I shouldn't have any trouble with the class. It's twice a week for 3 hours. That shouldn't be too bad. I need to play my Xbox more. I have some games that I need to finish so I can get some new ones. I should really check in on my family more. Not like I am all that interested in how they are. They've screwed me enough over the years. Well, just my sister. That little baby factory just got on my nerves.

After putting that $726 into my brakes, I notice that my stopping is a lot better. Considering the old pads were down to nothing, anything was an improvement. Glad I didn't hit anything/anyone.

I think I'll get some gaming in this weekend. That'll be cool. I have to think of something for the guy to do though. They've been tracking down a guy for sometime now and I should think about what his next move will be. I really need a terrain map like the one from the Forgotten Realms.

Nope, didn't think anything Bob related. Surprised? It's not all about him.

-Hotal

Until a trip to Rhode Island to see a friend I haven't seen in almost 10 years.

Bob called to tell me about our neighbor totalling his car. He mentioned that he saw my post this morning. He said I shouldn't think in the shower because I think nasty things.

That wasn't nasty.

-Hotal

Title: Mandy
Author: Julie Andrews Edwards
Year: 1971
# of pages: 188
Date read: 4/13/2009
Rating: 3*/5 = good

Description:

A home of her own. For ten-year-old Mandy, the old stone orphanage was the only home she remembered. Matron Bridie was kind to her, but there were thirty children to look after, and sometimes Mandy felt there was something missing. One day Mandy climbed over the high orphanage wall and found a tiny, deserted cottage in the woods. Here at last was her very own home. All through the spring, summer, and fall, Mandy worked to make it truly hers. Sometimes she "borrowed" things she needed from the orphanage. Sometimes to guard her secret, she even lied. Then one stormy night at the cottage, Mandy got sick, and no one knew how to find her -- except a special friend she didn't know she had. -- from Amazon.com

My thoughts:

I enjoyed re-reading this book as it was one of my favorite books growing up. As I read, I smiled at remembering Mandy's climbing over the wall, and even though I knew how it would end, I still worried when she was in the cottage while she was sick.

Date read: 4/13/2009
Book #: 26
Challenge: Childhood Favourites Reading Challenge
Rating: 3*/5 = good
Genre: Children's Literature

Publisher: Harper & Row
Year: 1971
# of Pages: 188

Any recommendations for good crepes in DC or NoVA?

The lettuce, before


The lettuce, ready for harvest!


The zucchini


The whole shebang



We're picking green beans daily, eating heads of lettuce, and eagerly awaiting the "finish" of about a 1/2 dozen cucumbers and about a dozen zucchini. The tomatoes are being pokey little puppies, but the "good" news is EVERYONE we know who's growing tomatoes out here is having the same problem. We have handfuls of peppers the size of your thumbnail on the bushes, just WAITING to get bigger. And we've been harvesting herbs for about a month now. The onions look good, but won't be ready until September.

I gave up trying to get berries out of my strawberry plants. The birds are too fast. But, they're leaving everything else alone, so sacrafacising my strawberries was a small price to pay.

I had a thought while I was in the shower. I shouldn't have been here when he got home that one day I confronted him about those emails.

But, we all know why I couldn't.

Let it or something similar happen again. Things will be a bit different this time.

-Hotal

i don't know what these are


but they are flowering


and there are lots of them

Cross posted to personal lj, 50bookchallenge and 15000pages

( The woods are dark, Haunted, and 3 Mercedes Lackey books )

13 / 100 books. 13% done!

4069 / 50000 pages. 8% done!

( On the Beach movie review... )

Why is Billy Mays trying to sell me health insurance in AMC?

Does anybody in programming at this channel realize how bad it sounds when he says "I trust (whomever) for my familys health care needs and so should you!"

ok. AMC is officially the worst tv station ever.
they are editing caddyshack. i can't believe they bleeped poontang.




anywho, help a brother out here. A friend of mine is looking for mp3s of the following 2 songs. I've converted the flvs to mp3s for her but if any of you have these in better quality in your music collections I would appreciate it.





of course if you're not Canadian and 90 i expect you won't.

5 minutes into watching Blazing Saddles on AMC and its censored so badly they have rendered it unwatchable. I gotta wonder who thought it was a good idea to show this movie on a channel where they won't even say shit.

How is it CBC will show it unedited but the bastion of free speech america won't?

Title: Interred With Their Bones
Author: Jennifer Lee Carrell
Year: 2007
# of pages: 405
Date read: 4/12/2009
Rating: 3*/5 = good


Description:

"A long-lost work of Shakespeare, newly found. . .a killer who stages the Bard's extravagant murders as flesh-and-blood realities. . .a desperate race to find literary gold, and just to stay alive. . .

On the eve of the Globes production of Hamlet, Shakespeare scholar Kate Stanley's eccentric mentor gives her a mysterious box, claiming to have made a groundbreaking discovery. Before she can reveal it to Kate, however, terrifying echoes of the past break through to the present: The Globe burns, and a body is found inside -- murdered in the strange manner of Hamlet's father. Opening the box, Kate finds the first piece in a Shakespearean puzzle that sets her off on a deadly, high-stakes treasure hunt, racing from England to Spain to America.

An expert in occult Shakespeare, Kate knows better than anyone the many secrets, half-truths, codes, and curses surrounding his life and work. On the trail of a four-hundred-year-old mystery, she soon realizes that the prize at the end promises to unlock literary history's greatest secret.

But Kate is not alone in his hunt, and the buried truth threatens to come at the ultimate cost. . . ." -- from the inside flap

My thoughts:

This was a very good literary thriller set in London, Harvard and the American southwest. I liked the mix of literary clues set in archives and libraries.

Just had a sit down with my boss. Here's what I've learned:

He says he's pushing hard to get me hired permanently, to the point where he's pissed off his boss and her boss. He's still pushing, and using my stats to back him up.

I am still a contractor due to a wholly arbitrary and artificial metric which says there must be x contractors for every y fulltime employees. It has absolutely nothing to do with my stats or performance.

Get that? They had three spots open, and basically FLIPPED A COIN for the two chosen.

I'm somewhat sure my boss is actually trying ... I dunno, I'm finding it hard to actually trust anyone in a position of authority in this company ... so I'll give him more time. I did, however, mention that I'm operating at a loss from my previous job, and he countered with the "I'd hate to lose you because of all the time and effort put into training you, and I've told them that, too."

Oh, and I was told that I need to be careful when I discuss my current status with my coworkers because the boss's boss's boss sits across the aisle from me and can hear me bitch about shit.

/sarcasticnod

Yeah, me quiet? It's like they don't even know me...

*sigh*

I just don't know ...

so yeah..been a while..

finally had the catscan.. didn't show anything apparently..back to square one.. need to find a place to get a sleep apnia test.. still cant find a lot of work.. worked one day this week doing stagehand stuff for the billy joel/elton john show.. doing loadout saturday overnight to Sunday.

HOPEFULLY getting to polkadot cadaver/knives out tomorrow night at the ottobar..

EVEN MORE HOPEFULLY getting to rock the bells on Sunday at merriweather..seeing as its the only really important show that i want to attend this year and i had to miss every single other birthday show i REALLY wanted to go to..i don't want to miss this one. but the person who had an extra ticket and a ride for me isn't calling me back/responding to any of my messages.. I'm totally blown...it's just kind of like, really? you could at least tell me it's a definite NO as opposed to not saying anything.

have an appointment to get an IUD on monday.. I'd rather stay on the patches.. but apparently those types of hormones and headaches/migraines equals a stroke at any given moment.. so now i have to trust something i wont be able to see or feel to not get me knocked up.. then again it's not like I'm getting any anyway right now, so its not that big of a deal. on that note, my heart isn't too damaged lately. still bruised though definitely. i go away, my feelings for people are the same, but theirs always change. another definition of life isn't fair. then there's the others who are interested and while i used to be interested, I'm just not anymore..and that's another life-isn't-fair moment for them...and me, i guess. cause if i was interested still, then it wouldn't be an issue.. the hard part is figuring out what/why things changed.. at the same time, it doesn't really seem relevant to try and figure it out..seems like unnecessary effort for something you have an answer to already.

Town still won't tell me whether or not I'm actually fired. they wont put me on the schedule..none of my boss's seem to want to write me back. it hurts. i loved that job. apparently my two years there mean nothing. the years i spent with the same owners doing loyal work apparently mean nothing either. all the while, they put people on who don't work for weeks at a time back in the rotation, but not me apparently..

at the same time i guess it doesn't matter anyway if I'm leaving for Florida...to go live/help out my grandparents. I'm terrified of living somewhere new.. been sending out resumes to theatres and other places in the area.. haven't heard anything back yet. not so much worried about living in Florida.. but having to rely on an area i don't know..then probably having to get a shit job to support myself.. then of course..living with grandparents.. staying with them for a limited amount of time is one thing..but living with them?.. especially for someone like me who constantly needs to be moving and doing things that aren't television related. i foresee myself going nuts. especially because all i really want, and still want is to go on tour.. the constant move.. not living somewhere else. but hopefully it will be exciting, new and not depressing.

I'm pretty desperate for work..so if anyone knows anything that isn't a complete shit job, I'm interested.. hit me up.

and if anyone has any adventure/ just wants to chill.. also hit me up..I'm probably down for it ..301-254-5308

Seriously, where does it say in the constitution that marriage laws are the property of the federal government?

Therefore, the 10th Amendment should apply.

If the conservative judges disagree with that, how is that not the same judicial activism that was complained about heavily when Republicans had executive/legislative power?

The one thing I'm unsure of is whether other states would have to honor Massachusetts's stands on marriage. Article IV is unclear on this.