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Saturday, June 10th, 2006
3:09 am	old I'm 30. Or rather will be in about 3.5 hours if you go by strict time of birth rules. Bleargh. I'm old. Genius peaks in the 20s. Oh well. Current Music: i think Species 3 is on tv (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Tuesday, February 28th, 2006
12:29 pm	bad dream? UPDATE: It occurs to me that I had CNN on for the two hrs between when my alarm went off and I fully awoke. This explains the cast of characters. PS. Roseanne's on Larry King tomorrow. ---------------------------- So I was at the airport, at Reagan National Airport, getting ready to fly home to New Orleans, I guess. Maybe for Mardi Gras. Then my brothers were there, and Matthew was younger than he is in real life. There was some kind of confusion over whether or not he had a ticket. It seemed like he might be going to Miami for some reason. There was a sense of impending doom. I started running around the airport to find his ticket or baggage or something. There were plenty of elevators which aren't really there. Then suddenly I found myself on a two-seater plane being piloted by Sen. Barack Obama. This made me nervous b/c I knew this was not my scheduled flight. Obama started talking ominously , which wasn't a good sign. Then I noticed that Washington, DC was underwater. Obama said something abut a dam breaking, none of which makes any sense. Then he "parked" the plane in the water and got out and left me to drown. Bastard was trying to kill me! The buckle wouldn't come undone. Then the buckle came undone somehow and I started walking back to the airport. Then I noticed there was a to-do off the GW Parkway, so I checked it out. It seems Ozzy Osborne was preaching. He was dressed in white and a fundamentalist end-times dispensationalist or whatever. Quite a switch, but things were getting apocalyptic. Then the cast of Roseanne started filing in to watch the goings-on. Except there were two Roseannes, one what she looks like today, the other a few surgeries and 15 or 20 years ago. I leaned into to Sara Gilbert (TV's Darlene) to ask her why there were two Roseannes and was surprised to find her stuffing her phone number in the front of my pants, which I thought was rather forward considering I hadn't spoken yet. She claimed she already knew me or something. Ok, cool. So then of course she went to the airport with me and by the time we got there Matthew wasn't Matthew but rather TV's DJ. We all agreed that considering Sen. Obama had just tried to kill me, (and the nonexistent dam broke) we should maybe stay under the radar. To that end, my other brother Ryan was trying to figure out the best way to steal a rental car when I mercifully awoke. I hate dreams. ------------------------------------------- Here in the waking world, we got a grant yesterday to lobby Republicans for medical marijuana. Kewl. Happy Mardi Gras. (Comment on this)
Friday, December 16th, 2005
5:56 pm	boom This morning I made plane reservations. I had started getting soemthing from the 23d to the 26th last night but I went to sleep instead. The price was up by $300+ this morning. So I went for 23-28 instead. Then when I was finishing, I realized I did 24-28 by accident. The 23-28 went up by $300+ just when I was making the wrong reservation. So it'll be the 24-28 in the devestated NOLa. Then in the afternoon, I tried to get a credit card, but couldn't because I don't have a credit rating. Because I've never needed a credit card. So then I went downtown to sell some gold as I've been a bit ill-liquid. Then on the way back, on the Parkway, my car started shaking, more and more violently. I realized I must have blown a tire. And I did. The plastic casing of the wheel well was all over the road. There's some wiring exposed. It was getting dark and my first instinct was to call a tow company. (I've never had a flat and never changed a tire before.) So there went $112 of the $475 I just deposited into my $2 checking account from the gold sale. I probably should have tried to change it myself, but whatever. I'll figure it out tomorrow. (Comment on this)
Sunday, December 4th, 2005
5:12 am	pain I can't sleep. I have this odd pain in my leg. It feels like a sharp joint or bone pain inside the leg, a few inches below the knee. I seem to randomly get this type of pain about once a year or so, for more than a decade now. Current Mood: pain Current Music: Cloak & Dagger brieing on Jesuitical machinations (Comment on this)
Tuesday, June 21st, 2005
1:06 am	WTF?! So, about 90 seconds ago, I'm sitting here eating my 'all-natural' frozen baked chicken nuggets from Trader Joe's. Something crunches. Very odd, because I've been eating these things for years, and never any bone. But fine, okay. ::ptui:: it's not a bone! It's a NUT! Not a testes. One of these: About a centimeter in diameter. So now what? It's not a finger, but is this a lawsuit? Should I find a shyster? Is this the answer to my marginal-employment woes? I do know I'm off these for now. Guess I'll finish the midnite meal with some 'all natural' turkey jerky... don't think they can hide machinery in that, at least. Current Music: MSNBC. I should spin some vinyl. (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, June 20th, 2005
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Tuesday, March 29th, 2005
8:41 pm	Finally... THE SHAT! Iowa, the final frontier William Shatner dupes a town, the 'birthplace' of Capt. Kirk Alex Strachan The Ottawa Citizen March 29, 2005 Celebrities, including some who appear in reality-TV shows, often force product lines upon an unsuspecting public. So when Joe Schmo producer Rhett Reese approached William Shatner with the idea of appearing in a hoax reality-TV show, Invasion Iowa, Reese came up with a product for Shatner to pitch: a small beret called a shat. "A shat is not a hat," Reese said recently. "It's a shat. They're mood berets. You wear them according to your mood." They come in a set of three -- red, yellow and green. Green is for when you're feeling mellow, laid back. Yellow tells people: 'Careful now. I haven't decided what mood I'm in.' And red means you're annoyed. Agitated. Angry. I shat you not. Even by the standards of the producers who brought you The Joe Schmo Show and Joe Schmo 2, Invasion Iowa is a stunt. Described as a "comedic miniseries," Invasion Iowa follows Shatner and a film crew as they descend on Riverside, Iowa -- the future fictional birthplace of Star Trek's Captain James T. Kirk -- to ostensibly make a big-budget film. Invasion Iowa proposes to show what would happen if Shatner enlisted an entire town, population 928, to produce the film, which he's supposedly starring in. It shows how people would react if this Hollywood star began acting like a stereotypical, dysfunctional Hollywood star, right in the middle of the U.S. heartland -- and what would happen when town residents found out they'd been had. LINK This thing starts tonight and runs every night thru Friday on Spike TV (Comment on this)
Saturday, January 29th, 2005
10:24 am	parlez-vous fuck you? Okay, so as part of my long term plan to escape to France beofre President Schwarzenegger's concentration camps get going, I signed up for a French class at USDA. Yes, that's right. The US Department of Agriculture. They have a "grad school." Read "night school." Except the night class was full so I signed up for the Saturday morning class. It was supoposed to start last week. But it snowed last week, and everything here shuts down when it snows more than a couple inches. So I went out there this morning for the first class. Problem: No one told the instructor he was supposed to be teaching a class. We had someone page him, and it turns out he's in California right now. They're supposed to call us on Monday and tell us if they have a rpelacement or what. I guess I'll just get a refund and get back to these teach-yourself CDs and dictionary I bought. And TiVoing the French newscasts on the weird Virginia public television station that shows foreign news all day. I had thought school would be better because the French, they love paperwork and documents. Oh well. C'est la vie. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, January 28th, 2005
1:01 am	I've been to one of this chick's parties, but I'm pretty sure no one shat on the patio. (Comment on this)
Wednesday, January 19th, 2005
1:47 am	sore Yesterday I lifted weights for the first time in at least seven months. My brain juice sac did not explode; but I am very very sore. Especially my lower bicep/inner elbow. In other news, I found this rather amusing: http://washingtondc.craigslist.org/rnr/55545431.html Current Mood: eating organic granny smith Current Music: Beyond the Da Vinci Code, History Channel/TiVo (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, December 9th, 2004
11:37 pm	"Sheep and cows purely don't get along! Anybody with brains someplace other than their -- "Most folks understand that fact of nature, sheep and cows don't mix! You can have one or the other, BUT YOU CAN'T HAVE BOTH!" -- GK to Doris Day 2.0, "Ballad of Josie" (Comment on this)
Saturday, November 6th, 2004
1:39 pm	nootropics By request, here is a list of recommended supplements to increase memory and general mad mental skillz. I take all these myself... when I can remember to. Gingko Bilboa Vinpocetine B-vitamin complex Omega-3 fatty acids Most of the Omega-3 supplements are made from fish oils, which can come back and bite you on the ass because that can have mercury in it. (Also, your belches can smell like fish.) Mercury poisoning manifests itself in fun conditions the allopathic quacks like to call "autism" or "Alzheimer's." So be careful with fish and for Dobbs' sake, stay away from these fucking vaccines! Mainlining mercury is not a good idea. Anyway, with the Justice Department finally giving up their crusade against hemp food products, I expect to see more Omega products made from hemp oils in the shelves within the next year. I think ginseng is supposed to be a good memory booster also, but I don't take ginseng supplements, though it is in some of the Glaceau VitaminWaters I drink from time to time. There are also blended supplements out there such as Focusin that mix some or all of these, but they're usually pricey. I find the basic supplements are a better value. The best prices I can find around me are at Trader Joe's, and then The Vitamin Shoppe for products TJ's doesn't carry. GNC seems to be the priciest. Much of these will be at your local granola store as well. Enjoy. Current Mood: mildy caffeinated Current Music: Brainwashed, George Harrison (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Thursday, October 28th, 2004
9:18 pm	dried strawberries I'm really grooving on these dried strawberries from Trader Joe's. They're tasty, healthful, and require 0 preparation. Also, they're tasty. (Comment on this)
Monday, October 25th, 2004
12:49 am	my new ghey icon In lieu of doing somehting about my jillion other responsibilities and priorities, I have made one of those ghey anime avatars of myself. It may or may not be to your left. Enjoy. The last new Aqua Teens of this run was on tonight. It didn't seem as funny as usual, but maybe that's because I was using the wrong controlled substances. I missed The Wire tonight because I was actually out socializing for once. Current Mood: apathetic Current Music: drudge radio (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Thursday, August 26th, 2004
12:48 pm	Whatever happened to predictability? I may have jumped on the 'recovery' bandwagon too quick. I went jogging, slowly, about six times in the last 2-3 weeks. Maybe it was too much, cause I think I had very teeny minor brain juice leakage from my left ear monday/tuesday. Not enough to really cause a headache or anything, but enough that I could feel my brain, if I tried to, at the right angle. Tuesday afternoon/evening my upper back and shoulders were all achey (I haven't done any lifting or pushups or anything at all, just some kinda slow jogging) -- like it was the last day of my last major headaches in early July. I think this is from the cerebro-spinal fluid leaving the spinal area to replenish the brain sac. Anyway, it's nothing too serious at all I don't think -- I'm just using LJ as a sort of medical diary, so I report it. DREAM: For some reason, this hippie publisher I've met lives in a house on what in the real world is a vacant lot a few blocks from my apartment, which I walk by on the way to the train on my commute. I pop in one day to smoke a little, and soon there are about half a dozen people hanging out in the basement smoking. A buzz builds in the room. He's going to do it! Cool. So we go out to the busy intersection nearby, to find that my friendly old hippie acquaintance has set up an elaborate black-and-white hologram system at the intersection. Everything looks kind of old-timey 1940s/50s-ish. Which doesn't make sense, because the event to be reenacted via b&w hologram occurred in the 80s. That event, of course, is the horrific car crash which widowed Bob Saget and half-orphaned Mary Kate & Ashley Olsen. Before John Stamos and Dave Coulier could appear, I woke up needing to go urinate. It was 3:30 am. I don't like dreaming. (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, August 7th, 2004
1:38 pm	Boyakasha. Respek. Since BigRob asked, I'll give a little update on my condition. Basically, I'm fine! The last serious headaches I had were a month ago. A couple weeks ago, there seemed to be a few days of minor brain leakage, with my left ear being the prefered drainage outlet. I'm still taking it pretty easy, just to be safe. Haven't exercised in two months. Don't want to strain myself and reopen any holes. I'm also still taking lecithin supplementation, figuring it can't hurt in strengthening the brain sac. That's about all I have to report. Since I've been taking it easy, I haven't been out much. Last weekend, my youngest brother and my father stopped in town as Matt is doing a college tour of the Eastern seaboard. We checked out the National Archives, the Spy Museum, and Ruth's Chris Steak House. All were enjoyed. Oh, and I saw the new Manchurian Candidate. I reccommend it. As soon as Sen. Voight got in that kayak, my thoughts immediately drifted to the fate of the late CIA Director Colby, as well they should have. I won't give anything more away... (Comment on this)
Tuesday, July 20th, 2004
5:16 pm	American engineering Gah, it may cost more than $900 to fix the power locks on my snazzy (slightly hail pre-damaged) 2000 Ford Focus. There's apparently a short in one of the doors. (They tore up the dash to find the misplaced fusebox, which turned out to be fine.), and the labor on going thru each one apparently runs upwards of 200. Blech. Leaning towards passing on this expense for now. PS. Happy 35th anniversary of the fake moon landing. (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, July 17th, 2004
9:46 pm	CNN: Bonnie Hammer is full of shit Remember Bonnie Hammer, the "lady" who canceled our beloved MST3k? She's in the news... Current Music: A Closer Look (4acloserlook.com) (Comment on this)
Wednesday, June 23rd, 2004
12:23 pm	ain't got no hematoma well, I just bathed my head in radiation and the doctor neuro-radiologist lady said there's no hemmorage, which is good. They're going to look at it some more to see if there's anything else. the odd pressure on my sinuses comes and goes. My mother said she thinks she's heard that sinus infections can feel like pressure. I suppose an infection is possible, what with the incident on a public beach near the largest US Naval base. I'll take massive doses of wild oregano pills and maybe squirt some of the liquid up my nose over the next few days and see what happens. Plus, I still have some pharma-antibiotics sitting around. That wouldn't explain why I was getting weird aches in different pieces of my head depending how I was laying down last night, though. Maybe that could be explained by residual effects of the mostly-healed brain juice leak? Anyway, while I was laying down last night I was watching last night's episode of "The Jury" on Fox (a lot of bed rest & TiVo time this past week) -- it was a pretty good one, written by Levinson and Fontana themselves. Next week, the jury is the cast of Oz, so that should be fun. (Comment on this)
Tuesday, June 22nd, 2004
7:38 pm	blah blah blah Though I felt much better today, I did get a bit headachey the last couple hours at the office. I think I should try to work from home more often the next few weeks so I can lay down in the middle of the day. (Or maybe even work with my laptop lying down.) Not sure, but that might help. I'm paranoid about a different taste in the back of my throat now - is it coppery like blood? It doesn't really seem salty like brain juice, which I think I tasted on Friday. But it doesn't really taste much like blood, either. (Not a vampire here, but I do suck on my own cut fingers or whatnot occasionally.) Wasn't able to hack up anything red, either, so... probably overthinking again. My sinuses also feel weird from time to time, something I didn't really notice last week when the headaches were worse and my primary concern. It's like -- I dunno. After being upright for a few hours, maybe my brain or something is sagging on the roof of them? I have to wonder if something is crunched up there. Anyway, my GP said the CT people will call him almost immediately if there's something wrong, and will mail him the results if there isn't. (I may hound them and demand to know what they see while I'm there.) So I guess if things are bad, I will know by the end of the day tomorrow. (Comment on this)