still recovering. but i’m alive. For those who don’t have a clue, my area received a huge ice storm last Wednesday night. my power went off right around midnight Wednesday night. i lit some candles, played some guitar, and then went to bed. i awoke to a very cold house, and as it continued to get colder, i decided against roughing it and went to my dads. who has a fireplace and a generator. i packed up a huge backpack of clothes, magazines, water, food, camera equipment and the like and walked to his house. on the way, i took lots of pictures which i will be working on posting here as soon as i can. and it wasn’t until quite a while of me doing photos for documentary sake and arts sake that i realized i had been stepping all over a power line. apparently and luckily it was disconnected at both ends. The trees all swayed into the road, taking the power lines with them. all around me was the popping snapping sounds of trees breaking and falling. at that point, i knew i was going to be out of power for quite some time. if just my immediate area was like this, it must be far worse elsewhere. got to my dads, and me and my dad went walking and i took more pics. we walked his woods and saw all the damage to the trees. got depressed, and walked back, and Marie (my stepmom) had cooked up some food on the fireplace. we ate and watched the news (tv on generator) and just lounged around. nothing else to do. that night, power came on at about 10:00 pm. i was watching tv, and noticed the clocks coming on and the answering machine start. cool, but i hadn’t seen anyone come fix the power lines. 30 minutes later it went back off. well, ok, to make a long story short, it came back on saturday night about 8 or so. we washed clothes and things like that while we had power, they still hadn’t come to fix the down line yet. not quite sure how we had power, but we did. and it continued to stay on. i ended up leaving today around 3 pm. sat and sun was full of chainsawing and picking up and hauling and the like. i counted 6 truckloads of limbs we hauled in the truck, and maybe another 10 full we moved by hand. trees are very heavy to move especially when covered in ice. the most exercise i’ve had all year maybe. well, im thankful i have power now. i can come back home and clean my house, wash clothes, take a hot shower and eat a good meal. i think i’ll even sleep naked tonight just cuz i can
freak #1,
freak #2, to
walk in those shoes, looks like some
sort of art work,
freak #3 – designed? created? this is supposed to be
professionalism? this is just
asinine.
here here, i agree
completely. smoking
stinks. I left my last girl because of it. the smell is nasty.
it makes you stink. it makes people around you stink. i can smell it
on you after you sneak away to smoke and you dont think anyone knows.
browsing the wonderful jinx site, i’d
also like to point out this.
aint no way i’d do that. Screw
walmart.
game developers should release their games as they see fit. walmart wont
carry them, but ebgames, gogamer.com, amazon.com, buy.com babbages, whatever
tickles your pinky will carry them, make the stores lots of money and wal mart
wont get a penny cuz the customers will go where they need to go to get the
games. maybe then when walmart looses their 25% share on game sales will
they wisen up and let developers do their job and develop.
screw the little kids and their extremist ways too. screw the people
who go
cow tipping. screw the
women and their evil intentions. a system made 20 years ago was
a challenge to
recover a ‘timecapsule’ project? makes you wonder about digital
archival. monopoly
has a
monopoly.
recruits brainwash kids. recruiting kids is not a business. it’s
a choice that needs to be made by a clear minded individual who knows and
understands all risks and consequences of joining the military.
Like arcade machines? Oooo
looks like DDR 8th mix is out soon according to them.
Be sure to read
the novel Storme wrote. In
fact, there’s over 2000 50,000 word
novels written in November alone! Maybe i’ll participate next year.
Tuesday, November 26, 2002
so I saw the new
James Bond movie last night, Die Another Day. Awesomely perfect. I
watched 15 minutes of previews. then they showed the little pre game show
where they tell you how to leave in case the building catches on fire. I
was ready for the dun dun da dun da when they showed TWO more previews!
everyone laughed. Madonna’s song rocks too. I’m also listening to
the new Mitsubishi commercial’s song, Just Breathe. by Telepopmusik.
also awesomeness. there’s an extremely calming feeling when you’re in the
mens room by yourself. just walk on in, you can even start whipping it out
before you get there. Relax standing there, you can stand just as far back
as it’ll flow. You don’t mind farting, burping, scratching yourself.
But, there’s an extreme sense of awkwardness when you walk into the bathroom and
look at a wall of 3 urinals and you see one guy on both sides. There’s
just as odd uneasiness when you’re there alone doing your chores and another
walks in. you must cover up, move closer, try not to touch it with your
tip, turn slightly away from him, and take your stance. Wonder
if the other guy is watching, wondering why you’re wondering if the other guy
may be watching. a pin could drop in a room like that and the whole room
would hear it. and you stand there and shake it off and wonder if you look
silly. carefully listening to the other to be sure you both don’t head for
the sinks at the same time. trying to beat the other guy who came in after
you cuz you were there first, so you should finish first. if you didn’t
finish first, then what were you doing?
Sunday, November 24, 2002
a day in the life
of a single guy. i went shopping last night. for myself. and
as i walked around the mall, i realized again what pointless of a situation it
is to circle the mall. over and over. i went into the store i was
needing to go to, made my purchase. i had a box of 4 rolls of film.
you can buy 2 more rolls for only a dollar if you get this box. sure
why not. the power of marketing, i said to the guy. and as i exited
i got caught up in the flow of traffic which meant that i was to walk on the
bottom floor all around the mall, then go up to the second floor and circle that
one too. onlooker as i passed by stores, odd make shift shops in the
middle while i sang the song I’m a girl watcher to myself. i browsed the
arcade, and relaxed for a while watching and listening to a few guys compete at
DDR, and I knew the words to all the songs, since I have the 5th mix on CD.
Someone brought foot stools, or maybe the arcade provided them. but there
was a small crowd at the ddr machine, lots of teenagers sitting around on the
floor and the stools. reminded me of an anime con. of course, there was the
obligatory goth couple. who sat between two other machines near me.
after a few songs, i left, and browsed for some food. decided on chik fil
a and had a seat. i watched the people in the food court eating their
foods, talking to their friends, browsing through what they bought. then i
noticed him. he was sitting alone. far away from me. older,
maybe 28-30. and he seemed to look at the passing ladies like i did.
come on, a single guy like myself has to amuse himself somehow. and i
realized that i wasn’t the only pathetic guy in the mall, all alone, sitting
here hoping to get a glimpse of a cute girl. but i felt like he was
watching me too. like i was his competition. or maybe like he didn’t want
anyone else to notice he was alone and looking. anyway, i continued to eat
my food, nodding at people walking by. twiddling my thumbs and otherwise
wasting time. and i looked up to notice the guy was now no longer alone.
apparently a friend had joined him. they were talking and looking and
laughing and all. ok, so i was wrong. i was the only pathetic guy in
the mall. and i looked up later once more and i saw a guy walking across
all the tables by himself, but jabbing away on a cell phone. and i noticed
from the corner of my eye, a lady walking from the other side in the same
direction as the guy walking alone jabbing on her cell phone. i was waiting for the
two to meet and sit down to a table. however, each sat down at different
tables. each continuing to talk. and i never noticed the guy get up for
any food or anything. and i wondered if maybe he was really like me, here
all alone, with no one to talk to, but too embarrassed to admit it, so he’s
acting like he’s talking to someone on his phone when in reality it’s only the
operator. and the lady, i had lost sight of her. but she was korean,
i’m thinking. light skinned asian. a very attractive lady. i
lost track of her. i continued my food and when all the table around me
were empty, i decided it was time to go too. so i got up, threw my trash
away, and greeted the lady at the cookie counter. i’d like 2 cookies.
buy one more and get one free, she said. sure why not. the power
of marketing i said to the lady. and still confused, i had to ask how many
cookies that would be total. she said four, and i told her my choices.
chocolate chip and macadamia nut. i gathered my cookies, and walked back
to the chick fil a to get a refill. and as i walked by, i noticed the
pretty asian lady before was sitting with an even prettier asian lady. i
couldn’t help but to stare. i went to the store, and waited for my refill.
and looked and there was the prettier lady who must of gotten up right after i
walked by, she was waiting for something too. and i couldn’t help but to
wonder what would have happened if she got up just as i was coming by and we
bumped into each other. she got what she needed, never looked my way and
left. i got what i needed, shrugged my shoulders in a sense of normalcy
and left too. and as i exited the door, i noticed out of the corner of my
eye a lady behind me. i passed the first door before seeing her, so on
the second door, i paused as i held it open for her. i looked back and the
same obligatory goth chick was walking towards me. i held the door, and
she looked at me and said in the sweetest voice thank you. i nodded my
head smiled and continued on. in my car, i situated my cookies to eat on
the drive home. i looked at the movie listing i had printed out to bring
with me to see if a movie i wanted to see was playing soon. it wasn’t.
an hour and half would be the next showing of something im interested in.
so i cruised on home. i came home to my loving fat ass cat. who
greeted me at the door with a meow, purr and a rub against the legs. he’s
sleeping on the chair behind me right now.