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Monday, July 21st, 2008
9:38 am	A couple of pictures Best car mod spotted this weekend: A wooden Spoiler - whole view here Hung out with sister on Saturday and she took an alright photo of me (and alot of silly blurry ones!) Playing with the night settings on the new camera.... A little grumpy at some internet trolls (aka my friends) saying I look like a dude. I do need some new clothes that fit a bit better... but dropping fat increasing muscle means girl clothes tend to fit even less. I want to learn how to sew. In that mythical time when I am more free, I might see if I can work out some trade of time/skills etc with some of my more crafty friends and buy a basic sewing machine. (9 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, July 18th, 2008
8:09 am	Pretty vivid dreams last night. Went to bed at 11pm - the festivities surrounding 30 people repairing a space tower in Eve pretty much crumbled when half the fleet fucked off to go watch the new Batman movie. (In fact, they were trying like mad to find anyone competent to lead shit. Failing that, they picked on me. 'Come on, it's Goonfleet Affirmative Action! We need a woman FC' (I still refused)). Dreams. Huge, huge old house. Alot like my friend from 8th grade's rambling homemade monstrosity - they designed it themselves as a whimsy house. Built it themselves. Level after level of rooms, lofts, interior windows, all coated in beautiful light hardwood. In the dream there were bunkbeds with 5 levels, some of which were waterbeds, some of which were not. There were alot of work people wandering around, all doing their own thing. It was haunted, and a few people (433) were busy trying to stalk the ghosts with some special sort of camera. Morgan was hanging out in the kitchen. She had a big plastic bucket of random weird looking fish, and was busy trying to show Jason how to remove the fish brains intact using metal spoons. It was for some dish she was making. It was rather nasty. I am glad I can not smell in my dreams.... Most of the dream was just wandering around and exploring the house. Closets full of stuff. the bizarre kitchen with grinders an cupboards full of unlabeled jars. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Thursday, July 17th, 2008
8:29 am	Social Hung out with my downstairs neighbors a bit last night. We know alot of people in common from the West Bank, although I am woefully out of date on all of the gossip. Guy is a 50 something stage hand, currently sporting a broken ankle. He's stir crazy from not being able to work, so he has been fixing up the yard like a madman. He works hard to drag anyone coming home out to his little patio thing, and we end up chatting where we might not otherwise. Pretty cool dude. Last night I sat drinking gin and tonics talking about Louisiana, cooking, music (I copied him some of my Russian Ska, and he likes it alot). After a while, came back up to the muggy apartment. Have moved into the 'ok, I am going to be playing Eve in my bra, deal' stage, with Bane, and seems to be no dissent. We still have to find another person for Sept, though. The guy who came by this weekend was a bit hesitant, as it still would mean he has a sucktastic car commute. Car. Yah. Nothing. Will see if I can line up someone to do car shopping this weekend, I guess. Or perhaps buy a bike. Savings are going well, but I am really antsy to buy the Iceland ticket NOW. (9 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, July 14th, 2008
7:43 am	Woke up this morning, composing grumpy emails in my head. Sent one. Before coffee even. But fucket - I'm tired of looking forward to doing stuff, and then not having it happen. Got stood up AGAIN on Sunday. No email, no call, no nothing just plans made, plans not happened. Same person. 5th time. But hay! Sitting around left me time for playing more internet spaceships. Except I really wanted to be social in person. I can still chat with my roommate, he's so far so good, although it is of course still in the honeymoon period. We had another goon come over and look at the place on Saturday. I lost a $5 bet that he would have a neckbeard. He was 6'5, 140lbs, does look like he can GROW a beard, much less a neck variety. If he moved in, I would be the 30 year old chick living with two 22 year old guys. A spec ops friend pronounced a ready made reality show. (10 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, July 13th, 2008
8:58 am	not quite a migraine... ...but still a hell of a headache. 45 minutes since I woke up with this sucker, tylenol still not touching it. nausea, hot skull, eyeballs hurt, brain feels swelly. I can make it abate a bit by pressing on my eyeballs, massaging my temples and the top bit of my spine-meets-skull. Also shivering like mad. Smells that don't normally bother me do. I ate something, but I feel like I might lose it. Why can't I have a lazy sunday morning, instead of painful one? (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, July 10th, 2008
11:03 pm	(true history) I had forgotten how much I love the KLF (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
12:40 pm	Stolen Meme idea - when society breaks down... So.... Tell me why you would be a good candidate (or not!) for a Post Apocalyptic Survival team? What sort of role would suit you? Example: Team Booze and Food: 1) I can brew, make a still, and distill alcohol into useful stuff like ethanol. 2) I know how to tap maple trees for sap, and make syrup and sugar 3) I grew up on a farm, and have a good working knowledge of Animal Husbandry. Have helped birth animals. Know how to milk them, and how to make cheese. (good long term protein source 4) good working knowledge of botany and gardening, can recognize many food species of plants, wild and domesticated. Know how to process them into storable forms. I can make a root cellar. 5) Knowlege of beekeeping, for wax and honey and yes... edible bee brood. 6) know how to build a homemade smoker to dry meat. (8 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, July 7th, 2008
12:12 pm	requisit post Con post Home from Convergence. At work now (on lunch). Work is sort of deserted - our rough count was 20 FFG people attending, many of whom take today off to recover. I had an ok time. Last year I had a shitty time. Does this mean next year will be great? Who knows. I took a few pictures. I bought a t-shirt that says 'TentacleSEX'. It is cute and tasteless. I wish they had it in babydoll. It spawned a conversation last night where I taught some of my fellow goons about 'Legend of the Overfiend' there was much giggling. I will consider wearing this at Fanfest. I was bored on Friday night. I went to bed on Sat night at 1am. I could not get into the dance, I had some people into games - played some Arkham and Puerto Rico (I won!). I could not keep my drunk on - one of those times where despite consuming alcohol, I don't seem to have fun, and just get sleepy. So Friday night had me curled up in an armchair in the lobby reading my book. I knew plenty of people, but when I was looking around for stuff to do - rock band? Games? even just drunken party crawl... they were MIA. Honestly - I am not sure I remember how to attend cons, after so long running shit. I had fun working in Rex. I had something to do. Most of the fun activities I was doing, though, I can, and do at home - reading a book. Playing a board game. Hanging out and and drinking coffee. I miss Consuite. I wish I had never given it up, to be honest. I did not like running Programming - I liked running Consuite. I was fucking GOOD at it. Unless the people running it suddenly decide to burn out (no signs of this) I don't see getting it back, and I am honest in the fact I could not be a subhead without being bossy and trying to run shit MY way. I guess I will continue to work in Rex, and I don't think I will get a hotel room next year. I will get a supporting - if something else happens the same time, I will likely opt out. Current Mood: blah (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
9:53 am	I miss you, Jeffcar If anyone here has not left for Convergence, and wants to make $30, drop me a message. Need a ride, and SO not into the Bus+Backpack concept this morning... Edit: KTIG rocks :) It will take an hour or so to run up a mile or so away to pick up food and theoretically an air mattress from target. Maybe longer. It will take 2+ hours to get the bus down to Bloomington, with a big ass backpack, and a small cooler. I will then (assuming I do not miss a bus, or get lost) hike a mile or so to get to the hotel. If I had a working car, I could be through with the store, and on my way inside of 45 minutes. Car stuff has been falling through for weeks now. It's frustrating. I had some random dude at the load in saying 'you are better off without one'. I beg to differ. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Saturday, June 28th, 2008
11:01 am	(tits) or STFU I was messing around with my camera this morning. Took this - the working out (despite last car-less week's absense) is starting to show effects. (Pondering having this as my stock 'tits or shut the fuck up' response link) (or I will continue just telling them to go eat a bowl of dicks or the like) (18 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, June 26th, 2008
6:42 pm	Someday, she is going to be 60.. NSFW tattoo What. In the world. Would possess a person to do that. God. Damn. (13 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, June 23rd, 2008
9:32 am	rawr Missed the bus by no more than 100 feet. I was coming around the corner to the stop, he was early, and never saw me waving. The bus I connect to comes once an hour. I am always either 20 minutes early, or 40 minutes late. Looks like 40 minutes late. Called anyone who vaguely commuted near me, and no answers. :( Also, not only did the cats sleep in my clean basket of laundry, one of the hairy fuckers threw up in it too. It's the little touches that count, cats. Really. (Comment on this)
Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
4:28 pm	Day o' productivity Today I swept, mopped, put away a ton of books (they tend to accumulate in heaps - boy do I need more shelves). Did laundry. Cleaned the catbox. Scrubbed a bit at the bathroom. Also took out trash, recycling, made a small dent in the clutter that dwells under my loft bed. I put away some old dishes I had, and even scrubbed the weird circle of dirt/cathair that we generated last summer from always having a fan in the window. The house is presentable. I should have new roommate guy (a Goon, heh) over this next week to look at the place, when he gets back from Iceland. Sounds like he is really keen on the place, as it's close to his work, and fairly low cost. He's chilling for a year getting his ducks in a row for Pharmacy program. I am hoping for something like what I have with Ben - we're both adults, who share a place. We chat about games and cooking once in a while. We do the bills about once every other month, because I am lazy about dealing with mail. We laugh at the cats. We largely ignore each other. There is no stress. I called Progressive to quote out some car insurances. The 'Fit' would be $122 a month car insurance, and the Yaris $138. I honestly... well, I don't give a shit about them in one direction or another. They are just cars. Someone was talking about handling, and the 'feel' of the car... Jeffcar was a bit of a beast. The Power Steering was replaced at one time, and honestly, the last time I drove the work 15 passenger van, I couldn't believe how nice that monster handled. I'm used to wrestling the car. I'm used to driving a beater - I can't imagine being so 'sensitive' as to need something that was special just to me. It's a freaking car. I haven't had interior lights, AC, wipers that stayed down. a stereo, or good brakes for years. Jeffcar beeped constantly. I am a big one for just fucking dealing with stuff. Sure, there are cars I would like more than the ones I have for options - the XB, the Smart Car (although I wonder about winter driving). I wouldn't mind a tiny pickup. But finances are, what finances are. Now to see if I am still doing car stuff with Peter today, or see if I can spend my guilt free evening killing Smash. I believe I agreed to help a squadmate kill an FC. It was more said in jest, but he's holding me to it. (The FC sucks alot... but I would choose on my own to avoid him. Vin. wants to kill his battleship.) (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
8:40 pm	Sleepy.... Glutened myself sometime in the last few days. I'm not sure, but I am just going to go with the candy from work's cash/honor box thing. I know better. But...hungry....urge to snack... So I felt pretty crappy all day today. I missed a bus in the morning, and was 45 minutes late. Bus comes once an hour. The last bus leaves homebound before 7pm. So much for working late... if I want to keep my inbox defeated, I need to wake up early. gluten tummy = not able to soak up nutrients well = anemic = tired. Stomach rumbling. Skipped out on a cool playtest, because I would have been grumpy and ill and tired. I should clean. I should make a list of car places. I should sort out bills. hells, I don't even really have the energy to log into Eve, as it will require :effort:. I feel like curling up on the couch and pretending to watch something, and in reality napping until bedtime. I ordered (ahem) a used copy of Highlander TV show, season one. 17$ to indulge in my nerdy fascination with undead scottish dudes with swords and chase scenes. It's not here yet. Damnit. (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, June 16th, 2008
9:30 am	Buses that come once an hour suck. Guess I will be late. Day is so beautiful, I would love to just say fuckit, and not go to work, but that's not very mature. Trying to get a ride this morning has sucked. I can understand if I was a perpetual ride mooch, but I'm not. I have bummed maybe 4 or 5 rides this year, mostly when my car was frozen. Car refused to start today. Will see more this week about dealership time. Peter, can you let me know when you are free in evenings? (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, June 14th, 2008
7:45 pm	Welp.... Waited until 5pm on a friend who said they could help today *ahem* with Jeffcar. called Ms. kizdeana for help. She went with me to BK, we called Georgia AAA, who in about 45 minutes had a towtruck come over. As the towtruck guy was having me put the car in neutral out, the manager came out, as HE had called a towtruck too. Ha ha, ours was first! I got it in neutral, backed it to the right orientation, and handed keys over to the driver. Who promptly started the fucker. Mind you, with a bit of protest. To add to it, he also got the wipers to stay down. (their relaxed position is up, I find it helps target lanes). I drove Jeffcar home. Turned him off. Started him up again. That driver 'Don' according to his nametag - rocks! (that said, I am still seriously mulling over hitting a dealership. I do need a car. Car loans are one way to establish credit. I would have something of a down....) (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, June 13th, 2008
1:10 pm	Towing question Should I get my car towed to my house, or a mechanic who may or may not want it for parts? I'm not sure what to do with it. It should not stay at BK. Morgan bought me a day or two with her southern sweettalking of management there, but I want it dealt with saturday. Gah. I need to figure out what box I put the title in. :( Advice? (4 Comments |Comment on this)
12:38 pm	A bit less freaked out about the car thing now. I have started looking into replacements. I know what my budget is (without any car loan stuff). I am a bit freaked by the fact that most of the cheaper cars are stick. I need to 'relearn' it (in truth, I have driven a few hundred feet ever in a stick car. re/learn perhaps. A friend at work has a weekend job at a mechanics/tire place and can hook me up with a free prepurchase checkup. Some people think that doing one of these on a cheap ass little car (which is what I will be buying) is not worth it, but if I am going to be buying something like that, I most definately want one. He described the mechanic as 'lazy, but in a good way - he'll tell you want just sounds horrible, verses is actually needing fixing, so he does not need to fix the little stuff'. The Mindless Self Indulgence concert last night was very good. Made me feel old, but hitting the dance floor was a good stress release. Then went home, and shot people in Eve. This is also good stress release. (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, June 12th, 2008
1:18 pm	Welp Jeffcar just died. In the parking lot of Burger King. Didn't even have the decency to die at home, or in work's parking lot. 99% sure it was the starter - 10 minutes of screaming car, while everyone in the drive through gave me looks of hate, like I was doing it on fucking purpose. Pretty sure he is not worth a new starter. Pretty sure I will have to get it towed. I have alot of crap in there, and a concert RIGHT after work tonight. Lovely timing. I'm prob'ly going to see if I can call on someone with some capacity of storage to help me get my crap out of the trunk (sigh. full of stuff). I'm going to call Burger King and see if I can convince them to let me have it there overnight, see about tow/disposal, and I have the weekend to find alternative travel. Short term I can bus to work, or perhaps carpool. God fucking damnit. I have 60$ full tank of gas. Damn that pisses me off. I filled up last night. Anyone selling a car cheap? My plans were to go to the bank and see about small car loan. I figure that will take time, and I don't know for sure if they will do so. Gaaaah. :( (He's a 1990 Ford Taurus, with significant rust, and some body damage, none of which is from me) (10 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
12:20 pm	Part time work! http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/parttime-help.html Summer Help Wanted! Fantasy Flight Games is looking for energetic, hard-working individuals to help us out this Summer as we prepare for our biggest and best convention season yet! Job duties will include: * Light game assembly * Mailing product support * Labeling boxes and cartons Positions are full- and part-time, Monday through Friday, 10:00am to 6:00pm in our HQ in Roseville, Minnesota. The pay rate is $8.00/hour for these temporary jobs, and are eligible for the employee discount on FFG products. For more information, contact Tod Gelle via e-mail or at 651-639-1905. We're looking for some help while we get through some serious workload crunchiness. It's not EXCITING, but hey, discounts are cool, and you can always rock out to headphones while you do most of this work. (Comment on this)