just because you aren't paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you

all Cretans are liars.
--Empedocles the Cretan

the president of the United States is not a crook
--the president of the United States

Death to all fanatics!
--Malaclypse the Younger

run on sentence of the day

so if anyone knows who i lent my copy of Diary by Chuck Palahniuk to, they should tell me cause i can't for the life of me remember, and i would eventually like it back

Loot

Christmas is over! w00t. we all made it. now i know it's not about the presents, but that's what we're left with afterwards, right? so here we go:

plus: a really big towel for yoga and a book, meditations from the mat by Rolf Gates.



y'alls get anything cool???

snow!

i can't believe how much it's snowed all ready this season. i love the snow so much. people round here are morons when it comes to driving, c'mon guys, it does it every year! almost every time i went to use my car this last week, i've had to brush snow off it. and that silence that falls all around with the snow. ahhh, i wish more people understood my love of snow. to you guys who hate snow.... MOVE!!

howl's moving castle

i forgot what a great movie that is. we saw it in the theatre, but that was a while ago. we just got the japanese dvd (it's got all the languages on it). we watched some of it, but didn't get to the end. i watched the rest today. wow. i had forgotten. it's an amazing movie. if you get a chance, you should see it. i know i'm always pushing miyazaki films, but this one... i can't even say how amazing this movie is.

hooray for halloween!!!

I'm BAAACK

and i had an awesome time. I have a ton of pictures too. The first day I got to Phoenix and we drove down to San Diego; left around noon. We went through these awesome sand dunes. It was dark when we got there so we went next door and ate at Joe's Crab Shack. YUM! Our hotel was right by the beach. We went for a moonlit walk after dinner. The next day, we rented bikes and went along the boardwalk type thing. We ended up at this really cool jetty and walked clear to the end of it. I took pictures of surfers. yay surfers! That afternoon we fell asleep and missed the sunset, but woke up and went down the pier at ocean beach. It was really cool to see the city lights from way out there. We wanted to go see that part in anchorman where they're sitting above San Diego, but we found out it's military owned and closes at sunset. We ended up somewhere else, but it was cool cause we could see fireworks off in the distance. Plus the skyline and the mitsubishi tower (with the green stripes). Our last day in San Diego, we went to Balboa Park. My favorite was the water lily pond and the botanical building. but the organ pavilion was cool too. plus there were a few great signs. We hung out at Ocean Beach for a while and ate at Hodad's. I had a veggie burger, mmmm. One point on Ocean Beach had the most confusing sign i've ever seen. That night we went to Point Loma and watched the sun set before we started back to Phoenix.

Back in Phoenix, we did some cool stuff, but I've been there before so I didn't take as many pictures. We went hiking at fish creek and I got to see another awesome sunset. I went up to Jerome with my aunt and uncle. First we ate at Young's Farm, which was yummy even though we missed breakfast. On the way, we stopped at a rest area and I saw a lizard. It was not the first lizard I'd seen there, just the biggest. In Jerome, we went to a bar called Paul & Jerry's, then to an art gallery. We got to see a glass blowing demonstration. It was so cool. We went to another bar after that (i don't remember the name, it was our second one, remember), but it had the coolest bathrooms. they were tiny, but fun to read. It rained while we were there and it rained the next day in Phoenix (weird). It was a fun trip. I will be going back to San Diego for sure. That is probably the best place I have ever been.

wow, i just looked at this, and the links are hard to see. anything grayer than the white writing is a link to a picture. FIND THEM ALL!!

traveling!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i love it. i'm so excited. i'm leaving tomorrrrrow morning. and i'm going to see california!! i've never been there. we're gonna stay at a hotel on the beach and we're gonna go on this big pier! i wanna see big waves, i've only seen the ocean in florida. it's different on the other side. hoorayy!
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i don't understand people. they get so stressed and upset about things that shouldn't bother them that much. why?? why don't they realize that it's not as big a deal as they're making it. it's not healthy for people to do that, but so many do. is there something wrong with me? do i not see the big picture or little picture or the same picture? we're having sort of a situation at our house, but there's not much i can do about it so i just ignore it. he dwells on it. we went to a movie last night to get away and it's still all he talked about afterwards. but he won't confront the individual. i don't get it! maybe i've just lived in enough situations where me and the other people i live with hate eachother that i can just ignore them. maybe he hasn't. what i don't get is how he bitches and complains to me all the time, but won't confront the situation. shit or get off the pot, man. it's not worth it.

"Apply Now"

i love that button. i've clicked it several times a day for the past few days. i don't know any other way to get a job in another city without living there. any ideas? help me out!! i don't know anyone and have no connections. that sucks.

i think i need a job, i don't do anything. incidentally, here's a desktop i made, but not really. i stole the picture... guess from where.
and the lyrics, yay. i love that song.

Man, i'm boring

Take that Windows

wooohooo! i R l337.... or something. all kinds of fun can be had changing the logonui.exe and ntoskrnl.exe files! I found this cool program called resource hacker that lets you open these into their parts. i guess it decompiles it and then recompiles it. you can export/replace bmps and change scripts. it took me a while cause there's so many parts, but i finally got a sweet login screen. the loading screen was actually really easy to change. It only took one try. and now, what you've all wanted to see....

Fuck yeah!!

Further Examples Why Seventeen Year Olds Should NOT Be Parents

Holy shit. My roommate is dating this girl who's seventeen and has a toddler. He's like 27 or something, but she's emancipated so it's legal and he's all into the young girls for some reason. Anyway, this girl, I don't think she'd ever even babysat before she had her kid. Yesterday we were sitting here, playing Guild Wars, and this girl is over and they're watching Boondock Saints. Of course the toddler is sitting on the couch next to her. I'm not a parent or anything, but I don't think I would want my toddler to be hearing that language or seeing that violence, even if she didn't understand it. So of course the toddler gets restless and she gets off the couch and starts wandering around. At one point I see her running around carrying her mom's box of cigarettes and a lighter. Great toys. Then I see her going into a closet. This house is no where near baby/toddler-proof. I wouldn't want a kid near most of this shit cause they'd either get hurt or break it. Sorry, I do NOT need to be getting in trouble for some kid getting hurt at my place when I didn't want her there in the first place. I don't know if when she's at home, the other adults watch her cause she's family or what. I wouldn't want to impose my child on some one else and that's what's going on when she brings her over here and lets her run around.

woah

I took this picture the other night. a friend held a flashlight on the web so i could get a good picture. spiders are so amazing now that i'm not afraid of them!

last day

today is my last day at this job. WOOOOOOOOOOOOO! yeah. i will miss some of the people i work with, but i will definitely NOT miss all the political bullshit and everything else that goes on around here. i just hope they find some people who can do their jobs. they're at probably a 70/30 of people who can't do anything right, don't know how to do anything, or just plain refuse to. So basically, alls i got left to say is:

THE FAINT

yeah, the faint man. they were so awesome last night. they played a ton of awesome songs! call call, worked up so sexual (not that you thought they wouldn't play that one), agenda suicide, paranoiaattack, take me to the hospital... someone who remembers should list more. i got all caught up and don't remember now. i did however, take awesome pictures!



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Orbital

Yay! i just got a rad orbital piercing. when he did the top one, it didn't hurt hardly at all. there was the initial pinch, but then he was movin it around and everything and it was cool. the second hole HURT. he said the closer to the middle of your ear that you get, the more it hurts. i'll buy that. then he had to get the ring through it. it was killer, but now (even though it still hurts a little) i love it. i'm scared for when i clean it, i don't really want to touch the thing, but i KNOW it'll feel nice when i do cause when he cleaned it up afterwards, that coolness felt soooo good. anyway, onto the pictures. one's kind of blurry, but you get the idea.

The Living End

i FINALLY got my own copy of "roll on" by the living end. i first heard it like 3 or so years ago and asked the guy if i could have a copy of it. obviously he never gave me one. i was riding to lunch with this guy i work with and it was playing in his car! i'm listening to it now! i love the bassist, he's awesome. he picked his bass upside down when i saw them and there's a smiley face on the back. also, it's an upright bass. i should find a picture....

ok, found one. he doesn't have his smiley face in this one, but his bass is still fun.