Whats I"m Up To

5.27.2003

*Insert standard "I havn't posted anything in a while" sentence*

Well since thats out of the way, I can also say I've tryed to avoid typing my daily grind or overly personal things and use this more as rant space, you know avoid doing "Went to sk00l, went to w0rk, talked to my boss about wages, punched a guy in the face, etc..." or I've liked being a little bitchy sometimes :-). But this weekend was pretty wild so I figure I'll share it with y'all. Oh don't worry I'll rant again very soon I promise, in my mind I want to do a web browser comparison/review if any of you know my internet habits, I've been swtiching through a few of them recently. But I thought I'd get this "crazy" weekend stuff out of the way. Now I'm sorry I mentioned that upcoming browser rant now, your prolly so excited about that your not even gonna bother reading the rest now.

Friday
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But anyway my girlfriend Catherine invited me to join her for a party on Friday with her friends at one of their houses, some of these other attendies I knew, others I was a little new to. This was to be a sleepover theme party wit h the promise of "tenting", the theme was "Pre-Christian Britain" I did some research but didn't really find anything I could bring to reference that time period, but it didn't matter no one really followed the theme past the first 5 - 10 mins or so anyway. But there were a lot of shenanigans mostly just talking and messin around, and tiny fights which ended in Mary biting someone.

Then we held a seance since some of them are/know some wickand things, it was kinda nifty, and kinda creepy cause it made it seem like this person one of us knew was going to die in a place crash that were on. But other than that kinda nifty. Then we started a little fire, and then everyone went nuts and started "scrumping". (scrumping = non sexual touching. I learned many new words this weekend) So yeah most of them formed a large scrumping pile (bodies everywhere), me and Catherine just kinda relaxed by the fire for "happy cuddly fire time", and tryed to ignore the pile of scrumping flesh not more than a few feet away.(Not quite as disgusting as it sounds, but wierd none the less lol)

Soon after that it was time for everyone to retire to the tent...since someone decided "it would be any fun if were all in more than one tent" 11 of us crammed into an inadequetly sized tent. After much time was spent deciding how to arrange everyone, everyone was less than an inch apart and in most cases in contact with someone. I was in the corner curled into a little ball in and endless struggle to find a place where my arms could stay comfortable and not fall asleep, cause me pain, or bother someone. It kept getting quiet and then talking for 15mins then quiet, then more talking...it went like that for 2 hours lol. Well after that point i lost conscienceness.

Saturday
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I woke up 2 hours later, suprisingly rested, and in a lot of pain, thx to my leg in an aweful position. Since it seemed everyone else was asleep I just stayed there, until I couln't take it anymore and sat up, figure I woke up Catherine, she sat up also, we stayed there till we realized how aweful the tent smelled and escaped. Some other people were awake already so we all just talked and contemplated on how long we'd let everyone else sleep.

This was when a little revelation was made that we had some inappropriate goings on in the tent last night. Seems 2 people who had only just met at this party had been at the very least making out, while others heard panting and an "Oh My God" a little too much touching going on, but yeah kinda creepy considering how close we all were together. Some people started to wake up and leave, the remaining people learned a little too much about "baking" (baking = a tougne invading the ear). Thankfully myself and Catherine were spared, as everyone else had pretty much been bake-raped(forced unwanted baking). Soon after I got the call, and had to pack up and leave, dropped Catherine at her homestead, and went home to take a much needed shower.

Got online, talked to people, and then a plan slowly began to form. It started when Matt asked if I wanted to hang out, talked to ferro, figure get him in on hanging out, then it became what to do, and then where to go.What resulted is What we lovingly call Mini-Con Summer Tour 2K3, which was held in Ferro's Grandma's Garage, 3 big TVs, every game console except the foul X-Box, we even had a Super Nintendo! Then it expanded to Jim being involved, Ferro's friend Adam, Jason, even the fabled Buko joined in. It was a fabulous success, but next time it will be more official with passes and conbooks (ooh), and more organized catering :-). I think of this first Mini-Con as a Beta test, the next version will be even better, since we will plan it more than 3 hours before we started. Got home at like 1am and decided Ishould sleep since i have to get up at 6am for work. (Note: remember I only had 2 hours of sleep the night before.)

Sunday
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Got up at 6, got to work at 7, came home at noon. Cleaned my room because we were having a party and bunches of relatives were coming over. People arrived, I ate too much food, played videogames with cousin. The it was time for me to go, as Catherine was having a small shindig this afternoon with much the same group as was at the party on Friday. So i said my goodbyes to my family of course they all have to ask "Where you going?" not trying to make a big deal out of it, I said "Just going to a party at a friends house." Eventually one person said very loud "Here's going to see his girlfriend." Which of course brought "Aww he's blushing" so I cut my losses forgot the rest of the goodbyes, and just left, I don't need that.

Got there, we piled into Catherine's house, and I was bombarded by good food, of course I couldn't actually eat it as I had filled up at my house earlier. The party was too watch some WW2 movies and watch the 2nd part of that CBS Hitler movie, well we ended up not doing any of that lol. We played a board game for a while, but as a group we were too rowdy to play that for too long. Then we played a variation of Hide & Seek for a little while.A few of us went back inside, while the rest of them stayed outside to do whatever it is they were doing lol. While inside we put on the movie "10 Things I Hate About You" and in the words of Catherine we had "Happy cuddly movie time". And that movie was entertaining, learned it was a modern retelling of "Taming of the Shrew", then watched "Silence of the Lambs" for "scary cuddly movie time". Sadly I had to leave before the end of that movie, as I had work at 7am again, and still needed more sleep. So I said my goodbyes, drove home and went to sleep. And thus the weekend did end, and I was fulfilled, for it was a very good weekend, a weekend that will be hard to top for a while.

And that is a very long post, if you got this far Congrats, writing this spanned 2 days. Now I'll have to check and see if this is the longest post I ever made. And hopefully that web browser rant won't be too long in coming.

5.19.2003

Got this e-mail today, thought it was amusing, so I will share it with you

I am one of many Russian girls that would like to marry a
nice American man and come live in the U.S.A. as a citizen
and not stay in Russia more.
Tanka G.

this was sent by a Ron Horner of starfyre24@aol.com
and I have no idea who this person is...and he's not from Russia.

5.09.2003

Lol, the msg board where I post has had another little fight, and I have to say I didn't realize how bad it was, when I found the topic had been locked (so no one could post to it anymore) I started laughing like hell. It was about X-Men more specifically the movies. A while ago when the new trailer had appeared on the web, I started an X-Men 2 topic said it looked awesome, linked to the trailer, and asked what people thought of it. One person only said yeah it "looked" awesome but complained that they ruined Rouge and in turn ruined the first movie, curious I asked what she didn't like, as I thought the movie rocked the house. She complained they changed the backstory, and didn't like that she was so young compared to in the comics. She apparently thought they should have jammed 20 years or so of complicated character history into a 2 hour movie, since Rouge was her favorite character, changed the entire movie, blah, blah.

Well obviously the new movie came out last week, instead of talking about the movie in a new topic I just started at the end of the last one, asking what other people though of it. Of course this one girl was the first one to post about it she claimed if it was like the last one, she'd wait for video, then preceded to describe the final scene of the movie quite wrongly might I add, as told to her by her father, and said it was dumb. I corrected her as to what happened, except I put it in *spoiler* tags, as not to ruin the scene for people who might not have seen it yet.
Then she said they weren't needed, she said she already know what happened she had just summarized it before. And said it was still dumb and again complained it was not like the comics.

Then a few other people who had actually seen the movie posted a bit, and also talked in defence of it, and how just because its not just like the comics, doesn't mean its not good. And of course I think to myself here I am a guy who's been reading longer than this girl, and I have no problem with it. Of course this girl continued to bitch, which is something she does a lot anyway, she took stuff as personal attacks, talked to us as if everyone else agreed with her, when if she read the posts she would realize she was alone, and that the movies are making shitloads of money because people like them so much. And then the msg board owner came in and said its locked because we don't need any soap opera type shit.

We all figure this girl needs to get laid and loosen up, cause she's pissing everybody the fuck off, and does nothin but bitch. lol.

5.08.2003

"Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character." -Thomas Edison

Just a cool quote I heard today.

Tomorrow is my last day of classes, both good and bad, good cause its almost over, bad because i have to scramble a bit tonight and tomorrow, then the weekend is mine!

5.06.2003

Was going through my dresser and found a sheet of paper, it has my first journal entry for my second semester english class last year. The topic we had to write was "Who are you, from a spiritual point of view?". I'm pretty pleased with what I came up with despite it being, kind of depressing :-\. But it accurately depicts what I was thinking at the time, better articulated I think than any other time.
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February 7, 2002

Who am I? What a question, and from a spiritual point of view...not trying to be a pain, but its kind of unfair to ask a question that most people spend their entire lives trying to figure out, but I will try my best. Well I think I am a bystander of life, I stand and watch as others live and grow, I watch them fail and succeed, and everything inbetween. Rarely do I take part myself, for I am too worried that I will not fail or succeed half as well as those who came before me. In my mind I live in everyone's shadow.If I'm unable to forge my own path I usually don't go down that road. I strive to be an individual, in a group-oriented world, not through drugs, alcohol, piercing, or tattoos. I strive to have my own style, yet I worry too much about what others will think, but I suppose that is inevitable. I'm too worried to anger or bother anyone else, I look beyond people as I walk, being sure not to stare at anyone, avoiding even eye contact. If that's not a metaphor I don't know what is...
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Well there you have it folks, a moment of verbal clarity or just regular old teenage angst, you be the judge.

5.05.2003

I've been meaning to write a little something for a while. Bot you know how it is.

1. Saw X2: X-Men United, lets just say I plan on seeing it a few more times :-D
Anyone needs someone to see it with, gimmie a ring or drop a message.
Knowing me I'll post a giant post about the movie soon enough.

2. I missed "No Pants Day" had I only known.....more about my ideas on pants in the "Inquiry" section which

3. Saw Cowboy Bebop Movie on Sat, a little slow, music was good but not as well as it seemed in the series. And if you han't heard any of the music from Cowboy Bebop you should, there's another reason to message me, because I believe everyone should hear some it at least once. (Its Jazzy and awesome)

4. I still wear pants despite my denouncement of them, the man is always keeping me down, one day whitey will pay.

5. When planning a family get together, always make sure everyone alctually knows who's house its at...my Mom didn't do that and resulted in us waiting at my Grandparents house for 3 hours, when it turns out my grandparents were at our house wondering where we were....oy. Wasted time, didn't even get to eat the food we were gonna have, since i had to leave practically right after we all got at the same house.

6. Old people are crazy, while at work lady opens the door to the back room and starts saying, "help" so I go over thinking something bad happened or she needed someone to carry something, turns out she was just crazy, and tells me she's not happy with the expiration dates on the milk, and she "knows" how often we get shipments, and would like it if I could go get her the "freshest gallon of milk we have". Now I acted polite and went to get someone from Dairy, and he got to tell her how silly she was. But after that it goes through my mind...who is "she" to get the freshest milk, or perhaps she thinks we're hiding the milk that doesn't go bad for like another year. I mean we get milk and put it out, we have people form the milk company who make sure we don't sell bad milk, we're not trying to screw people on Milk...thats just all we have. Although maybe I'll look into this, perhaps I can start getting this amazingly fresh milk that only a select few know about. Naw she's just a crazy lady.