Breaking with style.
I love when dishes do this. It's like they're saying, "I'm breaking now, but I'm not going to break any more than I have to in order to be utterly useless to you.
It’s just not right.
Being this tired of everything on a Friday... There's no way that two days will be enough to recover from the strain of the past few weeks/months. It wasn't enough last weekend, or the weekend before. No reason to expect this weekend to be different.
But that's just negative thinking, right? I need to stop doing that. Somehow. It's not easy to break a lifelong habit, but it's reaching the point where I must in order to continue to function at any level above a potato. Assuming I'm currently functioning above the level of a potato. Some days I have to wonder...
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Perhaps this weekend I'll find some time to lose myself in finally creating some new designs for SplitReason.
This past Wednesday, while waiting for Heather to complete her tour, I started doodling for the first time in months and it felt pretty good. I do so much work on the computer, I forget how relaxing it can be to draw with a pen in my hand. Now I just need to escalate from doodles to something of worth.
If I come up with anything, I'll be sure to post it here.
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I really need to buckle down and power through my studies into CSS. Right now when I open the book I can get through about half a page before my eyes start swimming. I'm only halfway though the first book. In hindsight I probably should have started with "Learn CSS in 10 Minutes". Maybe I should shift gears, work through that and then return the the book I'm currently on.
Ugh. My brain is old and rusty.
I'm still learning but not as fast as I would like.
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I have every intention of shaving my head this weekend as well. My hair is annoying me, and it's high time I did something about it. I miss the feeling of the wind on my scalp as I amble hither and yon. Weeee! Woosh! Amble!
The last time I shaved my head my hair was about half as long as it is right now and it nearly killed the clippers.
I have to make a contingency plan in case they crap out this time. I can see it now. I'll have half my head stripped to the skin, and the other half will be varying levels of random butchery.
What to do, what to do...
I suppose I'll have to dye what's left red and pretend that it was my plan all along. If I widen my eyes as far as I can, tilt my head to one side, don't blink and have a slight smile at all times, I think I might just pull it off.
If I put my clothes on backwards it might even get me a vacation. A cozy, padded, sedated vacation. Mmmmmm...
About 9 hours from now…
... MacHeist will go live once again. If you have a Mac, it's well worth checking out.
Between now and when they launch you can get a free license for an app called "Squeeze," although it requires Snow Leopard. I have the license, however I haven't tried the program yet. It's getting favorable comments on MacHeist's facebook page.
I'm not sure if this is a full-on MacHeist, or just a straight-forward package of applications. A full-on MacHeist involves a lot of minigames and detecting to earn registrations for a variety of side programs before the big reveal of the main package. At least that's how it's been for the last few years. The impression I have is this will just be the package, however there may be some bonus programs that will be unlocked after a set number of packages have been sold. I guess we'll know in about 9 hours.
Icy drive in today.
I did not expect it to be so. It was more icy than last Monday when D-11 had a late start due to the shit weather.
That day as I was driving I had no problems.
Today, every start was accompanied by a lot of tire spinning, and every stop was risky.
I was waiting to turn off of Colorado Blvd. onto 8th street and I saw in my rear view mirror a restored 50's era classic truck coming up behind me at a good clip.
I had a truck in front of me and nowhere to go.
I watched as the classic truck starts turning sideways, still coming straight at me. I have enough time to think, "Ack! Fuck!"
Luckily he knew what to do and was able to accelerate out of the slide into the neighboring lane, missing me by what seemed like inches.
Thankfully that was my only close call of the morning.
It did remind me that I should probably check my tire treads. I slipped way more than I'm happy with.
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I wonder if my iPod is trying to tell me something.
I've have it set to shuffle through everything on it.
The first song as I got in the car was Talking Head's "Pulled Up" with the lyrics:
"I was complaining, I was down in the dumps.
I feel so strong now 'cause you pulled me up!"
A nice, upbeat way to start off a Friday. Not bad.
This was followed by Queen's "Death on Two Legs" which I really like, but it has the line "Do you feel like... suicide? (I think you should)."
Hmmm... That got me thinking on how amusing it would be if the next song to come up was Queen's "Don't Try Suicide" so I started paying more attention to what was playing and take the worry part of my brain off of just how fucking horrid the roads were.
But no. The next song was The Bloodhound Gang's "Lift Your Head Up High (And Blow Your Brains Out)" which, for those unfamiliar with it, has this chorus:
"Cause life is a game that no one wins,
But you deserve a headstart the way your life's goin'.
So throw in the towel cause your life ain't shit,
No take the towel and hang yourself with it.
Life's short and hard like a body-building elf,
So save the planet and kill yourself.
If you're feeling down-and-out with what your life's all about,
Lift your head up and blow your brains out."
NOW it would be awesome if next was "Don't Try Suicide" but that wasn't the path that the music gods had planned for me. Next was the Talking Heads with "Found a Job." A song I had recently been contemplating a few weeks back because of the lyrics:
"So think about this little scene; apply it to you life.
If your work isn't what you love, then something isn't right."
Not sure if they're in that video though. There are a couple versions of the song.
On the upside it's not suggesting I end myself, just reflect on why I'm so miserable these days.
After that it returned to BHG for "Hell Yeah" which didn't really fit the theme, but it's a fun song for the unholy:
"And when they nail my pimpled ass to the cross
I'll tell them I found Jesus that should throw them off
He goes by the name 'Heysoose' and steals hubcaps from cars
Oh 'Heysoose' can I borrow your crowbar?
To pry these God damn nails out they're beginning to hurt
Crucified and all I got was this lousy T-shirt
"I Can't Believe It's Not Butter!" I'll sing as I'm flogged
Yeah that's what I would do if I were God"
And the last song to play before I made it in to work was BHG once again... I have 403 songs on my iPod. Shuffle isn't very random... "Take the Long Way Home" which pretty much sums it up:
"Did you ever read Voltaire's "Candide"?
He says live life at Benny Hill freak out speed
Not a quote of what he wrote but a paraphrase
Make it up as you go Keyser Soze
Highlights yes but don't underline 'em
Just live for N.O.W. like Gloria Steinem
Life is like Marion Barry
It's not all that it's cracked up to be
Like Fred Sanford when the big one comes
Find the meaning of life is there is none
It's twenty-four hours when you call it a day
Be Frank and say "I Did It My Way"
Don't give a flying nun no don't give a Gidget
Just have more fun than a well-oiled midget
If life were picture perfect you could frame it
But the world is a diaper so let someone else change it
Life is an aimless drive that ya take alone
Might as well enjoy the ride, take the long way home
All born equal unless you're Canadian
Then halfway through decay like Uranium
You define what's death-defying
Get the most out of life or at the least die trying
Are you Evil Knievel jumping a train?
Or running with scissors like Frasier Crane?
Have really good times doing really bad things
'Cause the show ain't over 'til the fat lady sings
Like Elton John with his candle in the wind
It's hard to blow out a flame as big as him
But we've all got to Wang Chung with the Grim Reaper
Whether you're Einstein whether you're Beaker
Death is certain so it's definitely worth flirtin'
Don't expect a bright light no just curtains
Life is like a penis most people don't know it
But most people suck so they usually blow it
Life is an aimless drive that ya take alone
Might as well enjoy the ride take the long way home
Life is an aimless drive that ya take alone
Might as well enjoy the ride take the long way home"
Worth reading.
I haven't finished the whole series yet, but it's still excellent 63 issues in. Well worth checking out if you like comics that are a bit gritty and mysterious.
Found…
... 120 broken links within my archives. That's going to take awhile to sort out. Especially the image links. Glarg. I wonder if it's worth the trouble of trying to fix... Tell you what, if you find a broken link and it bothers you, let me know and I'll try to fix it. If I can't fix it I'll probably toss my hands in the air and say "Oops!" Otherwise at this point I'm going to treat it as out-of-sight, out-of-mind until I have more free time and absolutely nothing better to do.
Phone test…
Just checking to see if I can post from my phone.
A quick question about my RSS feed. As someone who gets feeds, do you prefer to have an entire post, or just an excerpt?
Now to see if photos work:
Home, home on the web.
Settling in. Trying out themes. Marveling at the number of random-ass categories I have and how crazy long my archive is. It would be far more impressive if most of those months didn't consist of less than five posts and most of the writing wasn't crap.
New year(ish) new beginning.
Gotta sort out the "Blogroll" too. So much to learn, so much to do. All kinds of fun!