Super Nerdyness

So, I have umn... this ridiculous fascination with the special forces, mix that with my nerdy nature and I love anything military and space..... In the mid 90's when I was going to school and not watching TV, I caught a few episodes of space above and beyond, and couldn't' watch it since I was fairly busy. But I loved the damn thing. Now with the Internets and the interTubes, this show is available now on DVD.

It's completely, Melodramatic, and overly .... It's just way over the top... But I find it over the top like one would find an opera, or other representational art form.... It's just the lamest thing in the world that it didn't last more than one season. It was on fox back in the early fox days, and they had a hard time finding it's audience.

" Anyone worth a Chig's ass will take responsibility for asking themselves, then answering, 'Who am I?' and, 'What's the point?'

"My name is Colonel Tyrus Cassius McQueen. But I know nothing of who I am. The answer, I feel, is near. The defining, perhaps final, moment, is close. Everyone -- everyone in this life knows when The Moment is before them.

To turn away is simple.

To ignore it assures survival.

But it is an insult to life,

because there can be no redemption, no second chance. Beyond death there's nothing. Just darkness... and cold. "The instant his existence was confirmed, every action, every breath of my life, became horrifyingly clear. He's out there tonight, sending our women, our men, to that cold, dark place. And nothing -- nothing -- will stop him, until I face The Moment."

Bag of cookies

I'm trying to not suck down a bag of cookies right now, I'm not sure I have a bag of cookies... In fact, I don't, but I could consume a ton of other crap trying to pacify my desire for a bag of cookies.

I apologise, I'm going to be withdrawing(I hope) from all the sugar from the past few weeks, and I may have to use the blog to get me through.

Damn...
Hmmmm, more apples? some soup? I could use a beer. PB&J?

Rocco Deluca

I dismissed this band because of it's tie to Kiefer Sutherland, but then someone else got me to give a second look..... and I think it's possible Kiefer and his Music company have some taste.

Lazy weekend

I've managed to spend the bulk of my weekend watching documentaries, organizing my MP3s and refilling my soda, reestablishing my zen/Shockra flow. And re-establishing my good heath with liberal doses of oranges, apples, and Tea.

Every once in a while the clarity of how my life is built around a few things:

• Building my Physical Health
• Building Mental Health.
• Keeping things organized
• Increasing my knowledge.
• keeping myself fed.

and that is my life, centers on it's no wonder that I have little time for much else.

every once in a while, things do click together and I feel like I'm in a fairly beautiful groove in my life.

food

Every year I do a very good job about avoiding nasty Holidays food. All the crap that gets brought over, I tend to toss or give to someone else.... You would think that with all the "I hate Christmas stuff" I wouldn't get anything..... But I do.... Maybe it's the Toffee. Overall I didn't eat the paint off the walls, so I guess that's good. BUT.. I just did a lousy job, and now I'm addicted to all that crap, I'm finding myself looking for chocolate, or some sugar, Something...

It's very hard to get myself back to eating the fruit, and decent stuff I'm used to.....

and have I mentioned my colon......

Side note, I have always had a weakness for Peanuts, pecans, and pistachios... especially in the shell... umn

Also, I refuse to step on a scale.

El Bike

I picked up some bearings for my rear wheel, I cleaned them over the summer and one was dragging, and I couldnt find a replacement.

I found some and just tried them out... and they are the wrong size.... so I did a web search and found this place... good prices on bearings...

Well now

I think this whole sarah thing has me in it's clutches. Not like I havn't moved on for the most part, I think one just has hopes of a re-evaluation on her part. Which is stupid...

I just wrote this email to a friend of mine:

Maybe I can share…. I am feeling in a sharing mood, I was working on the blog then … you mailed…. So sarah has a new bo, which has gotten to me.

This woman I have been dating, It’s absolutely cyclical, every time I spend time with her I feel exactly the same things, I realize how wrong we are together. It is a series of “I don’t like you, you just agree with me, Your lying about how you think the same things I do. And we in no way connect on any but the most superficial ways. I don’t even get why she likes me, besides my constant pecking about how poor the quality of her life is, and how uninteresting, and uninspired, and unfulfilled it is, and a life of random bouncing like a pinball game, at the whim of the winds, and almost completely underpowered
All of this yet again leaves me with with slim relationship possibilities. But But But But……I am getting to the point where I have some idea what I’m looking for I guess, that is good, yet I’m not sure I’ll find it. and yet apparently I’m supposed to go out and look some more… but I’m not that interested in investing the time into it.

alright, i'm fucking tired and want to get some sleep

Cause aparently I've opened up

....Apparently Sarah has a new man in her life.... rough to opine about that one.

I just went on one of those splurges of cycling blog reading.... it's interesting how things change, and stay the same. I'm super happy for art, and his new girlfriend...that makes me super happy for him.

Ugh........... I'm all nostalgic now....... Need to HACK that up like a hairball and hide it back under the bed.

Honestly, its time to get back on the bike....

Oh!!! I woke up on christmas, and my knee was killing me, it was just stiff, from sleeping in a wierd position.... but i felt like lancelot "It's the old wounds, m'lord"

what is it with cyclists and gangster, hipster talk...... one of these days when someone says "The Bird" I'm going to snap and punch them in the face..... how is that for centered.

aw damn

Burke Just mentioned my last Christmas shenanigans...

what is interesting is that I've been nostalgic for last year.... I had a ton of fun,

even though I only got Julie's to her on valentines..... I was out looking for some proper snowshoeing gear tonight, and also saw a copy of "The big Lebowsky" and couldn't help but think about the Local "Dude".

I also this year thought about doing the semi-surprise thing again..... But I wanted to try to ditch even the candy making out of Christmas.... Though I did make a batch or 6 with my yogi Cousin. it started with 2, then my cousin was so excited about it that it escalated.

I also keep pondering how to write up some kind of apology to Karen...

Further notes: I miss the old blog, or the way I used to blog, hopefully I'll settle into my life as it is soon, and I'll get back to regular time on the bike, and regular fitness. But my life is very different, which is part of the reason for the change in tone for this blog.

Work in progress........

Point being: I miss things too.

I just read the post in Sly's blog about how he didn't need to go to jail for Christmas...... I think about everyone knows where I stand on that one. But my guess is it wouldn't have been the first time....

You see what adults do is back charge him on the credit card, if your so inclined. But if I broke a window at every hotel that didn't have wifi i've been to.....
another option, and I've done this too, is if a hotel isn't clean enough or have their crap together, you don't stay there. Walk in the room, realize it's a dump and leave. Explain that it's not satisfactory to management, and cancel payment if they don't refund you completely There is no court in the land that if you go into a hotel room and decide it's not clean, and you leave without staying. But butt monkey wants to throw rocks like a child.

I think I've been stuffed for 3 days..... Ugh... I'm ready to switch off to bread and water rations.

It keeps crossing my mind the metatative capacity of learning to play the guitar...

and for only 59.95......

I don't know, I'd almost like to be like les stroud... since bear has fallen out of favor.

I just read the Wiki entry for les.... what an interesting guy..

there is a documentary called Snowshoes and Solitude that he is in.

The results are in...

here is my holliday score...

1 regifted ab-slider
1 set of towels
$50

Whoooohooooo

Oh.... just a note.... My Jesus loving brother, is the first one to have smartened up and not purchased me anything...... Yes, it's the True meaning of christmas...which as a cristian he should understand the best.........

but doesn't not buying christmas presents, make the baby jesus cry!!!

Now, I do have other gifts from past years that I've not opened... I could just regift them from year to year.

4 more hours and 1 movie left.....

I actually intended to rebuild one of my wheels today... but didn't .....

I saw a Documentary about "Pink Floyd"... I'm a huge fan of pink floyd... and honestly I'm going to recreate my youth one day and get super high and drop lsd, put myself in a sensory deprivation tank an I.V. and just trip out for 10 hours to O.G. Floyd albums.

So, syd Barrett, roger waters, david gilmour.......

What a bunch of Asshole Retards... in that order.

Syd Barrett was the heart of the band, even through the 1980's. and as his influence wore off, so did the quality of the band.

Piper at the gates of dawn
saucerful of secrets
more
ummagumma
atom heart mother
meddle
obscured by clouds.

all great albums

then we digress
dark side of the moon(I know it's a fucking classic)
animals
the wall
(all are good, but not great)

Then....

Wish you were here
final cut
momentary laps of reason

which have some good tracks

and the Worst fucking Floyd Album
The division Bell.....
Which BTW I have never made it through......
Wholy shit it's bad..... Probably needed more dance tracks, you fucking hacks.

WHAT I'M getting at.
David Gilmour... Get over yourslef, Sure Roger Waters is a better artist than you(Though the meloncoly tortured artist stuff, got LAME. Where is the ALBUM about the Banality of the tortured artist, especialy the over pampered Crybaby Rockstar.(further note, no one did it better than Jim Morrison, and he had the honor to die from drug abuse,at least), but your both a couple of Bull's nut sacks, compaired to the early work.

I'm getting hits for "Christmas bullshit"..... Welcome.....I hate christmas too.

joy-ass day

Well, it's almost over.... only 13 more minutes till eve is done then just 24 hours...... then I just have jan 1 to get through.......





Yippeeee....





has it been everything I expected.......





ohhhh and more... I saw 3 car accidents when I needed to go buy a book the other day. 5 or 6 angry drivers out when my mother asked me to go looking for shirts for my father.......





What a joyfull time......





you Christmas people are CRAZY!!





If there was a Jesus, he would come down and tell you people "Buy 3 gifts." spend no more than $5 each.

and the lord Commanded, "and on my psudo birthday you will run up huge credit card bills buying Wii and big screens"

Crazy Famly christmas bullshit.

One of the main reasons I hate Christmas, is of course that my family is not enjoyable to be around.

I get a phone call.

My father,"it's not fair that you get to ignore Christmas".

ok, there are a few possible replies to this...

"Why not? you have ignored Christmas for 50 years. At best you gave mom $5 for each of your kids, and sent her on her way. and you have been doing that since 1970. And the only reason that Christmas ever happened was because mom worked and you leached both off her time and energy... You lazy narcissistic asshole."

Or

" Listen, Why the fuck would I want to spend 5 extra minutes with you ever. I know for some fucking reason you have become hopped up on chocolate, become manic. And now for some reason you think you can call me and tell me to buy a bunch of shit for relatives that I can't stand."

or
Just dial tone him, let him not call back.... I know why I don't answer the phone.

True story, my dad was very excited when he could go to the dollar store and buy everyone tire gauges for Christmas.... ones so cheap, they never actual worked.... But he went through the motions.....

Yep, I'll never have kids, I'll never take care of anyone Else's kids..

What my dad is pissed about is that he has to find something for his wife (she has done all of "Their" Chrismtas shopping), he has no idea what she would want since he is unaware of anyone but himself.

I hate this holiday..

Notes from the vacancy

... I just looked that phrase up and apparently, it's mine exclusively.

Umn... I'm not sure what it means... but it feels right.

So, Had a little date this evening.... does it help my case that I decided to rinse my mouth out with Peppermint Schnapps??? Just asking. It was just like mouth wash... I wonder if it's cheaper.

Decided a couple of things:
I've dated this woman for quite some time. Seems like, cyclically I realize why, I don't want to hang with her. First of all, we don't connect... at all. I've thought that connecting in a very personal level was nearly impossible. But besides explaining how T.V. ruins peoples ability to focus... and overall Ruins their ability to think, or act in rational ways... Which she agrees with, but only cause I'm super smart and snobby, and she likes that.
My overall point is that I'd like to connect with her on some kind of real personal level.

So... Second... She has a kid, But seriously.... Could she just shut the fuck up about her kid... and if it's not the kid it's her god damn ex husband... .Wow two subjects I don't want to talk about.
Ok, not to be a snob about kids, But Damn... could she get a hobby. Damn how uninteresting "my son, sat and made cardboard ornaments for 3 hours."...... how about the fact that we talked about it for 2..... Lady your kid is like 5 it's time to let the leash out a bit.

I guess that makes me an asshole for not wanting to spend 99% of my conversation talking about shit her kid did.... It's hard to feign excitement....

Besides my diatribe ..... or excepting it.

I've decided I'm becoming more "enlightened"... sure, I have my moments...

• I'm tending to trust my instincts more.
• I tend to be more accepting.
• I'm more in the now.
• I also tend to not see things how I want them to be.

it's interesting.

Update

Myspace is stupid

My life

so, My life is a study in monotony... things are quiet, and calm and steady.

but I've had my yogi cousin around, which was super fun. Strange how we have, sort of connected, I try and avoid being a mentor.

I gave a 10 minute oration on herding mentality. that is how fun it's been.
but it all has been a distraction to my banal life.

but it's going to be nice to get back to the usual.

I downloaded how the Grinch stole Christmas.... going to watch it now.

Yippee

I umn.... I'm hating christmas.... 6 more days..... Just trying to hang on through it till it's over, without going on some kind of baby Jesus rampage.

Let's all remember, Not supporting Corporate America makes the baby Jesus cry.

May be time to throw all the junk food out, and switch back to soup, salad and fruit.
HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS
by Dr. Suess

Every Who Down in Who-ville
Liked Christmas a lot...
But the Grinch,Who lived just North of Who-ville,
Did NOT! The Grinch hated Christmas!
......
It could be that his head wasn't screwed on quite right.
It could be, perhaps, that his shoes were too tight.
But I think that the most likely reason of all
May have been that his heart was two sizes too small.
But,Whatever the reason,
His heart or his shoes,
He stood there on Christmas Eve,
hating the Whos,


.........
For, tomorrow, he knew...
...All the Who girls and boys
Would wake up bright and early.
They'd rush for their toys!
And then!
Oh, the noise!
Oh, the noise!
Noise!
Noise!
Noise!
That's one thing he hated!
The NOISE! NOISE! NOISE! NOISE!
Then the Whos, young and old, would sit down to a feast.
And they'd feast! And they'd feast!
And they'd FEAST! FEAST! FEAST! FEAST!
They would start on Who-pudding, and rare
Who-roast-beast
Which was something the Grinch couldn't stand in the least! And THEN
.......
They'd sing!
they'd sing!
AND they'd SING! SING! SING! SING!
And the more the Grinch thought of the Who-Christmas-Sing
The more the Grinch thought, "I must stop this whole thing!"
Why for fifty-three years
I've put up with it now!
MUST stop Christmas from coming!...But HOW?"
Then he got an idea!
An awful idea!
THE GRINCH
GOT A WONDERFUL, AWFUL IDEA!

The Dr. and her pants

Doctor Pistachio talked about having poorly fitting pants....

It reminded me that, I just barely learned how to wear them... I realized a few years ago that I was wearing them to low, and purchased an array of belts, so that I could wear then at proper navel, above navel level, as opposed to hanging off my ass.

Just figured I'd share...

Now those are 2 "The Mop" Esq posts.

Game of the spoiled

I've felt overall spoiled all my life. I just feel lucky, and I've gotten tons of un-needed crap.

But, if you quantified it, and threw some numbers out there as far as my siblings are concerned, my sister is probably more spoiled...

But the way the game is played... My sister sits around and talks about how unfair things are and how spoiled I am. But the point is to guilt people into giving her shit.

Put it this way I've spent $4000 lifetime on her and her family....

and me $200....

Though I am the spoiled one in the family... I don't get the most shit.. But I'll say I'm the most spoiled... But it's a personal wealth.

Trying to blog

I know this post will be sort of a go nowhere post.

I umn, been a oh... christmas

It's getting close, I'm so un-excited.

I do have friends who.. do want to spend time with me, and it's funny. I'm just not that interested. I don't even know when christmas is... ie what day of the week it is.

I still haven't watched Bad Santa, or love actually... I may pass on the latter, you know keira knightly is not a healthy weight... I'm concerned. Just a little linked tangent...

Isn't it interesting how... uninteresting this post is.

Oh, that is nice. looks like Crystal visited today.... Thanks Crystal.

I didn't have any coffee today.

There is a list of 4 or 5 friends who want to hang out... somehow I have to fit them in...

I'm avoiding most of it...

One person in a personal crisis, i'll have to visit...

When I was a kid I threw snowballs at Santa... Just letting you know.

Disschevled

Interesting weekend,

I did a ton of family stuff, I have a favorite cousin... a favorite yogi cousin. Who has some difficulties, but so curious... and interesting... and fun to talk to.

I hate the family stuff, but there are some moments, I don't mind sitting and talking to most my family... My dad is awful... He is only interested in himself, and never either helps any conversation, or with any project... With the exception of getting in the way.
It is interesting, something I learned, that my mothers family love to get together and talk/fight about things.. and enjoy each other's company.

Then communicating with my father is like, 3 hours of yelling. I say he is wrong, he get's his panties up his ass... doubldowns on his wrongness, then I have to act like a jackhammer on his head to get him to realize he is wrong... I told him once, WTF do you thing I would talk to you, if I wasn't trying to teach you something. As difficult as it is to communicate with you, Why would I go through all the misery if I didn't love my dad. But still it's the worst time in the world, because first he get's hurt, then he attacks you in a personal way, then you have to dismiss that and keep explaining 5 times the same thing, about how he is wrong.

It was interesting enough that when the weekend got to sunset, I realized the weekend was over and that it's time to work again next week...

But I feel Disschevled, It's weird sometimes I feel... Well not like "The mop" but like a dirty dishtowel....

I have about 30 appointments to keep between now and Christmas....

With all the crappy candy and other shit for the past week, I'm surprised I feel this well.....

I don't know where I'm going with this post... Just figured I'd share.

Here it is 2am.....

I don't want to sleep... I haven't even tried...Honestly, it's from too much sugar... Tis the season you know, Time to throw some stuff out.

I'm going through some Joseph Campbell again.... Damn it's good stuff. I should do the faith and reason thing again too.

I was just musing in my mind.... Was that the apex of the old blog?

I miss my bike, I'm going to have to get back to it....

More stuff in my head, "my health is suffering... just overall."
does that mean that I should find a new path... or does it just mean that I need to work some kinks out of it.

ugh.... bed with me...

more... Holiday meltdown madness

So, 2 phone calls this week from people in meltdown holiday madness. I can't stand it, I love those people but... and I'm totaly understanding when they do it. It's not fun. What you do for friends... be there for the meltdowns, try and put them back together, or get them to put themselves together. I'm drained from it though.



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Fern Update

So, I umn.... think now I'm over watering it.... it's become a pride issue, I had it back on the mend then it relapsed... it's recieved some good sun.... but in my Ferver, i'm over watering it.

Bill O’Reilly Opera!

This is an operatic piece based on the sexual harassment complaint lodged against Fox News pundit, Bill O’Reilly

*hack Hack* *cough cough*

This is obsene, I'm starting to suffer sleep deprivation.. 4 hours last nigh.... who knows tonigh... I should have gone out and purchased some new nyquil... but the effects were starting to fade.

I just want some good sleep to be honest....

and is it fair to this blog that I continue to blather on about more digestive tract issues.... I think I do it because I just, I just share what is bothering me... and I guess it has to do with this tract most of the time... I wonder if I have an inordaninant number of issues or if I obsess about them to much.....

Maybe if I just sleep in my chair....

If I could just get Whatever this is, out of my lungs.

Contemplating range bound.... This is a very neutral range for recent trading.

you want to hear my theory... we are range bound 1490 1470 for a while.... maybe short covering rally then back down.

Every time I say range bound it doesn't happen..... The recent impulse wave, should have a correction that will tell us what is up... Then maybe test the highs and then we will establish the pattern neutral, Up, Down.... Whatever... my positions are in the 1515 range.. so I'm risking... But betting the down side... This afternoons correction followed by another down leg, is the kind of trend maintenance I'm betting on... There is a ton of day trading going on..... and conservative trading.... But this is the True Volatility I expect out of this market, With the kind of action that will beat the crap out of most participants, to sideline most people... and create a real bear.

We shall see

running the numbers

down the most Basic materials, financials, Energy.....
RIO, FCX, POT, China precision Steel, Nova gold, china natural resources.

Petro china, Transocean(RIG), PBR, ... emerging markets energy and materials?

This is alot of profit taking...


down least.. Utilities, noncyclicals, capital goods

UPDATE:
you know what this is, smart money rolling out of the weak dollar plays, with the fed on hold, and the inflation numbers adding to acceptance that the fed is going to hold a bid on the dollar.

10% correction in materials/energy?

well we have our bear day

This isn't a particularly strong day....

Puts me in a Quandry...

3 leged move... That dam 250 point jump...I honestly think we go into some range bound action at 13200.... I'm not sure if it will be range bound 13000-13200 or 13200-13400... Damn... seems like based on history 13000 13200 would be more likly..

Erin Burnett is Manic today...... Someone mark a calender and we will see if she is Bi-Polar...

Maybe she is jacked up on sugar or something

BULLS and Bears

Russel is leading us down.....
Nasdaq leading us down....
(that is a deadly combo)

S&P is neutral to bullish
dow is almost fully bullish...

We know who wins this fight..

The Dow In theory, with it's industrial stregnth... Should be strongest in the economy.

peter Schiff is on bloomberg at 11... that will be a nice break from Dyllan.

Morning

Euro is still in the 1.46-7 range...

I'd check all the usual crap... but i'm tired.

Ok... Ok
3month libor is below 5
overnight is 4.3

Good news.....

Steroid report in 3.5 hours..(WTF is That about... Baseball?)

I'm still sick and it's got me on the ropes still....

The Charts.... Aren't as bearish as I had hoped......

Lets see how that develops... may be time to cover.

I'm not making it to lucid at 4 am, and I wish I had this morning, I have no idea what happened with retail Numbers, and seems like it was an interesting morning Liesman, explained how the auction worked, but I wasn't even vaguely lucid.

So... I'll be figuring that crap out all day.

The last 2 days, have been rough... But I have had a good week, all things taken into consideration..

I post to big picture, just for fun.... and wow, peoples undies have been in such a bunch... Especially mine.... I tell you that is interesting... If you look at the postings from the past 3 days... it just shows how freaked out everyone is.

You know what the difference may be today... we may not have as many Bulls selling their stock today.

All out of Nyquil

I've realized Iv'e let my dvd's sprawl all over my office....I'm looking for Bad Santa....

I did little NyQuil, the bottle is empty... so guess I have to go to the store.... Tomorrow.. I used to have all my dvd's alphabetised, it's going to take a few hours to get them back in order.

So, after a week of feeling sick, I feel fat, and lazy..... I hope I get some exercise tomorrow.

Com'on sleep, don't fail me now.

Morning Lung Clearing

*caugh Caugh*

*hack Hack*

*caugh caugh*

The niquil tonight isn't doing it's magic... of course now that I've written it so many times it's "NyQuil".

Ok, some economics....

Your governments says that mainline inflation is 3.5%
and core inflation is 2.1%

so you ask, what is the difference....

Well apparently the Federal reserve(not actually Federal, but a private institution). after the Oil shock to inflation in the 70's started discounting food and energy.....

so here we are in the year 2007 and sure enough food and energy throws an increase of 40% to the inflation figure......

And there are plenty of people who think it's unreasonable to count inflation Ex-food and energy.... Hence Inflation Ex-Inflation...

So, our federal reserve tries, to maintain the Fed funds rate(rate they loan money) at 1% above inflation........
So, they also have announced that they will add food and energy.. into consideration.

Which means that the fed rate should go below 4.5%.... Well they cut today to 4.25%... Well they are trying... Basically this means that they are loaning money at a rate below inflation... Which encourages more Inflation...

Well there are those who think the 2.5% is a joke, and measure it in the 8-10% range...

Which means that things double in price every decade... Which is the way it is... Cars are 30-50K 20 years ago they were 10-20K.... (but apparently they go faster, or are nicer or more modern, so that is seen as deflationary(ya, whatever floats their boat)).

So I used a model of a candy bar as an example... when I was able to buy them they were a quarter 1980-1990, then .50 1990-2000.. now they are like a $1.50....

Honestly you have to account for size differences, there was a period when chocolate was expensive and they had to add fillers, and reduce sizes of some bars... And When they moved to .50 they made them slightly bigger... and now that they are $1.50... and are larger... But In my defence if you can depreciate a car cause it's faster, you have to inflate a candy bar because people are fatter.

I called this candy bar inflation.... then I looked it up and it's a metric people use.... I mean not credibly... but shit.

El Doctor responded

The whole economics/stock market thing has put a kink in my..... old mojo, I do get a whiff of it from time to time. and about half of my Interesting posts are about economics...

I'm a hoot when You get me going about stagflation. And inflation ex-inflation. and black helicopters...
so It means The personal stuff is here, then the stock stuff on the other blog... and I try and post interesting things, but I seriously have a ton of stress, and... It literally sucks my soul.

Unfortunately Keeping the blogs together and my new stress.. Just about undoes me.. But I'm getting back in the groove

I would think that my pathetic "comma" usage, and obscene use of ....... would give me away.

So, I'm not sure if she even reads this blog... But I got a post on the old blog, from dr. pistachio. and I'm not sure if she realizes that I'm the old mop guy.... I mean sure this blog sucks, and I post poorly these days, but that is mostly from stress and a lack of being as easy going as I used to be.

In other news, I feel like hell, I went back to bed for an hour this morning, and very much feel like a cold side of death.

interesting I'm breaking out in a warm sweat on my left side, and a cold one on my right side......

Christmas ....

Next person who shows up with candy, gets punched in the face... Just playing...

Time for NyQuil soon..

Couple of things I haven't watched

Bad Santa
scrooged

I should watch

Christmas vacation.

I would love to wake up in the morning refreshed.

Kicking it into Gear

So, everytime I kick things into High Rev... I hit a wall. Either exhaustion, or lack of focus from my conjestion.... I mean sure, I could hop myself up on uppers of spicy food....

I tried to hit the ground running today.... and it was like hitting a brick wall. I am feeling better, but have yet to be ... Strong or whatever.

Cinderella man was great, should have been about 30 minutes longer.

I'm calling this post "waiting for the niquil to kick in" I umn.. didn't quite get the good sleep last night I received the previous nights... I suspect an outlier in my sample data.

I umnnn, All my life i've not been a morning person, and I've always wondered and worked on it... I read a book once that said "some people wake up exhilarated for a new day, energized and motivated to meet it with enthusiasm, then there are those who don't"

I heard a great line " I'm tired of this day, time to go to bed and get a new one."

I think that is similar...

Well time for the NyQuil to kick in.

Brother

I'm still conjested... I guess feeling better is relative... I don't want to be dead today.


The Fern.... It's in terable condition, I can't believe it's mine. It needs a few sunny days in the greenhouse. Unfortunatly all it gets are some overcast days... Hopefully we get some sun soon.

I actually cut it back at one point so I could monitor it's progress... Well not so much progress but regress.....

As green as my thumb is one would thing I could get it going, but Honestly there isn't enough sun in it's location.... that is my guess.

In all this I'm totaly hooked on TV... and I'm psyched to see "cinderella man" tonight.

The station agent

imdb

this was a good movie, and not in my John Carpenter, zombie movie vein.

What could be the best meteor display of the year will reach its peak on the night of Dec.13-14.

Stephen Edberg "If you have not seen a mighty Geminid fireball arcing gracefully across an expanse of sky, then you have not seen a meteor."

The Geminids get their name from the constellation of Gemini, the Twins, because the meteors appear to emanate from a spot in the sky near the bright star Castor in Gemini.

The Geminid Meteors are usually the most satisfying of all the annual showers, even surpassing the famous Perseids of August.

More of something

I'm going to apply a mega dose of Pickled garlic to my flue, I am feeling better, and this should give me a good bost to my immune system.

Have I mentioned my dislike for Tom Cruse... There was a point when I realize he was choosing projects to work with some of hollywierds best; Rainman with Hoffman, Born on the fourth of July with Oliver Stone, Days of thunder with Duval, A few good men with Nickleson. I even liked Mission Impossible.... But he as slid into a down slide of ridiculously banal offerings... with a few interesting projects..... Vanilla Sky, magnolia.

That and his fascination with that Uber insane religion from that Sci-Fi writer... Talk about looking under all the wrong rocks for answers.... what's it called "BattlestarGalacticaOlogy"

I guess this is all the ramblings you get for the day.... Unless I write later.

My christmas bile

I umn..... Have I mentioned my love of NyQuil... That stuff just kicks ass!!! Drink, mellow for 30 minutes then sleep, I haven't slept that well in years.....

Right, so I'm trading the stock market, and it's never been so clear in my mind what a shell game our economy is. And how the wealthy are trying to do everything they can to convince you to spend money. It's funny our fed Chairman said months ago "if only Americans saved like Europeans.", But we have these huge disincentives to make people spend, we are a spending people, and we wouldn't know what to do if we didn't spend every penny we earned... not only that but created a credit line owing every penny we earn, straight to "Payments" at 22%.
Oh BTW this same Fed Chairman, is going to cut the fed rate next week, in order to make credit even more readily available... So you can save less.

And it all starts with "Baby Jesus Cries if you don't buy everyone you know a gift at Christmas."

I swear to god, I'd mint money if I built little hand made dogs and blocks, made simply, and durable. That you could pass from one generation to another.

"Multi Generational Toys" I'd call it... Then after making some money, Microsoft would push me out of my market share, then in efforts to cost cut, you would end up with the same Piece of shit toys we have now.....

Why? cause that is the American way.

So, I'm starting to rally

Oh...... "They Live" today

"Lifes a bitch, and she is back in heat!"

"My heros have always been cowboys"(which has a very hot Kate Capshaw, pre being ruined by spielburg(she got his cuties)).

"Just trying to get by without shoving"

......

I had that moment this morning or last night, when I was feeling a little better so I looked in a mirror, and realize I looked like... I'd been rode hard, and put up wet.

sorry I am watching "My heroes have always been cowboys", about rodeo before it got to be the celeb prittyboy fest it is these days.

...... I hate being sick, I remember being sick a few times, And I had been so sick and miserable, I always swore I would never take for granted, being well again.

I'm psyched about getting back to some exercise.

My wool socks have holes

... I hate breaking dates, it sucks... I feel bad (not for breaking the date but because I feel like crap)... So now I have to make a call, and say "ya, not coming over".. then It will lead to a 20 minute phone call, and y'all know how I love being on the phone for 20 minutes.

Update:
Call completed

smartly she had figured it out.

Now what do I do with my evening, I have enjoyed the monk marathon today, which gets interrupted by "elf"...

Sick

Fun..... congested, upset stomach, dehydrated, tired, lack focus, Sinuses draining... everywhere...

And I can't sleep, feel like the world is closing in on me

hmmm May have to reach for the nyquil...

Oh and I'll be shoveling the drive tomorrow.

and no one gives me any sympathy....

It's all Nut up and persevere. I'll probably receive a bunch of calls demanding work tomorrow....

and even TV sucks.

did I mention achs and pains.

kid rock just jumped the shark-

Sing along please



Rock N Roll Jesus
Turn me up in the headphones
Been alotta cheap talk but I rock still
From the streets of Shanghai back to Knoxville
Sittin' high on a mountain top holdin' shop spreadin' the good news
Been alotta false prophets and quick hits
And a lot of unAmerican bullshit
But the time has come to settle and the devil's gonna make u choose
And just like a cold wind blowin' can u feel me comin' for u
Just like a freight train rollin' packed tight full of rhythm and blues
TestifyIt's a Rock revival
Don't need a suit
Ya don't need a bible
Get up and danceI'm gonna set you free yeah
Testify
It's all sex, drugs, rock n roll
A soul sensation that you can't control
And you can see I practice what I preach
I'm your rock n roll Jesus
Yes I amBeen alotta bling bling but it ain't real
And alotta new kings but I won't kneel
Sittin' high on a mountain top, holdin' shop singin' the raw dog blues
Like in old Mississippi's dirty cotton fields
Or in Detroit City's unforgotten wheels
It's the same song spinning but the same song's always been true
And I'm gonna take my roll cuz I ain't got nothin' to lose
And I'm gonna save your soul if it's really what you want me to do
[Repeat chorus]Get on your kneesI'm your rock n roll Jesus

Wierd

So is it wierd that I hate Xmas, and I'll still sit down and watch

"The Ref"

"christmas vacation"

and probably

"love actually"

I'm sick... and I'm giving it up for the week, Got the booty call for tomorrow, and I'm thinking I'm going to be sick. Is that wierd too... should I just show up, make her sick, and poorly perform?... I'm sure my performance wont be totaly poor. .. Maybe I can work out saturday.

Well, I'm going to shower, put on some warm clothing and watch "The Ref"

What have things come to

It's not that I hate Bush....

Ok I hate bush, but ... Maybe I'm different, and it's not that I'm short the market. We have to take our medicine in the economy. We set up this stupid system, and now that it's doing what it does, you just have to take it.

I have some cold/flu thing.

Ugh.... I just want the world to stop for a little bit.

this is another I hate chrismast post....

So, I went out today, with the idea of maybe buying a book or something. I needed to get out. Out I went into the world, What is interesting is that, I never see anything I want... for some reason that impulse to buy, doesn't go off in me anymore. I could use some gloves, but.... I looked through the books, and remembered the last couple books I purchased, and realize how shitty they were, either self flagellation by the author, or just a rehash of old info covered elsewhere. I saw 5 different books that have been Flaunted out by T.V. for the past week, and I just remembered, that next year, most these books will be forgotten. DVD's of movies I didn't want to see in the first place.

And all these big box stores, so much distance from one to another, so much waist full driving, both in gas and in my time. It reminds me of the mall.

I was thinking about how much I'd like an Xbox360 or PlayStation or whatever.... Then I remembered that my original Xbox lasted 3 months before it broke, and they are having massive problems with them...

Consumerism... it just doesn't seem like it's worth it.

I keep thinking.. maybe I should make Little wood dogs or dump trucks, just out of blocks of wood and sell them, good durable toys. No more Consumer nonsense......

Even worse, the idea that if you hate this Stupid Selfish consumer driven, commercial holiday.... suddenly your a green asshole named "The Grinch".... I'm surprised that the consumer industry doesn't pay for that to be shown every week from November through December, sans commercials.

What I should do is ebay the shit I get for xmas off.... Think I could do it before I even get the crap?

How would the Ebay add go?

Buy My X-mas.... Dear Ebayer,

I usually receive 2 dvd's, one featuring a former SNL star (usually from the 70's 80's or early 90's) and another from the $5 bin with some has bin action star, ie... Mel Gibson or chuck Norris. Then Likely a calender($5), and a tool of some kind($5 range)....
I have informed all of my friends and kin that I am not doing xmas, but I did do this last year and still received my typical xmas(as you can see I don't exactly put people out much).
BUT... I think they all thought I was kidding last year, and managed to make me feel even worse by still giving me the same shit.

You may ask, on a personal note why I don't repackage and give the same gifts back this year, as I received last year, I could even rotate so it seemed like I actually got them something.(especially since last years remained unopened, and the year before's(I know this isn't a word) are unopened.)...
Well Maybe I'll repackage last years and the year before and ebay that too.

I Fucking Hate Christmas. only good thing about it is that Christmas means only 2 months till spring and feb has a false spring for a week or 2 .

Indigestion

Oh... I promised no digestive tract talk...

I got a new wool hat today... I know, very exciting...

been some long days. I'm very exhausted.

Work

What a Monday....

so... Besides my usual obsession with the buying and selling if ridiculous pieces of paper.... I got a call to add more work to my life. So, It's 8pm my bedtime and overall I'm still working, I can get up in the morning and hopefully finish it off, but it's rough to procrastinate for me.

Also of note, "They Live" is on in 8 minutes.... I'm super Excited.

movie recomend

The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio

if you get a chance, this is worth watching.... it's not my usual, lousy movie that I have a crush on the main actress movie either.

My epic weekend of snow blowing,and shuvling

After the Saturday morning shoveling and blowing, I had to do the Saturday afternoon.... We got about 8-12 inches of snow. in the final stretch of the snow blowing, the blower quit, and after 3 hours of it... I have one hell of a drive... and I get my neighbors too(I rock as a neighbor.) So, I had to finish it off today, after doing some maintenance.

My next door neighbor is very blue collar, I think he and his wife are very good people. Though they are good people, they really are the kind of blue collar people in our world that suffer the most. He used to have a great job, got layed off about 2001, then has suffered through long series of shitty Jobs, paying between $10-$20 an hour, with no health coverage, and just barley found something that was decent. Hopefully it treats him right until he can retire, at say 70 or so? It's hard to find a person who works as hard as he does. But it has never really payed off for him.

and me with my incessant whining about if to take a real job or not.....

It was easy to get his drive, and I was actually psyched to put on a hat,boots, gloves and skarf. Put the MP3 Player onto Jazz mode, and Just Zen out for a few hours.

Evel knievel died

It's obvious that I'm a Lefty....

So, who do I support in 2008....

I asked myself that question yesterday, while snow blowing the drive for 3 hours.

The real question is who do I want to inherit the "Jobless Economy", Supported by big box stores and $12 4000 caorie meals... and opertunities to buy everything you never needed, that won't make you happy.... and a never ending war.

All Sliding into recession....

My choice of candidate... to inherit this Cornicopia of opertunity.......

Mit Romney...

Who else but some Doe headed Mormon.

I have to push snow off the walk, again umn... Which I will now document as "My search for my Wool Hat"

I've looked in the closet, and the secondary closet...

I hated all the badges,... but dug this one.

Truth is ... YOU SURVIVED My NABloPoMO... 2007...

Or you didn't.

My days of "Yep... Tired today."... so thanks anyone who made it through with me.

Was it worth doing? I don't know... but I had some fun.

banks

so banks have this multitierd login now...

so I have to answer stupid questions...

One of which is "What is your favorite tv show."

I couldn't remember if I said "House." or "The Shield"... or did I put "Shield"

or is house now my favorite, and the shield was.....

Tired

Pushing snow devices is hard, and I have to do it again....

Umn...

Seems like a good day for a Christmas movie.... only a few weeks till x-mas hell.

Nice to be sweaty and Hyper-caffeinated.

Notes on a Saturday

..... Damn I like the weekend.

It has snowed like crazy here. I was remarking on my run ... Yesterday? how much I loved running as the seasons changed from fall to winter, it looks like a good day to go for a little winter run.


...... Oh, Now I remember....
(a blog is like a cruel mistress that you have to answer to every day)

..... Damn now I have forgotten...

Oh, I slept in till 9am... It was super crazy... I caught a nap at 6pm last night then staid up until midnight... and I slept in.

Time to shovel some walks.