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Jun. 24th, 2012 @ 10:08 pm A quick glance at the rules.
Current Mood: contemplative
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1. I allow anonymous comments because Phil ([info]saratogaphil)always forgets his logon.
If you don't put a sig of some kind (a shared memory, if you need to remain anonymous for any reason, or maybe a nickname I've used in the past), I will delete your comment. Maybe I'll reply. Maybe I won't.
Either way, I won't squeeze out Phil (have you tried her birthday, man?) for anybody.

2. Don't slag each other. Or me, really, unless there's a solid reason. You can, hard as it may be to believe, try to change my mind.
Sometimes, it may even work.

3. WHEN I SAY "I HATE WHITE PEOPLE", I'm KIDDING. What I mean is "I HATE PEOPLE WHO THINK I ACTUALLY HATE WHITE PEOPLE." Sorry, I guess I should have made that clear from Entry #1.

4. In fact, a great DEAL of the time, I am KIDDING. If you can't laugh at my admittedly obsidian sense of humor, then this really isn't a good place for you. The Internet has other sites, however shabby in comparison; there's got to be somewhere better.

5. REPO MAN is the greatest movie ever made. You just needed to know that. You're welcome.
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guthlactus speaks!
Jul. 16th, 2009 @ 05:36 am Up, date!
Current Mood: busy
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-Not master cylinder. Front right wheel was just coming off. We don't DO rebellion, wheel. NOW BACK ON THAT AXLE AND PRETEND YOU LIKE IT.
-Lots of OT at work, so maybe buying scalped Counting Crows tickets AND Living Colour tickets is not out of question.
-My mom's hair looks better after a concussion. I am not kidding. She's doing well, sees a doctor today for followup. She hit her head on the grassy part of the back yard, so it didn't break skin (her side is where I get my nigh-invulnerability anyway), and they aren't blue-juicing THIS dog.
-My 91-year-old Beach Girlfriend, Camille, is feeling much better and has stopped talking about dying, so work is much less stressful. Of course, this means they'll fire me today or something...>8)X
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batstarry
Jul. 14th, 2009 @ 07:13 pm Do you smell smoke?
Current Mood: stressed
My truck may need a new master cylinder (which is expensive, if you don't know car stuff.)

My mother has a concussion (which is why you should never buy a dog less than three feet high at the nape.)

I was reading today's paper, only to see that my favorite music professor (from my brief college experience) died on the 12th.

The pool pump's wiring eludes our finest minds, and the electrician is slow in coming.

I can't afford a garage door technician yet.

I am suffering a psychological block that will not let me unpack anything (or hang pictures, etc.) because I don't know if somebody will need to get in somewhere to wire something or if I should just sell off everything or something like that.

Yay me.
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ansel adams' moon
Jul. 3rd, 2009 @ 03:18 am It was, it is.
Current Mood: awake
Yesterday was Jon's 14th birthday.
What a difference a year makes.
We were both too busy for me to commemmemmemmorate it here, because he spent the day with his brothers and cousins. I worked. A lot. When we met up at the end of the day, it was because everybody came to our house for pizza and cake.
He is getting so big, although he's nowhere near my size at his age.
And yes, I am up at 0320. Today is going to be a long day.
Tomorrow? Explosions and Jell-O.
I would say Happy Birthday to [info]theferrett, but he's probably busy right now.
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batstarry
Jun. 29th, 2009 @ 08:05 am Stickler.
Current Mood: contemplative
From the latest version of HR22, a bill which has a drastic and immediate impact on my job, complete with my comments in boldface:
Read more... )

I hate reading through all this stuff, FYI. It just reminds me that I used to want to go to law school, which pisses me off because I know I would have probably flunked out anyway, but I love the idea of getting paid to be, well, the gigantic jerk that I know I am.
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batstarry
Jun. 26th, 2009 @ 06:12 am Remind me?
NEVER post a comment on the local weather anchor's FaceBook. It is not a web page; it is an ignorance magnet.
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batstarry
Jun. 26th, 2009 @ 05:57 am Some days...
Current Mood: amused
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...I am waiting for someone, ANYone, amongst my postal colleagues to just stand up and say "Screw this, I'm going back to clown school." Mailmen are a strange, and strange-looking, lot. It's like most of us were put together using God's leftover parts from a home improvement project, all doorlatch noses and porch-railing legs.

...the more I try to explain Teh Intarwebs to my co-workers, the more I wonder about the notion of virtual reality, of virtual identity, of virtual property.
And then I realize that if I articulate a single word of that navel-gazing, they will assume I am gay or something. You should see the looks I get when I say I don't actually like baseball.

...there are millions of mosquitoes in this world, and I swear to Jesus that most of them know what I taste like. The worst of it is at the inarguably Most Expensive Condos In Town, too, because the five-dollar maintenance staff just swabs out the lobby like old Tupperware and LETS IT AIR DRY. In a salt marsh. In summer. Seriously.

...yesterday, management visited me twice on the street. The first set of knobs came to see if I still had mail in the truck (I did, and quite a bit of it), and the second set came to see if I would go help another carrier. I find this amusing because one set was out to persecute and investigate, the other was using me as an excuse for a beach run to ogle marginally-legal girls in bikinis.
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Excelsior!
Jun. 24th, 2009 @ 05:38 am In the meantime...
Current Mood: contemplative
...Jon graduated middle school, having won the Vice Principal's Award. Soon, we will see what kind of honors (or at least really high grades) he has for the final marking period.
...Will has discovered the joy of bike riding. Sadly, he is still quite blonde at heart, and recently ran into a fire hydrant.
...Jacob is getting to be a decent hitter (for a six-year-old in coach-pitched Little League), but still drifts away while fielding. Baseball may not be his sport, but at least he's having fun. Yesterday was his last day of school, so today he's sleeping in. For him, that means 8am.
...the new place has heat, meaning we can finally unpack.
...my old bed is making it tough to sleep.
...I hear a growing sound in the back of my mind, and I think it's an open E string.
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batstarry
Jun. 24th, 2009 @ 05:30 am Dear [info]theferrett:
Current Mood: contemplative
Nothing says "attention hooer" more than bursting your appendix while I'm offline, Stein.
Get well soon, little big brother.
Also, even though it's not a very useful organ, I will gladly give you [info]julesbourglay's...if only because we all know mine wouldn't fit. It's probably the size of your whole torso.
I'm a giver, Bill. It's what I do.
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batstarry
Jun. 20th, 2009 @ 06:51 am With fact.
Someday, Harlan Ellison, Ray Bradbury, and yes, even Neil Gaiman will die.
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batstarry
Jun. 15th, 2009 @ 01:32 pm Assemble.
Current Mood: amused
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http://comics.ign.com/articles/994/994682p1.html
Not like I didn't know, like we ALL didn't know...but it's happening.
WITH BUTCH GUICE.
AND THEN GENE COLAN.
Word.
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batstarry
Jun. 8th, 2009 @ 08:26 pm Heh.
Current Mood: amused
I has intarwebs again.
VERY FAST INTARWEBS THEY ARE, too.
BWAHAHA.
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batstarry
Jun. 6th, 2009 @ 03:11 pm Voideur.
Current Mood: contemplative
Seriously?
First Scans Daily, and now this.
No wonder more people go to Facebook; at least there isn't the illusion of content.
Sure, I love reading about all your personal lives (I don't really have one, as such...it's more like a to-do list and the inevitable failed escape attempts therefrom), but...
...no Stein? Really?
Wow.
Just...wow.
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batstarry
Jun. 6th, 2009 @ 02:19 pm Return of sorts, if not sorter.
Current Mood: curious
Hi.
I'm using a late-90s USB thingis to access an open local WAN.
Cable people are coming Monday.
What did I miss?
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batstarry
May. 25th, 2009 @ 06:07 am Every day is not Sunday.
Current Mood: awake
We're moving stuff. She's painting, they're getting underfoot, I'm still sore from Saturday at work (after four months of mounted jobs, I was walking for seven hours, on the clock for ten and a half)...
...but this move is going well, largely because the new place has so much storage space. I can only imagine a conversation between the original owner and his wife.
"So, you want to go to the beach? Take a vacation?"
"Nah. Let's build shelves."
"How about your aunt's funeral? That's Tuesday."
"Maybe, but can we build shelves when we get back? And maybe run some more power to the entire house?"
"I don't see why not. Hey, does the little clubhouse over the pool have power?"
"Yeah. If I could only fit through the opening, it'd have shelves, too."
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batstarry
May. 24th, 2009 @ 06:47 am Oneiromancy again.
Current Mood: contemplative
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Last night, just after I scripted a movie starring Stephen Fry as a loan shark, I found myself in a fight at the Post Office. The attacker was a co-worker who wanted my current holddown.
His first attack was an attempted headlock, which knocked down a few of our fellow postmen (I have a tendency to use gravity against people), and then a reasonably tight right hook.
I did not hurt him. When my former supervisor from Anthem came to break up the fight, I still had him in a wristlock.
When I woke, I was fairly certain I would avoid discipline.
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dreams
May. 23rd, 2009 @ 08:45 pm (no subject)
The new place is going to be AWESOME.
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batstarry
May. 21st, 2009 @ 09:05 pm I took that serious.
Current Mood: busy
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Looks like the in-laws got the house.
We're moving on up.
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Looks like the union agrees with my stance, and I am condemned to deliver to beachfront condos ALL SUMMER LONG.
FYI, [info]katkia222, did you know that your mailman is Scottish? Really. We're pals.
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Jon's Spanish teacher thinks I should become a teacher. If you're in that much trouble, lady, that you're calling ME for reinforcement, you should consider a career in retail...>8)X
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batstarry
May. 20th, 2009 @ 06:49 am Today the 20th.
Current Mood: busy
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-New deodorant. REALLY.
-I started making a mixdisc this morning, and I had a few ideas, and then my brain went all Guthrie.
Here's the tracklist:
Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Zero
Blue October, Dirt Room
Company Of Thieves, Oscar Wilde
The Police, Walking On The Moon
Dust For Life, Step Into The Light
Hot Hot Heat, Bandages
Ida Maria, I Like You So Much Better When You're Naked
Vampire Weekend, A-Punk
Spoon, The Underdog
Sparklehorse, Piano Fire
Soul Coughing, Circles
Red Hot Chili Peppers, Warped
MGMT, Kids
The Police, So Lonely
My Chemical Romance, Welcome To The Black Parade
Puff Daddy & The Family/Dave Grohl, It's All About The Benjamins (Rock Remix)
Metallica, Frayed Ends Of Sanity
...what?
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batstarry
May. 20th, 2009 @ 05:07 am Baz, pass the lotion.
Current Mood: awake
If I am informed correctly, I will be delivering to the beach houses and condos of Momauguin, those fortunate souls right at the waterline, for approximately the next six months. Maybe longer.
End zone dance, anyone?
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batstarry