Well, I'm off to Barrie in the morning for Edgefest. I'll be back some time around the next day.

And lo, Gord said "Let there be light." And there was. And he was happy.

Though I doubt a new light fixture has anything to do with it.

Pain - Shut Your Mouth

The only thing I ever wanted, the only thing I ever needed
is my own way - I gotta have it all
I don't want your opinion, I don't need your ideas
stay the fuck out of my face, stay away from me
I am my own god - I do as I please

just wipe your own ass and - shut your mouth

I had enough and you're going down - shut your mouth
what comes around you know goes around

my mind is playing tricks on me
I am not as stable as I used to be
pushed and shoved, you know you're going too far
I will not break my back for you no more, I am gonna go my way
I am gonna take control
time to wake up and dig myself out of this hell

just wipe your own ass and - shut your mouth

I had enough and you're going down - shut your mouth
what comes around you know goes around - shut your mouth
you're getting what your ego deserves - shut your mouth
what comes around you know goes around - shut your mouth

shut your mouth

I had enough and you're going down - shut your mouth
what comes around you know goes around

shut your mouth
shut your mouth
shut your mouth

I picked up a 24/10/40x burner today. So I can burn...umm...my own...documents, etc. again.

First up, Reader Rabbit!

New rule to live my life by. Be prepared to leave everything behind if/when I move. Take nothing with you. It's too much hassle.

David Sedaris is hilarious. Sadly, I can breeze through his books even more quickly than Terry Pratchett's.

But the real point of this update, is to restate that I hate Bill Bryson. And yes, I'm shamelessly trying to make some money with those links. Doubt I'll get any.

Ow. Too much walking. Oh yeah, and a sudden hurricane sorta sucked too. There's an entire school's worth of teachers in my house at the moment (as opposed to the usual quarter of a school's worth). I guess I should brave the kitchen, since doing so could result in Diet Evil.

Well, I'm feeling pretty restless. I've got to find something to occupy my brain.

It's been entirely too long since I've done up wallpaper, so I'm making my triumphant return.

I suck

I'm becoming increasingly bitter about a lot of things. I'd feel bad about it, but wait, nope. I don't.

When will people learn?

Aquaman Sucks

Mwa-ha-ha-ha-ha!

He returns!

God I'm bored.

Since my webcam software has the single most annoying implementation I've ever seen, and it tends to lock up if I leave it running for more than 20 minutes, I've been searching for a better solution.

Amazingly, that came in the form of Microsoft. Included in their Powertoys for XP package, is webcam software. It's hardly perfect, but it's stable. All it really means is that the thumbnail on the main page won't update (Unless I get really bored and resurrect my old program once in awhile), and I can't make stupid comments to be overlaid on my pictures. But unless someone can find me a stable, free program that does those things, I'm gonna go with what I've got now. Unless CoffeeCup releases an upgrade that fixes the stability/annoyingness of their software.

Paulina Rubio MUST DIE.

My neck is killing me, and it has since Friday night. I wouldn't complain, but it kept me awake til 5:45 last night.

I can now add my Printer Port to the list of things on my computer that don't work too well. I'm really starting to hate this thing. But, until I get real work, I'm stuck with it. Huzzah.

On the upside, I've found some vaguely productive ways to spend my time. Or, at least, productive in my eyes.

Okay, uncharacteristically, I had fun. In the end, our ride flaked out, but it's all good. I didn't even end up waking up in a strange place, with a strange woman. Close, but not quite. Hopefully she won't disappear into the ether that any half decent people I meet seem to hide in.

Hmmm, that whole last paragraph is painfully misleading. Ah well, everything in it is the truth, for whatever that counts for.

Random Observations:

• Shmingers thinks I'm gay. Wait, he already did. Shmingers now thinks I'm "so very very gay."
• Battery-operated, Taiwanese tongue studs leave much to be desired in quality
• Batteries taste awful
• There's a vent in the Phoenix that makes better-than-sex-water look...well, worse than sex.
• The YMCA may be gay, but it's also fun
• When the mood strikes me, I'm a horrible person
• When the mood strikes me, I'm a terrific person
• I hold my liquor better than anyone else on earth. With the possible exception of Shmingers, but he didn't have much
• Tap water makes a poor substitute for Apple Cider in terms of "whoops, I drank too much, and I need to rehydrate myself before I go to sleep so I don't wake up dead"ness. Hopefully it's still effective
• 10 AM is too early to get up. Ever. Let alone tomorrow
• This is about as drunk as I get, and I still managed to code the HTML for this post. In the dark. With no clothes on. In your face, Space Coyote!

Stupid Rogers.

I have a connection, and yet I don't.

Ah well, at least this way, nobody's yelling at me.

And I bothered to get up today why? Or any other day for that matter?

Yep. Life gets better and better. I may possibly explode with joy soon.

Perhaps I'll toss and turn all night while I dream of being hunted by magical poisonous millipedes instead.

Go here.

I think I might actually get a good night's sleep for the first time in months tonite.

There. That's the entire post. No need to elaborate.

My mother's attempting to sever my right arm. My father's trying to poison me. I really gotta go.

That's 3 meals in a row I regret deeply. And I think they're going to stick around. For months and months.

Finally got around to seeing Rushmore, which while not as good as The Royal Tenenbaums, was still great. Though Owen Wilson's part in it was so brief, I missed it. I'm guessing there was just a picture of him somewhere, and I missed it. No completely insane paintings either. And, like the Tenenbaums, you sorta get out of it what you bring into it. So while it was funny, I found it deeply depressing. C'est la vie.

And amazingly, they're getting worse, not better.

Oh lordy. Wimpy's. I may never eat again.

I blew up my site again briefly, but it's recovered fairly well. Only lost 2 or 3 posts, and now my email has switched to the much simpler mend0za.com domain. Senat0rMend0za.com is all but dead. It'll keep pointing to the website until it's due to be re-registered, which shouldn't be for a year and a half or so.

In other news, wandering downtown is fun.