Next Up, "The Blues"

Link here for the entry to the current Photo Friday challenge. The photo didn't come out near as well as I would have liked, I have a sneaky feeling that's to do with me not having a polarizer for my Dslr.

I shall have to remedy that, as now it's spring/summer, and that means hot sun on reflecting surface action.

In other news, my debt just got 1900$ larger, thanks Alberta Health, good to see you fuckers care.

Also got two more books, "On War", and "The World is Flat" today.

Friday was more teeth pulling, or rather tooth.

Two hours to get one wisdom tooth yanked seems to be a tad much, the dentist thought so too.

(I have to go back in May to get the final one yanked).

(Oh, and voting for the Photofriday doesn't start till, uhh, this Friday.

Thanks)

The Life Challenges
• Skydive (up to the point of doing it on your own chute)
• Take a "introductory" plane flight course
• Join the Reserves
• Obtain Class 6 Drivers (motorcycle license)
• Publish one book
• Direct one movie
• Learn to Scuba dive
• Publish one art book of photos
• Go on Deep Sea Fishing Charter
• 3 Day Novel Challenge
• National Novel Writing Month
• 24 Hour Comic
• Live in a foreign country, for one month minimum.
• Learn French
• Learn German
• Learn to Snowboard
• Learn to iceskate
• Get into Guinness Book of Records
• Design one shirt for threadless.com

Travel Destinations
• London, England
• Berlin, Germany
• Rome + Pompei, Italy
• Cuba
• Japan
• Las Vegas, USA
• Moscow, Russia
• Paris, France
• Athens, Greece
• Egypt
• Denmark, see Legoland, stay at Legoland hotel
• Hong Kong

The Minors
• Re-start my personal website with journal.
• save up $500
• save up $1000
• save up $2000
• Start working out again.

The List (CLOSED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE) Bold means read, striked out means owned.
• Life of Pi, Jann Martel
• The Principia, Isaac Newton
• Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson
• Koran
• Bible (new testement)
• Torah/Chumash/Bible (old testement www.artscroll.com)
• Foucault's Pendulum, Umberto Eco
• Holy Blood, Holy Grail, Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln
• (then get) Messenic Legacy, Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln
• The Dante Club, Matthew Pearl
• Neuromancer, William Gibson
• Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs
• Uncommon Carriers, John McPhee
• Charles Bukowski, Women (or Tales of Ordinary Madness, or Factotum, or Post Office)
• The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century, Thomas L. Friedman
• The Divine Comedy, Dante
• Tom Robbins, Another Roadside Attraction
• Tom Robbins, Jitter Bug Perfume
• George Orwell, 1984
• Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
• Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
• Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
• Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
• The R. Crumb handbook, Robert Crumb and Peter Polaski
• Playboy 50 Years: the Cartoons
  
• The Human Zoo, Desmond Morris
• The Plucker, Gerald Brom
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, Philip K. Dick
• The Histories, Herodotus
• The Social Contract, Jean Jacques Rousseau
• Tales of the Unexpected, Roald Dahl
• Everything Is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer
• Iliad, Homer
• The Odyssey, Homer
• Beowulf
• Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
• The Game, Neil Strauss
• Time Traveler's Wife, Audrey Niffenegger
• Solaris, Stanislaw Lem
• Robert J. Sawyer, Flashforward
• Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison
• The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Attwood
• House of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski
• Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson
• King Lear, Shakespeare
• Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance, Robert Persig
• The Joy of Pi, David Blatner
• Nietzsche, Daybreak
• Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, Douglas R. Hofstadter
• High Fidelity, Nick Hornby
• Jack Kerouac, On the Road
• Heart of Darkness, Joeseph Conrad
• Carl von Clausewitz, On War
• The Chrysalids, John Wyndham
• Catcher In The Rye, JD Salinger

Photo Friday : Blessing.

So somehow my link got deleted from Photofriday, which pissed me off greatly. The response I got back was that "the link wasn't working".

So, their site fucked up, and I paid for it.

Beh.

Anyways.

Link is below, with explainer text about why I did the image that way.

Also, points to those that can figure out a religious reference from it.

Link to Blessing Entry

The Life Challenges
• Skydive (up to the point of doing it on your own chute)
• Take a "introductory" plane flight course
• Join the Reserves
• Obtain Class 6 Drivers (motorcycle license)
• Publish one book
• Direct one movie
• Learn to Scuba dive
• Publish one art book of photos
• Go on Deep Sea Fishing Charter
• 3 Day Novel Challenge
• National Novel Writing Month
• 24 Hour Comic
• Live in a foreign country, for one month minimum.
• Learn French
• Learn German
• Learn to Snowboard
• Learn to iceskate
• Get into Guinness Book of Records
• Design one shirt for threadless.com

Travel Destinations
• London, England
• Berlin, Germany
• Rome + Pompei, Italy
• Cuba
• Japan
• Las Vegas, USA
• Moscow, Russia
• Paris, France
• Athens, Greece
• Egypt
• Denmark, see Legoland, stay at Legoland hotel
• Hong Kong

The Minors
• Re-start my personal website with journal.
• save up $500
• save up $1000
• save up $2000
• Start working out again.

The List (CLOSED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE) Bold means read, striked out means owned.
• Life of Pi, Jann Martel
• The Principia, Isaac Newton
• Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson
• Koran
• Bible (new testement)
• Torah/Chumash/Bible (old testement www.artscroll.com)
• Foucault's Pendulum, Umberto Eco
• Holy Blood, Holy Grail, Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln
• (then get) Messenic Legacy, Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln
• The Dante Club, Matthew Pearl
• Neuromancer, William Gibson
• Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs
• Uncommon Carriers, John McPhee
• Charles Bukowski, Women (or Tales of Ordinary Madness, or Factotum, or Post Office)
• The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century, Thomas L. Friedman
• The Divine Comedy, Dante
• Tom Robbins, Another Roadside Attraction
• Tom Robbins, Jitter Bug Perfume
• George Orwell, 1984
• Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
• Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
• Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
• Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
• The R. Crumb handbook, Robert Crumb and Peter Polaski
• Playboy 50 Years: the Cartoons
  
• The Human Zoo, Desmond Morris
• The Plucker, Gerald Brom
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, Philip K. Dick
• The Histories, Herodotus
• The Social Contract, Jean Jacques Rousseau
• Tales of the Unexpected, Roald Dahl
• Everything Is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer
• Iliad, Homer
• The Odyssey, Homer
• Beowulf
• Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
• The Game, Neil Strauss
• Time Traveler's Wife, Audrey Niffenegger
• Solaris, Stanislaw Lem
• Robert J. Sawyer, Flashforward
• Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison
• The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Attwood
• House of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski
• Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson
• King Lear, Shakespeare
• Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance, Robert Persig
• The Joy of Pi, David Blatner
• Nietzsche, Daybreak
• Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, Douglas R. Hofstadter
• High Fidelity, Nick Hornby
• Jack Kerouac, On the Road
• Heart of Darkness, Joeseph Conrad
• Carl von Clausewitz, On War
• The Chrysalids, John Wyndham
• Catcher In The Rye, JD Salinger

a taste of things to come (lighting experiment)

mucking about with random items, took a apple, made it do a balancing act, and figured out a trick with flash.

"bouncing" the light, rather then doing the "deer caught in headlights" tactic.

enjoy.

As most seem to not want to "really" look into my blog (kidding), here is the link to the blog I have...

Seems the spoiler tag doesn't work when you're looking at the blog from the "outside" ? or however the journal/blog is referred to these days.

The Life Challenges
• Skydive (up to the point of doing it on your own chute)
• Take a "introductory" plane flight course
• Join the Reserves
• Obtain Class 6 Drivers (motorcycle license)
• Publish one book
• Direct one movie
• Learn to Scuba dive
• Publish one art book of photos
• Go on Deep Sea Fishing Charter
• 3 Day Novel Challenge
• National Novel Writing Month
• 24 Hour Comic
• Live in a foreign country, for one month minimum.
• Learn French
• Learn German
• Learn to Snowboard
• Learn to iceskate
• Get into Guinness Book of Records
• Design one shirt for threadless.com

Travel Destinations
• London, England
• Berlin, Germany
• Rome + Pompei, Italy
• Cuba
• Japan
• Las Vegas, USA
• Moscow, Russia
• Paris, France
• Athens, Greece
• Egypt
• Denmark, see Legoland, stay at Legoland hotel
• Hong Kong

The Minors
• Re-start my personal website with journal.
• save up $500
• save up $1000
• save up $2000
• Start working out again.

The List (CLOSED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE) Bold means read, striked out means owned.
• Life of Pi, Jann Martel
• The Principia, Isaac Newton
• Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson
• Koran
• Bible (new testement)
• Torah/Chumash/Bible (old testement www.artscroll.com)
• Foucault's Pendulum, Umberto Eco
• Holy Blood, Holy Grail, Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln
• (then get) Messenic Legacy, Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln
• The Dante Club, Matthew Pearl
• Neuromancer, William Gibson
• Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs
• Uncommon Carriers, John McPhee
• Charles Bukowski, Women (or Tales of Ordinary Madness, or Factotum, or Post Office)
• The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century, Thomas L. Friedman
• The Divine Comedy, Dante
• Tom Robbins, Another Roadside Attraction
• Tom Robbins, Jitter Bug Perfume
• George Orwell, 1984
• Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
• Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
• Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
• Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
• The R. Crumb handbook, Robert Crumb and Peter Polaski
• Playboy 50 Years: the Cartoons
  
• The Human Zoo, Desmond Morris
• The Plucker, Gerald Brom
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, Philip K. Dick
• The Histories, Herodotus
• The Social Contract, Jean Jacques Rousseau
• Tales of the Unexpected, Roald Dahl
• Everything Is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer
• Iliad, Homer
• The Odyssey, Homer
• Beowulf
• Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
• The Game, Neil Strauss
• Time Traveler's Wife, Audrey Niffenegger
• Solaris, Stanislaw Lem
• Robert J. Sawyer, Flashforward
• Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison
• The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Attwood
• House of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski
• Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson
• King Lear, Shakespeare
• Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance, Robert Persig
• The Joy of Pi, David Blatner
• Nietzsche, Daybreak
• Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, Douglas R. Hofstadter
• High Fidelity, Nick Hornby
• Jack Kerouac, On the Road
• Heart of Darkness, Joeseph Conrad
• Carl von Clausewitz, On War
• The Chrysalids, John Wyndham
• Catcher In The Rye, JD Salinger

Growth (or Dangerous is the well read man)

Link

(Click the picture to see fullsize)

Took about 60 shots, using a digital SLR (Nikon D70s), using multiple types of lighting (candles, flash, candles/flash, house lights).

Finally I just took my camera and snapped away handheld, at about 1/10th @f11.

This is what I ended up with.

It's my entry for this weeks "photo friday" challenge.

It's not great, but atleast it's something.

Thoughts?

Also... uhh... vote for me? (I'm linked as zenFish #412)

link

The Life Challenges
• Skydive (up to the point of doing it on your own chute)
• Take a "introductory" plane flight course
• Join the Reserves
• Obtain Class 6 Drivers (motorcycle license)
• Publish one book
• Direct one movie
• Learn to Scuba dive
• Publish one art book of photos
• Go on Deep Sea Fishing Charter
• 3 Day Novel Challenge
• National Novel Writing Month
• 24 Hour Comic
• Live in a foreign country, for one month minimum.
• Learn French
• Learn German
• Learn to Snowboard
• Learn to iceskate
• Get into Guinness Book of Records
• Design one shirt for threadless.com

Travel Destinations
• London, England
• Berlin, Germany
• Rome + Pompei, Italy
• Cuba
• Japan
• Las Vegas, USA
• Moscow, Russia
• Paris, France
• Athens, Greece
• Egypt
• Denmark, see Legoland, stay at Legoland hotel
• Hong Kong

The Minors
• Re-start my personal website with journal.
• save up $500
• save up $1000
• save up $2000
• Start working out again.

The List (CLOSED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE) Bold means read, striked out means owned.
• Life of Pi, Jann Martel
• The Principia, Isaac Newton
• Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson
• Koran
• Bible (new testement)
• Torah/Chumash/Bible (old testement www.artscroll.com)
• Foucault's Pendulum, Umberto Eco
• Holy Blood, Holy Grail, Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln
• (then get) Messenic Legacy, Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln
• The Dante Club, Matthew Pearl
• Neuromancer, William Gibson
• Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs
• Uncommon Carriers, John McPhee
• Charles Bukowski, Women (or Tales of Ordinary Madness, or Factotum, or Post Office)
• The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century, Thomas L. Friedman
• The Divine Comedy, Dante
• Tom Robbins, Another Roadside Attraction
• Tom Robbins, Jitter Bug Perfume
• George Orwell, 1984
• Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
• Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
• Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
• Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
• The R. Crumb handbook, Robert Crumb and Peter Polaski
• Playboy 50 Years: the Cartoons
  
• The Human Zoo, Desmond Morris
• The Plucker, Gerald Brom
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, Philip K. Dick
• The Histories, Herodotus
• The Social Contract, Jean Jacques Rousseau
• Tales of the Unexpected, Roald Dahl
• Everything Is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer
• Iliad, Homer
• The Odyssey, Homer
• Beowulf
• Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
• The Game, Neil Strauss
• Time Traveler's Wife, Audrey Niffenegger
• Solaris, Stanislaw Lem
• Robert J. Sawyer, Flashforward
• Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison
• The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Attwood
• House of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski
• Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson
• King Lear, Shakespeare
• Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance, Robert Persig
• The Joy of Pi, David Blatner
• Nietzsche, Daybreak
• Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, Douglas R. Hofstadter
• High Fidelity, Nick Hornby
• Jack Kerouac, On the Road
• Heart of Darkness, Joeseph Conrad
• Carl von Clausewitz, On War
• The Chrysalids, John Wyndham
• Catcher In The Rye, JD Salinger

Whoever wishes to become great must first begin small. - Unknown.

Lately my life has all been about the slow cleaning of my home, video games, movies, and buying comcis.

(the regular series) DMZ, Strange Girl, Scalped, Dark Tower, Nightly News

(the one offs) The Other Side (5 issues), Pride of Baghdad, True Porn 2, Robots vs Zombies (2 issues), Done 2 Death (4 issues)

Right now what I'd like to start collecting is "American Virgin" just need to find a place that has the last few issues... if I can I'll probably start collecting that one as well.

Finally got all the Final Fantasy video games for Nintendo, one through six. Next up will be the FF12 "prequel" coming out in April/May of this year.

I'm wanting to make a more concerted effort in the next little bit to get debt free, but I think I'll do it in a odd method. Basically to save up a good chunk of cash (five hundred to a thousand), and then slap that onto the smaller or larger debt, but during that keep making payments.

The other mission I've had for myself lately has been to clean house, a lot more then it has been in the past. This meant investing in a small paper shredder, and put to waste a lot of bills/documents I had laying around. That seemed to help quite a bit, but I know I have more to shred up and toss out.

Along those lines is to go through my clothes, and books with the ideal of doing some spring cleaning. As I know I own a few things I won't read, or wear ever again.

During this I also aim to finally go through my old computers, collect all the files needed off of them, destroy the hard drives, and finally toss about six computer systems to the recyclers. I'll go through and keep what is useful, but for the most part, it's all trash these days.

When that is done I'll have another shelf to use for storage, most likely will be my darkroom stuff.

More things? Going through my cdroms and seeing what stuff I no longer need, as I know I have a few backup cdroms kicking about from 10 years ago... ha!

Also have been fixing all my music in iTunes, things like track #'s, album art, and making sure everything is considered "one" cd or another by iTunes.

One small mistake in the metadata? bam, no togetherness, very annoying.

The biggest challenge? Putting together a website I used to run, from all the random files kicking about, and seeing how coherent, it all is.

That will be interesting, the final goal? To put my website back on the web.

Still not putting huge effort into dating, hung out with a couple girls, one who's just a friend (and not getting that's all it is), the other someone I'd like (but who's going through guys with a buzzsaw at the moment) so I'm keeping a solid head that it's just friends, or plain old fucking.

The last bit

Lately I've wanted to get a hold of someone, who I used to fuck/date?... it was an odd time, I know I still can email this person... I just wonder if I'll get the answers I want from them... that being any semblance of answers at all.

The Life Challenges
• Skydive (up to the point of doing it on your own chute)
• Take a "introductory" plane flight course
• Join the Reserves
• Obtain Class 6 Drivers (motorcycle license)
• Publish one book
• Direct one movie
• Learn to Scuba dive
• Publish one art book of photos
• Go on Deep Sea Fishing Charter
• 3 Day Novel Challenge
• National Novel Writing Month
• 24 Hour Comic
• Live in a foreign country, for one month minimum.
• Learn French
• Learn German
• Learn to Snowboard
• Learn to iceskate
• Get into Guinness Book of Records
• Design one shirt for threadless.com

Travel Destinations
• London, England
• Berlin, Germany
• Rome + Pompei, Italy
• Cuba
• Japan
• Las Vegas, USA
• Moscow, Russia
• Paris, France
• Athens, Greece
• Egypt
• Denmark, see Legoland, stay at Legoland hotel
• Hong Kong

The Minors
• Re-start my personal website with journal.
• save up $500
• save up $1000
• save up $2000
• Start working out again.

The List (CLOSED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE) Bold means read, striked out means owned.
• Life of Pi, Jann Martel
• The Principia, Isaac Newton
• Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson
• Koran
• Bible (new testement)
• Torah/Chumash/Bible (old testement www.artscroll.com)
• Foucault's Pendulum, Umberto Eco
• Holy Blood, Holy Grail, Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln
• (then get) Messenic Legacy, Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln
• The Dante Club, Matthew Pearl
• Neuromancer, William Gibson
• Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs
• Uncommon Carriers, John McPhee
• Charles Bukowski, Women (or Tales of Ordinary Madness, or Factotum, or Post Office)
• The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century, Thomas L. Friedman
• The Divine Comedy, Dante
• Tom Robbins, Another Roadside Attraction
• Tom Robbins, Jitter Bug Perfume
• George Orwell, 1984
• Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
• Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
• Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
• Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
• The R. Crumb handbook, Robert Crumb and Peter Polaski
• Playboy 50 Years: the Cartoons
  
• The Human Zoo, Desmond Morris
• The Plucker, Gerald Brom
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, Philip K. Dick
• The Histories, Herodotus
• The Social Contract, Jean Jacques Rousseau
• Tales of the Unexpected, Roald Dahl
• Everything Is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer
• Iliad, Homer
• The Odyssey, Homer
• Beowulf
• Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
• The Game, Neil Strauss
• Time Traveler's Wife, Audrey Niffenegger
• Solaris, Stanislaw Lem
• Robert J. Sawyer, Flashforward
• Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison
• The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Attwood
• House of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski
• Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson
• King Lear, Shakespeare
• Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance, Robert Persig
• The Joy of Pi, David Blatner
• Nietzsche, Daybreak
• Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, Douglas R. Hofstadter
• High Fidelity, Nick Hornby
• Jack Kerouac, On the Road
• Heart of Darkness, Joeseph Conrad
• Carl von Clausewitz, On War
• The Chrysalids, John Wyndham
• Catcher In The Rye, JD Salinger

this is how the world ends, not with a bang but with a whisper.

I haven't had much to post about in the past month, in reality that's a imperfect lie. There have been dates, meets, hangouts, parties, photos with the new camera, new purchases, odd happenings, and some crap times at work.

Somehow I was just too lazy to care to post it here, my deadtree journal has been untouched (side from two entries), since before the last post.

Why?

Oddly enough, no reason comes to mind then the one given for this one being untouched.

I've had a few dates, this is true, non have been grand, or giving me any want to continue things with any of them.

Lately I've been thinking more and more I should just kill off my profile on a certain dating site, and if I do start one up again, make sure it's on a pay site... less crazies that way it seems.

The book, sadly, has not been touched either... the desk was cleaned off well tonight, aside from a few things... and it put back beside the iBook to remind me.

I had a deadline that will pass with failure, and well I'd rather if it does pass, there at least be more accomplished with it. I realize there is no hurry to finish it, no need, nor money flowing in for it either.

But I have this odd pipe dream of making some cash with it, or at the least, leaving a better mark then I have before on this world.

Even if only a few people see it.

I also haven't read anything in weeks now either, which is sad really, as my pile of books keeps getting larger, but nothing gets opened.

Really should work to change that too.

There are so many things I want to post about, but right now I'm just unsure of what to post.

I'm alone lately, and with "V-Day" fast approaching this will probably just increase more and more everyday.

I'm happy for the friends that have someone, and to all here, cherish those moments you have.

For me, it just seems that the more I get older, the less I meet anyone, or rather anyone that I have a spit of a chance with.

Granted I keep meeting people in other timezones, that seem more then happy with me.

Queer isn't it?

That one can meet someone fancy and lovely in a far off place, yet for the life of him or herself can't meet someone in their own city?

My wall behind my desk is covered in quotes from random places, most are ones that I have put in peoples cards for words of encouragement on life issues.

Yet I can't seem to follow them myself.

12:03am

I really should get to bed, but most of me wants to stay awake longer.

Knowing that in the morning it will be that much harder to get up.

In the end of this, I feel in some way it's best that I just stop looking so damn much for someone.

Fate it seems doesn't want me to look right now, so I'll play that game instead.

There, done.

So fate, if you're reading this, I'd like you to take some initiative in the dating area of my life.

You know what I want, as do I.

I've looked enough, met enough people, and searched enough times.

I'm more then capable of handling someone, and them handling me.

So, do it, whatever you have planned.

Once you make a decision the universe conspires to make it happen. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

p.s. everyone should watch "Frisky Dingo" and go see "Pan's Labyrinth"

The Life Challenges
• Skydive (up to the point of doing it on your own chute)
• Take a "introductory" plane flight course
• Join the Reserves
• Obtain Class 6 Drivers (motorcycle license)
• Publish one book
• Direct one movie
• Learn to Scuba dive
• Publish one art book of photos
• Go on Deep Sea Fishing Charter
• 3 Day Novel Challenge
• National Novel Writing Month
• 24 Hour Comic
• Live in a foreign country, for one month minimum.
• Learn French
• Learn German
• Learn to Snowboard
• Learn to iceskate
• Get into Guinness Book of Records
• Design one shirt for threadless.com

Travel Destinations
• London, England
• Berlin, Germany
• Rome + Pompei, Italy
• Cuba
• Japan
• Las Vegas, USA
• Moscow, Russia
• Paris, France
• Athens, Greece
• Egypt
• Denmark, see Legoland, stay at Legoland hotel
• Hong Kong

The Minors
• Re-start my personal website with journal.
• save up $500
• save up $1000
• save up $2000
• Start working out again.

The List (CLOSED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE) Bold means read, striked out means owned.
• Life of Pi, Jann Martel
• The Principia, Isaac Newton
• Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson
• Koran
• Bible (new testement)
• Torah/Chumash/Bible (old testement www.artscroll.com)
• Foucault's Pendulum, Umberto Eco
• Holy Blood, Holy Grail, Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln
• (then get) Messenic Legacy, Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln
• The Dante Club, Matthew Pearl
• Neuromancer, William Gibson
• Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs
• Uncommon Carriers, John McPhee
• Charles Bukowski, Women (or Tales of Ordinary Madness, or Factotum, or Post Office)
• The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century, Thomas L. Friedman
• The Divine Comedy, Dante
• Tom Robbins, Another Roadside Attraction
• Tom Robbins, Jitter Bug Perfume
• George Orwell, 1984
• Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
• Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
• Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
• Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
• The R. Crumb handbook, Robert Crumb and Peter Polaski
• Playboy 50 Years: the Cartoons
  
• The Human Zoo, Desmond Morris
• The Plucker, Gerald Brom
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, Philip K. Dick
• The Histories, Herodotus
• The Social Contract, Jean Jacques Rousseau
• Tales of the Unexpected, Roald Dahl
• Everything Is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer
• Iliad, Homer
• The Odyssey, Homer
• Beowulf
• Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
• The Game, Neil Strauss
• Time Traveler's Wife, Audrey Niffenegger
• Solaris, Stanislaw Lem
• Robert J. Sawyer, Flashforward
• Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison
• The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Attwood
• House of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski
• Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson
• King Lear, Shakespeare
• Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance, Robert Persig
• The Joy of Pi, David Blatner
• Nietzsche, Daybreak
• Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, Douglas R. Hofstadter
• High Fidelity, Nick Hornby
• Jack Kerouac, On the Road
• Heart of Darkness, Joeseph Conrad
• Carl von Clausewitz, On War
• The Chrysalids, John Wyndham
• Catcher In The Rye, JD Salinger

it's the tears that get notice, but not in the verbal way

today I said goodbye to her, she's moving away, we have exchanged the details, numbers, addresses and what not.

neither wants to lose touch with the other, and i know with some work, that we won't

still sad.

she cried when i left today, i found it odd, as i hadn't seen her cry for anyone else.

i shrug it off as the booze.

but i wonder if it's a peek into something else.

matters not if it is or not, she's there and i'm here.

i'll see her tomorrow.

cds to bring, music to give, etc

Christmas
Completely kicked my ass, shopping, wrapping, and what not else.

Also waiting in the line for just about two hours for my parcel from Parents, to find that someone in greyhound decided to have fun with me, and NOT have my shit ready.

Time wasted, I was not amused.

Dating
I have been going out on a few dates with a younger lady.

It's not going well.

She's a non touchy feely, been treated badly, commitaphobe.

And well, I'm not.

*sigh*

I'm pretty sure it's already over before it started.

Yet another time I feel I should just give up on girls.

Why is it there are so many lovelys on SG? But non living in Calgary?

Toys

Nikon D70s Bitches.

The Life Challenges
• Skydive (up to the point of doing it on your own chute)
• Take a "introductory" plane flight course
• Join the Reserves
• Obtain Class 6 Drivers (motorcycle license)
• Publish one book
• Direct one movie
• Learn to Scuba dive
• Publish one art book of photos
• Go on Deep Sea Fishing Charter
• 3 Day Novel Challenge
• National Novel Writing Month
• 24 Hour Comic
• Live in a foreign country, for one month minimum.
• Learn French
• Learn German
• Learn to Snowboard
• Learn to iceskate
• Get into Guinness Book of Records
• Design one shirt for threadless.com

Travel Destinations
• London, England
• Berlin, Germany
• Rome + Pompei, Italy
• Cuba
• Japan
• Las Vegas, USA
• Moscow, Russia
• Paris, France
• Athens, Greece
• Egypt
• Denmark, see Legoland, stay at Legoland hotel
• Hong Kong

The Minors
• Re-start my personal website with journal.
• save up $500
• save up $1000
• save up $2000
• Start working out again.

The List (CLOSED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE) Bold means read, striked out means owned.
• Life of Pi, Jann Martel
• The Principia, Isaac Newton
• Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson
• Koran
• Bible (new testement)
• Torah/Chumash/Bible (old testement www.artscroll.com)
• Foucault's Pendulum, Umberto Eco
• Holy Blood, Holy Grail, Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln
• (then get) Messenic Legacy, Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln
• The Dante Club, Matthew Pearl
• Neuromancer, William Gibson
• Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs
• Uncommon Carriers, John McPhee
• Charles Bukowski, Women (or Tales of Ordinary Madness, or Factotum, or Post Office)
• The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century, Thomas L. Friedman
• The Divine Comedy, Dante
• Tom Robbins, Another Roadside Attraction
• Tom Robbins, Jitter Bug Perfume
• George Orwell, 1984
• Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
• Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
• Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
• Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
• The R. Crumb handbook, Robert Crumb and Peter Polaski
• Playboy 50 Years: the Cartoons
  
• The Human Zoo, Desmond Morris
• The Plucker, Gerald Brom
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, Philip K. Dick
• The Histories, Herodotus
• The Social Contract, Jean Jacques Rousseau
• Tales of the Unexpected, Roald Dahl
• Everything Is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer
• Iliad, Homer
• The Odyssey, Homer
• Beowulf
• Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
• The Game, Neil Strauss
• Time Traveler's Wife, Audrey Niffenegger
• Solaris, Stanislaw Lem
• Robert J. Sawyer, Flashforward
• Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison
• The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Attwood
• House of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski
• Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson
• King Lear, Shakespeare
• Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance, Robert Persig
• The Joy of Pi, David Blatner
• Nietzsche, Daybreak
• Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, Douglas R. Hofstadter
• High Fidelity, Nick Hornby
• Jack Kerouac, On the Road
• Heart of Darkness, Joeseph Conrad
• Carl von Clausewitz, On War
• The Chrysalids, John Wyndham
• Catcher In The Rye, JD Salinger

The secret project, or why I have been busy all November

This is an email I just sent out to a few dozen people, it explains my project for this month.

So for those of you that were wondering, that is what I was up to during this past month.

I'm not done writing, still want to add in some more details, then give my hands a rest, maybe not, we'll see.

So, who can think up a good basic inkjet printer to buy? Black only, color isn't needed, and cheap?

Hell they all are these days.

Not unless someone had a slick old Apple LaserWriter, THAT would rule.

The Life Challenges
• Skydive (up to the point of doing it on your own chute)
• Take a "introductory" plane flight course
• Join the Reserves
• Obtain Class 6 Drivers (motorcycle license)
• Publish one book
• Direct one movie
• Learn to Scuba dive
• Publish one art book of photos
• Go on Deep Sea Fishing Charter
• 3 Day Novel Challenge
• National Novel Writing Month
• 24 Hour Comic
• Live in a foreign country, for one month minimum.
• Learn French
• Learn German
• Learn to Snowboard
• Learn to iceskate
• Get into Guinness Book of Records
• Design one shirt for threadless.com

Travel Destinations
• London, England
• Berlin, Germany
• Rome + Pompei, Italy
• Cuba
• Japan
• Las Vegas, USA
• Moscow, Russia
• Paris, France
• Athens, Greece
• Egypt
• Denmark, see Legoland, stay at Legoland hotel
• Hong Kong

The Minors
• Re-start my personal website with journal.
• save up $500
• save up $1000
• save up $2000
• Start working out again.

The List (CLOSED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE) Bold means read, striked out means owned.
• Life of Pi, Jann Martel
• The Principia, Isaac Newton
• Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson
• Koran
• Bible (new testement)
• Torah/Chumash/Bible (old testement www.artscroll.com)
• Foucault's Pendulum, Umberto Eco
• Holy Blood, Holy Grail, Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln
• (then get) Messenic Legacy, Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln
• The Dante Club, Matthew Pearl
• Neuromancer, William Gibson
• Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs
• Uncommon Carriers, John McPhee
• Charles Bukowski, Women (or Tales of Ordinary Madness, or Factotum, or Post Office)
• The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century, Thomas L. Friedman
• The Divine Comedy, Dante
• Tom Robbins, Another Roadside Attraction
• Tom Robbins, Jitter Bug Perfume
• George Orwell, 1984
• Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
• Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
• Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
• Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
• The R. Crumb handbook, Robert Crumb and Peter Polaski
• Playboy 50 Years: the Cartoons
  
• The Human Zoo, Desmond Morris
• The Plucker, Gerald Brom
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, Philip K. Dick
• The Histories, Herodotus
• The Social Contract, Jean Jacques Rousseau
• Tales of the Unexpected, Roald Dahl
• Everything Is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer
• Iliad, Homer
• The Odyssey, Homer
• Beowulf
• Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
• The Game, Neil Strauss
• Time Traveler's Wife, Audrey Niffenegger
• Solaris, Stanislaw Lem
• Robert J. Sawyer, Flashforward
• Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison
• The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Attwood
• House of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski
• Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson
• King Lear, Shakespeare
• Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance, Robert Persig
• The Joy of Pi, David Blatner
• Nietzsche, Daybreak
• Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, Douglas R. Hofstadter
• High Fidelity, Nick Hornby
• Jack Kerouac, On the Road
• Heart of Darkness, Joeseph Conrad
• Carl von Clausewitz, On War
• The Chrysalids, John Wyndham
• Catcher In The Rye, JD Salinger

Day 10, hit the hammer it'll come back just as nice

It's been slow going on my project, right now I'm 50% short of my proper goal of where I should be in it.

Feh.

This weekend, and week I HAVE to get caught up, it would be nice to knock off one of my challenges to soon in the game

Birthday was great, thanks to all who came out and had fun.

The presents:

- Toque/scarf from my friend
- Life of Pi from Coriander and Meanwhilethecat

- Lots of Lego from mom (lego advent calender for 2006, 4 lego xmas sets that will be decorations, and a salt/pepper shaker set in the shape of lego man heads)

The week after that was full of ups and downs.

Went on a couple dates, both were good and bad at the same time, for opposing reasons.

Work was hellish, albeit I made new friends.

During the tailend of the week I'm unsure how well I am doing there, guess all I can do is wait for my review, and hope that things go well. Most say that I'm doing fine and not to worry, I still do, more so now as it's the first job that I come to in the morning and am happy to be there, and really enjoy what I do.

*sigh*

Got a new game for my birthday (present to myself) Cooking Mama, which is a damn fine fun time.

The weekend will be full of project work, one movie on sunday, possibly one more tomorrow on my lonesome.

And maybe, just maybe a trip to the antique mall.

Oh, and if anyone knows the answer to the below question, I'll be a happy man.

Other then ebay, craigslist, or kiilji, or freecycle groups.

anyone have an idea where I can get one of the following in working order?

- Tandy TRS-80 Model 100 or 102

- Alphasmart pro/2000/3000

I'm looking for free/cheap, as it's just for toting about and doing writing in random locations.

Thanks.

The Life Challenges
• Skydive (up to the point of doing it on your own chute)
• Take a "introductory" plane flight course
• Join the Reserves
• Obtain Class 6 Drivers (motorcycle license)
• Publish one book
• Direct one movie
• Learn to Scuba dive
• Publish one art book of photos
• Go on Deep Sea Fishing Charter
• 3 Day Novel Challenge
• National Novel Writing Month
• 24 Hour Comic
• Live in a foreign country, for one month minimum.
• Learn French
• Learn German
• Learn to Snowboard
• Learn to iceskate
• Get into Guinness Book of Records

Travel Destinations
• London, England
• Berlin, Germany
• Rome + Pompei, Italy
• Cuba
• Japan
• Las Vegas, USA
• Moscow, Russia
• Paris, France
• Athens, Greece
• Egypt
• Denmark, see Legoland, stay at Legoland hotel
• Hong Kong

The Minors
• Re-start my personal website with journal.
• save up $500
• save up $1000
• save up $2000
• Start working out again.

The List (CLOSED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE) Bold means read, striked out means owned.
• Life of Pi, Jann Martel
• The Principia, Isaac Newton
• Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson
• Koran
• Bible (new testement)
• Torah/Chumash/Bible (old testement www.artscroll.com)
• Foucault's Pendulum, Umberto Eco
• Holy Blood, Holy Grail, Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln
• (then get) Messenic Legacy, Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln
• The Dante Club, Matthew Pearl
• Neuromancer, William Gibson
• Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs
• Uncommon Carriers, John McPhee
• Charles Bukowski, Women (or Tales of Ordinary Madness, or Factotum, or Post Office)
• The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century, Thomas L. Friedman
• The Divine Comedy, Dante
• Tom Robbins, Another Roadside Attraction
• Tom Robbins, Jitter Bug Perfume
• George Orwell, 1984
• Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
• Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
• Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
• Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
• The R. Crumb handbook, Robert Crumb and Peter Polaski
• Playboy 50 Years: the Cartoons
  
• The Human Zoo, Desmond Morris
• The Plucker, Gerald Brom
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, Philip K. Dick
• The Histories, Herodotus
• The Social Contract, Jean Jacques Rousseau
• Tales of the Unexpected, Roald Dahl
• Everything Is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer
• Iliad, Homer
• The Odyssey, Homer
• Beowulf
• Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
• The Game, Neil Strauss
• Time Traveler's Wife, Audrey Niffenegger
• Solaris, Stanislaw Lem
• Robert J. Sawyer, Flashforward
• Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison
• The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Attwood
• House of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski
• Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson
• King Lear, Shakespeare
• Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance, Robert Persig
• The Joy of Pi, David Blatner
• Nietzsche, Daybreak
• Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, Douglas R. Hofstadter
• High Fidelity, Nick Hornby
• Jack Kerouac, On the Road
• Heart of Darkness, Joeseph Conrad
• Carl von Clausewitz, On War
• The Chrysalids, John Wyndham
• Catcher In The Rye, JD Salinger