This show contains a few miscellaneous calls that have happened in the past few months, including bill collectors, calling Dad on Father’s Day, tricking an Applebees guy, Internet, and the Sick Whispering Doctor Lady. And a voicemail. There’s lots of Lemon Demon music too. The show runs about 16 minutes and 40 seconds.
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Hung around Little Caesars this evening, waiting for our pizza. At some point, a carload of teens comes up to the drive-thru window. I’m not sure if they ordered anything, I just know they blasted a hand held airhorn in the window. The very crowded and noisy waiting area went completely silent for a few seconds. Emily and I looked out the large window behind us as the teens were looking in to check out our reactions before they sped off. Reminded me of that guy on Cal’s forums that did the airhorn video a year or so ago.
The funniest part was one of the Little Caesars employees – he watched as they began driving away and yelled out (to who?) the first 3 digits of his license plate number. Then he ran through the kitchen so he could run out the back door to attempt to get the rest of the plate number. You gotta love how seriously he took the situation. This guy seemed prepared to call the cops on some teenagers just for making a little noise, while everyone else just kind of snickered about it.
Spent the afternoon writing a paper that’s due tomorrow. Did some revising on it tonight and finished it up. I’m happy enough with it. I got a B+ on my last paper and I hated it. Did nothing this evening, just watched some TV.
School is fun, I’m enjoying it. Jarod, a guy from class, came over for a few hours yesterday to work on a project. We’re giving a 45 minute speech on paraphrasing and summaries, basically teaching an entire class. Lazy teacher. He had some hilarious ideas and our speech is going to rule. I’m going to make buttons to hand out after the speech that say, “Brad & Jarod taught me Paraphrasing”
The kids and I went to see a movie yesterday. Open Season. It was funny. Crazy how many computer animated movies are coming out each year. Today we had piano lessons, then went on a tour of all 4 Albany fire departments. Went for groceries. That’s about it. Been hanging around the house the rest of the day. Emily is playing an online PS2 game right now (Ratchet & Clank) with a 7-year-old boy named Bob The Killer.
Jammie is calling me!
This show contains lots of sound clips from various podcasts that I’ve appeared on this year. Total running time is 20 minutes, 15 seconds.
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Biked to lunch at Wendy’s yesterday. On the way back, was passing the Pix theater and noticed Little Miss Sunshine was playing there and that it started in just 10 minutes. So I saw it. Me and several dozen really old people. It was a great movie.
Also, last night, I heard a couple of really great songs by a band called Lemon Demon on a podcast I was listening to. Today I found their website and their Myspace. And they’re amazing. Go listen right now:
http://www.myspace.com/lemondemon
Listen to the song called The Ultimate Showdown. And then watch the video for Word Disassociation. Great stuff. I convinced Altalp that they were great and she bought one of their CDs online and let me download all the tracks from it too. I’m going to buy the other 2 CDs as soon as I have some money.
A huge thanks goes to Smart Bomb Radio who played Lemon Demon on their podcast.
EDIT: I knew I recongized his voice! Lemon Demon used to be known as Trapezoid and is the guy behind the Ebaum’s World Sucks song. Also there’s a video for The Ultimate Showdown.
A few interpretive LiveJournal entry readings, performed by me, Murd0c, Jammie and CountyKid. To subscribe to Interpretive LJ, click here. The song at the end of this show is Hit Em Up by 2Pac. Total running time is 13 minutes, 28 seconds.
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A collection of Jammie-related material, including calls to Jammie’s ex boyfriends, forcing Jammie to social engineer information out of Blockbuster Video (this is something that I didn’t end up using for PLA Radio Episode #8), Jammie’s voicemail messages to Adam Curry and a phone call to a hair salon that Jammie is visiting. Total running time is 20 minutes, 06 seconds.
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Like my new car stereo? I paid FIFTY CENTS for this thing. I tried to talk the lady at the yard sale down to 25 cents but she wouldn’t budge. So far it works perfectly even though it’s missing the knobs. The best part is that it’s got a CD line-in jack in the back which I connected to a 1/8″ headphone jack. Now I can plug my Ipod directly into it instead of messing with the FM transmitter option. That’s my Ipod Nano sitting on the shelf underneath.
I think my car is about 100 times less likely to be broken into now. In fact, would-be car thieves will probably laugh at my early 90’s era stereo in my 2000 Ford Focus. I had to clean about 15 years worth of dust off of the front of this thing. I’m not sure if the cassette player works but I guess that doesn’t matter since I don’t own any cassettes.
I also found a really cheap bike at another yard sale which is in really great shape. Looks brand new, really. It even has completely aired up tires. Now I just have to keep it locked up so kcochran doesn’t steal it again.
I spent my morning hitting every yardsale in Albany, determined to find a car stereo. GPS rules for yardsales. Especially when they’re out in the boonies. So it’s been a fairly productive weekend so far.
The window for my car was FINALLY put in today. It was supposed to be done on Monday but it didn’t arrive. Same thing on Tuesday. Wednesday it was finally there so I sat in the waiting room for an hour before the guy discovered that the wrong window came in. Argh! Today it’s done, though. And it was fairly cheap so I can’t complain too much. It was just a pain in the ass trying to make left turns with the passenger window all saran wrapped.
I think I found a good stereo to put in the dash today. It’s a factory stereo from a 1999 Ford Explorer and it seems to fit in the dash okay. It was only $7.00 at Goodwill. Problem is that nobody sells the wire connectors I need to wire it into my dash. Couldn’t find anything on Google or Ebay. Maybe I could try a junkyard. I’m determined to have a crappy and/or factory stereo from now on so there won’t be as much of a reason to bash in my car window. Wish I could just drive to Illinois and get my original factory stereo out of storage.
Today I noticed a big red scratch on the back side of my car. The kind of scratch you get when a driver scrapes against your car because they don’t know how to pull out of a parking space. And I really don’t care but ARGH! Cars are just more trouble than they’re worth.
I lost 5 pounds this month on the Get Off Your Fat Lazy Ass Diet. I bought a scale about a month ago and noticed that I’m just a few marks below Big Fasto – about 40 pounds overweight. So I’m tracking daily calories and I’m jogging and/or walking about an hour a night. I couldn’t run more than a block at first. Now I can do 5 or 6 easily.
And I’ve never paid attention to calories before. I signed up for a website that tracks them all for you, along with tracking exercise and water consumption. I never realized how many calories soda had in it. I’m down to about a Pepsi a week instead of my usual 1 Pepsi a day. I’m trying to completely quit Pepsi but every once in awhile I feel like I’ll die if I don’t get a Pepsi. I’m drinking no less than 60 ounces of water per day. Apparently water is good for you. The way they talk about it, I can’t believe I’m not dead yet. I rarely ever drank water.
Tonight was open house at the kids school. It was boring and pointless. I registered for college a week or so ago. Had orientation on Monday and went and bought my books today. I’m taking just English 3 days a week and class starts this Monday. I’m hoping to move up to 2 classes a week next semester. I’ve been putting off this college thing for the past 15 years or so.
Oh, and Jammie and I broke up.
My precious $150 Kenwood car stereo is GONE! This has to be indirectly related to the crackheads next door. This isn’t a bad neighborhood, aside from them. They have weirdos coming over all the time, parking right next to me in the driveway. One of them probably looked in and mistook my stereo as being expensive.
My new stereo is going to be the factory model that came with the car. I’ll just beam my Ipod to the radio. I found one on Ebay for $20 but I was quickly outbid on it. I’m surprised there’s not more of them on Ebay. Anyone know of a local place where I can pick up a factory stereo? Maybe the dealership has them cheap. Or junkyards. I wouldn’t think a pawn shop would bother keeping many of those but maybe.
They also took my cool 3,000,000 candlepower spotlight from the trunk. Not that I used it a lot but it was a cool thing to have. And they made off with about 20 CDs. As in, 20 CDRs. Haha, bet they were annoyed with only getting lousy CDRs. They also took most of my change with amounted to a couple bucks. They left a few quarters in there and one on the floor. The change holder was filled with glass from the shattered window so I like to think that the guy bloodied up his fingers a little, trying to scoop all of the change out.
What they DIDN’T take was my Microsoft GPS receiver which was laying on the floor. And 2 power inverters from the trunk. And some miscellaneous cables from the floor which powered things like my Pocket PC. Those would have sucked to replace.
I need to move. Which sucks because I really like my apartment and it’s location. But the crackheads next door have lived there for 6 – 7 years and I doubt they’ll be leaving soon.