Was standing in line at BTH today. Suddenly someone is holding my hand. I look down and it’s a 5-year-old girl. Right behind me is her dad, kind of laughing. I poke her in the shoulder and say, “Hey, uh, you got the wrong dad.” See looks up at me and looks pretty terrified. She runs over to her dad and hides herself as me and the other dad laugh. Scaring little kids is fun!
Brad Carter: i downloaded the entire george harrison discography last night. and it’s 99.9% completed. and the ONE track that isn’t complete is from the one album that i really wanted.
Brad Carter: dammit
Brad Carter: 1.27 gigs of george harrison and it’s gotta be the song i want that’s not completed
Spessa: Which song?
Brad Carter: fish on the sand. from his Cloud 9 album
Brad Carter: not the best song on the album, but still…
Brad Carter: i viewed all the peers sharing it with me and they’re all 99.9% complete. so it’s unlikely it will complete
Spessa: I liked that when i was in 7thgrade
Spessa: I listened to it on my walkman at the dentist
Brad Carter: yeah i loved that album. i asked for it for my birthday but i couldn’t wait for it so i shoplifted it.
Brad Carter: then i had 2 copies
Spessa: Hah!
Spessa: This is payback
Brad Carter: hehe. must be
Brad Carter: stupid God
Brad Carter: or maybe george harrison’s ghost fucking with me
Spessa: George is waggling his finger from the grave
Brad Carter: what a jerk
Weird Al just put the single up from his new album, which comes out September 26th. You can get it here:
http://www.dontdownloadthissong.com
The video for this song is supposed to premiere tonight at 10pm PST on Yahoo Music. I can’t wait for the new album to come out. So I can download it.
I have the entire Beatles discography. In my Beatles directory there are 227 files, taking up 858 megs on my hard drive. Their music, as a group, spanned most of the 1960’s.
I also have everything Moby has ever done, from 1994 to his current stuff. 265 files by Moby consume 859 megs of my hard drive.
Then there’s Eminem. He’s a newb, compared to those guys. He didn’t become big until 1999. Guess how much of his stuff I have. 1.58 GIGS. 318 files sorted into 20 folders. To my knowledge I’ve got everything he’s ever released. Almost twice as much as either of those other guys and still going. He’s probably got enough “unreleased” stuff out there to put out another dozen albums after he dies.
Some random girl just IMed me on Yahoo. I thought she was pretty hot but apparently Yahoo targeted advertisements don’t agree.
Kids and I walked to Henderson Park again today. I read Blacklisted 411 while they played. Afterwards we walked to Hasty Freeze for ice cream. Stopped by a fountain to hang out for awhile and learned we could really screw up the fountain by stopping the flow of water to the drain. Colleen drove by, noticed us and stopped by to hang out for awhile. She left and we went to get our ice cream, then walked home.
Vacuumed the hell out of the house today. I just bought a vaccum cleaner last week after living here for 10 months. 10 months of hair, dirt and whatever else in the carpets.
My Ipod rules. Having my entire music collection in one tiny device is still amazing to me. I’m sure it’ll wear off soon. Especially if I don’t get to keep it. I’ve been updating my ID3 tags all day so that the music is organized better in the Ipod. I’d be nice if it would just organize it all into folders, like I have on my hard drive. But it won’t do that. Organizing by ID3 tags will be nice, though, once I get them all updated. Itunes makes that fairly easy.
Yesterday I put the 12 CDs I own on Ebay. So far they’re up to $3.05 total. Those have been sitting in my car, unused, for over a year now.
Luvox Phreak might be visiting me this weekend. She’ll know for sure tomorrow, so I get a day’s notice if she’s gonna show or not. If not, I’ve got a lot of shit I need to get done around here. And work is suddenly really busy.
Tell me if you think this reasoning is dumb. I’m not going to pay my credit card bills anymore. I lost my house to the bank so my credit is already fux0red so that part doesn’t even matter. I owe between $3,000 and $4,000 in credit cards right now and I’ve been diligently paying them each month. I usually pay just slightly over the minimum. Sometimes I pay twice the minimum. And occasionally I’ll drop $100 on one. This year I’ve ridded myself of 2 or 3 credit cards forever by finally getting them paid.
Occasionally I’m so broke that I don’t make the payments on time. This results in insane late fees. Like $30 or $35 per card. Plus, on the two cards that have high balances, the interest rates end up being $15 – $20 per month. So when I make the minimum payments, I’m actually only putting a few dollars towards paying them off. Only when I occasionally drop $100 on them am I really making a dent in them. And the occasional late fees screw that up. Seems like an endless battle.
Anyway, back to my point. I quit paying them and after 3 or 4 months, they’ll send me to collection agencies. When the collection agencies start begging me for payments, that’s when I’ll resume paying the cards. Because collection agencies aren’t going to charge me $35 for being late and there won’t be any more interest rates. Right? Or am I missing something?
None of the cards even have my phone number anymore. They all have my old Illinois number so I won’t have to deal with daily phone calls from them. Just letters. Maybe I’ll just stick it to The Man and never pay them! But nah, I’m sure I’ll pay them eventually. Besides losing the high interest rates and late fees, it sure would be nice to have a 3 or 4 month break in paying my credit cards.
I came very close to dropping a bunch of credit card payments in the mail today but stopped myself in the nick of time.
Anyone have any input/thoughts?
This cracks me up. It’s from Jack, who is currently homeless somewhere in England…
We opted to live, instead, a little closer in to town and chose a fine, four story privately-owned mansion which had been vacant for two years on Keats Grove in tony Hampstead Heath, located right across the road from Romantic poet John Keats old house.
Though in a state of disrepair, the mansion suited our purposes and had electricity and water and we stayed there for about three weeks until a neighbour noticed two of our number leaving the house one day and phoned the building’s owners, a wealthy American couple.
I was awoken that morning by shouts of “hullo, hullo” coming from the first floor kitchen and when I went downstairs to investigate, found two women and a man intruding in our squat!
The man and I both shouted simultaneously, “Who the hell are you?!”
“I’m the owner,” he replied, absolutely livid. “Well, I’m the squatter,” I countered, cool and level. “Get the hell out of my house,” he ordered. I asked if he’d seen the section six paperwork posted in the front window, a legal requirement for squatting, and told him to get the hell out of our squat!
There’s a legal process, I informed him, to have squatters evicted and suggested that if he wanted us removed from the premises, he’d better begin that process.
Kids and I built a giant lego tower this week. From the table it stands 68 inches tall and comes just a millimeter from touching the ceiling. From the ground it stands 96 inches. It includes a working motorized windmill (cause you see those on real skyscrapers all the time) and an observation deck. This one should make quite a mess when it gets knocked down.
Kids and I did some geocaching yesterday. Failed at our first one but it’s at a park we visit often so we’ll have plenty of opportunities to figure that one out later. Did a bunch of hiking around in the woods on one and came across a homeless man sleeping. Tiptoed around him and continued on.
In picture #1 you’ll see that I left a pink cell phone with stickers all over it. Picture #2 shows a cool find I got from that same cache – a Geocaching sticker which I placed on my car. And picture #3 is one of the more interesting “hides” I’ve ever seen. They spray painted a tin box (Sucrets? Altoids?) black and attached it to the side of a lamp post with magnets. It’s in a park in full view of the hundreds of people that must walk by there each day, yet no one ever notices it since it looks like it’s a part of the post. Payton spotted it immediately.