Aleph Ersatz

Had an interesting meeting with the one neighbour of mine.  Her car is in the same parking lot as  ours, and during the big Decemebr snowfall, her car got burried by the plow’s shitty work.  My wife and I helped her get out, and now we say hello when we pass.  Very neighbourly.

So today, while waiting in the ice and snow for the bus, I look over and see one of the other regulars running across the road.  The bus stop is right by a T-intesection onto a major street, so there is only one stop sign.  The woman runs across the two lane road across the stop-sign side, but instead of going straight across, she cuts across at an angle, putting her about 10 feet behind the stop sign.  Then, she slips on the ice and falls.

That was all fine and dandy, until I saw the jeep.  The jeep swerved nicely, though, very excelent driving, and cuts between the stopsign post and the wooden barrier on the side walk, slowly going over the grassy corner and cleanly ripping the fire hydrant right out of the ground.  It was at this point I realized, “holy shit, they realyl DO shoot guyesers of water”, because that’s what it did, covering the Jeep in muddy water.

Luckly, the Jeep was going slow it could stop easily off the road, literally, and the storm drain was clear, so there was a little lake, but didn’t flood anything, and the driver could get in and out easily.  That was when the passenger, who happened to be my neighbour from before, got out!  I always seem to meet her at the oddest of times it seems.

So, the eighbour and I checked on the woman who fell, and whom was totally ok, then got the standard information from everyone.  I gave her a chunk of paper from my notebook and my pen to use, and she was grateful, and we had a good chuckle before I caught my bus.  The poor driver, she was a bit distraught, but her angered comment of “why is a fire hydrant there?” was quite amusing…and I totally agree.  It’s on the side of the 3-way furthest from all of the houses!  Makes no sense to have it there, but I guess it just had to be there.

Pure irony.  Damn the universe.

If we live alone, and we die alone, what’s the point of living in the first place?

They are mine.  Loneliness.  Insecurity.  Regret.  Pain.  They are not for sharing.

- Planetes

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Ran into an old friend on the Skytrain today.  Was good to see him again after a few years of little contact.  Not only do we take the same route, but we both work in the same area of town.  Funny how I haven’t seen him until now.  Although we spent a good amount of time sharing catch-up information about other people we both know.  Kinda interesting.

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The weather here is fucked.  Saturday was sunny and warm.  Sunday was drizly and wet.  Monday and tuesday were very rainy, and today it snowed.  It fucking snowed.  It’s almost March!  We never get this much snow here!

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I’ve finished four of the six mangas I got on monday already.  X/1999 sucks,  I’m not reading the rest of it.  Planetes is growing into a really great, and really deep series.  I’m liking it alot more.

Also working on the anime list.  I want to post it by next weekend!

Using my crackpot theory of lotteries, I managed to win $10 of the huge $48 million dollar 6/49 from saturday.  Not bad for a $2 investment.  Maybe I’ll get ironic and win the $4 million this week instead!  (Probably not … I considder playing the lottery throwing money away, but hey, it’s fun.)

Managed to get a good raid of mangas from the library today.  Very much need to finish off and post my anime/manga list in better form.  (Books to watch?)

But I managed to get these:

• Neon Genesis Evangelion #3 and #4
• Planetes #2
• X/1999 #1
• Line
• Lady Snowblood

Been wanting X/1999 for a while, because it looks neat, but they always seem to have #14 when I need #1.  Not sure about Lady Snowblood or Line, but they seemed interesting enough to grab.  Can’t be any worse that Heavenshield!

The downside, of course, to all this luck is that the rains have started.  Oh how I hate the bloody rains.  I live in the wrong city….

I finally figured out how to fixed the size and alingment of the site!  Who know that style sheets actually affected the style of the website?

I’m not much of a webcoder, can you tell?

Unfortunately, due to circumstances beyond my control, I had to rescheudle my D&D game to next week.  Bad enough that it almost didn’t happen this week cause I almsot forgot, but once it was organized, I had to push it out.  Bit disappointing for all of us, but going to be very ready for next week.

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A long long time ago, I used to DJ one a week on an online radio site a friend of mine ran.  It’s been a long time since then, but I’ve been seriously contemplating paying $10 a week and hosting a 1 - 2 hour session just for the hell of it.  Still too many variables and disorganities in my life to do this, but it’s on my lfie’s wishlist of things I want to do soon.

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I want to restart the IRC channel for the one forum I am active on.  (And a moderator to boot.)  But, I can’t seem to find a decent IRC network that has working channel and nickname services.  DALNet won’t let me connect, and Undernet has a far too complicated channel regstration process for the needs I have.  If anyone knows of other IRC networks that is publc, has working services, and has decent global access, please let me know what it is!

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It was super awesome sunny yesterday and I got to take the kids out and let them play in the park and stuff.  That was great.  Even got a couple hours to myself as the kids both were both invited to the neighbours for dinner, and the wife was at work.

So the most horrible example of parenting fail today.

Downtown vancouver, waiting at a busy one-way street for the light to change, this group of people just walks out into the road.  The group of them meander across the buys road but are lucky that only one car comes.  Yet, none of the six of them look as the car barrels down to a stop and loudly hammers the horn.  None of them looked as they crossed or after they got to the other side!  Not one!

But wait, the best part was, as they walked past my co-worker and I, we heard them talking very non-chalantly.  It was a father, mother, and four pre-treen daughters walking together.  The mother commended how she “didn’t look, just started following [the father]” and the father said he didn’t look either, he just went.  The kids, to no surprise, just said nothing, and they all smiled and continued on happily.

At that point, as we crossed the road safely, my coworker remarked: “parenting fail.”  All I could do was laugh.

Folks, lay yo hand on yo television set, and you gone be HEALED!!!!

The Talisman

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Been a long couple of days, just alot of work, yet not staying past 7 pm.  I blame fucking MFC.  But, getting a new PS this weekend, and playing some D&D, so all is good.  Not a whole hell of a lot to say, but I really want to get back to doing this thing daily.

That and I need to clean off my white board again.  I’m so lazy about it, yet it’s a huge organizational tool for me … coincindence that I’m not organized?

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I want a Visa Black Card just because Stephen Colbert thinks it’s racist.

One day I wanted to see a pink rhinocerous, so I took alot of drugs.  I woke up the next morning with a case of pink eye and a guy named Elephant in my bed….

And now for something completely different.

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Flakey power suppy is getting flakier.  Hoping to get a new one this weekend.  Running a two fanned PS with one fan is a big mistake apparently.

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So many things I want to do, yet am always to tired at night to do them.  Still, got down to a reasonable short list that I am actually making headway on:

• Scoring a couple of remixes I’m working on
• Playing a little zombie panic, which is probably why the PSU freaked out
• Finish Fallout 3 (main quest)
• Work out AE09 tickets and maye accomodations
• Get Bishop Hazel costume planned

Still lots of other things on the list, but that’ the short list for the next couple of weeks.

Wish I wasn’t such a procrastinator and could get motivated more easily.

I was recently told that a friend of the family is very impressed by mine and my wife’s parenting skills.  I’m sure that that opinion probably changed today some, due to a problm the eldest one caused, but is not the biggest concern.  She was being overly rough in her play, because people were over, and ended up biting my leg enough that it hurt.  So I sent her to her room brielfy, and tried to talk it out with her.  No dice…and thus, three hours were spent arguing while she had a tantrum for overdoing it and being treated like the 10-year old child she is.

The point, however, is that I hate compliments on my parenting.  I am not the worst parent, but I certainly could be much better.  I wish I was and hate part of myself for being such a crap father.

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My great uncle is 90 now.

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As I mentioned, I was using song references for titles for my different posts.  The “answers” for January are behind the break.

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They tell you as a kid to make you into an easier victim

Fucking Catholics.

Anyways….

Someone is finally doing it right: Guitar Rising.  A music game that actually uses a real instrument!  I’m starting to bore of the repetativeness of guitar hero / rock band.  While I still enjoy it immensely, I don’t get DLC, so I’m “very” limited in my song selection.  However, while this may be the same, the concept seems excelent.  I play guitar daily, so it’s even better!