"If the day and the night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more starry, more immortal- that is your success. All nature is your congratulation, and you have cause momentarily to bless yourself. The greatest gains and values are farthest from being appreciated. We easily come to doubt if they exist. We soon forget them. They are the highest reality. Perhaps the facts most astounding and most real are never communicated by man to man. The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribable as the tints of morning or evening. It is a little star-dust caught, a segment of the rainbow which I have clutched." - Henry David Thoreau
Finally at a million years old, I played chess for the first time a couple of hours ago, and I just won my first game. ...Sure, it was on the computer, and I cheated by undoing moves and highlighting threatened pieces, but as God as my witness I can never say I don't know how to play chess again. 01:06
You'd think all my years walking around, riding public transportation in NYC I'd hear plenty of people farting publicly, but that's not true. Yet in the last week, I've heard more open flatulence from strangers than I have heard in the past ten years. So, if you can guess how many, I will send you 50 pps. (Just comment once.) 22:22
I ordered some DVDs online last week, and though they said economy shipping (media mail) would take up to one month, I figured it was just a way to cover their asses in case someone on a military base ordered or something. In my experience, it takes about 7-14 days. It was one week yesterday, so I decided to go online to check my tracking number, but I coudn't.
If my internets hadn't broken down last night, I could've checked my package's tracking number online. If I could've checked my package's tracking number online, I would've known it had passed through New Jersey yesterday. If I had known it had passed through New Jersey yesterday, I wouldn't have mistaken the mailman knocking on my door this morning as the maintenance man (I was still in bed and my dad was supposed to be home -- eventually the man came an hour later). If I hadn't mistaken the mailman knocking on my door this morning as the maintenance man, I wouldn't have to go down to the post office tomorrow to pick up my package. If my internets had not broken down, I would be holding my DVDs right now. DAMN YOU, INTERNETS! 23:55
Stupid mosquitoes keep bypassing my screen window and drinking my precious blood. They keep waking me up in the middle of night, so I just kill them, spilling my bright red blood over my white walls. My feet and lower calves are riddled with gross little disgusting itchy bites.
I asked my mom why they don't follow the trail of carbon dioxide to my dad, who sleeps on the living-room couch sometimes because of his back and is the person closest to my room. Change up your eating habits, you know? She said because his skin is thick and tough and of course they'd want tender flesh. I countered that my brother is younger than me, therefore his flesh is the tenderest of us all.
Conclusion: Summer sucks big balls. (See previous entry.)
Oh and Happy Five Years on NuTang to me. It's Friday the 13th today and was Friday the 13th the day I signed up, too. That kind of thing only happens once every few years! 18:31
Yay, 77%! But what does it mean? Absolutely nothing! Except I spend too much time dicking around online.
As for the show, the previews, to me, make Bionic Woman seem a lot like Battlestar Galactica -- tonally, musically, cinematographically, etc., except different characters and plot. (David Eick is an executive producer on both.) That might be a drawback for me if it's too much like BSG...
I miss BSG! I can't wait till S3 comes out on DVD so I can finally watch it, though I know everything that happens.
Guys, how do you get rid of old drugs? Don't just toss 'em; the government wants you to wrap them up in poo, or something else undesirable. (Coffee grounds? Since when is that equivalent to feces?) Like what? Plutonium? Because I have that in droves. 19:57