ah, i slept in until noon today. jayna called and woke me up around nine, but i went back to sleep after that... had some pretty crazed dreams if i remember correctly. gabe, sleeping in late isn't a bad idea every now and again.

and nothing beats starting the day off with johnny cash. and also having a cup of coffee ruined by using non-dairy creamer with a "Use By" date of october 3rd. luckily i had a new carton, so cup #2 was acceptable to the palette.

paul, and scott, and gabe, and craig: the next duckpin night (i've no idea when it can be) should have duckpin, wings, and a viewing of swingers

gabe, you must know lois lane, who was impregnated by superman's "super-sperm".

would all those people who drive around in the rain with their parking lights on PLEASE REPORT TO THE EDGE OF THE WORLD AND JUMP OFF!

in other news, the state and main commentary track has two great points (bill macy and the actor that played the producer have a lot of great remarks) and one big negative: its one of those commentaries where the people are all talking individually and someone just edited in particular remarks from different folks, so there's no interaction between the different people... and i like to hear that.

For those of you out there that don't have the joy of being able to sign up for medical benefits, let me just tell you about a lovely little site called Highmark BlueCross & BlueShield. Why, I've written some really poor web pages before, but I swear this site was written by grade school children. It is really the most hideous site I've ever used. Their use of SSL (Secure Socket Layers) is just attrocious. How do I know this? Well, because of the stupid little window that comes up saying "There are unsecure items on this page, do you wish to display these items?" I remember having this problem doing CareerLink, yet me and Micah somehow managed to figure it out.....*sigh*....these fools....

who needs depression when you've got eight cavities and flesh-eating bacteria destroying your gums? huh? TELL ME NOW YOU FREAKING MOTHER- oh wait... i think the nitrous is kicking in... what was i saying..............................

who needs depression when you have an 8'x8' cube?

i had a very strange dream last night, and i don't mind if i share it. i was in this bookstore, i think i was in New York City for some reason. there was a cute girl working the register, and there was a professional looking guy in the store looking at magazines. I was looking at the Time and Newsweek magazines and the guy asked me if I'd read them, and I said I hadn't read the newest Time but I'd read the next to last one, but not the Newsweek. Then he said something about the magazines to indicate that he was in some way related to one or both of them. Then I remembered that I read Newsweek, not Time, and corrected myself.

I somehow struck up a friendly conversation with the girl behind the counter. It was one of those things (these happen in real-life) where I was just talking and being nice but somehow it felt like I was also flirting (I'm a real spaz when it comes to talking to the opposite sex, this is one example). Anyway, somewhere in my conversation with the girl I did happen to mention that I had a fiance (Jayna always gets on my case about this, I have a habit of talking to girls and not mentioning the fact that I'm engaged (well lets face it, its a strange thing to bring up in a platonic conversation)).

Anyway, the professional guy then comes over to the counter and says, "Hey, Micah, would you and your friend here like to come see a show on Broadway?" He gives me his business card and says to give him a call and we'll make solid plans. After he leaves, I spend a long time trying to decipher his business card, because there are about five names on it and I can't figure out which one was him.

CPR: 65% PPR: 76% now spinning: until the flood came

see, that's the problem tho, i'm not coding. i've spent the past hour trying to turn this 900Mhz into the best damn GameBoy ever seen!! Why, I'll be able to have 6 GameBoy windows open, be able to browse yahoo and compile my Java files!

*sigh*....someone shoot me.

a mildly amusing idea. so two friends decided to kill each other, so they set it up that when the first one dies and his body falls to the ground, another deadly device is triggered to kill the remaining friend. except something goes wrong and the police arrest the dead body and try him for the attempted death of his friend who is now in a coma. oh imagine the hijinks that would ocurr in courtroom?

yeah i know, i saw weekend at bernie's, but see, this is in a court room, and a dead person is on trial for attempting to kill someone!! get it? like i said, mildly amusing.

watched the new George Carlin special from HBO last night. oh my, his list of people he deems "that should be tied down and beaten with hammers" section is just oh so great. Some of his complaints were: those people with the bumper stickers that say "I am the parent of a high achiever...", the guys that walk around with visors, and people named todd, jordan, kyle, cody, and other assorted non-guy-like names. it was pretty rude and crude, but it was still darned funny. i have to go and get a VHS tape and get that one down.

The song I sing
Will tell the tale
Of a cold and wintery day;

Of castle walls
and torchlit halls
And a price men had to pay.

When evil fled
and brave men bled
The Dark one came to stay,

Till men of old
For blood and gold
Had rescued Skara Brae.

http://www.geocities.com/thebardstale/thebardstale.html

so i bid on a Super Nintendo today. i'm crazed i tell you, but i like these systems more than my Dreamcast or playstation 2 & X Box. If you want to play incredibly rendered games, buy a computer, not a console system. to me, classics like mario brothers or donkey kong are going to be known by a lot of people for many more years to come. say 15 years later you mention the game "Devil May Cry" do you think anyone is going to remember it or what console system it was for?

anyway...wish me luck with my bid..

from usatoday: "The Los Angeles Police Department searched the actor's home Nov. 16 and confiscated his collection of vintage erotica, which included paintings and photographs, Entertainment Tonight reported Tuesday. Reubens has not been arrested or charged with any crime."

okay, and just why in the heck did they confiscate the man's personal collection of vintage erotica? was it stolen? involve children? otherwise, whether or not you like it or not, isn't it legal for him to own it? very strange indeed. and it was based on a tip from an acquaintance of his... another quality tinsel-town friend, i suppose.

in other news, i stayed up too late last night, partly due to playing the Atari. i'm going to get serious now (that i have a good computer at home) and get cracking on my collections. i have three collections i'd like to work on:

1. Vintage Doonesbury books. (i have about thirty now and probably have another fifteen to go in order to have them from the beginning to 1980)
2. Atari Games (i have about seventy or eighty and there are a couple dozen more that i'd really like)
3. Atari Equipment (right now i have three bad joysticks, one star raiders pad, and i can't find my paddle controllers. i also have three Atari systems, but two of them are broken. I'd like to get four good joysticks, eight paddle controllers, two keypad controllers, and another two to five working Atari 2600 systems, preferrably different models (ie, i have a Sears Tele-games that works right now and two actual Atari 2600 systems that don't... i'd like to get a couple working Atari 2600 boxes and maybe some different generic 2600 boxes, that way if one breaks i'm not left out in the cold).

The nice thing about those three collections, especially with Atari stuff, is that there's a ton of that stuff on ebay all the time, and Atari stuff is common at yard sales, flea markets, and salvation army stores. of course, i also forgot my DVD collection, i would like to work on it (i'd like to get all the Coen brothers films that are out there, some vintage Gene Hackman, Paul Newman, and Marlon Brando movies, and of course always more Woody Allen films). but DVDs cost a lot more than used Atari 2600 cartridges.

CPR: 73%
PPR: 81%
spinning: radiohead - amnesiac

uh, scott, i hope you realize that those are indeed spoof ads, and the landover baptist site is very much a spoof. i know there are people in the Christian community with some pretty dumb ideas (ie the classic hippie story where a bunch of long-hairs walk into church on a Sunday morning and are politely asked to leave, because they look too unsavory). however, the landover baptist site is clearly a sarcastic spoof on Christianity ("get your ass to church", yeah, definitely an item you see worn at church functions).

and of course, i knew you'd find a fine Chick publication regarding D&D. how can that guy not have a clue as to the damage he does with his publications? i just don't get it.

from the politically incorrect, "Christianity has been used and mutated to justify the crusades, to justify the inquisition, the torture of infidels, where Christians tortured nonbelievers, Jews and gypsies and whoever else they could dig up". its been abused time and time again... it is still abused, whenever some fanatic bombs an abortion clinic or holds up a "God hates fags" poster. if people would actually pay attention to the New Testament, geez, it would be incredible. "Love the Lord your God, and love your neighbor as yourself." wow! not a lot of room for beatings and beheadings there.

CPR: 5%
PPR: 76%

spinning: johnny cash in a few minutes.

hmm. mayhap i'll spend a little time this evening finding a website with spoof ads about role-playing (say, for example, "I was getting way too much attention from girls until i started rolling twelve-sided dice. Now I'll never have to worry about getting laid!").

course, i didn't like the quote much either. many of the things in the Bible that people "choke on" are outdated old-testament Hebrew laws. i don't know about the rest of you, but I'm definitely not an old testament hebrew born in the BC years.

well, my computer here at work is not starting up. i'm going to get a headache from laughing too hard and trying to hide it, cause the guy working on it is not having the best of luck... and he's not exactly sherlock holmes either! he hit some stuff in the back and then all of the sudden the fan started making this horrible noise, like a lawn mower. and he said, "I think the fan's bad." and i'm of course thinking, "well, it only made that noise after you whapped it a couple of times!"

ha! i meant to go to bed early myself... but i hooked up the Atari (finally!), played for a while, then watched LA Confidential... got to bed around 1:20. and i didn't make it in by 7 either... but i know what that means.

btw, today's entry on cruel.com (the human equestrian) has got to be one of the more screwed up things i've heard of. why in the world are people such twits? i just don't understand.

you know, sometimes it's fun to listen music that you listened to as a kid. maybe that's different for me because my musical tastes have extended waay beyond what they used to be in high school and college. so when i listen to my old cure albums and some of the songs i used to dwell on when i felt like tieing on a good bit of depression over some girl i was pining for, it makes me laugh. oh the silly ways of the heart. this week i'm paying homage to my old music, so there will be lots of Cure, New Order, and The Smiths playing.

CPR:0%
PPR:10%

There is no saving me from my lack of desire to do work today or tomorrow or next or ...... :(

now spinning: The Cure, Wish

ok, here is a most disturbing site that i couldn't rip myself from

http://www.all-britney-spears-lyrics.pair.com/

see, i heard how different her image was and yup, the lyrics tend to match. altho they sound like a rebelling 15 year old who has had sex with 42 1/3 men.

here's some insight... today might mark a first for me--> it might be the first time i've ever thrown up at work! something is horribly awry in my stomach and i'm afraid of the consequences...

here's some insight as to how lazy i've become. see, after a phenomenal night of bowling (which will be the last for the next 3 months), i was in the mood for one of those ice cream cookies. much to my dismay, i didn't feel like driving to the local sheetz and picking one up. mind you the sheetz was probably about a minute or two away from the alley. instead i opted out for making brownies at home. i've truly become lazy...as if changing my clocks wasn't further evidence to my laziness.

also, i hear peanut butter and banana sandwiches are pretty good. can anyone truly attest to this?

last post of the day for me, ladies and germs. according to the review in the second to newest rolling stone, britney has five co-writing credits on her new album.

gabe and paul! tabula rasa is playing at the elton community building (in elton, about 3 minutes from UPJ) on friday. also the alan smithee project are playing... they take the longest of any johnstown band to set up, but next to anarchaos they're also the best band around here. here's the scoop:

friday, 11-30-01

Tabula Rasa (OneDaySavior Records)
Homecoming
The Alan Smithee Project
Orange Spade

Elton Community Center 6pm $5

let it be noted that paul mack bowled a 198 in his first game last night. his team trounced my team, they beat us soundly all three games. especially the first game... i did really well but paul still had me beat by forty pins.