entertained and amazed in that Fox's world's worst _______ sort of way

so for those of you who dont know, i'm been in new york for the past couple of days visiting taybin and generally hanging out. yesterday the two of us left his house and walked smack into the middle of the 3rd avenue festival. this seemed to draw justification from the simple existence of 3rd avenue as a reason to celebrate in the form of a enormous linear street fair running the length of 3rd avenue in Bay Ridge. the one notable occurrence, aside from taybin recieving a christian hiphop cd on the condition that the givers could pray for him, was this: i'm not going to actually say anything more on this; the words of others seem to sum things up properly.first exerps from he manufacturer: > Surviving The Titanic Super Slide challenges you to survive the climb > through the cabin area to the stern of the ship. Once you have made it > to the top of the stern of the Titanic there is one feat left to accomplish. > The wild 25’ ride down the deck of the awesome Dual Slide! This unit is definitely > one for your photo album. The spacious center cabin features an easy to climb > stairway with rails for safety.From an article in a titanic related website: > Millvina Dean, 90, was just nine weeks old when the liner struck an iceberg in > 1912, claiming the lives of more than 1,500 people. > She has branded the inflatable funfair attraction, which is based on the ship's > stern rearing into the air, as "disgusting". > The slide's manufacturers, Cutting Edge Creations, boasts that it `captures all > the excitement of the famed ocean liner on its maiden voyage'. > It offers a bouncy iceberg as an optional extra. > Miss Dean, from Woodlands, near Totton, who lost her father in the tragedy, said: > "This is very distressing.... > International sales director Robert Field said 475 of the £10,000 slides had been > sold in the last four years. > "When it first came out a few people were critical but you're never going to make > everyone happy," he said.and from a 'zine in Plattsburgh NY where one was displayed. > What is Plattsburgh going to sponsor next? How about the inflatable > Hindenburg at the next air show?

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flyrabbit came over for pork chops this evening...

...and afterwords he, emcicle and i decided to go for a drive for the evening, up to the north shore simply go get out. so with a handful of cds and little else we all jumped into the car and took off. ended up first in gloucester, cruising around the city streets and looking at beaches. all in all, a generally nice evening. pretty nice and relaxing just to get out, be near the ocean, and get out for a drive on some deserted roads. found one really nice one that was completely empty, wound through a semi-residential district so there was interesting stuff to look at, and was easy to drive at around 40mph, enough to feel you're going places but slow enough to enjoy having the window open. might have taken a good picture or two, or they could be crap, i have no real idea.so, anyway, i'm back home, and decided that i can't really sleep right now, so instead i'm going to attempt programming. things are deciding to be obnoxious, but i've not broken anything yet so i'm ahead on the plus column.

flyrabbit came over for pork chops this evening...

...and afterwords he, emcicle and i decided to go for a drive for the evening, up to the north shore simply go get out. so with a handful of cds and little else we all jumped into the car and took off. ended up first in gloucester, cruising around the city streets and looking at beaches. all in all, a generally nice evening. pretty nice and relaxing just to get out, be near the ocean, and get out for a drive on some deserted roads. found one really nice one that was completely empty, wound through a semi-residential district so there was interesting stuff to look at, and was easy to drive at around 40mph, enough to feel you're going places but slow enough to enjoy having the window open. might have taken a good picture or two, or they could be crap, i have no real idea.so, anyway, i'm back home, and decided that i can't really sleep right now, so instead i'm going to attempt programming. things are deciding to be obnoxious, but i've not broken anything yet so i'm ahead on the plus column.

yesterday'...

yesterday's moment of restraint: by late afternoon i had been programming since 8:30, my perl script was misbehaving in an inexplicable way, to my left was a dead laser printer, scanner or pcr machine (take your pick), and hidden behind the door is a large baseball bat. probably would actually have been a needed relaxation as later in the day, the piercing laughter of a co-worker drifted through two rooms and gave me the same urge slightly redirected. today however has been significantly better. the perl script is actually working right now, i've been significantly less busy, and no one is laughing.

accomp...

accomplishments for the day:felt like assfailed to fix anything on the computer i was working on and ended up putting it back the way i found itflipped out at my girlfriend via emailenjoy(ed / ing) a nice pain in the left side of my headopened a window to program and accidentally pasted the text of aforementioned email into the middle of my code, became fed up and closed the window.tried to get a doctor's appointment about the pain in my head (ear actually) and found out that my doctor is only coming in on tuesdays, and every other doctor in the clinic is busy till next friday.went off to the local clinic near work and discovered it staffed by an idiot savant. i would tell her a date and she could instantly calculate that all doctors were booked on that date.came back, stared at the computer basically the only solid evidence that i actually got out of bed and did anything today will be several people whom i truly care about that i've managed to hurt or annoy.

today'z the day

today is the day of our zoning hearing. tonight at between 9 and 9:30 they should begin deciding the fate of our deck. two pieces of good news are that 1) there are no negative comments listed against our project, and 2) i was not caught, expelled or spanked for the little poster printing incident last night. i've been reading the zoning code all morning, beefing up on knowledge of the specific articles that are relevant. have a few more pictures to print and have to go pick up a piece of foamcore to mount the poster on. generally, though, i'm just mentally pacing nervously waiting for tonight and trying to get psyched. grrr tiger claw...

inter...

interesting note:as pork rinds stale, they lose much of their crunchy goodness and instead take on the character of chewing on dead pig.even more interesting note:upon discovering this after the first one, i continued to eat the second and third remaining in the handful i had grabbed.

i got up th...

i got up this morning and had some real aspirations to do some serious work, get shit done and move ahead on my project. sadly enough, that was not to be. instead spent the morning randomly browsing the net looking at random stuff, leaving me feeling unaccomplished and slightly dirty inside. so, i went into work.here, i've still not managed to get a single bit of work done on my project, however, i was able to work on stuff for the zoning board meeting tomorrow. the poster is put together, the only next step is the blatant abuse of school resources (using the departments poster printer).This really should be done at about 4:30 in the morning when no one else is in the building, but i have to go home and paint the porch tonight, so i'm going to try it now and just hope that nobody notices. if i'm expelled, well at least i'll have a porch.