miami_pony

You gotta go see this.
Dr Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, starring NPH (!).  

Wonderful,  genius stuff.

Went to see Jonathan Coulton and Paul & Storm in concert, it was -so- awesome to see them again!  I brought Wuff with me, and met Bryon and Mike on-site. There was much to talk about and much to drink, which is a winning combination.  Also, Paul&Storm performed a new song for the very first time, which I must upload onto the YouTubes to share with the world.

In other news, The Watchmen are having a one-time reunion show at The Horseshoe at the end of September - tickets are a paltry 20 bucks.  How could you not want to see that show? :)

Phone interview tonight turned out to be for a position in -California-, not locally.  I think I impressed them enough to warrant a call-back, but they didn't really ask me anything too specific to begin with.. sooo.. I dunno.  I don't feel like I knowcked anythign out of any park, to use that analogy.

So, I proceeded to play lots of RockBand, drums on Hard.. almost halfway through the songlist now.  Alcohol almost helps in that regard.  Almost, but not really.

Pride was more-of-the-same this year.  Thankfully I got to spend the Friday night with a bazooka-load of friends, had awesome dumpling goodness, and won the Amy Winehouse Award during Rock Band.  I had a brief stint as a co-host of a rave on Secondlife (which i'm not even on yet) before dying quietly of fatigue at about 1:something am.
Saturday was spent in the company of Growler, Khaki, Khaki's sister, and eventually Growler's sister as well (i know, wtf eh?) We have Bubble Tea in common.  I liked that when walking along the street next to Growler in his leather harness and fox tail (and he's really a wolf!.. yeah!) i felt halfways invisible, seeing as more eyes/cameras were on him than on me.. and when they shouted "Nice Tail!" it was never at me ;)  During beers at The Eagle we ran into Kitt and ManedWolf (remember those guys? they're still out there!) and there was much conversing about all sorts of stuff. Then after a touch of Terminator2 on AMC I went home. 
I'm gonna snoooooooze now.

Roomies are at AC along with some pals.  One pal managed to forget part of his stuff he was selling, oops.  He calls me.  I speed off to the courier, their truck has already left.  Shit.  I speed off to the -other- courier way up in the other part of town... ta-daah!  package is going out tonight :)

Aah, it's good to do good deeds, right? 
but wait, there's more.

It was frickin' -=pouring=- rain on the way up.  After I get there a somewhat moist bicyclist comes in with a somewhat moist claim slip.. and not-good-enough ID to get his decidedly-important package that he biked 10k in the rain to get.  They give him a hard time, and he needs the package, like, -now- people... and still, a hard time is to be had by this poor guy.  This officially sucks.

So... I drive him to his house 10k away to get something he can actually use as ID to pick up the package.  He -totally- owes me a beer.  If he doesn't email me back, well, at least I know where he lives ;)

Don't let anyone tell you that I'm not a nice guy.

Shit

Piss

Fuck

Cunt

Cocksucker

Motherfucker

Tits.

...

Goodbye, George.

I like guests.  They are keen.

In other news, pic 1 is cute, but pic 3 is icon-level-cute.

Holy festering crap.. I am one tired human bean these days.  Working 6 days a week doing physical labour is just draining.  Annoyingly, it leaves me in a crummy position for jobhunting, too.  I get home and just crash on the couch, if I'm lucky to have gotten home before 4pm.  If you're a HR person do you want to talk to a tired guy at 4pm on a work-day?  Yeah.  Soo.. I gotta try to figure out how to address this circumstance.  I like the job but the pay's just not there, and it's really not conducive to taking a break of any kind during the day.  This temporary position could end up being more permanent than I'd bargained for.  At least I'm getting some exercise.

In other news, I managed to convince a horsey named Sledge that some people are not mean and that he really doesn't need to be crazy.  He's on 'vacation' now, so hopefully he'll be just as not-crazy once he's back to work.  I like Sledge, I also like the fact that people noticed that he changed significantly while I was looking after him. Accomplishment is good, no matter what the scale.

I have received a nibble. Evidently, emailing your resume to the VP of a company can actually get you noticed.  What the results of that notice may yet be will be revealed in an upcoming episode.

Stay tuned.

Over a hundred spams a day in my mailboxes, I can deal with that.
Having the darned spam detection in yahoo mail not function reliably... not so much.
Having the spam detection in yahoo mail not have a goddman -whitelist- that you can enter addresses or domains into manually.. that's just damn annoying.

So now I get to read through -all- the subject lines of all my spam, just to make sure that possible job offers or letters from friends don't get filtered out.

Just as a public service, of course ;)

http://xrl.us/bmhqa

Tix are general admission, so we don't all need to buy reserved seats together. 
You can also eat dinner there before the show, and that guarantees a seat (and probably a really good one too).

I'm temporarily re-employed, but it is hampering my ability to search for a new job.  I've had some interviews, but they were more for informational purposes than for "we have a position we are actively hiring for", though the interview I had on Friday seems like a promising place to work for.  Hopefully I'll figure out a plan to seek out a new job while still pulling in money, while simultaneously not pissing off the people I currently DO work for.  This is all so complicated.

Plus my car is acting funny - she really does need to see her old boyfriend at the -good- mechanic shop.  I sure hope she can get me to work tomorrow - carpooling out into the country doesn't really work.

Jonathan Coulton is performing at The Lula Lounge
1585 Dundas St. W., west of Dufferin
416 588 0307
http://www.lulalounge.ca/

Wednesday July 9, time TBD
Lula Lounge (Toronto, ON)
With Paul and Storm, All Ages
Tickets: on sale soon

If you live anywhere near me then you MUST go to this show with me. :)

I'm not counting last week.. last week was really more recuperating from vacations and/or hangovers, etc. All told, vacation was great, and it really was time to go "home for a rest" by the end of it all. Instead of rest I got the bright idea to celebrate my successful vacationing, and then had to recuperate from that.. and then visited Toronto to re-invigorate Branwyn's PC until 4am (and also to get my nice jeans fixed, thanks man) and then visit the Toronto Zoo with Bryon and Mike and Sean and Amy and two of their handsome friends.. great company to have while you walk for many many many hours. Then, time for wonderful barbecue and more partying in Kensington, but without much intoxication (see above). Then my usual Sunday job with the horseys..

Needless to say, on this first day of unemployment, I was sore as fuck. All over. I spent many hours sleeping, either because I was too sore from the usual physical strains incurred on Sundays, or too sore from walking on Saturday, or too tired from lack of sleep incurred on Friday night. Today was The Perfect Storm of exhaustion.

Even still, I have set up a rapport with one person (who isn't hiring) and will be talking to an HR rep tomorrow (who might not be hiring either).. but who knows. Unemployment is still young, yet. I'll be relying on all of you to get me through this (whether you're reading this post or not)

Everybody I know is hereby on notice: you're my friend for a reason, that reason is as unique as each of you. Don't forget that reason, no matter what happens to me over the next long (hopefully not too long) while.

hey folks.  I'm on vacation!  Last week was great; got to visit my central-US friends and met some new friends too.  Much fun was had.  Now I'm halfway home, hanging out in Ohio.  I'll be attending Morphicon, probably playing guitar there at some point, and doing some DJing on Saturday night.  That shall be sweet :)

Alright you Mac junkies.  Here's the deal.  I'm borrowing my roomie's iPod for a roadtrip.  It's got a nifty car-cigarette-lighter power adaptor that has a USB port in it.  When plugging the data cable into this adaptor the little light on the adaptor changes from green to red, indicating that there's some kind of charging and/or power draw happening. 

The problem is as soon as this happens the iPod stops outputting sound through the fucking headphones. Even at the most glancingly slight contact of the little metal bumps on the power adaptor to the cigarette lighter in the car, boom, no sound.  The screen stays active and the inner workings of the iPod seem to be humming along perfectly well at this time, it doesn't stop reading from the drive or anything.

So what the hell is going on with it?  Is it trying to route the audio through the cable like it's in a docking station or what?  Is there a way to gently encourage it to stop driving me fucking bonkers? :)

Just as great as it was last year. Turn this up and sing it to your co-workers. :)

Suddenly my vacation plans include Morphicon in Columbus.  I'll already be down there when the con starts so it'd be dumb to not go. 
Anybody else I know going?

Payday (1973) .
"Speed, grass, downers, country music - the most accurate portrait of life on the road, starring Rip Torn as a modern Hank Williams, and with songs composed by Shel Silverstein"

Um, this sounds like a brilliant movie, and i'd love to know which of Uncle Shel's songs are in it.
Anybody seen it, ever?

from the Associated Press:
"Singapore censors fine local TV station for airing show featuring gay couple"

Read that one a couple of times, just for fun.