I will acknowledge this holiday as I do every year in my livejournal.

hpythxgvn.

I has car! VROOOOOOM!

Her name is Pandora.

She is a '97 Nissan 200SX. 2-door, 5-speed manual, black. Bought it for $875. There are a few issues with it, almost all of which are cosmetic. The headliner is falling off, needs a little body work. The paint needs some love. The plastic cover to the display with the speedometer and whatnot is missing so I can play with the needles. XD

The only REAL problem with the vehicle is that the window doesn't roll up/down. The fix for that isn't too terribly expensive. So, without further blabbing, here are pics of the car behind an LJ cut!
( VROOOOOM! )

Bored. Here ya go.


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I've never arranged a dinner date like *THIS* before.

Me: Well, it's a weird story. Regardless, it isn't happening between her and I anytime soon... So I guess I'm still single and looking.
Her: But you like this girl. Do you have a desire to look?
Me: It's not going to happen between her and I anytime soon... I may as well keep my eyes open for someone more awesome than her. I'd hate to pass someone up. Especially if there's a chance someone out there is more awesome than her.
Her: I can see that
Me: Yea... I'm trying to stay positive.
Her: that's a start. I'm more awesome than anyone else you can ever meet. So positive is good.
Me: You are, huh? So does this mean you're the woman I've been searching for?
Her: I am awesome, and everyone is searching for me
Me: I just didn't catch on whether or not you were insinuating something..
Her: Ken, I'll let you in on a little secret. I'm always insinuating something... always
Me: So you're saying we should go out to dinner sometime this week.
Her: We could do that
Me: Was this not the most forward but backwards way a dinner date has ever been requested?
Her: Right on.
Her: Who asked?
Me: Neither of us did. You mildly suggested that you were the person I was looking for, and I said that a dinner date should happen and you said it could work. I never ASKED anything.
Her: Ok ok, you're one of those boys with the specific wording and all
Me: Seriously though, I didn't ask. In fact, I think you were the one who asked. I said I was looking for someone more awesome than this girl I currently can't have, and you said you were the most awesome person ever, meaning, you suggested that I should give you a shot.

EDIT: She says I made it look like I won the argument. So I assume this means that she doesn't think I did. Well whatever. =P

So, I managed to find something good out of having an absolutely horrendously awful day.

... to give myself a small escape from my shitty day, I decided to go out in the parking lot and juggle at 1:30AM. The weather was nice, in the low 60's. My apartment complex is lit up fairly well at night in the parking lots... and while I was juggling, not only was it a great escape from life, but I learned a new pattern. I can now do the machine (AKA the Factory)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgnyVAsUpzE

This is not what I used to learn it, but it shows the pattern very clearly in the first part of the video. (I actually think this tutorial is horrible.)

http://www.jugglingdb.com/compendium/geek/notation/siteswap/tweaked.html

Found this interesting little article on how juggling siteswap notation needs a bit of tweaking and can be a pain in the butt sometimes. I'm mainly posting it here because I wanted to bring it to darknote's attention.

The reason being is... Well, juggling siteswap notation uses a number system to state how many "beats" a ball thrown will stay in the air... or, in other words, how high it's thrown. This assumes that you are throwing a steady rhythm of right, left, right, left, etc.. or you're throwing both hands simultaneously. As in, just throwing a ball from each hand at the same time on every beat. Well, this goes into having java animated applets of a stick figure juggler doing juggling patterns where their hands go in a 3 against 5 rhythm. Talk about a headache. Throwing 3 against 5 in a juggling pattern. That's something I'm gonna take the time to get good at because it's something I haven't seen any other juggler do in person.

I think I'll start with the super basics, since I still kinda suck. Maybe I'll try 2 against 3 in a 3-ball pattern. I'll have to figure out how that one will work out.

... An opportunity has landed. If I fuck this up, I will never forgive myself for the rest of my life.

(entirely unrelated to my last post)

So, I told myself I was going to wait until I got my new job and had the money to eat right... but that's just a lame excuse to keep eating unhealthy right now.

Fuck that.

I am going to start eating right starting tomorrow (only because I won't be eating again for the rest of the night). Just because I don't have 90 billion dollars doesn't mean I can't eat right. I just have to be smart. I could spend $5 on the dollar menu at Wendy's, or I could spend $5 on a ham sandwich at Subway. I could go to the grocery store and buy hamburgers, or I could go to the store and buy chicken and lettuce. I mean, wow.

... here goes nothing.

So, I went to a convention this weekend and got a phone number from a rather cute girl. We're gonna watch zombie flicks in the near future.

Today at work, I was being a little flirty with some of my tables, and this table of two girls were being a little flirty back. We had a fun time and BOTH of them left me their numbers. Two numbers off of the same table, wtf? Also they left me a 25% tip.

Also at work today, I flirted up another table later in the day. Both really cute. No, I didn't get a number, but they left me $12 on a $30 tab. 35+% tip? Was I that attractive? Thanks for the digits! And by digits, I mean 4-digit number in the tip row on the credit card sheet.

I must be attractive today or something. This definitely got my self-esteem up quite a bit, I hope it sticks around. I could most definitely use it. ^^

... talk about a serious headache. I am so emotionally scatterbrained, it'd ridiculous.

I have in front of me the cure for every emotional crisis you will ever face.

I have milk and cookies.

FUCK YEA

I've learned quite a few since I last posted about juggling, but this trick really surprised me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klfMQs0rLos

I didn't use this video to learn the trick, but the first 30 seconds show the pattern I learned (done very cleanly) and a good explanation of how it works.

When I first saw this pattern, I thought it was ridiculously hard (which, it kinda is to a new juggler). I couldn't do well on crossing arms, and I was bad at throwing balls straight up in the air (I'm used to throwing them at an angle). Since then, I've learned the following tricks.

Cascade
Reverse Cascade
Shower
Windmill
Mills Mess
Takeouts
The W
Pistons
2-up 1-up
4-ball Fountain
Tennis

... and probably a few others that I'm forgetting.

Now I get to add the Boston Mess to my collection. I think what surprised me most about it was how quickly I learned it. I decided to give it a shot today, and literally... Within 3-4 minutes, I did a very short and sloppy Boston Mess. After another 10-15 minutes, I had cleaned it up pretty well. So... next trick? Rubenstein's Revenge? False Mills Mess? Burke's Barrage?

... I kinda wanna do a 5-ball flash, but I know I'm getting too far ahead of myself.

Kinda surprising at how refreshing a few tears can be.

So I got Disgaea 3. It's absolutely amazing. Humorous storyline/dialogue... Stupid grinding for hours... so much micromanaging that you don't know where to start...

Already found a favorite character. May make some icons in a few days. Is it sad that I want an HDMI-in port for my video card so I can play Disgaea 3 on my computer monitor so when I'm in the bathroom, I can use my phone to remote desktop and see the screen while I use the wireless controller to play?

Okay, so here's an "I'm irritated, and I'm going to rant about some shit" kinda post.

1) When you text me, asking me to work a shift of yours and I tell you no.. Don't respond with "plz!" I said no. I have a reason for saying no. Bugging the shit out of me afterward is not going to get me to change my mind.

2) Why the fuck am I still waiting tables? Damn, seriously, I can't fucking wait for this new Gamestop job to start. Won't happen until November, and I'm stuck waiting tables until then. I fucking bust my ass and people come the fuck on into TGIF and leave me one fucking dollar on a $30 tab. I worked hard today, did everything I could, and after ten years I'd assume that I do my job well, and I made less than $25. What the fuck. If you're not going to fucking tip, go to a fucking drive thru. I can't support my own bills right now and I don't even have but like... two. Imagine the people who fucking have kids. One of my co-workers has to pay a babysitter to come into work and she didn't even make enough money to pay the babysitter. I'm fucking serious, if you go out to eat, you tip the server at least 18% (before tax, before coupons, before discounts) of the tab or you go to a place where the people who serve you make more than $2.13 an hour (assuming the server actually does a good enough job).

3) Inappropriate sexual jokes are funny at times, but when everything that is said gets turned around into one, it gets old really quickly. Grow the fuck up. It's not funny after you make the "she wants me to come over, LOL YOU SAID COME" joke the 8th or 9th time for the DAY.

4) When playing a turn-based game, please be courteous enough to inform the other player that your turn is done, rather than just sit there fiddling with the cards in your hand. A game of Magic: The Gathering should last between 5-10 minutes. Not 25.

5) When I am asking an opinion on something, directed at a certain person... If that certain individual is not you, then stay the fuck out of the conversation. Your opinion is not the one I want. There is a reason why I looked at Brad and specifically asked "Hey Brad, what is your opinion on this?" I didn't say: "Hey Brad, what's your opinion on this? Oh, and Blake, you can chime in with your snooty asshat remark whenever you like, because I value that as well."

6) Comcast. What the fuck. Ever since I have moved into this apartment, I've had internet access for one fucking day. Your DNS servers are all kinds of fucked up and it takes me 25 minutes just to load up a fucking webpage with a flash applet in it. Every fucking page loads stupidly slow or it doesn't load at all. It comes up without the CSS stylesheet. Instead it's just times new roman on a white background with lots of broken images, which usually took about 5-8 minutes of refreshing the page to get. Is it fucking sad that I am using my PHONE for internet access because T-Mobile's edge network (not even 3G in Murfreesboro) is like, infinitely faster than your fucking "cable internet service that's five times faster than DSL!" Edge is like, about as fast as an IDSN line. It's about 10-12k/sec. I'd be better off getting on a fucking landline phone and calling a friend in Canada, asking him to go to a website and describe the pictures and read the text for me. I dread the moment that I attempt to post this LJ entry, being that it took me 12 minutes just to load the damn update.bml page. Seriously, get your shit together. Once I get this Gamestop job, you'll never get another dime off of me, because you guys know this is a problem and you haven't even done shit to fix it. You haven't even credited money to the account. I hope you guys die in a fire.

7) Relationships. Ya know, this one is just too easy...

... Well, after about 25 minutes (no, I'm not exaggerating), the constant refreshing of this page finally loaded. It's a flash game I've been playing recently called GemCraft. So, I'm going to play this game now that it's finally up and hopefully calm myself down before going to bed. Goodnight.

HFS. So, I was at Dollar Tree today, buying a new trashcan for my bathroom (for a dollar!) and when I was walking through the food section, a flash of a word caught my peripheral. I saw "O'Boisies" somewhere... I immediately went OMFG and started scanning around me to see where I saw it...

After a good 10-12 seconds of looking, I spotted a bunch of cardboard boxes stacked up, cut open, with lots of bags of O'Boisies potato chips in 4 different flavors.

... now let me explain to you how amazing this find actually is. When I was 6-7 years old, my mom used to buy O'Boisies potato chips because they were lower in fat than normal chips. I ate a couple and immediately fell in love. These are the BEST POTATO CHIPS KNOWN TO MAN. When I was 7-8, they stopped making them for some odd reason. Maybe they didn't sell well? Who knows...

I HAVEN'T SEEN THESE CHIPS IN NEARLY 20 YEARS AND THEY WERE MY FREAKING FAVORITE EVER.

I bought a bag of each flavor that interested me (original, salt+pepper, cheddar/sour cream). They are as delicious as I remember. When I get paid on tuesday, I'm stocking up for fear that I'll never see them again.

If you're at Dollar Tree or nearby one... stop in and grab a bag of O'Boisies for $1. They're worth every penny.

Jealousy has a very very ugly head.

FML.

So, poor Donna (my '02 Cavalier) had her last ride today. Some old fartknocker who wasn't looking decided to T-bone poor Donna. I'm probably more emotionally upset about this than I should... Their insurance covers it all and I'll be fine but... I was really attached to that car.

Donna Matrix, you were loved.

( Pictures of Donna on her death bed. )

If you recognize this character, you browse the internet for stupid stuff as well as I do.

If you could tell me what it says at the bottom, that would be awesome. I'm guessing that since the first and third character are the same, that the first three characters represent "tomato". The last is probably some suffix or part of this tomato girl's name.

Ridiculous Cooking happened again tonight. I wasn't feeling emotionally well, so I decided to make some comfort food. Inspired by Loading Ready Run, I decided to make a meat roll.

( Ridiculous Cooking #3! )
NOTE: Anyone who wants to try some of this needs to call/text me in the next few days and come on over and have a slice. I don't think I'll be able to finish it before it's not really servable anymore.