Michael Phelps is Aquaman...
Sorry, I just felt compelled to say that. Somewhere down the line he must've been spliced with a shark or something because he's making the competition look like amateurs. I sure hope he's not guilty of doping or something because just when you think someone's an incredible athlete... you find out they're on roids or something. Ahem... Marion Jones! Stupid bitch! She snitched on herself.
Anyway, I guess I'm long overdue for an update. I guess I can start with my trip to New Jersey. I was there from the end of June... until the middle of July. It was not a leisure trip by any means. I had no money, I was with my mother, didn't have a car to just up and leave to go wherever, and I didn't know where anything was to boot. On top of that, my aunt was at work half the day and my grandma is bedridden and hooked up to respirators. Kinda REALLY depressing, when I saw her two years before she just had a little trouble breathing... now she can't even walk. I wanted to go to Six Flags Great Adventure because they had the new Dark Knight roller coaster there, and I really wanted to go since I kept seeing that commercial with the loud Asian dude yelling, "SIX FLAGS!!!! MORE FLAGS! MORE FUN!!!". But my cousin never came up to visit even though we were there for three weeks!
A little before returning back to Michigan. I received more bad news, my older brother (who stole my car the second I left home.) informs me that my car was acting up again stating that it was stalling out a lot. Yet a weird thing about my older brother and cars... everyone he's gotten he's ran into the ground: '94 Aerostar... dead, '99 Contour... never took care of it and my mom traded it in for her Trailblazer, MY CAR a '95 Bonneville... I thank god it still runs well, '93 Roadmaster... still runs but just barely. Then when I get home, my younger brother comes to me and says, "Welcome back, now I have four words for you: Three Rings of Death." and my only response was, "GodDAMMIT Microsoft!!!" My Xbox had crashed for the third time now! The warranty is up in December for this so I hope it doesn't do it again after that. But I just got that back the other day... but I can't use the saved data on most of my games since I no longer have Xbox Live and it's under a different screen name. So I gotta find a way around that. As for my car, the symptoms went like this: very little power coming from the engine... even when I floored it, the tachometer wouldn't rev passed 2,000 rpms, for me to go fast was 40mph and that's going down a hill, a sputtering sound and then the car stalling out frequently, and then smoke coming from the side of the engine facing the front bumper even after idling for three minutes due to an oil leak. My mom says, "Sounds like you got a blown head gasket." because the same thing happened to her Trailblazer back in December, but her truck was under warranty. The next day my dad and I popped the hood and he said the same thing, "Looks like you gotta blown head gasket." From what my mom told me about what has to be done to repair it and how much it would cost, I was better off getting a newer car. But after her friend's husband looks at it and says, "Oh psssssh... this just needs a valve cover gasket. That's a really easy fix." So today, I went to Murray's and got a set for $11... opened the valve cover, took the old warped/raggity/semi-melted gasket out, wiped down around the valve springs, put some gasket sealer down as well as the new gasket itself and covered the engine back up and voila! Runs super smooth now, it revs all the way up to six without a hitch.
On the brighter side of things... my stimulus check came in. I got $900, but since I owed the bank and Verizon and had to start a new checking account... that sum went down to about $530... atleast I got my cell turned back on. Lately the thing that's been depleting my funds is food and gas since I'm not dumb enough to purchase anything right now. I'm also trying to go to Cedar Point again this summer since we didn't go last summer. I'm trying to go this Sunday since it's supposed to be about 82, I sure hope it doesn't rain... that would suck. The other problem is rounding people up to come along.
Also, we ditched Comcast... Comcast is gay... fuck them! So now we have AT&T and it's pretty cool so far. Wireless internet is in the house now, we have more channels, and you can set up your DVR from your computer. So if you're at work and you want to record "Generation Kill" or "House", you can do it online. That's fucking sweet! Now the part about my dad trying to steal cable... I'll leave that for another day.
What else?... Oh! Let's talk about the Summer Olympics again! Is it just me?... Or is China REALLY showing up this time around? Right now they're dominating the diving and gymnastics events and have more gold medals than we do. But the thing I'm laughing at right now is the underage controversy of the Chinese women's gymnastics team. Because at first the Americans were like, "Oh China is a powerful gymnastics team! Don't take them lightly." but the second Alicia Sacramone slips up and America no longer has a shot at a gold medal, "The Chinese have underage girls on their squad, the age limit is 16!" Doesn't that kinda make us sound like whiny little pussies? I would much rather we get the silver medal with dignity as opposed to getting a gold medal by default for being sore losers... even though some of those Chinese girls DO look like they're 12. But man! Have you seen our women's gymnastics team??? Those girls are meaty! It's like they're not missing ANY protein in their diet! I can't say that for all... Shawn Johnson is only 16 so I'm not gonna be THAT creepy. But what can you do? USA made a couple critical mistakes and China capitalized on them... oh well. It's not the first time that America weren't the crowned jewel of the olympics... the Soviet Union destroyed us in the olympics for over ten years back when they were around. And I guess China is really trying to revitalize self image considering the appearance of Beijing and the way they're competing. I guess they really wanna prove their worth on the world stage... even though they do resort to ultra-Naziesque training regimens for the their athletes. Well, America almost always shines and track and field events and we still have more than a week left of games. Fuck you... I love the olympics!
Oh right,where would my posts be without some kind of drawing. I'll start with this one... this is my second to latest piece. It took me a month to do it but I had started it in while in Jersey...
This is my Lakepointe Clan drawing. The notion started where I had Nikki as my waitress and I'm like, "Where's Nikki with that beer?" and a second later I hear, "It's right here." and she happens to be sitting in the stool next to me and I didn't even see or hear her walk by or hear her set the bottle down. And I said, "Wow, you're like a blonde ninja or something." then Jenny's like, "Noooo... I'M the blonde ninja! I've been here longer and I can take Nikki!" and Nikki goes, "Really now? Feelin' crazy huh bitch???". But anyway it goes like this counter clockwise from the left: Nicole (Hot Nikki), Bailey (Bay Bay), Kimmie (K-Weezy), Jasmine (Jaz Money), Jenny (Violent J), Kenshin the wonder pup, and myself with Gaara style makeup to look more Japanese and/or evil. I had them each specializing in a different weapon to demonstrate various types of ninja as well as different wardrobe. Nicole is using a giant fuuma shuriken which is a retractable ninja star that works like a boomerang mixed with a circular saw... of course it's not real but it's fucking cool. And her kanji symbol on her forehead protector means "beauty". Bailey's got kunai or throwing knives and her kanji means "assassin". You ever hear that concept in anime, "The smallest guys are usually the strongest."? Well, Kimmie being the smallest is the leader of the pack and has two ninja swords, her kanji stands for "power", Jasmine wields a katana... I wanted to draw her in a battoujutsu stance (sword-drawing attack technique... Sorry, I'm a huge Rurouni Kenshin fan.) but that woulda messed up the flow of everyone doing a standing pose. And Jasmine's kanji stands for "princess" i.e. Princess Jasmine:P. And finally Jenny has a short sword, and I tried to make her look kinda crazy.... because she's kinda crazy. Her forehead kanji means "sexy" but the one on her back is the symbol for "bad" or "wicked" (Rurouni Kenshin rides again...), so if you combine the two you've got "wicked sexy". And I'm wielding the double kodachi in one sheath just like Aoshi Shinomori. I wanted to draw both my head shot and my dog's bigger to make it seem more ominous so you have the idea that WE'RE the villains, so that you know it's Kimmie and her clan versus Me and my ninja dog companion... but I only had so much room on paper. I cut a lot of stuff out of it like long scarves/fabric, leaves, and cherry blossom petals flowing in the wind so that lines wouldn't overlap... but it still looks pretty damned cool if you ask me.
Next we have Sommer...
I just finished this yesterday. It's supposed to serve as a birthday present but we all knew it was gonna happen eventually since every girl there keeps hounding me about it. This chick turns 31 this month and still looks like she's barely old enough to drive... she must have some kind of Gary Coleman disease. But hey, I think she'll like it.
Thus, concludes this long ass fucking post. Aren't you glad now?
Anyway, I guess I'm long overdue for an update. I guess I can start with my trip to New Jersey. I was there from the end of June... until the middle of July. It was not a leisure trip by any means. I had no money, I was with my mother, didn't have a car to just up and leave to go wherever, and I didn't know where anything was to boot. On top of that, my aunt was at work half the day and my grandma is bedridden and hooked up to respirators. Kinda REALLY depressing, when I saw her two years before she just had a little trouble breathing... now she can't even walk. I wanted to go to Six Flags Great Adventure because they had the new Dark Knight roller coaster there, and I really wanted to go since I kept seeing that commercial with the loud Asian dude yelling, "SIX FLAGS!!!! MORE FLAGS! MORE FUN!!!". But my cousin never came up to visit even though we were there for three weeks!
A little before returning back to Michigan. I received more bad news, my older brother (who stole my car the second I left home.) informs me that my car was acting up again stating that it was stalling out a lot. Yet a weird thing about my older brother and cars... everyone he's gotten he's ran into the ground: '94 Aerostar... dead, '99 Contour... never took care of it and my mom traded it in for her Trailblazer, MY CAR a '95 Bonneville... I thank god it still runs well, '93 Roadmaster... still runs but just barely. Then when I get home, my younger brother comes to me and says, "Welcome back, now I have four words for you: Three Rings of Death." and my only response was, "GodDAMMIT Microsoft!!!" My Xbox had crashed for the third time now! The warranty is up in December for this so I hope it doesn't do it again after that. But I just got that back the other day... but I can't use the saved data on most of my games since I no longer have Xbox Live and it's under a different screen name. So I gotta find a way around that. As for my car, the symptoms went like this: very little power coming from the engine... even when I floored it, the tachometer wouldn't rev passed 2,000 rpms, for me to go fast was 40mph and that's going down a hill, a sputtering sound and then the car stalling out frequently, and then smoke coming from the side of the engine facing the front bumper even after idling for three minutes due to an oil leak. My mom says, "Sounds like you got a blown head gasket." because the same thing happened to her Trailblazer back in December, but her truck was under warranty. The next day my dad and I popped the hood and he said the same thing, "Looks like you gotta blown head gasket." From what my mom told me about what has to be done to repair it and how much it would cost, I was better off getting a newer car. But after her friend's husband looks at it and says, "Oh psssssh... this just needs a valve cover gasket. That's a really easy fix." So today, I went to Murray's and got a set for $11... opened the valve cover, took the old warped/raggity/semi-melted gasket out, wiped down around the valve springs, put some gasket sealer down as well as the new gasket itself and covered the engine back up and voila! Runs super smooth now, it revs all the way up to six without a hitch.
On the brighter side of things... my stimulus check came in. I got $900, but since I owed the bank and Verizon and had to start a new checking account... that sum went down to about $530... atleast I got my cell turned back on. Lately the thing that's been depleting my funds is food and gas since I'm not dumb enough to purchase anything right now. I'm also trying to go to Cedar Point again this summer since we didn't go last summer. I'm trying to go this Sunday since it's supposed to be about 82, I sure hope it doesn't rain... that would suck. The other problem is rounding people up to come along.
Also, we ditched Comcast... Comcast is gay... fuck them! So now we have AT&T and it's pretty cool so far. Wireless internet is in the house now, we have more channels, and you can set up your DVR from your computer. So if you're at work and you want to record "Generation Kill" or "House", you can do it online. That's fucking sweet! Now the part about my dad trying to steal cable... I'll leave that for another day.
What else?... Oh! Let's talk about the Summer Olympics again! Is it just me?... Or is China REALLY showing up this time around? Right now they're dominating the diving and gymnastics events and have more gold medals than we do. But the thing I'm laughing at right now is the underage controversy of the Chinese women's gymnastics team. Because at first the Americans were like, "Oh China is a powerful gymnastics team! Don't take them lightly." but the second Alicia Sacramone slips up and America no longer has a shot at a gold medal, "The Chinese have underage girls on their squad, the age limit is 16!" Doesn't that kinda make us sound like whiny little pussies? I would much rather we get the silver medal with dignity as opposed to getting a gold medal by default for being sore losers... even though some of those Chinese girls DO look like they're 12. But man! Have you seen our women's gymnastics team??? Those girls are meaty! It's like they're not missing ANY protein in their diet! I can't say that for all... Shawn Johnson is only 16 so I'm not gonna be THAT creepy. But what can you do? USA made a couple critical mistakes and China capitalized on them... oh well. It's not the first time that America weren't the crowned jewel of the olympics... the Soviet Union destroyed us in the olympics for over ten years back when they were around. And I guess China is really trying to revitalize self image considering the appearance of Beijing and the way they're competing. I guess they really wanna prove their worth on the world stage... even though they do resort to ultra-Naziesque training regimens for the their athletes. Well, America almost always shines and track and field events and we still have more than a week left of games. Fuck you... I love the olympics!
Oh right,where would my posts be without some kind of drawing. I'll start with this one... this is my second to latest piece. It took me a month to do it but I had started it in while in Jersey...
This is my Lakepointe Clan drawing. The notion started where I had Nikki as my waitress and I'm like, "Where's Nikki with that beer?" and a second later I hear, "It's right here." and she happens to be sitting in the stool next to me and I didn't even see or hear her walk by or hear her set the bottle down. And I said, "Wow, you're like a blonde ninja or something." then Jenny's like, "Noooo... I'M the blonde ninja! I've been here longer and I can take Nikki!" and Nikki goes, "Really now? Feelin' crazy huh bitch???". But anyway it goes like this counter clockwise from the left: Nicole (Hot Nikki), Bailey (Bay Bay), Kimmie (K-Weezy), Jasmine (Jaz Money), Jenny (Violent J), Kenshin the wonder pup, and myself with Gaara style makeup to look more Japanese and/or evil. I had them each specializing in a different weapon to demonstrate various types of ninja as well as different wardrobe. Nicole is using a giant fuuma shuriken which is a retractable ninja star that works like a boomerang mixed with a circular saw... of course it's not real but it's fucking cool. And her kanji symbol on her forehead protector means "beauty". Bailey's got kunai or throwing knives and her kanji means "assassin". You ever hear that concept in anime, "The smallest guys are usually the strongest."? Well, Kimmie being the smallest is the leader of the pack and has two ninja swords, her kanji stands for "power", Jasmine wields a katana... I wanted to draw her in a battoujutsu stance (sword-drawing attack technique... Sorry, I'm a huge Rurouni Kenshin fan.) but that woulda messed up the flow of everyone doing a standing pose. And Jasmine's kanji stands for "princess" i.e. Princess Jasmine:P. And finally Jenny has a short sword, and I tried to make her look kinda crazy.... because she's kinda crazy. Her forehead kanji means "sexy" but the one on her back is the symbol for "bad" or "wicked" (Rurouni Kenshin rides again...), so if you combine the two you've got "wicked sexy". And I'm wielding the double kodachi in one sheath just like Aoshi Shinomori. I wanted to draw both my head shot and my dog's bigger to make it seem more ominous so you have the idea that WE'RE the villains, so that you know it's Kimmie and her clan versus Me and my ninja dog companion... but I only had so much room on paper. I cut a lot of stuff out of it like long scarves/fabric, leaves, and cherry blossom petals flowing in the wind so that lines wouldn't overlap... but it still looks pretty damned cool if you ask me.
Next we have Sommer...
I just finished this yesterday. It's supposed to serve as a birthday present but we all knew it was gonna happen eventually since every girl there keeps hounding me about it. This chick turns 31 this month and still looks like she's barely old enough to drive... she must have some kind of Gary Coleman disease. But hey, I think she'll like it.
Thus, concludes this long ass fucking post. Aren't you glad now?