Every Stray Thought That's Crossed My Mind

[notbatman]

Monday:

• Watching Dark Knight on my iPod at work again. This should help make the day interesting... Kinda makes me want to see the last Terminator movie again, actually.


• Hunter's "Max" costume (from Where the Wild Things Are) is awesome as all fuck-out. I'll try and get a pic or two up soon. I'd hoped to last night, but Dawny finished the costume as ConanDammit was shuffling him out the door for the Zoo Boo.

Wednesday:

• Look what a good job I did of getting shots of Hunter's costume! I'm so cool...


• Enjoy this bit of seasonal festiveness: It's Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers.
  
  Excerpt:
  "I don't know about you, but I can't wait to get my hands on some fucking gourds and arrange them in a horn-shaped basket on my dining room table. That shit is going to look so seasonal. I'm about to head up to the attic right now to find that wicker fucker, dust it off, and jam it with an insanely ornate assortment of shellacked vegetables. When my guests come over it's gonna be like, BLAMMO! Check out my shellacked decorative vegetables, assholes. Guess what season it is-fucking fall. There's a nip in the air and my house is full of mutant fucking squash.
  
  I may even throw some multi-colored leaves into the mix, all haphazard like a crisp October breeze just blew through and fucked that shit up. Then I'm going to get to work on making a beautiful fucking gourd necklace for myself. People are going to be like, "Aren't those gourds straining your neck?" And I'm just going to thread another gourd onto my necklace without breaking their gaze and quietly reply, "It's fall, fuckfaces. You're either ready to reap this freaky-assed harvest or you're not." "


• From SpaceWeather.com
  Picture this: A 10-meter wide asteroid hits Earth and explodes in the atmosphere with the energy of a small atomic bomb. Frightened by thunderous sounds and shaking walls, people rush out of their homes, thinking that an earthquake is in progress. All they see is a twisting trail of debris in the mid-day sky.
  
  This really happened on Oct. 8th around 11 am local time in the coastal town of Bone, Indonesia. The Earth-shaking blast received remarkably little coverage in Western press, but meteor scientists have given it their full attention. ... Their analysis of the infrasound data revealed an explosion ... with a yield of about 50 kton of TNT. That's two to three times more powerful than World War II-era atomic bombs.
  
  Full Report "It is important to note, however, that the standard deviation of this measurement is nearly 30 kT. That is, the best source energy estimate would be 40 +/- 30 kT TNT."
  
  With just a little more deviation, this might not have happened at all! I has Maths!


• Looking forward to Halloween. My costume's basically done and I'm super happy with it.
• Hunter and I did the yard decorations Monday evening. While I like the cemetery and ghouls, I made all that crap four years ago and haven't made any new decorations since. I guess there was the dead guy, but that was three years ago now? Anyway, things look good. Hopefully the funeral home across the street won't have too many services over the course of the next week or so. I always feel a little bad since they're right across the street. Seems like my pretend cemetery is the last thing Aunt Maureen needs to see when she's mourning her Old Gammy Two-Pence. (the fuck??)


• Still some more house cleaning to do and I really want to turn Hunter's wagon into Max's boat for trick or treating.


• I keep checking the weather for Saturday and it keeps changing. For a while it was saying the high for the day would be in the low 40's. Today the forecast is back up to 50, but it predicts rain on Friday and Sunday. Honestly the cooler temps are welcome, to me. I always get really hot, though this is another year where I can add and subtract as necessary. A high of 60-65, I think, is ideal for a Halloween party. So long as it's not raining.
  
  The cooler weather will likely throw off the Frontal Nudity In The Yard quotient, but maybe it will just push it all inside.


• I want to share this because I think I'm terribly funny, sometimes. I posted an invitation on an airsoft forum I frequent. There's a "Members Only" section and another private team section for a half-dozen super cool dudes. I posted a regular invitation in the Members section, I posted the following in the Super Cool Dude section:
  
  "I don't know how I spaced this, guys. I'm really sorry.
  
  I know I told those other jerks on the Member board that I wanted them to come, but you know I didn't really mean it, baby! You're the one I really want! I'm going to leave them soon, baby, I promise. I've just got to get a few things sorted out, first.
  
  Damn, you look fine in that ACU, girl! Did you lose weight? Come on over here and give Daddy something nice. Oh your ass feels so good, I just want to slap it. Yeah? You like that? Have you been a naughty girl? You need me to punish you? Yeah, that's it, you know you want it.
  
  Come on over here, girl. Yeah, right there, that's it. Mmmm, that feels so good, baby, that's just right.
  
  You know I love you, right mom? Oh, yeah..."
  
  I'll get kicked off of this team one way or another. Oh yes.


• You'll be there, right?


• I have fucking Hall & Oates on my iPod? Really?? What am I, old and white?? ... aw shit. Well I'm skipping this crap anyway. Serves me right for shuffling through everything that's on there instead of listening to the same five albums over and over again.


• Pretty soon, I'm going to have to go to the doctor and get my goddamn back properly imaged. It's still bad, but I'm coping. Oddly enough, prednisone treats the symptoms really fucking well this time around. I'm not certain what that means, but to me it indicates that the disc is bulging (herniated) but not fractured like last time. So it seems like there's a very good chance that I'll escape surgery after all.
  
  I'd been refilling and refilling the prednisone because it was easy and it works well, even if it makes me all puffy and bloated. The last time I called to have it refilled they called me to talk and said they would refill it. The next day someone else called and said, "Dude, we can't just keep filling this shit. Come in and get looked at again and start dealing with the fucking problem." And I was all, like, "I don't wanna."
  
  So I went to the pharmacy where there was an order of pred waiting (because the first person refilled it) and decided to put it away for a special occasion. That special occasion is Halloween, so I started the week long course yesterday and holy shit I feel better.
  
  So maybe I'll go in soon after all.
  
  I'm not a doctor, but I play one in the alley with the neighbor kids.


• I've discovered that the thing I'm most frightened of is dying while my son is still very young. I don't know what a good age for him to be is, but it's at least ten. Twenty would be lovely. That makes me wish we'd have had him sooner. Though if we'd been pregnant sooner, we wouldn't have had him anyway, so I guess I wouldn't trade that for anything.
  
  I just don't feel like I have another fifteen years in me, is all. I could be wrong.


• This has gone on more than long enough. There's work to be done and a goddamn LJ Idol post to be conceived and written.


• Speaking of - LJ Idol and NaNoWriMo at the same time: Stupid or Brilliant? Seems like it could go both ways. More Writing: Good. NaNo: Time Consuming. LJI: Time Consuming. NaNo vs. LJI: NaNo is every day, LJI (writing) is really only once a week. LJI: I could get voted off the island at any time and, while I could still write, I seem to like the structured challenge and I just don't do a lot of writing outside of November. NaNo: I don't know where to go with my existing story right now. Gah.