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I had promised myself I'd write about some of the weird dreams I've been having lately, but since that has limited appeal (I've already described the dream to one of the three people who were in it, and neither of the other two will see it here) I'll save it for the second order of business.
Because I write a lot, and you might not care about all of them, here's a TL;DR summary:
1. Grand Theft Phono
2. Crazy-ass dream
3. Pokeymans
4. Bike Update
1. So, my mom's roommate wants me to help him with something that is pretty obviously totally illegal. It sounded above board at first, he wanted my help with a computer thing, selling some stuff and earning a commission. I'm in need of money at the moment, and I'm on the computer all damn day anyway, so it works out. However, once he started going into details, I decided no way josé. He wants to sell some slightly used cellphones, which he could EASILY do on his own... then he let slip that he didn't want the sales in his name. OOPS. Since he works at a cellphone store (for one of the big three companies) it doesn't take a genius to figure out where the cellphones he doesn't want in his name are going to be disappearing from. I might consider it, but cellphones are way too easy to track, and every impulse I have says this isn't something I want my fingerprints on. (He says while bittorrenting $150 worth of music.) The fact that I live with the guy will complicate things, but he's leaving for 9 days on business, so that should probably get the idea forgotten about.
At the same time, if I wasn't so sure it was dangerous, I'd be really tempted. I DO need money. I'd set up a paypal account, but nothing I do in the course of a day is worth me being paid for. I've been out of work for a while, and I tend to get lazy... it'll probably be pretty painful actually forcing myself to get back down to business. Most jobs like it if you wake up before 2pm.
2. Anyway, on to the dreams. My stomach has been tweaked from a combination of stress and soy flax seed chips (I feel sorry for my chair) so my dreams have been really weird and vivid. Night before last was Thanksgiving dinner with Zach's family, except in China. His mom and dad just got back from China, so that makes sense. While we were getting ready to sit down to eat, Zach went into the other room to do a line of coke, calling it "oscar powder." This is zach, who I don't think even takes aspirin in real life. Anyhow, all coked up, Zach starts making a nuisance of himself, so my ex-girlfriend Katherine and I take him outside to calm down while his mom finishes making dinner. Walking down a very tropical chinese beach freeway (looked like a combination of hawaii and china... I guess that would be Japan?) zach takes off down a huge pier that is used for docking giant ferries the size of a building. Stumbling across a black family with their own thanksgiving dinner set out on the pier (on a fully set dining table, so I assume it was a VERY well organized picnic?), zach runs up to the table, shouts "DAMN! LOOKS GOOD!" in the middle of a pre-dinner prayer, takes a huge sniff inches over the turkey, and runs off again, leaving it to me to persuade a group of three very angry people not to chase him down and kick his ass. I think there was more, but it's been a little over a day, and I'm honestly surprised I even remember that much of it.
3. I REALLY want to buy Pokemon diamond. Zach's pretty jazzed about it too, as are many people I know online. I feel like a major league dork being excited about a pokemon game, but I played the SHIT out of Red back in the day. I had massive teams and basically lived entirely for my gameboy for months. I want to say it was junior high, but I remember waiting for a ride after school in ninth grade and talking about which version I was going to get (coordination is important, yo) so I know I was a HUGE dork at least into high school. Ah hell, I still am. I looked at the pokemon lineup, and it didn't exactly spark a fire in me, but my DS has been very neglected, and I have an amazon gift certificate I could use to knock the price down to under ten bucks. The only problem? NO MUDKIPS.
4. Bike update: The problem was a frozen link. I lubed the FUCK out of it, but I ended up losing the light, as the sun went down as soon as I figured out I'd have to just remove the whole damn link, which means hammering out the effing rivets. At least I have a project for tomorrow.
Because I write a lot, and you might not care about all of them, here's a TL;DR summary:
1. Grand Theft Phono
2. Crazy-ass dream
3. Pokeymans
4. Bike Update
1. So, my mom's roommate wants me to help him with something that is pretty obviously totally illegal. It sounded above board at first, he wanted my help with a computer thing, selling some stuff and earning a commission. I'm in need of money at the moment, and I'm on the computer all damn day anyway, so it works out. However, once he started going into details, I decided no way josé. He wants to sell some slightly used cellphones, which he could EASILY do on his own... then he let slip that he didn't want the sales in his name. OOPS. Since he works at a cellphone store (for one of the big three companies) it doesn't take a genius to figure out where the cellphones he doesn't want in his name are going to be disappearing from. I might consider it, but cellphones are way too easy to track, and every impulse I have says this isn't something I want my fingerprints on. (He says while bittorrenting $150 worth of music.) The fact that I live with the guy will complicate things, but he's leaving for 9 days on business, so that should probably get the idea forgotten about.
At the same time, if I wasn't so sure it was dangerous, I'd be really tempted. I DO need money. I'd set up a paypal account, but nothing I do in the course of a day is worth me being paid for. I've been out of work for a while, and I tend to get lazy... it'll probably be pretty painful actually forcing myself to get back down to business. Most jobs like it if you wake up before 2pm.
2. Anyway, on to the dreams. My stomach has been tweaked from a combination of stress and soy flax seed chips (I feel sorry for my chair) so my dreams have been really weird and vivid. Night before last was Thanksgiving dinner with Zach's family, except in China. His mom and dad just got back from China, so that makes sense. While we were getting ready to sit down to eat, Zach went into the other room to do a line of coke, calling it "oscar powder." This is zach, who I don't think even takes aspirin in real life. Anyhow, all coked up, Zach starts making a nuisance of himself, so my ex-girlfriend Katherine and I take him outside to calm down while his mom finishes making dinner. Walking down a very tropical chinese beach freeway (looked like a combination of hawaii and china... I guess that would be Japan?) zach takes off down a huge pier that is used for docking giant ferries the size of a building. Stumbling across a black family with their own thanksgiving dinner set out on the pier (on a fully set dining table, so I assume it was a VERY well organized picnic?), zach runs up to the table, shouts "DAMN! LOOKS GOOD!" in the middle of a pre-dinner prayer, takes a huge sniff inches over the turkey, and runs off again, leaving it to me to persuade a group of three very angry people not to chase him down and kick his ass. I think there was more, but it's been a little over a day, and I'm honestly surprised I even remember that much of it.
3. I REALLY want to buy Pokemon diamond. Zach's pretty jazzed about it too, as are many people I know online. I feel like a major league dork being excited about a pokemon game, but I played the SHIT out of Red back in the day. I had massive teams and basically lived entirely for my gameboy for months. I want to say it was junior high, but I remember waiting for a ride after school in ninth grade and talking about which version I was going to get (coordination is important, yo) so I know I was a HUGE dork at least into high school. Ah hell, I still am. I looked at the pokemon lineup, and it didn't exactly spark a fire in me, but my DS has been very neglected, and I have an amazon gift certificate I could use to knock the price down to under ten bucks. The only problem? NO MUDKIPS.
4. Bike update: The problem was a frozen link. I lubed the FUCK out of it, but I ended up losing the light, as the sun went down as soon as I figured out I'd have to just remove the whole damn link, which means hammering out the effing rivets. At least I have a project for tomorrow.