So starts the 2nd day of my completely wasted weekend ( Read more... )

it's been a while ( Read more... )

i just went (with jared and aaron in tow.. well, sorta, jared drove) to put a deposit down on my new bird..

i will soon have a C.I.T.E.S. (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species) appendix 1 animal ( Read more... )

lameness.. someone got wind of my misfortune, and snagged up ALL the MR2 motors in the socal area.. maybe it's a just a coincidence.. but a bit too much of one for 3 motors to disappear in 1 afternoon, especially since 2 of those 3 have been sitting in the yards they're at for more than 6 months ( Read more... )

i've drained my capacity to be surprised by mechanical failure when i'm behind the wheel. the MR2 is probably toast once again. the good thing is, after consulting the manual, it looks like i don't have to pull the motor to pull the head.. the bad news: 1. the procedure is about 90% of pulling the motor.. and 2. the motor's probably toast ( Read more... )

so the average cockatoo can be equated to having the intelligence of a 5 year old boy, or a chimp, or a dolphin.. it's the only one of the 3 animals that can actually speak a human language, and even understand what it's saying ( Read more... )

i came home in a decent mood, nothing spectacular at work, had a pot-luck thing.. but besides that, nothing out of the ordinary ( Read more... )

i hate you, and that i don't want to go out and do stuff with you, it's because i'm going to start living with a plan, a plan to get into a house in 2 years..

yeah, that means i'm going to be a shitty person to be around for the next 2 years, because i won't have too much money floating around.. here's the break-down (lots of number stuff, it's ( Read more... )

this weekend was a first.. i came out ahead at vegas.. basically got a free stay at a pretty good hotel (the aladdin, the newest, but oddly, the only bankrupt casino on the strip).. i was batting 1000 for my betting.. everything i gambled on, i came out winning (i lost more than a few hands at blackjack, but from the time i sit down, to the time i ( Read more... )

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