Finally beat the Rock Band vocals solo tour on expert.  Damn, that was annoying.  But Michael & Noah would probably be amused to know that I got my 2nd gold star rating singing Tom Sawyer there towards the end.  Heh.  Hearing that song 241352318726318726381 times beforehand definitely helped. ;)

Beat the drum solo tour on easy, too.  GG&HT sucked.  Even on easy.  It's just so long.

Oh, and I was wrong earlier-- I already finished Train Kept a Rollin' on hard guitar.  It's Flirtin' With Disaster that I'm stuck on.  It's the song with Guitar Solo, Guitar Solo A, Guitar Solo B, Guitar Solo C, Guitar Solo D, and Guitar Solo E all one after the other.  Bleh.

IT'S FUCKING ROASTING.

Thankfully, I am one of the few people in the Northwest who have AIR CONDITIONING. :P

AUGH!

COME ON WINGS!

WHAT THE HELL!

Back to Dallas.

[NOTE: if my agnostic, atheist, secular, non-religious friends would like to understand what I find helpful in this fragment from Rabbi Nachman, and/or if words such as "pray" and "God" are meaningless, confusing, alienating, absurd, oppressive, irritating or uncomfortable to you, here's another way to look at it. (I look at it both ways.) One may read this by translating "God" as perfectly, all-powerfully encompassing "health," "joy," "life," "unity," "authenticity," "love," and any other element valued and sought most desperately and deeply by the reader. One may translate, or replace, the word "pray" with "think," "know" "connect," "inquire," "declare," "understand," or whatever words most accurately unlock the meaning for you.]


"Think deeply about this. Many souls are sunk because of depression. Despair is the worst thing of all. Stay firm in this path of searching for the good points which are to be found at every moment and in every thing. This is the way you can always bring new life and strength to yourself. This way you can come to pray with yearning, with life, and with joy, at all times. You will be able to return to God in truth."

Rebbe Nachman of Breslov, Lekutey Moharan


There, a fragment. This is the beginning of my next phase in seeking life, recovery, and health. I'll come back to this and explain how it relates to my psycho-ethical issues, medical issues... to be continued!

This past Friday and Saturday night, Brother D spent his evenings at the Third Annual Zompire, The Undead Film Festival. Three feature films and several short movies later, he reports on the zombie offerings and includes words and thoughts from other festival goers as well. We'd never skip the Zombie Beat, and Brother D actually gets excited about something Richard Rubinstein might be putting together. Bren' drops in to go over the week's feedback, and two winners are drawn from the correct submissions to the contest for the Evil DVD and Chicken Zombie mini-comic. What was the correct answer to the question, "What will be so special about Episode 25 of Mail Order Zombie?" Listen to this episode to find out! Email the show at MailOrderZombie@gmail.com, or leave a voicemail at 206-202-2505.



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I am so irritated right now.

2 years ago, I bought a swamp cooler (using a water wick system to cool the air) to cool my office. Why? Because, ladies and gentleman, I work in a windowless tomb that houses 3 people and 3 computers. It becomes as hot as Hades in here, and I am unfortunately what my good friend Ike would term "a heat victim."

Yup, Sun-Worshiping Tina gets heatstroke really, really easily.

Anyway, my machine is dead. DEAD! Two years old, and dead. I have only myself to blame, unfortunately.. I thought I could get away with keeping the unit outdoors on my porch enclosure, but apparently I was wrong.

Of course, I have to just go out and buy a new one. I hate to lay down $100 on a replacement, but let's face it, I'd lay $150.00 down on repairs and shipping, and that's just not fiscally prudent.

This is the secret of the Wyoming girl - I grew up with air conditioners and swamp coolers. And let me tell you - when it's hot, you do something about it. That's why Washingtonians hate the heat. They don't know how to cope with it, and they think that it's a waste of money to purchase equipment that will only be used for a short time.

My family only uses the swamp cooler for 3, maybe 4 months out of the year.. but you wouldn't catch us dead without it.

Hence, the new Sunpentown winging it's way to me.

I woke a lot so I dreamt a lot.

First I was a blonde girl in a boarding school in Europe. The headmistress was a royal twat so the neighbor's son and I ran away together and hid in a small town in the mountains.

Then I was in a video game again, this was like Kings Quest in a factory building. Weird.

Then I was being chased by softball-sized blue discs. The banks created them to chase down folks in debt. If they touched your skin, they burned and somehow the banks got yer money. Weird!

Then I was a Hispanic woman helping my sister and her ganged-up husband fight a rival gang to get back their son.




wtf?

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This man makes me hope against my will, against the fear of failure.

It's sunny outside.

It's sunny outside!

IT'S SUNNY OUTSIDE!!!!

What the hell am I doing in an office? YARGH!

I'm *so* skidding out of here ASAP.

Also, I can't wait for school to be out. Tina will be a part time monkey, oh yes she will. :) And the sunshine will be MINE for the basking!

http://www.darthsanddroids.net

Co-worker sent this to me, I had to save it here for later lest I completely destroy any productivity today.

If it's not one thing, it's another.  Grr.  I now have a line of welts from running with a shitty sports bra.  (Painful surprise discovery in the shower.)  That's what I get for not doing laundry often enough (these are the ones I normally use and highly recommend).  God damn it.  This whole training thing sucks. :p  Got my first 8k coming up this weekend though.  The show must go on.

On an unrelated note, someone sent this link to me today:
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/35815

This is that board game I modeled for a few months ago.  I hadn't seen anything yet, so I've been curious. :D  Can't wait to see more.

The red band trailer for The Happening is... Ummmmm. Disturbing. There is a reason this is a red band trailer. Dear Lord. This movie just got a lot more interesting and a lot more likely that I'll see it and try not to tweak.

It looks like The Dark Knight is PG-13 from the ads I'm seeing on TV. Innnnnnteresting.

It looks like Sony is getting ready to start moving forward with Spider-Man 4 and 5. There are rumors of a two movies shot at once deal out of the script they have. We shall see.

Nice final Hellboy poster - http://www.aintitcool.com/node/36784

"And has Marius found love at last?"

You ARE trying to kill me. Or least make people stare at me on the bus as I cackle. Did you name him just for that or did it come later?

News update. It is 78 degrees in my office. Usually it is FAR TOO COLD in here. Not so this morning.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

feather333

Blood draw, 10:40. Chemo infusion, 11:45. No, wait, no infusion for me. The IV line to my port, with its fancy tubing, had to be removed. Not enough neutrophils! My absolute neutrophil count had dropped from a slender 1.43 to a ghostly.88, and chemo was OFF. So this is how it's going to be, eh? I've never had a chemo infusion CANCELLED because of low cell counts, but the universe is constructed of first times, upon first times, upon first times. And today was the first time for that. Neutrophils, nu?

Neutrophils, or neutrophil granulocytes, are my micro-heroes. They are the white blood cells which rush in to fight infection. And I am running low on them, as the chemo (Navelbine) hits them along with the tumor cells. -<@>-

But here come the reinforcements, and they are fresh and strong... -<@>-

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YAY!

Gay marriage legal in California again?

WOOHOO!

SUCK IT, REST OF THE U.S.

Marasmus ... "Ladies don't fart. They butt-laugh."
Shalindria XD XD
Marasmus says, "Oh no, that wasn't gas, it was merely a rectal chuckle."

Today was rather groovy. After dreaming of a cooler version of Cloverfield, I went to the beach with fiskblack. We went for a short walk, but I can feel how it did my legs good. I found some nice scallop shells, along with some periwinkle shells and a whelk shell. I spotted a lone sand crab in the water, but none burrowing further up the shore line. There were a lot of FAT crab legs all strewn about... I think they were from stone crabs.

I tried to grill some of the scallops today. I failed. Meh, oh well...

When I read the Washingtonians bitching about the beautiful weather.. that we've been denied since last September..

I can only shake my head at them.

Cuz I know if I say anything, I'll just get another earful about how much it sucks to have sunlight..