WWFAD*

The border line of operative area for the wireless internet network in Minneapolis is literally 1.5 blocks from my house. I can occasionally pick up a signal from it but it doesn’t hold.
SO CLOSE….So close to not having to give Comcast any more money! I still still hate Qwest more than anything but Comcast can suck it for all I care.
Is it in any way illegal or unethical to attach a set of Neuticals to my cable modem with a note that says “suck it, Comcast” when I return it? Just wondering.
A guy just jogged by. He looks exactly like a church youth group leader that is totally wanting to be Scott Stapp (before the skanky blow job video) and he’s “totally down” with kids today. You can tell by his meticulously groomed mid-neck-length hair. It’s not shoulder length, that would be too much, and he keeps it very clean and conditioned and brushed and shiny. He’s a rebel with excellent grooming skills.
AAAAND I have the new Minnesota Monthly magazine on my desk (a magazine I really hate…really really hate) because it has an article about the dipshits who made a “crime solving” website around the murder of an MCAD student last year. I know I am supposed to practice “Right Thought” and everything, but I’m sorry, these people are stupid. A fast processor and coffeeshop internet access does not make you a homicide detective. Watching CSI:Mankato and Law and Order:Traffic Ticket Unit does not impart a real understanding of forensics or criminal prosecution.
anyway, there is an article about my friend, Yuri, in this months issue that is interesting and very Yuri and totally worth checking out. Moreso than the article about intertoobs cops.
Coming up: Chester makes a fantastic discovery about snow! Stay tuned.
*Famous Amos

HAPPY

1) Happy birthday David!!!!! You are my awesome awesome!!
2) I went to the store and bought 1 eggplant, 1 fennel bulb, 1 chunk of ginger, 1/2 pound of green beans and 2 jalapeños for $3.14!!! I made eggplant curry for David for dinner, awesome. We had the Bonny Doon Pacific Rim Chenin Blanc with it…meh. Not too sweet for a white, but just sort of bland.
3) I have my moon boots on.

The things that were not true

I cannot tell you how disappointed I was the day I realized that the eyes and nose on a Peep were not chocolate. They’re brown. In the world of candy, brown equals chocolate (and on the rare occasion root beer, but those are dark times). Even the tiniest bit of brown is chocolate.
The weird thing about it all is that it never occured to me that I was not tasting chocolate. I was just satisfied to eat my sugar coated sugar bomb with its three little dots of chocolate. Later, I actually picked the eyes off and ate them thinking “oooooh tiny tiny chocolate eyes!…..goddammit! these taste like teeny tiny bits of wax!!!” If I wanted to eat wax I’d eat a candle!
You know when you’re happily eating something delicious and you can’t quite place what it is, the texture is just so unique and then someone says “oh! I didn’t know you like horse rectum!”? And you find yourself in that bind where you kind of don’t want to be eating horse rectum but on the other hand it did taste good….
This is kind of like that except without the rectums and it didn’t taste like anything at all. Do they owe me a multitude of tiny chocolate eyes? Should I just accept that they are not responsible for my own misperception?
What the hell people?

I know! I owe!

I know I owe the rest of the story about the yarn fest and all that. I’m getting there! I’ve been busy!
1) Working on the Bubbo Designs website. Trying to get the first few patterns and tutorials written up so I will have some actual content when I go live.
1a) I am deeply and madly in love with Anna and her mad dinosaur design skillz
2) Spending a lot of time researching ADM, Monsanto and high fructose corn syrup. It’s like I do this on purpose to get myself all riled up! You know how I get really angry at quantum physics? This is worse.
2a) Finally had to stop eating meat. I couldn’t lie to myself anymore. I cannot contribute to a system that makes a profit by abusing animals. Factory farming and feedlots are shameful.
2b) I’ll still eat meat at your house, I am the most pleasant house guest ever.
2c) I’m cool with happy, pasture raised meat, but it’s hard to source your meat so I am just avoiding it all together.
3) I’ve started an advice column on Ravelry. It’s a weekly column and I think it’s doing well
3a) I’ve also started a ravelry group in my pants. This group leaves me little to no time for anything else on ravelry.
3b) I also dispense advice in the group
3c) I am also their public confessor. I listen to them and assign ways for them to absolve themselves
3d) I also have to assign a different task to each new member. It is not easy coming up with unique tasks for all of them.
3e) I adore all the people in my pants
4) my car was dangerously low on gas this morning but I did not have time to stop and get gas so I put some of the lawnmower gas in my car, you know, the stuff in the red jug. I’m not sure where that puts me on the clever/retarded/lazy spectrum. I got gas after work.
5) I Am Legend was really kind of scary.
6) I’m working hard to deal with the behavior of another person. It isn’t something that affects me, but I find the implications about their personality very upsetting.
7) For a while now I have been working on learning the Noble Eightfold Path. I am not a spiritual person and I am not doing this because I am buddhist or anything like that. I’m just trying to be less of an asshole. I want to limit my impact on the world and on the people around me and on the space I fill. I very much want any impact I leave to be positive or at least neutral. So in some ways it’s a way for me to really think about how my actions affect far reaching things, like the meat issue. If I buy meat from a place that abuses the animals in a horrific way, then I am supporting that idea and that activity.
The Right Thought and Right Intention steps are very good for me. I try not to judge people (except for ADM and Monsanto), I try to think through my actions, I try to remind myself of the good in people.
I like the Eightfold Path because it isn’t a do or die thing. It’s not a pass/fail. you just continue to work on it every day. you learn from the effort, not the final result.
8) blah blah blah I talk too much about stuff
9) I know you guys like when Chester posts, but he scratches up my keyboard and gets dog hair everywhere.