@Wudan07

will you bite the hand that feeds you?
will you stay down on your knees?

Wow, you’d almost swear Trent Reznor grew up around here!

Ok kids, I’ve just downloaded my first song from Apple’s iTunes Music Store. After a weighty decision making process I decided on Amon Tobin’s Saboteur, which is an absolutely amazing peice of music. Amon Tobin did the soundtrack to the upcoming Splinter Cell 3.

In my estimation, things are going well. The new week is rolling in 🙂

Two things happened this morning – I found out that I did better than I thought in my classes last semester, and Sukie did even worse than she thought. I’m sorry Sukie 🙁

I think Friday night’s Lost expo was awesome, I hope that Annie Mouse Lee had a good time. I think it was good, though it was like the 4th or 5th time I’ve watched the Pilot. We may want to arrange another screening this week, since there won’t be any new episodes for a while 🙁

Well, good luck, I hope we all have a good week!

Hey look kids you need to change your tune
That avenue you traveling unraveling soon
You’ll be battling doom but does it matter to you
Worried bout who was laughing at you
Your appearance is more important that whats really real

I spared you from the full lyrics, but I think this blurb from a song called ‘The World’s Gone Mad’, by an obscure group called, ‘The Handsome Boy Modelling School’. I think I’m on a quest to find obscure music, listening to the radio up on iTunes. Hey, it’s good stuff half the time.

I guess that I’ve learned to find good stuff everywhere I look. I found a guy named Akon through iTunes radio, and he was singing a ballad about losing his girl, something that every good R&B artist needs to do at least once to be any good. It’s like how every painter has to do a landscape just to show everybody what’s up.

Another song I’ve been digging that actually is mainstream is Kelly Clarkson’s “Since You’ve Been Gone”, it’s just good. It’s funny how she’s the end result of a TV show that most recording artists seemed to scoff at, yet she’s more talented than just about anybody out there, she’s even better than the other people to come out of American Idol, in my oppinion. In mainstream music, your revenue is directly proportional to your marketting budget though – and I don’t think she gets the strong pimping that Britney Spears or Christina Aguilera.

Man, if the title for last week’s episode was ‘Tsunami’, this week’s episode is gonna be called, ‘Worse Could Happen’.

I can feel the clouds parting though, folks. It’s Thursday. Tomorrow night we’ll convene at Annie Mouse Lee’s house and watch some Lost episodes, I hope you’ll forgive me if we watch the Pilot episodes, I would like Annie Mouse Lee to have a good shot at enjoying the show.

I can’t beleive I’m so fanatical about a TV show. I guess this is like how theorb77 feels about Angel, or Antigone about 24 (but I like 24 quite a bit, it’s just an investment to watch a TV show like that.) But damn, I love Lost. I’m all up in there.

In a word: TSUNAMI.

Scooting in to the final weeks of school was rough, it seemed like things were moving too fast and out of control, and I just feel shitty. Sukie said it was like a tsunami of junk coming at us.

As soon as I’d submitted my mediocre final exam for my last business class, I thought it was over. Then I looked at theorb77’s blog this am – and I never read blogs at home!

I’m sorry if I seemed disconnected from the tragedy, theorb77 – I guess I was pretty numb to bad news. Even Sukie leaving her job feels like bad news to me, though she’ll be making more money. It’s the change that scares me.

I always try to look up but I just feel down 🙁

I find that making plans helps me through the sullen drab of life – so here’s a plan: on Thursday or Friday we’ll BBQ at my house, watch some high quality Lost episodes, and discuss over ice cream! How’s that for relaxing? Sounds pretty damn good to me.

theorb77, hang in there bro, don’t let ’em phase you.

Well, I’m whittlin’ through my last bit of homework today, then I’ll be A-O-K for a while. I just have to test out of some dumb classes and I’ll have my Associates, muahahahaha.

Sukie’s good news has renewed my beleif that I should keep going to school. She has this thing where she gets really mad if I mention that she is making more money than me, but it’s true that she is and now we all know it.

I got paid today, it wasn’t that much though, since I get paid for half a month and February is a short, short month.

Lucas got all green cards in school, which is shorthand for saying he got new Legos. He had wanted some twenty dollar sets and I said that my limit was ten, and if he wanted more we’d have to go home without any legos and just count what we had not spent as money saved for new Legos. There was some cool stuff that caught my eye, like a mini-walking Wolverine, or things like Resident Evil X, and Resident Evil: Outbreak, of which Resident Evil X was only ten bucks. Sadly, I just walked away since I can’t bring myself to spend money.

That said, I didn’t seem to have any problems spending what money I do have. I should have bought a computer when I had money to, but now I don’t have money to buy a computer.

I did get my iBook back, thanks Apple. I’m frustrated that you made an inferior product, but glad that you paid to have it fixed, even though the warranty is up. I love OS X though, and might even be persuaded to get a Mac Mini, I know I’m looking strongly at an iBook G4. I don’t know what it is about Macintosh, but they’ve got my attention.

Sukie, congratulations on your new job 🙂

Valve’s Tom Leonard to speak at University of Utah.

I’m thinking that I would like to take off that Monday and attend this. I’m thinking that the theorb77 would go with me, since Sukie’s not likely to enjoy a discussion about AI.

Currently, Sukie is extremely upset with Meryl, and the whole of our small community is in an uproar.

Even if you don’t agree with Sukie’s outrage, you must understand that it comes from the part of her that wants to see other’s at their best, even though she’s an atheist.

I think this highlights a key difference between Sukie and myself – while Sukie will call others where they deviate from their chosen doctrine, I won’t (well, I avoid it, at least.)

I think it’s best to let others make their own mistakes and screw up, and maybe that’s a rather apathetic view.

Ah bloggie, where would I be without you?

I’m wrapping up the last 2 weeks of my classes, same as Sukie. I’ll probably scoot by with ‘C’s, again. I don’t really care. I’m looking forward to being done for a while. School in the fall, though.

It’s a conundrum, innit?

Sukie tells me that the Mac guys have shipped my iBook to Apple for work, should be at their expense. I hope Apple fixes the issue permanently, but I’ve just read online about cases where Apple owners have repeatedly sent their iBooks back to Apple for maintenance 🙁

Oh well, I hope it gets fixed and I can use it again.

In Hamlet, when the Queen seeks to console Hamlet from the loss of his father, she advises:

All that lives must die,
Passing through nature to eternity.

Again, my sympathies, Yoshi.