New pink falls

I made this pair of falls for a performance this past Thursday night. Since I was doing a song by P!nk, it seemed only right.

Strewn across my keyboard after construction.


In my wig.


On my head after performing


To my knowledge, no photos exist of the wig on me while performing because I could not keep it on. After it feel off and I caught it, I tossed it to the side and kept on with the show. BTW if anyone has advice on how to keep a wig in place, I'd love to hear it. My head is shaved on the sides and back, so I know that is going to complicate things. Would adding a pair of cyber goggles help?

Great show last night

And I had a damn good time.

Yeah there was a contest involved, they were kind running it like American Idol.

No I didn't win.

But I looked and performed damn good.

I have to say it was really funny when I took my wig off and kept performing with out it because it wouldn't stay on my head. The falls I made added too much weight to it.

Oh well, I still rocked the house to U + UR Hand.

I'll be there again next week. Come see me!

I'll post some pictures as soon as I can.

Just what the hell is wrong with this world?

I didn't know these girls or the boyfriend they were fighting over, but they look familiar and their names sound really familiar. They did go to the school I usually work at.

Full article with video.

Pinellas Park High student stabbed to death

PINELLAS PARK, FL -- The feud between two teenage girls over a boyfriend had been brewing since last summer. It exploded early Wednesday morning when 19-year-old Rachel Wade stabbed to death her rival Sarah Ludemann, Pinellas Park police said.

Pinellas Park Police Captain Sanfield Forseth told ABC Action News.com that Ludemann drove to a house where Wade was staying to confront her over another teen named Joshua Camacho.Words were exchanged and police say Wade stabbed Ludemann with a kitchen knife.

The victim's mother, Gay Ludemann, stood in front of her home, surrounded by friends, and cried as she talked about the murder. "She was a good girl. She was a smart girl," Ludemann said. "We wanted her to be something. Not dead! Not dead! The girl took my daughter's life."

Police say the two girls had been exchanging texts and voice mails all day long. That led to the confrontation in the street in front of 9821 52nd St. Investigators say they found the murder weapon thrown on a nearby rooftop.

Police say they answered calls about fights between Wade, Ludemann and Camacho at least 12 times since August.

The victim, Sarah Ludemann, attended Pinellas Park High School where Principal John Johnston said grief counselors had been called in to talk to students.

So sad. What gets me is that kids, or really anyone, would go this far. A bitchslap or a fist fight I could understand, but a stabbing? WTF???

Got hit by a truck on the way to work tonight

Relatively new Nissan Pathfinder. Driver was not paying attention and after stopping for a few seconds just pulled on to the road and right into me in the bike lane. Front fender met my shoulder and knocked me on the road kinda hard. I got up immediately and went nearly psycho. I care not to post here what I was screaming at him. I calmed down quick enough, he was scared and just kept apologizing. No damage to my bike or the laptop and MP3 player in my backpack, so I just let it go, warning the guy next time neither he nor whoever he should hit may not be so lucky. Besides there was a dent in his door in the shape of my steel-toe combat boot.

Oh yeah, I just have a bruised shoulder, scraped knee and a torn pair of pants. No big deal.

Tales from the Holiday Inn, Gross out edition

This old guy came to the desk this morning looking for a manager. My boss had just got in so we directed him to her. He then asked the other auditor if he was the assistant manager, he isn't so he said no. So he asked my boss if he could speak to her privately.

She came back really grossed out.

The guy had a complaint.

The toilets are too small.

When he sits on them, his balls hit the bowl and get cold.

I wish I was making that up.

No testing on religious holidays?

I guess public schools are not totally secular. Actually there's a long list of holidays I was informed of that are no test days. However the teacher I'm coverign for today may not have known that. One of the kids did and whined to the principal. Anything to get out of work, right? Well not really. It is a policy that should have been observed. And with half the students gone and 20 teachers out, it's a really bad day for a test. Actually it's a quiz. The policy says no tests.

I was informed by the principal I still have to give them the option not to take it. No problem with that for me really. If anything it comes down to being respectful of beliefs, though I think the kids abuse it.

So my return to the stage is soon

Next Thursday (4/16) apparently. I'll post more details as they come in, right now I'm working on 2nd hand information.

Either way, it's time to start rehearsing.

I'm looking for suggestions for music. I've got a few tunes in my head tht I just might work with. I'm going for stuff I like that people have actually heard of. I'd love to do AngelSpit or Ayria, but stuff that doesn't get any airplay doesn't usually get over well.

Here's what's on my mind -

P!nk - U + UR Hand Sorry, embedding disabled. :(





If anyone reading this has any suggestions or feed back, let me know.

I think I need to read the Bible, again.

Yeah, you read that right.

My motivations are a little different though. I did read it when I was much younger and dismissed it as mythology. I still do and don't expect that to change. The reason why I want to read it again is because I have encountered a few Christians that have piqued my curiosity. Simply put, I want to know why some fundies are beyond wacky.

A recent spat with a few of the got me wondering. That spat can be found here. I had my world view and my sense of morality questioned. Oddly enough because I'm against abortion. It just doesn't make any sense why they would question someone that agrees with them. I wonder if I offered to assist them at a pro-life rally if they would turn me away. This quote is what really got me -

"So this is really it right here. Abortion ISN"T WRONG given YOUR worldview, some of us just make up this thing called "Morals" and say it is. So I can go rape people kill them and take their cars sell them for crack get high rape some more, get elected to congress rape some people, have goons kill them, get elected president, starve some third world people to death...rape some people etc and at the end of my life YOU have no philosophical basis to say I did anything WRONG because as you said morality is man made.

That's pretty frightening, and I shudder to think their are millions of intellectually bankrupt thinkers like yourself running around. Luckily I know martial arts to protect myself from morally baseless people like you when hard times hit. "

Now is it just me, or does that sound like the rantings of a total madman? Or am I the crazy one to say that human beings came up morals? Probably happened about when we started forming communities. And why couldn't mankind come up with such a concept on their own? I'm just thinking if we could figure out how to break free of our own planet's gravity and put one of our kind on the moon, creating a moral code should be pretty simple in comparison. I had to stop my conversation with him at that point, it became pretty obvious that I was dealing with someone that was the furthest thing from rational. I'm almost inclined to say he is an insult and an embarrassment to his alleged god and members of his faith.

But that is one of my curiosities is to understand how someone could go that far off the deep end. I would also like to find if I missed something. I want to find what ever it is that makes people believe every word literally. It boggles my mind that someone would accept that the universe came into existence from nothing at the will of some supernatural being in an instant, yet say that science is wrong. And just because a book says so.

I'll give it another read. If I find anything, other than complete and utter bullshit, I'll let you know.

So one of my neighbors claims to be moving out soon

There is nothing more annoying that someone always bothering you. I'm one of these weirdos that actually likes to be left alone. I like to have "me time." Even if that's all I do is talk to my girlfriend, argue on a message board and play video games, that is still my "me time." I get rather annoyed when it gets interupted. It was one thing when my mom used to bother me with something every 5 minutes. She's my mother, I was living under her roof and usually she just wanted someone to talk to. In this case it's one of my neighbors in the other half of the duplex.

Yeah, still bothering me to let her use the phone. Though I ahve to say, I'm kinda motivated to. Her boyfriend over on the other coast is allegedly paying her way there and I want her gone. There's something else pretty annoying she's started lately. Every time I'm in the kitchen, especially when I'm cooking, she's in the window looking like an abused puppy. Mind you she's not looking for food, it's either the phone or she's being gripey and needs someone to gripe to.

I can't wait until she's gone, maybe then I can have some peace.

One thing my mother always told me

"You could do anything if you put your mind to it."

And she's right.

My latest project at their place was replacing an entire electrical circuit from the fuse box all the way out to the outlet.

I have no formal training in being an electrician. I do have an electronics engineering degree, but that's a little different. I've got the skills to build a modular synthesizer using parts from the local Radio Shack, but I'm nearly clueless when it comes to wiring a house. It simply was not my field of study.

Still I was able to, after some thought, snake a length of Romex - 12 through the attic, down the wall on one end and connect it into the fuse box on the other. Installed new outlets as well. All said and done, everything is working great. I did have to reset everything that had a clock on it, but that was the easy part. Every thing is working just as well as it did before and my folks are happy.

This also comes a week after repairing the refrigerator. Which is something else I have no formal training in.

The thing is, when life throws something you don't know what to do with at you, learn about it. Take care of it yourself before finding someone to do it for you. Especially when you don't have the cash for a professional. Seriously, I saved my folks a ton of money recently. But study up on it. Remember, that professional is a human being just like you and if they can learn how to do something, so can you.

I just might paint this place red

Like I'm going to do with Hell.

I'm talking about Planet Cafe in Downtown Clearwater. I was there with my best friend of nearly 18 years. The food there is good and the drinks are quite well mixed. Prices are reasonable as well.

On Saturday nights they have a drag queen named Porsche performing there. I was informed tonight that they were looking to have amateur contests on Thursday nights.

That is a night I generally have off.

This place is pretty close and easy for me to get to.

I can't pass this up.

Raise Hades! I'm gunna paint Hell red!

So my neighbors might be moving out at the end of the month.

I honestly can't wait. They have been a have been a nuisance more often than not. A lot more often in the last week or so. I try to be a nice and good person to them because, well, they are my neighbor. And it's just normal for me to help people out. It's what I do. They have a new drunk living with them that's almost as annoying as the last and not as entertaining. One of the ladies that lives there will pound on my door at just about any given hour, usually while I'm sleeping, looking for money or cigarettes. I stopped giving her money when she stopped paying me back. And I quit smoking recently so no cigs for her. That's not something I tell her, I really did quit. been a week. Anyway. The other lady that lives there is more respectful of my schedule, but knows it better than I do. The only people that generally know your schedule that well are stalkers and people looking to rob you. I don't have much in the way of valuables and this is a woman about my mom's age, so not a great concern. Still a bit of an alarm. The past few days I have been in the kitchen shortly after I have woken up and with in minutes, she's looking in my window. Yesterday I was talking to her and in conversation she says "You have off tomorrow, bet you're glad about that." WTF???? She generally bothers me about the same things - to borrow my phone and to crab to me about her room mates. Her phone is out of service. I don't mind letting her use the house phone, I have unlimited service.

A week ago it got really annoying. First their power gets shut off. And yeah they needed my phone to contact the people that were helping them pay it. No one over there works. Well the guy allegedly does, but mot days is too drunk to go. They have one manner of public assistance or another paying for everything. And what ever guy the one lady has living with her to sponge off of. Though the current one doesn't seem to be good for that. The next night their power was back on. The guy that's there cut the lock the power company put on the breaker box and turned it back on. They have been arguing with each other about it since. And the lady that knows my schedule has been bothering me more.

In a way I feel like a can't get a moment to myself. There's just times when I want to be left alone. Or things I want to do uninterrupted. Simple stuff like cooking myself something to eat, or eating it, or playing a game. Gets difficult when someone keeps bothering you.

One that does relieve some of the annoyance is that they do tend to give me stuff the bring home from the food bank.

Second time around for hate crime legislation.

I may have an extreme level of disgust for our current leadership, but I doubt he will veto it.

From the classroom today.

I so had to blog this.

"What movie it is?"
"Unfortunately for you not one about the English language."
"Man, I'm takin' English 4 Honors. I got a A+"
"I couldn't tell by the way you speak."

New blog with new pics!

Ok so it's been like a month since a said anything here. Life's been busy. I've had a sort of top secret writing project that was taking up my time. The rest was work and life in general.

I may have also been spending more time playing Eve Online. Newest expansion just rocks.

And there's my other blog that I've been giving attention too. Have you been reading it? You should.

Tonight I got pretty in front of the camera for my girlfriend. In case anyone reading this is unaware, we are in a long distance relationship and have not seen each other in quite some time. She wanted some pictures of me and I was more than happy to oblige. These are not all of them, a few were for her only. Besides I try not to run a porn show here.







So there you have it in case you have never seen me before and was wondering just what the weirdo that writes this blog looks like. I know the first on is over exposed, but I kinda like it. And before any one asks, they are real. I grew them myself!

Laters for now, more to come!