Great, ever have one of those random tired-spells, where you doze off for like ten minutes, and then wake up only to feel horrible? I just had that happen. Anyway, I just had some coffee, and now I guess I feel all right. Since I am such a horrible procrastinator, I havenÌt packed anything at all yet for tomorrow!
January 2003 Archives
Today is my last full day in Vestal! Weeeew! IÌm not doing anything at all today! I did write out some more Long Beach Shortbus lyrics just for the hell of it!
Continue reading More Shortbus Lyrics.
IÌm still not done with my damn videos! As soon as IÌm done with this entry IÌm getting back to the process. IÌll need another two hours or so.
The Good News: IÌm going to finish Volume 2S (Senior Year)
The Bad News: IÌm not going to finish Volume 4 (2nd College Volume)
Oh well, maybe thatÌs not so bad. A few more pictures of people will make Volume 4 better anyway. And I could use some input on how to make it better. IÌll finish it up in a week or two then.
Well, IÌm off to the basement again÷
Great I spent most of the past day editing another video. Gah÷ Then I messed up a portion of it. Whatever÷
I actually left the house this past day and went to Target and the Oakdale Mall mainly to÷ Hah, buy video equipment / media. I love shopping on Saturdays÷ Seriously÷ This "recession" seems to have bypassed our area÷ Except for all the layoffs of course. But seriously, the fact that I had to park out by McDonalds to go to Target says something to me. Or the fact that I got stuck in a traffic jam on the parkway, which says something about when and why people come to Vestal. There are no traffic jams on weekdays. Yeah÷ I guess weÌre pure retail.
At the Oakdale Mall I kept randomly mentally drifting off. The fact that I almost "accidentally" shoplifted Spencer and the fact that I ordered and paid for a coffee at the Coffee Beanery, and then walked out without picking it up proved this! Suave, Kai! I noticed once I was out the "door," upon which I pretended I was just wandering around the place and suavely walked back to the coffee bar and picked up my coffee.
Great! Check out this phone call I just got:
Me: Hello?
Lady: Hi, this is Pat from Vestal Memorial Park. Your phone number was selected at random to receive free burial space. There are some qualifications, however.
Me: All right÷
Lady: Do you presently own burial space?
Me: No÷
Lady: Are you married or over thirty?
Me: No÷
Lady: IÌm sorry, you do not qualify.
Me: All right÷
Lady: Bye
Me: Bye
Will someone marry me please? I need that free burial space!
No, non-U.S. visitors, that is not 0É Celsius, thatÌs 0É Fahrenheit. ThatÌs about Ò18ÉC! Yeah÷ Our wonderful Upstate New York winters. I didnÌt even really notice it until I let my dog out into the backyard and I noticed the storm doorÌs window was all frozen over. ThatÌs when I checked the thermometer. Guess I wonÌt be going outside anytime soon÷
I have got to make those damn videos! I have three days of vacation left, and I have to edit two three hour videos! Gah÷ I donÌt know why IÌm so lazy÷ On the other hand IÌm not really lazy. Today I wrote out the lyrics to three of the songs on the Long Beach Shortbus album I mentioned yesterday. Yeah, the CD is still so rare the lyrics arenÌt written out anywhere.
Here they are:
Continue reading Shortbus Lyrics.
My new weight equipment was delivered this past day÷ Too bad I only have four days left to use it before I head back to college. Who am I kidding anyway? IÌm just a scrawny little kid!
I also got the Long Beach Shortbus self-titled CD this past day. It was hell to get, but I eventually found it on merch.com. Was it worth the $11.99 plus shipping? Well, it only has seven tracks, of which two are nearly identical instrumental pieces. But the other songs on it are pretty good. Of course you can just download 46 live tracks from lbshortbus.com for free÷
Or you can just continue listening to Backstreet Boys...
Great, I love drinking two huge cups of coffee in the morning on an empty stomach! IÌm horribly awake now, but my head is spinning and my stomach hurts! My mom left to Penn State today, so I got the house alone for three days. Too bad thereÌs still nothing to do! My new weight equipment is supposed to be delivered today, but I have no clue whether it actually will be.
Tonight IÌve been lazier than my usual lazy self. Yeah, instead of working out I decided to fall asleep on a couch! I guess IÌm going to fix a few web site things tonight. Maybe IÌll even create some new content. If only I had something to write about÷
Weeew! I had another wonderfully boring day again! I got up at 9:30 or so, stared blankly into the computer screen until about 1:30, upon which I showered for an hour, only to return to staring at the screen for several hours. I actually did leave the house once today! Yeah, I took a short trip to Sears Hardware to get some insulation stuff to insulate a door in my basement. That was the first time I left the house in three days, with the exception of walking the dog.
I killed some time today by going through my entire weblog and fixing broken images. In one of the pictures I fixed from about two years ago, I am wearing the exact same clothes as I am wearing today. ThatÌs pretty odd. My hair looks almost exactly the same as well. Once Xanga archives my posts again, I hope to create a huge pdf file of all my entries over the past two years. Anyway, I just walked my dog÷ ItÌs cold as hell out.
The only news today would be that my fingers have turned green! Yeah÷ a good portion of each of my fingers, from the middle to the bottom joint is green today. I have no clue why÷ Anyway, that would be about it.
Once again I didnÌt do much this past day. My mom had me rent one of those steam cleaner things and steam clean the basement carpet, which is basically this nasty eighties-look green thing which was in the living room when we moved in fifteen years ago. Anyway, the "used water tank" always filled up with the nastiest looking black water ever. I could probably go over that thing ten times and still get horribly dirty water. Anyway, now the basement is all set for some two-station weight thing we ordered. That ought to be fun.
And I still havenÌt gone back to editing videos. Yep, IÌm still horribly lazy!
Weeew! I finally got a haircut today at my favorite place to get one÷ Cost Cutters!
Check out the sequence of events:
(I walk in)
Me: "Yeah, hi, I need a haircut."
Lady 1: "Yes you do!" (I give a "heh heh" smirk) "WhatÌs your name?"
Me: "Kai"
Lady 1: "ThatÌs K-I?"
Me: "No, K-A-I"
Lady 1: "Gotcha."
(I have a seat and two minutes pass)
Lady 2: "Ka, Ka, Ka, Kia?"
Me: (I get up) "Kai"
Lady 2: "Oh, sorry!"
Me: "No problem..."
(I walk over to the seat she walks over to and have a seat)
Lady 2: "So, how would you like you hair cut today?"
Me: "I just want it shorter÷ a lot shorter."
Lady 2: "So IÌll just use a half-inch clipper and a (hardcore hairstylist technical talk)."
Me: "Uhh÷ sure÷"
(After ten or so minutes sheÌs done and we walk to the register)
Lady 2: "That comes to $11.95"
Me: "Make it 14" (I hand her a 20)
(She stands there a while and types something into the register and then into a little calculator in the register÷ I assume sheÌs trying to figure out what 20 minus 14 is)
Lady 2: "So you want six or seven back"
Me: "Uhh÷ six"
Lady 2: (She hands me the cash) "All right, have a nice weekend!"
Me: "You too!"
Wow, that was probably the longest entry in over a month÷ Anyway, IÌm going to head down to the basement and start making a video or two.
Once again I didnÌt do much this past day÷
- I didnÌt start editing videos again
- I didnÌt get a haircut
I did work out a bit though. IÌm going to go to bed a bit earlier today to try to see that will cure me and make me horribly active tomorrow. Probably not÷
Today I reassured myself of how horrible I am at web publishing÷ Yep÷ I thought I was all cool and suave and decided I was going to make my own CGI guestbook÷ Well, I managed getting one set up pretty well, but then couldnÌt get it to work when I uploaded it. Oh well, I guess IÌm stuck with that Bravenet piece of junk a little longer. I really have to get myself down to the basement and start putting my videos together. I only have a little over a week of vacation left, and have to make "Volume 4" (new college footage), and "Volume 2S" (shortened version of Volume 2, which was 7.5 hours, cutting it down to about two hours to just include my senior year of high school).
While weÌre at the technical talk, I figured out a few days ago that the reason a lot of people canÌt hear sound on my tapes is because I was an idiot, and bought a multi-system VCR that only records hi-fi (in the picture track). It reserves the normalðsoundtrack for its "karaoke mode." So if I sang over my tapes you would be able to hear sound÷ Although it would be my horrible singing voice.
As for the haircut÷ I have still yet to get it.
Once again I didnÌt do much today. I made a few more web site improvements and thatÌs about it. I still havenÌt gotten a haircut÷ I guess I will tomorrow÷ or not÷
I havenÌt exactly been up to anything lately÷ Not that thatÌs news! I did a few minor improvements to my web sites, mainly cleaning the guestbook out by getting rid of annoying entries that just had ads in them. IÌll probably begin editing videos again today. ThereÌs really nothing for me to do. I actually canÌt wait to get back to college! Ahh, I might get a haircut today if my can drag my lazy self down to Cost Cutters. (Yeah, thatÌs where I get my haircuts÷ problem with that!?)
I drove my dad to the Philadelphia airport this past day. I guess it was kind of good to get out of the house for once. On the way back it snowed fairly heavily, making it a little stressful, but of course nothing I couldnÌt handle÷ Heheh÷ Anyway, IÌm tired as hell and off to bed.
My dog hits a dead end!
Great, check out the forecast for the next few days:
Today: Snow
Tomorrow: Snow
Tuesday: Cloudy
Wednesday: Snow
Thursday: Snow
Friday: Snow
Wonderful! Tomorrow I'm driving my dad to the Philadelphia Airport. That ought to kill some boredom. All I've been doing the past few weeks is stare at the computer screen.
Nothing has changed! IÌm still horribly, horribly bored. I went to see ÏCatch Me If You CanÓ last night. It was all right I guess. Today it has been snowing like absolute hell again. I partly spent the day shoveling the driveway and front walk three times.
Happy new year! Weeeew! I did absolutely nothing. Oh well÷ I have three more weeks to kill before I go back to college. IÌm killing time by downloading random music like mad. Hopefully my collegeÌs installation of four additional T1 lines over the break will boost our speed there a bit÷ a big bit! Damn, it always crawls÷ ThatÌs why I download like mad here on the cable modem.
