A pretty good weekend after all!
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Turned out to be a decent weekend.
Over-time at work was either cancelled or reduced. My original 8 hours was reduced to 4 so I opted out of doing it. I wasn’t in any hurry to work 11pm to 3am on Saturday night.
I finally got my government $600 check and cashed that Saturday morning. It went right into savings because I may not have a job in a few weeks. A union steward told me that the lay-off’s wouldn’t happen this holiday week because the company hadn’t talked to the union at all yet about numbers for the lay-off. We’ll see but hopefully she’s right. A supervisor told me he had heard they are delaying the lay-off. That’s nice too because I’m in no hurry to lose my job. Schooling sounds great but with gas going up and up and unemployment meaning a reduced check and having to find healthcare it would be tough.
If I do not get laid off I plan to buy an air purifier for the house to help with my allergies and such.
I spent a chunk of Saturday sleeping. I had meant to get up around 3:00pm and my alarm went off and woke me. I put my head back on the pillow and woke up again at 4:45pm! I had meant to be at my parents for 5 and hadn’t even showered yet! I also pitstopped at the local supermarket and bought a fruit-filled sponge cake for dessert. YUM! The cake is awesome and one of my favorites. It’s cost $15. Not all that bad consider a ¼ sheet cake goes for $17. We all enjoyed it after supper.
After supper my brother had me tag along to Staples with him. We also pit-stopped in at Gamestop looking for my niece. Her best friend was there hanging out with her friends that were working. They had no AC going. It was hotter walking IN from outside! All three looked at me when I couldn’t help but exclaim ‘Jesus Christ!’ over the wave of heat that hit me. My brother ended up buying two games for his Playstation using the employee discount of my niece’s best friend. She calls us her uncles and we’ve known her since she was in middle school.
Saturday night ended with me going home and watching Pan’s Labyrinth. It was a pretty cool flick. But I found the real world War World Two stuff more interesting than the fantasy stuff. Some of the blood and guts stuff was really nasty to watch and made me wince more than once. The ending was touching and struck some nerves with me getting me a bit misty eyed.
One thing I was happy about was that I was able to watch the movie the way I like to watch a movie. This means laid back on my couch in the dark with no distractions on my big screen TV encompassing all of my attention. The brother that stays with me stayed late at mom’s and he put his son to bed as soon as they arrived at my place. Then he sat down on the other couch and didn’t make any noise. I was very happy about that and actually quite worried that the house would turn into the usual playground of lights and noises when he and the kids are around.
I was pissed about Sunday morning in that I woke up at 6am when I could’ve slept forever! I still ended up with about 6 hours of sleep though. At least I had a really neat Harry Potter dream. The trio of Potter friends were getting ready to go to college. Harry was driving around in a car at night sometimes feeling chased. And maybe he was I can’t recall now. I was sometimes behind the wheel instead of him. Ron lived on Chestnut Hill Road which is a short but steep road by my parents’ place. Hermione was with him and they were packing Ron’s stuff for college. It was a night summer day when Harry pulled up along them. There was more to the dream but I can’t really recall it. I woke feeling happy that the dream was really cool and I enjoyed it.
With my brother asleep on the living room couch I stayed in bed. This is part of what causes tension for my in the crowded house – to be conscious of others I limit what I do in my own house. And that pisses me off. So I inked a picture of my super-heroine Shadowdancer that I drew late Saturday night after the movie. It came out pretty well over all. At some point I took a shower in the morning. It may have been before I inked the picture but I pretty much stayed in my room for about 90 minutes until I heard my nephew come downstairs.
After cooking myself a satisfying pancake breakfast I went to the movie to watch The Wanted. It’s very vaguely based of a comic. Actually, it pretty much uses the name and that’s it. I enjoyed it quite a bit. It was really insane with totally outrageous stunts and completely ridiculous things happening but it worked for me within the movie. SO I walked out quite happy. It did use up the final amount on my Christmas gift card though. The preview for the newest Mummy movie with Brandon Fletcher made me want to now see that movie. It looked really fun with great special effects. The other previews were pretty blah. I have zero interest in yet another Batman movie.
I headed down to Connecticut after the flick to pick up my comics. I see why some many people die on the highways. I’m on a three lane highway. I want to move from the middle to the right lane to catch my exit. I see this pick-up truck barreling on to the highway and into the right lane. There is a car not far in front of him obviously going 10 to 15 mph slower. So I decide to move ahead of him to get into the right lane and figure he’ll take my spot in the middle lane. I guess he decided that didn’t work for him and floors it to match my speed which was approaching 75 mph. 70 mph was getting me passed by 85% of the cars or more. So we’re racing side by side and my exit is coming up fast and he can’t get into my lane. So I back off knowing he won’t let me in and that I’ll miss my exit. He slides in front of me and I slide in behind him. As this happens at speeds of 70+ mph I notice he’s a young guy blabbing on the phone. Jesus Christ. He maintains the 75 mph rate and continues on his way. Fucking people.
At the comic shop I buy a new mini-statue. I really love these things called Marvel Classics. They are painted lead statues maybe 4 or 5 inches tall of Marvel Comics characters. Some look so awesome I’ve purchased characters I have little to no interest in like Deadpool and Blade. But they’re figurines look totally awesome. So I bought this bigger on of black suited Spider-Man crouched on a building corner. While the other ones cost around $15 at this store Spidey was $33. Gah! But I made the purchase anyways because I kept going back to look at it. I now have about 30 of the available figures which is a total of maybe 50. A couple I bought out of guilt because my friend had ordered them for me when he had his store even though I had little to no interest in the characters he ordered.
I’m looking for a Wendy’s on the way home because they have some new vanilla shake mixed with chunks of strawberry or something that looked awesome in the commercial. I looked on the wrong side of the mall and missed it. Damn it!
The ride home had more idiots on the road. There are groups of traffic here and there and I notice this driver blast across three lanes of traffic probably at 75mph in-between cars. He didn’t do this away from the pack but in the pack. I just shake my head. Then I notice that all I can see in my rearview mirror is pick-up truck grill. Again I’m in the middle lane doing 65 mph with a couple of cars ahead of me probably a car length or two in between us cars. Left lane and right lane are clear of cars. I see fuckwad swerving back and forth in the middle lane and rolling up REAL close to my bumper. This is usually an indication to go faster. I guess he expected me to push the cars in front of me out of the way or something. So I start bitching shaking my head and turning my head so that he gets a profile of my mouth. So he finally decides to pass me – in the RIGHT LANE. What the fuck is it with speeders passing people in the right lane when the fast left lane is totally clear of cars for some distance? So I keep yammering at him as he passes and he flips me off. I noticed he was driving a shit kicker pick-up that looked like it was 15 years old or more.
At least I picked up some comics I’m excited to read. I haven’t yet.
So I play some Call of Duty 2 to blow off some steam before heading to my parents place for supper. I end up stopping when this brutal downpour hits. It sounded like a firehose aimed at my house. I shut everything off and unplug stuff and read one of my new comics. Eventually about 20 minutes late the downpour turns into a mild shower. I rush out to my car and hop in. I hop back out immediately. I had left my window open and my seat is completely soaked. I check the back of my gray shorts and it looks like I’ve pissed in my pants. Great. My underwear is all wet to. I run back in and change into new clothes. I grab my nylon jacket and toss it over my seat to act as a drying buffer. By the time I arrive at my parents my once dry pants and underwear are damp if not downright wet as my nylon jacket failed as a drying barrier. The rain was so furious that I was driving through swaths of huge puddles – more like rivers of water – that had to be 6 inches deep or more. All of that in about 20 minutes of gushing rain.
Chow was good at my parents and then I headed off to see comic book friends I hadn’t seen in about a month or more. We gathered to catch a wrestling pay-per-view. There was some minor tension in the room. One of the guests had broken up with his girlfriend and my friend banged her after that. I guess this was all fairly recent. It was suspected but unknown if the guest knew the host had recently screwed his recent former girlfriend.
I made a snafu. I thought the down and out guest had brought along cookies. I made a smart remark of ‘I hope these aren’t poisoned’. I was referring to the dude who’s ex had sex with my friend and the dude maybe wanting revenge on my friend. Only one friend caught my reference. It turns out though that someone else had made the cookies. Further, that elder gentleman who brought the cookies’ mom who is 95 is down with food poisoning and having a hard go of it. So I missed the other people looking at me with looks like ‘WTF?’ Whoops.
The pay-per-view was decent. Triple H looked orange he had such a deep tan. It was kind of freaky looking.
I got home and kept it quiet since my brother was sleeping on the couch. Again, this is where 4 people jammed into a house of only 5 rooms with 2 being a kitchen and a bathroom has its problems. I went straight to bed though after brushing my teeth.
Oy, I woke up this morning at 6:15 am – the exact same time I woke up Sunday morning. After a shower I loaded up the laundry. After changing the sheets on my bed I bit the bullet and went to get my car inspected. I passed a dinky place that seemed like it had nobody waiting. Instead I pulled into another place and checked in. The lady at the desk wouldn’t tell me how many cars were in line and I couldn’t tell because they were parked along a fence. It took one hour and fifteen minutes to get my car fully inspected and me out of there. I was fairly miffed. But its my own fault. So I stopped at Wal-Mart and got my cat supplies and then did my grocery shopping. I splurged a bit spending $60 instead of my budgeted $50. One of my splurges was $5 on this raspberry drink. It’s 100% fruit juice. I was worried it wouldn’t taste good being a frothy raspberry drink but it’s not bad. I’m not sure if I’ll buy it again though. I also bought a pack of golden raspberries. Yum!
It’s really muggy out so I’m probably going to blow off mowing the lawn today. But it REALLY needs it. My lawn is easily the worst on the street. I have some weeds that are almost a foot high. I also have to do a mountain of dishes. I expect that to take literally over 35 minutes. And I have to fold my laundry. The lawn takes about 90 minutes to mow or less if I really bust my ass. And I go back to sleep before work around 5:30ish. It’s now 1:24pm as I write. So yeah, mowing the lawn’s out. I expect my brother to return with both kids around 7pm. And then it’s off to work 11pm to 7am. Short week though! I’m looking forward to having Friday off.
The comic on Drunkduck varies for views. I have something like 35 pages posted now. It’s weird. I get either 70 to 100 views a day or 200 to 250 views a day. And the views come and go in bunches. It’ll be like 2 days of 80 views and then 2 days of 250 views. So I have over 3000 page views now. But I have no idea if that’s good or not. I seem to have 3 fans that comment and an occasion random viewer adding a comment.
Okay, 4 pages long. I’m done!
Turned out to be a decent weekend.
Over-time at work was either cancelled or reduced. My original 8 hours was reduced to 4 so I opted out of doing it. I wasn’t in any hurry to work 11pm to 3am on Saturday night.
I finally got my government $600 check and cashed that Saturday morning. It went right into savings because I may not have a job in a few weeks. A union steward told me that the lay-off’s wouldn’t happen this holiday week because the company hadn’t talked to the union at all yet about numbers for the lay-off. We’ll see but hopefully she’s right. A supervisor told me he had heard they are delaying the lay-off. That’s nice too because I’m in no hurry to lose my job. Schooling sounds great but with gas going up and up and unemployment meaning a reduced check and having to find healthcare it would be tough.
If I do not get laid off I plan to buy an air purifier for the house to help with my allergies and such.
I spent a chunk of Saturday sleeping. I had meant to get up around 3:00pm and my alarm went off and woke me. I put my head back on the pillow and woke up again at 4:45pm! I had meant to be at my parents for 5 and hadn’t even showered yet! I also pitstopped at the local supermarket and bought a fruit-filled sponge cake for dessert. YUM! The cake is awesome and one of my favorites. It’s cost $15. Not all that bad consider a ¼ sheet cake goes for $17. We all enjoyed it after supper.
After supper my brother had me tag along to Staples with him. We also pit-stopped in at Gamestop looking for my niece. Her best friend was there hanging out with her friends that were working. They had no AC going. It was hotter walking IN from outside! All three looked at me when I couldn’t help but exclaim ‘Jesus Christ!’ over the wave of heat that hit me. My brother ended up buying two games for his Playstation using the employee discount of my niece’s best friend. She calls us her uncles and we’ve known her since she was in middle school.
Saturday night ended with me going home and watching Pan’s Labyrinth. It was a pretty cool flick. But I found the real world War World Two stuff more interesting than the fantasy stuff. Some of the blood and guts stuff was really nasty to watch and made me wince more than once. The ending was touching and struck some nerves with me getting me a bit misty eyed.
One thing I was happy about was that I was able to watch the movie the way I like to watch a movie. This means laid back on my couch in the dark with no distractions on my big screen TV encompassing all of my attention. The brother that stays with me stayed late at mom’s and he put his son to bed as soon as they arrived at my place. Then he sat down on the other couch and didn’t make any noise. I was very happy about that and actually quite worried that the house would turn into the usual playground of lights and noises when he and the kids are around.
I was pissed about Sunday morning in that I woke up at 6am when I could’ve slept forever! I still ended up with about 6 hours of sleep though. At least I had a really neat Harry Potter dream. The trio of Potter friends were getting ready to go to college. Harry was driving around in a car at night sometimes feeling chased. And maybe he was I can’t recall now. I was sometimes behind the wheel instead of him. Ron lived on Chestnut Hill Road which is a short but steep road by my parents’ place. Hermione was with him and they were packing Ron’s stuff for college. It was a night summer day when Harry pulled up along them. There was more to the dream but I can’t really recall it. I woke feeling happy that the dream was really cool and I enjoyed it.
With my brother asleep on the living room couch I stayed in bed. This is part of what causes tension for my in the crowded house – to be conscious of others I limit what I do in my own house. And that pisses me off. So I inked a picture of my super-heroine Shadowdancer that I drew late Saturday night after the movie. It came out pretty well over all. At some point I took a shower in the morning. It may have been before I inked the picture but I pretty much stayed in my room for about 90 minutes until I heard my nephew come downstairs.
After cooking myself a satisfying pancake breakfast I went to the movie to watch The Wanted. It’s very vaguely based of a comic. Actually, it pretty much uses the name and that’s it. I enjoyed it quite a bit. It was really insane with totally outrageous stunts and completely ridiculous things happening but it worked for me within the movie. SO I walked out quite happy. It did use up the final amount on my Christmas gift card though. The preview for the newest Mummy movie with Brandon Fletcher made me want to now see that movie. It looked really fun with great special effects. The other previews were pretty blah. I have zero interest in yet another Batman movie.
I headed down to Connecticut after the flick to pick up my comics. I see why some many people die on the highways. I’m on a three lane highway. I want to move from the middle to the right lane to catch my exit. I see this pick-up truck barreling on to the highway and into the right lane. There is a car not far in front of him obviously going 10 to 15 mph slower. So I decide to move ahead of him to get into the right lane and figure he’ll take my spot in the middle lane. I guess he decided that didn’t work for him and floors it to match my speed which was approaching 75 mph. 70 mph was getting me passed by 85% of the cars or more. So we’re racing side by side and my exit is coming up fast and he can’t get into my lane. So I back off knowing he won’t let me in and that I’ll miss my exit. He slides in front of me and I slide in behind him. As this happens at speeds of 70+ mph I notice he’s a young guy blabbing on the phone. Jesus Christ. He maintains the 75 mph rate and continues on his way. Fucking people.
At the comic shop I buy a new mini-statue. I really love these things called Marvel Classics. They are painted lead statues maybe 4 or 5 inches tall of Marvel Comics characters. Some look so awesome I’ve purchased characters I have little to no interest in like Deadpool and Blade. But they’re figurines look totally awesome. So I bought this bigger on of black suited Spider-Man crouched on a building corner. While the other ones cost around $15 at this store Spidey was $33. Gah! But I made the purchase anyways because I kept going back to look at it. I now have about 30 of the available figures which is a total of maybe 50. A couple I bought out of guilt because my friend had ordered them for me when he had his store even though I had little to no interest in the characters he ordered.
I’m looking for a Wendy’s on the way home because they have some new vanilla shake mixed with chunks of strawberry or something that looked awesome in the commercial. I looked on the wrong side of the mall and missed it. Damn it!
The ride home had more idiots on the road. There are groups of traffic here and there and I notice this driver blast across three lanes of traffic probably at 75mph in-between cars. He didn’t do this away from the pack but in the pack. I just shake my head. Then I notice that all I can see in my rearview mirror is pick-up truck grill. Again I’m in the middle lane doing 65 mph with a couple of cars ahead of me probably a car length or two in between us cars. Left lane and right lane are clear of cars. I see fuckwad swerving back and forth in the middle lane and rolling up REAL close to my bumper. This is usually an indication to go faster. I guess he expected me to push the cars in front of me out of the way or something. So I start bitching shaking my head and turning my head so that he gets a profile of my mouth. So he finally decides to pass me – in the RIGHT LANE. What the fuck is it with speeders passing people in the right lane when the fast left lane is totally clear of cars for some distance? So I keep yammering at him as he passes and he flips me off. I noticed he was driving a shit kicker pick-up that looked like it was 15 years old or more.
At least I picked up some comics I’m excited to read. I haven’t yet.
So I play some Call of Duty 2 to blow off some steam before heading to my parents place for supper. I end up stopping when this brutal downpour hits. It sounded like a firehose aimed at my house. I shut everything off and unplug stuff and read one of my new comics. Eventually about 20 minutes late the downpour turns into a mild shower. I rush out to my car and hop in. I hop back out immediately. I had left my window open and my seat is completely soaked. I check the back of my gray shorts and it looks like I’ve pissed in my pants. Great. My underwear is all wet to. I run back in and change into new clothes. I grab my nylon jacket and toss it over my seat to act as a drying buffer. By the time I arrive at my parents my once dry pants and underwear are damp if not downright wet as my nylon jacket failed as a drying barrier. The rain was so furious that I was driving through swaths of huge puddles – more like rivers of water – that had to be 6 inches deep or more. All of that in about 20 minutes of gushing rain.
Chow was good at my parents and then I headed off to see comic book friends I hadn’t seen in about a month or more. We gathered to catch a wrestling pay-per-view. There was some minor tension in the room. One of the guests had broken up with his girlfriend and my friend banged her after that. I guess this was all fairly recent. It was suspected but unknown if the guest knew the host had recently screwed his recent former girlfriend.
I made a snafu. I thought the down and out guest had brought along cookies. I made a smart remark of ‘I hope these aren’t poisoned’. I was referring to the dude who’s ex had sex with my friend and the dude maybe wanting revenge on my friend. Only one friend caught my reference. It turns out though that someone else had made the cookies. Further, that elder gentleman who brought the cookies’ mom who is 95 is down with food poisoning and having a hard go of it. So I missed the other people looking at me with looks like ‘WTF?’ Whoops.
The pay-per-view was decent. Triple H looked orange he had such a deep tan. It was kind of freaky looking.
I got home and kept it quiet since my brother was sleeping on the couch. Again, this is where 4 people jammed into a house of only 5 rooms with 2 being a kitchen and a bathroom has its problems. I went straight to bed though after brushing my teeth.
Oy, I woke up this morning at 6:15 am – the exact same time I woke up Sunday morning. After a shower I loaded up the laundry. After changing the sheets on my bed I bit the bullet and went to get my car inspected. I passed a dinky place that seemed like it had nobody waiting. Instead I pulled into another place and checked in. The lady at the desk wouldn’t tell me how many cars were in line and I couldn’t tell because they were parked along a fence. It took one hour and fifteen minutes to get my car fully inspected and me out of there. I was fairly miffed. But its my own fault. So I stopped at Wal-Mart and got my cat supplies and then did my grocery shopping. I splurged a bit spending $60 instead of my budgeted $50. One of my splurges was $5 on this raspberry drink. It’s 100% fruit juice. I was worried it wouldn’t taste good being a frothy raspberry drink but it’s not bad. I’m not sure if I’ll buy it again though. I also bought a pack of golden raspberries. Yum!
It’s really muggy out so I’m probably going to blow off mowing the lawn today. But it REALLY needs it. My lawn is easily the worst on the street. I have some weeds that are almost a foot high. I also have to do a mountain of dishes. I expect that to take literally over 35 minutes. And I have to fold my laundry. The lawn takes about 90 minutes to mow or less if I really bust my ass. And I go back to sleep before work around 5:30ish. It’s now 1:24pm as I write. So yeah, mowing the lawn’s out. I expect my brother to return with both kids around 7pm. And then it’s off to work 11pm to 7am. Short week though! I’m looking forward to having Friday off.
The comic on Drunkduck varies for views. I have something like 35 pages posted now. It’s weird. I get either 70 to 100 views a day or 200 to 250 views a day. And the views come and go in bunches. It’ll be like 2 days of 80 views and then 2 days of 250 views. So I have over 3000 page views now. But I have no idea if that’s good or not. I seem to have 3 fans that comment and an occasion random viewer adding a comment.
Okay, 4 pages long. I’m done!
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