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| 2010-03-20 12:05 |
| Random Thoughts In The Wake Of The Trip |
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| baseball, disco, disney, florida, food, friends, georgia, holidays, lipinski, memory, mike birchfield, radio, random, school, sempai, time, tobacco, trains, travel, truth, vacation |
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I really could have stayed another week in Florida, but I got enough of the things on my list done and all the people who matter most to me. Darn it, if America had actual passenger trains running I'd shuttle between here and there all the time.
* "And I'm Never Going Back To My Old School..." As said earlier, on St. Patrick's Day a high school classmate had invited me and my brother to a party at an Irish/Sports bar. Going was a necessary mistake. The music was way too loud to carry on conversations. We found our "party" but beyond two or three people we didn't "mingle" and while I thought I recognized one woman--I didn't want to talk to her. The truth came to me that if I really wanted to socialize with my classmates in school, I would have. These days there is no meaning attaching me to this crowd. All of a sudden I feel okay with having been shunned and flunked. I just didn't fit in.
* Too many of the people I know are now attached to oxygen apparati. If you smoke, quit. If you don't smoke, don't start.
* I will never again go in a Disney store. Mike dragged me in one so he could look at Princess figures. They'd never hire me, but I bet working there would drive a lot of people insane.
* I will probably swear off eating more than one meal a day at a restaurant. Not so much the expense, or necessarily the food...just the stress is enough.
* Q-105 is back. The Tampa station is now Sixties/Seventies/Eighties oldies rather than baseline Top 40, but they haven't lost the style that made us fans for so long.
* I decided to not be the Lipinski Proxy this time. Dana's fantasy baseball league is down to five participants so their draft today will probably run a lot quicker even without my assistance.
* Atlanta's highways are bedlam. Both ways we had trouble with crowds and volume slowdowns. Dunno what route I'll take next time tho'.
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Midday today was spent going to, and with, and through Tampa along with, sempai Mike Birchfield. I don't know who's the bigger dork--him, or me for putting up and enabling him.
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| 2010-03-17 10:50 |
| Cruiseday Into O'Tan's Day (In KiffieScope) |
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Midmorning yesterday brother Dana and I pile into the car...( A whole day's drive )
It turned out that a standoff happened between Pasco County Police and a bank robber whose getaway car had broken down in the middle of the highway. The cops had to block off the highway and surround him with their cars so he couldn't escape. He held them off with his own gun for five hours before he surrendered...and even then the cops had to search the side of the road for the loot he threw out the window of his car before they could re-open the highway.
Today the plan is to see old friends and long-lost relatives.
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No such capability. Have to use more standard e-mail, SocNet private messages or pen and paper. (How come these questions are worded so the answer most likely to win the prize would come from somebody who probably doesn't need the prize?)
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There have been times I've wanted to Re-Rez the cat.
I bet my buddy Stan is still sore that his brother stole and pawned the bonus disc from his Tron: Special Edition DVD set.
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Don't have a laptop that functions or anything mobile, so no. Tho' on previous occasions I have borrowed other people's compies to stay in touch with the Digital Domain.
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I'm at Computer King, the builders of King Kong, waiting for the diagnostic programs to do their work hog-tying (I hope) the virus that has King Kong in such bad shape. Meanwhile I'm posting from a demo compy on the sales floor.
PS: This fight with the AntiSpyWare 2010 virus is going all 15 rounds. Looks like Spybot: Search & Destroy has its number, tho'.
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Today was almost a KiffieScopeTM-worthy adventure, but I'll have to wait till I get my own computer back to be comfortable about writing it. But some paths were quicker than others...and I went nowhere. Somewhat slowly. I needed better actionable intelligence.
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And I have ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) robotech_master to thank:
The NEW HOME PAGE for The Hackett Continuum on Facebook! Since I didn't believe I could accomplish the storyline all by myself, I'm taking the concept to hyperfiction to see if I can get other voices to work with mine in chorus.
I feel like Dr. Frankenstein. Will it live, or just lay on the table?
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Sagittarius Horoscope for week of February 25, 2010
More than a few fairy tales feature the theme of characters who accidentally find a treasure. They're not searching for treasure, don't feel worthy of it, and aren't fully prepared for it. They may initially not even know what they're looking at, and see it as preposterous or abnormal or disquieting. Who could blame them if they ran away from the treasure? In order to recognize and claim it, they might have to shed a number of their assumptions about the way the world works. And they might have to clear up a discrepancy between their unconscious longings and their conscious intentions.
Yes, that IS part of the problem. What I think I want, what I really want, what I need and what is good for me seem to all be different things these days. There are tons of things I could get but don't need, and just as many things I need but couldn't get...and even some things I need but I'd never want.
But the biggest thing I want AND need? I can't say it out loud here, but I hope the other party is listening. Because I DON'T want to walk away--and I'll be damned if I have to stand here alone!
FP
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Usually I don't repost Something*Positive due to the NSFW factor, but there is a part of me that wishes I had a girlfriend who talked about anything like Vanessa just did.
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| 2010-02-20 21:12 |
| The Dork Who Fell To Earth |
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| cd, childhood, culture, david bowie, disney, dork tower, fandom, fantasy, fate, flight, flight simulator, friends, full frontal nerdity, history, life on mars, music, nasa, science, science-fiction, space program, space tourism, space travel, the 1970s, the future, time, time machines, who am i |
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(I think theidolhands might want to hear about this little "space oddity".)
Today, my buddy Paul gave me an audio CD copy of content he acquired though his Disney contacts...
...Soundtracks from the Moonliner and Mission To Mars attractions at the Disney theme parks.
Listening to them threw me back thirty-one years to the first time I visited Florida and Walt Disney World. Mission To Mars was my favorite of the attractions then. The concept was a flight-simulation theater that took the crowd on a semi-realistic journey to the Red Planet, with rudimentary motion seating and panoramic projection screens of the spacecraft's external views. Before entering the theater itself, the crowd would go through a "Mission Control Brief" led by an audio-anamatronic character, who stood in front of banks of NASA-variety high-tech consoles "manned" by other robotic mannekins. The far wall of the room had large screen video and movie projectors. Going through that was, to a twelve-year-old kid, like living the future.
This disk had all fifteen minutes of audio from that attraction, and now my imagination can flit back there and remember it all. Three other tracks were from the earlier Moonliner incarnation of the ride, with public address chatter of a ("transistor-punk"?) aerospace passenger terminal, engine noise from a George Pal-era spaceship, and overture music from when it was 100% acoustic orchestral hardware. No better evidence of how much the world has changed...and also, how much the world's future avoided what we thought we wanted, back in those decades after WW2.
I'll go back to Florida, but I'm not sure I'll go back to Walt Disney World. Mission To Mars was replaced before I finished my flight training around 1990, and space tourism is either alive and well, or about to be swept aside by history, depending on who you ask. In the meantime, I'm the Dork Who Fell To Earth, looking for the next hyperspace portal and saving up for a ticket to Anthea. Hope you'll be on the flight with me. I could always use a travelling companion.
PS: Thanks to www.lunar.org...some visuals of what space tourism looked like to Disney from the outside: ( Read more... )
And from www.davelandweb.com...Mission Control: ( Read more... )
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| 2010-02-20 16:56 |
| Making Amends And Amending Makes |
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This afternoon was spent at Paul Francis' shop, with a side trip to that little BBQ shop in town for everybody else's lunch. Working on the Skoda car, trying to meet new buddies and reconnect with older ones, still attempting to decide on brown or blue, catching up on gossip.
Did a little research (from a Public Library hardcopy) on pre-war American cars for my Billy Joe's Boys army fluff text.
Finally got some non-depressing weather to gawk at.
Got my check from Jury Duty. Was a tad more than I expected (thank goodness) but waiting for Monday to cash it is is going to drive me crazy.
Got gifts for a couple of my real-life friends--one of them an LJ friend.
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I think the main difference isn't inclusion but omission--I don't have any LJ friends from the town in Florida where I lived most of my life. This certainly wasn't intentional.
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...Involving THIS ENTRY:
What if somebody else had written a work of fiction you are reading, I was cast as one of the characters, but my attitude, words and/or actions run completely wrong to the version of me that you see in my own writings?
What would you want me to do if I found out that somebody was using you in fiction in a similar manner?
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| 2010-02-04 01:57 |
| I Was NOT Mistaken In My Phone Call With Sempai Mike Tonight |
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| anime, fandom, friends, glitches, japan, mike birchfield, otaku, sempai, telephones, time, truth |
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The English-Language Site For A.I.C. has not updated for three and a half years.
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| 2010-01-29 15:19 |
| On The Snow That Isn't Quite Falling--Yet |
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"Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead."--Meyer Wolfsheim in The Great Gatsby.
Today's adventure to Mountain Home went well. No need to say much more than that. Dad is in much better health than he was a year ago when this crisis was about to strike him.
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