While shopping today I noticed they had a new drink for sale called
Mountain Dew Throwback. It's made with sugar instead of corn syrup.
Hardly anything has sugar in it anymore, it's all corn, corn, corn. I
thought that interesting so I got some and just tried it. I like it.
It's very smooth, perhaps not as much carbonation, and the sweetness
lingers in the back of the throat a lot longer. It's refreshin!
The other day I happened across the name of an old Commodore
64 game I used to enjoy. This was back in, oh, 85 or 86. I'd never
forgotten the game, but try as I might I couldn't remember the name.
Well, I found it and it's called Ultimate Wizard.
It was a very frustrating game (it was so easy for the little wizard
guy to die), but it was fun. I didn't have a C64, myself - we had an
Apple 2c with a teeny tiny green and black screen monitor - but I'd play
it for hours at a time at a friend's house when spending the night.
And it was one of the first games that had a construction set, so we
could build our own levels that often didn't work right. But it was
fun. Anyway, seeing the youtube videos of it and hearing the sounds
instantly took me back, so that was nice. We also played a game called
Mail Order Monsters a whole lot. That one was fun, too.
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Sunday, March 29, 2009
because
"Why does she want me?" Coraline asked the cat. "Why does
she want me to stay here with her?"
"She wants something to love, I think," said the cat. "Something
that isn't her. She might want something to eat as well. It's hard
to tell with creatures like that."
- Coraline
she want me to stay here with her?"
"She wants something to love, I think," said the cat. "Something
that isn't her. She might want something to eat as well. It's hard
to tell with creatures like that."
- Coraline
Monday, December 22, 2008
Who will bake the cake when I'm gone?
1 18.25 pounds packaged chocolate cake mix
1 can prepared coconut pecan frosting
3/4 cup vegetable oil
4 large eggs
1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
3/4 cup butter or margarine
1 and 2/3 cups granulated sugar
2 cups all-purpose flour
Don't forget garnishes such as:
Fish-shaped crackers
Fish-shaped candy
Fish-shaped solid waste
Fish-shaped dirt
Fish-shaped ethyl benzine
Whole and peeled licorice
Fish shaped volatile organic compounds
And sediment-shaped sediment
Peanut butter candy coated pieces, shaped like fish
1 cup lemon juice
Alpha resins
Unsaturated polyester resin
Fiberglass surface resins
And volatile malted milk impoundments
9 large egg yolks
12 medium geo-synthetic membranes
1 cup granulated sugar
An entry called "How To Kill Someone With Your Bare Hands"
2 cups rhubarb, sliced
2/3 cups granulated rhubarb
1 tablespoon all-purpose rhubarb
1 teaspoon grated orange rhubarb
3 tablespoons rhubarb on fire
1 large rhubarb
1 cross borehole electric imaging rhubarb
2 tablespoons rhubarb juice
Adjustable aluminum head-positioner
Slaughter electric needle injector
Cordless electric needle injector
Injector needle driver
Injector needle gun
Cranial caps
And it contains proven preservatives,
deep prenetration agents, and gas and odor control chemicals
that will deodorize and preserve putrid tissue
1 can prepared coconut pecan frosting
3/4 cup vegetable oil
4 large eggs
1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
3/4 cup butter or margarine
1 and 2/3 cups granulated sugar
2 cups all-purpose flour
Don't forget garnishes such as:
Fish-shaped crackers
Fish-shaped candy
Fish-shaped solid waste
Fish-shaped dirt
Fish-shaped ethyl benzine
Whole and peeled licorice
Fish shaped volatile organic compounds
And sediment-shaped sediment
Peanut butter candy coated pieces, shaped like fish
1 cup lemon juice
Alpha resins
Unsaturated polyester resin
Fiberglass surface resins
And volatile malted milk impoundments
9 large egg yolks
12 medium geo-synthetic membranes
1 cup granulated sugar
An entry called "How To Kill Someone With Your Bare Hands"
2 cups rhubarb, sliced
2/3 cups granulated rhubarb
1 tablespoon all-purpose rhubarb
1 teaspoon grated orange rhubarb
3 tablespoons rhubarb on fire
1 large rhubarb
1 cross borehole electric imaging rhubarb
2 tablespoons rhubarb juice
Adjustable aluminum head-positioner
Slaughter electric needle injector
Cordless electric needle injector
Injector needle driver
Injector needle gun
Cranial caps
And it contains proven preservatives,
deep prenetration agents, and gas and odor control chemicals
that will deodorize and preserve putrid tissue
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Doggone!
Yay!
The dog's owner checked with the local vet I took the dog to this morning. They got my info, and now he's back home. That's a relief :)
Now I have to find something to do with these dog food and treats. Hmm. I think I'll keep the dog bowl and leash, though.
The dog's owner checked with the local vet I took the dog to this morning. They got my info, and now he's back home. That's a relief :)
Now I have to find something to do with these dog food and treats. Hmm. I think I'll keep the dog bowl and leash, though.
I'm dirty... and doggy
The gods threw a dog at me.
There I was, just going for an early morning stroll, and a dog crossed my path. He was panting like he'd run a marathon and was limping pretty bad. He started following me. I told him to stay, but he just kept following. Even when I walked fast to put a lot of distance, he still kept following. He followed me home.
What could else could I do but let him in? And, for now, it seems I'm stuck with a dog.
He's an enormous, old black labrador, about 118 pounds. Quite friendly, obviously. He's in the back yard right now. My house just isn't set up to house a huge animal. I took him to the vet to get him checked out. They just said he's old and arthritic, and they gave me some dog aspirin. Hm. I put messages on craigslist, the newspaper, animal control, care, and the humane society. I dunno what else to do but put up notices on phone poles.
I'm all hairy and.. and doggy.
There I was, just going for an early morning stroll, and a dog crossed my path. He was panting like he'd run a marathon and was limping pretty bad. He started following me. I told him to stay, but he just kept following. Even when I walked fast to put a lot of distance, he still kept following. He followed me home.
What could else could I do but let him in? And, for now, it seems I'm stuck with a dog.
He's an enormous, old black labrador, about 118 pounds. Quite friendly, obviously. He's in the back yard right now. My house just isn't set up to house a huge animal. I took him to the vet to get him checked out. They just said he's old and arthritic, and they gave me some dog aspirin. Hm. I put messages on craigslist, the newspaper, animal control, care, and the humane society. I dunno what else to do but put up notices on phone poles.
I'm all hairy and.. and doggy.
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Low day
I'm going into a bad patch, I think. Some days I just feel the weight
of my loneliness more than others. Sometimes it all just feels so
hopeless, feeling that I've always been alone and always will. It's not
often. It sneaks up on me. I was just sitting here, minding my own
business, and I started crying. I'm sure I'll be back on top soon
enough. But for now, I'll just cry.
If I touch a burning candle I can feel no pain
In the ice or in the sun it's all the same
Yet I feel my heart is aching
Though it doesn't beat it's breaking
And the pain here that I feel
Try and tell me it's not real
I know that I am dead
Yet it seems that I still have some tears to shed
If I touch a burning candle I can feel no pain
In the ice or in the sun it's all the same
Yet I feel my heart is aching
Though it doesn't beat it's breaking
And the pain here that I feel
Try and tell me it's not real
I know that I am dead
Yet it seems that I still have some tears to shed
Thursday, July 10, 2008
A touch of the update
Looks like it's been a bit since my last entry, but there's just not
been too much going on around here. My fiddler crabs are doing fine..
I've yet to lose a single one, cept for the one that was eaten by the
red crabs which I returned months ago. The guppies are another story.
I'm on my 4th pair. I'm not sure why, my water quality is within good
limits, maybe they're just short-lived. I never have to worry about
fishing out bodies, though... crabs are excellent scavengers. Pounce on
the fish almost the instant they stop moving. Never seen them attack
the live ones.
I went to PetCo the other week for some new guppies. There was a cute, very young TG girl working in the fish section. Funny, when I applied to that exact same store for a summer job about 15 years ago, the guy told me they couldn't hire me unless I cut my hair and lost the earrings. Guess times change. She was envious of my hair. She was wearing a copper-colored wig with really big corkscrew curls that made me think of Little Miss Muffet. I didn't say anything about her TGism, though. Even though I was 98% sure she was TG, if I said something and was 2% wrong, imagine how bad that'd make a girl feel. I usually err on the side of caution, which of course means I seldom say anything at all.
Today I returned an extra garden hose I didn't need to Home Depot. The lady at the returns desk instantly zeroed in on my nails, which are slightly long at the moment. She was amazed, all 'I never seen nails that clean and white before! Wow. Clean, clean hands.' I just smiled, utterly bewildered, and waited for my receipt.
I had a nice-enough 4th of July. Shot of some fireworks with a friend and his daughter. There sure was something dead and stinky off in the grass at the side of the road. Too dark to tell what it was, but bleah.
Evil Dolly's Movie Recommendation of the Day: I went to see Wall-E the other day. I highly recommend it. Although the ending part was a little too typical animated-action finale sorta thing, overall it was quite good. The loneliness aspect I could certainly relate to. And it features one of the sweetest on screen romances I've ever seen on film.
I went to PetCo the other week for some new guppies. There was a cute, very young TG girl working in the fish section. Funny, when I applied to that exact same store for a summer job about 15 years ago, the guy told me they couldn't hire me unless I cut my hair and lost the earrings. Guess times change. She was envious of my hair. She was wearing a copper-colored wig with really big corkscrew curls that made me think of Little Miss Muffet. I didn't say anything about her TGism, though. Even though I was 98% sure she was TG, if I said something and was 2% wrong, imagine how bad that'd make a girl feel. I usually err on the side of caution, which of course means I seldom say anything at all.
Today I returned an extra garden hose I didn't need to Home Depot. The lady at the returns desk instantly zeroed in on my nails, which are slightly long at the moment. She was amazed, all 'I never seen nails that clean and white before! Wow. Clean, clean hands.' I just smiled, utterly bewildered, and waited for my receipt.
I had a nice-enough 4th of July. Shot of some fireworks with a friend and his daughter. There sure was something dead and stinky off in the grass at the side of the road. Too dark to tell what it was, but bleah.
Evil Dolly's Movie Recommendation of the Day: I went to see Wall-E the other day. I highly recommend it. Although the ending part was a little too typical animated-action finale sorta thing, overall it was quite good. The loneliness aspect I could certainly relate to. And it features one of the sweetest on screen romances I've ever seen on film.