JOURNAL: paizuri (Andy Lin)

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  • I ain't never found peace between the breasts of a girl / I ain't never found peace with the religion of the world / I ain't never found peace at the bottom of a glass / Sometimes it seems the more I ask for the less I receive / The only true freedom is f 2002-05-22 16:15:32 I seem to have put my life on hold while waiting for a call. Funny thing, that.

    Fuck That Shit Hate This Love

    They're all four letter words.

    I need to get out of this place. Living has become a reflex. 
  • Today's lunch has been sponsored by Taco Bell 2002-05-16 18:54:05 Since people seem to be cross-posting, I feel the need to get in on the action like the poseur I am! This is taken from my wonderfully underpopulated forum.

    "Haha, lunch today was awesome. I walked in and this woman employee stopped me and asked if I'd like to participate in a poll. So I said sure, and she asked me to pick two food items from two separate lists. There were a bunch crossed off, but I ended up picking the Crunchy Taco Supreme and the Grilled Beef Stuffed Burrito. Then she gave me $5 to buy the two. I also ordered a small drink and the total only came out to $4.04. So then I filled out the poll and she gave me two $1 Taco Bell coupons which I used immediately to buy a Choco Taco for $1.39! So not only did I not spend anything for lunch today, I actually MADE some money!"

    To which Kusoyaro replied with:

    "Weird. Why would an employee randomly give you money to buy things with?

    And you got a taco supreme? That means it has sour cream! Yuck."

    I think the woman employee was a cut above the regular worker bee. Probably a manager or assistant manager at the least. And she was obviously doing it as an incentive because they REALLY wanted to know how to make their menu better. I thought it was pretty cool. Certainly better than leaving the comment cards on the table a la Wendy's.

    And I don't mind sour cream in small doses. A dollop is okay by my standards. It's the full ice cream scoop that gets to me. Just way too much cream, and it tastes weird to boot.

    Other current events...I demoed my latest code changes at work today and everyone was extremely impressed and pleased. Most of all me, since I really don't understand how what I did was so impressive. I can see tons of faults with it and I still think it needs major reworking, but guess what? I get to move on to the next phase and let some other poor sap fix it up later. Yeah!

    Now on to the journal response portion...

    Wow Kyburg, where'd those rules come from? That is very much how I live my life. Because it takes way too much effort to help someone that does not want to be helped. And in the end, they still may not make it through. Unless they truly want to. Of course, that doesn't make it any easier for the people that care about them, but oh well. That's the way it goes sometimes.

    priuscomet, you left out the dog diary part! But that's okay because here it is!

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    EXCERPTS FROM A DOG'S DIARY

    Day number 180
    8:00 am - OH BOY! DOG FOOD! MY FAVORITE!
    9:30 am - OH BOY! A CAR RIDE! MY FAVORITE!
    9:40 am - OH BOY! A WALK! MY FAVORITE!
    10:30 am - OH BOY! A CAR RIDE! MY FAVORITE!
    11:30 am - OH BOY! DOG FOOD! MY FAVORITE!
    12:00 noon - OH BOY! THE KIDS! MY FAVORITE!
    1:00 pm - OH BOY! THE YARD! MY FAVORITE!
    4:00 pm - OH BOY! THE KIDS! MY FAVORITE!
    5:00 PM - OH BOY! DOG FOOD! MY FAVORITE!
    5:30 PM - OH BOY! MOM! MY FAVORITE!

    Day number 181
    8:00 am - OH BOY! DOG FOOD! MY FAVORITE!
    9:30 am - OH BOY! A CAR RIDE! MY FAVORITE!
    9:40 am - OH BOY! A WALK! MY FAVORITE!
    10:30 am - OH BOY! A CAR RIDE! MY FAVORITE!
    11:30 am - OH BOY! DOG FOOD! MY FAVORITE!
    12:00 noon - OH BOY! THE KIDS! MY FAVORITE!
    1:00 pm - OH BOY! THE YARD! MY FAVORITE!
    4:00 pm - OH BOY! THE KIDS! MY FAVORITE!
    5:00 PM - OH BOY! DOG FOOD! MY FAVORITE!
    5:30 PM - OH BOY! MOM! MY FAVORITE!

    Day number 182
    8:00 am - OH BOY! DOG FOOD! MY FAVORITE!
    9:30 am - OH BOY! A CAR RIDE! MY FAVORITE!
    9:40 am - OH BOY! A WALK! MY FAVORITE!
    10:30 am - OH BOY! A CAR RIDE! MY FAVORITE!
    11:30 am - OH BOY! DOG FOOD! MY FAVORITE!
    12:00 noon - OH BOY! THE KIDS! MY FAVORITE!
    1:00 pm - OH BOY! THE YARD! MY FAVORITE!
    1:30 pm - ooooooo. bath. bummer.
    4:00 pm - OH BOY! THE KIDS! MY FAVORITE!
    5:00 PM - OH BOY! DOG FOOD! MY FAVORITE!
    5:30 PM - OH BOY! MOM! MY FAVORITE!  
  • Well, For What It's Worth... 2002-05-09 10:53:27 BBT: Think Buffalo Springfield. 
  • Creativity is bleeding from my eyes and making my mascara run...WTF, why am I wearing mascara?!?!? 2002-03-18 10:05:46 Creativity is bleeding from my eyes and making my mascara run...WTF, why am I wearing mascara?!?!?

    Ah Mondays, the bane of a working class shmoe's existence. And the beauty of it, is that it comes every 7 days!

    I feel that pit in my stomach that means I'm hungry, but the weather is absolute crap outside (cold and rainy) and I just don't feel like going out. There's no cafeteria at work either. They're building a new building and the cafeteria is supposed to go in there, but it's not done yet, so I will have to either leave the warm haven of my office building or spend a fortune in dollar bills on potato chips and other junk foods in convenient 3-chip-per-bag doses.

    And I am wondering if using antihistamines as sleeping pills is a form of drug abuse. I mean, I really do have allergies, but every antihistamine I've ever been prescribed makes me sleepy, even in little baby doses. I suppose if I'm in a stupor, it's pretty hard to feel irritated and itchy, but even though I go the pharmacist every year and get my prescribed doses (only $5 on medical insurance, yay!), I rarely ever use them. In fact, this is probably the first time in years that I've actually been using them regularly. Usually, I take them for a week and stop since they make me tired as all hell. Even using them right before I go to bed makes me really out of it for a few hours after I wake up. It's not as if I REALLY need to take them because my allergies aren't something that will be cured after a few treatments, and by now, I'm pretty much used to them anyways.

    But then I've been having trouble sleeping lately and I've been getting white hairs, which has never happened before. It's not like I'm particularly stressed at work, or have ever been stressed so badly in my life that I've EVER gotten white hairs before, but from talking with friends, I'm pretty sure that this is stress-related. Funny thing, I never thought a little thing like a girl would really shake me up that badly. On the other hand, what else COULD really disturb me. Perhaps a gruesome family tragedy I suppose. But I've had several family members die, and while I mourned for them, the best thing to do is really get on with the rest of your life. Because you know they're not coming back. And it would be pretty bad taste indeed if they jumped out of their casket with a "Just kidding!"

    Speaking of the dead coming back to life again, I watched the Resident Evil movie over the weekend. With Phade and Mrs. Phade no less! And my brother too, who always insists that he looks younger than me even though he's 8 years older. I thought it was okay. Not bad, but not great either, just okay. If judging it from a video game-derived movie standpoint though, it guess it deserves an Oscar. I thought the story was pretty good although it had its share of plot holes. The acting...ehh, mediocre at best, although I did like Milla Jovavich (and her character too!). I'm not exactly sure why she had such superior fighting skills to the crack assault team that accompanied her. I mean, they were dying like chumps! Even her male counterpart was rather lackluster in fighting skills. The special effects were okay. There was no one thing that I can recall as standing out, but I have to admit I had trouble watching the zombies. Call me a wuss, but I've always had problems with human-looking people eating other people. Zombie dogs and horribly mutated creatures with extra-long tongues though? Bring 'em on! It did a good job of being scary though, although it seemed they were alternating between scary music buildup + sudden scary event and scary music buildup + non-scary event and no music + sudden scary event. I felt sorry for the characters at the end of the movie though. They never had a break, but I suppose that's what a survival-horror game is all about anyways, so they did a good job there. In short, it's a decent movie. Worth watching once, unless a) you have absolutely no interest in horror movies or the games or b) there's something better you want to watch. We were talking about the movie after watching it, and my brother mentioned that maybe it'd be a good party movie where you could drink beer and make fun of it, but I think there weren't enough truly cheesy parts (flaming head-tongue thing dragged along the end of a train took the cake by far). I mean, in a pinch it'd do, but if you don't have anything better to watch, you need to seriously rethink your video collection.

    You know, getting into an interpersonal relationship is much like getting a job. And I seem to have the same type of problem. My resume is not that impressive, so I don't get too many interviews. But what I lack on paper, I make up for in personality/style/what have you. The things that just aren't readily apparent. I mean, all I need is that damn interview and the offers just come rolling in. Happens every time, but now that I've found a girl that I really want and there's just no opening. Awww sumbitch!
     
  • Breakin' the law, breakin' the LAW!!! 2002-01-23 14:42:28 Kusoyaro: In defense of my unnamed (previously) self, that reckless driving ticket was a bum rap. The reason I got the ticket was for driving 20 mph over the speed limit. But it wasn't like I was on a residential road or anything, this was a highway and I could've easily brought the ticket down to a simple speeding violation if I'd bothered to contest it at the courthouse which was 3.5 HOURS AWAY FROM MY HOUSE. Damn Virginia for being such a big state.

    But anyways, on the topic of car insurance, please reference my earlier rant on the subject on my website:
    http://www.iwillpretendtocare.com/rants/rant6.html

    I just spilled a cup of water all over my computer case about 5 minutes ago. Surprisingly, my system seems okay! Hasn't fizzled out or anything. I mean, I dried it off and everything, but I bet some water seeped in through the cracks. Oh well, if it fails, maybe they'll give me a brand-spanking new computer here at work. The one I use at home is faster than this piece of crap.

    Maybe you're just looking at the wrong insurance companies. I remember you were telling me about that $240/month State Farm quote. My friend was on State Farm a few years ago and he got hit by a car that backed up 50 feet in a parking lot. The woman who hit him actually had the gall to try and bring him to court, but she later dropped the case, probably realizing how stupid she was. The insurance company still raised his rates even though he was totally not at fault. Besides, isn't State Farm the insurance company that will give insurance to anyone regardless of their past driving records? They're notorious for charging super-high rates because they can.
     
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