Review of Christmas with the Kranks:
This film started out with a novel idea. 2 parents with no kids left at home decide they don't want to go through with all of the rig-a-ma-roll of x-mas and instead can save the money and take a cruise. Really this is possible one of the best plans I've ever heard.
The film is set somewhere in small town america, where everyone knows everyone else's business and tends to get into everyone else's business as well.

So the Kranks say no to the most BS holiday invented besides valentines day and they are immeaditly assulted by their friends and neighbors, guilted by every schmo charity, hounded day and night by jack ass carolers, prank called by some juvenile dilenquits because they didn't put up some plastic decorations.

To me the film felt a lot like "Saved" in some ways its kind of funny, but for the most part its scary, because these people really do exist, and I'm not talking about the Kranks. One of my top fears would be to have to move into this sort of neighborhood, blue on white shuttered cookie cutter houses, Ginny gossiping to Suzie over their white picket fences, Chuck captain of the neighborhood watch stoping by to tell me my grass needs to be cut. If this isn't hell I don't know what would be.

Oh yeah I was commenting on a movie. It sucked. Too over the top. Same old everyone learns a small town america lesson. Giving up stupid traditions is bad. Giving away trips worth thousands of dollars is good. Go blow it out your rear.

Last night I got the prototype for the RPG catwalk system about half done. Its hot a base and is semi painted. I need to soup it up some more. I think its promising as a product, but I will say a lot of manual labor goes into making it, so I don't know if it will be cost/time effective enough to be a good product.

In better news, my TLC (thin layer chromatography) worked today. Seperation was good between the 3 phospholipid standards I ran, so I've now set up a "real" run with some actual samples. Hopefully they will work too.

To continue on with the weekend.
Saturday we got out the mini motos and got to ride some. It poured rain on us on and off, but it was still a good time. I have to make a lot of adjustments on my bike.
After that we played a game caled rune bound, which is kind of a board game version of D&D. Unfortunatly we played with the normal rules and not some of the options because we only got about half way through the game because it took too long to level up.

Sunday was the big beer fest.
We didn't win any of the prizes, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, or people's choice, which kind of sucked. We did get a "Thanks for participating, My Beer Sucked" ribbon. It was our first time brewing and we did almost everything wrong so I'm not that dissappointed. Also most of the people who tried it seemed to like it so that was good.

Monday it was super humid. I pretty much just sat around and watched bad disaster films on scifi.

All in all by the power of three.
It seems that when I have 3 places of mental occupancy my past ceases to exist.
This is a good yet unsustainable thing. It is a nice break from the horror show of normal.

The weekend was good. Friday was nice and restful. Actually I'm not really sure what happened on friday. I left school a bit early and its al a blank after that. I do remember I had a dream friday morning.

So in the dream I had to take a test of some sorts. The test room looked like a den, with couchs, a fire place, then a bit tracher's desk and those desk chairs in a circle around the edge of the room. I cam in late and for some reason when I sat down they had run out of tests or something so I didn't get one. So I get up to go get my test and realize I'm nakid. This was somewhat embaressing, but I've coe to a point where I'm fairly comfortable unclothed, not saying I look great, just that its not as unconfortable as it should be. So I get the test, then tie my winter coat around my waist as to cover up. Not sure why I had the coat, but I did.

I get back to my seat to take the test and realize I'm missing a pencil. Now sitting in the couches are a bunch of punk kids (not punk like the music, just jerks) they are eating turkey sandwiches and there are tigers running around them. One of the kids starts saying he's going to feed the tigers and starts pulling turkey out of his sandwich and throwing it up on the wall. The tiger goes over and starts to eat it. I get up slowly and try to sneak around to the teacher's desk to get the pencil. At this time one of the kids sprays the tiger with lighterfluid and sets it on fire.
The now flaming tiger comes after me. I stand still and get ready to fight it and this is about where I wake up.

Weird huh.

The week is slowly clicking by. I got to take doggie out to the park last night. She had a good time and there weren't any p[unk kids on dirt bikes this time, which was good. I am in prety lousy shape, though which is bad. I barly made one lap around the park at a run walk. She was all set for another few, but we headed back to the car.

Not much in interest in television or film.
I got my tools to try to create the prototype for the catwalk system for RPG miniatures, but I don't have enough. I really need a workshop to do this stuff. Or at least a good vice to hold things when I'm trying to saw them. Also my saw needs a finer blade. It really chewed up the dowl I was trying to cut. I am pretty sure my idea for assemblying these will work, but it will be labor intensive and probably won't make it as a real profit maker. I'd just be happy to have enough products that we are able to make back the money we spend on tables for conventions.

The film script is at about 10 pages. I have the overall plot for each page fairly well maped out, but the dialogue still needs a lot of work. I'll probably send it out in draft form in a few days. Rewrites and changes will be much appreciated.

If done well I think I could make a bit off of the film too. Since it shouldn't contain any copyrighted material we could actually sell it. Though we probably couldn't charge very much for it as a 15-20 minuite DVD, maybe 5-10$ a pop. I have plenty of cases and will need some artwork for it too. Blank DVDs are around 50 cents, and I'd want to pay the cast and anyone who helps with the writing so over all profits would be slim, maybe 1-3$ per sale. But its better than nothing.
It will be cool to actually finish a project.

Lab is slow today, my cells didn't grow enough so I'm not doing the DNA checking experiment I wanted to. Instead I'm doing phospholipid extraction from spores, which will be good as a sample when I run the TLC.

Another wonderful monday.
The weekend went fairly well. Friday was a nice night alone for the most part. I didn't get much done unfortunatly. The film script is progressing slowly. right now its in the crap phase. I just need to get a first draft done so I can send it out for help and hopefully get something workable out of it.

Saturday was nice. I got up early, went to the dentist and got my oil changed. Then came home and mowed the front yard. It feels good to get stuff done. Later on me and BZ went out for dinner and to see the Da Vinci Code. So for once I get to review a film thats not already on DVD.

First off let me say its not what I expected. From all the reviews I've read, The plot was supposed to be about some heir to jesus and a big coverup. The film its self seemed to be more about nakid chicks and sex. I found this very odd, so I went and read the book...well the first 4 chapters of it and there were few similarities. After checking my movie ticket stub I found my mistake. Apparently we went to see "The Da Vinci Load, the truth cums". So it was back out to the theatre again to see the real film.

Ok, so we didn't have to go through any protest lines or have anyone badger us with religious tracks so that was a bit of a dissappointment. The film itsself was not. Tom hanks did a good job at playing a nerdy art history expert. Unlike other nerdy roles he wasn't firing machine guns or kicking ass by the second act. Reviewers were a bit harsh in my oppinion in saying the film was slow or dull. I thought it moved along nicely for the type of film it was supposed to be. I mean it was no national treasure if thats what you are thinking. My only real complaint is that it was somewhat perdictable as to who the decendant of Jesus was, but then I've been able to fingure out most films since I was 10.
So I would recomend seeing it, but its more of a DVD type film.

So after the film we came home. I was up sick most of the night due to an expansive abount of gummie and other candy and popcorn eaten at the theatre.

Sunday was spent resting. No real things to report.

Not that I don't have like 50 othe projects going on right now, but I'm thinking of doing a webpage titled "how to be a mad scientist" or maybe just a book.
I've read pages on ninjas, pirates, and other vilinous types today. Most of them suck, but there does apear to be a lack of pages on mad scientists.
Google searches bring up mostly educational pages on real science.
Any true mad scientist knows that real science is just the beginning.

Progression or degression.
I've got about 3-4 pages of script, which in rereading I think would be best if I just set it on fire.
Maybe I'm trying to be too ambitious. I just want to accomplish something. Its been far too long since I wrote anything worth reading.
I get ideas which seem funny in my head, but really don't look as such on paper. Which could be my problem. I'm trying to write script around a few jokes, instead of writing a story, then inserting the jokes. Who knows.

I did make up some cool dragons last night for the campaign. I'm actually going to have to work up back story for them as well as their forces, motivations, ect. I'm tired of doing things half assed.

Well trying to write was a total bust. I should have known. I've ben trying to do this same story in just literary form for over a year now and I still can't get much past the first paragraph. For some reason it just dosen't flow out of me like my suff normally does. But then not much has been flowing lately.

A few years back I was cranking out peices left and right, not all of them great material mind you, but ideas were flowing. Ever since I wrote "Drip" I think it was called I haven't been able to put two decent words together. "Sin" has gone no where and as I look back over it, it kind of sucked to begin with. I still can't get my book off of the ground eithor. Were oh where did my talent go?

Living without constant angst, depression, and constant erratic mood swings isn't helping it. It used to be that my emotion fueled my writing. Now I just feel empty, bland and without creativity. Even my RP work is getting weak. I'm not sure if I should try to get back on this horse, or if I should just put him back in the barn forever.

Who knows.

Last night I saw "Grandma's boy" and I must say it was better than I expected. Its a sort of cheezy film, thats so bad its actually good. I'm not going to say much more about it, but if you're into computer gaming, give it a chance.

Not too much else in big news going on. I've been super busy in lab the last few days and have hardly had a chance to breathe.

I did have one decent idea thought. I want to do a short film, which would be a sort of live action version of an MMORPG. It would be a spoof, poking fun at al of the sort of inscent things that take place when you play one of these online RPGs, the kind of people you meet, problems with computer AI, hacker speak, misspelling, power gamers, people who walk around nakid to try to avoid losing their stuff when they die, the idiotic names some characters get, and other silly things like that. I think I could squeeze it down to about 10-15 minutes.

I'm going to try to work up a script in the next few days. Anyone interested in reading it or being in it should let me know.

The weekend was just soso.
Durring Friday's game I got to try out some of the new presteige classes I have been developing and they seemed to work out very well. I was able to put the fear of death into one character and capture a second one. The class and its abilities still need some polishing, but for a first trial it seemed decent.
Unfortunatly one of the players wasn't there so I didn't get to see how the class I'm building for him works. I have high hopes for this class as well.

Saturday was just crappy. Ian and Souke were supposed to come over and do beer botteling, so I wanted to read up on it some before they got there. I spent over an hour looking for the book, searching high and low, only to find that BZ had put it in a box with other brewing supplies. Then I went out to get McSandwiches for breakfast and thought it would be nice to take doggie for a ride. She was excited as always. We acquired the sandwiches, after find out that BK was out of the sandwich I really wanted, then we stoped for donuts. I was in the store for litteraly 5 minutes only to come back out to find a bunch of wet warm presents for me all over the back seat. To say I was mad was a bit of an understatement. I drove back home, gave doggie a good talking to, locked her up then went back out to clean up the mess.
On the second trip out, I lost my footing on the wet slick porch and fell banging up my shin, arm, and wrist. Pissed dosen't even describe my attitude.
After much time and scrubbing the back seat got cleaned.

I and S did come over and we got the botteling done. It took a few trips to the store to get the right equipment, especially since the first time back they brought a pull fill water gun and a small jug with a spout to do the filling with. I have no idea what they were thinking. We got 5 2L soda bottles full and then a few glass bottles too. I have a bad feeling about the glass. This morning the soda bottles were tight with build up pressure and I'm hoping they will hold. I have no doubts the glass ones are going to blow.

For most of the rest of the day and a good chunk of sunday BZ and I were in some big spat. No real reason for it to my knowlege, it just was. Its days like that, which make me glad I have to go in to school. Its also days like that which make me think about the single life.

Who knows. For the most part this is a typical monday. Way too tired, feeling sick from all of the junk food over the weekend. Feeling fat from said junk food. I really just want to go home and crash for a few hours, but there is too much to do.

One B I forgot to add is Plan "B", also known as emergency contraception.
This has been in the news quite a bit lately and more often than not attached to a lot of misinformation. In reading more on the religious right's attack on contraception and abortion today I came accross this article
http://mediagirl.org/node/1262
Which goes through a lot of what is happening. I can't resist posting this gem of a quote from the article:
The Religious Right's inside man at the FDA, their favorite medical expert, was Dr. David Hager, an OB/GYN who attempted to explain away his wife's accusations of anal rape by saying that he couldn't distinguish her anus from her vagina. Hager's influence is credited with forestalling FDA approval for emergency contraception the last time around, but with Hager's departure, Dr. Eschenbach might have his job cut out for him.

He couldn't distinguish between her anus and vagina? And this is one of our supposedly "Medical experts" running the FDA. I realy wonder sometime if the lambs of this country will ever wake up enough to see the wolves running among them, or more appropriatly, the wolves leading them.

Today's post is brought to you by the letter "B". Also known as 10 words that start with B and what they mean to me. If you'd like to play along reply to this post and recieve a letter of your verry own, possibly the letter 2.

1. BiPolar - I don't think this needs much explination for anyone who has been reading this journal of insanity. I yo-yo in my mood almost as much as I do in topic. Even though I'm not diagnosed as such this is much the way I live. I'm the kind of person who dosen't have a lot of grey, everything is black or white and more often than not I see the black and white at the same time.

2. Brain - Intelegence means a lot to me. They used to say we only use 10% of our brains and I fell like thats an average of 80% of the people using 3% of their brains and the other 20% of us taking up the slack. This could also be used to describe me I guess. I don't think of myself as a brain, usually a geek, but thats not a B word.

3. Belated - I like to procrastinate, well maybe like isn't the right word. It just kind of happens ok. So my birthday wishes are all belated as are just about any other well wishing. I try not to be late, but hey ships happen. "Belay that order commander!"

4. Break/Broken - this would well describe many parts of me, few physical. In some ways its amazing how much punishment the body/mind can take and continue on. This would also describe much of the world around me as I'm generally a clutz. Things get broken. I usually prefer a clean break, but you take what you get I guess.

5. Bacillus - A genuis of bacteria, which contains some soil bugs and some pathogens, all of which form spores. This is what I'm doing my graduate research on and will be studying for the next few years. From a word I hardly thought of, its become one of my daily utterences now. They are really cool bugs.

6. Boring - The story of someone else's life. Bordom is one of my most hated things. When I'm bored I think and when I think bad things happen. So much of my life is all about staying busy and keeping myself one step ahead of the horrors nipping at my heels. To be bored is to be dead and busy alive.

7. Bastard - Though I'm not one in a strict literal sence, I have been called one on many an occation. I pride myself on being evil. I would put forward that most people really don't understand the concept. They look out at the bad things around them and slap a nice label on them so they can feel beter about themselves. True evil is a darkness which resides in only a select few of us. It is the difference between a common criminal and a villian. Bastards are nescesary in the world or else we would have no frame of refference with which to judge the good by.

8. Bizar - another word I've often been called. I would refer to think of myself as someone who sees life through open eyes. Most people want to slap a stamp of weird or bizar on anything which dosen't fit into their little cubicle life style. There is more to this world than the cookie cutter life we see in story books. I don't want a white picket fence with my 2.4 standardized children and my comfortable job of moving peices of paper from stack A to stack B.

9. Boobs - Breasts, Bazongas, bazookas, Who dosen't like these? Well besides stuffy men who don't see them enough and want to enflict the rest of the world with their own in adequicies. People in this country need to lighten up and stop trying to enforce rules written in an ancient time for ancient people. Though I should even take this further and say that these people should stop trying to repress the rest of the country with their own hang-ups, by claiming they are the rules laid down by some divine power, even though the teachings of their book don't really support them. I *heart* Boobs.

10. Bon soir - yes goodnight all. I like a bit of french and a tad of chinese. Mixing of cultures is good and will improve us all. Why is it that english is one of the few european languages which has a real pussy word for far well. Just think about it for a moment. You're a kick ass assassin about to off someone, what do you say to sound cool?
"Areviderchi motherfucker" Yeah!!! Mob style.
"Hasta la Vista, dirt bag" very T2, but still cool.
Now if you're more smooth and sophisticated...
"Aurevoir ass wipe"
"Bon soir, mon chere" (for taking out hot chicks)
even "Ciao" isn't bad.
So what do we have?
"Good by,... umh...honey" What are you killing someone or off to the office.
"Take care", "See ya", "Bye bye", "Good night (sweet prince?)" Lordy we're pussed out.

Woke up at 4:40 again to get in by 7. I realy need to compact my mornings, maybe stop reading at breakfast or cut out breakfast entirly. It all just eats up too much time.

Its going to be another fun long day of growth curves and PCR, wee hoo.

No for the dull stuff.
Last night I saw "The new world", the story of Pocahontas and by the powers of darkness it was possibly one of the worst peices of crap I've ever seen. Lets see how would it be best to describe....
Writer/director Terrence Malick, probably whiped up a 30-40 page script, then he directed a 140 minuite film, which he probably eddited back to 135 minutes. For those of you who don't know, usually you get 1 minute per page of script, so this guy must be some sort of genuis. If you read the reviews on IMDB.com you'd probably figure that.
The film is long, really long, and you really feel every minuite of it. This is really a perfect example of how bad directing/edditing can ruin good acting. Here is an example Collin says some lines, then stands there for 3 miniutes, not speaking not moving, pocahontas walks around in the back ground, we cut to some shots of birds on a tree for 2 minuites, then some running water for 3 minutes, then back to collin but a close up, another 2 minutes, shots of the land, more birds, more water, end scene. My lord what crap.
Also the music of the film should be noted. I don't know who did the score but it is nothing short of painful. The film opens with about a 20 minuite landing of the ships at virginia, and unlike the 20 minuite opening of saving private ryan, nothing happens, the boats come in and unload, with many shitty art shots of nature intersparced in it. All durring this time there is sharp fading tones of near dissonance, which is probably supposed to add suspence or something. To me it sounded like a slightly more symphonic version of car horns honking at a traffic jam.

Both of these guys should be drug out and shot. Though thats kind of a harsh punishment, deserving, yes, but I'd just be happy if they never work in the film industry again.

So if you value your time don't watch "the new world".

The week is about half over and I feel like I've barly had a moment to think.
Monday's presentation went well. My boss said it was much better than the last one which made me happy. I feel like I put a lot more effort into this one and did more research.

I had an odd dream yesterday morning. I only remember bits and peices of it now, but there was something going on at school, like a terrorist attack or something like that. I can clearly remember getting in the elevator, but there were these tubes connecting from the buttons to other buttons, so I couldn't push them. There was a lot more to it but I can't remember it now.

I came up with an idea today durring our wensday lab meeting. I did my rpesentation monday on lithopanspermia, the idea that life orginated else where and was carried to earth on an asteroid or commet or something. This idea would be to create a grant to fund research that would build a space station which would be charged with defending the earth from colonization by alien life forms riding along on meteors or commets. I think I will make up some drawings for the space station and how it all works.

Been watching a lot of films lately.
Shopgirl was decent. I'm a bit dissapointed with Steve Martin. His films now are more of dark comides that the slap stick wackiness he used to do. It was funny and a decent film about love, but I was never really cracking up. They get most of their laughs off of the uncomfortableness of situations and scenes. Its not a good hearty laugh, but instead is one of those I don't know what else to do or say so I laugh kind of things.
I'd give it a if you don't have anything better to watch its worth the time.

Last Holliday, Queen Lateffa, L.L. Cool J., Gerard DePardue, for this horror cast this was actually a really good film. It was healthy funny and moving. Nice romantic comedy with a decent amount of politocal commentary. It does lose a few points for a having a predictable ending which is how all of these films end. Its deffinatly worth a viewing and all the better with someone to hug.

The Butterfly Effect: This film is not what I thought it was. I have to give Ashton Kucher Props for doing this. I'd say its probably the first film he has actually acted in and he really pulls it off. I have a feeling the director of it is a genuis. The film deals with time jumping and rewriting history at least at the point I'm at now. I won't know for certain until I see the rest of it. Hell it could all be in his head. No final review until its over.

Thats about all for now.

No, I forgot, its game week. I've made a lot of rule changes since the last scession and taken the sugestions form my players. I've whiped up a horde of baddies they won't be able to just plow through. He he he he he.

Its another lovely monday.
I'm T-1hr and 20 minutes form giving my journal club presentation.
It should be ok, but I wish I had more time over the weekend to work on it.
Saturday just was a blurr. My friend Souke came down and we brewed up a batch of beer, which has been over fermenting like crazy and bubbling over for the last day or so.
Sunday was going to be my day of work, but I just felt like hell the entire day and could barly get myself up and off the couch.
So as usual, I got in at 7AM this morning and have been writing and trying to think of what to say since.
At least in a little over 2 hours, the whole thing will be over and I'll be back to lab work.

Other stuff to report for the weekend, but it will have to wait until the presentation is done.

I wonder if I'm bi-polar some days. Its so easy to go from happily singing along to just mud. Maybe its an ADD side effect, hard to stay focused, and stray thoughts bring me down.

I was going to write a big rant post on the idiocies of people and the continuing falsitudes of religion, but my hear just isn't in it at the moment.

I wonder what it would be like to just vanish. Pick up, walk off the map, and start a new life somewhere I don't exist. Would my past follow me like in "the history of violence"? Would I just be forgotten? Who knows...

I'm also not sure exactly why I write these posts. Some morbid desire to preserve depression? Its not like 10 minutes later I'm not back up again. Heh, I'm stabally unstable. Its the sea of chaos.

These early morning/late nights are slowly ticking away at me. In good news thought, my last transformation was sucessful. Also my cels are growing today, unlike yesterday.
So the world of lab stuff is spacious and bountiful.

Outside of lab, I have been working on creating terrain for RPGs. I'm trying to workout a catwalk sort of complex, made of soda bottles and pipette tip boxes. Its just so so currently. I whould stop trying to cut and peice the tip boxes together. They aren't as easy to work with as I hoped. I'm also back on painting figures. I've got a few neat ones done for next game.

BZ returns tonight. She has been in Seatle for work stuff since Sunday. In some ways I appreciate the time alone, but the house is lonly and empty with only some needy pets when she is gone.

I need to get my journal club presentation done tonight. I'm giving it on monday for real and for practice to my boss tomorow. It should be good. Its on Lithopanspermia, the theory that life orginated on some other panet and was transported her in the form of spores or something on a commet or meteor. Its neat and something I don't think anyone has reported on yet. In any case it should be better than the one I gave last year which was just painful. At least I understand all of the techniques in this one.

Spellsword62% Combativeness, 46% Sneakiness, 76% Intellect, 22% Spirituality
Aggressive, but with the brains to back it up: You are a Spellsword! Score! You have a prestige class. A prestige class can only be taken after you’ve fulfilled certain requirements. This may mean that you're an exceptionally talented person, but it probably doesn't. Spellswords combine arcane might with combat know-how. They're much tougher than mages, like to wear armor, and can cast spells through their weapons. They're very, very, good at doing lots of damage to a single target very quickly, and while not quite as tough as most fighters, are still pretty hard to kill. You're both smart and aggressive, which means that you're probably pretty dangerous when pissed off. You also tend to be somewhat straightforward, which is nice, and don’t have much use for spirituality or mysticism.

got on some which class are you test.
Eithor I'm too much like my friend J or this test just sucks.
I'm leaning toward the latter.
Besides as prestige classes go spell sword has to be one of the crappiest. Its not a best of both worlds sort of thing, its a you're a suck mage and a sucky fighter. Your greatest power is to cast your suckiest spells through your sword. Great, because my awesome mage attack bonus makes hitting stuff with my sword ever so easy.
Total trash.

LAst night I got some decent sleep and woke up to one hell of a dream. All I realy remember was that some girl from school was in it. I think it was some sort of spy/secret agent sort of deal. Thats what I get for watching the horror that is "Thunderbirds" before bed.

Its going to be another long lab day. I got in early to try to shorten it up some, but we'll see how well that works.

J'returne.
Yes after not even 12 hours at home I'm back here at school. At least I survived yesterday without any big calamities and at least my experiment worked so I don't have to repeat it.

So whats the deal with all of these immagrant strikes and boycotts?
I'm sorry but its really just bullshit.

No don't get me wrong, I have nothing against people who move to and join this country legally. Heck at one time or another all of our families did so. Yes, even you "native" americans, you just came here earlier than anyone else.
So now we have a system for people to enter and become part of the US legally. It may not be the best system. It may not even be a great system, but until it gets changed thats the system. Thats the law.

People who come here illegally are breaking the law.
People who work here illegally are breaking the law.
People who know they are illegal and hire them are breaking the law.
We shouldn't put up with this.
I don't care if you have been here for years. Just because you've been sneaky and have been able to get away with it dosen't mean we should keep letting you or even reward you with citizenship. Hell If I don't pay taxes for 5 years, the governent isn't going to just tell me, hey you beat the system you don't have to pay taxes any more or better yet give me a high five and a job at the IRS. This isn't how laws work. We can't just pick and choose the laws we follow.

Now as citizens of this country we have certain rights. One of which is that we can peacably assemble. Another is that we can petition the government for changes.

People here illegally don't have these rights. They aren't citizens. So if they want to assemble and have stupid boycotts, I say we nonpeacably box them up on busses and send them back to where ever they came from.

See the key to doing something illegal is to be sneaky about it.
Standing up and yeling "Hey I snuck into this country and I'm not going to take your abuse anymore" is not very sneaky.
You didn't hear Al Capone yelling "Hey I'm sick of Elliot Ness trashing my illegal speak easys and dumping my bootleged booze."
And if by chance he did, the Fed sure wouldn't say "Wow, you really snuck all that hooch by us. We''ll build you a new speak easy where you can keep serving it."

Fuck no! They shut him down.
Then citizens petitioned the governemnt to leagilize liquor again. The laws got changed. And we have a happy story of american sucess.

I will be way pissed if bush just waves the magic wand of citizenship over these criminals.

its one of those wonderful grad school days.
Its now 7:30 and I'm still here at school waiting for these darn bugs to grow.
I'm just as tired as I was this AM and now I'm bored as well as its probably been 3 hours since I ran out of interesting things to see on the internet.
I have no money to shop.
I have no cash for food.
I just want to go home for some TV, a snack, and a comfy warm bed.

We its a typical monday. I'm barly keeping my eyes open.
The weekend went well over all. We have 2 player character deaths on friday. Well really just one, but the other one would have probably gone soon.
This lead to me pondering the game we're playing right now most of the weekend . Which resulted in me sending out a big email looking for sugestions about the game. I think we're a bit pigeon holed right now. Any character not power build will have the life span of a house fly.

So saturday ticked on by. Went over to the folks house with BZ and the dog. MY brother is up this week from georgia, so it was good to see him. We didn't stay too late because BZ was leaving sunday for seatle for some sort of work symposium dealie.
Sunday I came in. My stupid bugs didn't sporulate correctly so I need to start them again, ugh.


I watched about half of house of flying daggers on sat. Only half of it because it was dulls ville to the max. I like kung fu theatee films. They are usually high action and crazy stunts. This was more of a love story, with very spaced out action scenes, which for the most part didn't measure up to other martial arts films. I probably shouldn't have watched kungfu hustle before hand, which is a fantastic film. High action, lots of laughs.

Thats about it. My brain is toast.