Kei Katan – 10.21.10

Kei Katan - “What is up?” - Kalaykan codetalk. (rough translation)

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So what have I been up to lately?

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TL’s Law of Conservation of Energy.

For the most part I have not done a lot of anything. Lots of rest and some gaming since I have free time (more on that later). I have done some reading. Got a few good books from the library. Writing (EXTREMELY minor. Damn this prison sequence….writers road block.) I have downloaded a few new shows to watch. Started doing some walking out at night in the cool Florida weather too… Until I realized that my neighbors let their semi large dog loose at night and without a lease so had to cancel my favorite route. This disrupted my patterns and now I am inactive once more until I find an alternate. Gave up on taking care of my pool. It was costing too much to maintain in terms of chemicals and cleaning so its officially closed for the season. (-_-) Had some good times with her.

(P.S. Fall and Winter in Florida is some of the best weather in the United States of America. Period. Nothing can beat it.)

Started getting more and more into Star Craft 2 online play. Which is going okay in terms of having fun but not in terms of me doing actually good. (subsequent blog to follow)

There is a cat I am thinking about adopting who hangs around my job. He is cool but also annoying with all his damn chatter. It’s what makes me like him and hate him at the same time. He is not a wild cat. I think just someone’s domestic that got loose a while back and has been surviving in the wild. Using http://www.wikihow.com/Earn-the-Trust-of-a-Stray-Cat guide I got him used to me and now he is sort of overly friendly with me. He is kind of an ass though, demanding, and he talks too much too. (A perfect match huh.) Sorry ladies looks like I don’t need a girlfriend now. (-.-)

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And so the ship sinks.

Never did a job post about this but. Well a few weeks ago I was alerted to the fact that our office is loosing money. In an effort to not let everyone go they reduced us down to 3 days a week. At first I was quite overjoyed as I had hoped for something like it to happen. (At first I wished for a 4 day work week. At a 20% paycut I still wouldnt have to do anything extra to stay afloat maybe have to cut out a stripclub visit or 2. Give up drugs and drinking to every other day) But a 40% pay cut is kind of bleh. I will be able to keep up my rent and power. Might end up paying my car note like every 2 months though. Feth debt. I can handle debt standing on my head (What can they do ship me to a foreign colony of Georgia… sorry US but there are no new lands to settle). I had hoped we would get some work for the company by now, but its 3 weeks into this and I think we wont. At the end of October there is definitely going to be layoff. I think it will be me too.

THE BRIGHTSIDE! There are jobs out there in my field, which is ironic in that those are the jobs I don’t want to do again. I want to do something new. A janitor job or something where I can be active. Hmm if I do get kicked out of my house I might be able to become a servant at Alistair and Shannon’s house in exchange for Room and board. Which might work out as I can focus on my writing too.

Also another benefit of the 3-day work week. LOTS of free time. I have caught up on my reading and gaming and anime. I have had pletty of time to get doctor appointments and admin stuff as well. And taken time for vacations.

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Under the knife.

Aye. TL has had a few implants lately. My datajack and reflex augmenters are running nicely. Recently underwent some LONG awaited oral surgery too. Got my chompers fixed. Haven’t told anyone at work other than my Apprentice. Want to see if anyone will notice and actually have the guts to bring it up. I know they knew I had bad teeth problems before but never said anything. Be interesting. Cant wait to see if my friends really like em though. My Uma is happy. Gums are still sore. Been healing for weeks. Still cant really eat hard stuff yet. Oh got prescribed some REALLY nice Hydros for the pain. Hoping to get a refill. (Actually glowing on them as I type)

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The Great Hunt

Thanks to an obscure preview of an anime I plan on intro-ing at our anime club, called Gankutsuou. I have now taken to diving into more classical music. The particular selection of music is Tchaikovsky’s Manfred Symphony. So after that I ran into a massive collect spree. I have a lot of Tchaikovsky to get through its all sounding good.

(UNEXPECTED SIDEEFFECT! – This type of music synchs really well with writing. As most music I try to listen to while writing ultimately distracts me. The magical notes of Classical orchestral have a nice un-distracting flow. In fact it helps block out distractions even!)

Some powerful stuff. (Actually has my toes curling up as I type right now)

Downloaded some Everything But the Girl best off. Nice soft yum yum music. Thanks to @VentureBrosBlog I found out the name of the Techno song that plays at the beginning of second season of Venture Bros. Aquagen feat. Rozalla remix – Everybody’s Free. Been delving into Techno/Trance/House music as a result. Which also seems to have a writing synch effect. Brother game me the Halo: Reach and Street Fighter II The Movie OSTs which are good.

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The LMT returns

Very happy that an old friend of mine who I love dearly has contacted me through twitter. Glad to be in touch with her again. Follow my dear dear @KimmyLMT . She is doing well! Yay! And my future apprentice is also doing well in school.

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Status

Relationship Status: Single w/Cat (Although I do have like 3 crushes I am under right now. One particular women is soo cool I dunno what I would do if I had courage to… I don’t know.)

Health Status: Standard (Back is better, but need Super Tam to walk me. Gums hurting)

Money Status: Some reserves still remaining after surgery

Car Status: Relatively Clean with Gas in tank

House Status: Semi-Clean need to wash dishes. Make bed more in morning

Work Status: Extremely Bored. No projects to keep me occupied.

Friend Status: Need to hang out with friends more. Sad Panda.

Sleep Status: Bad, moving to a Nocturnal to a Morning midweek is fracking me

OCD Status: Getting kind of annoying with bad thoughts.

Meds Status: Off my meds because of surgery. Not Good

Hope For Black People Status: Hopeful in long run

Hope For Political Apparatus of USA: Grim w/ small dab of Hope

Social Thought: Wish country could grow up and just accept Homosexuals without all the damn lag. People are too homophobic too. I hate casual homophobia the most!

Life Expectancy of United States (As of this post): 20 years tops. (+5 years from last prediction)

Booty of the Month: Rachel McAdams http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/9590/f3su34.gif

Celeb Infatuation: Helen Mirren <3 :(

http://www.accesshollywood.com/content/images/22/230x306/22691_helen-mirren-oscars-feb-25-07-blurb-ap.jpg

http://paintedfurnitureonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Helen-Mirren-1.jpg

Favorite Dream: Transendant Sex-Marriage Dream

Movie of Week: Starship Troopers

Book Currently Reading: Dhalgren. (One confusing narrative having a hard time breaking into it) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhalgren (O_o)

Game of the Week: Super Robot Wars OG for GBA.

Meme of the Week: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-rent-is-too-damn-high-jimmy-mcmillan

Closing thoughts: Concerning Jimmy McMillan a lot of people see the dude as a joke. But dammit the RENT IS too damn high. He takes it seriously too. And damn he would have my vote if I lived their just for saying stuff that regular politicians are too scared to say. Well and because of the awesome mustachios too.

The Party List! – A lil bit of everything

Okay time for a little Kei Katan download. Ah! But focused on what? What I am entertaining myself with of course. What I like to call my party list.

Jakarutu hit me rather hard so I have faltered in my duties to this blog. But I hope I can turn it around. Went through a particularly bad patch but I might be fine now. Its turning.

So let’s start off Party List with….

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Food and Mead

Garibaldi’s – Restaurant of purest Sex

Cucumbers - Favorite snack food of month

9” Cheese Steak Deluxe – Most Satisfying meal of the week

LTD – “Best start to weekend” beverage/liquor

WildBlue – Surprisingly tasty desert-like beer that can secretly mess you the F up!



Guava Nectar, Generic Brand - Nectar of the Magical Healing

Cake Donot Holes, cinnamon – Unhealthy Treat most addicted to currently

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Media

With the Magic Defeated…..and that Adulterer having another ring…. I am finally done with Basket Ball.

Ah but then….. World Cup began. And thanks to Univision’s streaming I can watch it. Sadly I may have to take off days of work to enjoy it. (They watch bandwidth and other stats here). – update. Enjoyed World Cup this year. Missed a lot of games cause of work. I may do a world cup centric post. I will be downloading some of the matches to re-watch on those rainy afternoons.

Lost Done…. And Flash Forward cancelled. My movie/television/video entertainment front was looking really grim. (On some levels)

Almost done with my rewatching of Babylon 5 (all seasons, doubt I will do the movies though). Sometimes I watch an episode a day. Other times I will mini marathon and knock out a whole disk. Always forget the quality of the show, until I watch it again. Great plotting in the story arcs, and fantastic one shot stories in between. I have a super crush on Lyta Alexander. (I wonder how old she is now)



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Movies

Last movie I saw in theatres is uh…

Iron Man 2.
Overall a good movie. Suffers from stage II, sequalitius tho. Namely too many plots, too much going on. So you get the feel of sensory overload. But in this case all of the stuff is actually good and entertaining. Loved Whiplash, pretty good villain, really loved the Monaco scene. So, Gwyn Paltro is cool, (Her mom is hotter than her though) and then we have TL slayer Scarlett Johansson, she’s almost to potent….though I might also be in love with Robert Downey Junior too, now that I think about. The scene with his father really stood out for me, in contrast to the scene with whiplashes dang. Good stuff.

Now I usually don’t have too many movies I am anticipating or that I even see. (Nope even with free dowloads available I am not tempted to see most movies) But there are some coming out I would like to see.

Inception is that movie. Bit Leonardo DiCaprio minion too, always does a good job in his movies and Joseph Gordon-Levitt is in it too, hope the kid does good.

Next month is Scott Pilgrim vs the World. Not really a fan of Cena casting (though I will always like him cause of Arrested Development, though he gets tiresome sometimes), but because I like the source material I will be watching it. Knives Chau!!! :P

Expendables is coming out too but I fear it might just suck….. Sometimes multi-superstar movies don’t do well. Ocean’s Eleven did but hmmm this movie is giving me that “EEEEEEN” feeling

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Anime & Manga

Been real slack on this front. Haven’t even read Naruto or One Piece in a week or so.

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Writing

Writing has been hammer slammed for a long time now. I have very much fallen into chicanery. When work is heavy it wears on my brain and it shuts down. Oddly when I am emotionally distress (IE hammer slammed by a women) I write better. But work has the opposite effect. It gums up the pipes, the more tedious the work, the worse it is. Twitter is fine. But it’s terrible for concerted writing efforts. During my bout with Jakarutu I couldn’t even write in my blog. And what’s more I have to get done with the damn job first, which can take weeks. It’s like a mental barrier I cant get past. But I am trying.

I have started on my Nexus story. Got a good flow going. Also created a new story universe the Heroes Return universe. Details to come. Got a lot of stories planned for it.

Will I ever reach the point of completing a story and trying to self publish it? Not sure. I seem to be able to come up with

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Internet

I actually been on internet an internet hiatus since the July 4th holiday. Felt good to take a twitter break especially. Hmm stumbled upon some cool little sites. Here are a few

http://www.cracked.com/article_18476_5-ancient-acts-war-that-changed-face-earth.html

-Of particular note is about the sacking of Baghdad by the Mongols and how it has forever changed the nature and face of the middle east. They have not recovered TO THIS DAY. The Mongols reign is incredibly interesting and I recommend you look into their history.

http://community.discovery.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/9741919888/m/4041982359

- Super weapon geek article debuncting myths about the Barret .50 Cal sniper rifle...

http://screenrant.com/female-expendables-movie-pauly-67099

- If the expendables movie starred only women. Pretty good list.

http://www.details.com/culture-trends/news-and-politics/201008/interview-boxing-mike-tyson?currentPage=3


- An interest Mike Tyson interview

http://www.heartlessdoll.com/2010/03/top_ten_worst_online_dating_archetypes.php

- Top Ten Worst Online Dating Archetypes. A good article. I HAVE met some of them and I am a few of them. (Can you guess which ones….)

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Arts

For an experiment during all personal e-mails I decided I would only send picture responses. It was quite fun. So I ended up doing that and motivationals….







My favorite creation this week


Kei Katan?


Okay that’s it so far these last few weeks. I will check in again. I am gonna get this thing rolling a

Kei Katan? – 5.03.2010

Well you thought wrong if you though I gave up on this blog!!

Been really busy and distracted for weeks. Have a mountain of topics to write up if I can maintain the time.

Oh and this is my first post after turning thirty!!! Blog about that to come as well.

Tamara, Apprentice I will be needing your help on an experiment I am working on. Have some release forms for you to fill out, standard stuff so….. Oh You don’t check your twitter so I have to post it here.

Snakeman, same deal for you you bastard. I cant front you the money so stop hiding from me. We had a deal.