Monday, August 29, 2011

bad habits die hard

but at least wendell got the wireless nic (aka, AirPort) working in this apple. this poor, ancient apple. the HP i had been using while this thing was broke kicked the bucket on saturday. :(  i hope it wasn't anything i did! 


anyway, back to the apple. the precious. it still has the best monitor i've ever seen. 


been hot as fuck here lately. 90's and muggy. 90 is bad enough when it's dry, yo. looks like it's gonna be cooler for the next 10 days or so. i hope y'all (cept my SIL. she probably knows this) know that just as you guys are starting to break out the long pants and real shoes again, our hot weather has just shown up. not that i'm bitching about our weather. and god! praise jeebus all we have to worry about here are earthquakes. the mid-atlantic got ordered to grab its ankles the last week or so. 


so yeah. glad i'm still here in california. costs a grip to live here, and the traffic. lord, the traffic. a nightmare the likes of which y'all do not understand. and for a place so well known for its sprawl, the part of it i live in is surprisingly dense. 


k i'm out. gonna go enjoy this wee buzz and bop along to "root down" by les boys beastie. nite!

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

parla italiano?

lol.

so day 4. wendell and i went to the library. checked out three of tony bourdain's books, some stuff along the lines of "mastering italian", and "my life in france" by julia child. my library card had expired and i had fines to the tune of $2.10, even though i'd never checked anything out. transfered some shit that i never picked up, that i didn't know got transferred. they got my email address wrong when i applied for the card in april 2010, and i didn't catch it then.

anyway, i've got till 7 sept. got a lot of stuff to read. hopefully wendell's card will show up by then so we can check out the italian language shit again. i'm a smart bitch, but no way am i going to master italian in 3 weeks. lol

i do wonder how long it will take me to be able to make a blogpost in italian. i did one in spanish on my old blog, i think. remembering as much spanish as i do is making the whole learning italian thing not quite so daunting.

i must go. dinner does not cook itself around here. :)

Tuesday, August 16, 2011

is reverb really so hard to understand?

i ask because it seems to be a concept above the heads of the people in #2. their music is louder at my front door than at theirs. the breezeway is usually a good thing, but not when someone is playing music or waging world war iii with their kids.

anyhoo... i'm alone. wendell had class tonight. listening to some tool, smoking a little weed. had a busy day. changed the slipcover on the couch and washed and reapplied (lol. reapplied.) the slipcover on the chair. dusted. i have lots of horizontal surfaces, so that's a legitimate undertaking. swept the floor. vacuumed the rug. i should take a pic of it tomorrow while it looks good.

i'm finally going to get to busy on some art for my own living room. huey turned out really well, and my brother really does dig it. i had something in mind for this one canvas, but i think i want to take an eraser to it and start over. no pencil this time. actually i need to paint at least 2 things, one a 36" square,  and a 24x48".

yeah... so that's it. i'm gonna go play some ac:2. i need to get it finished.

late.

Monday, August 15, 2011

day 2

lol. is this going to be harder than i imagined? there's a hundred things bothering me right now, and finding *one* to write about is difficult through all that noise. maybe that's what i should write about then? the 100 things?

(well, let's see... the list probably won't get up to 100, maybe not even 10. we'll see.)

1. the months long jerking around i've had at harbor-ucla. for a good long time, i was one of the cowed sheep who didn't think i had any room to bitch. i mean, i've gone to the doc maybe 10 times since february, and i've had a couple of spendy procedures so far (biopsy and ct scan), and my one bill is for $840. it showed up a few weeks after the ct. it's not itemized or anything, though. anyway, there have been 4 occasions on which i was scheduled to have surgery. 2 were rescheduled. one time i went, and was there for 6 hours, no food or water since midnight, etc, before they told me they'd have done surgery but that i'd need to spend the night, and they had no bed. the 4th time, same thing, AND they wanted to admit me the day before for my labs. yeah, make me spend another night there (getting no sleep) to do something i can do w/o being admitted? but alas, their wanting it was moot... again, no bed. 

the thing that really fries my ass? it's rescheduled. for 29 september. FML. i just want the shit out of me, and i'm looking at 2 surgeries to make that so.


2. tired tired tired of being broke. i don't think this requires any explanation.

3. so very grateful for the presence of a few people in my life. and some of them i've never even met. or i've met. once. and both of us were the same but also very different, or so young that she still scared me. and sometimes the distance between all of us (after it's a long haul to bumblefuck, pa, etc) really pisses me off.

4. i need some new videogames. joel's gonna lend us "infamous2" in exchange for a carne asada dinner next weekend, and in the meantime i'm playing "ac:2" for probably the 20th time. the firmware update last tuesday did make a pretty significant difference in how the game looks, and that's cool... but isn't it about time for the new "ac" game already?!?

k, maybe more bitching later. i'm gonna go play.

Sunday, August 14, 2011

been a minute, 2.0

i'm gonna make myself write here everyday for awhile. i need to develop some discipline. i need to allow myself 15 minutes a day to bitch, so i get in the habit of writing everyday again.

maybe i should be writing about all the shit that fries my ass. pick one thing about the world that's working my nerves each day and give it 15 minutes.

i'm repeating myself. i think it's because it's time to be thinking about dinner. it's about quarter after seven. i've gotta put some oven fries in the hot box, and it's gonna be another 35-40 minutes before i eat. tri-tip sandwiches, with leftovers from yesterday's birthday dinner for my brother. he said goodbye to his dirty thirties last night.

so yeah. gripefest 2011 and maybe the occasional recipe. it's on, bitches.