Category: General

The fireworks were good (imagine a big screensaver in the sky) except for alllllll the people (and by extension their honking cars) and the screaming kid(s) and the sand. The last of which I wouldn’t have minded except I wore my second best pair of shoes which I’ve only worn twice before. Nobody told me the beach would be so sandy! I hadn’t seen any of the fireworks this year – I was saving up for the finale. There was a BBQ at Ursula’s before that with Andrea & Brian, Janet & Brian, Yvonne, Satomi, Marlo, Laura, Heidi, Heather, Allison & Caleb and afterwards we played Mario Party 3 in which I got 5 Millenium Stars. Ursy had 2 and Marlo had 1. I feel justified in saying “now that was an ass-kicking.” The moon looked like an orange wedge without the orange.

Oh yes, I almost forgot, I ate a quarter cup of mustard straight as part of a bet. They wouldn’t give me $100 to eat the entire jar though. And we all learned an important lesson about peer pressure.

And Yvonne gave me a hair cut. I enjoy being the head that first-time haircutters experiment upon.

Last night I started watching The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly. Night before I watched Alien Nation (6/10). Next it will be Gosford Park. I’m making 3 tapes of Clone High for Janet.

In September I’m going to a family reunion. I guess that could be the reason as to why I’m asking my mom to try to find me email addresses for all of my cousins. Otherwise it would be a pretty random thing to do. Maybe you come to a time in your life when you say “hey – I’m 34, I wonder what my cousins are up to?” I haven’t spoken to any of them for years. I haven’t seen them for years. As most of you know, I’m not really that close to my family. I don’t have any family in town and I never have since I’ve been in Vancouver, though my cousin April is apparently moving here in September to go to university. So, I thought it might be interesting to email them all and say “hey, I’m alive – I have a blog. What’s up with you?”

So we’ll see how that goes! Maybe they’ll have some fun epiphanies to share. I’m kind of excited.

In this crazy thing we call life, some days will go by where you don’t get 239 used video tapes from Karen.

Other days go by where you do get 239 used video tapes from Karen. Today was one of those days.

186 t-120’s
16 T-14o’s & 160’s and other longer tapes
37 shorter tapes (22-60 minutes in SP)

Let the request for dubbing commence. http://cartoontrade.cjb.net

I’m doing some more writing for the ESL book/cd company that I’ve done writing and voice work before. This time, the assignment is to write a bunch of stories rather than dialogues. Each story is about nurses – I guess the book is for ESL students who want to become nurses – and each one has to be about a specific subject, to whit:

Pediatrics
General medicine
General surgery
Cardiology
Dental & orthodontic
Dermatology
Geriatrics
Ear-nose-throat
Urology
Orthopedics
Obstetrics
Gynecology
Ophthalmology
Allergy
Plastic surgery
Infectious Deceases
Metabolism
Health Check-up (Radiology & clinical laboratory)
Occupational diseases
Geriatrics

Some I’ll write from the perspective of the nurse, some I’ll write from the perspective of the patient. Some first person, some third, etc. So hey – if you want to help me, and I’d appreciate it, if you have any interesting anecdotes about an encounter in any of these subject, I would love to hear it. Maybe I’ll use it if you don’t mind. I would change the names to protect the indolent (unless you didn’t want me to!). And better yet – if you know any nurses, I’d love it if you passed along my email (or point them to this blog entry) so I could ask them some questions/get their input. I don’t want to break any doctor-patient confidentiality, I just want to write some interesting little true-to-life stories.

Like they say in Fahrenheit 9/11 – you can get your country to go along with almost anything as long as you keep them in constant fear. The US raised its terror alert level and said that Al Qaeda might be planning to attack financial institutions in New York, Washington, and Newark, New Jersey. The 9/11 commission runs out of funds next month and is seeking private donations so that it can continue its work. A government audit found that Halliburton lost about one third of the property it was given to manage in Iraq; 6,975 out of 20,531 items were missing. The lost government property was worth $18.6 million. Too bad there weren’t any other choices. Too bad there was no bidding process for the contracts. The Bush Administration issued a new rule that will permit the EPA to approve pesticides without finding out from wildlife agencies whether the chemicals will harm plants and animals protected by the Endangered Species Act.

Unless things have changed without me knowing, we’re having a super special guest to Knitting in the Buff tonight: Stewie’s mom! So take advantage of the opportunity to kick it up a notch. BAM!

What’s more annoying than getting a coupon for a free kids movie rental at Rogers and then forgetting to use it before it expires? Well, at least I didn’t leave a package of strawberries in the fridge for so long that they went MOULDY! CHRIS!!!!

I’m starting a habit of putting a batch of stuff on ebay every week. To supplement my income. This week I put a lot of old Arkham Advertisers (Official Magazine of the H.P. Lovecraft Fan Club of the Miskatonic University Press) up. Anghold’s shoes end in an hour or so, and the bid is only up to about ten bucks. That’s sad and alarming, as Ang was hoping to get 30-40 bucks for them. I set the reserve price at $36 so if it doesn’t go up, we don’t have to sell.