Rasputina

OKAY, if you googled or whatever future-mass search-engined "Rasputina" or whatever you call it in the future, And were looking for their mainpage, bear with me, and it will be okay. I just got back from a beer-run. I ran over a possum. I think I killed him because I swerved to straddle him with the tires of my car, and he bolted instead of playing deer. Inevitable proof that my "you better cover your own ass" mentality is really better for you, if you were that possum. The First year I could drive I ran over 4 rabbits on easter. What I have learned from CSI is that "a body impacted by a moving vehicle stays within it's case." Or skin, you are a broken meatbag with bones if you crash or get hit. But you won't split open.

So when I heard the second hit, the one on the passenger side door, I knew I didn't need to check it because broken meat-bags don't spew blood. And you thought this page was geting stale...

SO we went to see Les CLaypool a week ago sunday, and it rocked. The opening band, "Rasputina" kicked ass as well. I just bought their CD, and I may burn you a temporary copy, but probably not so just be jealous. The band features two female chelists, and one mean male drummer. Actually he seemed pretty nice, but I cannot say for sure I haven't met him. But the CD is awesome, and most of the songs they played live are on it. And it's a live CD, so they have that going for them. (Sounds stuido though.)

I've been listening to that and playing COV, where they have updated the graphics to include all the spent brass my troops leave behind. I need a better memory card.

Hi Dustin

And he might very well be a new crew member as well. We shall see.

On the eve of an entire computer wipe, I don't have the master boot disc, so I got creative and attacked this virus problem with the breadth of my intelect, and it looks like I have it about licked. No pop-ups, but IE still opens the start page with a YOU HAVE SPYWARE page, and then offers to sell my antivirus protection. Well, as if I needed it, now I have ANOTHER excuse to use Mozilla. And I will. And so will the moms if this works. Cross your fingers, Major THreat, I may be on in an hour or so...

Double Life--->

It's hard. On the one hand I am a successful store manager. My store is #4 in the area behind my boss's and 2 others that have just ridiculously great locations. I make a fair wage, I have my own office, and my people respect me. It's good, for now, while I have a good staff and good sales.

On the other hand, I run my own pirate website that I cannot talk about at work. I'm the Captain, and I have a motley and bizarre diverse crew of pirate mateys. We rarely ever actually see or communicate with each other in the real world, (shit there are the pop-ups. damnit!) but we are in many ways closer than most of the people I come into contact with. I can talk about work here, but usually don't.

So What, Captain? Well, some times at work I come across people who are truly worthy. "My people" as I refer to them. So how does someone make the cross over from coworker to pirate? They have to quit. Of their own free will. They have to quit working for me without screwing me and then i can introduce them to the website. Of course, there is always the element of chance. As in the case of Talayna's. But usually I don't make quitting easy. It generally entails an entire week or 2 of Hell, bad attitudes, and workworkwork. If you want to really quit on me, you have to earn it. But if you can make it I will give you a glowing recomendation. Which is useful, because I didn't fire the person in the first place. That happens a LOT. Did I ever mention the 18 year old mormon girl I fired 3 days before christmas last year? Of course not. That is some shit I don't like to talk about. But I'd do it again.

GYAR! I just found out that my archives don't show up in mozilla. WTF is up with that? It's just the blogger template with the posts all written out like code. Why hasn't anyone said anything before now? Or even now, I found out for myself? Are you still using IE? you should be ashamed. That's like driving an import in the 80's. It works good, but a lot of people think it's a bad idea. Gaaz, I gues the new masthead isn't going to cut it. it's been over a year, I guess it's time for an overhaul. You too, candy...

And a new member Button. Want one? Just ask.

Okay, I'm going back to work on fixing my computer... wish me luck.

AMF

Vacation's over.

Man, that last entry was rough, huh? So besides all that, the guy deleted the CIty of Villains and City of Heroes installer.exe. files off my computer. SO I cannot play either one. not that I could, anyway, with all the pop-ups. And even despite all that, it's not like I could hear it anyway. Sorry, Major Threat. I'm doing the best I can. I found a postcard registration thingy on my desk a minute ago. I said "Sell!" I pondered it for a moment, then realized it was a note I had made for myself to sell enhancements after missions "mish"es and had totally forgotten about. Has it been that long? jeez. Real life is so boring.

Plugging onward, I find myself intentionally ignoring the pop-ups and scanning 2 new issues of JTHM. A one-pager, and a three-pager. It's funny, it'll take me ten minutes to scan them, and then like 30 hours over the next few months to actually get them onto the web. Anyway tho, there are some more coming. I'll work through this computer shit, and in a few mos. hopefully just buy my own.

But why, Captain? And why don't you just reboot windows completely? Two questions, same answer. This computer or "PC" ain't mine. It's my mom's. Yes that is Very sad. NO, I don't care what you think. I'm going to have to save all my files (none of them were corrupted) to disc anyway, so I've been doing that. And my emails. But I don't have the moms password to do likewise with her stuff. If I rebooted windows yes it would clear out the virus(plural?) but then all of her stuff would be gone, and everything would start over, brand new out-of-the-box. I'm down, because starting over is a good way to just head into another dierction, but she is not computer savy. And I don't know how to set up her STMP settings for her email. So I'm frantically burning CD's and ignoring pop-ups and just wishing to play COV.

Not to mention that I have pretty much reached the limits of this processor. It's good, but I need better.

Geez I have a lot to do... and Laundry. I better get started.

AMF

Bad Bad Bad.

I am about fourteen point five seconds away from destroying this computer. Not only does it STILL HAVE THE FUCKING VIRUSES, but now, thanks to a bunch of morons there is NO SOUND, and the video controller is screwed up. I am the sun, and I am about to go supernova. I hope the goddamned CD burner still works, because this piece of shit is going out the window.

Unbefuckinglieveable.

Old Skool

Not to be undone by the lack of a computer, I am over at Kimba's house and designing her a new masthead. Again, and again. Picy people rule, though. the get what they want which makes them happy, and happy is good. Check it out over at www.kimblahg.com. I don't know when it's going up, or even if I am done, but I'm finished working on it for now...

AMF

Y2Crack

For lack of a better title, anyway. It probably has something to do with the withdrawl. Anyway, this is going to be long.

Updates! In order of memory:

Brandy I'd be calling you RIGHT NOW if I had my phone, but it's sunday and the cellphone goes into a black hole every sunday.

Secret Agent 009 news. This is big. It would seem that the BOBskull logo that is on the main page and on mt paintball gun case and on my computer also showed up on an episode of South Park. It's the episode where Kenny get's a PSP and plays it for heaven or something. Kilgor saw it also. Do you know what episode it is? Can you get or send me a copy? I haven't seen it yet but I'm totally curious to see if it is indeed my logo. What does it mean? Did it just show up on a Google image search, or is someone a secret fan? Or a non-secret fan? Or what? Mysteries always iritate me.

I ate at Pizza hut yesterday. The pizza was good, but the place was nasty. The counter was black from little kids kicking it, the floors looked as if they had not been mopped in days. There was refuse all over the floor in the kitchen. Oh, and the videogames were broken. The fighting game's joystick wouldn't go left, and the red gun didn't work on the gun game. And they were [sticky] dirty. the service sucked, and they were out of Runts in the candy machine. At one point, while I was waiting for my pie, A couple kids played the gun game. After much confusion, The yelled to the Manager "Hey! The red gun doesn't work."
"Okay, I'll have to call the game people.. Sorry." This guy was about 30 or so, balding, and he looked like he had just dug his own grave.
"My God," I thought. "That could be me..."
"Can we have our quarter back?"
"There's a vendor phone number on the side of the machine. You have to call them."
Heh. A phone call at a public phone costs .50 here. Their "dad" or whoever didn't get involved, but they left after that. That's when I tried my luck on the fighting game...

I took the pizza home and watched Jarhead on cable.

Moral of the story? I notice too much now that I am paid to do it, Daylight makes things uglier, and sitting around watching movies and eating pizza could only be better one way.

{I got everything I need, Almost}

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I love being a Turtle!

My computer is still gone. I am obviously still here, collecting data. I apreciate everyone's collective [Wtf?] concern. There will be no June newsletter. I'm prolly gonna redesign the main page, assuming all my artwork hasn't been destroyed causing some sort of mental regression.

Major Threat: STOP PLAYING. Suspend all of your villianous activities until I get my computer back and you can let me catch up. I hope to se y'all soon.

I don't know when I'll get to check my email next, but keep sending them. I always feel special when I get mail. GYAR!

I miss Kati at work. And Jeff, and Candy, and BTWilga and Corey and everyone else!

In a moment of spontanaity (sp?) I went and saw Cars with Monster and Kimbano Limbano and it was Great! Not to mention the skill of waiting until the last minute, getting there just in time, and then shunting curiosity with a "where's our theater" question, to make it a completely snack/videogame free. I myself would not have noticed, had I not had a severe hankerin' for some popcorn. I didn't get any either. But the movie was hilarious and cool and I'm just a little [26 year old] kid and I thought it ruled. The only thing I thought might have been offensive was "Hillbilly hell" but who really cares about that? It was nice and sort of taught a valuable lesson I guess (I didn't get it) but was a lot of fun to see and the animation was amazing.

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So let's keep it right there. As we head into the hot, searing days of summer, with the wolves of our past nipping at our heels, le us stay vigilant and true to our Pirate code:

I forgot my motto.

AMF

Amazing Post From Abroad

Kilgor's house. My computer has contracted a virus and been abducted by my sister. It has been gone for days, and I don't know when I'll get it back. I hope to god that none of my artwork gets destroyed, I never burnt the last JTHM to disc, plus all the other stuff I was working on. Luck be with ye, and I'll write when I can.

AMF