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Once again, I lay my entry upon the altar of the mighty Idol gods. As always, may they be kind, generous and benevolent...


( A Grimm Childhood... )




This has been my entry for therealljidol Season 8, Topic 27: Once Upon a Time. As always, thank you for stopping by to give me a read and thank you so much for all of your support over the weeks of the game. I can't tell you how much it means to me. So thank you! When (if) the poll opens, don't forget to swing on by, read some really fantastic stuff and spread a little voting-love around!!! Thanks, guys!!!

Good Saturday, Good People! And how fares thee all?

I'm telling you, I was so ready to put this week in the rearview back on like Wednesday so I'm *very* glad that it's the weekend. But hey, I survived so that's a good thing, right?

It's Saturday.... whew. It's been a long week with a lot of suck for a lot of people in a lot of different ways. Just know that if you're going through a rough patch, that I'm keeping good thoughts for you guys. And if you ever need to bend an ear, so to speak, please feel free to shoot me an email. I'm always here to listen. Love you guys!

So I spent the morning kicking back and screwing around online (as evidenced by my post earlier this morning). I also did manage to get my Idol piece for the week written. Well, I have one small scene left to write and some editing to do of course, but it came together nicely. I suppose you could say that my piece this week was inspired a bit by Mother's Day being tomorrow and all. Ahem. But having it more or less done is a good thing and takes away the stress of having to bang it out an hour before the deadline like I did last week. Ugh. Unless it really sucks and has to be rewritten. Which is a possibility. I think the wonderful content editor I have in pixie117 will be able to tell me if it's a tweaker and keeper or something better left to in a toilet bowl and flushed.

pixie117 and I are in dire need of some downtime. Lots of turn off the brain time is in order. I'm hoping we have time to watch at least a few of the Game of Thrones series. I'm going to swing by the video store and hopefully they'll have it. But we'll see. If nothing else, it will be our new Wednesday night chill-out time viewing since Survivor is wrapping up tomorrow night! Booooo on the no more Survivor thing for a while. And hey, shaddap. We all have our guilty pleasures. Don't judge.

I'm also on the hunt for some new material for POD II. The existing POD II project hit a bit of a bump in my brain and I think it will be best served to be moved to the back burner temporarily until I can figure out the fix for it. I don't want to scrap it as I think there is some good stuff there. But there's a fatal flaw in the design that needs to be worked out before I can turn it loose again. So hopefully, with some conversation and maybe surfing around on the web, I'll come up with a new idea. No, not hopefully. I will come up with a new idea that I can start hammering out beginning on Monday. This will happen. Momentum must be sustained.

Managed to cut my hair this morning. I have the worst hair in the history of hair. It's thick, curly/wavy and just totally unruly. I will never have the perfectly coiffed locks you see in the magazines. So the easiest thing for me to do is just shave it. Not Kojak-style, of course. I don't take it all the way down to my skull. But it is pretty high and tight. And not wanting to pay a barber $20 to do it, I've learned to do it myself. The sister-unit even gave me the Cadillac of hair-shaving things for Christmas one year. I think I've gotten pretty good at it too! Apparently this morning, I was distracted enough by writing my Idol piece and watching epic rap battles that I somehow managed to miss just about the entire back of my dome. Whoops. I thought I was done and about half an hour later, I realized that I had some freaky Asian near-mullet going on. Whoops. So needless to say, I had to correct that little mistake. There's nothing worse than an Asian mullet.

Well, looks like it's about time for me to go hose all of the hair off of me and get myself together to head on over to pixie117's place! Hope you all have a fantastic weekend!!!!

So how did the Universe treat you all this week? Was it all sunshine and roses? Or was it scraps on the mulching pile? Did it treat you kindly or were you given a snubbing? What were the highlights and the lowlights of your week? What is going on in your worlds, folks?

You know the drill... this is your sandbox, so feel free to jump on in and play a while. Need to rant or vent about something? Need to sing somebody's praises from the rooftops? Need to get up on your soapbox and verbally obliterate something or somebody? Got a funny joke to share? An amusing anecdote? A dirty haiku or limerick? Anything and everything is welcome and encouraged here. The spotlight is now yours, boys and girls.

As always, the Purge Bucket is open for your convenience. Spew forth, my friends!!!

Okay, it's Saturday morning, I'm enjoying my coffee, my purring kitty and I'm having way too much fun watching some of these silly "rap battle" videos. It's seriously goofy but fun stuff. The folks that put these together are hilarious. And of course, I was very excited to see that there was a Dr. Seuss battle! Most of you know that I'm a total Seuss-ophile so this just made me laugh and of course, I'm quite sure the good Doctor won the battle!

But... let's hear what YOU think! Here are two battles for you to watch and judge for yourself...

Battle #1: Mr. T vs Mister Rogers




Battle #2: Dr. Seuss vs William Shakespeare




Time to sound off... who won?

Poll #1839914 Epic Rap Battles of History
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 8

Who Won Battle #1?

Who Won Battle #2?

Once again, I lay my offering upon the altar of the mighty Idol gods. As always, may they be kind and generous...


( The House Always Wins... )




This has been my entry for therealljidolSeason 8, Topic 26: Sated. As always, thank you for stopping by to give me a read. Your support and encouragement over all these crazy weeks means the world to me. So sincerely, thank you. Once the polls open... if they open... don't forget to swing on by, read some of the other fantastic pieces and spread a little voting-love around! Thanks, guys!!!

Good day once again, my friends!

'tis another Saturday meaning we all made it through another week. It was questionable for me this week, I tell you. My putting-up-with-s**t meter had topped out and I was completely ragey by Wednesday. Seriously. It was a rough one. But I survived... and I managed to not commit mass homicide which is a good thing. I think. I'm relatively sure anyway.

Well, the week is over thankfully. It will be a nice weekend hanging out with pixie117, I'm sure. We both need some serious downtime so we don't have anything big planned for the weekend. I'm sure there will be lounging about and probably working on our entries for Idol for the week. But the priority is just chilling out. So that will be good.

Other than the rage inducing work week, things were basically mellow. I was able to get some real work in and was pretty productive on POD I, so that makes me happy. I think I can safely say that I'm done with it... or as done as I'm going to let myself be with it. It's time to shift all of my focus onto POD II and get that engine up and running. I'm sure I'll ponder it in the back of my mind over the weekend but the real work on it has to start on Monday. It's time to get that beast off the ground... or at least get it into a position to get it off the ground! Either way, I'm really looking forward to being able to put all of my focus and attention on one thing and run with it. So that's a good thing.

So how about you, kids? How was your week? How did the Universe treat you? Was it kind and mellow to you? Did it incite homicidal feelings in you? Did you actually act on them if it did??? What's new and exciting in your worlds? What have been the highlights and the lowlights of your week? What was truly excellent and what was horribly bogus? (Sorry for the reference... we actually had a discussion about Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure at work this week... *facepalm*) Ahem. So what's going on in your worlds, everybody???

You know the drill... got a funny story, dirty joke or racy haiku? Need to get up on your soapbox and get something off your chest? Need to stand up on a mountaintop and shout out to the world? Something got you frothing at the mouth so bad you just need to rant it out? Somebody give you warm fuzzies and you want to tell the world about it? Anything and everything is welcome here. This is your sandbox, so jump on in and play a while. The spotlight is yours.

As always... the Purge Bucket is open for your convenience... spew forth, my friends!

I need to get a move on and get myself together here but before I go... you just never know what you're going to stumble across on the internets. There is some seriously funny stuff floating around out there. So for your amusement, here is something I ran across that had me cracking up... Epic Rap Battles of History... Enjoy!


And yes... I acknowledge the fact that I sometimes have the sense of humor of a junior high school boy... :-)

In yet another Idol twist, this is another week of Intersections. I was fortunate enough to snage the delightfully creepy alleyalligator... a very awesome partner indeed! Check out her entry Here!!! And below the cut is my contribution to our team effort this week!


( About Those Voices in your Head... )




This has been my entry for therealljidol Season 8, Topic 25. This has been an intersection round, so don't forget to take a look at my awesome partner alleyalligator's entry which can be found HERE!!! As always, thank you for stopping by to give me a read and for all of your support all of these weeks. It really is very much appreciated. Assuming we have a poll, feel free to swing on by, take a look at some of the other fantastic entries and spread a little voting love around! Thanks, guys!!!

Well good Saturday, good people!!!! And how are you today, my fine, feathered friends? How has your week been?

Because a couple of folks had asked, I just wanted to let you all know that the sister-unit got the results of her biopsy back and thankfully, she is cancer-free!!! We all breathed a ginormous freaking sigh of relief, I tell you. Thank you again to everybody for your good thoughts and energy. You all are the absolute best and I appreciate the hell out of you. Big, group hug for everybody.

This week has been pretty mellow, which is a good thing. Lots of work on the work front and the typical annoyances but nothing out of the ordinary. Which is a very good thing. Annoying co-workers are sometimes bad for my health... which is ultimately bad for their health because eventually, I'm going to snap and go on a homicidal rampage. Thankfully though, this was not the week for that. So I count that as a big win!

As usual, I'm behind on my El Jay'ing... I went through this morning and tried to respond to older comments and over the last week or so have been doing better about keeping up with you lot of crazies... but I'm still behind! So I'm sorry if I'm slow to respond to anything. I will eventually get there and get caught up. I promise!!! It will happen, dammit! I love you guys and want to stay up on what's going on in your worlds. So thanks for being patient with me and not simply running me out of your journals on a rail when I'm slow and behind. I think with one major thing now officially off of my plate, it will be easier!

On the good news front, major revision operations have been completed and in the battle of Project O' Doom I, myself and my allies have been victorious! Mission Accomplished! Sorry... channeling Dubya there for a moment... spending far too much time dealing with right-wing trolls these days. Ahem. As I was saying, I have finished the major revisions to POD I and now it's one final housekeeping sweep and then this sucker is ready to be set loose upon the earth. I don't quite know how I feel about it yet... meaning, I don't know how I feel about it being done. I look at it and feel totally stoked that I've finally finished a major project. That has me doing cartwheels. Other than that though... it's a really weird feeling for me. I can't explain it to myself let alone anybody else so suffice it to say, it feels weird. lol... lots of being pleased, lots of excitement and lots of other things I can't quite identify mixed in with it.

So yeah... it's finally done. And it does totally rock. The being done part... the "rockitude" of the finished product is not within my power to determine. :-)

So anyway... I should get on the ball and head on down to pixie117's place. We don't have anything firmly planned today so we'll see what sort of trouble and adventure we can get ourselves into. Her new roomie is moving in today so it might not be a bad idea to make ourselves scarce for a bit while she settles in. Not sure what the day holds yet though. We shall see!

So how about you, good people? What is going on in your worlds? How has the Universe treated you this week? Has it been good, bad or downright ugly to you? What's new and exciting? Old and boring? Have you felt compelled to strap your dog or cat to the top of the car and drive away? Any members of your family maybe? What have been the highlights and lowlights of your week, my friends?

Once again, anything and everything is encouraged here. Got a funny story, dirty joke or suggestive haiku? Feel the need to climb up on your soapbox and throw out a blistering rant? Need to fling open the window and shout to the world that you're mad as hell and aren't going to take it anymore? Need to spread a little love and encouragement around? Need some love and encouragement sent back to you? Well, this is the place to do it. The spotlight is yours so feel free to jump on up and tell us all what's on your mind! This is your playground, so jump up on the monkey-bars and have a go at it!

As always, the Purge Bucket is open for your convenience... spew forth, my friends! And have a fantastic weekend!!!!

Well Happy Hump Day, Good People...

And welcome to the middle of the week. How has your week treated you so far?

The day was actually surprisingly mellow(ish) around Ye Olde Salt Mine today so I got caught up a bit on my ol' El Jay... though I'm still behind on replying to comments big time. I'm sorry, guys! I have yet to find the balance between work (where I can't screw off most of the day anymore), working on my stuff at home and then trying to keep up with various projects. I do eventually get around to responding but it takes me a little bit. I have a feeling when I clear POD I off my plate, things will ease up a little bit and I'll be better able to find a balance between work and play! Here's hoping anyway.

Heading over to pixie117's tonight so we can clean. Very exciting, romantic evening, eh? Her new roomie is moving in this weekend and her old roomie just moved out... and didn't clean a motherf***ing thing. And let me tell you, that girl is a freaking PIG. Seriously. Her carpets are completely black... I'm sure some of it is hair from her cat but I bet a lot of it isn't. Needless to say, the girl left behind a lot of things to be cleaned before the room is fit for human habitation again. Sheeesh. What a rude, rude, rude little twit. I mean, who doesn't freaking clean up after themselves??? Who doesn't clean when they're moving out??? Stupid, arrogant, rude little girls with a sense of entitlement, I suppose. Ugh.

But hey, at least I'll get to spend some time with pixie117 tonight. That will make it all worth it. I'm sure we'll take Annabelle over to the dog park for a bit, have some dinner and watch Survivor together because we're dorks like that.

And then tomorrow... I'm going to finish off POD I if it kills me. I'm seriously *this* freaking close to finishing it and I'm dying to put a friggin' stake in this sucker. So yeah... a few more hours tomorrow night and my plate shall be clear. As far as POD I goes, anyway.

Well... it's quittin' time!!! I love getting out of work so early in the afternoon! But before I go, allow me to leave you with your Hump Day Poll of Random Pointlessness...

Hope you all are having a fantastic day!!!


Poll #1836277 Your Wednesday Poll of Random Pointlessness...
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 46

Can You Use Chopsticks?

Who Makes The Best Burger?

If Forced To Choose... Which Do You Prefer?

Would You Rather...

Which Upcoming Movie Is Going To Suck The Hardest?

How Many Text Messages Do You Send Per Day?

Ice Cream Sundae Checklist:

Who Wins A No-Holds Barred, Steel Cage Death Match?

Once again, I lay my entry on the altar of the mighty Idol gods. As always, may they be kind and benevolent...


( Go Balls Out... )




This has been my entry for therealljidol Season 8, Topic 24: "In Your Wheelhouse"> As always, thank you for stopping by to give me a read. Your support is truly, truly, truly appreciated and means a lot to me. Don't forget to stop on by the polls when (if) they open, read some of the fantastic entries and spread a little voting-love around!

Greetings once more, fellow travelers on this here rock. And a Happy Saturday to youse guys!

First off, I wanted to thank everybody who sent warm thoughts to my big sis earlier this week. She came through the procedure just fine. Now it's just a matter of waiting to hear back. Which probably won't be until next Thursday. She seems to be doing well overall though I can see the worry in her face sometimes. But she's doing her best to keep that locked down. So for now, we wait. Bleh.

But thank you all for the good thoughts and well wishes. I am just continually amazed by the warmth and generosity of people around here on LJ. A lot of us have never met, will likely (and unfortunately) probably not get to meet and talk over a cup of coffee but the genuine warmth and generosity is amazing and wonderful. I've seen people give from the heart and from the wallet for so many people and have seen them really rally around their LJ friends in all my years here. It really makes me smile and feel good about humanity. I just want you all to know that I appreciate you guys from the bottom of my heart. You are a wonderful and inspiring group of folks. So thank you for being you and for being so kind to me and to one another. It's easy to be cynical and mean these days... and we see it A LOT especially here on the internets but it's nice to see the flip side of that and see such wonderful warmth and generosity from so many people. So thank you.

Well... it was another typical week here. Work, work, deal with idiots at work, work, work, try to avoid prison for stabbing idiot co-workers in the eye with a #2 pencil, work, work... you know, the usual. There were a few wrinkles to the week... my sister's thing for instance. But I did get to spend Monday night and all of Tuesday with pixie117 who had some oral surgery done. The girl is tough. I'm quite certain I would have been curled up in a ball in the corner whimpering and crying but she came through it feeling okay for the most part. She's had some aches and pains that one would expect from having part of your jaw shaved off but she is a tough, tough girl. And it was nice getting to hang out with her and play "nursemaid". Not that I did much but still. We hung out and I did my best to make sure she was taken care of. Plus I wasn't at work on Tuesday which is a double-bonus!

I am so tantalizingly close to finishing off Project O' Doom I. I started in on the revision/overhaul of the last section last night. After that, it's a matter of reading it over all of the sections one final time and making any last minute tweaks and then finally releasing it back out into the wild. I'm actually starting to get excited about seeing the end of the line for this one. I'm excited to take it to Phase II and see what comes of it. Super excited even. I'm hoping to have that done and off my plate completely by Monday or Tuesday of next week and after that... it shall be set free. And then I can turn my whole focus and attention back on Project O' Doom II which has been feeling somewhat neglected of late. I still take it out and play with it but it doesn't have my whole focus and it knows it so it's fighting me a bit and progress has been a bit slow with it. So hopefully, we can kiss and make up next week and get that rolling again. Which is also exciting for me. Though I probably shouldn't talk about it so much so as to not appear that I'm bragging or beating my chest about it. Ahem.

Anyway... all in all, it was a decent week. Obviously, some worries but I'm going to keep thinking good thoughts and hope that everything turns out for the best. pixie117 and I had a bit of an adventure last weekend that you can read about in my earlier post. Not sure what this weekend holds just yet but there may be another adventure in the mix! We'll just see how the poor girl is feeling today.

So what about you, my fine, feathered friends? How was your week? Was it full of stress or did you celebrate 420 and mellow the hell out with a bag of Cheetos and nature show documentaries? What have been the highlights and lowlights of your week? What made the final production and what ended up on the cutting room floor? How has the Universe treated you? With a velvet glove or an iron fist? Has humanity made you believe in kindness again or has it made you want to stab people with a spork more than ever?

This is your place, as you know and you are free to use it as you see fit. Got a funny story? A hilarious joke or a dirty hiaku? All things are welcomed and encouraged here. Get up on your soapbox and shout to the heavens. Get it off your chest and clear the air. Rant away or use the space to give a special shout out to somebody... tell them that you love them! This is your spot to let us know what's on your mind!

As always, the Purge Bucket is open for your convenience... spew forth, my friends!!!

Once again, here is my offering laid upon the altar of the mighty Idol gods. As always, may they be kind and generous...

This one ran a little long. Sorry, guys. I hope you'll stick with me though...

( Soak Up The Sun... )






This has been my entry for therealljidol Season 8, topic 23: The Weak Force. As always, I thank you for stopping by to give me a read and for your constant support throughout this crazy season! It means a lot to me. Don't forget to swing on by the polls when they open, read some of the other fantastic pieces and spread a little voting love around! Thanks, guys!!!

Good Saturday one again, good people! Greetings and Salutations, one and all.

And how fares the all this fine day? 'tis sunny and blue skies all around So Cal now. Though yesterday, it rained down in freaking buckets. There was even a little thunder and lightning which was awesome. And a huge waterspout off the coast in Corona del Mar... which would have been super-awesome had I gotten to see it live and in person. *le sigh* One of these days, I'm going to fulfill my dream of going tornado chasing. One day.

Anyway... it was a pretty decent week around these parts. Work was... well... work, which is always somewhat bleh. But you gotta pay the bills so what are you gonna do? I was pretty productive on the writing front and am making some real progress toward finishing out Project O' Doom I while keeping the fires burning on Project O' Doom II as well. I have to be honest, I'm not really *feeling* POD II as much as I was before. I'm unsure of it at the moment. But it could also be that I'm so laser-focused on clearing out POD I that all of my real energy and attention is going there. Once I clear the decks and re-start on POD II full time, with all of my energy and focus going there, perhaps I'll feel better about it again. I don't know. We shall see. I'm just stoked to see light at the end of the tunnel with POD I. Super stoked even.

I was very glad to see my LA Kings take the first two games of the series from the hated Vancouver Canucks... *IN* Vancouver. Now if they can only take the next two back here in LA, it's on to the second round for my boys! They've looked damn good so far in the series. Scrappy, chippy, opportunistic and fierce! Playoff hockey is the best. GO KINGS GO! On the other hand though, my Angels have stumbled out of the starting gate and so far, Albert Pujols isn't looking to be worth the $240 million the team spent on him. But the season is still very young and it's a marathon, not a sprint. I'm sure they'll pull themselves together and win that division handily.

Today, I'm taking pixie117 on a soooper seekrit adventure. We definitely need some fun and adventure. I'm *pretty* sure she'll enjoy it... I'm *hoping* she will... but we'll see. I'd tell you all what it is but I don't want to give the surprise away since I know she can check El Jay from her phone. Plus, I don't want you all looking at me like I'm a total freakish weirdo. Any more than you already do anyway. But I'm sure I'll write all about it later and maybe even get to include a few pictures of our adventure today!

So what is going on with you all, my fine, feathered friends? What is the haps in your worlds and how has the Universe treated you this week? What have been the highs and lows? The ups and downs? What has been the good, the bad and the ugly for you this week? What sort of adventure do you have on tap this weekend? Or are you making it a mellow, stay inside sort of weekend?

You all know how this works... got a funny story to share? A joke? Riddle? Rhyme? Feel the need to unload and get something off your chest? Need to climb atop a soapbox and rant to the world? Scream at the top of your lungs? Well, this is the place to do it. This here is your place to do it. This is your sandbox, so jump on in and play a bit. Anything and everything is welcomed here. So the spotlight is now yours...

As always, the Purge Bucket is open for your convenience... spew forth, my friends!

Another week, another round of awesome intersection goodness. This week, I was paired up with the very awesomely devious and delightfully twisted porn_this_way who was an absolute top-notch partner to work with! You can find her side of our story here...

And mine, below the cut...

( Fellowship and Community! )



This has been my entry for therealljidol Season 8, Topic 22: "Straw that Stirs the Drink." As always, thank you so much for stopping by to give me a read and don't forget to swing on by and take a look at my very awesome partner, porn_this_way's entry. And don't forget to spread a little voting-love around! Thanks you guys!!!

Once again, here is my entry for this week laid upon the altar of the mighty Idol gods. As always, may they be kind and generous...


( When the Moon Hits Your Eye, Like a Big Pizza Pie.... )



This has been my entry for therealljidol Season 8, Topic 20: The dreaded "Open Topic." Thanks so much for stopping by to give me a read as well as all of your support all these weeks. It really means a lot to me guy, so thank you! Don't forget to swing on by the polls when (and if) they open to read some other really fantastic entries and spread a little voting love around! Thank you!

Well Mellow Greetings, Fellow Citizens. What seems to be your boggle? (10 points if you can name the movie)

We've endured and made it to another Saturday, my fine, feathered friends. And how fares thee all? I suppose I should count myself lucky that I'm not posting this from a jail cell as I was *thisfreakingclose* to committing multiple homicides yesterday.

I get along with most of the people in my office building. We're a small company so we're all in relatively close proximity to one another and contact/conversation is inevitable. I can tolerate most of the mouth-breathing, knuckle-dragging, right-wing troglodytes fairly well most of the time. I attempt to find common ground to discuss with them... which 99.9% of the time is sports-related. That really seems to be the only real "bonding* thing we have.

But yesterday, one of them really irritated me. It's possible I was cranky anyway but hearing the sort of blatant racism and ignorance I overheard just sort of pushed me over the edge a bit. My department's office is situated at the far end of the building. Our accounting department is next door and though it's a little ways down the hallway, voices carry. Anyway, as I was sitting there working... rather, working and daydreaming about a life that doesn't involve coming into the office every day... I overhear the bean counter saying something to the controller about Obama and the Trayvon Martin case down in Florida. What I heard next sort of shocked me really.

In response to the bean counter's statement/query, I heard the controller say "Because he's a black president and he's pandering to them.

I think my jaw actually hit the desk. Because he's a black president? Pandering to them? Seriously? I vowed to just bite my tongue and not storm into their office to "educate" them. And I did just that. But a while later, the bean counter came in to my office and I just couldn't quite hold my tongue. I told him, "You know I can hear you guys, right? You know I can hear that ignorant, racist crap you two are spewing, right?"

He looked perplexed for a minute, realized what I was talking about and said, "Well Obama should have stayed out of it and shouldn't have said anything. People get killed every day but because this is a black kid, he decides to hold a press conference? It wasn't presidential for him to say anything."

I replied back with, "Yes, people are killed every, single day. But not every killing has such obvious racial implications nor does every killing capture the attention of the entire country like this has. When something like this sparks a national outrage... and the local authorities *still* haven't arrested the guy... it's very presidential for him to address it."

To which, bean counter replied, "No it's not, he's race baiting."

My jaw hit my desk for a second time. "Race baiting? You do know that the kid was black and the killer wasn't, right? You did hear the killer on the phone with the 911 dispatchers, who told Zimmerman to back off and stop pursuing the kid by the way, say loud and clear 'f**king coons', right? So how is Obama race baiting exactly?"

He just stood there looking at me and it was obvious that he knew absolutely zero facts about the case. He... and the controller for that matter... are just spouting whatever garbage Rush tells them to. It's the Republican way these days, it seems.

I told him that he needed to stop watching Fox News, start thinking and get some actual facts before spouting his ignorant crap. Or just learn to talk quieter so I can't hear him. Apparently, I irritated him because he just turned and walked out of my office. I guess I'm off his Christmas card list but whatever. I loathe ignorance as much as I do bigotry. Bleh. Idiots.


Anyway.... ahem... I suppose that's my contribution to today's Purge Bucket. In better news, Miss pixie117 and I will be going to see The Hunger Games tomorrow morning at 1030. We figured we stood a better shot of avoiding the mass of squealing children if we went to an early showing. We went to see Insidious a while back and walked in to a theater filled with squealing, screaming and way-too-chatty kids... it got so bad that she had to try to mellow me out because I was getting so agitated and we ended up walking out and getting our money back. But we're both totally stoked to go see this movie. Can't wait!

I also managed to finish off my Idol entry early, for the second week in a row. It will be really nice to not have to stress about it over the weekend. We both managed to finish early last weekend and we had a really nice, really relaxing Sunday. We made dinner and just kicked back and watched a few episodes of Once Upon a Time... I liked the show actually. But it was nice to just be able to totally mellow out. So hopefully, we'll get to have another weekend like that because it was wonderful.

Well... I suppose I should climb down off my soapbox and start getting myself together to head on out. So the floor is yours, my friends. What's going on in your worlds, folks? What was the good, the bad and the in-between in your worlds this week? How has the Universe treated you? What have been the highlights and the lowlights for you?

You know the drill by now. Anything and everything is welcomed and encouraged here. The Purge Bucket is open for your convenience... spew forth, my friends! Have a great weekend!

Wow, it feels really weird to be posting my piece this early. I mean, I have a whole day until it's due! What's come over me???

Nevertheless... Here is my entry for the week, laid upon the altar of the mighty Idol gods. May the Ides of March not rear up to bite me in the ass.

( Love and Chemistry )




This has been my entry for therealljidol Season 8, Topic 19: "Et Tue Brute". As always, thank you for your support and encouragement through all of these weeks. I truly do appreciate it with all my heart, guys. Don't forget to swing on by the polls when they open, read some of the other fantastic work and spread a little voting-love around. Thanks, guys!!!

Well greetings once again, my fine, feathered friends! And a Happy St. Patty's Day to ya! I'd threaten to pinch everybody not wearing green but that is apparently triggering and causes some folks to lash out violently. And we wouldn't want that now would we?

It is a wet one here in normally sunny Southern California. It's a cold and damp weekend with some estimating up to 4 inches of rain over the weekend. Yeah, yeah, yeah, some of you out there are probably laughing and saying, "pppffffttttt... is that all?" But hey, when you live in a place where it's sunny and 80 degrees on Christmas day, that's pretty significant, I think! I'm thinkin' maybe it's a good night to stay in, hunker down, stay warm, play some video games and chill out. Driving in California is risky on a normal occasion. Throw a little rain into the mix and people lose their damn minds. It's never fun to drive in the rain here because people just freak the hell out. So keep a good thought for me since I'll be getting myself together and trekking on down to pixie117's place here in a short bit!

So it's been a bit of a lazy morning with the feline and I just sippin' coffee, writing and listening to some tunes. It's been pretty productive and good. There are some things in the works that make me a happy boy. Overall, it hasn't been a horrible week and I've been pretty productive... though I need to sharpen the discipline and time-management skills a little more to increase my productivity... so I'm pretty happy for the most part. Obviously, things aren't "perfect" (not like they are for anybody) and there are still some issues weighing me down, but this has been a better week than the last few. Progress, right?

Anybody else keeping up with the NCAA tourney? How are your brackets holding up? Mine were great after the opening round, having hit on 14 of the 16 games. But it all fell to crap yesterday! Who would have guess that not one but TWO 15-seeds would knock out the 2-seeds they were playing?!?! Mizzou and Duke went down in total flames last night... and with it, my brackets fell apart and my shot at the cash went down the toilet. *sigh* They don't call it March Madness for nothin' I suppose!

So... what are your plans for St. Patty's Day? Partying 'til you puke green substances? Keeping it low-key and mellow? Stuffing your face with corned been and cabbage or opting for something else?

How has your week been, good people? How has the Universe been treating you? What have been the highlights, lowlights and in-between lights of your week? What is new and exciting or old and boring? What do you have in the works and what the hell is going on in your worlds, my friends?

Got a funny story to share? Need a few words of encouragement? Got to get something off of your chest? Need to climb up on your soapbox and shout to the heavens? This is your sandbox, anything and everything is welcome here. The floor is yours. As always, the Purge Bucket is open for your convenience.... spew forth, my friends!