Wyld Tymes

What's the last thing that you laughed about?

2011-06-16T01:47:00.001-07:00

the fact that both my 1st Exwife and my current wife remind me of Characters on My Little Pony

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Would you rather vacation at the beach or in the mountains?

2010-12-31T02:49:00.001-08:00

Beach duh! who wants to go to the freezing mountains?

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What video game have you played the most?

2010-12-31T02:48:00.003-08:00

Tetris

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What was the last book you read?

2010-12-31T02:48:00.001-08:00

all seven of the "magic" books by Edward Eager

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As we prepare to usher in the New Year of our Lord ,.how are you hoping to celebrate and bring glory to God throughout this blessed time you have been granted by His grace ?

2010-12-31T02:44:00.001-08:00

Your question assumes that your "Lord" is the same as mine. It also assumes my concept of God is the same as yours. There is an old saying about assuming things about people.

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If you could instantly become fluent in another language, which language would you pick?

2010-05-10T19:31:00.001-07:00

it's a toss up between Spanish and Japanese really

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Who's the most overrated athlete?

2010-04-21T06:38:00.001-07:00

tiger woods, mike tyson and any member of WWE or nascar

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2010-04-21T06:33:00.003-07:00

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2010-04-21T06:33:00.001-07:00

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2010-04-21T06:32:00.001-07:00

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What would be the best thing about being a vampire?

2010-04-18T04:40:00.001-07:00

not being sparkly

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If your house was on fire and you could only grab three things, what would they be?

2010-04-18T04:39:00.001-07:00

the computer my gaming books and the Cybertron Starscream my son gave me for X-mas

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What's the worst show on TV?

2010-04-18T04:36:00.001-07:00

oh there are so many...24, lost, gossip girl, 90210, melrose place,grey's anatomy, private practice...i could go on and on

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How would you classify yourself politically?

2010-04-14T07:50:00.001-07:00

Constitutional Libertarian is the closest thing i can come up with to describe my views.

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2010-04-13T21:22:00.001-07:00

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What's your favorite type of flower?

2010-04-13T21:18:00.001-07:00

I love sunflowers and carnations

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If you were offered the job of U.S. president would you take the job?

2010-04-13T21:14:00.001-07:00

sure but i wouldn't be very popular with congress, as i tend to not pull punches when dealing with morons.

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R.I.P. Sheba the cat

2009-10-22T02:13:00.000-07:00

"No heaven will not ever Heaven be, unless my cats are there to welcome me." ~Anonymous
"If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans." ~ James Herriot
"If I have any beliefs about immortality it is that certain dogs I know will go to heaven, and very few people." ~ James Thurber

After a 16 years of life and a painful last few days, Sheba has passed to the otherside.
i did not know her long relatively speaking only a handful of years. Pet has known Sheba since she was a kitten and this is effecting her the hardest i think.
i just don't know what to say.
what can I say...really?
sure there are platitude and condolences but in the end it means nothing.
Sheba is gone.
perhaps i am cold for thinking this way ... but it was time for her to go. she was mostly blind and a lot scatterbrained near the end.
she had stopped eating all together about two days ago. that when i was sure. it was time
i am glad that she went peacefully and that she did not require my help. I'm not sure i would have been strong enough . I know Pet would not have been.
as it stands i shall call C.J. tomorrow and see about getting a ride so we can bury her somewhere nice.
probably under the oleander bush in my parents backyard

Prodigal Blogger

2009-06-16T01:16:00.000-07:00

"...so you're back
from outer space
I just walked in to find you here
with that sad look upon your face
I should have changed my stupid lock
I should have made you leave your key
If I had known for just one second
you'd be back to bother me"-- I will survive by Gloria Gaynor

Now playing: Fright Ranger - Oh Oh Oh Sexy Vampire (High Stakes Mix)
via FoxyTunes

So... I'm back. long hiatus I know. what has changed? not much. Still can't spell. still can't code HTML and i am once again jobless
but I've made some new friends along the way so that's cool and I've discovered even more web comics to read. and i become one of those horrible Twitter people you can follow me if you care to. i rather like the flow of consciousness feel too it. one i figure out how i may put my twit feed up on the side under me head. lets see what else...
Pet and I are still going strong. and i have insomnia
I also feel like a failure
why ? same old reasons.
I as i said before am jobless. I don't go see my son often enough and i fear he may be growing into a stranger. I swore myself to protect , serve and provide for Pet and i see to have failed at all 3.
I just don't know.
anyway yeah I'm alive. i may blog again soon

lost friends and regrets

2007-11-08T00:54:00.000-08:00

"Understand that friends come and go, but for the precious few you should hold on. Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography and lifestyle because the older you get, the more you need the people you knew when you were young." ---- from: Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen) by: Baz Luhrmann

Now playing: Awaken - Dethklok
via FoxyTunes

i don't know why i've been dwelling on this lately. but old friends have been creeping into my brain lately... more specifically one old friend Ginny Gilbert. it has been a long time since i have heard from her. recently i saw an artical with her name in it but i can't recall were now.
i knew her in houston along with Keri & Peter Bas. we were good friend fairly close. when i moved to g'town and she moved to Maryland we still wrote. all through junour high and high school we wrote, talked, joked and shared secrets. we lost touch after she went to collage
shame on you..i'll never tell.
but i woul love to here from her again. she doesn't have a myspace page that i can find her siter courtney probly does or possibly even their youngest sister, i can't remember her name. she in utero when i moved.

2007-10-11T18:47:00.000-07:00

"Shuichi: Hey Hiro, why don't you ask what happened to me last night?
Hiro: Hey, Shuichi, what happened to you last night?
Shuichi: Something GOOD!
Hiro winces
Shuichi: Now you say, "Come on, don't just say that. What happened?"
Hiro: Come on, don't just say that. What happened?
Shuichi: I won't tell!" ---- from Gravitation

Now playing: Hazy Shade of Winter - Bangles
via FoxyTunes

hehe i am employed again
no more details for now can think straight at the moment because i am happy

all of this has happened before and it will all happen again

2007-10-03T00:27:00.000-07:00

"To apply logic to an illogical situation is in and of itself illogical"---main tenant of the "Spock Paradox" first postulated by yours truly and the Table

Now playing: Land Of Confusion - Disturbed
via FoxyTunes

well they found it again...
i took the battery out of it so they cant steal it tonight. tomorrow I'm going to get it rekeyed
not sure what else i can say..well maybe there is
i was called by the car theft detective ( Det. Mares) this morning around 7 or 8 am. he told me were it had been towed to and i thanked him for the information then he said something strange...
"Mr. Sayler are you on drugs"
the first thought to hit my sleep addled brain was 'huh?' the second was 'um that's not my name. can't you read?' instead i simply said "No"
"well you know you have had you car stolen twice in two weeks"
"i DO live in a high traffic area"
"yes sir well it's just that you don't seem to be very enthusiastic about finding your car"
" well you did wake me up"
"well you should just be truthful here"
"y'know if i was a little more awake i be offended right now I'm just kinda annoyed"
" well i was on the beat for several years and i know the signs and you should just admit.."
"OK, um yeah i hang up on you now" and i did just that

i mean come on? blame the victim anyone?

what diety did i offend this time?

2007-09-30T22:02:00.000-07:00

"Your theory of gravity doesn't address the question of why there are no unicorns, so it must be wrong." ---from The Joy of Work by: Scott Adams

Now playing: Give In (The Naked Mix)-Peter Gresser

it happened again..some MOTHER FUCKER stole my car
what the hell!?!?!?
every fucking time i get close..just close to being on an even keil of being stable something happens...
it like the gods don't want me to thrive..ok so that's paranoid
or is it
we have/ had a damn good shot at being in control and this shit happens
but at least the cops showed up within 10 minutes this time

THEY FOUNDED IT!!!!!

2007-09-22T12:48:00.000-07:00

"it's over, there's no more reason to cry no more
I got my baby, maybe the only lady that I adore, Hailie
So sayonara, try tomorra, nice to know ya
My baby's travelled back to the arms of her rightful owner
And suddenly it seems that my shoulder blades have just shifted
It's like the greatest gift you can get
The weight has been lifted"--- Hailie's Song by: Eminem

Now playing: Freak On A Leash (Feat. Amy Lee) - Korn
via FoxyTunes

I am both happy and really pissed.
i got the call early yesterday morning. my car had been towed from a gas station and was impounded.
I called the tow company found out i need to pay $264.95 to get it out. somehow it just doesn't seem fair that i have to pay to retrieve my stolen car. however the "Righteous Indignation" is home so i am happy.
but what pisses me off when i talked to the clerk at the tow place he told me it had been towed the evening of the 19th from the parking lot of a gas station....
now pause a minute here and grok what i just said. the evening of the 19th.
it was reported stolen (called 911) at noon ON THE 19TH. as you can see i cataloged that wondrous experience earlier.
long story short if A.P.D. had given a crap about those of us on this end of of town i would have had my car at least A FULL DAY EARLIER
so the way i see it their apathy over my case led to me having to shell out $60 more than i should have.
thank a bunch boys in blue. don't expect me to vote for your next pay increase.
jerks
with (of course) the exception of the aforementioned Officer Gorden (ID# 4610) who deserves a medal or something.

shut up

2007-09-19T14:58:00.000-07:00

"The more a man dreams, the less he believes." ---H.L.Mencken

Now playing: I Will Survive - Cake
via FoxyTunes

someone stole my car this morning. i also lost my job a few weeks ago. and I'm going to be moving soon.
tragedy
well except for the moving.but most would agree to the others
I'm not sure why I'm taking the car theft harder than the joblessness
maybe it's because it the first car I've ever ACTUALLY owned..free and clear
every other car I've had was either owned by someone else i was making payments
i liked this car
it IS a 1989 Chevy S10 Blazer rust bucket with emission issues... but it was MY rust bucket.
i had even given it a name..a habit for most of the things i own with few exceptions.
The "Righteous Indignation"
if you see him bring him home
no i don't have pictures..i wish i did
i did call the police but they STILL have not come to take a report (i called a little after noon and it is now 5:10pm)
no i did not have LOJACK that would have required money, nor does my insurance cover theft.
It is time like these that i am glad that my self preservation instinct prevents me from being suicidal.
******UPDATE****
Now playing: Give In (5ideways theme) - Peter Gresser
via FoxyTunes

Still no word from the cops and when i called to inquire as to when they might grace me with there magnificent precence so that i may humbly give the info to find my motor vihicle i was told "well we've been realy busy today"
on a M@##% f#@%%$ing wedneday? during the day? i'd bet real monthat if this had happeed up NW side or in Circle c i would be swimming in cops wanting to know what nasty minority group took my car.
as it is.. now 9:42 pm (2142 for you military types) car was reported stolen at 12:30pm this is not acceptable
****** ANOTHER UPDATE****
Now playing: Between Dreams and Nightmares (ID: 69661) - Xerxes-Sangco
via FoxyTunes

whattaya know no less than 5 min after i post I got a knock on the door.
his name was Officer Gorden (ID# 4610) and i must say he is a credit to his brothers in blue. He took down my info (as well as the car's) listened to me bable. got all the weird details about the "Righteous" sutch as the largeish gash in the tail gate. and it propensity to not start again unless you been driving for 10 min.
i do hope to get it back...i don't think i will...but i can hope

Harry Potter and the the Consumer-Driven Psycosis

2007-07-25T01:15:00.000-07:00

"You are presumably looking at the back of this book, or the end of the end. The end of the end is the best place to begin the end, because if you read the end from the beginning of the beginning of the end to the end of the end of the end, you will arrive at the end of the end of your rope.... so if I were you I would drop this book at once, so the end does not finish you."---from the back cover of A Series of Unfortunate Events : THE END by Lemony Snicket

Yes i read the book. It was a good book, and no I'm not going to tell you anything. If you are a fan you probably have already gotten the book either by pre-ordering it like *I* did, fighting the midnight crowds at Wal-mart(or whatever other retailer you went to), mugging a member of either of the first two groups for their copy, or stealing it via one of the many forms of electronic piracy.
If you aren't a fan then you probably think we're all completely nutso, and are backing away very slowly when you catch sight of us. (which is prolly a good idea on your part..we can get rabid)
in any case why am i writing about it?
Who said i was? personally i like the Statesman's take on it. the first one is my favorite.

and the online comic Sore Thumbs had an interesting take on Potter madness as well.

who cares?

2007-06-07T18:32:00.000-07:00

"The thing about monsters. They're always doing their best to convince you that they're just like us. More human than we are, even. This way, when you see humans at their shit-worst, the monsters are there, reflecting our best, and it becomes very easy to forget that they're the monsters."--- Nic from 5ideways by Sandra K. Fuhr

So what now you may ask? what is he going to bitch about today?
nothing really
i do believe i will tell a story something from my past that is very painful to talk about.
Brandon
he was the son i lost.
i have spoken before of Mikey my own true flesh and blood genetic spawn of my loins, but never before have i spoken so openly about Brandon.
he was not mine by blood, his birth mother is Crystal's (Mikey's mother) sister, so i guess that would make him my nephew.
in any case, it came to pass that his mother (who i can't even bear to type her name) left him with us perhaps because she was having marital problems or she just needed a break or something. whatever her reasons, they were selfish just like everything else she did and does.
I don't remember how long he was with us, but it was long enough that Mikey (who was 1 or 2 at the time) got fairly attached to him, as did we. the problem was we were getting no financial help from her at all so we filed for T.A.N.F. for help.
they in turn filed against her for child support on our behalf. That when the shit hit the fan.
She called us angrily accusing us of , well i can't remember now exactly, but the out come was that she contacted C.P.S. an told them that she wanted to give him up for adoption. and left specific instructions that we were not to be considered.
that's right the bitch made it impossible for the people who had been his family for almost a year. the people who loved him as their own, the one who would have given anything to raise him, despite their own hardships.
and so...I lost a son, Mikey lost a brother and Crystal lost a sister. We hear from her from time to time, but for the most part we never talk about her or mention her name...ever.
even after all these years it STILL hurts.
i hope whoever got him loves him at least half as much as we did.

Klaatu Barata Nikto

2007-05-28T21:34:00.000-07:00

"The stars predict tomorrow you'll wake up, do a bunch of stuff, and then go back to sleep.That's your horoscope for today"---Your horoscope for today by: "Weird Al" Yankovic

So it's Memorial Day once again. and what have we learned?
Nothing..
As we sit on our collective asses and whine about how American Idol is over so there's nothing to watch, people are dieing not just our solders but
others as well.
but why? why cant humanity learn?
because we're stupid.
that's the only explanation, we have not evolved from the apes quite as far as we thought.
but thats just my opinon
so go today hug those you loe and keep in mind that you are here to hug those you love, because someone cared about your right to hug the ones you love. wether or not you agree with the politics of our contry or not is irrelivent. it is the events of the past that form our future.
and who knows maybe some of us harless monkys can learn from our mistakes, or not.

blah blah blah

2007-05-14T23:46:00.000-07:00

"Passion... it lies in all of us. Sleeping, waiting, and though unbidden, it will stir, open its jaws, and howl. It speaks to us, guides us... passion rules us all. And we obey. What other choice do we have?... Passion is the source of our finest moments. The joy of love, the clarity of hatred, and the ecstasy of grief... it hurts sometimes more than we can bear. If we could live without passion, maybe we could know some kind of peace. But we would be hollow. Empty rooms, shuttered and dank... without passion, we'd be truly dead" ---David Boreanaz as Angel in Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 2 episode 17 "Passion"

Sometimes i wonder what happened to those i knew when i was young. i wonder if this latest feeling is because of my latest birthday. perhaps it is something else. in any case as i have stated before i have lost touch with so many people that i wouldn't even know where to begin.

YA TAAA!!!

2007-04-24T11:09:00.000-07:00

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." ---- Constitution of the United States of America, Amendment 1.

Finally someone gets it right.
I read this story from CNN.com "Wiccan symbol OK for soldiers' graves", and while i am overjoyed that My religion is being Honored in this way that is is not what i mean by "getting it right". down at the very end of the article. the last sentence. quote: Variations of the pentacle not accepted by Wiccans have been used in horror movies as a sign of the devil. (emphasis added) that little "not" means the world to me. it shows that at least one person (and their editor) understands that, to paraphrase Mama Silver, we don't like it when someone turns our religious symbol upside down any more than Christians do.

Fire bad, Tree pretty

2007-04-21T19:21:00.000-07:00

You Are Cyclops

Dedicated and responsible, you will always remain loyal to your cause.
You are a commanding leader - after all, you can kill someone just by looking at them.
Power: force beams from your eyes
Which of the X-Men Are You?

Oddly the above result was a surprise to me. I've always identified with Nightcrawler. in any case that's not important.
This is. A friend has come back from Iraq. unfortunately he's the only one for now. another friend still has about three months to go unless the extend his stay without telling him till the last minute, Much like they did when he was told he was shipping out. but i digress.
i guess the truth of the matter is i don't don't know what to think. you see the friend in question took loads of pictures in Iraq and put them up on Flicker. this doesn't bother me, quite the opposite. I'm proud of him that he is able to utilize his talents so skillfully.
what bothers me is what other will do with those pictures. y'see, believe it or not a well known talking head has decided that they like his pictures too. this is a person who views on politics and this war differ dramatically. I feel no ill will toward this celebrity and wish them all the freedoms this fine country has and a few that somewould take away by claiming we never had them.
follow the clues and maybe you'll figure out who I'm talking about.
i am not one for calling people out no matter what fools they have made of themselves.

and now for somthing compleatly diferent

2007-03-29T23:25:00.000-07:00

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Ok the quote above isn't the nomal thing i do...but it says something about the state of the so-called news media out there. to put it bluntly it's all crap. Murrow is spinning in his grave i'm sure of it.there was a time when one could listen to a news show and never be able to asertain what the brocaster's personal opinion. now adays, it's hard to listen to someone and not know.
and i'm not picking on cnn or MSNBC. i'm including FOXnews in this statement.

another day older

2007-03-25T14:23:00.000-07:00

"Interrogator: I'm instructed to inform you that you have been convicted by special tribunal and that, unless you are prepared to offer your cooperation, you are to be executed. Do you understand what I'm telling you?
Evey Hammond: Yes.
Interrogator: Are you ready to cooperate?
Evey Hammond: ...no." ---V for Vendetta

I sit here and i wonder "what does it all mean?" the world the otherside politics religion the various machinations of the hominids that roam the planets surface.
why? what is the point of it all? there are many days i will sit for hours wondering about that. today is one of those days.
I'm not depressed, not by a long shot, I'm just bored. day in day out is the same thing i wish i could say my life was interesting , but it's not really. that's why i don't write much in this blog i guess.
some would say "at least you've got your health" heh the flutter of my arrhythmic heart begs to differ, as do my arthritic knees
"you have a home" not really. the one place I've ever really felt like home, i cannot go back to. that would be the place of my birth, or rather close to it. Houston, TX. i was raised there till the age of 12 when my family packed up and moved to Georgetown, TX, the place of my fathers birth. it's a small town , getting bigger as the years roll by. but it wasn't home. currently i live in Austin and though the atmosphere is wonderful weird and chaotic (what other city can say they've had a homeless, cross-dresser run for mayor and come in second?)
Acually given the coice i'd move to Pearland just outside of Houston. My Nana lives there and tuthfully her house was more of a home for me than my own.
so what keeps me here? family and a strange since of duty. my son lives here with his mother. and if i were to move back to Houston i wouldn't be able to see he nearly as often as i do now. even now i don't see him as often as I'd like.
there is a profound since of loss there, for both of us i think.
i think I'll go cry now.

it's me again , Margret

2007-03-21T00:33:00.000-07:00

"Where were you when I was new? When I was one of those innocent young maidens you always come to. How dare you. How dare you come to me now, when I am this."
-Molly Grue from "The Last Unicorn" By:Peter S. Beagle

I've had another birthday, not that anyone cares. nor am i saying they should. I don't, not really. not sure what else to say about it really. perhaps later i'll have more to say.

Merry SamHain

2006-10-30T22:34:00.000-08:00

"Kidnap the Sandy Claws,
tie him in a bag,
throw him in the ocean then
see if he is sad."--- Kidnap the Sandy Claws from Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas

it's that time of year again . People wandering around in weird costumes, acting all goofy and begging for treats.... yep.. It's election time!
but besides that it's also close to YuleTyde (that's like Christmas or X-mas or Chanukah or whatever else you call it) that means I need to make a list so everyone knows what to give me!

this year I think I'll go with a light hearted theme... So off to Archie Mcphee we go! Woo hoo!
first off lets think of time... I never have enough of it I always want to go back a few hours so hears the perfect solution: Backward Clock or maybe this Pirate Clock so I know what time to keel haul the swabbys!
but maybe all I need is a little love, tenderness, some Sweet Talk or maybe fiery passion .
on second thought I could just get blind, stinking, drunk!
or perhaps I should relieve my stress in more constructive ways. I should stop making excuses for the evil things I do.
I just may Surprise myself and find the treasure within my soul
or not.

now for those of you who haven't been paying attention here is the list again..in order with pictures!
Backward Clock
Pirate Clock
Anatomical Gummy Heart
Love Rats
Sweet Talk Ball
Flames Shower Curtai n
Pink Elephant Flask
Family Size Cocktail Shaker
Tiki Time Cocktail Set
Martian Popping Thing®
Excuse Ball
Black Devil duckie®
3 Devil duckies®
Pirate Devil duckie®
Surprise Package
Jumbo Mystery Box

Collectable Windup Tin Ladybug Family
Evil Clown Nesting Dolls

S.N.A.F.U. & F.U.B.A.R.

2006-09-16T23:14:00.000-07:00

"I'm going to just barf all over the server now, and fail. I'm sure one of the Users I heard about in TRON will figure this out and fix it quickly. There's no way my User, Wil, would stay in some backup blog for six months!"---Wil Wheaton from his blog

oh goody! Today at the lab we techs found a loverly surprise. First, Fuji had updated our software during the night with no warning. This of course cased the system to crash since we didn't initialize the update properly when the openers started the processor Et al. So no pics for nobody today...And tech support still hadn't called back when I left at 9pm
but that's not the horrible thing. I also found out that Walmart is phasing out it lay-away service! this has got the to be the stupidest thing I have ever heard. I swear my store is going to loose at least 60% of its high end electronics business because of this. So what's the bright idea to replace layaway for those customers who cant afford to pay RIGHT NOW? Surely it's not an over priced credit card with unreasonably high interest rates that requires you to have an income that's twice that of your average Walmart customer and an immaculate credit history?
sadly..It is.
personally I think Wal-mart is losing touch with Mr. Sam's vision of what his stores should be.
in his own words "Each Wal-Mart store should reflect the values of its customers and support the vision they hold for their community"
I don't think getting rid of lawawy, the only way most of us have to save for an item and guarantee it will still be there when we have the money, is reflecting the values of the community. One of my customers even said "their making the same mistake target and Kmart did...What a shame I liked shopping here."
but don't take this laying down folks..If you got this far ... Maybe you can go just a little further.
Call 1-800-WALMART (1-800-925-6278) and complain about the death of layaway..Tell them how bad an idea it is...Get your friends and relatives to call as well..Maybe they'll listen.
another choice? Email them you never know..It just may work.

Why?

2006-09-10T16:46:00.000-07:00

"I wish I were wise enough to say something that would help make sense of this horror, something that would help ease the unimaginable pain of the victims' loved ones, but I'm not that wise. I'm barely capable of thinking. Like many others, I've spent the hours since Tuesday morning staring at the television screen, sometimes crying, sometimes furious, but mostly just stunned." --- Dave Barry from his column dated 9-13-2001 also reprinted in his blog

this is the anniversary of the day that America changed...Well at least for a little wile. I wish I could say that we as a nation learned from the experience, that we saw past our differences as persons and saw ourselves as a people. But here five years later the bickering has begun again.
for a wile..Even a year later we stood united but then, like the disfunctional family we are, we turned on each other. Wild accusations, disturbing questions, touching tributes, and other stuff soon invaded our lives much like those planes invaded our airspace.
so what else can I say that hasn't already been said? Nothing really. I wrote a story , a tribute, featuring my character Wyld and his demonic roommate Ton-kun, exactly one year after 911 (9-11-2002). I recently found a rewrite I did for a short story contest (I didn't even get an honourable mention) replacing the two main characters with an angel and a demon. Here below is that story comments and critiques are welcome:

Izyah's memory of 9-11-2001

My name is Izyah and I am an angel, an archangel to be more specific, one of the warrior class, sent here to this place over 160 of your years ago to defend the pure and innocent from corruption. That in and of it self may seem unbelievable to you, however there is more. As I explored this world I came to realize something that you as natives must have figured out long ago. The line between pure and corrupt, good and evil is not that well defined. This is something that my peers, blindly close-minded as they are, refuse to accept, so as such I am a bit of a pariah among my kind. I am tolerated, barely, but not accepted. In my search to find the truth of this world and it's people I found a kindred spirit, ironically enough, in a demon named Lucent.
Lucent is not what most people, even I, would think of when one says the word 'demon'. Most would even consider him pleasant to look at, even cute. His personality however leaves something to be desired. For the most part he is dark and brooding, like a rebelling teenager, although he is by your calendar a couple thousand years old. It seems he became disillusioned with the seething hatred his race felt toward your kind, and as such is now considered anathema.
So, in what would seem like the underlying theme to a new reality show, we bought an old bar with a loft upstairs. So there you go, the story of why a demon and an angel not only own a bar but live together as well.
There are many stories I could tell, however what happened that fateful day of September 11, 2001, I remember all too vividly.
I was readying the bar for opening and had turned on the TV to watch Judge Judy when suddenly the screen went blank. "A news flash" the TV blared. I looked up and saw the horrible image of the twin towers, buildings I had personally seen built so many years ago. One was on fire with a gaping hole in the side. "A plane" I heard the TV say, had crashed into the side. No one knew whether it was an accident or not. Then I heard it, a sound I could hear even through the cheap speakers of the bar's TV. It was the faint squeal of jet engines. Then it was deafening, and the second plane hit. I roared, my warrior heart raged, my blood boiled, feathers flew wildly about as I spread my wings to their fullest and crushed the glass I was cleaning into fine powder.
Lucent opened the door of the loft upstairs.
"What the hell is your problem Izyah?" the demon screamed in his grumpy, half-asleep tone.
Stunned as I was, I could barely speak. I calmed down slightly and with tears running down my face retracted my wings.
"Th... The towers!" I stammered "in New York... They... They... They"
"SPIT IT OUT!" he snapped, still cranky over being woken up before noon.
I gathered up what little sanity I had left and spoke plainly.
"Someone or something has attacked. They flew commercial airliners into the World Trade Centers." Suddenly my head started to ache, my soul felt cold and my feet wobbled beneath me. I felt myself collapsing.
With a speed I never knew he had, Lucent ran down the stairs and caught me before I hit the floor.
"Are you O.K.?" He said with a tenderness no one but I ever see, and I see it rarely.
"I don't know... I feel weak, disoriented. I can feel the psychic backwash from all over the neighborhood" It was true. Crushing despair, anger, fear, I could feel them, all lumped together. Normally I could screen out such a thing, but this time they were too close to my own feelings.
Lucent looked at the TV screen and the images it was producing.
"Stupid humans" was the last thing I heard him say before I blacked out.
When I awoke I was on my bed with my wings neatly folded around me like a blanket. As I sat up I noticed I had been taken out of the clothes I had been wearing before and was now dressed in my 'Hello Kitty' pajamas. I stumbled into the living room and saw Lucent sitting cross-legged on the floor, in the dark, in front of the big screen TV. He looked at me and his golden eyes seemed to glow as they reflected the light from the TV.
"Go back to bed, Izyah." he stated flatly. "You can't handle this alone"
"But I'm not alone," I smiled. "I have you"
He turned slowly back to the TV.
"No, you don't. You can't rely on me. This was an evil act and as a demon I don't know what I can say to console you."
I looked at him thoughtfully.
"Lucent, you said 'stupid humans' before. What makes you think only humans where involved?"
Lucent frowned further and started to float off the floor.
"A demon," he stated matter-of-factly, "wouldn't have been so cowardly as to hide behind an aircraft"
Again I smiled at him.
"That is consolation enough for me at the moment." I looked at his blank emotionless face and said, "Perhaps it is not I who needs to rely on you, but the other way around?"
"Shut up and sit down, asshole," he grumbled underneath his breath.
And so we spent the rest of the day and into the night. Other than a snide comment that if I insisted on fainting again I should lose weight, we hardly said two words to one another. I finally dozed off on the couch and when I awoke Lucent was gone. I went to his bedroom door and heard faint weeping from the other side. I did not knock.
Instead I went downstairs and cleaned up the broken glass and prepared the bar for its first day in a brand new world.

Copyright 2002 Sheridan Salyer

When life gives you lemons...

2006-08-07T19:16:00.000-07:00

"Even with years of historical research, the more humans try to define themselves, the more they drown in their own confusion."---Kyle from Kyle XY, "Pilot"

I recently found out a dear friend is going to be shipped out to Iraq soon...I don't know a date yet and my friend was very quiet about it.
no I'm not going to say who it is, mainly because it's not important..I have many friends in or connected to the armed forces in one way or the other. No this is not going to turn into a rant on how we shouldn't be in Iraq..Nor am I going to argue the other side of the issue either. As I said its not important. There have been many words wasted on those subjects.
what is important is our boys and girls are over there and they need our support. What ever you views are as to why they are over there the fact is they are over there serving our country the best way they know how.
there is no draft everyone of them volunteered to serve. EVERY SINGLE ONE.
despite the many comparisons this is not like Vietnam. My father served in 'Nam. He was lucky enough to have a chance to enlist in the Air force before he was drafted. Those of you that served or know those who did might say "big deal he skated through it he didn't really see action" to those of you I say "eat shit and die" My father served, just because he wasn't tromping through the rice patties with the grunts doesn't mean he was in any less danger.
what my point is I guess is that when the troops in Vietnam came home they were met with scorn and shame. Many of them had no choice but to go... And American turned it's back on them.
lets not do the same this time... Just be glad that their back home.

Guess who's back...back again...

2006-07-29T02:11:00.000-07:00

Axolotl: What can I gt for the gntlmn and th lady?
Alex: Just so you know? She has a penis.
Axolotl: That's okay. I have 3.
---from 5ideways by K. Sandra Fuhr

Yup Its me again..My compy been broken for the past month or so.
some news..I got a new job. I now work in the photo lab of a large multinational big box store that starts with a "W"
. Other than that...hmm I moved again. I like this place there are less crackheads around.
I honestly cant think of anything more to type..Perhaps tomorrow until then
tootle loo

Another day older...

2006-03-04T23:42:00.000-08:00

Happy Birthday to you,
You live in a zoo.
You look like a monkey
And you smell like one too. ---Childhood birthday chant

It's my birthday. Big woop. I am unemployed again. And I the one thing I really wanted to do this year I cant.
my disappointment in myself is great. Tika wanted us to move and now it looks like that's not going to happen.
I blame myself I should have just taken it like a good slave but my pride got the better of me.
sigh
I wish I could have a happy birthday..Just once in my life

For sale one disgruntled employee

2006-02-17T21:05:00.000-08:00

Common sense is the deposit of prejudice laid down in the mind before the age of eighteen. -Albert Einstein

Albertson's sucks! Or at least the store I work at does. I mean I have been in retail for over 10 years and I have near been treated this shabbily. I got called into the store director's office the other day and was all but called a thief. To top it off he insulted me when he said to me and I quote "well I've never seen you shop here"
bullshit!
I used to spend over $100 at that store a week. Notice I said used to..Not anymore.
I wish I could blame this on the recent sale.. But I cant. To add insult to injury my already pitiful hours have been cut again.

religon and death

2006-01-16T02:01:00.000-08:00

The dark figure beckoned, beckoned in the rain, beckoned for him to come and walk, to come and play the game. And it was time to get started. There was still so far to walk.
Eyes blind, supplicating hands held out before him as if for alms, Garraty walked tword the dark figure.
And when the hand touched his shoulder again, he somehow found the strength to run.---from "The Long Walk" by Stephen King (writing as Richard Bachman)

i have thought long about this, but not so hard. i am a fairly private person and tend to not discuss my own strange veiws on religion, sex or politics in arenas that could come back to haunt me.
today i shall let go a little bit.
i tend to describe myself as a taoist wiccan but its not really that simple
my own veiws are fueled partially from my Christain upbrining and few bits from various religions here and ther into a strange melting pot.
i beleive there is a Source, neither good nor evil male nor female. an energy matrix so omniciant that it has looped back to nonsentiance. that is not so mutch an oximoron as you think.
think of our place compare to the one celled critters.
there are others below Source...the best term for them would be gods.
whatever the gods veiw's and purpose i don't know.
i beive in balence...without it we will spiral into caos.
more on this later..i am tired now

He growed up just like me....

2005-11-28T02:30:00.000-08:00

Father of mine
Tell me where have you been?
You know I just closed my eyes
My whole world disappeared
Father of mine
Take me back to the day
When I was still your golden boy
Back before you went away
I remember blue skies
Walking the block
I loved it when you held me high
I loved to hear you talk
You would take me to the movie
You would take me to the beach
You would take me to a place inside
That is so hard to reach
Father of mine
Tell me where did you go?
You had the world inside your hand
But you did not seem to know
Father of mine
Tell me what do you see?
When you look back at your wasted life
And you don't see me...
My daddy gave me a name
Then he walked away...---Everclear, "Father of Mine"

>The above is a song that came on the radio and made me feel incredibly guilty. I have a son, as I have mentioned before. He lives with his mother, C.J. not too far away relatively speaking but I don't get to see him nearly enough.This is my own fault.
i just don't know what I can do...

sighs.....

2005-11-16T23:05:00.000-08:00

Komu toy_mo
Konu toki aru wo
Koji to y_wo
Komu towa matuji
Koji to y_mono wo

Translation:
You say "I will come"
And you do not come
Now you say "I will not come"
So I shall expect you
--- 8th century Japanese poet Tomo No Sakanoe-sama

i suppose i havent been posting mostly because my posts tend to be rants involving whateve happens to be bugging me at the moment. the proplem with this is that lately there has been so mutch i have been pissed about i just can't seem to stick to one subject.
i think i shall organize my thoughts and rant soon.

So I'm posting..Stop whining already

2005-11-15T00:29:00.000-08:00

I took a walk around the world
To ease my troubled mind
I left my body laying somewhere
In the sands of time
But I watched the world float
To the dark side of the moon
I feel there is nothing I can do
---3 Doors Down, "Kryptonite"

well accually only one person was whining and he had cause to since I tend to ride his ass about his blogs. Anyway... I guess the reason I haven't been posting is that there is just too much to be pissed off about. I suppose I will gather my thoughts and go into a rant soon but for now ..I just cant keep one thought for long enough to be coherent.

Mental mumblings

2005-09-28T16:17:00.000-07:00

I pledge allegiance to the Flag
of the United States of America,
and to the Republic for which it stands:
one Nation indivisible,
With Liberty and Justice for all.
---"Pledge of Allegiance" Circa. June 14, 1924 - June 14, 1954

Hey out there
To all who care
Who read this blog
Despite the fog
Welcome to my lair

ok that was a tad hokey but then no one is reading this anyway so why should i really give a flying fuck? i mean y'know i did this figuring that no one would care but i love to be proven wrong.
yea right
like that's going to happen
a little controversy would be cool. arguments? bring it on!
Are you a member of some weird cult or possibly some sort of pervert? I'd love to hear from you.
com'n or I'll start posting the results of stupid quizzes again

We're all gonna die!!!!!

2005-09-22T02:00:00.000-07:00

And I will establish my covenant with you, neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.
And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:
I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud:
And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.
And God said unto Noah, This is the token of the covenant, which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth.
--- Genesis, chapter 9 Verses 11-17

well..Here we go again
another "killer" hurricane...Though this time I think it for be fo' shizzle, as my eastside friends would say.
I didn't talk much about Katrina or the tragedies of the new Orleans peoples because..Truly..I was tired of the whining and the blame games and the unfounded accusations by people of questionable sanity
now however Rita is hitting a little closer to home
I grew up in Houston...Not to far from were Rita will make land fall and I think what will happen to all the friends I had in my childhood? I have talked about my childhood friends before but today I'm really worried. My grandma has evacuated to my aunts house in Fairfield, so she'll be ok. Hopefully her house, the house I've had so many of my childhood experiences in, weathers ok.
I haven't talked to Keri yet about it but on her blog she says her parents are staying for now. I do hope they're ok as well. The Bas's have been my alternate family for most of my younger years..I have often joked that Keri and P4 were the siblings I never wanted...But I digress
the hurricane is being tracked as maintaining at least a Cat 1 status on up into central Texas..Which is were I happen to live. And as can be predicted people are panicking .
My darling Pet, who works a corporate big box store that starts with a "W" said there was actual fights over bottled water and toilet paper...The truth is probably the worst well see is a lot of wind and rain..And maybe a power outage or two...Not much else.
oh well ...

All better..sorta

2005-09-20T01:28:00.000-07:00

Windmill, Windmill for the land.
Turn forever hand in hand.
Take it all in on your stride.
It is sinking, falling down.
Love forever love is free.
Let's turn forever you and me.
Windmill, windmill for the land.
Is everybody in?
---Gorillaz, "Feel Good Inc."

ok folks the homicidal urges are gone...This is good. As for why I had them..I don't feel like story time right now.
I was looking over J-chan's blog and also Keri's and realize exactly how little I talk about my self..
am I humble?
am I shy?
do I think the government going to track me down and have me reeducated by the thought police? No... Nothing that creative.
I'm just lazy really...
lazy and tired.
I'll get to better stuff I promise..Might take awhile fer da brain pan to start workin' though.

I feel like killing someone

2005-09-18T17:48:00.000-07:00

Pinhead: Temptation is illusion. But the time for trickery is past. In this game, we show ourselves as we really are.
Angelique: And what is that?
Pinhead: The beauty of suffering.
Angelique: You are no different from that beast who sucks the bones you throw to it!
Pinhead: [as he hooks into her flesh] And you, Princess? What are you?
--- Hellraiser: Bloodline

No, No one specific..And hopefully the reason for these feelings will simply pass.
I honestly don't feel like talking about it either.
But trust me..Tomorrow if things go bad...You know all about it and i'll be naming names...

Fever dreams and existential mumblings

2005-09-06T17:31:00.000-07:00

1.) The hurricane that hit New Orleans and Mississippi and Alabama was an astonishing tragedy. The suffering and loss of life and peace of mind of the residents of those areas is acutely horrifying.
2.) George Bush did not cause the hurricane. Hurricanes have been happening for eons. George Bush did not create them or unleash this one.
3.) George Bush did not make this one worse than others. There have been far worse hurricanes than this before George Bush was born. ---Ben Stein in The American Spectator online 9/4/2005

I was sick yesterday..Had a fever of around 104 or so. This is usually when my brain starts going into over drive. I guess it's a bit like putting jet fuel in a Geo Metro.
a lot of strange thoughts crossed my mind. Most of them have faded leaving after images too bizarre to try and describe. But one thing did hit me though... Life is simply the act of dieing.
Kind of dark I know but anyone who knows me knows I am capable of far darker thought processes. One of my writing projects, an unfinished novel of sorts, one of many, is BDSM and D/s theamed..And not my only one. In the many hard drives I have rescued for the computers I own there are more short stories and snippits once I get the hard drive enclosure I've been eyeballing for th past few years I'll get them and maybe submit them to A.S.S.T.R. or Nifty.org.
*shrugs*
In any case I guess that's it for now...My brain is tired

The perfect storm

2005-09-01T00:35:00.000-07:00

One of the first things Mom said to me on the phone this afternoon was, “You’ve never been to New Orleans, have you?” I’m the only one in the family who has never been. Her next words were, “This will probably be the end of the city as we know it.”
No flippant comments about apocalypses will be forthcoming.
I grew up with hurricanes, but this one, this Katrina, beats all the ones I ever knew or saw or tracked on our refridgerator door.
All my hopes are for a low loss of life; alas it appears that the loss of beauty and history cannot be stopped.---from Keri's Blog, "Brain Flotsam"August 28th, 2005.

In this post I will fail to mention my crappy car or how sorry my life is .There's a reason for that, there are others that are worse off than me. Yes. I'm talking Katrina. Just because everyone else is talking about her doesn't mean I shouldn't either. Though I have noticed many things about this particular tragedy.
mostly its the lack of comment from the U.N and Europe. J-chan put it much better than I ever could in his blog. he much much better at communication than I.
but I digress.
the others I've heard is the people blaming the Governor others are blaming global warming (which is,of course, all our fault) an still others blaming the Army Corps of Engineers.
to top it off there are looters.
Boortz has a cute little poll as what should be done with the looters, I will keep my answer to my self, instead I will tell you that one of these Theiving Assholes is quoted as saying, "To be honest with you, people who are oppressed all their lives, man, it's an opportunity to get back at society."
hmm huh..GET BACK AT society rather than GIVE BACK TO society Lovely, lovely people in the human race yes?
What are my suggestions? I wish I had one other than pray in whatever way your faith teaches and give where you can.
Did I ever mention I was less than 10 Miles away when the Jarrell tornado of '97 hit? I lost family and friends in that storm
so I feel for those who have lost so much in New Orleans. To them I say, Be thankful you are alive. Be glad you have what family and friends you still have. Mourn those you have lost, but not so much that it clouds the rest of your existence.
Remember the happy times.
I say this to all that bother to read this...I am here. Post a response or email me... I will be glad to talk. I mean it.

Reliving my youth... And feeling old

2005-08-29T02:19:00.000-07:00

"The War was over...The only survivors were street animals: dogs, cats and rats. From them, a new race of mutants evolved. That was a long time ago."---Rock and Rule

I've just finished watching Rock and Rule for the 10th time..I don't think I shall tire of it, shame I have to return it to Hollywood video tomorrow. Sigh I shall buy it as soon as I have the funds... the thing about this movie is that I haven't seen it in 20 some odd years and then I had only seen it once..On late night broadcast TV.
that's right..Until I rented it I had only seen it once...And yet it has effected me..Haunted me ... All these years.
the movie was originally released in the U.S. in '83 and has been out of print since it release on home video in '85 . Recently Unearthed films acquired the rights and now has it on DVD...SQUEEEE!!
this is what I have been watching.
There are actually two versions of it..One with slightly different dialogue a few voice actor changes and some different scenes was released in Canada.
No, I don't no why..So don't ask.
Well I am tired for now...Go buy the movie..Maybe it will encourage them to find more obscure movies hmm?

Cheater cheater , punkin eater

2005-07-25T15:54:00.000-07:00

Bra'tac: Teal'c tells me your world is without gods. Difficult to imagine.
Jack: Well it's not without gods. A lot of people believe there's a God. Not everyone believes in the same God, the same way but...Let's just say nobody believes in anyone with glowing eyes and a snake in his head.
Bra'tac: Then you serve no one?
Jack: I serve the SGC under a General Hammond.
Bra'tac: So this Hammond is...?
Jack: Just a man. A very good...Very bald man. From Texas.
---Stargate SG-1, "Bloodlines ", season 1, episode 13

Personally I think posting the results of online quizzes and trying to pass them off as a legitimate blog entry is cheating and a little tacky. That being said...Here is the result f an online quiz I took on Blogthings. I got the link from Night's blog, so blame her...^_^.

You Were Actually Born Under:

You have both a fiery energy and a warm heart.
Your charisma and charm makes it easy for you to influence others.
Lucky in life, you also have a reputation of being lucky in love.
Power hungry, you are determined to get what you want - no matter what it takes.

You are most compatible with a Monkey or Rat.

You Should Have Been Born Under:

You've got a ton of energy - and need plenty of room to roam.
You tend to follow your whims, and it's hard for you to stick to one thing.
Specific jobs, loves, and friends are always changing and never a part of your life for long.
Very intuitive, you tend to know what people are thinking before they say a word.

You are most compatible with a Dog or Tiger.

What Year Were You Born Under?

Tired

2005-07-24T13:47:00.000-07:00

Willie: Aren't you the boy that mows my lawn?
Bobby: No, sir. I'm the boy that hit you in the head.
Willie: You hit me in the head with a lawnmower?
Bobby: No, a golf club.
Willie: You've been mowing my lawn with a golf club?!?! I want my quarter back.
---King of the Hill, "Hank's Got the Willies" season 1, episode 4

Have you ever been tired? Not sleepy or fatigued...Just tired.
Like everything, even breathing is just too much effort and all you want to do is sleep.
But you cant sleep because your rested. i am having a day like this. And am not sure why.
Maybe I'm stressed out about the car? Or money? i don't know...i really don't know
why is it that money drives the world? There is so much i could accomplish if money was not required to achieve these goals.
If money is the root of all evil what does that say about a society that covets it?

Fun with the random poem generator

2005-07-22T23:39:00.000-07:00

"It seems very pretty," she said when she had finished it, "but it is rather hard to understand!" (you see she didn't like to confess, even to herself, that she couldn't make it out at all) "Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas - only I don't what they are! However, somebody killed something: that's clear, at any rate"
---Alice in "Through the Looking Glass" about the poem "Jabberwocky"

I found this on Keri's blog
It kinda cool and a complete waste of time..I love it.
It's Rob's Amazing Poem Generator !
This is what it did when i type in the URL for Wyldtymes:

Wyld done by Sheridan Salyer

Location:Austin, before my pitiful thing.

True..problems...But hey...

This time I have had floating around

Love Lorn I remember her

then was visiting for the end it would cause a link

{ on 34 Cilley Hill Road

This but not.want our son

I was talking about. it seemed like me!

to be entertained..

in my 13th i saved you,

may 25, 2005 A little lax.

But basically, how close some interesting news

along the City of the car has plenty of year

She ended up until she is, around.

Crazy, man.

Cars..And how much they suck REDUX

2005-07-21T23:40:00.000-07:00

Lex: Clark, you can't save the world. All you'll end up with is a Messiah complex and a lot of enemies.
Clark: I saved you, didn't I? That turned out all right
---Smallville, "Kinetic" season 1, episode 13

it did it again..But this time there are some theories as to it's true problems...But then again maybe not. i don't know. We'll see. C.J. has got some of her mechanic connections looking at it. it's cool to have people to call on for stuff like that i guess. i would like one of my own at some point, instead of relying on C.J. all the time. Sigh.
I'm not sure what else to say today...Maybe later .

Ok..

2005-07-17T17:06:00.000-07:00

Ari: Caitlin, did you miss me? How is Gerald?
Kate: Still in rehab. Asks everyday if you're dead.
---N.C.I.S., "Reveille" season 1, episode 23

I was rather...Disturbed by Charmed season finale. If you are a fan..Then you know what I'm talking about. Those who aren't fans..Trust me..It had all of us going "WTF!?!?!?!"
the way it ended it seemed like a series finale rather than just a season finale. i would have been ok with this (pissed about the end of the show, sure, but ok) but there was NO WARNING. And i don't know how many TV series i wave watched that were canceled without warning.
the main reason i didn't write about it then was that, to be perfectly honest, I'm lazy.
today i found out that it is indeed going to be picked up for another season which lead to one thought...Oh shit. This is either going to be horrible or really good.
well we'll see.
and don't get me started on NCIS's season finale...It just pissed me off so much....

Musings

2005-07-17T03:03:00.000-07:00

"Unbelievable. 'Do you like my mask? Isn't it pretty? It raises the dead!' Americans." ---Giles from Buffy the Vampire Slayer "Dead Man’s Party" season 3, Episode 2

I was thinking, a dangerous pasttime, I know. Perhaps I should start another blog for one of my stories?
I seems to have a blog feel about it anyway...Will have to sleep on it ponder if it is truly a good idea..Perhaps I should post a snippet (or perhaps even all of what I have) on Evolution see what sort of reaction I get.
we'll see I guess..Sigh... Tired now
fire bad, tree pretty.

The name game

2005-07-10T16:29:00.000-07:00

"We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid." -Benjamin Franklin

I was thinking about what people call them selves. More accurately what names we choose for ourselves. this led to me thinking of my own name. I used to go by Dann, simply because Sheridan is, as J-chan so lovingly put it, "fruity".
The fact that I happen to share it with a Yankee general non-withstanding, I decided a few years ago to reembrace my birth name. I'm not really sure why just that for some reason it seems...Right.
No the fact that a character on Babylon 5 also shares my name had nothing to do with it.
I happen to share it with a few actors (and support staff as well) including an "adult film" star .
but i digress. the point is, i guess, that no matter what others may think or what ever history has to say about my name, it is my name. I have chosen to accept it.

Long time no post

2005-07-03T18:47:00.000-07:00

Ok so I've been a little lax. But then no one ever responds either. So kiss my foot.
any hoo... Well the car has been fixed..Sort of. I will be celebrating the forth of July with my son as well as my parents.
in what has become an odd annual habit I just finished reading 1984 again....Goddess is it frightening how close some of it is.
for those who haven't read it...Do. It is important.
one of the things that is scary is the ministry of information, where the man who is the main focus of the book (to call him a protagonist would be woefully inaccurate I think) works.
his job is to fix "errors" in the news and history texts. To go into the specifics would take to long, but basically, he gets a clipping of the "error" with explanations how it is wrong. He then makes the corrections submits it to the higher ups, then sends the original to be destroyed.
all previous printing are gathered and replaced.
sounds a bit how easy it is to change things on the internet...Update the page and poof no evidence it was ever any different.
scary.
another scary thing is the recent United States Supreme Court ruling regarding property rights.
basically how it stand now, the government can take your house from you and give it to someone else simply because your property doesn't generate the tax revenue they'd like it to. Sadly I wish I where kidding about this but I'm not.
though there is some interesting news along the lines of "just deserts".
it seems a company has decided to show Justice David Souter (he was one of the supporting votes) what it feels like.
Four days after the ruling the CEO of a pro-liberty organization decided he wanted to build a hotel.
this is from their press release:
Justice Souter's vote in the "Kelo vs. City of New London" decision allows city governments to take land from one private owner and give it to another if the government will generate greater tax revenue or other economic benefits when the land is developed by the new owner.
On Monday June 27, Logan Darrow Clements, faxed a request to Chip Meany the code enforcement officer of the Towne of Weare, New Hampshire seeking to start the application process to build a hotel on 34 Cilley Hill Road. This is the present location of Mr. Souter's home.
Clements, CEO of Freestar Media, LLC, points out that the City of Weare will certainly gain greater tax revenue and economic benefits with a hotel on 34 Cilley Hill Road than allowing Mr. Souter to own the land.
The proposed development, called "The Lost Liberty Hotel" will feature the "Just Desserts CafÃÂ©" and include a museum, open to the public, featuring a permanent exhibit on the loss of freedom in America...
..."This is not a prank" said Clements, "The Towne of Weare has five people on the Board of Selectmen. If three of them vote to use the power of eminent domain to take this land from Mr. Souter we can begin our hotel development."
Clements' plan is to raise investment capital from wealthy pro-liberty investors and draw up architectural plans. These plans would then be used to raise investment capital for the project. Clements hopes that regular customers of the hotel might include supporters of the Institute For Justice and participants in the Free State Project among others.

sad..Really.
oh well

Cars..And how much they suck

2005-05-24T22:02:00.000-07:00

Or at least mine does
today it did something completely unexpected..It just stopped working.
it didn't over heat it has plenty of gas..The car just wont start. You turn the key and it try..It acts like it has no gas..And yet I know it does
sigh..Back to getting rides from the family again...

Hair hair Hair hair Hair hair

2005-05-21T01:37:00.000-07:00

WHAAA!
I had to cut my hair tonight My long luxurious hair. Sniff
sadly it had become a matted mess and could not be saved.
Pet and I had tried everything, but in the end it came down to this.
it used to be down almost to my tail bone.
now it is a little above my shoulders.
mourn with me.
please send donations to http://www.locksoflove.org/ in lue of flowers.
and yes i really am crying about this

Today sucked

2005-05-17T23:45:00.000-07:00

Well..Not completely.
Pet was off today, so we kind of vegged out a bit., and worried about how we were going to pay bills.
then C.J. called said Mom and Dad were going to Central Market with My son and his sister. So Pet and I went..She had never been to the restaurant part of CM before and was rather surprised. It was good to see my son again. I don't see him nearly enough.
there are days I regret divorcing C.J. but then I see Sarah, my son's sister, and I realize that it was for the best. Such a sweet soul as hers deserved a mommy and daddy that don't argue consistently, as does my son.
I do hope he grows up strong, in spite of my absence.

Friday the 13th

2005-05-13T21:26:00.000-07:00

Oh boy oh boy what a day...All culminating in my can key not wanting to turn my ignition when i went to go pick up my Darling Pet from work...So i ended calling my parents so they could go pick her up while i stayed home and cursed the car. My father soon arrived with Pet in toes and proceeded to put my key into the car and turn it..And the car started... Needless to say i felt like a dim bulb.
accually my dad did what i should have thought to do and jiggles the steering wheel till it unlocked...
oh well

i gonna eat worms

2005-05-12T10:00:00.000-07:00

Geez i tell everyone i know about my pitiful blog and no body seem to care. one freind even said she didn't remember me sending her the link!
i swear if i wasn't so lazy I'd probably be depressed...
oh well

FREE comic day!

2005-05-06T00:44:00.000-07:00

That's right folksis it that time of year again. Time for the geeks and dorks to arrive in droves . It's free comic day! http://www.freecomicday.com/ yay or at least it will be on Saturday. i plan to take my son...Just as i have the last 3 years, to all the comic shops in town! Free stuff it's cool! Follow the link and find your local participating shops!
have fun!

horibile cuteness

2005-05-03T10:20:00.000-07:00

found this link on night's blog http://www.livejournal.com/users/nightcry/ and have been torturing freinds and family with it for the past few days...
http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/ddautta.phpthe song is in Korean it's lyrics (i found these on another blog http://www.netglyph.com/archive.php?month=1094011200 so i'm not guarenteeing their accuatcy) are below

DDautta (There She Is!) by the Witches
Korean Lyrics (English Lyrics)

oeneunal
(there she is)

naegyeoteul ddeonabeorin geunyeoga
na-ege waseo
yongseoreul guhamyeo bine
(Once she broke my heart but beggin' to be back in my life)

yeogijeogi
nandeeopshi hemeida
naege waseo
nunmureul heulligo inne
(long long wondering and straying brought me her cryin')

(wuh wuh wuh wuh)

mangseoril piryoeopji
geunyeoreul bada jwoyaji
(There's not a day that passes by, I'm gonna hold her tight)

aetage
neomuna aetage
gidaryeo watdeon
geunyeoga naegerowanne
(Ain't nobody else but one I love is back)

joa joa nigawaseo joa
neomunado gidaryeotdeon nigawaseo joa
(high high you make me so high, after so many nights in tears)

wasseo wasseo geunyeo naege wasseo
neomunado gidaryeotdeon geunyeo naege wasseo
(there there there she is, after so many seasons in pain)

bogoshipeoseo angoshipeoseo
geunyeo nareul giriwoseo dashiwanna
(to kiss me..to hold me..you came along a long journey)

joa joa nigawaseo joa
neomunado gidaryeotdeon geunyo
(high high you make me so high, after so many nights in tears)

dangshin jeongmal joanan
molla
(I don't know how it gets so crazy but my love is yours)

Selling out

2005-04-29T23:27:00.000-07:00

You may have noticed the little ad thingys above and to the side...They are there so i can maybe make a little money off of this pitiful thing. True..It would be noble and all to have no ads but, even though it's not really nice to say this, i like money. i need money in order to eat, get clothing, put gas in my car, wash cloths, feed my son, buy him whatever toy the mass media has brain washed him into wanting this week..All of that requires money. And as a cashier at a grocery store i do not make that much..Even with my darling Pet's income from her job (she works at a mass market corporate Empire big box store that starts with a W...as does my mother...) as a cashier we still have barely enough to eat and pay rent and bills and such.
we haven't gone out to a movie or dinner (or even rented a movie for that matter) in about 4 months or so...Sad.
i want to have a life..i just cant afford it.
and so the ads .
curse me if you wish..I'm used to it.
I worked in the convience store industry for 10 years....Yes i am that old...i have heard it all
well maybe not all but I've been called things that would cause a sailor to blush in shame.

A poem

2005-04-28T00:10:00.000-07:00

i am tired so i shall post a poem i had floating around

Love Lorn

I remember her romantically
Though i never knew her that way
She was the love I lost
Or at least the love
I will never gain
I have had many loves since then
And born fruit through one
BUT
She who is my first love
Will always be in my heart
Though it is never to be
To say that I have lost hope
Would not be true
I will always have
That sweet feeling
But reality
Or what passes for it
Is where I exist
And there I know
It can never be
BUT
One can dream
One can hope
One can wish
One can cope
One can laugh
At times gone by
And I will love her
Until I die

Lost friends

2005-04-25T00:41:00.000-07:00

I was talking with Keri the other day and it dawned on me, I have lost contact which everyone i knew in my childhood..All except for her.

Melody, Emerson, Ginny, Cole, Daniel and his sister ...All of them gone disappeared off the grid. Ghosts.

one could argue that those were childhood friends from Houston. That loosing touch was inevitatable.
i moved to Georgetown, TX when i was 12 just before my 13th birthday.

Ginny and i wrote letters to each other often, even after she moved to Maryland, right up until she graduated from collage...Then i lost contact. Even in this age of the internet, I've failed to find her. i miss her insults and her jokes.

Melody moved away wile i still lived in Houston, one could say she was one of the first real friends i had. We wrote like children do, meaning not very often. When i finally got online several years ago my mother and hers started to exchange email and i got her's ...She never responded and so i gave up.

Emerson also moved wile i was still in Elementary school. We never wrote..All i knew is that he had moved "to Alaska". But here is where the small world effect kicks in. One summer years later (i was 15), after i had moved to G'town, i was at the local ice cream parlor (yes..They still exist). i sat down and ordered a sundae and looked to my right at the young man beside me. i thought ~damn he looks like Emerson~ and so being the forward person that i was i said to him "you know you remind me of a friend of mine"
he looked at me a moment and said "yeah you look kinda like someone i know too"
"yeah but you can't be him, that was back when i lived in Houston, and he moved to Alaska"
his eyebrow raised a bit "i was from Houston and i live in Alaska"
"i stared at him "Emerson?!?"
he stared back "Sheridan?!? Holy Shit!"
come to find out, his grandparent lived in G'town as well and he was visiting for the summer. But of course summer ended and i have not seen Emerson since that time.
but that was Houston...Surly your local friends...
nope, no such luck...With a few twists....
Zane...And his brother Zack, Sean, Kevin (who was my nemesis all throughout junior high), Doug, David Davis, Steven, Dan, Andrew, the other Andrew, Lauren and so many others i have lost track of.
but oddly enough
Michel who was one of my main nemesis in high school (we did not get along at all) ended up marring C.J., A.K.A. EX wife#1. He treats my son with kindness , does not badmouth me when my son is around. I respect him for that. Just for the record C.J. split on amicable terms, we are more like siblings than a married couple, and we fought like it....We did not want our son growing up like that.
Ness,Ex#2 also went to high school with me, though she ended up moving into Austin before my junior year. She and C.J. were good friends, sort of, and after she moved we lost track of her, then about 5 years later after C.J. and i had married we were at the mall and lo and behold, there she was running a little jewelry kiosk. We chewed th fat awhile, discussed old time and once again she faded from my life...Fast forward about three years. i was working for ExxonMobil and she pulls in to get gas for her cab., so one thing led to another, a few platonic get togethers then....Boom. i shall save that story for another time.
Lately though the friends i have made online seemed to have stood the test of time. J-chan, Night, Kilroy, SaraJo though a few i do not talk to often enough.none of them have disappeared.
i hope it stays that way...

The portrait....

2005-04-23T20:30:00.000-07:00

This is a very wonderful portrait done by the very talented Tonic Reale. I have not heard hide nor hair from him in a couple of years. It honestly worries me a bit. I met him Many Many years ago in a Yahoo group.
It is there I also meet a couple of life long friends Otooto-J (now calling himself Jayel Aheram, his blog is here: http://aheram.blogspot.com/ ) and Night (her yahoo profile is here: http://profiles.yahoo.com/nightlight61). At the time a was using the name Wyldmandann_1 and called myself "the dragonwolf." and so..Such was my character. A half dragon half werewolf freak.
The story behind the picture is that Tonic was drawing portraits of various members online personas and ask if he could do mine. I told him sure, I thought it would be cool to see Wyld done by another artist as my own drawing style was, is rather primitive at best.
well as it turns out the portrait looks absolutely nothing like my character, but looks EXACTLY like me! What makes it even more spooky is that at the time I didn't have a picture of my self on my profile... Or anywhere for that matter.
my mothers response was typical "He got the stringy hair down pat"
and so to my friend a say, Tonic where ever you are send me a message.

And so..the fun begins

2005-04-21T19:41:00.000-07:00

Honestly..i never thought i'd do this. after all how really cares about what i think? but hey..if my mother can torture people with her opinions..then so can i. so have fun be offended..and maybe i'll even make you laugh..even if it's just at my poor grammer.