I just need one good thing to happen to me sometime today – that’s all I ask!
Tell him I hate him!
Oh yeah, and next Tuesday is scheduled to be the most awesomest day in August:
And if that wasn’t somehow good enough, just yesterday I heard that Futurama: The Video Game will be released at the end of the week. Life can only go downhill from here…
Feh.
Only one more day…
…and my week of twelve hour work days will finally be over. The good news is that when I get paid in two weeks, I’ll have enough to buy the rest of my car from the bank. The bad news is that I haven’t gotten squat done all week because I’ve spent so much time at work – hopefully I can get mostly caught up this weekend without sleeping through the whole thing, but I make no promises! Tomorrow night I’m grilling out steaks after I get home from work, then it’s just me, a bottle of Corona, and my laptop as I pound out a couple new chapters that I’ve been contemplating for Leaving Miami…and maybe I’ll work on some of those deadlines, too…
Some days you just can’t get rid of a bomb…
Where has the summer gone? No, seriously – it’s freakin’ August already! It won’t be long before there’s snow and ice all over the ground and Santa Claus starts doing his thing once again…he does deliver to the beach, though, doesn’t he???
Random Notes:
- Among many others, I watched Batman: The Movie last night and if someone can show me an awesome-r film from said genre, I will eat a live frog.
- I made a giant fruit salad this evening in hopes of somewhat controlling my diet over the next week. All the colors of the rainbow were represented in this concoction, with the exceptions of blue and purple because, well, what the hell fruits are blue and purple?
- Only sixteen more days and two balloon payments and I will completely own my first car, and that will totally rock.
- I watched the majority of Blue Crushas well and even though the plot seemed a little shaky, I think I actually enjoyed. This could very well be simply because Kate Bosworth is extremely hot, but what’s wrong with that?!
- I also got a fairly nice photo of a rainbow while I was driving around lost in the country over the weekend. I wouldn’t say that it necessarily inspiredthe fruit salad, but you never know…
- Instead of finishing up the four or five extended writing projects that I have already, I started a new one this weekend – a story entitled Leaving Miami. It was partially inspired by the short stories at the end of Drew Carey’s book, Dirty Jokes and Beer, and partially because I really wanted to get off my ass and start writing some fiction again. I’m going to hold off on posting it online until I get at least a half a dozen or so chapters done, but I’ve already written the opening chapter and parts of two others and I’m already very pleased at how it looks.
- Correction: grapescan indeed be purple, but I’m still stumped on the blue one.
- Today my Mom offered to buy me a plane ticket to Florida for my birthday so that I can go do interviews and find a place to live and whatnot. I turned her down and told her that I would find something else for her to get me, but I actually do have my reasons…believe it or not.
- Bulleted points are fun!
- Just Laugh’s biggest promotional venture, the Weenie Awards, are coming up here again in less than a month and I haven’t put the slightest thought into who deserves to be nominated this year.
- In roughly two weeks, I’ll be in the Upper Peninsula taking pictures of waterfalls and I’m quite looking forward to it.
- I thinkI’ve convinced my sister that she should be drawing her comic more often because it’s very good and more people would read it, but I’m never 100% sure until the next strip hits my desk and it’s really aggravating.
- New strings finally showed up for my acoustic guitar, but I never got around to putting them on and actually playing this weekend…and the next week doesn’t exactly look good, either.
- I’ve also owned the latest Harry Potter novel for over a month and I’ve yet to read a single page of it.
- But my new fish seem to be getting along quite well and have managed to avoid killing each other for a week or two now, so that should certainly count for something!
- I need to stop bulleting and just go to bed…But tomorrow is another day. Woo-ha!
Life’s just not fair…
Why are the only shows that I might actually want to watch on HBO Latino???
I’d lose my head if it weren’t stapled on…
Somehow I managed to lose a book of checks.
Either that or they got ordered with a really bizarre starting number, but I’ve done the math and I just don’t see how that’s possible. It’s not like it’s a huge deal – there’s not a whole lot of money in there anyways, but it seems kind of stupid to have to buy another eight books of the things when I’m going to be changing banks and addresses in a few months anyways. It took me something like two years to go through the last batch that I ordered – why doesn’t anybody sell these things only a couple books at a time???
Writers Wanted! (This means you!)
Another Tale of Two Summers...
“Who knew that lost luggage would be the very least of their problems?”
Are you a writer who’s looking to flex his or her creative skills this summer? How about one that could just really use a new project to help pass the time?! Either way, Just Laugh magazine has just the thing that can help cure your summertime blues in the form of our latest creative collaboration entitled, Another Tale of Two Summers… and frankly, if you answered ‘YES’ to either of the questions above, we happen to think that you just might be perfect for the job!
This story stems back to a project we did last year called A Tale of Two Summers… which followed the path of two unsuspecting young ladies who found themselves in a bit of a pickle when they discovered that their boss was involved with some shady business. Our tale this year picks up where the last ended and the girls are taking a well-deserved vacation to Bermuda, or at least they think they are…
We’re still looking for writers to help lead our heroines along on their journey, so please check out the details on our website if you’re interested! A submission form can also be found at this same address – just click on the ‘Help Wanted’ link on the left-hand side of the page:
http://www.justlaugh.com/waste/anothertale/
Applicants will be accepted pretty much until the story is completed, so it’s never too late to sign yourself up for a piece of the action! In the meantime, enjoy the show…
Ouch!
I have a blister on my little toe – a blister that is nearly larger than the whole toe itself. It doesn’t feel very good at all.
Booty-licious…
One word: AWESOME! I’ve so gotta get out to Vegas one of these days…
Las Vegas Groups Protest Naked ‘Bambi’ Hunts
LAS VEGAS (Reuters) – Outraged by a Las Vegas company that claims to offer men a chance to stalk and shoot naked women in the Nevada desert with paintball guns, women’s groups and government agencies were scrambling to find a way to shut down such “Bambi” hunts.
“As soon as I found out about this, I called for an investigation,” Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman said. “Las Vegas is a place where anything goes, but this crosses the line if this is real.”
Real Men Outdoor Productions Inc., insists it is doing nothing illegal and only providing another variety of adult entertainment in a city celebrated for sin.
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…almost makes me wish that I was the ‘chat-type’…
“I stomp the ground, and snort, to alert you that you are in my breeding territory…”
http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/text/bloodninja.php