I've gotten the Must-Haves printed for my art show panels... now I'm trying to decide how to fill the rest of them, and I'm having quite the time choosing! Which of these do you think I should definitely bring?


Kelu and the Moon Goddess


Demure


Flight of the Godkin Griffin Book Plate


Blue Willow


Guardian of the West

• 22:18 Will have to find a way of making Paneer Tikka one of my five a day. #

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Note who is the opening act.

"This was the first time I've ever had to tap my PIN number into a credit card machine that was resting on my naked dick."

__ Hippy IT Boy

Met up at 10:30 a.m. for what should have been a three hour drive to Barcelona. That's what it took the last time we went there. Of course last time we went we printed out directions from Google Maps. This time Hippy IT Boy had an Iphone clone with GPS and was counting on that giving us directions.

What he didn't realize is that the second we left France the phone/GPS would shut down because we were no longer on his system and we would be on our own. This meant that it took us an extra two hours to find the center of town.

Once we got here and checked in he was like "All I want is to have a cup of coffee and be able to smoke inside." So, we wandered over to Travel Bar and he had a java and I had a pint. It was so fucking nice to be able to smoke without walking outside. When he was done with his cup of Joe he wanted a pint, so I bought two rounds of pints. At that point he wanted to buy me a pint back, but had forgotten to take cash out and they told him they would only take a card for four pints. This meant we had another two pints each.

It was roughly 6 p.m. now and we were fairly buzzed so we went to the Hard Rock Cafe and did a tour of their appetizer menu. We had everything from chicken wings to spring rolls to potato skins. Then we hit the main courses.

Over the course of two hours we had so much food that Caligula would have been embarrassed.

Then we went back to Travel Bar with the idea of hitting the Argentinian Steak House later. Of course we figured out that this would have been a bad idea because there was no way we could have enjoyed additional food.

Drank there until about 11:30 at which point a weird UK dude started giving us shit and we didn't want to deal with shit and knew the brothel would open in a half an hour. So we went to a bar next door to the brothel for another round of drinks.

This bar had the most disgusting bathroom I've ever seen in my life. There was actual shit in the hand washing sinks. Like, whoa! But, they gave us cheap Absolute vodka tonics, so whatevs.

Then hit the brothel and shit the girls were hotter than I've ever seen them at that place. I had a great time watching the strippers and the lesbian sex show.

About a half an hour in Hippy IT Boy found one of the prettiest brunettes I've ever seen in my life (like she could have been a professional model easily) and contracted for her services. She was 130 euros an hour.

The problem was he was so drunk at this point that it took him nearly two hours to get off with her (meaning he had to pay 260 euros to bang her.) Meanwhile I was stuck in the general area of the brothel and bought a beer (you get a couple free with your entrance fee) only to discover that each beer after the free ones was 15 bucks.

I drank that one, thinking Hippy IT Boy would be back soon (a normal sober man would have come in roughly 35 seconds after seeing that girl naked.) When it started becoming clear that he was going to be a while I got stumped.

I was not willing to buy another 15 buck beer, and I was also not into buying pussy, since my girlfriend will be back Tuesday. But if you are sitting in a brothel and not buying pussy or beer the girls come up to you and are confused and worried that they are fucking up.

So, for lack of a better explanation (because "I'm cheap and want to fuck my girlfriend on Tuesday" is not, really what you want to say in a brothel) I told all the girls that I was gay and trying to help out my straight friend.

Holy mother of fuck. Telling hookers this will cause them to be seriously comfortable with you, rub their boobs against you, tell you stories about weird customers and pretty much be intimate with you in every way that doesn't involve fucking you. It was fucking awesome!

Finally, Hippy IT Boy finished and then bought us a round of beers. We ended up walking back to the hotel around 5 a.m. He was, at the time, hell bent on going back to the brothel tonight to "prove" that he can cum quickly for a hot girl. I was like "Dude, if you do that you are totally buying me like five beers before you go to the bangathon, because I want to avoid the awkwardness."

Not that avoiding awkward shit is possible at this point, since all the girls will be wondering why a dude who told them he is gay is staring at their pussies and assholes.

All in a all, as fun a day as possible.

One of my oldest friends from San Fran, brilliant crypto guy and escapee of Belgrade before the 90's war, gun fan and ol' lover would always remind me in the depths of the dotcom meltdown to ignore the idiots and measure by what is around you. it is now worse today and he is going into foreclosure on his two townhouses including ex-wife's... (we are convinced that a new form of capitalism/conscience development will take hold to replace this world system sometime soon..)

so around me today it strikes me:

1) Texas Exes - came out for lower cost BBQ. 1/2 contributed voluntarily. nobody contributed to the scholarship fund. (i think the rest came for the donated keg of Shiner Bock from the local distributor. ;-)
2) did the books on a new project today of 3 retail strip malls for a friend of a friend who has the accountant coming in monday morning. lots of vacancies in the properties and 3 of the tenants total are behind in rent from october. the tailor, restaurant owner and a real estate office haven't paid-up yet. some have negotiated rent down, others have made 3+ payments. the convenience stores are okay, dry-cleaner down, we've discontinued the cleaning service and are now giving tenants some freebies to keep them - no more costs to them for common area maintenance (CAM)
3) grocery store tonight - the sale items, markdowns on fresh food are almost always gone now. i have to start earlier. according to the asst. manager she sees people coming earlier to get the deals as soon as the store opens - this is not an xmas rush but everyday occurence.
4) plasma donations are up!
5) craigslist has multiple openings for commission only positions in collections. ;-0
6) the clark county school district isn't replacing teachers nearly as fast - my definition of not even quitting when you're working in hell... ;-0
7) the agencies i'm signing up for to do accounting and pick-me-up work are lowering the $$ per hour. the worst story is a CFO placed this week for $60K. NO, it wasn't a non-profit, small start-up or uber-small company... a CFO for that little money... geesh..
8) my middle brother bitched via email that i should be 'glad' to be getting a lower-level job in the mid-30K range... oh that launched an interesting email. basically i didn't work this hard and give up things to make less than middle class wages hence i'm leaving the country..
9) Bette Midler and other show tickets are still at lowered prices. freeshowticketsforlocals has some top acts now beyond louie anderson. go figure on barry manilow...
10) free movie tickets from the review journal neon section are now gone in a matter of minutes even for a sucky show, not hours. and you still have to stand in line to make sure you can get in!
there are probably more but i can't think of them at the moment. off to netflix and FINALLY the fixit man comes tomorrow morning, 3 weeks after moving in to this place. RE-MAX property management SUCKS!

and from shadowstats.com, the real unemployment number is more around 22%. media here begrudgingly states the broader index near 18%.

i will not tolerate any threats of violence (even if "meta-discussed") against people on this journal. i don't care who they are or who you are.

i will not hesitate to report any violence-threatener, up to and including the appropriate State authorities.

you have been warned.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33748707/ns/politics-health_care_reform/

Sadly, not a kidney stone (though it seems similar). I'm talking healthcare "reform."

Key points-

You can now be sent to jail for living.
2010 cannot come soon enough
It still has to go to the senate
Democrats are reforming America's economy so quickly, and almost without thought, that we may end up in a very different America. I guess President Obama really did want to change this country, on a profound level.



People are still losing jobs.

“But instead of working toward the elimination of for-profit insurance, H.R. 3962 would put the government in the role of accelerating the privatization of health care. In H.R. 3962, the government is requiring at least 21 million Americans to buy private health insurance from the very industry that causes costs to be so high, which will result in at least $70 billion in new annual revenue, much of which is coming from taxpayers. This inevitably will lead to even more costs, more subsidies, and higher profits for insurance companies — a bailout under a blue cross.
Congressman Dennis Kucinich

Is he actually admitting that health care is currently not really a free market?

• 12:46 Richard Dean Anderson is aging badly #fb #
• 12:59 Lol the bar scene onSGU #
• 13:11 weird - electric guitar in the SGU score #
• 13:21 Poo spooky tv on Fringe #
• 13:24 Hav to say - I like the Fringe opening music #
• 16:10 Um jazz on Supernatural? #
• 16:36 Hm #
• 16:36 Hmm no rock in this weeks epi at all #
• 16:39 Lol Ironsides... Wonder how many kids got that #

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Are you content to live as a slave?

You were wrong Rush, very very wrong. The GOP victories did nothing to stop House passage fo the Healtch Care Takeover, 220 | 215.

Maybe you should get back on the drugs, at least then you were funny while you were wrong.

Maybe the Senate Democrats will be more worried about their next therm than the House ones, but I doubt it. Next to Abortion, this is their sacrament.

- got into a bug where i'd kill a creature right when entering a room and since it autosaved i was stuck in an infinite loop. created a trick where you cannot hurt creatures in the first second and a half after entering a room; this fixed it mostly since that's time enough to move out of the way or move back the way you came. this also gets around the 'not saving healthbars' thing, i'll add in saving healthbars eventually.
- made a way to friend alpharepo (yeah i know it's not a creature but i like the idea)
- tried and failed to create the system where it'd warp you to the nearest empty door (so that doors between areas don't have to line up exactly), but at least made some progress and have some direction about how to code such a thing

It's fascinating to watch posts on here tonight simultaneously show elation and disgust at the vote tonight.

Gaming group in Mt Pleasant is looking for another for Call of Cthulhu...

Waiting for a confirm.

it passed. oh goddess.