This Halloween is sucking so far. I couldn’t go to Swift’s party, the Harmony party has been changed into a drag show/formal dance rather than a costume party, and I’m too old to trick-or-treat. So, I get to hang around the house with my mom, who never wants to do anything except watch TV/a movie.
Hell has officially frozen over: I willingly watched an Eminem video, and liked it.
Over at I Drew This, a liberal political comic by David Craig Simpson (of Ozy & Millie fame), DCS posted a rave review of the rap Mosh by Eminem. Since Mr. Simpson has traditionally had the same disdain for Eminem that I do, for much the same reason, I was thoroughly intrigued, and decided to download and watch this thing. If you haven’t seen it yet, do so, it’s a very well-made jab at Bush. Even if you’re like me and despise rap and/or Eminem, watch it anyway. It is actually good. Not musically good, but it has a decent message, and while Eminem in no way qualifies as a musician, he is a decent poet. So go watch 
And to Eminem, I still hate your guts, but nice Bush bashing.
According to the entire fucking world, the Boston Red Socks won the World Series. Apparently this is huge Earth-shattering news, and every blogger under the sun is supposed to relay the message, as if it were possible to not know about this. So, here’s my obligatory report about baseball, a sport I don’t understand or give a shit about. Whoop-de-doo.
(Don’t bother flaming me over this, I have nothing against baseball or those who watch it, I just get very tired of seeing the same “news” report 400 fucking times)
One of the co-creators of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is a guest of honour at Anthrocon! Woohoo! That show was my obsession for years, this is gonna rock!
On a whim (lured by the prospect of free computer parts), I decided to go to Emi’s House-Swarming meet in Annapolis. I asked Skippy if he was going, and he continually said no. I headed out after work, and arrived in Annapolis around 10:45 (took longer than I expected to get there). I was a little bummed that I hadn’t seen Skippy’s car in the parking lot, but I was determined to have a good time anyway. After all, any furmeet is a good one
When I got in the house, I got almost as many “He’s downstairs” greetings as I did “Hey Felix!” ones. I kept asking who “He” was, and TiggyCat led me downstairs to…SKIPPY! I somehow completely overlooked his car (which I parked right behind), and he came after all! Talk about a pleasant suprise :-). We had some cuddle time together, and unfortunately he had to leave early to get back for work, but that made the trip all the better. Y’all have no idea how much of a good mood I’m in thanks to being able to see him
After he left, I chatted with Gryffin and others for awhile, loaded up two boxes of free computer parts, and foolishly decided to just head home. I caught a couple short naps at gas stations along the way, and made it home after like 5 hours. An excellent meet overall, and a much-needed break. Thanks Gryff!
How come everything happens when I don’t feel like updating this, yet nothing interesting happens when I’m in the mood to write an LJ entry?
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Since my boss has family coming in from out of town on Halloween weekend, I have to work that Saturday, which means I can’t go to Swift’s Halloween party in Pittsburgh. That in itself is a bummer, but it was my only opportunity to see Skippy until Christmas. Fuck fuck fuck!
[EDIT 2: I need to stay away from the edit button when I'm depressed before I post something I'll regret]
[curls up and cries]
At the Fur-B-Q this weekend, there was a Bush campaign bus at a Wal-Mart near where we ate dinner. Being mischevious furs, we went over and had some photo-fun with it, including a picture of two guys making out in front of it. Check the photos out HERE :-).
This is starting to become a big problem, since I now have three vehicles to worry about. Allow me to diagram:
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Well, not exactly, but my afternoon resembled one of those old Windows jokes.
Once I got to work today, my boss told me to go to Wal-Mart to get an extension cord for our new printer. I was driving the Rover, and I locked it with the key like normal (the transmitter isn’t programmed, and the one that used to work is broken). After getting the extension cord, I went back to the truck, unlocked it, and the horn started honking repetitively. Somehow, the alarm armed itself for no apparent reason, which shouldn’t be possible because there’s no working transmitter. Since it’s a factory alarm, there’s no possible way to start it unless the alarm is deactivated, and deactivation requires a transmitter. There was no bypass mentioned in the manual, and disconnecting the battery didn’t do anything. So, I called my mom to come get me, and she took me home to pick up the Integra so I could at least get around. I called my boss to let him know what was going on (which he laughed his ass off about later), and called the nearest Land Rover dealership in Richmond. After waiting on hold for fifteen minutes listening to some woman with a fake German accent (odd, considering it’s a British company) tell me how prestigious the Land Rover marque is, I finally got to talk to someone in the service department, who gave me this incredibly long procedure on how to disarm it without a transmitter. I got a ride back to Wal-Mart (in case the solution did work), tried this sequence of actions, and on the fourth try it finally worked! Oh, and the best part is, Land Rovers are prone to spontaneously arm the alarm system for no apparent reason at any time (as told by the guy at the LR dealership).
Later this evening, I spent some quality time in the cab and got a lot of work done on it. I patched some torn carpeting, re-attached the rear door panel that had come loose, glued down some loose dash panels, finally found and removed the hands-free cellphone system, found the end of the cellphone antenna cable (which might actually be usable with an adapter), cleaned up some wiring under the dash, and found two pens, a pencil, and a McDonalds straw in various nooks and crannies. I’ve also gotten the CB installed finally, rewired the trailer hitch, cleaned up the wiring for my satellite tuner, and removed the crossbars for the roof rack. I think I’m making excellent progress, and I’m hoping to get some photos taken of it very soon.
