Watch out for ninja #9

OK so maybe this isn't very politically correct and I'm just really tired but this is hilarious.

Weary

I am so very tired.
This working from 7:30AM until about 10 PM with a quick half hour break/drive in the middle is starting to wear on me. Luckily I have Sat & Sun off until 4 PM so I can sleep. I have to help J pack for Symettree tonight as he'll be gone tomorow afternoon, drive down set up, play his set about 2 AM sat morning and then finally sleep. I'm trying not to whine as J is WAY more tired than I am...I don't have to get up at 4:30 like he does. Poor guy us exhausted. I so wish I couldhear his set...it's got some great ethnic and ambient stuff in it. He's starting off in the mellow tent...he figured doing a dance set would be too much for the first one. If you go to the
activities page, and look at performers, J is JJ of Galifrey 7. He's so cool.
Anyways, back to the work thing.

ZZZZzzzzzzzzzz

I'm in a yabo free zone

I'd just like to retract my previous ranted statement that I work with an anonymous, clumsy yabo.
The instrument I sopke of is actually broken and needs repair...so I must eat those words...for instead I work with a supremely defunctly unfunctional fluorometric spectrophotometer (say THAT 5 times fast)

Although - I still stand by the statement that buttons are not toys...

Plastique Monkey

Greetings from the land of community radio. The pledge drive is going pretty well so far.
Call in, say hi & donate - you'd make my week.

We got a great local artist Yuka Yamaguchi to do our pledge drive logo and I've been checking out some of her other work on her website. She's got a lot of her work on her Flickr account too - I love it-It's crazy and strange, but not dark...just really unique. It's reqreshing to see something new. A friend of mine has her piece called You Suck and is how we heard of her in the first place. After a browse through her gallery, I'm liking theTough Skin juicy heart , Mad:Shower, and Reedlik art recipe so far myself. She's may start selling some of her prints soon online...I think I might get one. We've decided that the only things going on our walls are things we like and that we've chosen for a reason - so we're just on thel look out for things we like and if we ever find them and happen to have any $$ at the same time it'll be a match. Hah..like that will happen anytime soon...I think it'll remain jungle plant land for a while yet.
Anyways, I gotta get back at it, but I just had to say, I love her work and I think the proper comment to her & her work would be the traditional japanese compliment that she is like medium strength flour. No she is. Really she is.

Buttons aren't toys

OK...so I get to spend/waste a lot of time today resetting up elaborate software in elaborate equipment because some yabo thought it'd be neat to push buttons and see what they'd do on a very technical instrument and erased all the programmed methods and presets so it's effectively a very shiny book end until I fix it.

If I've said it once I've said it a thousand times:

"Buttons aren't toys"

(Yes Zaphod, I'm talking to you)

Inside Your Head

Well, it finally stopped raining last night..it's very soggy here. But my house is still dry. Yay.
Which is good as I'll not be in it for the next few weeks...

I'm going to be busy the next while volunteering for our local Community Radio Associations annual fundraiser called FMPhasis. It helps the station raise about 1/4 of it's operating budget and keeps it on the air every year - 2 weeks of fundraising...kinda like those PBS pledge drives, only we like to think we're a bit more fabaroo. And where else can you hear ethnic music, death metal, jazz and ethical programming all on one station (often in the same day!).
This year's theme is 'inside your head" and if anyone feels the need to pledge some money to support community volunteer driven multicultural based radio that plays local artists and has many spoken language programs that play every style of music, please do. There's prizes for donating (gift certificates and CDs) and there's prize draws for all the donors too...come on, what more do you need to know?
Yours truly will be the evening shift coordinator down at the station and I'll take your pledge gladly. Call me at CFCR - after a long day at work I'll be spending all evening helping out the community at the station...so even just call and say hi - it's gonna be a long 2 weeks!

He went to bed and he bumped his head

It's STILL raining.

It's been 3 days non-stop and apparently won't stop til Sunday.
I like rain...it's the gloomy grey without sunshine that gets to me after a few days.
It's funny how in Saskatchewan it won't rain for a month and then the sky just saves it all up and pours for a week straight. I believe our province needs a little lesson in being a little more balanced....it's getting soggy.

I have so much to do today I don't even know where to begin. Gotta go.

Banksy strikes again

Once again, Bansky has made a great statement with his art.
I was impressed with the doctored Paris Hilton CDs but his new project is even better: a life sized replica of a guantanamo bay prisoner snuck into Disneyland and left on public display for over an hour and a half...
Good on you Banksy.

Someone left the cake out in the rain....

WOW.
That is all I have to say.
Over and over and over again.
It's been pouring rain for 24 hours now with no real sign of letting up. While waiting for the bus downtown there was so much water it was coming UP from the sewer drains... and guess what?
No really, take a guess.
Here's a hint: Guess what ISN'T in my basement?

That's right - WATER!

I am ecstatic. All my hard work paid off! After a super long dreary day I arrived home at about 8:15 and grabbed some supper and then took a deep breath and went downstairs with the feeling of dread wondering if I'd still need a mop, just like every other big storm since we've moved in to our home... and...Tadaah!
There was NOTHING there for me to clean up. Not a drop.
This has never happened before.

Let me be the first to say it:
Hot damn and hallelujah!

I got trenching skills

Well, it's been dumping rain all day and will all weekend if the weather elves are to be believed.

Guess we'll find out how well I can dig a trench...here's crossing my fingers. And toes. And legs...

Thought for a rainy day

"Every corner, every facet of your mind must be programmed by you.
If you do not, the world will program it for you..."

~a sound byte from the second track on Community Service, by the Crystal Method