Saturday, November 23, 2002

Friday, November 22, 2002

Thursday, November 21, 2002

the neurologist once again has brought up the option of a Vagus Nerve Stimulator as a way to control my seizures. with my insurance changing at the first of the year, i suppose it's time to think about it some more...the idea of being able to be completely off seizure meds is awfully tempting, that's for sure...but will it work for me? dave's website had lots of info from a patient's point of view...yeah, it's an invasive procedure, but it's better than going in and taking out a big chunk o brain...

well, at least i've got some time to think about it...

Tuesday, November 19, 2002

once again the conversation turns weird at work...current topic - Camel Toes...

Monday, November 18, 2002

the indy star gave a positive review to ani difranco's show last nite...
so, pooky and i did the family bondage thang and went to see ani difranco last night at the egyptian room...good show, considering ani had broken her foot and spent the evening sitting down - the show was a bit shorter than usual, but she still managed to pack the same punch...Hamell On Trial was her opening act - pretty good, i'll hafta look into his stuff...

ani closed the show with a poem, self evident...pretty powerful shit...

managed to get some halfway decent pix with the digital cam - surprising considering how far from the stage we were...

i guess i'm turning into an old fuddy-duddy - the general admission thing sucks ass - i would've much preferred regular seats...

more later, now i hafta get ready for work - bleargh!

Saturday, November 16, 2002

fatwallet.com has forums with lots and lots of freebies in em...now i'm expecting lots of goodies to come via us postal service!
pooky sent me this link - check out blackpeopleloveus.com
adam got his url (djadamjay.com) though http://hostica.com/ - maybe someday i'll get my own website...*8-)
Bi-Partisan Unity - cute...
all you never wanted to know about the oscar meyer weinermobile...

Friday, November 15, 2002

Thursday, November 14, 2002

not that celebrity opinions should carry any special weight, but Sean Penn's open letter to George W. Bush is good - he put his money where his mouth is by spending 56 grand to place it in a 3/4 page ad in the washington post...
from Bob & Tom's Joke of the Day page:

A man follows a woman with a parrot out of a movie theater. He stops her and says, "I'm sorry to bother you, but I couldn't help but notice that your bird seemed to understand the movie. He cried at the right spots, he was fidgeting in his seat during the boring parts and he laughed at jokes. Don't you find that unusual?"
"I do indeed," she answered. "He hated the book."


A carrot crosses the road and is hit by a car. He is rushed to the hospital, where he goes through hours of surgery.
After surgery the doctor comes into the carrot’s room and says “Well, I’ve got good news and bad news.”
The carrot says, “Give me the good news first, doc.”
The doctor says, “The good news is you’re gonna live.”
“And the bad news?” asks the carrot.
“The bad news is you're gonna be a vegetable for the rest of your life.“



ahhh, i just love TotalFark - it's got ALL of the links that are submitted, even those that don't get posted to fark.com - for instance: all you never wanted to know about farts...
here's the playboy playmate of the month when i was born - September 1972 - and if you wanna see a different month/year, click here...



Even Superman once worked in a team

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Wednesday, November 13, 2002

if the evil earlham college is to get the money from me that they claim that i owe them, it'll be like this - in pennies.

Tuesday, November 12, 2002

i'm definitely gonna hafta check this out - women's ice hockey - the circle city sirens - strictly as a spectator of course...could be a really good event to take my kid sister to see...

Sunday, November 10, 2002

$24,668.14 - that's twenty four thousand, six hundred sixty eight dollars and fourteen cents. that's the total of claims submitted to my health insurance company this year, not including trips to the therapist or shrink (dunno why they don't list that online)...

woah...that's a big chunk o change...
Men plan to collect, return AOL CDs
next saturday is the 2002 international rps championships - rps, you ask? Rock, Paper, Scissors! damn, too bad it's in toronto - it'd be cool to see - alas, i hafta be in town to see ani difranco next sunday...

'tis amazing where you can end up when you're googling - i ended up on a page for people addicted to lip balm - Lip Balm Anonymous - now i can't even remember what i was looking for...





*clever*


What fuzzy creature are you?

hrm, hafta check this out later - http://www.ifproject.com/
okay, yeah, a bit racist, but amusing nonetheless:





How BLACK are you?

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Monday, November 04, 2002

Does it work? that's the premise of this website, which has reviews of all the "as seen on tv" gizmos that you know are crap, but ya just hafta buy anyways...like the Perfect Pancake - dunno why, but i've wanted one ever since i saw the commercial the first 48,281 times...the thing sells for twenty bucks, but CVS had em on sale for $14.99 and i had a $15 gift card from 'em for transferring a prescription...so, since i didn't have any real financial investment in it, i decided to get it...have yet to try it, but the review doesn't give me much hope...a previous time i used another freebie gift card to get the quick chop, and i can say from my own personal experience that it's nothing like they show on tv and is totally worthless...figured it'd be great for chopping onions - so i tried it...first time, the onion got stuck in the blade. okay, so i'll cut the onion into quarters - still, it didn't chop very well, and that was after i'd cut it into small enough pieces to make it easy to chop - a few more cuts with the old-fashioned knife, and the damned thing woulda been chopped anyways!

Sunday, November 03, 2002

don't forget to VOTE on tuesday!!
"Something is rotten in the state of Denmark." - Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 4.

well, whaddaya know...apparently the human resources department at work is Denmark. definitely something rotten going on there...

Saturday, November 02, 2002

stuff to read later, after i get a bit o' sleep...

http://www.thismodernworld.com/
http://www.doonesbury.com/strip/dailydose/
http://www.nowarblog.org/
http://michaelmoore.com/index.php
i just love molly ivins - she's good at putting into words the sort of things i think about politics - from a recent article:

My, what fun we are having this festive fall campaign season. Ads running coast to coast informing us that if the other guy wins the election, pestilence will fall upon the land, weevils will eat the corn, our children will be sacrificed to Baal, and we'll all be afflicted with piles. It makes me miss the warm, positive, upbeat, people-loving candidates of yesteryear. Like Richard Nixon.

Tough times for those of us who are just little rays of sunshine all the damn time. I was trying to think of a single area where the country appears to be headed in the right direction.

The economy? Flop. Health care? Disaster. Homeland security? The director of the CIA says we're about to be attacked again. Foreign policy? Even our allies are starting to hate us. The environment? Please.

Meanwhile, our only president continues to insist that we need to go bomb Iraq, as he so lucidly explained the other day, "for the sake of peace." We once had a war to end war, but we've never actually tried a war for peace before.

Friday, November 01, 2002

saw a couple of movies today - went and saw Punch-Drunk Love, the adam sandler movie that's not really an adam sandler movie, it's a paul thomas anderson (of boogie nights and magnolia fame) movie...weird, but good...i won't give it the rave review that roger ebert did, but it was enjoyable...

after Punch-Drunk Love, i made it a double feature and snuck into The Ring, which had just started...it was okay, but not as creepy as i expected it to be...

the previews before Punch-Drunk Love showed some good movies coming up...About Schmidt (with Jack Nicholson) and Catch Me If You Can (with Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks, directed by Steven Spielberg)...

hrmmmm....the nonsense generator - isn't that all of the internet?
invasion of the goofy online tests!!

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What's your claim to fame?

guess all the soda/pop/carbonated beverage companies are jumping on that put out a new drink bandwagon...7UP is putting out dnL, saying it's 7up flipped...it's caffeinated, colored, fruity tasting...are they trying to be a new mountain dew? i like the flipit logo, very cute - if you flip it upside down, it still reads flip it - ooooh!

doesn't look like they've got a diet version out yet, but perhaps in the near future....

i tried the diet vanilla coke a while back and was thoroughly unimpressed...

diet code red mountain dew totally rocks though! i go back & forth between it and regular diet dew as my fave drink...

not interested in the red fusion that dr. pepper's put out - can't stand dr. pepper...blech!

and there you have it - my views on pop...*8-)
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You're loyal to your friends and family. You try not to let people know when you don't like them, because you try you best to treat everyone equally. You're not a leader, you tend to follow orders and respect those who tell you what to do. You're smart and a quick thinker. You take life as its handed to you, and try to make the best of it. You're constantly surrounded by friends and family, and you're a respectable person.

Thursday, October 31, 2002

happy halloween!!! *8-)

no big plans for me tonight, just staying home and passing out candy - don't get to do that too often, being a night shifter...luckily, this year halloween falls on one of my nites off...

Wednesday, October 30, 2002

ahhh, winter...the epic work slowdown...we've run out of work with 6+ hours left in the shift...so, let the netsurfing begin!

thanks for this link, cristella! - http://www.dictionaraoke.org/

ready to poke the doughboy? - http://www.whoohoo.net/poke/index.htm

*8-)

Sunday, October 27, 2002

ever wonder how various celebrities (like cybill shepherd) lost their virginity? well, me neither, but it's something to read on a boring sunday afternoon...



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"insluting others" - ha! slight typo there...*grin*



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cartoon dog are you?


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hrm - seems that sacwriters.com needs a spell-check and assistance in writing their code properly (i had to fix it so the graphic would properly show up), but other than that...i guess i'd agree with the charming and loveable bit...*smirk*

Saturday, October 26, 2002

my left arm's got the flu, and my right arm has pneumonia...went to the doc and got shots on friday...the flu shot arm's still a bit sore, with a big hard lump where i got poked...pneumonia shot arm's just fine and dandy, and i won't hafta get another one of those for 6 years...

also got muscle relaxers from the doc, to help in breaking up the big knot o' tension in my back - the deep breathing and relaxation exercises that sheron taught me in my session on thursday did make a big difference, but i think we'll hafta use some pills to get it totally gone...

speaking of the appt with sheron - kinda weird when your therapist reads your journal and bursts out laughing a few times. guess it's a good sign though - she says it appears that i'm getting my sense of humor back. and i suppose that's true - these days, i'm much more likely to laugh at things rather than make them depress me all the more...
spent way too much money at out word bound last night - went there for girls games night and ended up spending forty-some bucks on goodies...i found something AWESOME - if you're NOT clara, go ahead and click this link to see it...*8-)
certain to be a unique halloween costume for kids this year - Pimp Daddy!

Thursday, October 24, 2002

What if all of Indianapolis read the same book? Check out One Book, One City and nominate something good! it'd be cool if we could get all of indianapolis to read a queer book, like fried green tomatoes at the whistle stop cafe or something like that...

Wednesday, October 23, 2002






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Monday, October 21, 2002

hrm - colorquiz.com - pretty accurate, i'd say...

my results:

Your Existing Situation
Dissatisfied. The need to escape continued involvement with her present circumstances makes it imperative for her to find some solution.


Your Stress Sources
Has an unsatisfied need to ally herself with others whose standards are as high as her own, and to stand out from the rank and file. This subjects her to considerable stress, but she sticks to her attitudes despite lack of appreciation. Finds the situation uncomfortable and would like to break away from it, but refuses to compromise with her opinions. Unable to resolve the situation because she continually postpones making the necessary decision as she doubts her ability to withstand the opposition which would result. Needs the esteem of others, compliance with her wishes, and respect for her opinions before she can feel at ease and secure.


Your Restrained Characteristics
Feels listless, hemmed in, and anxious; considers that circumstances and forcing her to restrain her desires. Wants to avoid open conflict with others and to have peace and quiet.
Wants to broaden her fields of activity and insists that her hopes and ideas are realistic. Distressed by the fear that she may be prevented from doing what she wants; needs both peaceful conditions and quiet reassurance to restore her confidence.

Feels that she is burdened with more than her fair share of problems. However, she sticks to her goals and tries to overcome her difficulties by being flexible and accommodating.




Your Desired Objective
Longs for a tender and sympathetic bond and for a situation of idealized harmony. Has an imperative need for tenderness and affection. Susceptible to anything esthetic.


Your Actual Problem
Greatly impressed by the unique, by originality, and by individuals of outstanding characteristics. Tries to emulate the characteristics she admires and to display originality in her own personality.


Your Actual Problem #2
The tensions induced by trying to cope with conditions which are really beyond her capabilities, or reserves of strength, have led to considerable anxiety and a sense of personal (but unadmitted) inadequacy. She attempts to escape into a substitute world in which things are more nearly as she desires them to be.

Sunday, October 20, 2002


What Video Game Character Are You? I am Mario.I am Mario.


I like to jump around, and would lead a fairly serene and aimless existence if it weren't for my friends always getting into trouble. I love to help out, even when it puts me at risk. I seem to make friends with people who just can't stay out of trouble. What Video Game Character Are You?
goin to a movie tonite! i'll be meeting angela, robin and diana after work to see a film that's part of the Heartland Film Festival - it's called Touching Wild Horses and has Jane Seymour in it...hey, anything that gets me outta work a little bit early is always good...*8-)

Friday, October 18, 2002

trip to the eye doc today - time to get a new pair of glasses...i'm long overdue, actually...the ones i got a couple of years ago from eyeglass world were shit...

got a new diagnosis to freak myself out about - the doc noticed changes to my macula, so he's concerned about macular degeneration - argh...that's some scary shit.
i just love the cockeyed guy - he's quite a rascal...

Thursday, October 17, 2002

Wednesday, October 16, 2002

it's your god-given right to send email to the president of the united states - so do it now! tell him you want monday night football replaced with pig racing!

Tuesday, October 15, 2002

monday, 14 october, 1:06 am - argh, blogger seems to be down so i'll hafta blog and then copy/paste!

went to the cowboy junkies concert at birdy's on sunday night - it was so cool! i love going to small venues like that, where you can get close to the performers and they'll come chat and do small talk after the show - i got my pic taken with margo timmons - what a hottie!

the show started off a bit awkwardly - margo didn't really seem into it. she looked like she was strung out on drugs, actually...but she warmed up to the crowd and it was a great show - looking on their website, it's obvious that i don't know much of their recent material, but now i'm gonna give it a try - the few albums after black eyed man didn't really do it for me...hard to believe that was TEN years ago that black eyed man came out. still one of my all time favorite albums - the whole thing is great!

went to the concert with diana, greg's wife. when we got there i saw angela and robin, from games night, so we hung out together throughout the show. (can't remember robin's wife's name - crazy, since i had such a major crush on her before. didn't ask her where she was - erica, that's it! - cuz i couldn't tell if she and angela were just there as friends or not - ya just never can tell with lesbos. i think angela may have thought diana and i were together, cuz when she invited me over to her house for a party for christine next friday, she told me to bring diana...

i've done more socializing the past two days than i have in the past four months...and i've missed it - i definitely DO need to get out more often...

Monday, October 14, 2002

still perky after the Cowboy Junkies concert last night (i'll hafta post my blog about it when i get home) - weird how nobody seems to have heard of 'em - kim told debbie i was going to the "Spastic Cowboys" concert...i got the DVD, and after the show Margo autographed it for me! got my pic taken with her too! she's soooo hot...

Sunday, October 13, 2002

after mahjonng last night, the boys took me and diana out for birthday drinks (her b-day was last week, and they hadn't seen me since my b-day)...we went to talbott street...apparently it's recent incarnation has been open for about a month...it was jam-packed with people - including chris, head of HR at work...saw samantha sinclair there (at least i think it was her - she introduced herself to diana as "melissa" though...) and she showered me with love about being an iyg volunteer. i wish things could be the way they were back in the good ol' days of IYG. so anyways, talbott street was packed, ya couldn't hardly move in there, so we headed over to OP's to dance - it's not Our Place anymore though - been renamed Greg's Place...had a gay ol' time there, tho it's obvious that Talbott's has taken a HUGE chunk of their clientel...

Tuesday, October 08, 2002

finished the book mom got me for my b-day, "Backstage With the Original Hollywood Square" - Peter Marshall's account of hosting Hollywood Squares is very interesting...

i've now moved on to some of the holds i got from the library last weekend...currently about 40 pages into "Stupid White Men ...and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation!" by Michael Moore - holy shit, he tears into Dubya!!

Sunday, October 06, 2002

heh heh heh - get yer Evangelist Name here!

i'm Reverend Oral V. Colon...care to make a donation?

don't like that? how about your white lesbian name?

i'm Powerful StickySister...*8-)

a gangsta name?

Off Da Hook Prison Fish right here...*8-)

"He's an ungodly gay waffle chef on the run. She's a beautiful tempestuous fairy princess trying to make a difference in a man's world. They fight crime!"

cute.

check out the crimefighting characters generator at http://www.rain-street.org/fightcrime.htm

Thursday, October 03, 2002

stupid joke time...courtesy of a joke thread on fark:

Two parrots were sitting on a perch. One says to the other "Do you smell fish?"

Q: What do you get when you cross a Saint Bernard with a Chihuahua?
A: A bloody Chiuaua.

Two muffins are baking in an oven.
The first says, "It sure is hot in here."
The second replies, "Wow, a talking muffin!"

What's brown and sticky?
A stick.

mommy sent me this link, since i'm gonna try to restrict the carbs in my life, as painful as that may be...
do you know where your polling place is?
wow, what an amazing clock!

Tuesday, October 01, 2002

a search link to transcripts of the celebrity jeopardy skits on SNL - where'd the whole sean connery mispronouncing the categories thang come from? connery wants "the penis mightier" category, trebek tells him no, it's "the pen is mightier"..."therapists" is connery-ized as "the rapists" and so on...funny stuff...
last night's birthday dinner was at buca di beppo...i ate with mom, pooky and his gf cody...it was great - well, pretty good - the food was awesome, the service sucked. never had chicken marsala before, but i really enjoyed it - might hafta try making it myself sometime...for dessert, we stopped by ritter's - rocky road with hot fudge - yummy!

cody's a cutie, and it's obvious that being in a relationship's having a good effect on pooky...she was a bit shy last night, but she'll warm up to us...it's obvious she doesn't take any shit from adam...*8-)

alright, now this is fucking ridiculous...sunday, i decided to make piggies in blankets for lunch - the damned hot dogs now have a freaking warning label on them! "Keep Kids Safe! For younger children, cut hot dogs into small pieces before serving. They should always be seated and under adult supervision when eating." they even have a fucking WEB SITE for more info on feeding kids! ya just have to wonder - what freakin lawsuit came up or what was the reasoning that they had to warn people - hey, don't let yer kid run around with a whole hot dog or she'll kill herself! crazy...

Monday, September 30, 2002

oh goodness...dunno what made me think of it, but i was wondering about friends of old, on a mud (multi-user dungeon) i hung out at long ago...Kender's Kove - my "marriage" was in 1994, and i'd been on it quite a bit before that...wonder what ever happened to my old mud.wife, Ryke...
very cool site - www.liquidgeneration.com - funny as hell!
modern humorist wants us to head over to amazon to contribute cash to buy dick cheney a segway! i donated $2.47, so why don't you? *8-)

(as you can see, i'm surfing the web on my birthday...)
so, today's the big 3-0. can't say i feel all that different - guess i've had a few days to let it sink in since my surprise party...
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Friday, September 27, 2002

my amazon wish list is at www.amazon.com/o/registry/24DS9KXZ39XKI
another name change at work...bye trader.com, hello Trader Classified Media....lessee how long this name lasts...
*grin* check out http://www.redpantiesforreproductivechoice.com/ - think i'll be wearing red boxers that day, thanks. *8-)

Wednesday, September 25, 2002

for those brain novelty needs: http://www.brain-mart.com/brain_novelties.html
woah...a lego version of van gogh's starry night - http://www.brillig.com/lego/starry_night/

Wednesday, September 18, 2002

more proof that angelina & i are destined to be together! Null and Voight - like myself, ang is dropping her father's last name as her legal last name...

Friday, September 13, 2002

went to the neurologist on thursday - said what i'd figured he would, that the seizure i'd had on sunday was probably due to my being sick - infections will lower my seizure threshold and since i had more than one going on at the same time, along with the vomiting et al, it was bound to happen. doc hasn't changed my Rx, but did mention the possibility of new meds - Keppra or Topamax. we'll see. he also gave me some info on the Vagus Nerve Stimulator, though i think we both agree that my seizures don't warrant it at this point - 3 or 4 tonic-clonic seizures a year is still too many, but it could be a hell of a lot worse.

Thursday, September 12, 2002

magic 8 ball!
Pop, soda, or coke? I tend to call it pop, but coke's probably a close second...

Wednesday, September 11, 2002

oh sheesh - EPILEPTIC TOLD: PAY £3500 TO WOMAN WHO SAW YOU HAVE A SEIZURE - glad i'm not in the UK...in US dollars, that's $5,445.87. rather ironic finding this article this weekend, after i had a seizure and spent an evening in the emergency room. just having a seizure wouldn't be enough to hit the ER, but since i've had a urinary tract infection and upper respiratory infection as well, it was necessary to make sure something horrible wasn't going on - nope, no West Nile virus or anything, it just happened that i got slammed by a variety of stuff all at once. still not 100% - it's very obvious that the seizures are fucking with my brain more and more - having verbal problems still, tho it's relatively minor compared to the seizure i had in june.

Sunday, September 08, 2002

heading to target? drinks are on me! *8-)
go to http://server40.hypermart.net/insanecodes/coupon_coupon.gif for a coupon for a free coke.
hrmmm - i think they underestimate me...




Thursday, September 05, 2002

Tuesday, September 03, 2002

tis amazing the knowledge you gain from farking - "A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes", according to firstscience.com - now how do they know the pig wasn't faking it?!?!?
damn, maybe i should become president:

"Bush has spent a whopping total of 250 days of his presidency at Camp David (123 days), Kennebunkport (12) and his Texas ranch (115). That means Bush has spent 42 percent of his term so far at one of his three leisure destinations."
i've also registered with wheresgeorge.com - a site that you can track where your spent money travels...this stuff is neat, gives ya a sense of wonder - what could possibly happen to the $5 bill i just entered and will probably use for dinner tomorrow night?
i've registered with bookcrossing.com - maybe i can empty out a few boxes of books and put them to good use. *8-) i'm totally into the good karma thang that this site gives off...

Sunday, September 01, 2002

the South Park Studio has been updated, with new outfits and features et al...check it out! i'll post a new likeness when i get around to it...
i spent a buttload o money at compusa today, buying a bunch of shit i don't need but bought anyways cuz it was free after rebate. *8-) one program has lots of crafts projects on it - you can make your very own cootie catcher! remember those? very cool! there's an online cootie catcher at eCrush - not quite as fun as having a real one, but interesting nonetheless...
according to the densa test, i'm a genius - i got all 12 right!