Not all that exciting
Mood:  energetic
Topic: Various webshit

The unnamed quiz meme
Mood:  energetic
Topic: Various webshit
Thefterated from Gothling off MySpace:

1)Using your Current Initials, choose a different name for yourself:
Big Pimpin'

2) If you were born outside of your era, when would you want to be born?:
Ancient Greece

3) If you ran a store, what would you sell/have?:
Junk

4) What part in a movie would you love to play?:
The villain, except I get to win and eat the hero's brain

5) In your opinion, why do people suck?:
Because they perpetuate the notion that differences in things make them fundamentally better or worse than other things

6) If you had your own state, what would you put on your new quarter?:
Nothing, leave 'em guessing.

7) What's the oldest article of clothing you own?:
My scary black (well grey now) duster

8) What piece of furniture have you replaced the most?:
I dunno, never paid that much attention. Probably a bed though

9) What instrument do you wish you could be more than great at?
Glass harmonica

10) Record, Tape or CD?:
MP3

11) What do you think would be the best concert ever?:
Never thought that hard about it, but it would be nice to catch Shonen Knife live

12) What is the best part of your favorite movie(s)?:
The part when the Major is invisible and beating that dude's ass

13) What do you think is the most over-rated candy ever?:
I'd have to agree with the Gothling and say gummi-anythings

14) If you were writing out your will, who would you give your CD collection to?:
Whoever got to it first

15) If you could only debate two topics the rest of your life, what would they be?:
Silence and Shut The Fuck Up

16) Out of your friends, who would you say you are most jealous of, artistically?:
Not really jealous of any of my friends

17) Most jealous of....intellectually?:
Didn't I just answer this question?

18) What do you collect?:
Small tins, naturally occuring discordian numbers, strange people, dust

19) What is broken that you have, that you wish was fixed?:
My house

20) What do you do when you're home sick?:
Lay around and sleep - pretty much what I do normally except I'm aching when I'm sick

21) There is no 21.
So I guess that means this quiz isn't allowed to drink

22) Story behind your username?:
Dull

23) Current Favorite Article of Clothing?:
Still the Dirty Trucker shorts I tend to wear all the time

24) Line from the last thing you wrote for someone?:
" No worries. Trust me, I've been known to procrastinate on such issues for months or years."

25) A famous person you have met?:
I don't think I've ever met anyone famous

26) Favorite way to waste time?:
Watch cartoons

27) Last thing you bought yourself?:
A shirt

Up to my old tricks
Mood:  caffeinated
Topic: Nothing in particular
I finally managed to stay up past midnight.Chatting in IRC, randomly surfing, watching the tube - the usual multitask madness. Wow, isn't that just so exciting?

Harvest
Mood:  lazy
Topic: Life in Texas
After keeping our fingers crossed long enough that they're nearly permanently bowed, the combines finally came around and harvested the wheat crop. This is the first time I've been home to catch it since I moved out here, although I missed it entirely. We got hailed on a few times, which is what was making us nervous - the last thing we needed was to have the first solid crop we've made in a couple years get taken out by some psychotic overachieving precipitation.

Unfortunately it wasn't quite as big a harvest as we'd hoped for. We're figuring that half of what we made is going to go to paying for the cutting, and the other half is going to nearly pay for the next crop to get planted. Doesn't exactly sound like a profitable venture to me. But we did manage to make some money on the Ponderosa place pasturing it out for sheep, so at least this wasn't a total bust. It still feels like we scratched off a lottery ticket and won a free ticket. 'Congratulations - you get to try again!'

So now we've got 5 head of cattle out there among the headless hay and we're hoping to get another dozen or so in the next couple weeks. Buying beef always seems to turn a profit, at least for now.

Avoid at all costs
Mood:  caffeinated
Topic: Brain candy
I caught the pilot bit for 12 oz. Mouse on [as] last night, and the only thing I could find to say about it when it was done was "That was awful."

Understatement of the year. I thought that Perfect Hair Forever was bad when I caught it, but that at least made me chuckle a couple times. Hell, I don't like Tom Goes to the Mayor and wish it hadn't been made into an ongoing series, but it at least manages to get a giggle occasionally. But that lame ass mouse program was terrible. The art was awful in the extreme, and the plot was just short of non-existent.

To put it plainly, 12 oz. Mouse sucked in ways that would make a Bangkok whore agape in wonder. If that piece of crap gets made into a series I will cry tears of pure acidic hate. Avoid avoid avoid.

My big throbbing head
Mood:  don't ask
Topic: Bitchy rants
Another batch of fucking bacteria has decided to throw a mad party in my ear. I swear, I want to just stab a red hot knitting needle in there and show those microscopic bastards who the boss is around here.

Yeah, that would be a healthy response...

Anyway, so today is the first day in a couple that I can actually hear out of the right side of my head. I just so hate how the healing process goes from a constant annoying, but basically livable throb to my ear just deciding to randomly produce a severe stabbing pain right through to my brain. But finally the dam broke, and some seriously ugly gunk came out. Yeah, you really wanted to hear about that.

And I'm only halfway through the antibiotics course too. Bleh, I hate antibiotics. I still have like 4 days of feeling basically run down (and other icky effects we won't get into here) while I poison those little fuckers out of my head again.

Don't read this
Mood:  surprised
Topic: It's all about me
This is the list of what I want for my birthday, in no specific order. Yes, I know this is way early. No, I don't actually expect any of this.

• A tattoo of a fairy ring around my left leg, in the vicinity of the ankle
• Can't Stop, a discontinued dice game that is quite zippy
• The house remodeled
• A computer so psychotically powerful I have to struggle with it at least once every couple months for fear that it'll take over the house and most of the country - and a nice fat broadband connection to go with it
• All the episodes of Cowboy Bebop on DVD
• A trip to someplace interesting that I've never been to before
• A Rubik's Magic Puzzle - probably a couple of them because I played with the last one so much that it fell apart
• To be really really really high with a bunch of my friends at a loud party that lasts all weekend - hot strippers optional, glow sticks required
• The Great and Secret Show and Everville
• Ice cream dammit!
• Freakazoid! and 2 Stupid Dogs back on the air when there's nothing else but crap on TV in the middle of the night
• To be able to banish anyone foolish enough to annoy me on my fucking birthday out to the cornfield

Whore!
Mood:  mischievious
Topic: Nothing in particular
I'm curious as to why the random guys who don't understand colloquial English very well always want to cyber with me when I'm just hanging out in the #bearcave. Does my screen name give off a kind of 'please type dirty to me' vibe or something?

It doesn't help that I'm generally too nice to just tell them to bugger off. The last time I wasn't in the mood for it I let the guy know right off that I am terribly boring to cyber with. No really, I am. I just don't have a taste for it. But you know, if I wanted to I'd probably be really really good at it.

You know you want it.

So right this moment I've got this poor dude asking me random questions. I know he's probably just as bored as I am and just wants someone to chat with. I also know that the subject will inevitably turn to something 1-handed. Blah. I don't want to be rude about it, and it's too close to bedtime for me to come up with something clever.

Wait, why in hell am I blogging about this anyway?

Editing
Mood:  lazy
Topic: Head games
I have no idea if anyone is actually reading the Briar County Blues blog, but assuming that someone is reading it, and they are tired of it still being in the same spot for the past couple months, said someone will be mildly thrilled to know that I plan to start editing the next post sometime in the next week.

That, I believe, is the sound of one hand clapping.

Vertigo
Mood:  don't ask
Topic: Bitchy rants
I'm getting used to new glasses now. I'm not going to get into the annoying rigmarole of getting them. I am a bit irritated at Dr. Condescending and his attitude about us returning to make sure this prescription is right. I'm a bit weary of looking at this screen and seeing some funky trapezoid.

These things are making me dizzy and a little barfy. Maybe another black & tan will help.