Z.Monkey’s Blog

I found this amusing, slightly morbid and nihilistic but amusing. From marriedtothesea.com.

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Heidi and I are heading down to Beantown for the weekend. I want to get to the Green Dragon, while this is originally not my idea it still seems like fun. We’ll probably hit up the MFA and we’ll be going to the Aquarium (Heidi is chaperoning a field trip). I think I might listen to Steve Zissou’s theme song while walking among the fishes. Not sure if we have any other plans but we are staying over Saturday night, perhaps in a hotel. Not really sure yet. We may decide to sleep under a bridge… I hear the Fenway stop is nice.

I had a goal in our last hockey game. I’d like to say it was pretty but it was not (it looked like the goalie shit out the puck… at least from my angle it did). Unfortunately we lost. Jared is supposed to send me some photos from the game which I will then post for your edification. Perhaps reading this will inspire him.

A short little song from Heidi to you (actually it was to me but I felt like sharing).

Sitting around with nothing to do, do da, do da,
Waiting for the website guy, oh do da do da day.No word if I’ll lose my job, do da, do da,
Just have to sit here and wait for things to do, oh do da do da day.

Going to be one of those jobs, do da, do da
Where I sit and wait for hours on end one day,
and don’t have time to sit the next, oh do da do da day.

Go to be proactive, walk around and ask for work, do da, do da,

If that doesn’t work I will hang out with the security guard, oh do da do da day.

Then I will sit,
and look for new jobs,
just in case my fate is set,
for a departure at the end of the “physical year” oh do da do da day!

And some humorous political jokes. Now get back to work you slackers! Khaaan!

So my birthday is coming up so I started looking for stuff people can buy me. Well, no, not really I just wanted to find a small receiver to replace the beast (’the beast! rarghhpfffp!’) in our living room. No such luck yet as the only one I’ve found that has the required feature, that is being a digital media receiver, weighs 40lbs and costs $2K. Well, I guess there is this guy too, check out the back, but it is way, way, way out of our price range. The search continues (and no I will not buy a Xbox360). If anyone knows of a regular receiver with an integrated digital media receiver built in (audio only is fine) I’d be obliged if you let me know.

This is for Steve. Oh, and congrats on Riley walking. After all that that drinking Lori did at our wedding (and the fact that your sperm were involved in the creation of him), I was a bit worried.

And a big Huzzah to the NH House. Way to go! If you are wonder how you representative voted go here. Now will our Senate also vote intelligently?

Thumbs up to Peter Schmidt and Roland Hofemann (and any others I may have missed.. why do they list representatives by county. It makes it so difficult to search)!

Jeff and Al have recommended going to see V for V and I am interested in checking it out, any takers? (Min wants to see it and Jeff wants to see it again) Browsing through /. before I came to work I saw an online, AJAX based word processor. Looks cool. If it works I’ll never buy Word again. Wait why would I have bought it in the first place OOo is free and it is capable of doing all my home office shit. Ah, Ramblings. I’d recommending going to check out Nad’s latest post. It has something, not sure what, but there is definitely something there…

Now I finished this book a week or so ago so this will not be as descriptive as it could be but here goes.

Reading ‘The 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Blue Bear’ reminded me of reading Roald Dahl’s ‘The BFG‘ (the Big Friendly Giant not the Big Fucking Gun) or at least it style did. It kind of reads like a kids book (it even has pictures!), though it has some comedy intended for adults. Time has erased all examples except for one biblical reference; one of the species of demons inhabiting Atlantis is called Gogmagogs. Odd, I know but I found it amusing. But for the most part these allusions are pretty hidden so they don’t distract from the main draw of the book, distraction. The book is insane (if you could not tell from the cover or the title… though the title is misleading. He is neither a Captain nor does he die once during the book). It is narrated by Bluebear whose narrative style does an good job of making this insanity seem almost mundane. It is natural to live in a perpetual tornado or watch a battle of wits between an intelligent element and a seven brained scientist riding partially tamed darkness. But in the end the book is not that memorable. I recommend reading it if you are in the mode for an amusing distraction and, if the rating from American Idol are correct, a lot of people are.

If you want to, go read this article entitled “N. Korea: U.S. does not have ‘monopoly’ on pre-emptive strike“. The dailykos has a write up that pretty much sums this up. A quote:

The Bush Doctrine has, in our dear leader’s words, clearly “emboldened our enemies,” even if it remains at the threatening chatter level. The press didn’t do it. The anti-war critics didn’t do it. The U.N. didn’t do it. Swaggering around the world televising shock and awe, specifying nations on our shit list, borrowing our way to bankruptcy, and making threats on which it’s doubtful we can follow through - at least with several nations and on several continents at once - has done it.

I wanted to sit down last night a write but I just felt like crap. So all I did was vegetate on the couch with Heidi as she works on her new quilt. I’m tired today and probably still a little sick. I was too lazy to take a shower, too awake to lie in bed, and too bored to sit around at home; so I went to work real early like.

You might be interested in the new game, “Patriot Act: The Home Version“! It’s fun for the whole family.

This is not the time for a long post but I thought I’d give you guys something to know that I am still alive. Also, I am glad to see Nad is still alive and kicking. I signed up to get in on Google website generator [crap-ular site] dealy a while back. I played with it but I think it is a bit too simplistic.

look at this link.

Ack and I have formulated a plan. It goes something like this:

Step 1: I (continue to) bother, pester and generally annoy Ack.
Step 2: He holds his annoyance inside, molding it into a ball of rage.
Step 3: Repeat steps 1 and 2 until ball of rage is large enough (approximately 5 sq. meters).
Step 4: Ack releases the ball of rage in the form of a junk kick, and, in Dragonball Z style, the force from the attack creates a crater of massive proportions (destroying our place of employment and several trees).
Step 5: His rage depleted, Ack picks me off the ground. We buy beer and blue food coloring, and drink green beer for the rest of the day (and possibly next week as we will no longer be employed).
Step 6: Crater slowly fills in with water and become a natural park/tourist attraction.

This is as good a plan as I can manage. Power hour anyone?