3 a.m. syndrome

I'm on the computer and it's 3 a.m. and I'm not really doing much of anything. My apartment smells more like incense now than smoke which is a definite plus. Shanna had a couple of old high school pals of hers here while I was hanging with Levi playing some Mario Tennis. We ended up watching The Diary of Ellen Rimbaurer (prequel to Stephen King's "Rose Red"). Then discussed robots controlling hostility and whether or not we would accept a non-violent society because of our nature. I talked about a news interview I saw with Ray Bradbury about how we as a people cannot really depend on Earth forever and that space exploration and colonization was the future. To put it simple our goal wouldn't be for one nation to take over everything or vice-versa, just for us to accept the fact that we all need to think outside of our preconstructed boxes. He made a lot of good points but was cut down by Neil Cavuto (not really they just ran out of time). I never really thought about space as the future of our society. It seems very dreamy but not realistic. But just look at all of the accomplishments we have already made into space. I think it isn't very far along the road until we will have a base of some sort on the moon. Maybe there will be affordable travel to outer space for tours. There are endless possibilities out there. If only we could stop spending money on things that shouldn't be in the first place. Oh well that's all my rambling for tonight, I feel like an old man now.

Shawn

Fire bad

Okay now this post is going to be a long one so stay with me. All of the following events are true and have no spin. It was 6:40am when Shanna called me and said, "You're apartment's on fire." My natural reaction was "WHAT?!". Shanna said it was a small one that started in the front apartment (I live in back). But she said everything was ok and she was at the neighbors house. So I call my boss because his wife is my landlord and she gives me a call back on what happened and I told her what Shanna had said. So I go home to see the damage and my street is barricaded off. Not a good sign. So I park and walk to my house to see a big chunk of the side of my house burnt from top to bottom and about 7 firemen there. I stand around and one sees me and I said "Hi, I live here." "Number 3?" the fireman said. "Correct." So I get into my house and there's tons of smoke in there so we open all the windows and they get an exhaust fan in. I go outside quickly and see Shanna coming my way. She was awoken to quite the surprise of a police officer pounding on the door and shouting "You need to get out the house is on fire!" So she did what he said. And I know what you are all thinking "What started the fire?" The other apartment dweller here decided to discard her cigarette butts in the garbage next to the house and didn't have them completely snuffed out. The fireman lectured Shanna and the idiots on the dangers of smoking when Shanna said "I don't smoke (probably quite smugly)." So it's Thanksgiving and I have tons of stuff to do today and have a smoke filled house to do them in. So the firemen took the exhaust fan out of my apt. and said everything should be fine in here and told me about renter's insurance (which I was unaware of existed until now) for smoke damage. Nothing looked bad and I could probably Fabreeze anything that smells smoky. So me and Shanna pack the birds up to take them over to Shanna's parents house for Thanksgiving and so I could get a few hours of sleep before I do anything else. But Shanna's family was getting ready for everything and was kind of irritable and lots of noises going on so I decided to come home. When I got here my landlord was here and was like "Hi." Looking at the house "What the fuck?" So I said "Yeah, Jackie is a moron." She said she knew and that she had already talked to her today. She thinks the estimated amount of damage was about $10,000. We bash on Jackie for a while and I tell her that she should kick her out and get somebody else in here. She agreed but probably won't do it. We parted ways and I went back inside where it was considerably less smoky then before. So right now it was about 9:30am and I needed to get up at around 11:00, not a problem. Set my 2 alarms on my alarm clock and alarm on my phone. I then crashed immediately. I then heard my alarm clock going off at 11:53am, when I was supposed to be at my grandma's, who lives in Beloit, at 12. So I don't bother with anything except clothes and head out the door. So I get there and told the people what happened and they were like "that sucks" and I was like, "yeah". So after an hour of torture there promoting my Esperanza concert on December 14th at 7:30. I went over to Shanna's house where we played Sequence for about 2 hours (which was great fun). Now I'm back home and the debris is mostly cleared. What a fun Thanksgiving.

P.S. My house made the 27 local news
P.P.S. I don't have cable or an antenna to watch it

Ju-on.....

So it was about 12:30 when I got excessively bored here at work and decided to put in this Japanese movie Ju-on. It was apparently the original version of the US movie, The Grudge. So I'm watching it and I'm starting to realize something. IT'S THE EXACT SAME MOVIE. No differences at all except for the whole language barrier. So here's a tip for all you poor people out there. Go rent Ju-on and just pretend that Sarah Michelle Gellar is the lead character. There you go, I just saved you lots of money (on a side note The Grudge and Ju-on are very scary movies and I don't recommend going to see them if you have a heart condition). So I finish the movie and the hotel is dead quiet. That's usually good but not if you just got done getting the living crap scared out of you. After a while I mustered up enough courage to go and deliver bills to the rooms (the whole time I expected a variety of things to happen: 2 girls on tricycles, blood coming out of the elevator, a weird guy in a dog suit doing something very disturbing to an old guy, and not to mention a pale demon child and his mother). Well I finished that and nothing bad happened so I went to go clean up the pool. Nothing to crazy happened there just some towels on the floor and what not. But then right as I'm about to go out the door I see a guy right there standing in front of the door. I almost fell into the pool until I realize he was human and was checking in. Well it's about 4:00am right now so I will start making some coffee (mmmm) and get back to work. I always wanted to go to Japan but after Ringu and Ju-on I think I will have to take a rain check on that. Happy Thanksgiving to everyone and I'll see you on the flip side.
Shawn

This was during my rooster phase. 

Oh what a night (late november back in 04')....

Wow last night was so terrifically horrible. Let me go in sequential order. So first off I had a lot of people come in and get rooms which I guess isn't very bad but there was like 6 people in the first hour. Then there was this guy that was so fricken wasted he kept on trying to get juice and spilt it everywhere and kept saying "you got me down for 6am wakeup call" like 5 times. So after that it died down for little while until about 2:00am when all of the sudden a guest comes up to me and says "There's a car in the parking lot that just hit 2 other cars." GOOD GRIEF CHARLIE BROWN! So I called the cops and the guy gave a description of the suburban that hit them. The cops couldn't get the names that the vehicles were regestered to so he said I would have to wait until they see them (which they would because a window was busted out). So okay I guess that's no big deal... assuming that it's a rental car and their insurance would defenently cover it because it was in no way, shape, or form their fault. So all is well for the next 30 minutes or so when all of the sudden this other guy that was even more drunk than the first kept going up and down on the elevator. I asked him after 10 minutes if he needed anything and he didn't seem very coherrent so I basically had to escort him back to his room where he rented lots of porn. Then all is well again when it's 6am and I have no papers to give to guests... AHH!!! So guests are yelling at me about the damn papers and meanwhile I'm worrying about whether or not the people are going to flip shit once they see the damage done to their car. Finally papers get there are 6:30 and all is well again. I have one very important thing to say.... the government needs to ban stupid hicks from ever.... EVER, ingesting alcohol. There needs to be an aptitude test or something when you turn 21 because I've never any problems with any people that were drunk except hicks! Sorry I'm very frustrated right now and need to go to bed but know that as soon as I do my boss will call me. But that's all for now. Happy happy, joy joy.

Shawn

Phone book mania

So today I helped Shanna deliver phone books for about 4 hours after work (hurray). I was just dead tired and I feared I was going to turn into a zombie like state. But I didn't and stayed mostly coherrent for the entire time. As soon as I got home though, I crashed in like 3 minutes. And of course because I'm a loser that doesn't know the meaning of sleep I woke up 5 hours later. But anyways that's about all and if you're looking at this Carla you are the best USA Today­­™ deliverer ever!

Shawn

HTML (Huggable Tags Must Love)

So okay, I've been updating my blogger with lots of cool stuff and basically am relearning the greatest language of all HTML! The weird thing is that I remember almost everything about it still even though I haven't used it since high school. I'm all like... hmm I wanna make a link on my sidebar with a picture attached to it... no problem, and voila there I have it. I think I may have actually listened to Mr. Figi (who likes to go to the libarry). But no matter how much I love this wonderful language, my first love will always be HyperCard.... ahhh onOpenStack... sigh. I am going to convince our scientific leaders that we should run all programs on HyperCard! They would probably have to switch over to Macs though because of the whole fact that I don't think they have HyperCard on Windows yet but that is okay with me. So I went to The House on the Rock a couple of weekends ago for Shanna's birthday. It was really neat, except for the fact that instead of putting cool stuff in there, they put over 6000 Santa Claus'. There's this giant Moby Dick room where moby is fighting this giant squid and there's Santa surfing on a wave! AHHH! Not to mention the fact that they closed down half the place for winter. Overall a good time was had by all and I bumped my head everywhere because the ceiling is only 6 feet high in most places. So now I'm working on a new a very dull and time consuming project. I'm going to put all of my pictures in an album on my computer via my scanner. It's going to be a long an tedious process but I am up for it. So today my mother called me which was kind strange because we haven't really spoken in like a year or so and invited Shanna and I for Thanksgiving at my grandmas house. I really really really really really don't want to go... but I feel obligated I guess. It's probably not my whole families fault that they are completely and utterly insane but I still think that they have a choice. I know when insanity was pushed upon me I just decided to leave instead of degrading my mental capacity. Anyways I'm not certain if I will go or I will bring Shanna over there.. she met my family before and they were more than happy to completely ignore her. And on top of that Shanna's family is having Thanksgiving at their house so I will probably be over there for most of the day. AHHH so frustrating! Oh well that's about all of my ramblings for today. Make sure to check out Esperanza's website http://hometown.aol.com/amberluvs2sing/index.html for a list of all of our events which start on November 30th.

Keep on Truckin'
Shawn

Shiver me timbers

Hello all. I have come to talk to you about a subject that is near and dear to my heart, piracy. Now I know that a majority of people do it and I can't blame you for it. I mean it just sounds so cool to do. Piracy, who doesn't want to be a pirate? Get to travel on long voyages on a rickety boat with a spiffy flag. Your captain usually looks like something out of an early cyborg novel, with of course, a talking helper at his shoulder. And for the music lover there are dozens of great songs to sing onboard. Not to mention for all the severe alcoholics the mass quantities of rum that will keep you warm at night. Now if they called it something like, gonorracy then we might have change. Hey Bill what are you doing? Bill, "I'm gonorrating software." See how that works. And now I leave you with the ultimate question: 100 pirates vrs. 100 ninjas... who wins?

Everybody's workin' for the weekend

Alack, my weekend is almost over. I must go back to the highly demanding job of doing nothing. But for now I guess I will just chill out, watch a movie, invade france, all seem like good ideas right now. Okay so now I'm thinking of some orange, something oorraannge, give up? It's an orange.

Okay so I was in the play and I had to be a mechanic, faerie, and a man playing a women... I think I pulled it off nicely 

All hail the pool cue ninja! (what a hoser)

I actually graduated! (the people that were sewn onto the sides of me were eventually removed). 

Niagara Falls is so cool... Did you know there's a waterfall there? 

Bowling for Burgers

Bowling was loads of fun last night. I was on my way of breaking 200 when all of the sudden a pterodactyl (which only I could see) came and stole my mojo. Then Levi decided he had to go and get a 202 game (loser). Needless to say I had fun and we played some Mario Kart afterwards. Shanna did excessively well and got 2 strikes in a row one game! I was very proud. So it's Saturday afternoon now and I'm just watching Shanna's cockatiels groom themselves. Now folks let me tell you about something that is so spectacular that you might just fall over with immense bladder pain. I have recently decided... to... win..... the lottery! I'm sure there is a pattern to it. I'm going to jot down all of the numbers each week and then use my superior (or inferior) intellect and decipher the winning numbers in 2049. You heard it here first. The only thing that is not for sure is whether or not I will be alive by then. That's about all... Oh yeah.. Canada Forever!

Way too happy 

Family Guy

Family guy has to be the best show ever. Just in case everyone else didn't know yet

Sleepy time

It's time for me to get some sleep. I had a very long night filled with many dumb guests! I wish people would just stop and realize that they are morons. Especially all the drunkards I get after bar time. I wish I could tie weights around there ankles and throw them in the pool, granted the pool is only 5 feet deep, but it would at least be better than babysitting them. Curse you alcohol, I banish you to the depths of hell! Unless I wanna get drunk.

Starting the blog

Well this seems to be the cool thing to do nowadays. I will write about my life in its entirety with no description left out. Hmm..... I played some games today, they were fun. I did some singing and played on a woodblock for about an hour. That's about it, and today was an exiting day! Will write more after stuff happens to me.

All hail Nolan!