share the road my ass

as promised, my rant on why i hate bicyclists.  and i don't mean the normal people who just ride their bike around town or whatever.  i mean the dumb asses who have their supper spiffy top of the line bikes and their ridiculously tight spandex that leaves far too little to the imagination.  these are the people who ride their stupid bikes (that probably cost more than my car, yet another reason to hate them) on roads that do not have bike lanes.  and why do these roads not have bike lanes?  because you were never meant to ride a fucking bike there and are either fucked up in the head and/or suicidal if you do so.  take my drive yesterday as an example.  i'm on this road that is nauseatingly windy and full of blind curves and stupid drivers who apparently don't have the ability to slow down their cars.  i'm terrified being on these kinds of road while i'm in my car, surrounded my fiber glass or plastic or whatever the hell saturns  are made out of.  but, like i said, these bikers are either messed up in the head and do not realize that they are putting themselves into a dangerous situation which is highly likely to end in them painting the road with their own blood, or they are willing putting themselves in that situation for just that reason.  and i do not want to be a part of an assisted suicide, or responsible for killing the mentally unwell. 

see?  death wish.  (source unknown)

and that "share the road" stuff is all bull crap.  apparently the bikers think this only applies to cars, and not them.  because they sure as hell don't share the road.  they don't even attempt to move over when you get stuck behind them because there is a blind curve in front of you and you don't have a death wish like they do so you are trying to avoid a head on collision.  they won't even acknowledge that you are there.  i know they can hear me because i'm in a fucking car.  and it's old with squeaky breaks.  so when i have to slam on the breaks because the stupid biker popped up out of no where, my breaks pretty much scream at me.  if i can hear it over the radio blasting, i know they can hear it.  

the worst part is when they ride next to each other, which i'm pretty sure is illegal on roads with no bike lanes.  it's bad enough if two of them are next to each other, but yesterday i had to deal with a group of three next to each other.  three!  i couldn't pass them forever because there were cars in the other lane.  i really think it should be legal to run them over at that point.  and even if it's not, i can't think of any good reason that a jury would convict me.

hey wait, wasn't the world ending today?

via

 /rant

oh look, another end of the world prediction turns out to be complete and utter bull shit.  who would have thunk it.  because i mean i always trust nut jobs who predict me having a premature death.  especially when they have such a proven track record.  i mean, look at how badly the world ended back between 1994 and 1996.  yeah, i mean all that nothingness was pretty epic.  like really, how many brain cells did these people have to kill off before they thought this was a logical idea?  in one article i read, this mother and father both believed the world would end today, but their three children were smart enough to know this was bull shit.  the problem is that the parents became so absorbed in the idea that they stopped saving money, stopped putting aside for their kids collage funds, and the mother quite her job like six months ago to "spread the word."  so basically these kids are now fucked because their parents had shit for brains.

and like i know i'm not the most versed person on the topic of the bible, but i'm pretty sure that only God was to know when the rapture would occur and that there was no way for man to know the date.  assuming this is true, it makes sense.  like if man where to know the exact date of the rapture, people would just fuck off until it happened.  and if you knew that it wasn't going to happen in your life time, there really isn't much incentive to behave yourself.  it would be all sex, drugs, and rock and roll.  it's like little kids around christmas time.  they know when the freakin' date is that they get rewarded.  so they are extra good around that date because they have motivation to be good.  the rest of the year, they are little terrors.  but if you tell them that you would randomly give them a new toy sometime during the year but they have no idea what day it will be and the must be good up until that day, it gives them more incentive to behave.  

and this brings me to part three of my rant.  while i personally do believe in a God and  Christ and an after life and all that jazz, i do not take the bible as a word for word truth and there are several reasons for this.  one, it was written several, if not hundreds, of years after the events would have happened.  two, it was heavily edited to fit in with cultural beliefs and customs of the time.  three, it was only written by men, so see back to reason two for why no women were allowed to contribute.  four, it was translated from original documents.  usually several times.  lots of stuff gets lost in translations.  five, it has been edited into several different versions.  people picked and chosed which parts they wanted to fit with their particular idea of religion.  what you find in a cathloic bible might not be in a luthern bible, especially since martin luther pretty much hated the cathloic church for all of the corruptness that was going on during his time.  i could keep going, but i think that's enough for one night.

/end rant

tune in tomorrow for why i hate bicyclists!

we survived!

 so friday the thirteenth just passed.  for this most lucky day, melanie and i decided to do something a little ... different.  see, most people try to avoid anything that might be considered creepy or spooky.  we did just the opposite.  we figured it would be a good idea to go on a flashlight tour of the winchester mystery house.  and it's a good thing we figured this a while ago, because a lot of other people had the same idea and the tours have been sold out for over a month. 

since i had never been to the house before, and since photography is not allowed inside (and by the time we got inside it was too dark for that to matter anyway) we showed up a few hours before the tour.  walking around the gardens and the outside of the house is free, so that's what we did.  i ended up taking over two hundred pictures.  i narrowed down the selection, did a little editing, and the better ones are posted here.

 our tour started at 10:30 p.m and ended just before midnight.  all the lights in the house are turned off, and a group of about twenty people are given flashlights and led around by the tour guide.  it's really not a scary experience as they don't try to freak you out at all.  it's pretty much the daytime tour minus the lights.  it was really cool though.  the house it self is pretty crazy, and using the flashlights to look at all the different stained glass was really cool.

and now for the part that everyone is going to ask me.  no, i did not see a ghost.  i did get dizzy and light headed, but i attributed this to just have walked up some crazy ass claustrophobia inducing stairs and being slightly over heated.  so i took off my jacket and the light headedness went away.  i did have one kind of a weird feeling at one point after that though.  i this feeling of intense pressure on my chests and it was a little hard to breathe.  this only happened in mrs. winchester's shower room and the seance room.  after that i was totally normal the rest of the night.  and while i don't necessarily think this was anything of the paranormal nature, it was unusual for me.  and i would love to go back sometime to see if i could experience anything else.  and who knows, maybe next time i will see that ghost.

so i'm a slacker

yeah, i know i've been really inconsistent about posting lately.  i just really have not had a lot to blog about lately.  either nothing was going on, or i didn't feel comfortable publishing the stuff that was.  either way, that should be changing with in the next few weeks.  i'm starting to get interviews set up in the hopes of finding a better job.  this could possibly lead to me moving to another city.  i also have a few events coming up, like this weekend (more details on that later), blizzcon tickets go on sale this month, horse expo next month, and a ren faire in july.  i also have a three day weekend this month, so hopefully something cool will happen then.  but to tide you over until i get more cool stuff to write about, i figured i would share some of the blogs and comics that i read on a daily bases.  enjoy!

the cheese blarg sarcastic humor with illustrations by the author

cake wrecks funny cake disasters by "professional" bakers

epbot in the words of the author, "geekery, girliness, and goofing off"

darths and droids we went over this already here

order of the stick they only update like once a week, which sucks because it's really funny.  d&d related.

capitol hillbillies a gay web comic.  literally.

headtrip  some story lines, mostly random, cute/cool drawings

it's been a while...

somehow, i just don't look as scary with bunny ears

... since i've gone and fucked things up, the way i always do.  it's been a while... damn it now that song is stuck in my head.  but for reals now, it's been a while since i've done a WoW post.  so guess what's going to change.  it's an ab (arathi basin) weekend, which just so happens to be my favorite battle ground.  which makes me happy in ways that it probably shouldn't.  this is the only battle ground that i truly enjoy, and that fact the i get bonus points for doing it is just awesome.  so yeah, lots of killing of things going on right now.  and it also happens to be the noble garden celebration right now.  which is pretty much the WoW way of having easter themed events without being sued.  anywho, there is this wonderful little achievement called "shake your bunny maker."  in order to earn said achievement, you must take what is basically an easter basket and throw it at one female from each race in the game.  this results in a pair of bunny ears appearing on that particular female.  and believe it or not, i can tie these two things together.  you see, finding willing females of the opposite faction can be a little on the difficult side, considering most of them want to kill you dead.  and even if they themselves don't want to kill you, the guards in their towns most certainly do.  but there is a bit of a way around this.  since as a hunter, i tend to fight things from afar, i don't have much use for a melee weapon other than a boost to my stats.  this allows to me keep my little easter basket in my hands when i go to wage battle.  why would i do this you ask?  one, it looks adorable.  two, when some undead bitch thinks she is going to get all up in my business and kill me, i can laugh, throw bunny ears at her, and then shoot her in the face.  so i now get credit for both the bunny ears and her untimely death.  overall, i'd say that's pretty win/win for me.  

p.s. hi corzair.  surprised i'm a girl? 

oh noes! she lost her legs!

it was a ninja fight.  and well, being the fail ninja, she lost.  her legs that is.  apparently she was out numbered.  and surrounded.  and the other ninjas were better.

yeah i'm bored.  and sleep deprived.  what can i say?  it leads me to taking random pictures of my cat and making up stupid stories about her.   it keeps me awake and entertained.  don't judge me.

i'm having a hate/hate relationship....

...with condoms.  yep, condoms.  didn't use to have a problem with them.  in fact, i had a very nice working relationship with them.  they kept me safe from babies and stds, and i kept them in a box, safe from the claws of the fail ninja.  never really had any issues except for maybe putting one on backwards and having to start over again.  but recently, something has changed.  i don't know if they are rebelling from suddenly being overworked, or for some reason being kept in a shoebox is no longer making them happy, but condoms have decided that they hate me lately.  within the last month i have had two of them break and one of them decided to play hide and seek.  which has meant i have needed to buy the plan b pill far too much in the last few weeks.  and that can get pretty damn pricey.  and the condoms themselves weren't cheep either, because i always use the good brands.  but they insist on being stupid, and for for this i have fired condoms.  assuming certain tests come back negative, i don't plan on using them again for a very long time.  so it's back on the pill for me.  which means more sex in more places, no pms, and two day periods.  so overall, a win/win situation if you ask me.  but now i have a shit ton of condoms just laying around that aren't going to be doing anything.  but a friend of mine has come up with a great solution on how to remedy this problem: balloon animals.