i started out this Xanga blog thing w/ a post about my grandmother who we called Ganga. well...today would have been her birthday. i'm not sure how old she would have been here in 2007. she died when i was a freshman in high school (1993) and when i graduated a friend of hers gave me a picture of her toasting up a wineglass to the camera's view. i love that picture. it made me cry that day. i still have it and toast up my glass of wine (or something comparable) to it on special occasions. so "cheers Ganga" - happy birthday!

i haven't posted anything in sometime. here's some highlights of my boring world.

WORK:

some changes have occurred at work to where i'm currently doing my regular daily duties plus those of someone no longer employed there. those just happen to be even more BS than my normal bs...so that's been busy. it's never been a permanent place for me. i'm really not made to work on making sure that "the Man's" ways of making money run smoothly. one day (hopefully sooner than later) i will move on. i've learned a lot of "things" working there over the years. however, i've also wasted a lot of brain space on pointless information of the ins/outs of that place that i will not fully realize until i'm actually removed from it. until then it's punch-in/punch-out and pay bills...some of which are nearing their end.

NEW ROOMATE:

some friends of mine rescued a kitten on the side of the road about a month ago. they are moving back to TX at the first of Aug (which starts tomorrow) and told me that they would take it back at that time if i wanted them to do so. i told them if i fall in love w/ her during her stay w/ me that i would keep her. i'm really not sure about that at this point. she did kill a centipede crawling across the floor the other night....so maybe she can keep little creatures off of me and out of my room from time-to-time. she likes my nostrils a lot and cleans out my ear holes every-now-and-then when i let her....but that may just not be enough for her to stay. her turning off the power button on my surge protector (including my computer) about 5 minutes ago when i was in the middle of trying to write this post didn't help our relationship. a friend from work is going to bring me some "Cat Nip" tomorrow...she said that the cat will be fun to watch when it's high on that. i'll do that...then i'll probably just let her go ;-(

she did bring up an old memory. if you watch this clip and it brings back memories that you had long-forgotten from your youth....then you'll understand. if not, then you're not in my generation...or you just didn't watch a lot of television when you were a kid.

click here: Dumbo's Circus (note: y*utube clip)

THE ARTS:

i opened my mouth and volunteered to run lights/sound for the summer musical at the community theater across the street for a friend who was directing the show. i really have never liked musicals at all. i've been in a couple that i hated. but this one was not a "serious" musical...and i realized that the fun ones like this one aren't as bad. they were doing Little Shop of Horrors. anything w/ a huge plant singing and eating people can't be too serious. it was the time taken out of my last two weekends of doing my loser-life norm weekend stuff that sucked the most....but that show is now over....and i can't say that i'll miss it so much.

MY MULL:

i need a haircut pretty badly. my mullet is now actually growing it's own mullet. someone asked me if i had a "rat tail" the other day. that same person got their vintage New Kids on the Block t-shirt stolen and i have sported that b*tch twice already. it's mine....and so is my mullet's mullet until i get it cut which will hopefully be soon. i've noticed my head's resemblance w/ recently purchased Beatles albums (along w/ their staches), comedic wigs sported by Adam Sandler, and my nightly dreams of Neil Diamond

THE WEATHER:

it's rained like a mo-fo here lately. so much that the four free 18-hole golf passes i got from work at the first of the month were almost worthless. i really thought that i was never going to have a dry day to play. but we did that yesterday under the storm clouds and in the humid heat that made for a stuffy ride home. i used my sister's clubs (not my good golfer sister....sorry LLL) and they were shorter than my normal set. so my stance looked like i was in the "taking a steamer" position to get down lower for my swing....and....it gave me another excuse for sucking so bad. not as bad as RockThisB...but he had the "it's my first time to ever play" excuse...which is a pretty damned good excuse in the game of golf. that...and his testicles get in the way w/ that huge tumor in there (booyah).

that's about it. i’ve never read any of the books…but i sure know that the new/final Harry Potter book is out...and i've realized a few of my friends/folks are "into" that series a good bit....but @#$%....they don't worship it. i feel like ranting about the "Christian" (generally fundamentalist types) that are so anti-Harry Potter....but this post is long enough already. however, in the meantime, anyone that is one of these types...feel free to send me a message if you feel the need to quote some Deut 18:9-12 or to convince me that JK Rowling is the anti-Christ......and i'll reply to it w/ my thoughts (along w/ cast a spell of made-up-magic/fictional sorcery on you....so beware).

i just don't read much fiction period...but i have heard a lot about the book The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams from people trying to tell me about fiction that i might enjoy reading. i've had it for a few days and have made it to page vii

V/            (pre-midnight)