Freecell quest

I have beaten Freecell layout #1.

999,999 more to go.

I will complete them all and assume my pure energy form.

Appropriate expressions of anger.

Driving in today John Williams had a psychiatrist on the line talking about the use of physical outlets for anger. The psychiatrist said that unmitigated venting of anger by beating the crap out of Gatorade machines really wasn't healthy. An individual should strive to subvert these impulses into more socially acceptable outlets like exercising or talking things out.

It makes me consider that maybe my perpetual urge to just start smashing the crap out of everything might be a sign of some repressed anger and frustration. Yeah, there's probably a lot of that. What to do about it?

Many a man who falls in love with a dimple make the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
- Evan Esar

CFP and knowledge acquisition.

In the middle of a 6 week course on taxes that is part of a larger 9 month series that will satisfy the education requirement for becoming a certified financial planner(tm). This pace is insane. There is so much information in this material and the midterm is on 7 chapters after only 3 weeks. Wow. The lecture sections seem to be of limited use - I can follow and acknowledge things as sensible with relation to the material, but that is useful only to a multiple choice extent. In the world of free form answers you need to know the fine details of all these topics, not just the gross outlines. I know I'll feel better when I don't have moving on my plate to deal with, but this shit is stressful. To the max.

Facebook and Twitter

I have come to the conclusion that the pretensions of friends lists and followers leads to no good whatsoever. I think I need to treat a blog as a personal observation post that others can comment on, but are not essential to the format. With the long form, I create a dialogue with myself. With short form like Facebook or Twitter, it relies on the interaction with others. I will solo this.

Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.
- E. B. White

The one function TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.
- David Brinkley

A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure.
- Segal's Law

A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
- Henry Fielding

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
- Elbert Hubbard

It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood

A beautiful day to change a tire.

Ready to head to work this morning. Walk out, back right tire is flat. Blah. At least the torrential downpour dropped to a sprinkle and I was able to get the spare on without too much drama. Now it's just to figure out where to get new tires, what tires to get, and whether to do two vs four.

My joy lies in that Lauren needs to get new glasses, I just dropped over 4 grand for a class, and I'm getting new tires, and our savings are surviving. Huzzah.

It's a dirty job but someone's gotta do it.

My task today? Fitting ten gallons of shit in a five gallon hat.

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
- Thomas A. Edison

Memo to myself - do the dumb things I gotta do.

- Touch the puppet head
- Haircut
- Buy powder for carpet, apply tonight to sit for a day.
- Finish Chapter 2 and first half of Chapter 3 for tax book.
- Finish all end of chapter questions - type responses just in case.
- Look into buying new work clothes.

Today is a day where I don't know if I'm getting sick or if I'm just depressed or something. Body tired. Getting twinges in my knee - that could be leftovers from working out, though. Achey over a good part of my upper body, which I haven't been working out much aside from juggling for a while last night.. Arthritis? Blah.

You don't know how I tried
to forget what it was like.
I remember now.
I remember now.
Why they called it Thunderbird.

More dreams.. Cable news based this time.

Dream last night - ran into Dylan Ratigan - ex-CNBC anchor - in the airport. Nothing real interesting.. Just said I missed him and that he had nice hair. Told him that I was sticking with Erin Burnett and the drunk guy, though.

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.
- Richard Feynman

Pulled out the jump rope yesterday as a warmup for running. Damned if the jump rope doesn't kill me. I probably only made it 3 or 4 minutes before I couldn't get high enough to make it over the rope. Instead transitioned into situps and pushups in apartment. Will have to work on that some more so I don't feel so lame.

The odd couple.

It felt like I was getting the silent treatment this morning from Jif. I suspect he is angry at me for outing his food burial techniques online.

A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
- Robert Frost

unedited dream recollections

Weird dream last night. Rediscovered self teleportation and phasing. Had previously known and knew others but had forgotten. Involved having an orange in your pocket. Had kids to teach this to. Remembered like it was in a dream. Involved having gravity lose hold.

Other night had a post apocalyptic dream. Ground based civs went feraland zombielike. Giant airborne warships held last normal people. Multiple trips down into old skylines. Ballistic weapons still used by ground based.

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Book History is Dead - A Historical Zombie Anthology - edited by Kim Paffenroth
DVD Star Trek - Complete movie collection - all 2 disc editions - Movies 1-10.
DVD Cowboy Bebop Vol 1-6(the whole series!)
DVD The Right Stuff
DVD Stripes
DVD What Dreams May Come
DVD Escaflowne Vol 1,2
DVD Glengarry GlenRoss
DVD Blade Runner
DVD Kite
DVD Powerpuff Girls Vol 1,2,3
DVD Suicide Kings
DVD The Temptations
DVD Black Mask - Jet Li
DVD Mystery Science Theater 3000 - Eegah
DVD Android Kikaider Vol 1
DVD Total Recall 2070
DVD Vandals - Oi to the World
Games Assassin's Creed - PC - unopened
Games Supreme Commander - PC
Games Supreme Commander - Forged Alliance - PC
Games Empire Earth II Gold - PC
Games Company of Heroes - PC
Games Rainbow Six:Vegas - PC
Games Quake 4 - PC
Games Duke Nukem 3D - Atomic edition - PC
Games Far Cry 2 - PC
Games FEAR Gold - PC
Games Civ III Complete - PC
Games Guitar Hero II - PS2 (w/guitar)
Games Darwinia - PC - Import!
Games Metroid Prime - Game Cube
Games Donkey Kong Jungle Beat - Game Cube (controlled by bongos)
Games Donkey Konga - Game Cube(controlled by bongos)
Games Resident Evil 4 - Game Cube
Games Kill Doctor Lucky - Fancy Edition Board Game (plus his little dog!)
Misc. Army of Darkness - Ash Bobblehead
Trade Paperback Authority - Human On The Inside
Trade Paperback Exterminators Vol 1
Trade Paperback Battle Royale Vols 1,2,3,4
Trade Paperback Those Who Hunt Elves Vol 1
Trade Paperback Rahxephon Vols 1,2,3
Trade Paperback Cowboy Bebop:Shooting Star Vol 1
VHS Fight Club
VHS Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Facebook marketing has successfully generated interest in me for the band Morningwood. I know I've heard one of their songs before in Burnout 3, but it didn't quite grab me. Then I find out that Jimmy Urine is married to the lead singer and suddenly I'm snagging all I can and trying to find their European release.. Nice poppy music, good hooks, cute singer. Definitely gets stuck in my head. Favorite tracks - Best of Me, Nth Degree, Bipolar Bear, Jetsetter. Sounds a lot like Veruca Salt sometimes.

What if news broadcasts had to end their murder reports with how many babies were born in the affected area that day?

Ask a deeply religious Christian if he?d rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror attack, or an atheist that may or may not show him how to set up a wireless network in his house. On the scale of prejudice, atheists don?t seem so bad lately.
- Scott Adams