Ramblings of a mental patient

I was in california in a police station. I kept trying to figure out why I was being held on suspicion of gang activity. I was wearing my old biker jacket/vest and boots. I had my long hair. I was there with a girl in zipper jeans and big hair. The 80s are coming to get me, i fear. There was an escape scene followed by a gun fight. I died. Again.

These dreams are getting old. I’m starting to feel like a fat Aeon Flux.

I finished Deception Point last night. Its by the same guy who wrote The DaVinci Code. There wasn’t a slow moment in the book, and some of the twists it took were great. Even my cynical mind didn’t see some of it coming. So, for a fluff action read, it was great. Now I need a new book for the airplane next week.

In less than a week my tattood ass will be drinking rum on the beach in Jamaica! The goals are drunkenings, scuba diving, wife mollestation and duty free rum imports. I’m psyched.

If we can get horses for a ride on the beach, that’d be perfect. Baring that I hope to run into various fauna while snorkling. We picked up a (cheap) underwater camera so I can take lots of pictures of blurry fish, clouds of sand, my foot, and girls in white bathing suits.

In other news, work screwed the pooch. A laptop theft may have potentially had HR data on it. Hey, Mr. Identity Theft, is that you? We’re all pretty happy about it. Ah well, I’ll put a watch on my credit reports.

I created a little gallery of some pix we took over the weekend. Have a look, if you like.

has done a wonderful job of capturing our trip in her last few posts. Rather than try and reword what she said, go check out our vacation. She has pics and everything. Suffice to say that I loved it. I completely understand why people don’t want to leave that city. It was a blast!

http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~richard/ltxml2/xpath.html

“Quoting

A literal string can be written with either kind of quote. XPaths
usually appear in attributes, and of course these have to be quoted
too. You can use the usual XML entities " and ' for quotes
in your XPaths, but remember that these are expanded by the XML
parser, before the XPath string is parsed. There is no way to escape
characters at the XPath level, so you can’t have a literal XPath
string containing both kinds of quote.”

Yeah, because what are the odds that someone might use a quoted string with an apostrophe in it?

Robustness++

Direct from the “you can’t make this shit up” department, we have this nugget:

“Think how marginalized racists are,” said Baylor, who directs the Christian Legal Society’s Center for Law and Religious Freedom. “If we don’t address this now, it will only get worse.”

So, ok, I’m taking things out of context. But before you read the article, reread that statement. Its in the context of sexual discrimination. Now think about that statement. If you’re worried that people will regard you similarly to how they regard racists and bigots, maybe its not something you should be promoting. Perhaps, just maybe, preaching a philosophy predicated in hate isn’t such a hot idea these days.

Anyways, if you’re into it, check out how this wingnut is trying to sue for the ‘right’ to discriminate against homosexuals. Hey, while we’re at it can we also discriminate against sex and race again? Treating people nicely is so boring… human dignity is overrated.

Religion is an idea whose time has passed. The unthinking intolerance because its ‘gods will’ is just unacceptable. Sorry xians, but you’re no better than any other fundamentalist group. You’re just as insane as any other cult out there. Don’t believe things just because you were trained to growing up. Our world is getting smaller and smaller. We need to either learn to live together or spit on our hands and start cutting throats. You want to find god? You want inner peace? Find it for yourself. Why waste your time in these stupid color by numbers books?

The new Rob Zombie album isn’t half bad. Its a little slower than the last album, a bit more zoned out… I like. Besides for 10 bucks, why not?

Kat looked fabulous last night.

On an unrelated note, at the club I had a weird drive by. Kat and I were hanging out near the bar looking at the new passional and cracking up. In a good way. I mean… dude… the mens fashions were hysterical and there was some amusing stuff going on in there.

Anyways, this girl walks up to us and extends her had to me. Now, keep in mind I have my sclera contacts in, I have a few drinks in me and I’m cracking up with my wife. So I kinda look up half way and don’t really recognize them as someone I see there regularly. I shake hands and she disappears. The whole thing took maybe 2 seconds and I still have my do-I-know-you face on. So Kat looks at me and is like

“You have no idea who that was, do you?”.

I look at her and by now I’ve placed the face.

“No, ” I say. “That was the devil.”

She avoided us (me) the rest of the night. Kat and I had fun. Adam showed up. Josh was there. Fun was had.

Evidently most of my emotional baggage is unpacked and put away. Its a good sign that when you see someone you used to be completely obsessed over and don’t recognize them. I think at this point Kat finally believes me that the devil’s merely a big personal regret on my part (mainly that I let myself be so manipulated). I’ll leave the not so nice observations to Kat.

A wifely cry from the bathroom “Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow!”

I race over (a cat streaks by, startled by the charging rhinoceros-like daddyzilla).

I look at the wifelike substance. She appears intact. All fingers accounted for, towel wrapped around her, toothbrush in mouth. I’m puzzled.

Evidently when she got out of the shower, she didn’t pick up her son (Dashwood). D likes to sit on a freshly showered mommy shoulder.

So, while she was brushing her teeth, a thought worked its way into Dashwood’s tiny cranium. He got a running start, took a flying leap and attempted to climb mount st mommy. Apparently he got to the top of her ass before he felt he should engage 4 wheel drive. So, the claws came out and the wife went off and the cat freaked out even more (now I know why the cat streaked by).

I’ve had it. I’ll be late to the club. I’m building a moat round her bathroom.

I’ve gone and agitated myself. If you haven’t already seen Loose Change, set aside some time and watch it.

Even if you don’t swallow all the propaganda, there’s plenty of food for thought in this video. Seriously, its not often that I make a big deal of things but this vid has given me a great deal of things to consider. I think I feel my world view shifting and my beliefs solidifying. I have a ton of things to look up/investigate at this point…. I’m extraordinarily angry right now.