| Skunk-work In Progress |
[Oct. 19th, 2006|09:40 pm] |
Hey all,
I just got Painter XI.5 and this is one of the first things I drew with it. It's my skunkette Elara, I thought you all might be interested in it.
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[Jun. 14th, 2006|09:18 pm] |
Whoah I'm so damn lazy!
I finished my exams 4 days ago, and since that time, I've been really lazy. I've been getting up at around midday & going to sleep around 3 am. I haven't bothered to put pants on today even and it's now 9 PM! I still haven't even started to clear away all my study notes yet.
It wont last long though. I've got a pretty long list of stuff to do (mostly family, friend and personal tech support and formatting of computers) and I have to find a job! Oh and learn how to drive!
I haven't been sleeping all this time though (just most of it). My picture for ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) kappyjeanne's contest is inked, coloured and I'm working on a background. I've also maybe got another picture in the works for Kylly as well, seeing as my first one didn't exactly meet some specifications :p (well, maybe). Once that's done I'm gonna pimp myself out on the forums for trades cause I just realised I've only ever received the other half of 5 out of about 10 trades! Sad, so very sad!
Bye bye |
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[Jun. 12th, 2006|12:18 am] |
I just found out about a brilliant comedy series called Look around you. If you ever had to watch those poorly made BBC learning programs from the 70's in your school, you owe it to yourself to watch it (go on, they're only 9 minutes long). It can best be descibed as Little Britain meets education. I couldn't stop laughing during the one about iron. It's full of brilliant one liners "Iron has been used since the stone age", and the matter of fact way everything is done in makes it all the funnier :P Fantastic stuff!
There's a link to one of them on You-Tube here.
Enjoy! |
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[May. 7th, 2006|08:42 pm] |
Dear occupant of appartment 32,
You make me both raucous and opprobrient. You should void your rheum on an elderly relative. Someday I will be supreme leader of this pathetic planet you call home. You = my "love pig". If I saw you now I'd remove my veiwing orbs with blunt and unsanitary kitchen utensils to improve the view. I would build a massive and unsightly cancerous tumour on your breast just for you. I would get your name tattooed on my grandmother's unmentionables. If I could sing you any song it would be painfully relevant. We could drink liquid drain cleaner under the stars. My love for you is like that of fat man for comfortable pants and un-obscured views of his genitals.
Love,
Mom
P.S. My books didn't balance so I killed the cat and drove a bus through the local cemetary while disguised as you on national TV.
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| Worst acronym EVER |
[Jan. 13th, 2006|10:11 pm] |
I heard about Bang & Olufsen working with Audi on a deluxe audio set up for their high end cars a while back but looks like it's almost ready for market. Featuring 14 speakers, over 1000 watts of power and pop up "Acoustic Lens" tweeters on the dash it looks like you can now get sheer audio perfection on wheels. Well, if you happen to have an annual income the size of Liechtenstein's GDP, that is. The option to upgrade to this sublime sonic set up is only available on Audi's A8 & S8 flagship models. So even if you could afford to pay a guess-timated $7,000 price tag that would be on top of the sticker price of their most expensive cars.
Ah well at least we can console ourselves in the knowledge that it has the most unfortunate name I've ever seen for something so cool. It is called the "Advanced Sound System" and as with most car toys this will invariably lead to a three letter acronym. Can you imaging going into an Audi dealership and ticking the box on the order form next to an option called ASS?
"I'll take ASS for for $7,000."
Whatever about ABS, ROPS, ICE and such but advertising a car that could include ASS in the add has got to be an interesting task.
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| Boo Yah! I gots tEh 1nt0rn3tz again! |
[Jan. 3rd, 2006|10:55 pm] |
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Thank (insert Deity here), my download allowance was finally reset. *fondly pats Wifi router* "Don't worry I wont let you get abused any more."
So now I can get down to business, ...that was probably the Crappiest Christmas Ever! I was really looking forward to getting my Creative Neeon MP3 Player. I mean REALLY looking forward to it, despite being a technophile I've never had an MP3 player and thanks to my Bank I still don't! Being the paranoid muppet that I am I decided to pay using EuroZone Bank Transfer, "the easy and secure way to pay". Hmmm...I've used it before and it normally only takes a few days to get from my account to wherever, but after 10 days nothing had happened. Bollox! BTW more than just my Christmas was resting on this, my little brother's present was in the same order. Double Bollox! I arrive at my bank to politely inquire about the status of the money transfer, and get the distinct impression that they misplaced it or just forgot about it or just couldn't be arsed! A few days later I get a call from someone working in the department of international payments asking to clarify the name on the account because it appeared to be wrong. Which I did, thus allowing the process to continue. So basically it's now Christmas week and my payment is only
JUST being processed. Oh Joy!
By the time it was processed the company I ordered it off was on their Christmas break.
"What did you get for Christmas?" My God-daughter asked. "Grief", was the only response I could muster.
Well that's not exactly true, I DID get 2 pairs of socks, a pack of cards, a box of chocolate, The Guinness Book Of Records, 3 CD's and a DVD. Well gotta go mow, time to play with my Christmas presents, maybe I'll try on my socks WHILE listening to one of my CD's (Not on my MP3 player though). Oooh dare to dream. |
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| Ah Christmas time! |
[Dec. 20th, 2005|02:25 pm] |
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| | Hummmmmm... by the fans of a lot of eMacs | ] |
Today is my Christmas shopping day, IE the only day I have so far had or will have free to do my shopping before Christmas. Got up early-ish, ok maybe not but considering that this is my day off and I didn't really have to get up at ALL, 9.30 was kinda early. After spending 20 minutes getting fed/watered/washed/dressed and about 40 minutes searching for my keys I was off to worship the Holiday Gods of Consumermas by sacrificing my hard earned currency to their cause.
Much ado about nothing really, I mean I didn't really even have to get much in the way of presents, most of them had already been sorted out for me(such is the joy of having an older sibling), all I had to do was dip into my crumb filled pockets to pay off the debt collectors. Just going to buy presents for my darling God-daughter and Co. BTW her birthday is at Chrimblesnatch too and I traditionally get her a Beanie Baby for her birthday and something else for Christmas Day, but it seems (having spent many fruitless days searching for them) that Beanie Babies aren't available anymore anywhere in this country, grrr! Ah well, asked her mother and sister for any other suggestions the other day. Got "Elf" on DVD, which wasn't on shelves anywhere I went, I eventually asked if they had it and they said, yes, but it comes with a clock. Que? That's why it wasn't on the shelves, it didn't fit, far be it for me to question the added value of bundled bonuses but what's the deal with a clock? For the next part, word on the street is that "Bratz" is the shizzle currently. And on this note I say, Good God! Males should NOT be subjected to buying such girly items. I was standing in the Barbie etc. isle of the toy store, with a look on my face like the one that you'd have when getting dragged around a clothes shop by your mom when you were 5. A mixture of embarrassment (please dont let anyone I know see me trying to choose between the one with the pink sports wear and the one with the sparkly gown) and a vain attempt to try and look at ease with your surroundings (like going underwear shopping for a GF). I might as well have been staring into a bush, I hadn't a clue about this sort of stuff. So I phoned a friend (her mother) who told me " I haven't a clue about this sort of stuff". Hmmm...time to ask the audience, I had almost stood on one of the girls who was stacking the shelves with what looked like barbies with tails and kitty ears just before so I asked for some help. "What's new in the "Bratz"?" "Oh...emm...the Princess one is new but we're sold out..." she offered. Sensing my desperation she offered what I later felt was a lie but "any of these ones are also new." SOLD! I would've been out of there like a scalded cat if it weren't for my being so easily distracted, ooh 3d animated jigsaw and spent 5 minutes tilting the boxes back and forth to see the effect, after that it was Mario (the 3rd NES one) on GBA and Nintendogs.
"Mommy what's A.D.D?" he says then runs off after a butterfly before she has time to answer.
During my earlier phone discussion about dollies also found out that my cousin, who I just bought an MP3 player for is getting an iPod, so that purchase was a waste of time, thankfully the return was relatively quick and painless, except they asked fr a name and address. Thankfully I'm paranoid enough that I have a phoney identity already prepared, (I get enough junk mail as it is) but in future I should learn to write it LEGIBLY. So now I needed a replacement present, Gorillaz Demon Days, be what this crazy youth of today be jivin' to. It took like 10 minutes to find it in a music shop, what is up with that it's one of the most popular albums of the year? Meh! Hello again female music and DVD shop assistant again, you are quite attractive but why are you smiling at me like that, it's a bit scary.
And so on to the final present. Gir the dog/robot from Invader Zim. For my cousin who spent about 3 hours the other day watching it on my laptop when I should've been using it to work on an assignment. I love the kind of quirky small run and collectors item kinda toys you get in comic book shops like this but I HATE the prices and lack of availability. There was no Gir boxes left on the rack so I had to be awkward and get someone there to climb a 10 foot ladder to get the last one from the window, but it's so damn cool. I want it but it's not for me! Ah well at least its all done.
Woo..finished before midday! Gotta be a new world record. Time to treat myself to an expensive savoury italian foccacia and the strongest espresso machiato known to man, 3 hours later and my brain still throbs like a jungle beat from the caffeine.
..And now about my Christmas present, or more so LACK THEREOF. It looks like it'll be a sad sad Christmas in my house this year, because of delays at the bank (it's been 2 weeks and the payment still hasn't gone through!) and errors on my part, there is little to no chance that mine and my little brothers MP3 Players will get here before Christmas. Needless to say I really really hate my bank at the moment, and desire to bathe luxuriously in the warm blood of it's CEO, principle shareholders and all my FRIENDS in the international payments section who made this suckfest possible. By the time it arrives here it's going to be obselete, oh wait it already is. Also no internet, AGAIN! I completely blame my brothers use of Guild Wars and it's downloaded content system for muching through our paltry 8GB allowance, after all I only downloaded about 5GB of torrents so far this month :P. Guess its back to...*shudder*...56K dialup! |
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| Ouch my thumb! |
[Dec. 4th, 2005|04:41 pm] |
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I was playing with the dog a few minutes ago and he bit me, which is normal enough, but unfortunately his tooth went under my thumb nail and lifted it up. Yuk! So now I feel a pleasant throbbing in my hand. Hooray.
Anyhow much more interesting than that is a lecture I had the other day about hip transplants. In order to help demonstrate some principles the lecturer brought in a hip joint. He brought a few prostetic hip joint parts with him and passed them around. They had gotten about a quarter of the way around the room when he told us they were removed from a patient recently. Everything just stopped all of a sudden. Hmmm...so this has been IN someone...maybe I don't need to have a closer look at it. All through the lecturer he used a human femur as a pointer for his slides. I thought this was hilarious. With his big beard and wielding a bone he looked like a caveman or something. Even more morose was when he talked about research he had done into why hip prosthesis has so many problems. "So we took delivery of 32 human femurs...and as you can see from the slide there was still a large amount of tissue left attached to the bone...". Lovely! Shudder
BTW a hip prosthesis is probably one of the most disgusting and traumatic commonplace operations there is, plus they expect you to walk on it within a few days. In fact in order for it to heal properly you HAVE TO! |
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| Stupid plurals... |
[Nov. 9th, 2005|09:37 pm] |
Messrs
Such a fantastical and funny looking word. I mean where else in this language do you have SSRS in anything that's not an acronym? (BTW It's actually taken from the French, Messieurs) Plus I like the way that it's pronounced messers. It's so apt! |
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| A quick drive through the creche...oh no I think I hit the crib |
[Nov. 9th, 2005|09:08 pm] |
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| | Gorillaz - Fire Coming Out Of The Monkeys Head | ] |
Just talking to a friend on MSN. He was a bit down because he's 800 currency units down because he took his mom's car out for a spin the other day and (I quote) "drove into a crib". "Oh my God! Was there a baby in it?" Funny typos.
Talking to someone else about someone we know organising a Manga/Anime/Otaku conference or "Kon". He runs a college society and is one of the main drives behind this first (apparently) conference of this kind in the entire country. Just wondering what his official title would be, "If you were in charge of the Kon would you be a "Kon Dom?"" :p
Used to be pretty friendly with the dude but he hasn't fucking talked to me in years. Meh!
Never finished previous bit about driving but suffice to say I haven't been horribly disfigured or traumatised in a road accident, (can't say the same about my passenger though). "Watch the truck trailer,.. THE TRUCK TRAILER!" Yeah it was funny until I went down an unknown road and ended up on a motorway sliproad. Whoah, I ALMOST hit another car merging, must have been about half a foot between us at about 80. Heart stopping stuff for me, I forgot to fucking indicate and all. Glad there was someone there to reach across and actually do more than just make a dent in the driver's seat and hold the steering wheel in place. "Accelerate,... ACCELERATE, you're on a motorway!"
Really? I thought that some thoughtful farmer had just tarmacced a 4 lane strip through his fields!? |
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| Sweating Bullets! |
[Nov. 7th, 2005|09:30 pm] |
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Whoah, just came back from my first driving instruction. Holy shit, how the hell do people actually do this shit so easily. BTW I know I'm a bit old to be just learning to drive but I couldn't resist it for much longer or my brain would mushify and I'd never be able to do it. Despite the weather being freakin' terrible, 100km/h winds with driving rain. I was told it was the perfect time to go to an industrial estate to learn to drive because there'd be very few survivors left. So freaking nervous and sweaty that I couldn't keep the windows from steaming up. Just took it around the block a few times, cut out a few hundred times. Started off... update later gotta go |
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| Bollox & Elephant economics. |
[Nov. 2nd, 2005|05:16 pm] |
Just received an e-mail from yesterday telling me I HAD a lab to attend earlier today. Damn. We were specifically told that if we missed a lab it would be nearly impossible to rescheduele another one.
Ah well. Spent a while today discussing the economics of choosing to ride an elephant instead of driving a car. In South Africa (of course). Low fuel costs, it would just take whatever food it wanted because what the hell is a South African fruit & veg seller going to be able to do to stop an almost 2 ton African Elephant from doing what it wants. Also four wheel/leg drive, means it really is all terrain, it's height gives you good views and there's very little chance of someone robbing your elephant. Problems would be mainly caused by low top speed, the smell, oh god no the smell, possibly very large insurance bill. Plus you might have to get a new licence, an E one (E for elephant).
Insurance company:Hello, Every Vehicle Insurance. You were looking to insure a vehicle?
Me: EH? Yeah. An African elephant...
Insurance company: Huh, I've never heard of that company. Ok I just need some information about it's weight, age, capacity in cc, consumption etc.
Me: Well I'd say it's about 2 tonnes, maybe 45 years old, grey-ish brown colour, trunk holds about 14 litres, it's a thirsty one...
Insurance company: You aren't trying to insure an "actual" African Elephant, are you?
Me: Why would that be a problem?
Insurance company: Well yes, we dont insure classic commercial vehicles.
Me: Oh OK. Sorry to bother you. |
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[Nov. 1st, 2005|08:53 pm] |
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| | Slipknot - Spit it out (LIVE) | ] |
Wow, just saw some of the best LJ avatars ever in the comments for VGCats. Best 2 by FAR are the Little Nazi ass Tails (yes the cutesy fox from Sonic). I knew that little furball was up to something, Sonic should be careful about letting him follow so close behind him. Also one that says "What was Jesus' last miracle?" then it cuts to a crucifiction and he takes his hand off the cross and scratches his nose. The Avatars were funnier than most of the comments.
New Life Commitment: Turn up on time wearing clothes that don't look like they were rejected by Oxfam.
DAY 1: Failed, 10 minutes late, but not bad considering I accidentally reset the time back 13 hours instead of 1 :p
1 major problem with this is that most of my clothes look like crap! I could run out of decent stuff by the end of the week.
The dog spent a lot of time over the past few days being terrified by fireworks and shaking. To try and drown out the noise I put on the new Slipknot 9.0 Live CD and it seemed to work, he even fell asleep under my chair wrapped up in my coat. Awww...
Makes you realise how scary fireworks are to animals if they'd chose listening to bleeding ear loud slipknot instead. |
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| I HAVE t3h internetz again |
[Oct. 28th, 2005|06:07 pm] |
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FINALLY got home internet access again yesterday, *says an exalted prayer to the god of ADSL*. It only took 3 months, 2 telecom companies, about 20 phone calls (many of them irate) and about 2 days of sorting out hardware issues! Man, I'm tired but the ability to download classic rock at the kitchen table over the wire-free ether in itself is worth the life of someones 1st born son. Craptastically enough the ethernet port in my PC seems to be dead so to get internet access from my modem to my PC 2 inches away I had to set the PC up for wireless. So excessive and such a pain in the tail but at least it works.
Got plenty of amusingwords built up over the past while like Hinterland to be doled out over the next while. Annoyingly enough, FAX, one of the LJ communities I was looking forward to rejoining seems to be closing. Guess I'll just have to try FAX2.
Oh dear it seems like my brother is trying to regale me with another story of sheer adrenaline from the worlds of online Warhammer RTS. Good, he seems to have stopped for now, his dinner awaits and so does mine.
Bye |
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| Words with stupid pronunciation.... |
[Oct. 27th, 2005|08:45 pm] |
For those of you that hate Xerox I give you...
Pteradactyl
Oh silent P how you toy with the English language, besides it'd be so much more interesting if you had to pronounce it PIH-te-ru-dac-til. Spitting as you do so. |
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| Acids have the most interesting names... |
[Oct. 6th, 2005|10:57 pm] |
Deoxyribonucleonic, ethylenediaminetetraacetic and oxyacylic
...probably because they've just got so many letters. Just look at them all! Oh my God there's 12 vowels in that one alone, it hurts my eyes. |
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| Where's my broadband? |
[Sep. 21st, 2005|05:17 pm] |
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| | The low pitch drone of fourty eMac computers | ] |
Aggh! I applied for broadband 3 weeks ago, even spent €100 on a wifi modem and still no word on it. So in an effort to appease my angry internet deprived brain demons I sought help from "Customer Support".
After being put in a queue and being told my call would be dealt with shortly far too many times I got through to a non-recorded human. Success!
Despite being barely audible and even less comprehensible I managed to extract said information from him. We at the momnet cannot change you over to our broadband system as you previously had broadband with another provider and they have not released your line's port from their exchange. You will have to chase them to get the node released then we will be able to continue.
Fantastic, so after 3 weeks wait nothing had actually been done since my prevous provided hadn't released the port from the exchange. So that means that once I get the port released I'll have to wait another 2 weeks to be sdded to their system. Making a grand total of about 5-6 weeks wait. JOY! At least it seemed I was making progress.
So once more I have to face the ignorance that is "Customer Support" for another company. After being hung up on about 4 times and tranfered about 7 times I got through to the broadband queue. I could tell I was making progress a the recorded announcement had changed from"We thank you for your patience, a customer services representative will deal with you shortly", to "We value your call, thank you for contining to hold". What did they do in the days before they could put you on hold? Did they actually have to deal with your complaints, enquiries and problems in a timely and efficient manner?
So the broadband tech support guy answers the phone and mutters something like "Brodbahn teknil sporit, please kill me", or some such Willy Loman-esque plea for help.
I tell him my port needs to be released, and he says "Accorden tuh dis it wus releest wen yu contract espired, when will the hurting stop". So that'd be several weeks ago? OK then?
So more phone queue party frolics ensue as I try to tell the other company that they are dim and ugly and wrong.
"Well according to us it hasn't been released". But I was just told it's been released for weeks. "Oh...emmm...I'll make a note of it and get the team to check it out".
Team? The A Team? The National Aerobics Team?
Fantastically I now seem to be stuck in broadband limbo between 2 providers. At least college has free internet (which allows me to bitch like so!). |
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[Aug. 22nd, 2005|10:42 pm] |
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Difficult circumstances have been leaving me a bit stressed out recently. After trying to step in and protect someone (even if they were being a bitch) I got thrown out of my house and spent a lot of the night sitting on a pedestrian bridge over a motorway crying. Fortunately I'm back at home and everyone's cooled down now, but it takes a while to get over stuff like that. Work's not been much fun either, it's taken 2 weeks to sort out most of the retarded negligance of someone who's back from holidays tomorrow. So I'm working what should be my day off to make sure he doesn't get anywhere near it.
I'm getting grey hairs! WTF I'm only 20! Plus I put on 2 kilos & I haven't been able to walk properly since I pulled something in my leg (which is related to me getting ousted from the family home) and I think it's getting worse. Not good when your job involves standing up for 9 hours a day and carrying sometimes heavy loads.
More work related woes...Worked a bank holiday as a favour, after being ensured I'd be well paid and get at least a full days pay. When I opened my wage packet I found that for the privilege of working a BANK FUCKING HOLIDAY I got €55. Not even near a full days pay. Plus they also forgot to pay me for a proper day I worked that week so I had to wait 'til next week to get that corrected.
Not to mention STILL not having proper internet, my laptop appears to be lost in transit and Opencanvas just crapped out taking lots of pictures I was working on including a trade for Deathy and half of my computers registry.
...but my little brother just bought some pizza and split it with me even though I said I didn't have the money to pay. Reaffirms your faith in others. |
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| This was supposed to be my Birthday |
[Aug. 7th, 2005|11:40 pm] |
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Last night my Dad told me I was no longer welcome in my ancestral home and to leave in the morning. I sure do hate birthdays. Today was supposed to be my "family" birthday, (you know the kind of thing where you, your siblings and parentals go out to a restaurant and so on) because they were away on holidays for my actual birthday. Incidentally for my actual birthday I was really depressed, working and went to bed early. I haven't really had a good one since I was about 11 (we went bowling), for my 12th my pretty much best friend got his wrist slit open when a brass door handle snapped off and the ragged end tore into his arm. The downward trend has continued from there.
Nice thing to be told on what's supposed to be your birthday, isn't it? This was all the result of fraying tempers and my own morality. It all started over something so stupid too. My sister let the dog out of the kitchen and was told to put it back in by my Dad. She didn't because she was studying. So the dog was roaming around the house, which he shouldn't be doing. So the dog had been wandering around for a few minutes now so my Dad decided to try to get him back seeing as my sister wasn't bothered. The dog easily out ran him and thought this was a great game. He came into my room and jumped around on the bed. In comes my Dad and says get him down or such. No problem. I tell the dog to get going and clap my hands behind him to scare him off the bed. Immediately I get a smack on the head, "there's people trying to sleep", my dad says. My sister, deciding this situation needs her grace and poise barges through the door to get the dog like she should have 10 minutes ago. Forcing her way past my Dad. He's already a bit P-Oed and has just been pushed aside and hits her and says don't just barge past me like that. And the response to the psalm was "I'll do what I like" or some such typically retarded shit from my sister. Obviously after rubbing him the wrong way he goes to raise his hand to her. I can tell from the tension in his shoulder and neck that this is no wake-up tap. I quite literally leap into the 2 of them and force him out of the way and out of the room. I almost get the door closed and he regains his footing and starts to push back, he's pretty pissed now. I keep slipping on the carpet, I can't easily hold him back on my own. My brother and sister are staring at me like slack jawed yokels for about 15 seconds before they have the presence of mind to give me a fucking hand. Shit like this normally requires a bit of cooling off so I leave the door closed for a minute or so. There is then much shouting and staring. My sister starts to pack some stuff in a handbag and bolts for the front door like Linford Christy. I only have time to tell my brother that I'll be back and grab my keys, phone and coat before going after her.
I spent a considerable amount of hours last night sitting on the edge of a bridge over a motorway, crying. My sister was looking at me asking if was coming with her. "Should I stay or should I go now?", I thought. I couldn't just sit there on a bridge for the rest of my life obviously. So I guessed I had to go. Even then I was presented with options. Go left and drop 6 feet from the wall to the footpath or go left and drop 25 or so feet onto a motorway. It took me about an hour to decide. One of these two options doesn't allow you many other options. Obviously/thankfully I didn't choose the latter. |
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| Planes, Trains & Automobiles... |
[Jul. 11th, 2005|08:59 pm] |
...not to mention Buses, Trams, The Metro, Tunnel Bahn, Ferry, Sea Cat, Water Taxi, Lada Taxi's(because in ex-communist Ukraine car drives you!), and plenty of walking has allowed me to travel about 7,000 miles over the course of my merry little jaunt about the European Continent. After a "holiday" like that I was looking forward to getting home to get me some well deserved rest (notice the PLENTY before walking in the previous sentence). But hey, sometimes having fun is hard work, such hard work (did I mention the biblical quantities of walking my holiday involved). I've never ever covered that much land in such a short time. Haven't worked it out but I'd say I spent about 5-7 days of my holiday just travelling from city to city.
Enough moaning...for the next 2 sentences at least. Got to see some really cool stuff, and visited a shed load of countries. Lemme see...Hungary, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Poland, The Ukraine, Russia, Estonia, Finland, Mariehann (sp? and not really a country), Sweden, oh and Austria too (which I decided to WALK to from Bratislava, BTW just because Bratislava looks geographically close to Austria doesn't mean it's an easy walk!). Damn didn't make it 2 full sentences without complaining. But they were long sentences at least. More later!!! |
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