What's my life path number?

Your Life Path Number is 3

Your purpose in life is to express your unique self. You are a creative and artistic person with an interesting view on life. Witty and outgoing, you enjoy sharing your crazy ideas with anyone who will listen. A total social butterfly, you're the life of any party. In love, you inspire and enchant your partner. You are often an object of fantasy and desire. While you are very talented, you sometimes lack the ambition to put your talents in play. And while your wit carries you a long way, you occasionally use it to mask your true feelings. Your natural abilities can bring you all the success in the world ... if you let them

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Comments from the cheap seat: Some it is right, some of it is wrong.

President's Day Long weekend

Ah, I enjoy those long weekends where I have a plan and the plan gets executed, along with a few beers. Years of apartment living have made me tend toward keeping things temporary. Even after 5 years in one apartment. This weekend was dedicated to a more permanent installation of my surround system speakers. Until now, I had the speakers wired and stuffed up under the entertainment center. To watch a movie, I would first trot out the speakers and set them on the table behind the couch. After the movie, or quite often, the next day, I would shove the speakers back under the entertainment center and roll up the wiring and toss it behind the entertainment center.

This had to change.

So, this weekend, I put a shelf on the wall opposite the entertainment center. I then installed the rear surround speakers onto that shelf, and ran the wires neatly along the creases in the wall to the rear of said entertainment center. Once it was all connected, I proceeded to abuse the heck out of my surround sound system by watching various action/sci-fi programming. Next up, I'll have to avail myself of George Lucas' THX adjustment program available on nearly every Star Wars disk. Right now, its set mostly by ear.

Of course, this grand attack did not come without cost. My "Center for advanced computing" was, and still is, located along that same wall. In order to mount said shelf, and route said wires, the CfAC had to be dismantled. That's two computers, scanner, turn-table and cassette recorder and at least a year's worth of accumulation that had to be taken apart. A 3-1/2 ft by 8 ft "desk" if you will.

Good news - the CfAC was successfully re-assembled, re-cabled, and re-animated with no loss of data, patience, spilled beer, and I didn't accidentally let the smoke out of any of the electronic devices.

Bad news - That "year's worth of a accumulation" is still piled in one corner of the apartment and needs to be dealt with. It could take weeks.

It's the Year of the Dog

Really. Happy Chinese New Year. Not that I'm Chinese. However, I was invited to a Chinese Lion Dance yesterday. Good thing I went as they needed someone to video tape the dance.

Mom takes classes in Tai Chi. Her instructor, or "seifu" is from China and a wonderful person. He and some of his premiere students (he also teaches Hop Gar, and a couple of other forms) will generally spend the weekends in February performing the Lion Dance. The Lion Dance is a ceremony designed to scare away evil spirits and bring prosperity to the place, or people, the dance is performed for. In this case, it was a Chinese restaraunt near where I live. Both my parents and my sister came from out of town, as well, to watch and I got to be the "native guide" so to speak.

It was freakin cold and windy, and the local Caucasians were all confused and nosy. That's to be expected in that area. The ceremony involved about 2000 firecrackers, a drum, two sets of cymbals, a trident, a head of cabbage, and of course, the Lion. The firecrackers, the drums and cymbals, and the cabbage are used to lure the Lion to the place of the ceremony. After the firecrackers finish, the Lion "eats" the cabbage and tours the crowd. If the Lion spits cabbage on you, it will bring you luck and prosperity. The Lion is then guided into the place of business where he needs to make one complete trip around the place and is then allowed to leave. Drums and cymbals going the whole time. And this ceremony was performed at 12:30 on a Sunday...so there were plenty of confused Westerners in the restaraunt at the time. Hee, hee.

Apparently, the restaraunt owners really appreciated the Lion Dance because we all got a free lunch...even those of us that showed up mostly to watch. And I think I did a pretty good job with the video. I should find out later when Dad reviews the tape to copy for the class...and we can hear the audio.

Now that I think of it, they may want to delete some of that audio...I had a running commentary about some of the idiotic things the confused Westerners in their oversized capitalist pig vehicles were doing as they drove by, or sometimes through, the ceremony.

Interesting Blog behavior

Maybe someone from Blogger will read this:

I cannot view my own damn blog from home. 403 Access forbidden. I do not have permission to view "/" with the credentials I've supplied.

Excuse me, I'm just surfing in here like anybody else. What the fuck?..I can look at other people's blogs, I think.

Hell, I can't even view my own blog from within the Blog editor here at Blogger.

Real typical "help" on the help e-mail - "Read the FAQs, read the "Known Issues", and then "read the Status page". Why can't I find a link to the "status" page easily?..

It makes it very frustrating to take the time to be half-literate at this crap. To realize that there are known issues and a FAQ page....and explore all these options before resorting to writing a mail to the support staff...only to get the same old crap they'd send to a noob. Of course, they put that in place because of the shear weight of noobs out there that fire off a help mail without even looking around. Damn, the gene pool could sure use some chlorine about now.

Well.....he did die in prison....

Good old North Carolina - if I heard the news story right...and man that has been on Death Row for 26 years died in prison yesterday - of a heart attack! While he was sweeping the floor in one of the prison common areas.

Wow, multiple rapes, kidnappings, and murders. And this guy was still alive. The longest serving prisoner on death row. One open item was whether or not the guy was mentally retarded....who cares? He seemed to know what he was doing.

26 years. I moved to this area 26 years ago. I've had a paying job of one sort or another that entire time. I've been paying taxes that entire time. Some of my taxes to to pay for this guy's life in prison, Damn it!

Just had to get my speen out and vent it a bit this morning.