Awesome advice Ally, haha you always come up with the best advice I have to say, and you have three? Crap! I kept thinking you just had the one little boy!


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Also, you know that awkward moment when you are talking about someone, but doing it slightly louder then you had originally intended, and then that person is actually behind you while you say: “they're so full of shit!” and you turn around going “Oh noes”?

Yeah, three guesses what happened to me yesterday in English.

Now I fear for my life.

In regards to kids, little ones are great, older ones… can be. It's all about adjusting as they grow. If/when you have some your views WILL change out of necessity and you will most likely love that it does.

Mum found a baby pigeon, it was in a puddle outside a shopping centre. I have dubbed him Lord Fugglington, or Fugly for short, beacuse hey, let's face it, he's cute but in a fugly sort of way…



Got him in a cage in a makeshift next made out of a box, some blankets, a hot water bottle, and a giant 60 watt light bulb to keep him warm. He's quite big too, he fits into my hand quite easily. Fed him some baby bird food, got canary food scattered on the cage floor, though I doubt he'll eat it.

Remember how we were talking about kids? And how I disliked small children?

Karma. Karma in the form of a baby bird. Damn you universe!!!

Hippie Van
I have spares, but I think it would cost more to send them all the way from Canada. : (

that's okay, someone else offered too. But if that doesn't work out for some reason, I think shipping a nib to Poland shouldn't be too pricey (since it could be sent in a letter, couple of $s at most). So yeah, thanks for the offer :)

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Meanwhile, today's the third day of neck pain. I think I pulled some muscle on the right side and now looking right or tilting my head right is somewhat painful. But it feels better than yesterday (still painful enough to mess up my night's sleep, got only four hours in).

Chatting on facebook with my distraught friend. She and her husband (also my friend) are in the midst of a marital spat- he called the cops on her and threw her and the kids out. This isn't the first time this has happened with them. But hell. Why can't people just be adults?

Fed Fugly the baby pigeon some museli mixed with warm water, his tummy is all full and he's back in his nest. But he's now decided that his nest has become somewhat boring, and is trying to escape his poo-ridden bed. Well if you didn't want to sit in a dirty nest, you shouldn't have crapped in it.

He watches me with great suspicion whenever I check on him. Don't blame him, a fifty foot tall giant has come to oggle him every half an hour.

Keep worrying that he might be too hot in front of the lamp.

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My computer froze while I was coloring a comic, I'd been working on it for the past hour and a half. I lost all the information because the computer decided to throw a massive hissy fit for no reason. FANTASTIC.

Sigh, learn from my mistake children, always remember to save regularly. Because if you don't, the computer gods freeze your computer to punish you.

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Oh and today, I learned yet again why Biblical Sutdies is my least favourite subject. Something about the super Christian teacher turning around and saying: “Catholics aren't christian! Only Anglican/Church of England/Prodestant is right! All other religions are stupid, and I'm going to tell you why using my own flawed sense of logic! Don't argue with me I'm your teacher! Rah rah rah!” Uuuughhh… that is ALL Biblical Sutdies is, it's a little zealot teacher raving on about his beliefs and being an ignorant twat for fifty minutes each week.

Someone asked him about evolution and he goes: "Oh, you don't believe in all that monkey business, do you? This is what evolution is. If I take my phone out, smash it to pieces, put those pieces into a bag and swung it above my head for a million years, would it evolve into a brand new phone?"

…what?

OnlyFoolsAndVikings
Oh and today, I learned yet again why Biblical Sutdies is my least favourite subject. Something about the super Christian teacher turning around and saying: “Catholics aren't christian! Only Anglican/Church of England/Prodestant is right! All other religions are stupid, and I'm going to tell you why using my own flawed sense of logic! Don't argue with me I'm your teacher! Rah rah rah!” Uuuughhh… that is ALL Biblical Sutdies is, it's a little zealot teacher raving on about his beliefs and being an ignorant twat for fifty minutes each week.

Someone asked him about evolution and he goes: "Oh, you don't believe in all that monkey business, do you? This is what evolution is. If I take my phone out, smash it to pieces, put those pieces into a bag and swung it above my head for a million years, would it evolve into a brand new phone?"

…what?

And THIS is one reason why I prefer to keep my neutrality as far as this subject is concerned. Too many crazy people out there trying to bend your arm and force feeding their beliefs down your throat whether you want it or not. But enough about religion. The subject is extremely sensitive (I think) since it always seems to bring the zealot rats out of the woodworks of otherwise nice communities…

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Ugh… experimenting with the so called “Sprite” command in DarkBasic Pro. The nice thing about this command is that it does a lot of things that I'd normally have to program different functions for (such as rotating the sprites, collisions, etc…). Useful in shooters, but not so much in fighting games (unless your fighter is animated using several sprites) since you have to decide which parts of the body recieve more damage than others when your opponent attacks you.

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It's gonna be fun tonight. Raining like crazy, yet I can't take shelter in my car nor are there any places I can take shelter under without having the tenant get mad at me. Just another night having to rest when my patrol for the hour is done… sitting on a portable folding chair with a modified golf umbrella over my head. Why modified? That plastic is fitted over my umbrella thanks to the fact that if you stand under a nylon(is that what it is?) woven umbrella long enough you end up getting wet due to the nylon soaking through. Not as waterproof as advertised… more like “water resistant”. Such umbrellas depend on their shape to be “waterproof”. That shape doesn't work for too long, though…

Hyena H_ll
Why can't people just be adults?

This is part of the reason:

OnlyFoolsAndVikings
super Christian teacher turning around and saying: “Catholics aren't christian! Only Anglican/Church of England/Prodestant is right! All other religions are stupid, and I'm going to tell you why using my own flawed sense of logic! Don't argue with me I'm your teacher! Rah rah rah!” Uuuughhh… that is ALL Biblical Sutdies is, it's a little zealot teacher raving on about his beliefs and being an ignorant twat for fifty minutes each week.

Someone asked him about evolution and he goes: "Oh, you don't believe in all that monkey business, do you? This is what evolution is. If I take my phone out, smash it to pieces, put those pieces into a bag and swung it above my head for a million years, would it evolve into a brand new phone?"

You poor, poor girl :(

Is that part of the result of that idiot John Howard's “religion in schools” program?
I never had any worries about that sort of thing back when I was in school. I started at a Catholic School and one of the first lessons I remember from the nuns was them telling us that “all religions are equal, they just follow god in different ways”. Then they had a Hindu nun in to tell us about her religion… And these were all the old style nuns in the black habits and everything.
Anyway, that was in year one, then my mum put me in public school because it was closer. There was half an hour of “religious education” a week but both my sister and I were exempt from that and could do what we liked instead. Thank goodness. And in highschool there was never anything like that.

Can't you be exempt from religious studies? Get a note from home?

Last night & today I am reminded of why I don't go to the beach… for sone, it's a bunch of douchebag guys (underage, mind you) drinking and talking about how high/drunk they're going to get later. Also, I'm sunburnt everywhere on my upper body. That's what I get for taking my shirt off to expose my hulk-like body (especially in comparison to these other guys).

Ozone
You poor, poor girl

Is that part of the result of that idiot John Howard's “religion in schools” program?
I never had any worries about that sort of thing back when I was in school. I started at a Catholic School and one of the first lessons I remember from the nuns was them telling us that “all religions are equal, they just follow god in different ways”. Then they had a Hindu nun in to tell us about her religion… And these were all the old style nuns in the black habits and everything.
Anyway, that was in year one, then my mum put me in public school because it was closer. There was half an hour of “religious education” a week but both my sister and I were exempt from that and could do what we liked instead. Thank goodness. And in highschool there was never anything like that.

Can't you be exempt from religious studies? Get a note from home?

I have no idea if its a hold over from the Howard government, I know his history program is still in place (teaching Austrlaian history from years 5 through to 10) all I know is that my school is heavily Anglican, and has decided that fifty minutes each week must be devoted to Biblical Studies along with Chapel and what not, taught by just random teachers. It always ends up with the teachers ranting and raving about how bad all other religions are and having a go at anyone who questions their views.

I wish I could become exempt from it, but I'm afraid it's compulsory. I even have to do it for my HSC even though it doesn't count towards my final marks.

It is a complete waste of my time. :(

Someone
religion and education stuff.

Funny. The phone example and many like it always make me laugh but I won't get into it.
I had one teacher in school who would drag kids out of the class by their ears or hair for questioning Christianity. In secondary school it was very balanced and was actually interesting.

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I tried to book tickets for marwell zoo online earlier and something went wrong and while the payment has come out of my account they claim no payment has been made.

OnlyFoolsAndVikings
I wish I could become exempt from it, but I'm afraid it's compulsory. I even have to do it for my HSC even though it doesn't count towards my final marks.

Well at least it's easy I suppose.
That reminds me- When my phys-ed teacher informed me very gravely that I was going to fail, I laughed :)

Genejoke
I tried to book tickets for marwell zoo online earlier and something went wrong and while the payment has come out of my account they claim no payment has been made.

Take it up with your bank. They're the ones that KNOW money went out of your account and have a better idea than you or the zoo of where it actually went.
And if it DID go to the zoo, then you've got more firepower.

Yep, it went to the zoo. 100% the payment went through. waiting to hear back at the moment.

I went through something similar just a few weeks ago. A gas station made me swipe my card three times because they kept telling me it “didn't register”. Guess who got charged three times for gas? The bank couldn't force a retraction on the business because the business “made a sale”. I went round and round with the manager of that gas station. The solution we finally agreed upon? Free gas for the rest of the week. I was totally ok with that solution. :)

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FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUDGE.

MY A/C JUST BROKE. EIGHTY-SIX DEGREES AND CLIMBING AND IT'S ONLY 9:30 IN THE MORNING. GONNA DIE BEFORE THE REPAIRMAN GETS HERE.

Ally Haert
MY A/C JUST BROKE. EIGHTY-SIX DEGREES AND CLIMBING AND IT'S ONLY 9:30 IN THE MORNING. GONNA DIE BEFORE THE REPAIRMAN GETS HERE.

Just finished a summer like that here. It's finally actually raining too! It can't believe it- consecutive days with rain… I think it's been over a year since we've had anything like that here. We didn't think we'd have any real rain this winter, hopefully this means we will.

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So tired. So very tired… have to do a featured comic. I have ones lined up but I just don't feel like it. Too flat in the brain, too tired, too down… -_-

ozoneocean

Hyena H_ll
Why can't people just be adults?

This is part of the reason:

OnlyFoolsAndVikings
super Christian teacher …

Heh. Religion. Their fight started when he said “F**k Jesus” in front of their kids. She didn't take kindly to it. Not the cursing, cuz we all swear in front of the kids. But the cursing Jesus.

Now the tightrope walk of having to hear about it from both ends and attempt to appear neutral but compassionate and understanding begins.

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RE: AC woes- Yeah, we only have one hand-me-down window unit in our house, in the living room. Thankfully we had a really long spring, and it hasn't gotten much hotter than the low 90's F yet; but summers here can top 100F. With like, a million % humidity. So there will be nights when ya honestly can't sleep for being so hot. And even with our tiny house, the bills will start getting into the $200+ territory real soon.

ozoneocean
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So tired. So very tired… have to do a featured comic. I have ones lined up but I just don't feel like it. Too flat in the brain, too tired, too down… -_-

Copy the write-up of one you did a month ago and just change the names. No one will know. No one will even care if the synopsis is totally off except the comic creator and being an admin you can effectively stifle their cries of “foul” or is it “Fowl” ?

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The wife is always complaining that the A/C in the bedroom isn't cold enough. It is plenty cold to those not experiencing night sweats and hot flashes. No A/C can sufficently cool off women in menopause. And I'm married to one. Studies have proven that PMS is a myth I wish menopause was. Couldn't it just be like a switch or something? You know at age 50 the fertility switch gets flipped to “Off” and there's no sweats or flashes or emotional roller-coaster rides.

Just like Bill Cosby with his idea to work with the Polaroid Camera people to make having children like instant cameras. Kiss the wife and ten seconds later *bumpf* out comes the baby.

When in doubt it's time for comedy. Cue that song from “A Funny Thing happened on the way to the Forum”

102 in the house and it's huuuumid here too. Gotta get outta here, so I called my father-in-law and it went something like this:

“Hey you! How have you been?”

“I'm fine, how're you?”

“Oh good, good. Hey, I was wondering if we could come up and have dinner with you tonight?”

“Your A/C broke, huh?”

“….”


Am I that transparent? Ah well. In-law's air conditioned trailer, here I come!

Dude, yeah. Always about 10 degrees hotter in the house than out on the porch. Totally looking forward to going to my (air-conditioned) job tonight.

My weekend job is in a warehouse, though- also about 10 degrees hotter than it is outside. We have tourists come through and complain nonstop- like their half-hour tour is any comparison to our 8 hour days sweating balls in that heat. One woman asked me once- and this was when it was just in the frickin' 70's- “why do you keep it so hot in here?” I hate talkin' to tourists anyway, but that took the cake.

OnlyFoolsAndVikings
Stuff about RE

Hah, I remember my RE teacher hated me so much she'd actually just tell me to go sit in another classroom throughout it.

I spent the time in the other classroom playing Donkey Kong on my laptop. I told my teacher it was work for Media Studies, so he allowed it. It wasn't ENTIRELY lying! I was actually at the time making a mock Gaming magazine for my Media Studies GCSE final. Okay, Donkey Kong wasn't part of the magazine, but hey, I still said it with a straight face.
So I got quite a lot out of RE! A few golden bananas, that's for sure.

ozoneocean

OnlyFoolsAndVikings
super Christian teacher turning around and saying: “Catholics aren't christian! Only Anglican/Church of England/Prodestant is right! All other religions are stupid, and I'm going to tell you why using my own flawed sense of logic! Don't argue with me I'm your teacher! Rah rah rah!” Uuuughhh… that is ALL Biblical Sutdies is, it's a little zealot teacher raving on about his beliefs and being an ignorant twat for fifty minutes each week.

Someone asked him about evolution and he goes: "Oh, you don't believe in all that monkey business, do you? This is what evolution is. If I take my phone out, smash it to pieces, put those pieces into a bag and swung it above my head for a million years, would it evolve into a brand new phone?"

You poor, poor girl :(

Is that part of the result of that idiot John Howard's “religion in schools” program?
I never had any worries about that sort of thing back when I was in school. I started at a Catholic School and one of the first lessons I remember from the nuns was them telling us that “all religions are equal, they just follow god in different ways”. Then they had a Hindu nun in to tell us about her religion… And these were all the old style nuns in the black habits and everything.
Anyway, that was in year one, then my mum put me in public school because it was closer. There was half an hour of “religious education” a week but both my sister and I were exempt from that and could do what we liked instead. Thank goodness. And in highschool there was never anything like that.

Can't you be exempt from religious studies? Get a note from home?

In all of the schools I've gone to, religion was only mentioned when students bring it up. Or when it was related to something else we were studying…L'Etranger and the French Revolution are the first that come to mind.

My older sister didn't have it so good, though. She went to a really white-trash elementary school for a while. They sent home a note asking parents to give permission for their kids to participate in bible studies classes. Apparently my parents were the only ones who disagreed, so they gave them the option of having my sister either participate or sit in the hall during the class.
So my mom agreed to let her participate rather than isolate her from the other students. Of course, out of spite, the teacher had her do the bible reading on the very first day. All the other kids laughed at her because she pronounced “Satan” as “satin” apparently.

I hate when teachers pass their own misunderstandings onto students, though. It's alright as a teacher to admit that you don't know something. Once, a student in my chemistry class asked a question about why something was the way it was(I can't remember the question now). She answered “Well, we don't know. That's why I always say people should believe what they want to believe.”
I went home and looked it up and it turns out it was something we know the answer to…just something she didn't.


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It's my birthday. : )

Oy, Hippie!:

Regarding the broken cell phone example:

Heard that one millions of times, although usually in a form of clock parts never becomming a clock unless someone puts it together.

Anyways, the demonstration of flagrant ignorance, presented in that example, as an explanation to how evolution is supposed to work usually makes me want to turn the tables on them. I mean, how would they react if we start deliberatly explaining religion in the most uniformed manner possible? If they get offended by that and start complaining that we know nothing about the subject, then you can throw at them that they were doing the exact same thing mere moments ago.

Edit: I just realized how hilariously relevant my avatar was, for this response.

Wow… what a night. Tasted my coffee last night and it had a strange taste. Opened the mug and found… a cockroach. EWWW!!! How in the heck did it get in there?!? Oh, well… after a lot of spitting and throwing the coffee out onto the grass I had to do whatever I could to keep awake…

Oh, well… went and downloaded another TOS episode of Star Trek. Yep… I guess I'll enjoy a bit of this morning before I go to sleep.

That's right. I have “Spock's Brain”!!! :)

No… wait… the Star Trek episode, not the actual squishy thinking organ thing…

*runs and hides from all the insane Star Trek fans who are demanding how he got his hands on their sacred artifact and not listening to the fact that it's the episode title…*

@Ayes and Lonnehart - Yeah, they say you DO get married after you catch the bouquet. And my date caught the garter, which I guess means the same thing? But that would utterly ruin my dream of becoming one of those stereotypical spinsters with five thousand cats. >:T

also, oh my god lonnehart whyyyyy

cockroaches, I'm so terrified of them

oh god oh man oh god, bluh

I'm doing a quick job search with my degree the air force gave me. There are AWESOME pays out there for that.

Except when i read the “skills/knowledge required” section, i stop and go…“Wait….whut?” I know absolutely nothing about my job to get me that 6 figure income. Although the highest paying one i could fake the knowledge. It's a 13 month contract. At the end of the year if they fired me, i could totally work at mcdonalds for a few years and still have a house.
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Happy birthday hippy.

Ochitsukanai
also, oh my god lonnehart whyyyyy

cockroaches, I'm so terrified of them

oh god oh man oh god, bluh

I'm still trying to figure out how it got into the coffee travel mug. The opening is way too small for it to squeeze into. I was sure that when I closed it and sealed it with a plastic sandwich bag and a thick rubber band that no insects would get in (not even ants). And yet there it was… nearly ingested some unwanted protein there. Tonight I'll check the coffee cup thrice after mixing the coffee to make sure there's nothing inside that would make me sick. eww…

Happy Birthday Hippie Van!

Today one our DD friends became the first to send in a try-out for the contest radio play – it Must have been in honor of your birthday.

The link is in the contest thread - but it's here, too:
Free MP3 download: Maxwell_contender 01.mp3

@ Ayes: It's such a strange feeling seeing something I worked so hard on being brought to fruition. Wow…just wow. I wrote that. :-D

@ Lonne: It wasn't very long ago that I found a cockroach in my half eaten slice of pizza. I feel your pain. :(

Happy Birthday Hippie Van! :D

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After reading the reponses regarding to my Biblical Sutdies post, I see that many of poeple have encountered the “Phone” evolution analogy of stupidity, I thought it was just that my biblical studies teacher was particularly retarded in his ideas. But now I see that he's just repeating it from somewhere.

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Fugly my baby pigeon is doing well. He survived the night, and he ate a big breakfast of museli and bird feed, and he's really strong and healthy. I don't know what to do with him though now, I don't want to release him because he is a pigeon, and a bit of a pest and I don't have any pigeons around where I live anyway. I dont' really want to keep him as a pet either for the same reasons, I don't really know what to do with him. Any ideas? Anyone know of some Pigeon Bording school where Fugly could go and learn to be a pigeon?