Senator Palpatine has to be one of my most favorite characters.  He's supposed to represent pure evil but at face value, if you've never heard of him you'd think he was a humble monk.  He recognizes  the destructive nature of evil and avoids luxories.  In a dual with  he states  "your arrogance blinds you, Master Yoda," which says to me that even the masters of evil still have enough sense to rise above it.

He's not like Jabba, who is on the other side of the evil spectrum, basking in as many base pleasures a mob boss could ever want.  No, the emperor gets off on pure, structured control.  Making storm troopers out of clones so that they look, think, and act alike and if one has a zit the other doesn't, it doesn't matter cause they all wear masks.  They stand in rows and kill non-human species.  They're space nazis. 

Been feeling more creative lately.  Pushed some paint around, drew a picture of a tree, and wished I could write a good story.  Like a really good science fiction story. 

Lenny and I have a room mate who lives in his room without paying rent.  She doesn't have a job and so is the first person on my suspect list when 5 of my video games go missing.  She denies it to the point of tears" I'd never steal from you, ever.  Swear on my grandmothers health".  Wanna impress me, swear on a child's health.  At first Lenny said it doesn't make sense for her to steal from me.  Then I pointed out that if she even got a third of their value she'd have close to a hundred bucks.  

Twice before the video game incident I noticed money missing from my drawer.  Like a couple hundred.  At first I blamed myself for poor book keeping even though I've been doing my books for years without error and half a pickled mind.  I blamed myself until I noticed the missing games.  I loved those video games.  Some were even brand new.

"If somebody stole your stuff they woulda just taken everything," Lenny told me.  A point I believed until I realized that no real effort has been made to find my stuff.  Its like by not taking everything I look like a paranoid ass. 

My friends blame me for choosing to live with addicts.

Say hello to the Farnese Atlas.


"hi"


He was made in the second century.

Why don't grade school teachers cite images like this one as proof that folks sorta knew the world was round way before Columbus or Magellan? 

I think it has something to do with religion.  Giving credit to the Greeks sends a message to children that pagans are capable of brilliance, too.

I found this picture!



That's the stuff nightmares are made of. 

Cowards laugh at injustice.

Fools fight for causes they don't understand.

Both travel in packs.

It occurred to me just now that three major religions, Christianity, Buddhism, and Islam were sponsored with financial contributions:

Jesus was bestowed gold, frankinsense, and mir from three wise men.Muhammad married a successful business woman.

Buddha was born from nobility.

I'm really growing out of this thing.

I once had to do a detail for an air show when I worked at Davis-Monthan.  The crew I was on was in charge of setting up a fence against the flight line to keep civilians from wondering out of the fair grounds.  The fence sections were 10 feet long and 3 feet high and consisted of about 20 or 30 so  bars.  Every time we'd peace 5 sections of fence together the wind would knock them down.  It was a problem no one had a solution for.  Then I suggested that we zig-zag the sections and everyone looked at each other as if to say "well duh."  The fence was built nd a major who was in the detail with us wrote a letter to my commander on my smarts.

In other news I just read the short story about Guy of Warwick and loved it.

• God is not a genie.  When I'm going through hard times I often hesitate before resorting to prayer since the Lord often finds hard times conducive towards spiritual development.   
• There is no heaven or hell.  This is it.  You live a bad life and hell will surround you.  Live contentedly, and every day will be sublime.
• Technology  is an extension of the soul. 
  
• Every once and a while God wants people to kill each other. 
  
• God is communism in perfection

 So the antibiotics are working wonderfully.  After a week of  taking them and playing video games I can now walk without limping.  The absesses have receded and the redness has cooled down.  I've gotta admit I was pretty scared there for a moment.  My mother told me going in for medical help isn't a character flaw and I should just get of my wallet and go see a doctor.  I'm so glad I took her advice.

Lenny has been great about letting me stay home until I healed and today I feel great.  I suggested I take a week off every four weeks to recharge my batteries and he added we alternate and cover for each other. 

The hospital folks told me drinking shouldn't affect my antibiotics, but why tempt fate?  This has been the first week since Denver in which I've been dry.  Gotta say, my stomach is grateful.  The girl I'm dating doesn't drink either, so it works.

This morning, on my way to work, I considered our evolutionary past and future and how society as a whole still behaves like a culture of microscopic organisms.  I thought, "if I could go back in time and tell a single celled organism that it's great (to the millionth powered) grand children would give up single cellular life to make up tissues of several cells which alone would be useless but united would form a functioning membrane, and that later, they'd evolve into organs.  The cell would probably think (y'know, if it could) that giving up individuality and self sufficiency wouldn't be worth it since it could survive in a smelly pond and none of my cells, on their own would last a second.  I think we're much like the single cell who can't fathom life as a part of something bigger outside of the pond. f

So I was going to try and sleep this through and see if my leg would heal on its own.  Good thing my friends insisted on taking me to the clinic cause the germ living in my tattoo is the sort that could eat its way through my skin, muscle, bone and eventually cause an amputation.  Fortunately, I think we caught it in time for oral antibiotics to cure, but its going to take a couple days.  Til then my calf is a swollen mess of absesszitpuss sores.  I tried draining a couple in the bath last night but it hurt way too much to squeeze them dry. 

Doctor's note says not to go to work til Saturday but my boss says otherwise.  If I lose my leg or job over this, I'm getting a lawyer.

So Yeah, my leg is rotting.  Take care of your tattoos, kids, cause its really embarrassing when they get infected.  Going to the clinic tomorrow to get some meds and fix this shit right.

"What are you doing Jinx?"

"I'll tell you what I can't do."

"Whats that?"

"No wrong!  I swear every chick I dig just can't seem to keep their mouth off me."

1. No free press.  They probably hate LJ.
   
2. Lip synching at the Olympics
3. Occupying Tibet
4. They eat babies
   haha, sorry.  This is actually a Chinese performance artist doing his best to freak you out.  Can't really let one lone nut speak for an entire nation, now can we.... ...  But still, he did do it in China.
   
5. They poisoned our pets through the dog food they sold us.  They