BJ Woods

Tonight after some dinner and an episode of “Providence” (*don’t ask my why I watched it…I don’t even like it that much), I move with my book to the frontmost part of the livingroom, (which I call the ‘front porch’, probably because it used to be one) and read for what seems to be a long time.

It is an unusually humid and warm night for this time of year which makes me only wonder with dread, what July will bring. I  detest hot, sticky weather and am determined that when I can afford to, I will eventually live someplace where it never gets warmer than 70. So far I like the idea of cool, grey London, rainy Seattle and San Francisco, with it’s cool bay winds, although I know San Fran can get warm too. I have been to the latter (it was in May about ten years ago) but have never visited the other two.

Anyway, the whole rest of the house is very warm and still and so there I sit, gradually becoming aware of feeling a little sweaty, and of how dark it is getting, since I keep tilting my book more toward the light, which is fading fast. 

Later tonite I’m supposedly going to meet up with Cheryl, and her friend Tiesha and we don’t exactly have any plans, or money, for that matter, and it’s not really for sure whether we’re getting together but she said she’d call around 7-ish. Well it’s way past ish now and I got up from my book perch to step outside where I hope to cool off a bit.

I saunter out onto the atrium, barefoot, armed with my cordless phone and I fight with a light wind out of nowhere, to light a cigarette. I smoke for a few minutes but I don’t stay for long because soon I am afraid someone will lock the front door on me before I can come back in.

I go back in and read some more of my Laurie Fox novel, of which I can’t seem to get enough. I am now hell-bound to get my hands on and read everything of hers if it kills me. I am inspired by her characters, although they are based people from her real life, I am in love with them and their plights. Is plights a word? I don’t know.

My God, I just now notice all the traffic and wonder where the hell it is coming from but then I realize that I am very near the ‘West Suh-IIDE’, where, as you may or may not know, many of St. Paul’s Mexican-Americans reside, who, I’m sure are all out galavanting and whoo hoo-ing, full of cerveza and bad intentions. Perhaps if my plans fall through, I will ride the bus down there and see what kind of trouble I can get into. Haha…I kill me. As IF. Like I’m some kind of puta on a mission. Damn.

I don’t have much else to share tonite but perhaps I will, manana.

I suppose I’d better get offline now, before Cheryl pulls up (I hope) and tosses a brick into my window w/a note attached that says ‘get OFFLINE!’ Stranger things have happened.

“..and it’s too late baby, now its too late/though we really did try to make it/something inside has died/and I can’t hide and I can’t fake it” -Carole King

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The Y2K scare is only a distant memory now. The future never looked brighter. But wait… If you have not yet taken the proper precautions you may still find yourself waking up one morning to a computer disaster of apocalyptic proportions. 

Evil Conspiracy Theory

Did you ever consider that the same people who made all that money fixing the Y2K glitch (i.e. the programmers) were the same people who caused the problem in the first place? Coincidence? We don’t think so!

And how did they solve the problem? They increased the year field from a two to a four-digit number. But is this really a “fix” or have they simply positioned themselves to “rescue” us one more time?

So you may ask, “What are we getting at?”

Five Words: Year Ninety-nine Ninety-nine.

While the rest of the world settled for the 4-digit fix we instructed our consultants to build a 5-digit field that will take us into the next Zillennium. Hope you’ll still be visiting us in the year 10000.

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I got home early enough for dinner, for once. It was 8:30 and I decided to make spaghetti.

I put on a pot of water to boil and figured it had been awhile since I changed the bulb in the range hood above the stove, so the minute I flicked on the switch, the bulb went out.  Well, you know how there is a white plastic guard over the light bulb there on most of those?  I knew it was there but I could always reach the bulb underneath.  All the other times, I never moved the guard and just changed the bulb that way.

Well, tonight I saw that there was a small place where the guard could be disconnected and hang from a little hinge, while you change a bulb.  I grabbed the guard and pulled it from the slot and let the guard drop so that I could change the bulb. It was cool, ’cause I always thought that the way I always used to do it was kinda hard.

When I was done, I snapped the guard back into place and went about my business. 

It wasn’t long before I saw them.  I thought the stuff floating on the top of the water in the pot was just because perhaps I hadn’t washed it out thoroughly.  Nope.  What I was looking at was the tiny old, dried up carcasses of a few small dead flies and gnats floating at the top of my almost-boiling water in my beloved clean pot!  I guess they had been lying in that damned lightbulb guard which I had never flipped back before,

ISH!

Ohmygosh, I never scrubbed a pot as hard or for as long!

Although there is so much bad stuff going on with people in my life I do feel a bit guilty about coming home and just chillin’.

I’m gonna unload Thursday night on ya ’cause after my update I went and watched ER, even though I hardly ever watch that show, I just did. It had me bawling when the little girls’ mother died. Big deal. People die on that show every week, don’t they?

Then I called Shan’s house to find out how her hospital visit the other night went. She wasn’t home. Her brother’s fiancee answered the phone and told me that she was in the hospital again and wasn’t going to tell me why.  When I told her that my sister and I were the ones who brought her in on Wednesday night for the back pains, she paused for a second, and then said that Shan was in the hospital for something else. She had a nervous breakdown and was going to be there for awhile. I told her thank you and hung up. A breakdown? Surprised? You bet. But she had good reason, I’m sure! This girl has been dealt a shitty hand, let me tell you. I can’t even go into details right now about her if you don’t already know. I was very upset at learning this. I didn’t know what to do or how to feel. I think now that mostly I was sad and confused, to say the least.

Then after that, I talked to my mom. She said she had to go to a funeral for a man who was kind of young to have died of lung cancer, which is what my grandmother is dying of. She’s got maybe until July, so the doctors say, which brings me to recap the weekend.

On Friday I went down to Waterville, Minn., to my parent’s travel trailer they’ve got set up at a summer resort . Stayed there Friday and Saturday all day and it was a bit chillier than normal. I did get to visit alot with my folks and their friends that were there for the weekend.

Then on Sunday morning, we went up to drop in on Grandma and my aunt and uncle, who planned for our surprise visit and lunch for Mother’s Day.  From the last few times I visited Grandma, I have to say that she looks fabulous and I don’t believe it when they tell me she’s not going to be around much longer. All this talk about death and cancer and whatnot has got me sad lately and I don’t know what to think.

On a different subject, I know that I’m staying at my current job for now, but I’m keeping my options open.  There is a position available at a bank downtown and I’ve got an interview on Friday with the VP.  She seems nice and I’ve been told by an insider (who is also a friend) that it is a pleasant place to work and I know there will be more money (what could that hurt?) so I am hoping to get it, just for a change of scenery. I’ll let you know more later.

Tomorrow I’m having friends over for a birthday dinner and then Thursday I need to go shopping and visit with my sis, it’s been awhile.

Well it’s getting late once again and I’ve got to get to bed but I’ll be back later.

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Last week my site’s logs showed the following interesting searches: 

Sally Fields facelift – Yes, ladies.  Thanks to the Sally Fields facelift, you too, can have the glowing, youthful looks of Sybill.  They’ll REALLY, REALLY LIKE you!

grammas having sexy – Having sexy what? Shoes?  That’s got to be it.

bimbos in the shower – as opposed to… say, dumbos in the shower?

Did Jesus really walk on water?  Or was it ice?

Scientists say if it was ice that formed on Northern Israel’s Lake Kinneret, the odds would have been 1-in-1,000.

Read and decide for yourself.

Via Harvey, Elgin.

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• O.K., the secret’s out… – 2006

Current mood: horny

Now you can all discover why I *heart* Hal Sparks so much…

He’s probably a flaming liberal…oh well that CANNOT stop a girl from having fantasies.

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• Score 1 – Science, Religion – 0? Or just bored scientists? – 2006

Do you know what happens this week? On Wednesday of this week, at two minutes and three seconds after 1:00 in the morning, the time and date will be

01:02:03 04/05/06!

That won’t ever happen again for another 1,000 years.

You may now return to your normal stuff!

More about it here:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060404/ap_on_fe_st/numbers_row

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OK.

After my near-disastrous lunch with mom on Saturday I *did* have a good rest of the day on my birthday. 

We went to her house and hung out and she showed me some stuff she learned at her computer class and then she gave me a really pretty homemade card that she made (these things are like works of art the way she does them) and for my gift she bought me a ticket to the Lions’ Super Breakfast.  What a great gift!

The Lions’ Super Breakfast is this great big, huge event the Lions have twice a year as a fundraiser.  It’s sixty dollars a ticket which is a LOT of dough for me to just toss out on entertainment, being a broke bum who runs her own business.   

I’ve gone to these before and it’s great fun.  It’s always at Willie’s Hidden Harbor which is this bar & banquet hall right on a marina on the Mississippi, and there’s a huge buffet with every breakfast thing you could want, eggs, bacon, sausage, ham, hash brown casserole, corned beef hash, omelettes, gourmet breads, croissants, and muffins, and then giant fruit baskets made of watermelons and filled with pineapples, strawberries, grapes, and melons. 

There’s also a bar and you can make your own screwdrivers and Bloody Mary’s and a giant aluminum trough of ice and beers (mostly domestic and watered down stuff but still free, all you can drink, with your ticket).  Then they have raffles the whole time, pull tabs and quick picks which are kinda like pull tabs but they draw a number after you pull your tab off the board.  The raffles are fun, most people like them, they give away sports jerseys (Vikings, Gophers, Northstars, MN Wild, Twins, etc.), gift certificates and cash.  

I’m excited.  It’s generally a day of sloth and food and drunken merriment, lots of friends and people I know are going so it will be a blast.

Another highlight was when I got home, my iPAQ pocket PC came in the mail, which I bought from eBay, as a birthday gift to myself.  It’s really cool and I can’t want to trick it out with tons of cool stuff.  Some people buy these buggers so that they can instant message their buddies, play games or mp3’s while away from home.  Me, I’m gonna use it to keep track of contacts, addresses/phone numbers, meetings, to-do lists and check mail while I’m out and about.  I have to get a network card for it but it should be fairly easy for me to find one for under $40.  The pic above is a pic of the model that I purchased..

And here’s what the screen looks like (not mine but similar) 

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• Tomorrow will be 1-2-3-4-5-6 – 2006

Something I saw in a blog entry today…kinda tripped a switch in my brain, and I thought “Why, she is just like me!” What a small world we live in:

“…I am frustrated because things are so unchallenging and people are so complacent about themselves. I despise the way lecturers read word-for-word from their powerpoint slides like pre-school kids, I abhor the way they turn dumb when questioned about matters pertinent to the course but are unfortunately out of the syllabus. I hate the way assignment deadlines are extended again and again, I loathe the manner in which students come late and leave early for classes, I scorn the way people are just never excited about anything they learn, except for getting tips for exams.

I condemn the rotten education I’m paying for which is mass-populating generations of intellectually-challenged dim-wits – young men who think success is only about getting a high-paying job and young ladies who learnt how to charm dim-witted guys into doing things for them by playing dumb and bitchy.”

I’m the most easily frustrated person there is when it comes to certain things, the “things” mainly consist of: being dim-witted-ness and just plain irresponsibility.

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• Dickweed Revisited – 2005