Testfest #1

Today, I made an effort to get out and do something with my life.  It just turns out that I was testing different sorts of drugs.

There’s all sorts of things out there that you can buy at a local grocery store or walmart that can get you high. Most, however, are only for crazy people with no sense of reality. Some I heard and won’t try are drinking a bottle of listerine (40% alcohol, but also contains menthol and some other crazy stuff that gets you pretty smash faced too), sniffing glade (some guy went into a coma and lost his memory), and DMX (DXM?) containing pharmaceuticals.

Today I bought 4 things to try. Sudafed, Whipped Cream, Green Tea, and 1.5 kilos of poppy seeds. Guess which one I wanted to try the most?

So I thought I’d start of easy: Whipping Cream. HIgh on (off?) whipped cream (whipping cream?) you say? Well, it’s pressurized with NO2, nitrous dioxide, laughing gas. It was very VERY enjoyable. Unfortunately, you can only get about one good hit out of a bottle. Although extremely enjoyable, it only lasts about a minute before you go for another hit and end up with a mouthful of whipping cream. Think drunk + high, but without the gain in coordination that comes from getting high while drunk. But the seond hit wasn’t so bad, I just ended up laughing and eating whipping cream.

Second, I tried smoking green tea. It supposed to give you a really nice, relaxing euphoric high. Unfortunately, you need to smoke about a bag or two to actually get high. And without a filter, it was a really really rough smoke. I couldn’t even finish 1/4 bag. All I feel (2 hours later mind you) is a little dizzy and numb, sort of like after a few shots of alcohol. Not sure if it’s Carbon Monoxide or not, as I’m not a smoker. I used one bag out of around 30, so I plan on continuing this experiment by brewing triple strength, at least, green tea, as well as eating a teabag or two. Anything for a cheap-ass high, right?

Third, brewing right now, is some poppy seed tea. The theory behind this is that residue from the seed pod (containing opium) is left of the seeds when harvested. Companies wash it off, but you know commercial businesses and health and safety standards – they’re minimal. Some residue is still left over, so about a pound in 2 litres of water will give you enough for one person. Consider it’s $3 a kilo (maybe pound) it’s still a really good deal for an opium high. Stay tuned.

Fourth is 5-10 pills of sudafed. This is for a day I feel really brave or really stupid. Apparently it causes mild hallucinations, but may also bring me near-hospitalization.

Another day.

Yesterday I found out I have enough to easily afford a car and an education…I think.

I mean, I thought everything was okay. But explaining a crazy scheme to a customer at work today, we got on the topic of university and goals and the likes. When I said my goal was to get out of University debt free, she had just taken a sip of coffee. She keeled over and nearly spit it out and/or choked or something from laughter.

I’m not crazy, am I? Just ambitious is all…right?

…

Right?

A Life Lesson: Take Risks

“Life is not fair. Get over it.” – Bill Gates

Life is full of risks. Some people, like me, choose not to take those risks. No longer will I do that.

By playing it on the safe side of things, in the last 3 days I’ve missed out on $700.

First, there was a lady who came in to work wondering who we recommend to clean out ponds. My coworker jokingly said she’d do it, and after a short discussion, she ends up making $500 for 4 hours of work on her day off.

Secondly, another lady came in to work today offering me a gecko for free, with cage. Now, I know the value of reptiles in this country. I saw a chance to make a nice chunk of change. So I told her I’d think about it, called up Kenny (the reptile lover i know), and asked if he was interested. I call the woman, tell her I have a friend that is interested and ask for some information on the thing, like the age, sex, and type of gecko. In the end, because I didn’t make a simple risk (or white lie later on), I missed out a good $200, at least, selling the gecko instead of cutting myself out of the equation as the middleman (She wanted to meet him in person to see if he was a cool guy).

Now, I’m sure you all know what $700 is, for those who have jobs. For me, working 48 hours a week, it’s half a month of pay. Half a month of pay that was nearly given to me (for 5 hours of work), and I missed out on the opportunity because I was afraid to take a risk or two. So step outside your comfort barrier (and I’ll step out of mine), and take some risks. You just might profit from it. Make investments, play the lottery (No, don’t, that’s not a risk, that’s a gamble.). Be afraid, but do it anyways.

Long time, no blog!

It’s been a while since I’ve been on facebook, mostly because it’s repetitive and boring for the most part. But I figure now that I have next-to-no social life, and what life I do have is repetitive and boring now too, facebook is a good way to to just that, to a lesser degree.

For those who don’t know, I’m working 48-55 hours weekly at Harper’s, and I get Wednesdays and Thursdays off (I work 8-6 on weekends. Joy.)

I”m hoping to find new work, but I think it’s a little late. I’m looking for a job that pays $11 or more with normal hours (8-6 weekdays only, 9-5 is fine too). Nothing wrong with my job now, except for the whole interfering with my entire life outside of work thing. No biggie.

Apart from now being an expert on taking pumps apart and printing sale signs for the fishies, I am also now a ninja master, and have been knighted by the Queen of England. You may now refer to me as Sir Ninja Pirate Kurt. Oh, did I leave out the part about the Harper’s Garden Centre Water Garden area being on a pirate ship? I am captain of a pirate ship now too.

I swear. No lies. When have I ever lied about something like that?

Outside work, not much is happening. I’m still hoping to get out into the world for a night, buy a Compact Flash card (unless someone here has one they’d like to give me, doesn’t need to be big), and start recording some music. Some things I have in store are a Rammstein-themed one-riff song, an Acoustic version of “The Pot” by Tool, and a remake of that song I made by throwing together some notes in grade 10 for that game I made. Remember? THAT one? Dungeonmaster! The 1980’s-styled text-based adventure. I have a few more things planned, but like most things, it probably won’t work out (Megaman X Flame Mammoth/Storm Eagle/Intro Stage/Menu Remix).

And of course, the hunt for a girlfriend continues, yielding little, as usual. Damn standards/self-esteem.

Might as well post this in my blog too.

I’ll visit school again to see whoever’s still there, if there’s enough interest. I don’t really want to go back if I don’t gotta, but of course, there’s treats involved. Ginger Cookies, perhaps! Y’all love ‘em. Who doesn’t? But y’all gotta tell me if you’re interested.

I figure if I type anymore, all of you will just skim this, so I’ll stop!

Byebye!

Rain!

I’m getting a CF card soon to record some music in high quality.

Today it was very rainy. I was at work, but no customers were. Well okay, a few were, but it got pretty dead pretty fast. The last 2 hours had literally one (maybe two, maximum three) customers, in all departments.

So I whipped out some Rammstein, did a little work, then sat outside in the rain until I couldn’t feel the rain anymore. Don’t ask me why, I’m not sure myself.

I’m convinced that within all of us is the ability to regulate our body heat. If we focus on the cold, we become cold. But sitting in the cold rain, I felt fine. The only place I was cold was where the rain hit, and after I lost concentration, my hands. But during concentrating on becoming warm, I become warm. I breathe in deeply, and breathe out slowly, keeping pressure in my lungs and focusing on my cold spots and my warm core. And I warm up. Maybe I’m just crazy and going numb, but I swear, it works.

POstworthy

I’ve been looking for a good excuse to post again. Nothing really exciting has happened recently.

Until…

http://www.proatcooking.com/

I found that Pro at Cooking Episode 4 is out. Watch it from Episode 1, it’ll be funnier. To maximize funniness, watch at least the first Season of Pure Pwnage first! (www.purepwnage.com)

Amazing Stuff. Dave is the man. And pro at cooking.

In other news, I want to get some songs recorded, but the only way to get the on the computer for editing (in decent quality) is to use my little brother’s Boss BR900CD. Unfortunately, he’s an asshole, and as soon as he found out I might be kind of using it when he’s not even in the house, he hid the CF Card, which may or may not be required for recording. I’ll have to figure something out.

wATCH IT. nowWW

Busy busy.

Well now (hopefully only until Cayleigh starts working) I’m working 10 hour days. So you can understand that blogging about work is not my main priority.

Ordering some high-yield poppies for Opium, if I can find a spot to plant them.

Iron Man

http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2008-04/building-real-iron-man

Read it. It’s long, doesn’t get into details, but is still pretty damn cool. Of course, it’s only the beginning, but it’s nice to see some articles in Popular Science that are actually real, as opposed to future ideas and concepts, that weigh in equal or greater on the cool scale.

In other news, Harper’s is now open 8AM to 8PM, so some days I get to sleep in! Like today. Woot (Only the sun was in my eyes.

In other, other news, I got myself  cellphone. I’m on virgin mobile, so every minute of talk costs 30 cents, and that’s it. No other catches or anything of the sort. Except that after your prepaid minutes expire (Minimum of 15 that expire in 45 days) you lose your minutes unless you buy more. I did the math to figure out that the $25 prepaid card is the most cost-effective, and the $50 card is the LEAST cost effective. the $100 card is on-par with the $25 card, and the $15 comes in third place.

With the $15 card you need to spend 33 cents/day

$25 27/day

$50 42/day

$100 27/day

So everyone using Virgin Mobile who never runs out of minutes, you can be spending  $97 every year ($8 monthly) and saving $25 yearly by buying the $25 card instead. It might not be much, but it’s still money! (After 4 years that’s $100 you’ve lost)

My Number? (289) 441-1936, or A Twig: 11 Yen! (Read: (ATw) ig1-1Yen)

Scientology.

Scientologists are angry, crazy people. Sure, Tom Cruise is a scientologist, but at least he’s a good enough actor that he can act normal for movies. These guys…can’t.

What a bunch of angry people accusing others of false crimes when their’s are pointed out. Seen any angry buddists lately? (Sure, there are angry killers from all religions, but Scientology has a significantly higher amount of them. It’s almost like the KKK, or the beginning of the apocalypse.)

Long time, no post.

It’s been a while since I’ve posted. It’s mostly due to the fact that 9 hours a day I’m at work, sparing 3 or 4 for actual recreational activities, and over the last couple days, that time was spent working on the laptop. Here’s what I accomplished: I put a stick of ram in.

Why did this take days to accomplish? Well, first I was screwing around with the laptop, taking it apart, you know, to see how much space is inside for future mods (The answer is a LOT, I’m thinking a USB Gamepad that can slide into where the PCMCIA/SD card reader is.). In the process of incorrectly removing the laptop RAM the first time, I managed to wedge a small crumb in the RAM slot. I’m not sure how that happened. (I was pulling out instead of releasing the pins, it was my first time, okay?)

This caused all sorts of glitches and problems with the computer. Some times it wouldn’t start up at all, and other times it would completely freeze up, which happened VERY often, most times within minutes of boot-up. So after checking the RAM via memtest and the other laptop, and finding both sticks are A-okay, I formatted. I didn’t have the recovery CD, so I popped in any old XP cd we had lying around. Of course, there’s an unnecessarily large number of XP versions (XP Home OEM, XP Home Retail, XP Home….XP Pro OEM…XP Media Centre Edition… I’m not going to name them all, there’s around 15). Due to this fact, the serial on the laptop did not work. So I installed XP Home, and realized it was one of those versions that requires activation before it lets you log in. I tried for a night via a linux live CD to crack it to no avail. So I figured I’d do it right, with the right version. So the next day I got XP Pro, only to find out there’s about 316 versions of this type of XP as well. (Would they be called sub-version versions?) This one let me in to XP with a pirated serial, so I went in and tried for a day or two to get wireless to work. The problem, in the end, is that LG SUCKS AT LIFE AND CAN’T KEEP AN UP-TO-DATE WORKING DRIVER ON THEIR GOD DAMN SITE. After searching for many hours, I found the right, current driver on the Intel website, which does not suck. With wireless working, I shifted my attention to “activating” windows. I got a crack of the interwebz, and it was a virus. So I gave up, formatted, and downloaded the correct version of XP: Pro OEM, not Pro Corp. Only to find out that it was the polish version, and there was no way to switch after the install, even though I set all settings to English. So I formatted, got the right version in ENGLISH, spent yesterday getting it to work the way I like, and here I am. Somewhere along the lines I found the crumb, and am running a good 1 gig of ram in the laptop now, which is more than the CPU needs to run several things at 100% usage.

Not fun. I’m going to try linux out (Ubuntu). I read it can’t play mp3s, which sucks, but I don’t listen to music too often, so it’ll be alright. It’ll be used for firefox and Pidgin (Program that runs with the MSN server)

And I hate this god damn touchpad. It gets in the way of typing SO GOD DAMN MUCH. I miss my broken touchpad and IBM nub… I have a USB mouse, but there are times I won’t be able to use it. Is there a way to disable the touchpad via keyboard shortcut? Fn + something?

Yes, I’m in a bad mood. I’m overworked, the laptop is giving me problems, and today, April 13, which was my password (followed by some binary) for a good year, marks the day of 6 months of no girlfriend. It was one-way true love. No fun.

All sorts of woes.

I’m typing this from my spiffy new laptop. Okay, well it’s a USED spiffy new laptop. LG LS50a, Pentium M 1.6Ghz, and an undetermined amount of RAM. I say that because I’m pretty sure I fudged up some parts of the stick it came with. It would crash constantly for no reason, and that happened right after boot many times. I’m typing this now from a 512mb stick of ram from the other laptop (They’re the same). I was using 1 gig for a while, but I think I’m going to need to buy a new stick now, if replacing the stick caused the problem. I’ll find out tomorrow by running the other computer with that stick in it.

Anyways, this blog post (which hasn’t crashed with the new stick of ram, it did at least twice with the old stick) is to get some traffic to a friend’s song. He wants opinions, critques, etc. Hold nothing back. Make him cry. Cyber-bully him.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=NKSKu29dt-Q