The Middle Of Nowhere

I've been stuck in the middle of nowhere since the 5th of July.  That's my excuse for not writing anything in the past... month-ish.  Jack has no excuse because I know for  fact that he had perfectly good computers with him.  He's in Jamaica.  He still deserves no excuse because I write most of the stuff on here and all of the good stuff.  ;)  Haha, just kidding.  Don't kill me Jack.  So anyways while I've been pent up in the middle of nowhere it seems that I've missed out on a whole lot of stuff.  'Course I'm not back yet, but I've found a perfectly usable computer and felt bad about leaving you all to waste and wither away without my witty humor.  No I'm just kidding I know you don't need me, it just helps me feel better if I can convince myself that you do need me.  So back to being in the middle of nowhere... Yeah, nowhere is boring.  Don't ever travel there unless you like staring at blank walls, which I did enjoy, but no longer do.  Unless that blank wall has drying paint on it, that would certainly make nowhere much more interesting.  That's right the only way for nowhere to get interesting (and this is a long shot) is if they were to paint a wall so that people could watch it dry, that is just how boring it is here.  Well there... I'm not actully there anymore but I'm going back there in.... 6 hours-ish give or take.  Right now I'm in a little place called Cumberland, nice name no? ;)

No Big Deal

~D

Being Bald

It's no fun.  I mean it's fun because your head is fuzzy and you get petted by many people all the time.  But at the same time you're cold. ALL OF THE TIME!  That's really the only not fun part.  I just thought that y'all should know the pros and cons of no longer having hair lest you ever feel the need to join me.

PROS:                                                            |  CONS:
Extremely fuzzy head                                       |  Cold, all the time
Fun to pet                                                       |  People tend to stare
Stay cool during the summer                            |  Head sunburns
Sunscreen is bad for hair                                 |  Stuck wearing a hat or perhaps scarf
Pretty scarves are easy to find                         |  Wigs are extremely hard to come by in a mall...or anywhere.
Good excuse to drink more tea or warm          |  Everyone insists on seeing it so you're forced to take off
     substances                                                 |       whatever it was that was covering and keeping you warm
Raised money for a good cause                       |  Best friend thinks you're crazy


That's all folks.
No Big Deal.

~D

Word of the Week

(¯`*•.¸♥♫ █♥█ HAPPY CANADA DAY! █♥█ ♫ ♥¸.•*´¯)
Bucolic: In a lovely rural setting.

Word of the Week

“Mamihlapinatapai: A look shared by two people with each wishing that the other will initiate something that both desire but which neither one wants to start.”

Word of the Week

Adulterated: to make impure.

Fun with Syllables and Octagons

So if you read that as syllables and octagons, then you are mistaken.  You are putting the em-PHA-sis on the wrong syll-AH-ble.  It's actually pronounced as syll-AH-bles and oc-TAH-gons.  You know, like dragons combined with octopi.

So as we were walking to school today, Jack and Darlene- us, we started to think how cool it would be if we could just open a dimension and have an adventure on our walks.  So we decided to try it.  This is the totally true and not at all made up way that things happened this morning.\


As we were walking down the street we decided that to make things more interesting we would go to the dimension of Crouf.  In Crouf there are octagons and squirds.  An octagon is an octopus crossed with a dragon. They are pretty terrifying and should never be messed with.  Now a squird is a cross between a squid, and a bird.  They too are very dangerous and should not be messed with.

When we entered Crouf, we were immediately met by a monk who told us we were the chosen saviors of their land.  Sort of like Hyrule.  Ya know, like Link from Legend of Zelda, only there's two of us.  The monk quickly told us the monster's stat's and then told us to "get on with it already."  Rude, no?  Yeah well so we began to fight the octagons and squirds, which was very difficult.

The octagons and squirds almost beat us but we ran off to heal and go get some skills from the skills shoppe down the road.  When we got to the skills shoppe, we found out that our skills did not follow us from our past dimension and we had to start over again.  Luckily for us every time we hit the octagons or squirds we gained 7 points for using a sword, 3 for damage, and 5 because we're us.  So after our fight with the octagons and squirds we had racked ourselves up quite a few points.  The only problem was that everything in that dimension cost 12 times more then it did in our old dimension so we still didn't have enough!  But then the monk appeared to give us hints because we had leveled up during our fight with the octagons and squirds. The monk said to us, "You, young ones can now bring anything out of your imagination into reality." We squealed with joy and ran around the store picking up skills we wanted.

When we got the the register the store clerk looked at us and our piles of skills dubiously.  We immediately imagined bags of skills points behind our backs and offered them to the clerk.  After we had finished purchasing our skills we went back out to fight the octagons and squirds.  We killed them all in under 5 minutes.  Then Jack said, "Hey, I wonder what would happen if I were to imagine a giant man eating Sasquatch who couldn't be defeated by any tool of destruction built before now..."  And of course it appeared out of Jacks mind and started tearing apart the whole town.

Word got around that it was Jack who created the monster and a giant mob chased us out of their dimension shouting, "YOU TERRIBLE NINJAS!!!  NEVER COME BACK HERE, EVER AGAIN!!!"

So we left their dimension and came back to ours.  Right in front of our school.

"Being ninjas was fun while it lasted, at least," Darlene said.

"Yeah.  Too bad we can't ever go back," Jack replied.

"Maybe one day they'll forget about us..."

"It was a man eating Sasquatch that couldn't be destroyed."

"You're right.  We'll go back after school."

No Big Deal.

-DJ

I-Tunes Store

Have you ever wanted to just leave the house while your on the computer and then someone calls you up?  Yeah well this happens to me all the time, the only difference is, it's normally Jack, and he's normally telling me about the new free song on i-tunes that comes up once a week.  Yes I know, boohoo, I only go out once a week. :P  Back to the problem at hand.

So Jack calls me up and says, "Oh My Goody-two-shoes!  Darlene, you HAVE to get this song!!!  Oh and get this..."  Pause for dramatic effect, "IT'S FREE!!!"

That right there, those two words (actually two combined words and one real one), get me every time.  You see I have a sore spot for free things and/or things that are cheap.  Whether they are actually crap stuff and I will probably never use it, read, play with it, whatever.  I will purchase it if it is cheap, or better yet, free.

So I kick off my shoes and run wildly over to the recently shut off computer, click the on button and wait 15 minutes.  Once the computer is on,  I randomly click the i-tunes button hoping that it will open today and not tell me that I need an up-date.  If I'm lucky it will open another 5 minutes after clicking it.  That's already a total of 20 minutes.  Once it's open I click on i-tunes store, and wait for that to load.  The whole while I'm anxiously hopping from foot to foot awaiting this "awesome song".  Once it's loaded I will scroll down to the bottom where the free stuff is and click the right song, or what I hope is the right song.  I wait 20 minutes for a 2 minute song to load. 


FINALLY I can listen to it.  I click play and the music comes on...  These are my emotions as follows.

Thank you, Jack. And slow moving computer my day has just gone by and I'm still in the house.

So Raygunn and I were discussing the idea of a real live i-tunes store.  That's right, in the physical world that we could leave the house and feel, hear, touch, see, and if need be, taste.  Think about it!  Instead of waiting for the computer to do it's sh*t you can just waltz on over there and purchase it with cold hard cash!  You wouldn't need to remember a stinking password, just show them your face and tell 'em how to spell your name.  How much nicer would it be if you could just walk over there and grab the free song off the shelf go up to the cashier give them your name and leave.  Not only would that save your butt from doing extra work, (meaning sitting) but you would get to leave the house!  Maybe they'd even sell those cool shirts with the apple sign on them, and stuff like that.  I'm just saying that I'd feel more implied to purchase things from i-tunes if it were real instead of virtual, then you don't have to bother going out and looking for a place that sells i-tunes cards.  Find a random $5 in your pocket?  To the i-tunes store!!!  Is that another penny on the ground, bringing my penny count up to the mandatory .99?  To the i-tunes store!!!  Pirating music would be silly, you could take the time, get off your lazy @$$ and purchase some t-shirts while getting all the latest music!

Dear Apple please consider the following,

Purchase your selves a building and make a store. 

From,

People who like to leave the house on sunny days.

No Big Deal.

~D