Bird on a wireless
Hi there. As I explained in the comments to the previous post, I don’t have my home internet connection anymore. Here is a post I wrote last night for adding today:
Monday, June 1, 2009, 21:14
OK, not long after I updated the last entry the cable guy came and took away the dvr and the modem. I’m typing this up for uploading the next time I can access the internet. I’m going to watch one of my Doctor Who dvds from Netflix and then hit the sack.
Oh yeah — I almost forgot. I’ve still got some tv channels coming in for now. One of them was MTV. There was some live show of some sort; Jim Carrey was standing up in the audience and giving some spiel. Then he announced the next performance: Chris Isaak and Leeann Rimes. “Oh,” I thought, “I like Chris Isaak.”
But I’m afraid that I didn’t make it to Chris — the first person to come on when the lights went up was Leeann Rimes, and she started to sing. And this is what I heard: “jizz… in my pants… jizz… in my pants…” Sung to a sweet orchestral intro.
I swear to God this happened. I never watch MTV and have basically been out of the pop-culture loop, so I hadn’t realized just how far down the sewer the entertainment industry has slipped. And yes, I’ve seen the “Jizz In My Pants” video on Youtube, or as much of it as I cared too (it was rather repetitive and the joke wore off long before the song ended). But that obviously by some “edgy” comedian, whose name I forget. I thought Leeann Rimes was from another part of the entertainment world, one that wasn’t quite so… juvenile. I guess I was wrong.
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Yeah, you really needed to know that. So anyway, here I am… wasting time in an organic tea café instead of doing all the million little things I need to do… going to the post office to mail some items, doing my laundry, taking my extra books to the book trade store… That’s all too much like work. Anyway, leaving Florida soon, yay! And… I’m actually thinking of leaving a few days sooner than the 12th, if I can swing it. Maybe I’ll leave the 10th. That’s next Wednesday. Usually if I write it here I’ve already made up my mind, but I also know what a procrastinator I am. Bad Andrea.
Okay, off to read the internet before this connection lets me down.
Update: I might use this as my travel update site, I don’t know:
http://thetwistedspinster.tumblr.com/
I just can’t get the Twitter thing, see… though I can update Twitter via my phone.
I figured I should add– the tv channels are coming in through direct connection to the cable, since they don’t take the coaxials with them (this is how I always seem to end up with a giant ball of coaxial cables in my closet). I just connected the cable to the tv because I know the cable co never shuts off access right away. By the way, my television is one of those “digital cable ready” tvs but I believe that for some reason the “analog-to-digital” switchover has been delayed, no doubt due to some sort of government foul-up. I do know that I haven’t heard much about it after all the build up last year.
Well, yeah. Some idiot congressman (but I repeat myself) decided with only days left to go that February came too suddenly after the years and years of warning, so he persuaded his idiot colleagues (see previous parenthetical) to extend it by four more months.
I’m tempted to bet on another last-minute extension. Lord knows if they don’t Do Something Now™ about this earth-shattering problem, they might have to vote on something pointless like a budget or a Supreme Court nomination.
Hmm…I’m thinking the less voting on budget and nominations they do, the better off we are…but I’ve been wrong before!
Heh. Indeed.