Spent the afternoon practicing with my throwing knives indoors. I'm getting good enough that I can get all 5 knives to stick into a narrow board from about 15 feet away (I was standing in my bedroom to throw them).
While walking Maddy on Tuesday, I noticed there were papers strewn all over the street from a recently cleared-out bar on my block called Babel Lounge. This one caught my eye! Yikes! (I'm writing this in almost 5 years later in late November 2022 and the former Babel Lounge space is still empty).
Spend the morning listening to videos making the case for us probably not landing men on the moon five times between 1969 - 1972 (all during the Nixon administration). I started out with an open mind and the more I learned about the ten years leading up to these missions, the less-probable they seem to me. Very interesting to learn about!
There is a lot of very deep programming involved in getting us to trade our scare time for green paper (that certain people can make more of very cheaply). I am very interested in using magic ritual to intentionally reprogram your subconcious beliefs...so I destroyed some fiat bank notes to remind myself that my labor is the scarce valuable assett....not the fiat bank notes that are used to measure and trade it.
After docking the boat, I watched in horror / amazement as I saw this water snake catch a fish and drag him out of the water to eat him on the grass. Crazy!
...some kind of mystery hose that had come disconnected and was dragging on the ground. When I reach underneath to try to find out where it connected...
Two months later after I last spotted it out for the trash at the end of April, the cursed clown art wood carving made a haunting reappearance in La Plaza. Please someone burn this already!
The land I bought is historic and was involved in an accidental skirmish between settlers and local natives during the French / Indian War. Settled 1754. Attacked by "Indians" 1755. George Brimmer is buried right on the edge of my property.
On the way home I spotted this nightmare wood-carving CLOWN ART out for the trash again. This things keeps getting put out for the trash and then trashpicked...and then put back out for the trash when that person realizes that this is most-likely CURSED! Happy clown-cursed April 2017!
Took some pictures of this gnarly water damage hole that appeared in the corner of my living room overnight so that my super could come fix it. (I moved out over three years later and this was never fixed.). Lol.
My fiddle leaf fig tree had some holes in the leaves and upon further investigation I found some kind of bug infestation and had to clean all the leaves.
Later that evening I realized that Maddy had been catching and eating more mice when she calmed walked up next to me and then vomited tiny spine bones. GROSS!
Had a crazy travel day. Flight was delayed and they landed in Washington DC instead of NYC. Took a train from DC, but then there was a bomb scare and the train stopped in Trenton. Ended up taking a cab from Trenton for $170!
On my 40th birthday, I woke up to the best gift I could ask for: A text from my mother, who is learning how to text. This means that I receive excellent (and cryptic!) texts like:
"HAPPY 40TH BIRTHDAY!
wow, still cannot believe
it...
you and Curtis Jackson
50 cents share the date
talk to you later...
XOX
"
I read this outloud and it makes me laugh every single time. Who knew my mom was such a fan?
Who likes crazy YouTube vidz more than me? Started Saturday morning off strong with a solid video on NLP techniques in the media.
(Hannity's always throwing up sixes!)
As my phone slowly replaces an actual camera, you're probably going to be seeing more and more of weird stuff I screenshot on my phone. Like this 7 of diamonds pose. YOU'RE WELCOME.
I love learning about human space travel! Did you know that with the exception of the 6 Apollo missions (that all happened during the Nixon administration) where we sent humans 240,000 miles into space and back that the furthest humans have been from the surface of the earth is 853 miles and that record was set in 1966? (The international space station we visit today is 270 miles from earth).
So here's a quick recap of the furthest distances traveled by humans in space by year:
1966: 853 miles
1969: 240,000 miles
2018: 270 miles
I'm sure we're going to Mars in Tesla space-cars any day now though.... (Learn more about LOW EARTH ORBIT)
I also bought these awesome Indian Clubs! They look like bowling pins, but these clubs have 2 lb weights in the end and you swing them around with your arms to help strengthen your shoulders and arms! Spend the afternoon watching videos of other, fellow weirdos swinging these around!
It's a thoracic pivot! You put it on the floor and lay down on it so it's between you're shoulder blades so you can crack your own thoracic vertabrae at home! A+!
I'd gotten a patch of dyshidrotic eczema on hand that wasn't healing no matter what I tried. I finally resorted to wacky things I read on the internet.
...just your run-of-the-mill animated porn featuring a girl with a GIANT dick fucking another girl. Grant explained that he only had it on his screen because his other friend was over and wanted to show him something interesting. Ooooookay!
On Thursday afternoon, my building decided to try to make our smooth marble stairs less slippery with this (shoddily done) grip tape treatment. Bro, do you even straight-edge?
This, however, is what you look like when you're doing face exercise, so you know, don't post pictures of yourself doing it on the internet or anything.
My Hispanic drug store has an impressive collection of questionable exilers all with excellent labels. I like to imagine the photo shoot for this pic, "No, hold the fish higher. Big smile...that's it!"
It also included this OTHER handout with a photo of the guy who hand-made the DEVICE showing off how to best position the wet-sponge electrodes in order to maximize Savant Learning, the obvious choice for the acceleration of touch-typing in both of our books.
The hand-made device came along with this very sophisticated-looking diagram to show you where to place the electrodes of the device on your scalp depending on the kind of effects you are looking to stimulate in your brain.
After we had finished soaking the sponges attached to the electrodes with salt-water, we secured them to their proper spot on Grant's skull with a headband. Because hey, if you're going to get your brain fried, you may as well go out looking fabulous when it happens! But seriously...
I don't know much about the weather, but it's cool to notice the tipping point (in humidity? temperature?) where the sky will turn from almost clear blue to hazy white in just a few minutes. Anyone know what causes this? 3:20:01 pm
Running around with brooms between their legs at all times. I like sports that try to formally incorporate actual life skills. This one seems specifically designed to help cultivate "not caring what other people think" which is actually one of the world's greatest superpowers. What better way to spend a freezing cold Saturday?
Before adjourning the party, we played a round of the fantastically-terrible BeanBoozle! You spin a spinner to determine which color jellybean you eat. But each "color" has 2 different flavors, a good one and and a terrible one! It could be Chocolate Pudding or it could be Dog Food! Buttered Popcorn or Rotten Egg? Peach or BARF? You get the idea. Made us all laugh (and gag) a lot.
Back at home later that evening, I took my pants off and when I laid them down I noticed my pocket-lining turned inside-out looked life a doofy gargoyle looking to the left. Do you see him?
