Anyways, continuing with the 11/26 entry, she decided to sleep over last night instead of staying in her “vacation” house.  It’s been so much fun, but she has to leave tomorrow.

It makes me sad just thinking about it.

We built forts, built a little fire outside (almost lit the house on fire again), and just played some games on the computer.  Most. FUN. ever.  She’s been dying to do this for a while, but I wouldn’t let her over because I had a girlfriend at those times.  My room has two beds, a queen and king sized; I told her to sleep in the queen so I could hog the king.  Around 1, she got up and dragged me into the ground, thank god it was carpet because I hit face first.  I was too tired to do anything about so I just grabbed my pillow and went back to sleep–hobo style!  Around 4, she fell off the bed, and this 101 pound weight dropped dead on me and I could not get it off (I’m weak, I know).  I just went back to sleep until she woke up and found her self in the situation.

Bitch.

We went to Santa Anita Mall (alone, yes) to just get something to eat, get some new clothes and watch Ninja Assassin before she has to go back to Canada.  So far, we’ve eaten and got some soap and cards, but have yet to watch Ninja Assassin.  Why?  SOMEONE decided it was a good idea to drag me into Borders to read some stupid books.  GOOD IDEA.  Before I started blogging, I was playing with Legos because of how bored I was and still am.  HURRY UP ALREADY WOMAN, AND MAYBE WE’LL WATCH NEW MOON TOO.

fasdfsd, to be continued.

Ca mene a rien je tiens bcp trop a toi desole.pk merci? Mais flow tu veu rien avec moi ossi compren tu kca mfai mal
Jai trop penser a toi cette semaine. Bisous

Mais il ne m a ni appelé
Ni repondu rien, il a joué le mort.

J espere que tu me reviendras a temps.
Que tu seras mon edward cullen.
Que tu reviendras avant qu un jacob black arrive.

Il ne reviendra pas.

“Je suis désolée. Mais s’il réagit comme Ça aussi… “
“Ca va mel je vais bien du moins j essaie c est de ma faute aussi”
“Pas vraiment c’est surtout lui qui est impatient et en veux trop tout de suite “
“C est pas grave kik merci d etre la jpensais pas que tu allais etre au super moment jme voyais deja en pleure a pas finir toute seule mais t es la merci”
“Je t’en pris:) et s’il le faut je le butte lol”

“Wah
C koi ca encor vazi tu va mle montré lui la jv alé m’oqp de son K
Si tu le veux
Di le moi et il est a toi
Jte met b1″

I love my friend

Jai envoyè un message assassin a ian il m a appeler c’est clair il veut etre avec moi car il tient a moi tout quoi moi aussi mais tjrs le physik qui tue.
Jlui ai dit on reste en contact il ma dit si et seulement si jlui suis exclusif. Que y avait un avenir possible entre nous je ne voulais pas etre aigoiste et lui dire oui alors que c’est incertain il ma dit que ct mieux de couper les ponts jlui ai dit que j’ai besoin de lui et que depuis une semaine jlattendais. Et que je voudrais qu’on reste ami il ma dit que ct possible
Il ma dit quil voudrait que je passe la nuit avec lui jlui ai dit non c’est la replique de boyfriend et qu’il n’avait pas le droit de me le dire il a mal pris il a raccroché j’ai eu mal j’ai juste chialer a fond. Jlui ai dit qu’il avait raison qu’on devait couper les ponts que mavoir quitter comme ca ct facile. Et que ca me faisait mal

Il ma rappeler j’ai pleuré au telephone jvoulais pas qu’il parte ma dmder pk? Etant donnee que je ne voulais pas sortir avec.
-Pcq jtiens a toi
-mais dis moi ce que tu as me dire..
-je tiens a toi mais je sais pas ou j’en suis
-jveu quon sparle mais que tu sois qu’a moi enfin que tu laisses pas de sous entendu au autre quoi.
-jc pas
-bah vaut mieux quon squitte dis moi ce qui te tracasse.
-jpeux pas pcq j’arrive pas a le definir mais tu penses que si je ressentais rien pr toi j’aurai fait tout ca ? Te traquer dans les couloirs? Les fringues et message?
- bah dis moi que tu veux ou tu me perds
- donc tu es en train de me demander de te dire que je veux etre avec toi ou je te perds alors que je ne sais mm pas ou jen ss?
-dit lmoi ou je raccroche et crois moi je teviterai com c pas permis jte parlerai plus jamais rien

Jai rien dit
Jai rien pu dire.
Il ma dit aurevoir et a raccroché
c fini

here in south dakota. we’re almost closing up november and today the temps reached almost 60!  these pix were taken last week when it was even warmer!

we will all be sad when we can’t toss the d o g out the door for a much needed break!

kaiden cutting the grass one last time.

ian and mack driving on the platform.

zero fear

ian:  my beautiful arms will catch you kaiden!

catch and release……sort of

wagon ride!  wheeee!

oopsie!  you’re all right brother.

this kind of pushing is okay.

amazingly enough, there is still sand in the box.

we love to run.  well not “we” as in me.  but “we” as in “they”!

what a lovely autumn we’ve had.

Pain, suffering, more pain and more suffering.

All day today, every minute of it.  I made the mistake of sleeping with the brace on, not only was I sleeping on my arm, it was damn uncomfortable.  I woke up with such GREAT pain coming from my left arm, I think I might have shed some tears.  The pain is still here, I don’t know if I just dislocated something again but I don’t want to go back to the ER.

FFF, oh Creator, Lord of the Universe, thanks for the immense pain on a holiday, asshole.

79.

Motorhead last night was absolutely epic. We were standing throughout the whole thing, and everyone else in the sitting area was sitting, so he said “Stand up you lazy cunts, it’s not fucking Shakespeare is it?, you two, yes, you two, you’ve been standing up for the whole thing, thank you!” So Lemmy spoke to us
The Damned opened for them, and ‘Captain Sensible’ (guitarist) was testing out the spotlight, and shone it on us, we waved and he stuck his two fingers up at us, haha.

When Motorhead played Overkill at the end, it was unbelievably good. They played it extended for about 8 minutes, strobe lights flashing, crazy lights. And the drum solo, WOW, Mikkey Dee is amazing. He soloed for about 5 minutes straight without stopping, he was AMAZING. His drum kit was huge too. I saw loads of guitars and basses behind the amps, but Lemmy only used his 1 bass, and Phil Campbell (guitarist) only used 3 guitars, a white Les Paul, a green Les Paul and a X shaped, I think it may have been a Kramer but I’m not entirely sure. Captain Sensible from the Damned seemed to be using an LTD (lower grade of ESP).

The Damned: “Having a good night?”
Audience: “YEAH”
The Damned: “Better than fucking Simon Cowell and xfactor isn’t it?”
Audience: “YEAH”
The Damned: “This song’s called ’smash it up’, and I hope Simon Cowel does take this advice”

Epic

A few months ago, my sister came visiting us along with her family – her husband, and my 5-year old nephew Ian.

One evening, when we were going out for dinner, Stwabbit and Ian had the following conversation…

Ian: I love my parents.
Stwabbit: I love my parents and my grandparents.
Ian: I love my parents, grandparents, and everybody!
Stwabbit: I love my parents, grandparents, everybody, and the car!
Ian: I love the whole world!
(After a pause): Except for policemen!

Guess where I had to spend another four hours of my life in again?

That’s right, the Hospital (er… Emergency room, but it’s in the hospital)!

School ended at 12 today so I decided to go over to my friend’s house, a two story crib.  It was all good, we were playing games, I was owning her but whatever.  Unable to defeat me in Team Fortress 2, she decided to take her angst on me by pushing me down the stairs.  I’m just kidding, anyways, like the idiot I am, I decided to goof off outside her room (the stairs are like a few big steps from the door).  We got in a little pillow fight, in a desperate attempt to gain the advantage, I sprinted to her with the intentions of tickling her until she falls down.  Great plan Ian, great fucking plan, because this girl, she’s a freaking beast.  When I got about 5 feet from her, she took one of those long body pillows and whacked me with me causing me to stumble.  It wouldn’t have been a problem if I was stumbling forward, however, I stumbled backwards and in the midst of all the fun, I had forgotten about the staircase; I fell down half way into a mid platform.  There was this EXTREME pain coming from my shoulder, I had dislocated it once and I was afraid I dislocated it again.  BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE!  She ran down the stairs and tried to help me, but that klutz TRIPPED and landed RIGHT ON MY ARM.  I’m writhing in pain and her family was wondering what the hell happened (earthquake anyone?), checking out my arm I realized it was dislocated in two places; my shoulder and elbow.  PAIN.

Her mom immediately drove me to the hospital, questioning about what we were doing, we answered truthfully because it was not like we did something bad.  I arrive sometime around 2:20PM and the wait begins.  I was given a bag of ice to numb the pain, but it was rather an effort in vain because I could not keep it on when my arm was flailing like the Whack Inflatable Arm Flailing Tubeman.  4:10PM, my mom arrives so I had to awkwardly explain the situation to her.  The wait finally ends at 4:50PM, they injected two doses of morphine and popped those fuckers right back in.  Did I mention the morphine didn’t kick in yet?  A blood curdling scream was heard across the ER.

After all the shit, I have to wear a brace for 4-5 days, boy is this going to fun.  She came up to me with those puppies eyes and said sorry, I, of course rejected her apology.  After countless “sorry” and a kiss later, I forgave her.  IT HURTS LIKE HELL.  Thank God for not crushing my fingers too because I can still type perfectly with the brace on.  If I couldn’t access the computer, I’d go ballistic on everyone like a woman experiencing PMS (this is for you, bitch).

Can you believe that there’s only 80 days left?

You Only Live Twice

TYPE: Action, Mystery

RATING: 7/10

REVIEW:

This one didn’t seem to have the flair that is usually associated with James Bond. Maybe it’s just because of the fact that I’ve watched too many movies and have a feel for gadgets. Either way this one was a gadget-less mission.

Bond seems to be on the verge of breaking down. He keeps irregular timings, he keeps making mistakes meant for a much lower class of me, and there is an aura of forgetfulness around him.

M is then given advice by a psychologist friend to allow Bond to recover slowly by giving him a mission that will bring him back to his senses. It is then that Bond is sent for a diplomatic visit to Tiger Tanaka in Japan who is a high honcho in the secret service. To retrieve something that England needs, Bond finds himself trapped in the necessity to overcome death itself by trying to kill a world-wide crimnal who harbors an Island of Death.

Mindy and I saw The Swell Season in concert last night with Elise, Olive, and Francis at Crystal Ballroom.  Wow.  I mean, wow.  The two-and-a-half hour gig was one long highlight (worth standing the whole time for) but being ten feet away from the band and Glen Hansard taking the stage literally unplugged for Say It To Me Now (think “that scene” in Once–we might as well’ve been passers-by on a street in Dublin) especially stood out.

They didn’t play my favorite song off of Strict Joy, Feeling The Pull, or Love That Conquers, a song that sounds like a Simon & Garfunkel/The Beatles lovechild, but Hansard covered Van Morrison’s song Astral Weeks and I thought his guitar was going to breakup on re-entry.

Seeing them live we were better able to grasp how robust their music is.  The harmonies on I Have Loved You Wrong were pristine and I already thought High Horses was driving but I didn’t feel it pound in my chest until last night.

Marketa Irglova’s effortless vocals are on my mind, on my mind, on my mind…

And, although The Frames are nineteen years tight, I like to think that the crowd singing along added.  Nicely done, Portland.

Autumn 2008

These days stopped being so horrible since I had the chance to release all the feelings I had inside.  I’m starting to enjoy it really, being so free and single, I can do so many more things now.  Am I still sleepless at night?  Yes, I still am but to a lesser extent.  Most days now I’d be asleep by 4AM.  Am I still grieving?  A little, but it’s growing to hate.

There has not been much to do except for the occasional essays.  I can’t play the Uke because I smashed that stupid thing in half.  I lost all interest in my hobbies and I don’t know what to do with my life anymore.

Damn.

81 Days.

This is unbelievable. Completely unbelievable. Ian Harris (the guy who wrote the  HARRY_READ_ME.txt?) is discussing with Tim Osborn how to tailor-make an algorithm that will make the data look like desired. How can it be interpreted any other way???

From: Ian Harris <i.harris@xxxxxxxxx.xxx>
To: t.osborn@xxxxxxxxx.xxx
Subject: Re: Hopefully fixed TMP
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 14:50:20 +0100

Hi Tim

I’ve re-run with the same database used for the previous 2006 run (tmp.0705101334.dtb). /cru/cruts/version_3_0/update_top/gridded_finals/data/data.0909041051/
tmp/cru_ts_3_00.1901.2008.tmp.dat.nc.gz Is that any better? If not please can you send the traditional multi-page country plots for me to pore over?

Cheers

Harry

On 3 Sep 2009, at 17:04, Tim Osborn wrote:

Hi Harry and Phil,

the mean level of the “updated-to-2008″ CRU TS 3.0 now looks good,  matching closely with the 1961-1990 means of the earlier CRU TS 3.0  and CRU TS 2.1. Please see the attached PDF of country mean time series, comparing last-year’s CRUTS 3.0 (black, up to 2005) with the most-recent CRU TS 3.0 (pink, up to 2008).

Latest version matches last-year’s version well for the most part, and where differences do occur I can’t say that the new version is any worse than last-year’s version (some may be better). One exception is the hot JJA in Europe in 2003. This is less extreme in the latest version. See attached PNG for a blow-up of France in JJA. I‘m sure some people will use CRU TS 3.0 to look at 2003 in Europe, so we need to be happy with the version we release. Perhaps some hot stations have been dropped as outliers (more than 3 standard deviations from the mean?)?

But I’m not sure if that is the reason, since outlier checking was  already used in last-year’s version, wasn’t it? Does the outlier checking always check +-3 SD from 61-90 mean (or  normal), or does it check +-3 SD from the local mean (30-years centred on the value) which would allow for a gradual warming in both mean and  outlier threshold?

Cheers
Tim

On Wed, September 2, 2009 6:08 pm, Ian Harris wrote:

Tim

When you have the time and/or the inclination, please can you run the new TMP output through your IDL thingummajig? /cru/cruts/version_3_0/update_top/gridded_finals/data/data.0909021348/ tmp/cru_ts_3_00.1901.2008.tmp.dat.nc.gz

Please let me know if you can’t access it. I do appreciate your help!

Cheers

Harry

Cry me a river.

82 Days.