Jason's Battlestar Dramatica

Wow it still works.

I'm still alive, just not on LJ a whole lot anymore. Iowa is still great. Hope everybody is having a good summer!

Saw semi truck on fire / got promoted / visited Milwaukee / read a few books/ won $500 at casino / weekend in Chicago / went swimming / still single / learned how turbines work / new boots / trip to St Louis / found a dinosaur fossil / Davenport was fun / otherwise same old, same old

I'm usually on MySpace and occasionally Face Book. Lately I've been sorta bored with the internet altogether.

Hope everybody's well!

1) Our local firing range is now open. Some lamebot fuppie (farm yuppie) next to me had one of the crappy Chinese-manufactured Kalishnikovs and was also WEARING AN I-POD which immediately chagrined me, but actually maybe isn't a bad idea. The ear-bud things must offer some aural protection (at least better than my method, which is no ear protection at all) and if you enjoy both quality music and the shooting sports, why not both simultaneously? Maybe I will give it a try. If the late 1990s taught us anything, it's that if you mix goth and assault rifles, nothing bad will probably happen.

2) Who has heard the radio ad for the "Total Transformation System"? It is being peddled by a Dr Phil-type and supposedly is D.I.Y. psychology to use against your punk jerkface teen to transform his/her outlook on life. I'm sure that it's obviously useless; but none the less I'd love to see what the "magic steps" are. I bet they're hilarious. I was an awful monster to my rents when I was a teen (some of it warranted, most of it just me being an ass) and I can pretty much guarantee that no 10-disc mail order set would have transformed me much.

3) Juliana Hatfield doesn't get the appreciation duly warranted. This whole album is excellent.

4) Look at the cover of this Funker Vogt album: It's a Type 212-class submarine!

1) I really, really want to rag on Katy Perry but I have a sinking feeling that five years or so from now, I'll have eventually turned and grown inexplicably fond of her; sort of like what happened with me and the Spice Girls or me and eating broccoli.

2) I bought a new vacuum last night.

It has two filters and a headlight, and it's clear so I can observe all the disgusting crap laying around on my apartment. By far it wasn't the best model available. Vacuums are apparently niche-marketed, depending on if you are more terrified of HEPA-level pollen or high electricity consumption. There are some that have digital controls (why?) and three chambers, like a cow's stomach.

3) I'm hesitant to complain about anything right now seeing as I still have a job and a roof over my head, but I didn't really plan on 2009 being so dull. On New Years there was so much excitement, but now, meh.

4) The rush truly is incredible: discharging a firearm at an inanimate traffic sign from inside a moving motor vehicle is way more fun than it sounds, or, every bit as fun as it sounds; depending on one's personal perspective regarding the expected elation derived from the act and it's implications regarding overall personal happiness thereof.

1) Supposedly LJ, MySpace, and Face Book are all having money troubles and membership plateaus. I guess the decade of pretending that we are all interested in strangers' lives online is coming to a close.

2) The custard stand in our town is reopened for the season. It's called 4 Queens Dairy and their whole culinary itinerary is an obvious rip-off of Dairy Queen. As in, a Blizzard is a Snowstorm, a Big DQ is a Queen Bee, etc. It's like that restaurant in "Coming To America" that is a blatant rip-off of McDonalds. I can't understand how this place in our town hasn't been sued off the face of the earth by DQ.

3) Approximately five or six years ago, when most of my friends started getting married, I wondered if the feelings of annoyance towards them would go away with time. I can say they have not. In fact, I view people in relationships in even lower regard now. Also, I'm beginning to shed some of my ethical firewalls and inhibitions and am now proactively openly rooting for relationships to flop.

4) need MOAR fresca plz

5 Wouldn't it be awesome to live in a Quonset Hut?

I think so. But I always visualize the type of person who inhabits one to be the type of person who's "saving up for a motorcycle next year!" and always seems to have a saucepan half-full of cold macaroni on the oven range.

Living like a responsible adult, within your means? Than you are an idiot. At least Obama thinks so.

Hope you enjoy paying off your neighbor's mortgage. Now that they bought big houses they couldn't afford, Mr. O is going to help himself to part of your paycheck to pay off their mortgage.

Then at the end of the day, they get to keep their big house, while you'll still be stuck in your crappy condo or tiny apartment. Only with less of your paycheck.

That's 'Change We Can Believe In'!