Delusional Rants...

Wasted vote?

nobody@vox.com(DelusionalAngel) — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 05:22:02 -0800

Edwards dropped out :( Ok... so I knew he had no chance against the media driven free publicity that is Obama VS Clinton. But I still hoped somehow he'd have a chance. Now, I voted early (by mail) for the "super Tuesday" elections. I've made it clear on here I voted Edwards. I've been trying to decide if this means my vote is wasted since he's not IN the race any longer. Therefore, my vote as it is counted is for someone not running.

I've decided it's not wasted. I voted for who I truly believe deserved my vote. Obama is a brilliant speaker who makes people get involved who wouldn't otherwise. Clinton is a political powerhouse. They get all of the press. They're who people know. It was always going to come down to them on the Democratic side. I still think Edwards was the best candidate. So I voted what I believe is right even if he's no longer a candidate.

Now in the general election, it doesn't matter to me if Clinton or Obama is on the Democratic ticket I'll vote either as all of the Republicans scare me. Though McCain is looking like he'll be the nominee and he would have scared me the least.... you know before doing something dumb like turning the Beach Boys Barbara Ann song into Bomb Iran...

In fact Edwards tried the talk about the issues route and got nowhere. Clearly dirty politics is the only way to win. So Dem leaders take notes here: if McCain becomes the Republican nominee just run a commercial of him singing that with a line asking if that's who America wants as their next president.

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Who pissed off mother nature?

nobody@vox.com(DelusionalAngel) — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 23:30:33 -0800

First the tornado warnings (a roof was damaged or torn off a building depending on which reports you believe). And now three or four avalanches in the mountains with one dead (as of now, it seems some are still missing). This is very un-California like. We were supposed to have traded in weather in exchange for the quake risks. At least I thought that was how it worked. Every time someone points out ohh you live where they have earthquakes no thanks, blah blah then I point out they live where they have weather and we don't get major quakes every year but they do get weather.

Seriously I think Southern California has had enough. Fires. Flooding. Mudslides. Tornado warnings. Avalanches.
We get quakes every day though most are too small to feel. Someone else's turn for all of this. I mean seriously we must have the most Priuses per capita, surely that makes Mother Nature happy? ;)

Ohh and now a copter just crashed onto a freeway. WTF... the world is ending, I'm sure of it.

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Tornados in California? Since when?

nobody@vox.com(DelusionalAngel) — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 21:14:12 -0800

[21:11:31] [me] Tornado warning in Southwestern LA county... WTF... omg
[21:11:58] [me] so my bf "I'm gonna go outside if I'm not back in 5 minutes call my cell phone"
[21:12:28] [me] Since when does California get Tornados holy shit
[21:12:54] [me] My tv is telling people in Malibu to find shelter or lay in a ditch

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Today my apartment didn't blow up...

nobody@vox.com(DelusionalAngel) — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 23:26:42 -0800

[Me] heard what sounded like my window shattering today but it was fine so just thought neighbors dropped something glass
[Me] then tonight what I thought was totally unrelated my neighbor called
[Me] asked if my stove and hot water worked
[Me] so I turn on my stove, yup works
[Me] he said weird his didn't and he thought he smelled gas
[Me] turns out it was his upstairs window that fell and landed on gas meter and caused a gas leak in his and one other apt all day / night
[Me] that they just found, turned off their gas, opened all of the windows and will fix tomorrow
[T] ouch
[Me] so I turned on my stove with two apts around me full of gas :/
[Me] freaked me out once I found out how bad it was :P

So yeah I feel kind of guilty I didn't explore the glass sound more. But eh even my neighbor didn't realize his own window had broken when he got home tonight. And Brian pointed out in the rain we had me going to explore the side of the building when no one else seemed to be reacting seemed pointless. Needless to say even though my apt wasn't affected I have had my window opened all night since we found out, just in case, as the apt next to me and the one above me were filling with gas for a good 5 hours or so before the gas company figured it out and shut it off. The whole experience has had me a bit on edge tonight. Gas company says it is ok and they'll fix the two affected apts tomorrow but ugh, I have a severe fire phobia, I kept expecting our building to blow up or catch on fire.

In other news... Sinus infection from hell for days now so am living off of decongestants -- which I had to show ID for and sign a statement, which I guess is me agreeing I'm not using it to make meth with? Well probably agreeing I'm using for intended purposes but yeah I'm pretty sure they want to make me promise not to cook up meth in my apartment.

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How sad...

nobody@vox.com(DelusionalAngel) — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:18:00 -0800

Heath Ledger is dead. I don't really know of him, I never did see Brokeback Mountain though I'd planned to. He is to be in the next Batman movie as the Joker, which I am planning on seeing. Not even 30 years old. Isn't he the second under 30 year old actor to die in a week, two tops?

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It was fun!

nobody@vox.com(DelusionalAngel) — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 01:03:28 -0800

So apparently going on a Friday to a 1st day of Trek geekdom = Trekkies can't get the day off of work because it was fairly quiet. Had my first experience with the stereotypical "I'm a screenwriter / actor" living in LA person. But he was nice and didn't mention working as a waiter ;) But yeah the Trek stuff. We got to do stuff like sit in the captain's chair of the original series with no one else on the "set". They only let one person, well one group of people who are together in to those set exhibits at a time. So going when not many people were there was good. We got more time than they'll get as they get the bigger crowds because when other people came it meant your turn was up. Some of those tv props looks so bad up close. Plastic craft rhinestone things glued on things, glass beads. Magnifying glasses decorated to be "scanners". Yet on tv they somehow work. Kind of like how facades at Universal suddenly look like real houses when you take a picture of them.

So after all of the Trek stuff (pics of it and the ship hotel room when we bother pulling them off the camera) we went and had dinner on the ship. Then we decided to wander around the ship. Usually we just explored the decks. This time we wandered around mostly the inner part of the ship, the hotel part. On top of trekkies there was also a t-shirt convention on one hotel floor with lots of people drinking. We found the pool room which is supposed to be the most haunted part of the ship, but it was locked and had a if you want to see the pool here's now sign next to it -- one of the ways was to join a midnight ghost tour on the 1st and 3rd Friday of the month. Being it was the 3rd one Brian got interested. I didn't think I could handle it as my body was already giving out so I told him he should go. We continued exploring and ended up in places that no one was. It was so cool. One floor we'd never been on before gave me a really bad feeling deep in my gut which I cannot explain, Brian said that floor did feel more curved that the others and was messing with him. Right after I said that we passed a "Ghost sighting" plaque on the wall. No I didn't feel like there was a ghost around but it was weird and I really was glad we were staying on that floor as I never really shook that ugh full of dread feeling whatever it was. I didn't get that anywhere else on the ship.

Then Brian got pranked by the staff. Through the inner parts of the ship are big rooms that were once things like the ticket bureau. On that one it was mostly old looking frosted glass you couldn't see into other than the writing was clear glass so if you peeked in through the writing you could see the room was still as it used to be. Well another such room was just frosted glass, but Brian tried to peek in anyway. Realizing he couldn't see we went to turn down the nearby hall and heard a buzz. Look around and there's a buzzer and a phone next to that room but no one around. Keep walking towards the corner to turn. Buzz. Look back again. Nothing. Turn again, halfway around the corner and the phone rings. Ignore it and walk all the way down the ship, around to the opposite side, all of the way down that side, around back to the side we started on, and past the room with the buzzer again to the elevators. I walk past it. Nothing. Brian does. Buzz. Keep in mind this is a good 1/2 hour later now. So he stands away from the room, as do I while laughing my ass off. Others comes and go. Nothing. I tell Brian now walk by the room again after we've proven tons of people can walk by and nothing happens. He walks towards me, past the room. Buzz. We notice a camera over the phone. He walks back under that and starts making faced into it. Buzz and the phone rings. He answers. They tell him sorry it's just no fun if they don't mess with people.

Then it was getting to be oh close to 9-10 pm. So we went and found out about the paranormal tour thing. $75 and tickets still available. Brian signed up and we went to watch tv until then. Brian left for it at 11:30. By then I was a zombie and passed out cold by midnight. Woke up at 4 when Brian was showering as he went in very dusty parts of the ship he'd never see if not for a special tour like that one. Talked to him for a bit. Went back to bed. Woke up at 9. Trek exhibit had a HUGE line (it was in the old Spruce Goose Dome, not ON the ship). Now I am exhausted.

Brian wants to go on a cruise someday now, maybe when his work on this movie is over. One from here to Mexico wasn't as expensive as he expected.

Anyway this was a long ass entry. zzzzzzz pics and maybe more about what Brian told me about that tour some other time (even though I believe in spirits or something I could explain one or two things he mentioned myself rationally) but *yawn* sooo sore and tired now.

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Dear World,

nobody@vox.com(DelusionalAngel) — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 04:43:46 -0800

QM-hotel

Friday night I'll be staying in one of those rooms aboard the Queen Mary. Mainly so that Brian can see the Star Trek Tour. We both wanted to stay in the hotel sooner or later. He wants to see that tour. Kill two birds with one stone. $219. But the hotel usually costs about that much. Tour is $30 or $35 a person. But the $219 = hotel room, 2 Start trek tour tickets, 2 self guided ship tickets, and 2 $10 vouchers for the restaurant(s).

He got the day off for sure, so it's booked and since you can't get your money back without 2 days notice I think he's telling work they're stuck with this guaranteed day off if they try to make him work heh. QM has state rooms like the one in the picture (which we requested) and newer ones. We wanted one like the one pictured. Who the bleeeeeeeeeep goes on a ship with that history and wants to stay in a "modern" room with white walls, etc instead of the ship's old decor?

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Yeah... I'm alive...

nobody@vox.com(DelusionalAngel) — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 02:08:10 -0800

Subject says it all. Alive and mostly well. Sleep a mess. Exhaustion levels a mess. Laziness level high. Didn't get to work on blog / website at all this weekend. Brian had to work. I've been up since 6 am. Now I am sleepy. I am beyond sleepy. If Brian can get Friday off we're gonna go stay at the Queen Mary overnight if the special Star Trek tour hotel package isn't booked. I'm no Trek fan but he is and we both want to stay a night at the Queen Mary. So we'll see. I haven't even pretended to skim journals the last few days. If you're not known as Brian, Dutchie, Lister, Mijn Favoriet, or T I haven't followed you in days or longer as my brain has been mush. I'll try to catch up soon or at least start reading your journals etc soon. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
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yawn

nobody@vox.com(DelusionalAngel) — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:22:59 -0800

Sleep could wait.. until now.
I was starting to write an entry about Mijn Favoriet, he's the main reason I'm still up (him and the fact that I slept a lot yesterday to make up for my recent lack of sleep). But what I wanted to express wasn't really coming to me... so instead I'll just say, I'm alive, I'm tired, my MS brain fog is still semi here and made worse by some girlie issues. And now I need sleep...

Maybe some other times the thoughts I was trying to put here today that I failed at.
This weekend = hopefully starting to learn a bit about Wordpress.

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I voted! w00t!

nobody@vox.com(DelusionalAngel) — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 04:53:27 -0800

I voted! Did you?

It's now stamped and ready to go! I love elections... well major ones anyway. I don't tend to care about those school board ones, etc.

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