you gotta have friends
12:53 p.m.

well, it was pretty busy here yesterday at dbs, i had just over 50 visitors, no doubt helped by four diaries that had links to me in their entries. so thanks again to:

mel

barbara

ian

and justin..

it really gets the 'ol traffic flowing!

justin, i haven't linked you or put you in my favorites yet cuz you're like my liitle indie cult band that i wanna keep to myself and not share with the world...if everybody knew about you, then you'd sign with a major label and and your music would start to suck...god, that sounds weird...someday, son...when the time is right, i'll share your gift with all.

yes, that definitely sounds koo-kooville.

i had such a great chat with pepsijunkie (mel) last night...what a great guy! and what a great year he's had! he's been half-way around the world (and has even passed through my little town a few times over the years!), fell in love, bought a house and possibly saved someone's life! not bad...

here's a little excerpt from the end of our chat. kinda random topics...sheila, hope you see this...i know i've gotta call ya...

mkstyle57: yeah, u get used to someone in a role and then...like jack nicholson in the shining...i always expect him to be scary no matter what movie he's in

BlueGiles20: like willie nelson when i see jack all i can think of is some dirty old man

BlueGiles20: but he was good in "one flew over the cuckoos nest"

mkstyle57: gaygamer has a pic of himself a few entries back...and he's so much like me, think we could be good pals, but he's million miles away....i saw the state hospital they filmed cucoo's nest at in salem

BlueGiles20: cool

mkstyle57: years ago my friend sheila and i were there...it was a hot summer night, and we sat on the grass at park across the street...and looked up at 5 floors of mental wards all lit up, people moving around...one of my favorite moments ever

BlueGiles20: your mind is as twisted as mine.....i like that...:-D

mkstyle57: like your petition or the mall story...

BlueGiles20: lol.....gotta do something to keep the mind twisted

mkstyle57: we should go to the mall and set up a table and try to "recruit" people to be gay...that's what they always say we do anyway...sign up now, get a latte machine!

mkstyle57: did you see the old entry of mine about the stickers i made with surveilence cam on it?

BlueGiles20: that would be great......except around here we would be run out looking down the barrel of a gun probably

BlueGiles20: yes i did.....

BlueGiles20: btw - try getting a flea collar and putting it in your vacuum bag.....then after you vacuum it will kill the fleas you suck up....

mkstyle57: there's a few still up, they're all faded and all you can see is the camera..haha put em around stores....ooh, good idea, but i have bagless, but think there's room

mkstyle57: speaking of which, gotta go find my kitty

BlueGiles20: i just got one of those tornado machines myself....the only problem i tend to spending a lot of time starting and stopping just to empty the damn cannister

BlueGiles20: with 1 dog and 3 cats....it can get hairy around here

mkstyle57: haha yeah! big dog, too

BlueGiles20: he is a small horse

mkstyle57: ok, i'm gonna go try to figure out how to accept files..and gonna put u on faves when i write somethin nice about ya

BlueGiles20: lol...ok

mkstyle57: thanks for contacting me...getting better about this im stuff.never know when to contact poeple. gaygamer is 8 hrs.ahead! thanks, it means a lot to talk to ya. give aaron a big...something for me!

BlueGiles20: i gotta run anyway....Aaron just got home from work and we both have classes early......

BlueGiles20: i sure will

mkstyle57: ok, sleep good. bye!

BlueGiles20: it was great chatting with you....

BlueGiles20: g'night

mkstyle57: u too later

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perhaps you're wondering why my south park character had a band-aid on his face...

i will tell you.

i recently had two minor little accidents...

1. at work one night, a had the task of putting together some wire-frame reindeer christmas decorations. these things are metal, and some of them have a little motor that makes the head go back and forth. (if you go back and look at that picture of me with the giant bud, you can see a reindeer head down in the corner of the shot.) well, i had assembled a few of these things, and the boss had said he wanted them in this little alcove we have that's filled with holiday tins of popcorn...cuz we were gonna plug in the reindeer there and make it all festive and shit... well, i was trying to be careful as these stacks were about 8 or 9 feet high. eventually my luck ran out and some tins came crashing down on my head. i had to look up to see where they were falling (right?) and i got conked right on the right cheek! ouch!

i had just stared to wear my other pair of glasses, the ones with the cool titanium frames (95 bucks just for the frames) because i always wear my elvis costello black ones and what a waste of money not to wear the silver ones even though the little nose-pad dealies seem to stick to my nose...well, the tin hit the earpiece, and when the avalanche was over i could feel that my glasses were barely hangin' on. i took 'em off and the earpiece snapped right off. FUCK! plus, my cheek hurt and it felt like i was gonna have a black eye.

i think my insurance will cover the repair, i just haven't gotten around to finding out yet.

so that whole episode was a real treat. i had to spend the last hour and a half at work with no glasses, which was making me carsick.

2. then a few days later, i was walking up to the grocery store to get some smokes before work. i was walking along, headphones on, listening to my fave comedy show, dr. laura. i guess i was not paying attention, cuz all of a sudden i tripped and fell in the gutter, bouncing on my knees and palms. this was really embarrasing cuz i was walking toward traffic on a one-way street, and all the cars speeding past got to see me fall. i scratched my elbows a bit, and my palms were scratched too from rubbing against the pavement. do you know that feeling? i haven't experienced that sensation in a loooog time.

so, sore knees, elbows and palms. bruised dignity. at least no one said "hey, that was quite a spill you took on henderson yesterday!", cuz people are always telling me "man, i see you walking everywhere!"

hmm, gonna go see if i can find a particularly scary picture of dr. laura to link up there... (oh, i know, they're ALL scary.)

(a few minutes later) oh, yes, that'll do just fine...oh, and there's some pretty crazy links at the bottom of that page...

oh, jr..if the post office is open till 5 p.m., your package goes out tonight! two kinds of green tea!

ok, off to work. (4:30-9:30) later, y'all...