” … there’s nothing to do anymore. everything decent’s been done. all the great themes have been used up–turned into theme parks.”

– mark hunter, “pump up the volume”

p.o.d.’s song, youth of a nation reminds me of the movie, pump up the volume. a movie i’m adding to my collection today.

everybody knows that the dice are loaded
everybody rolls with their fingers crossed
everybody knows that the war is over
everybody knows the good guys lost
everybody knows the fight was fixed
the poor stay poor, the rich get rich
that’s how it goes
everybody knows
everybody knows that the boat is leaking
everybody knows that the captain lied
everybody got this broken feeling
like their father or their dog just died

everybody talking to their pockets
everybody wants a box of chocolates
and a long stem rose
everybody knows …

yesterday i was inspired and made coffee flavoured white chocolate candies. they turned out pretty well. i need to figure out how to keep them solid/nonmelting at room temperature, though. but this was definitely a good start.

today i did something that i have never done before, that i remember. i bought something at a garage sale.

9 regular sized glasses, 6 small glasses. i also got a gossen sixtino light meter, everything for under ten bucks.

today was going around ess eff looking at garage sales with boman and anne. it was so fun.

so last time my cablemodem was out i was without service for four days and made over a dozen phone calls before my connection came back. when it was back in service, i noticed my cablemodem was on a different network.. must have been a weird problem.

so this saturday, my cablemodem goes out during the day. it was clearly not me, as i wasn’t home, nobody’s authorized to go into my phone, and i have no pets to disturb my things. i call comcast. they will make a service appointment with me: i must be present during a four hour window for someone to come out. if they find it’s a non-comcast issue, i may be charged. i explain that nobody
at all was around my stuff so it wasn’t likely anything in my apartment. yes, do you agree to what i’ve said? fine, sure.

so their earliest appointment is monday. this means i’m automatically out of service for three days. their monday timeslot conflicts with work (yes, i actually /work/ during weekdays!) so the next appointment is tuesday. great, four days. so ya, come out. i schedule to take a half day off of work.

tuesday rolls around and the guy shows up. he fumbles around in the junction box outside and my connection comes back. he didn’t actually fix anything, just moved the cables around a bit. something must be loose. so i sign the paper and he’s off. i get back to work.

not more than a day later, my connection is out again. i call support again. i tell the guy i’m seeing the same symptoms as were fixed just yesterday, i already know the diagnosis script they put their customers through.. ya, ya, i did all that. so let’s schedule an appointment. do i really need to take off another half day of work? the problem is clearly outside. i tell the guy what notes to put in the case. he makes a point to mention he’s putting in my words and that he can make no determination what the issue is. but what i’m telling him is from one of THEIR TECHS that came just yesterday to solve the problem i’m having again today. ok, fine. appointment? friday. crap, wednesday, thursday, and part of friday out again. that makes 7 out of 8 days. fine, eight a.m. til noon.

is there anything else i can help you with today? apparently not.

alan parson’s cloudbreak in dts at moderately high volume is so incredible. come over and listen to it, you’ll easily see why i favor the dts format for music. and on this system, it’s so incredibly clear. i wounder how it would sound through tubes. i’ve had tubes on my mind. first is the camera.

ive been enjoying my time alone. it’s so nice. sometimes it’s a little too quiet. it’s kind of weird, the pool outside isn’t occupied by kids as it usually is every evening.

i was planning on going out for a walk, but i still have stuff around the house i’d like to do. after this song.

my car was dad, needed a jumpstart. wrecked the driver-side hinge on the hood of my car. spilled wine on my jeans and shirt (and my undershirt). came home to find my cablemodem down (i have an “appointment” from noon-four-pm on monday?!?!?!!). and i have to be into work at 8am tomorrow (sunday).

this weekend is so packed with crap im gonna go bonkers. i mean, worse than i am currently.

cleaned the kitchen last night.