the music of rain

So this entry has nothing to do with it's title. Well maybe a little.


COFFEE BEANS, BEANS THE MAGICAL FRUIT

I run on coffee now. I didn't drink it for years but now I drink it too much I think. I have a coffee meter as it runs down so does my ability to function.

Now and then I'll stop drinking it for awhile but the withdrawal knocks me down for a bit. :/


ROCK AND OR CHRISTIAN ROLL

Somehow I started listening to this Relient K band. Why? Well, mostly because it reminds me of some of the other bands like it. Also, the whole C-Rock thing reminds me of some people I grew up with.


DRIVING AROUND TOWN IN A GREEN TRUCK

Never mind just town. I've been driving everywhere. :) Got my camera with me most of the time now so I can get some neat pictures. Today I got some pics of two storm fronts smashing into each other in OS. It made for some crazy clouds and a torrential downpour but it didn't last long. I was hoping for something cool like a tornado. :/


Random Computer Repairs R' Me

Several times lately I've been called upon out of the blue to fix various peoples computer related problems. It provides social interaction so that's OK with me.

extending the banana bread branch

Banana bread. It might not do a body good but it tastes like life.

I also just at this very moment found out that it tastes really good with coffee. 20 something years of eating it and I learned that today. Why am I drinking coffee at 10:00 at night, because I got it earlier and then forgot about it.

So anyways. What exactly makes people tend to dislike me so much? :) Sure I know a lot of the answers. Just some people dislike me straight off the get go. It doesn't bother me anymore, it's more out of curiosity that I wonder. This might be opening up a can of worms but worms can be fun and useful. They aerate soil and you can use them to catch fish.

I can get along with most people and I've learned how to deal with those that I can't.

[There is always the exception to the rule. So ye who breaks the rules. What's the deal?]


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Now for some things that have been going through my head for the last few hours.

For the first giant part of my life every friend I had just was there and that's how it went. Either we grew up together or went to school together. Didn't go out much or visit friends because there were 4 of us at home. Mom took care of us and Dad went to work. I learned to make my own fun.

Now I tend to have to work quite a bit harder to make friends. Always right off the start it's a battle usually.

I have an abrasive persona yet a thoughtful and caring personality. (not my words but if the shoe fits)

My persona is made up of a mishmash of the varying array of characters that make up my family. Mom/Dad, aunts, uncles, cousins and close family friends.

The part of me that is just me. It cares about my family and friends and is fiercely loyal. Your family always eats first. That is a strong lesson that's burned into me and I respect it. Growing up my Mom would talk about her dad and that lesson. You don't piss money away on frivolous stuff if your family is hungry.

I still to this day can't make myself buy anything expensive without a good reason. Food though I can and always have, bought for me and my family/friends freely.

Another thing that is a big part of me I gained from my dad. Learn from your past. He didn't want his kids growing up with a father stumbling around drunk like his dad. So he stopped drinking pretty much until we were all at the age we could decide for ourselves. I remember the day he made that choice and it stuck with me, it always will. Willpower is a tricky thing but when you take control it can be a profound experience.

All of this and more is in my head right now. Lots of things have happened lately that have me rethinking many of my life choices.

I'm actually changing things I don't like. Change, you can fight it but sometimes it's better for everyone to embrace it.

grand theft produce

So I assume most people have seen trailer park boys at least once.

Today I saw the Owen Sound version of something that happens in that show quite often. I drove up to zehrs and I saw a lady with some kids and a heaping cart full of groceries ram jamming them into her vehicle. I said to myself, "Self, that's a lot of groceries and she's brutalizing them, she must be frustrated trying to fit them in that vehicle."

Then I see one of the employees walking up to her so I figure oh that's nice he's going to help her. Hmm he doesn't seem to be helping and now she's hopping in her car and taking off. Weird.

As I'm walking up to the store I hear part of what the employee was saying to another one. "I walked up to her and I was like, you didn't pay for those did you and her daughter ran into the car and started it and she just took off but I got the license plate."

Crazy. This just reminded me of the Jon-o-vision guy from trailer park boys blatantly stealing groceries. That lady just had some straight up balls to be pulling that shit. Makes you wonder how many times she's done it before.



In other news I've been trying to be less of a jerk. It's not as easy as it sounds.

the green truck with no name

So I've been enjoying driving around in my new to me truck. Good times. It's about the same on gas as my car used to be for road driving but really sucks it up if I drive around town.

People are jerks. I know I'm a people and a jerk.

My car was know widely as the carmobile. Like the batmobile only the flames didn't shoot out of it on purpose. Many a person learned how to drive and did their final road test in it. It was a well used and abused car.

Now I need to come up with a name for my truck. I'm slightly reluctant to name it though. It feels like a temporary vehicle still.

It's kind of old, temperamental, makes a lot of random noises and doesn't seem to like me that much. Maybe I'll call it Amy for awhile. :D lol burn.........!!

I started drinking coffee this year and now I drink it randomly. That's not to say I haven't bought a lot of it just I used to get other people the coffee and I'd grab an ice capp.

I only seem to ever drink tim hortons coffee. For being a giant nationwide chain you'd think they'd have at least a little consistency in the quality of their coffee.

Some of them are consistently bad though. Here's a list of a few cause I'm bored.

Thornbury: They have never mixed any of the coffee's I've got there. I don't like this one much at all.

Old west side one in OS: This place regularly just gives out wrong orders. They'll be labelled on the lids right but what's inside is a roll of the dice it seems.

Southampton: Not that bad, just usually really busy.

Durham: This place is random as heck, can be good or bad. I don't go there much anymore.

Meaford across from McDonald's: Meh, not bad. Usually a long line up.

Hanover near the one end of town: This place is always packed when I go there.

Here's a story about the Hanover one.

One time we were in a huge line up. (we had been working in town)
We get up to where there's just one car in front of us.
They pull up to the window.
A little old lady gets out.
She goes to her back door and gets her purse from the back seat.
Then she goes back and stands at the window and starts counting out her pennies.
She then walks to the back door, opens it, puts her purse back and back to the window she goes.

This is where she talked to her passenger and then repeated the getting the purse thing and penny counting (I assume she ordered something else for them).

She puts the purse back again. Gets into her car and sits there. They try to pass her order out the window but she can't reach so she gets out of the car again and proceeds to hand the things one at a time to her passenger.

The passenger starts getting agitated at this point. I figured it was for having to hold stuff... but wait ... what the ?

She then goes around the car to the passenger side back door and gets a coat out. Then she opens the passenger door. A little old man gets out, hands her the stuff he was holding. He puts the coat on and gets back in.

She tries to hand him the stuff but the door keeps swinging shut. He rolls the window down and she hands him the things through the window.

Finally she walks back around and gets in the car and proceeds to fly out into the intersection turning right with her left blinker on cutting of a car in the process.

It was something to see. I was waiting for one of those candid camera guys to pop out at any time and laugh at us or the people at the counter.

You could hardly be mad at this point because it was just too damn funny.

:)

i like the night

It's one of those beautiful nights. Cool, wet and full of noises.

It's been too weird lately to write stuff here. I don't know what's going on with my brain from one day to the next.

I haven't been tired at night for a couple weeks now. I'm more awake at night than I am during the day.

I have become a night person. :/ weird

sitting

I haven't spewed much gibberish this blogs way lately. The main contributing factor to this is that sitting is a royal pain in my back. Well not so much the sitting as the standing up after.

The slight back injury I had that healed up and had my back feeling better than ever.... well that was just a cruel joke and now it hurts to stand up from a sitting or laying down position. Like... stand up (someone stabs you in the spine) and then as you walk it's like they slowly pull the knife out and you feel better.


Zoom Zoom Zoom

So I poked the bear. Ya I did it. No I didn't do it with malice. But sometimes you just have to poke the bear whether you want to or not. It might get angry and gnaw off your hand or slash you open and your guts all spill out but sometimes feeling crappy is better than not feeling at all.

The problem with poking the bear is that bears have long memories and they will probably stop by now and then to mess up your campsite when you least expect it.