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Posted 18 years agoNot that anyone will read it, but I got some amusement filling it out ;)
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Appearance
[ ] I am shorter than 5'4"
[x] I am taller than 6'0" (6'2")
[ ] I think I'm ugly
[ ] I have many scars.
[ ] I wish my hair was a different color. (I streaked my hair once but it's naturally so lightly colored and fine you couldn't tell unless it was wet.)
[ ] I have friends who have never seen my natural hair color.
[ ] I have a tattoo.
[x] I have/I've had braces.
[ ] I wear glasses. (Although I think glasses are cute)
[ ] I would get plastic surgery if it were 100% safe, free of cost, and scar-free.
[x] I've been told I'm attractive by a complete stranger.
[ ] I have more than 2 piercings.
[ ] I have piercings in places besides my ears.
[x] I've got one or two scars. (Have a number of small scars from various pets, and one on my forehead right at the hairline from where I fell off a hammock
and hit a rock on the way down :S)
Family/Home Life
[ ] I've sworn at my parents. (I have sworn WITH my parents)
[x] I've run away from home. (Sort of... I left when I was 17.)
[ ] I've been kicked out of the house.
[ ] My biological parents are together.
[ ] I have a sibling less than one year old.
[ ] I want to have kids someday. (I'm up in the air on this one for the future... but right now I don't. I hate kids.)
[ ] I've had children.
[ ] I've lost a child.
[ ] Have a spoiled sibling
School/Work
[ ] I'm in school. (Although I really need to go back)
[x] I have a job.
[x] I've fallen asleep at work/school.
[x] I almost always do my homework. (Really... it depended on the class.)
[ ] I've missed a week or more of school.
[ ] I've been on the Honor Roll within the last 2 years. (Haven't been in school in the last 2 years.)
[ ] I've stolen something from my job. (Unless you count pens, envelopes, and paperclips.)
[ ] I've been fired.
[ ] Are or Have been home schooled.
Embarrassment
[x] I've slipped out a "lol" in a spoken conversation. (Although it didn't really embarrass me)
[ ] Disney movies still make me cry. (MGM does far better at times)
[ ] I've peed from laughing.
[x] I've snorted while laughing.
[x] I've laughed so hard I've cried.
[ ] I've glued my hand to something intentionally (Unless you count puting Elmer's glue on my hand just to peel it off in elementary school)
[x] I've had my pants rip in public
[x] I fell down on my face (Fell off a bike and slid down the hill on my face. Luckily it was mostly soft wet leaves.)
Health
[ ] I've gotten stitches
[ ] I've broken a bone.
[ ] I've had my tonsils removed.
[x] I've sat in a doctors office/emergency room with a friend. (And I'd do it again, although I hope not to.)
[ ] I've had my wisdom teeth removed. (Another thing I should get around to doing soon)
[ ] I had a serious surgery.
[x] I've had chicken pox.
Traveling
[x] I've driven over 200 miles in one day.
[x] I've been on a plane.
[x] I've been to Canada.
[x] I've been to Mexico.
[x] I've been to Niagara Falls.
[ ] I've been to Japan.
[ ] I've celebrated Mardi Gras in New Orleans.
[x] I've been to Europe.
[ ] I've been to Africa.
[x] I've been out of my home country.
[ ] I've Been in Thailand
[ ] I've been in Phillipines
Experiences
[ ] I've gotten lost in my city. (Back in California. In my defense, I had just moved there...)
[x] I've seen a shooting star.
[x] I've wished on a shooting star. (I've wished on every shooting star in a meteor shower)
[x] I've seen a meteor shower.
[ ] I've gone out in public in my pajamas.
[x] I've pushed all the buttons on an elevator (Muhahaha)
[ ] I've kicked a guy where it hurts.
[x] I've been to a casino.
[ ] I've been skydiving.
[x] I've gone skinny dipping.
[ ] I've drank a whole gallon of milk in one hour.
[ ] I've crashed a car. (I've been in a minor accident where I wasn't at fault)
[x] I've been Skiing
[x] I've been in a play (I love being in plays. I got to play the Big Bad Wolf in 2nd grade and wear ears, paws, and a tail! They recruited me early, I
guess...)
[ ] I've met someone in person from myspace.
[x] I've caught a snowflake on my tongue.
[x] I've seen the Northern lights.
[x] I've sat on a roof top at night.
[x] I've played chicken. (On a bicycle)
[x] I've played a prank on someone.
[x] I've ridden in a taxi.
[x] I've seen the Rocky Horror Picture Show (And got bit until I bled!)
[x] I've been snowboarding.
Relationships
[ ] I'm single
[x] I'm in a relationship.
[ ] I'm engaged.
[ ] I'm married
[ ] I've gone on a blind date.
[ ] I've been the dumpee more than the dumper.
[ ] I miss someone right now.
[x] I have a fear of abandonment.
[ ] I've gotten divorced
[ ] I've had feelings for someone who didn't have them back.
[ ] I've told someone I loved them when I didn't.
[ ] I've told someone I didn't love them when I did.
[ ] I've kept something from a past relationship.
[x] I've kissed a girl/guy
Honesty/Crime
[x] I've done something I promised myself I wouldn't. (I keep buying stuff when I tell myself no more spending! Grr!)
[x] I've snuck out of my house. (Back in high school, at night, to smoke pot with friends :P)
[ ] I have lied to my parents about where I am.
[x] I am keeping a secret from the world. (Not the WHOLE world, just most of it.)
[x] I've cheated while playing a game. (Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Rig B A Start)
[x] I've cheated on a test (I programmed my notes into my TI-89 and disguised it as a useless trivia application. Little did they know what would happen if
you answered the right wrong answers!)
[x] I've run a red light. (Right when I moved to CA, I was still used to the protected left turn arrows being on the same pole as the rest of the lights and
completely didn't notice a turn arrow on a separate pole on the ground.)
[ ] I've been suspended from school. (I said no because the worst I got was sent home for slapping a kid's hand when he was messing with my tangrams ;.;)
[x] I've witnessed a crime. (I manage the security cameras as one of my functions at work. I've seen a lot of crimes. A few years ago somebody dropped a body outside our offices! o.o)
[ ] I've been in a fist fight. (But I have been in an unplanned sissy fight.)
[ ] I've been arrested.
Drugs/Alcohol
[x] I regularly drink. (You would too if you had access to the mojitos Pup makes... mrrr)
[ ] I've passed out from drinking.
[ ] I have passed out drunk at least once in the past 6 months.
[x] I've smoked weed. (Back in high schoool. Then I got a job.)
[ ] I've taken painkillers when I didn't need them.
[ ] I've eaten shrooms.
[ ] I've popped E.
[ ] I've inhaled Nitrous.
[ ] I've done hard drugs.
[ ] I have cough drops when I'm not sick.
[ ] I can't swallow pills. (This used to be the case when I was very young. Finally, I thought I got one down and cheered, only to look down and see it
floating in my glass)
[x] I can swallow about 5 pills at a time no problem. (I have vastly improved my gag reflex over the years ;3)
[ ] I have been diagnosed with clinical depression.
[ ] I have been diagnosed with one or more anxiety disorder.
[ ] I shut others out when I'm depressed. (Quite the opposite... when I'm depressed I seek out some company to talk to)
[ ] I take anti-depressants.
[ ] I'm anorexic or bulimic.
[ ] I've slept an entire day when I didn't need it. (I have slept the entire day after staying up for over 3 days working on a nightmare English project.)
[ ] I've hurt myself on purpose.
[x] I've woken up crying. (I don't very often have vivid nightmares, but when I do, they're never about monsters or villans. They're always about losing
people close to me. Once in a great while I'll have one so realistic it messes with me all day.)
Death and Suicide
[x] I hate funerals.
[ ] I've seen someone dying. (I'm not sure if this counts, but the body that got dropped by our office wasn't quite a body yet when the van pulled away. I
saw the footage as part of the training.)
[x] Someone close to me has attempted suicide. (Crazy chick from Middle/High school I used to know cut her wrists, but mostly for the attention)
[ ] I've planned my own suicide.
[ ] I've attempted suicide.
[ ] I've written a eulogy for myself.
[ ] I cut myself.
Materialism
[ ] I own over 5 rap CDs.
[x] I own an iPod or MP3 player. (Got it for free from my old job for meeting a sales goal.)
[ ] I have an unhealthy obsession with anime/manga. (If the word "unhealthy" weren't in this sentence, I'd have checked it.)
[ ] I own multiple designer purses, costing over $100 a piece.
[x] I own something from Hot Topic. (World of Warcraft apparel. Too bad I don't play anymore.)
[ ] I own something from Pac Sun.
[ ] I collect comic books
[ ] I own something from The Gap.
[x] I own something I got on e-bay.
[ ] I buy the newspaper everyday
Random
[x] I can sing well. (Can I do a half slash? Sometimes I'm on and a lot of the time I'm off. Although I think it would be priceless to try out for American
Idol and sing "Space is Fun" (look it up!) incessantly until security drags me out.)
[ ] I've stolen a tray from a fast food restaurant.
[x] I open up to others easily. (I'm more-or-less an open book.)
[ ] I watch the news.
[ ] I don't kill bugs.
[x] I curse regularly. (Semi-regularly... I've seen way worse.)
[x] I sing in the shower. (Sing it loud and sing it proud! ...in the shower.)
[ ] I am a morning person. (I'm becoming more and more of a morning person. I can't sleep past 9 very easily anymore.)
[ ] I paid for my cell phone ring tone.
[x] I'm a snob about grammar. (At least, until I screw up on it myself.)
[ ] I am a sports fanatic.
[ ] I twirl my hair
[ ] I have "x"s in my screen name
[x] I love being neat (Although I don't always find myself in that situation ;))
[ ] I love Spam (GMail keeps showing me ads for "Spam & Salsa Breakfast Burrito!" when I empty out my junkmail.)
[x] I've copied more than 30 CD's in a day (Fair use! Fair use! I needed all of them for backups!)
[x] I bake well. (With a recipe. I tend to make a big mess if I experiment too much. Although, once, I dreamed up a cake - yellow cake, cream cheese
frosting, topped with Fruity Pebbles! It wasn't half bad, too.)
[x] My favorite color is either white, yellow, pink, red or blue (My favorite colors are Orange, Green, and Blue. But pink is growing on me ;))
[ ] I've worn pajamas to school.
[x] I like Martha Stewart. ('s white cheddar and gruyere mac & cheese recipe)
[x] I know how to shoot a gun.
[x] I am in love with love. (There's a lot of ways to interpret this, but I love being in love.)
[x] I am guilty of tYpInG lIkE tHiS. (Only while drunk.)
[x] I laugh at my own jokes.
[ ] I eat fast food weekly. (Only when I don't have a sammich for lunch.)
[ ] I believe in ghosts.
[ ] I am online 24/7, even as an away message.
[x] I've not turned anything in and still got an A in a certain class. (Advanced 3D Studio Max. And I still suck at it.)
[ ] I can't sleep if there is a spider in the room.
[x] I am really ticklish. (No taking advantage of this! I like being tickled but I'm big and pretty strong and if someone gets me going I'm likely to break
something or someone :()
[x] I love white chocolate
[x] I bite my nails. (When a nail clipper isn't immediately available. But I CAN pick up a dime!)
[x] I play video games.
[x] I'm good at remembering faces.
[ ] I'm good at remembering names. (I'm TERRIBLE with names.)
[ ] I'm good at remembering dates. (I'm almost as bad with dates as with names.)
[ ] I have no idea what I want to do for the rest of my life
[x] I have been on the computer when I am as sick as a dog. (Just so you know... Starcraft doesn't actually posess any healing powers.)
Ganked from
rickgriffinAppearance
[ ] I am shorter than 5'4"
[x] I am taller than 6'0" (6'2")
[ ] I think I'm ugly
[ ] I have many scars.
[ ] I wish my hair was a different color. (I streaked my hair once but it's naturally so lightly colored and fine you couldn't tell unless it was wet.)
[ ] I have friends who have never seen my natural hair color.
[ ] I have a tattoo.
[x] I have/I've had braces.
[ ] I wear glasses. (Although I think glasses are cute)
[ ] I would get plastic surgery if it were 100% safe, free of cost, and scar-free.
[x] I've been told I'm attractive by a complete stranger.
[ ] I have more than 2 piercings.
[ ] I have piercings in places besides my ears.
[x] I've got one or two scars. (Have a number of small scars from various pets, and one on my forehead right at the hairline from where I fell off a hammock
and hit a rock on the way down :S)
Family/Home Life
[ ] I've sworn at my parents. (I have sworn WITH my parents)
[x] I've run away from home. (Sort of... I left when I was 17.)
[ ] I've been kicked out of the house.
[ ] My biological parents are together.
[ ] I have a sibling less than one year old.
[ ] I want to have kids someday. (I'm up in the air on this one for the future... but right now I don't. I hate kids.)
[ ] I've had children.
[ ] I've lost a child.
[ ] Have a spoiled sibling
School/Work
[ ] I'm in school. (Although I really need to go back)
[x] I have a job.
[x] I've fallen asleep at work/school.
[x] I almost always do my homework. (Really... it depended on the class.)
[ ] I've missed a week or more of school.
[ ] I've been on the Honor Roll within the last 2 years. (Haven't been in school in the last 2 years.)
[ ] I've stolen something from my job. (Unless you count pens, envelopes, and paperclips.)
[ ] I've been fired.
[ ] Are or Have been home schooled.
Embarrassment
[x] I've slipped out a "lol" in a spoken conversation. (Although it didn't really embarrass me)
[ ] Disney movies still make me cry. (MGM does far better at times)
[ ] I've peed from laughing.
[x] I've snorted while laughing.
[x] I've laughed so hard I've cried.
[ ] I've glued my hand to something intentionally (Unless you count puting Elmer's glue on my hand just to peel it off in elementary school)
[x] I've had my pants rip in public
[x] I fell down on my face (Fell off a bike and slid down the hill on my face. Luckily it was mostly soft wet leaves.)
Health
[ ] I've gotten stitches
[ ] I've broken a bone.
[ ] I've had my tonsils removed.
[x] I've sat in a doctors office/emergency room with a friend. (And I'd do it again, although I hope not to.)
[ ] I've had my wisdom teeth removed. (Another thing I should get around to doing soon)
[ ] I had a serious surgery.
[x] I've had chicken pox.
Traveling
[x] I've driven over 200 miles in one day.
[x] I've been on a plane.
[x] I've been to Canada.
[x] I've been to Mexico.
[x] I've been to Niagara Falls.
[ ] I've been to Japan.
[ ] I've celebrated Mardi Gras in New Orleans.
[x] I've been to Europe.
[ ] I've been to Africa.
[x] I've been out of my home country.
[ ] I've Been in Thailand
[ ] I've been in Phillipines
Experiences
[ ] I've gotten lost in my city. (Back in California. In my defense, I had just moved there...)
[x] I've seen a shooting star.
[x] I've wished on a shooting star. (I've wished on every shooting star in a meteor shower)
[x] I've seen a meteor shower.
[ ] I've gone out in public in my pajamas.
[x] I've pushed all the buttons on an elevator (Muhahaha)
[ ] I've kicked a guy where it hurts.
[x] I've been to a casino.
[ ] I've been skydiving.
[x] I've gone skinny dipping.
[ ] I've drank a whole gallon of milk in one hour.
[ ] I've crashed a car. (I've been in a minor accident where I wasn't at fault)
[x] I've been Skiing
[x] I've been in a play (I love being in plays. I got to play the Big Bad Wolf in 2nd grade and wear ears, paws, and a tail! They recruited me early, I
guess...)
[ ] I've met someone in person from myspace.
[x] I've caught a snowflake on my tongue.
[x] I've seen the Northern lights.
[x] I've sat on a roof top at night.
[x] I've played chicken. (On a bicycle)
[x] I've played a prank on someone.
[x] I've ridden in a taxi.
[x] I've seen the Rocky Horror Picture Show (And got bit until I bled!)
[x] I've been snowboarding.
Relationships
[ ] I'm single
[x] I'm in a relationship.
[ ] I'm engaged.
[ ] I'm married
[ ] I've gone on a blind date.
[ ] I've been the dumpee more than the dumper.
[ ] I miss someone right now.
[x] I have a fear of abandonment.
[ ] I've gotten divorced
[ ] I've had feelings for someone who didn't have them back.
[ ] I've told someone I loved them when I didn't.
[ ] I've told someone I didn't love them when I did.
[ ] I've kept something from a past relationship.
[x] I've kissed a girl/guy
Honesty/Crime
[x] I've done something I promised myself I wouldn't. (I keep buying stuff when I tell myself no more spending! Grr!)
[x] I've snuck out of my house. (Back in high school, at night, to smoke pot with friends :P)
[ ] I have lied to my parents about where I am.
[x] I am keeping a secret from the world. (Not the WHOLE world, just most of it.)
[x] I've cheated while playing a game. (Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Rig B A Start)
[x] I've cheated on a test (I programmed my notes into my TI-89 and disguised it as a useless trivia application. Little did they know what would happen if
you answered the right wrong answers!)
[x] I've run a red light. (Right when I moved to CA, I was still used to the protected left turn arrows being on the same pole as the rest of the lights and
completely didn't notice a turn arrow on a separate pole on the ground.)
[ ] I've been suspended from school. (I said no because the worst I got was sent home for slapping a kid's hand when he was messing with my tangrams ;.;)
[x] I've witnessed a crime. (I manage the security cameras as one of my functions at work. I've seen a lot of crimes. A few years ago somebody dropped a body outside our offices! o.o)
[ ] I've been in a fist fight. (But I have been in an unplanned sissy fight.)
[ ] I've been arrested.
Drugs/Alcohol
[x] I regularly drink. (You would too if you had access to the mojitos Pup makes... mrrr)
[ ] I've passed out from drinking.
[ ] I have passed out drunk at least once in the past 6 months.
[x] I've smoked weed. (Back in high schoool. Then I got a job.)
[ ] I've taken painkillers when I didn't need them.
[ ] I've eaten shrooms.
[ ] I've popped E.
[ ] I've inhaled Nitrous.
[ ] I've done hard drugs.
[ ] I have cough drops when I'm not sick.
[ ] I can't swallow pills. (This used to be the case when I was very young. Finally, I thought I got one down and cheered, only to look down and see it
floating in my glass)
[x] I can swallow about 5 pills at a time no problem. (I have vastly improved my gag reflex over the years ;3)
[ ] I have been diagnosed with clinical depression.
[ ] I have been diagnosed with one or more anxiety disorder.
[ ] I shut others out when I'm depressed. (Quite the opposite... when I'm depressed I seek out some company to talk to)
[ ] I take anti-depressants.
[ ] I'm anorexic or bulimic.
[ ] I've slept an entire day when I didn't need it. (I have slept the entire day after staying up for over 3 days working on a nightmare English project.)
[ ] I've hurt myself on purpose.
[x] I've woken up crying. (I don't very often have vivid nightmares, but when I do, they're never about monsters or villans. They're always about losing
people close to me. Once in a great while I'll have one so realistic it messes with me all day.)
Death and Suicide
[x] I hate funerals.
[ ] I've seen someone dying. (I'm not sure if this counts, but the body that got dropped by our office wasn't quite a body yet when the van pulled away. I
saw the footage as part of the training.)
[x] Someone close to me has attempted suicide. (Crazy chick from Middle/High school I used to know cut her wrists, but mostly for the attention)
[ ] I've planned my own suicide.
[ ] I've attempted suicide.
[ ] I've written a eulogy for myself.
[ ] I cut myself.
Materialism
[ ] I own over 5 rap CDs.
[x] I own an iPod or MP3 player. (Got it for free from my old job for meeting a sales goal.)
[ ] I have an unhealthy obsession with anime/manga. (If the word "unhealthy" weren't in this sentence, I'd have checked it.)
[ ] I own multiple designer purses, costing over $100 a piece.
[x] I own something from Hot Topic. (World of Warcraft apparel. Too bad I don't play anymore.)
[ ] I own something from Pac Sun.
[ ] I collect comic books
[ ] I own something from The Gap.
[x] I own something I got on e-bay.
[ ] I buy the newspaper everyday
Random
[x] I can sing well. (Can I do a half slash? Sometimes I'm on and a lot of the time I'm off. Although I think it would be priceless to try out for American
Idol and sing "Space is Fun" (look it up!) incessantly until security drags me out.)
[ ] I've stolen a tray from a fast food restaurant.
[x] I open up to others easily. (I'm more-or-less an open book.)
[ ] I watch the news.
[ ] I don't kill bugs.
[x] I curse regularly. (Semi-regularly... I've seen way worse.)
[x] I sing in the shower. (Sing it loud and sing it proud! ...in the shower.)
[ ] I am a morning person. (I'm becoming more and more of a morning person. I can't sleep past 9 very easily anymore.)
[ ] I paid for my cell phone ring tone.
[x] I'm a snob about grammar. (At least, until I screw up on it myself.)
[ ] I am a sports fanatic.
[ ] I twirl my hair
[ ] I have "x"s in my screen name
[x] I love being neat (Although I don't always find myself in that situation ;))
[ ] I love Spam (GMail keeps showing me ads for "Spam & Salsa Breakfast Burrito!" when I empty out my junkmail.)
[x] I've copied more than 30 CD's in a day (Fair use! Fair use! I needed all of them for backups!)
[x] I bake well. (With a recipe. I tend to make a big mess if I experiment too much. Although, once, I dreamed up a cake - yellow cake, cream cheese
frosting, topped with Fruity Pebbles! It wasn't half bad, too.)
[x] My favorite color is either white, yellow, pink, red or blue (My favorite colors are Orange, Green, and Blue. But pink is growing on me ;))
[ ] I've worn pajamas to school.
[x] I like Martha Stewart. ('s white cheddar and gruyere mac & cheese recipe)
[x] I know how to shoot a gun.
[x] I am in love with love. (There's a lot of ways to interpret this, but I love being in love.)
[x] I am guilty of tYpInG lIkE tHiS. (Only while drunk.)
[x] I laugh at my own jokes.
[ ] I eat fast food weekly. (Only when I don't have a sammich for lunch.)
[ ] I believe in ghosts.
[ ] I am online 24/7, even as an away message.
[x] I've not turned anything in and still got an A in a certain class. (Advanced 3D Studio Max. And I still suck at it.)
[ ] I can't sleep if there is a spider in the room.
[x] I am really ticklish. (No taking advantage of this! I like being tickled but I'm big and pretty strong and if someone gets me going I'm likely to break
something or someone :()
[x] I love white chocolate
[x] I bite my nails. (When a nail clipper isn't immediately available. But I CAN pick up a dime!)
[x] I play video games.
[x] I'm good at remembering faces.
[ ] I'm good at remembering names. (I'm TERRIBLE with names.)
[ ] I'm good at remembering dates. (I'm almost as bad with dates as with names.)
[ ] I have no idea what I want to do for the rest of my life
[x] I have been on the computer when I am as sick as a dog. (Just so you know... Starcraft doesn't actually posess any healing powers.)
Fun times in Seattle!
Posted 18 years ago
pup1k Pup and I went up to Seattle for Rainfurrest, but as we had figured out long ago, never go somewhere just for a con when there's so much to do!We spent most of Friday at Mt. Rainier (the huge composite volcano looming over the Seattle skyline) and enjoyed some crisp, refreshing high altitude humidity :3
Saturday we went to PAX and let Pup out to invade them with fuzzy cuteness. Most of them loved him, but I managed to capture a few frightened looks on camera (surprisingly, the worst one was from a dude at the Mega 64 booth! In case you didn't know, Mega 64 is a bunch of videos of people freaking out strangers by re-enacting video games.)
After PAX, we went to the Experience Music Project / Science Fiction Museum, which was really freaking cool!
Sunday we went out to the Boeing factory and took a tour. Holy crap big building! It was neat to see a bunch of 747s at various stages of assembly :) And, for only $50,000,000, you too can own a Boeing 737!
Monday we went up to Mt. St. Helens (for the historically challenged, this is the volcano that blew itself up in 1980 and made a huge mess of most of the western half of the US with ash). We let Pup out of the car for some walkies and got a few pictures of him in front of the mountain being cute :3
Also, I hear Tahoe was there too but I don't think I saw him.
Camping
Posted 18 years agoI used to camp a lot - backpacking, car camping, whatever. Just not any of that RV park nonsense; that's not real camping!
Anyway, with the summer season starting in "America's Adventure Place" what better to do than camp? (What OTHER to do than camp?) Already went out once this weekend for a little one night trip with
pup1k and 
tahoetaxidinae along Dog Valley Road out near Verdi. Ate some hot dogs for lunch, killed some bugs, let Lilly run around, killed some more bugs. You get the idea.
Even simple car camping like this is so fun. It makes me feel sorry for those people who just pack up their RV and park it on a cement slab with a sewer hookup and power and everything. I don't know why they bother - the only difference is they don't get as many TV channels at the Boomtown RV Resort as at home.
That and camping in the forest is a heckuva lot cheaper! Maybe they just pay the premium for less bugs? But then, they wouldn't get the satisfaction of spraying a bunch of insecticide on the shade tent and watching spots of bug death develop >:3
Anyway, with the summer season starting in "America's Adventure Place" what better to do than camp? (What OTHER to do than camp?) Already went out once this weekend for a little one night trip with
pup1k and 
tahoetaxidinae along Dog Valley Road out near Verdi. Ate some hot dogs for lunch, killed some bugs, let Lilly run around, killed some more bugs. You get the idea.Even simple car camping like this is so fun. It makes me feel sorry for those people who just pack up their RV and park it on a cement slab with a sewer hookup and power and everything. I don't know why they bother - the only difference is they don't get as many TV channels at the Boomtown RV Resort as at home.
That and camping in the forest is a heckuva lot cheaper! Maybe they just pay the premium for less bugs? But then, they wouldn't get the satisfaction of spraying a bunch of insecticide on the shade tent and watching spots of bug death develop >:3
Adventures in Bassland?
Posted 18 years agoI'm posting a journal. That in and of itself is adventurous, at least for me.
So thanks to Snowie, my bass is restrung and retuned and I'm relearning what little I knew before (I like to repeat re-, I suppose ;) ). Despite the pickups, cable, and possibly contacts being a little... er... rusty from neglect, it still sounds bright when I play and I'm picking it back up quickly enough.
Started with my old practice songs, Oye Como Va by Santana and Sunshine of Your Love by Cream, and found that I hadn't forgotten as much as I had assumed I did. I can even still play most of 46 & 2 when my fingers want to behave!
Well, having those standards down pretty quickly, I decided I'd search for some tabs to some other songs I'd wanted to learn; mostly Witchy Woman by the Eagles and American Girl by Tom Petty (I guess I'm just stuck on the classics - can you blame me? They're classic for a reason), but to my surprise, a bunch of my favorite tab sites from back when I played before (basstabarchive.com, most notably) had removed all of their tabs due to threats of lawsuits by the NMPA and MPA!
Now, it seems to me that, as ridiculous as they are, at least the RIAA's MP3 lawsuits can prove some semblance of damages that (sort of) make sense. But removing tabs? That's just off the wall! There's nothing that they could possibly lose on a scale large enough to actually threaten a lawsuit! The worst I can imagine is that some garage band looks up the tabs to one of their favorite songs and maybe makes $50 playing a bar or a club somewhere. Oooooh, big loss, MPA!
The other thing that struck me as odd is that it's legal for a "parody" artist, such as Weird Al, to play a parody of some other band's music (although in his case he traditionally seeks permission) and actually make money on it; yet they don't want me to learn American Girl for my own practice at no profit?
Go figure. Concept of ownership really blows when you get beyond a physical object and into the realm of intellectual property.
So, I figure the best way to get around this is to tab everything anyway, and if they threaten to sue you, just say, "Oh, no, these are the tabs from my parody of your song, "Blamerican Girl."
So thanks to Snowie, my bass is restrung and retuned and I'm relearning what little I knew before (I like to repeat re-, I suppose ;) ). Despite the pickups, cable, and possibly contacts being a little... er... rusty from neglect, it still sounds bright when I play and I'm picking it back up quickly enough.
Started with my old practice songs, Oye Como Va by Santana and Sunshine of Your Love by Cream, and found that I hadn't forgotten as much as I had assumed I did. I can even still play most of 46 & 2 when my fingers want to behave!
Well, having those standards down pretty quickly, I decided I'd search for some tabs to some other songs I'd wanted to learn; mostly Witchy Woman by the Eagles and American Girl by Tom Petty (I guess I'm just stuck on the classics - can you blame me? They're classic for a reason), but to my surprise, a bunch of my favorite tab sites from back when I played before (basstabarchive.com, most notably) had removed all of their tabs due to threats of lawsuits by the NMPA and MPA!
Now, it seems to me that, as ridiculous as they are, at least the RIAA's MP3 lawsuits can prove some semblance of damages that (sort of) make sense. But removing tabs? That's just off the wall! There's nothing that they could possibly lose on a scale large enough to actually threaten a lawsuit! The worst I can imagine is that some garage band looks up the tabs to one of their favorite songs and maybe makes $50 playing a bar or a club somewhere. Oooooh, big loss, MPA!
The other thing that struck me as odd is that it's legal for a "parody" artist, such as Weird Al, to play a parody of some other band's music (although in his case he traditionally seeks permission) and actually make money on it; yet they don't want me to learn American Girl for my own practice at no profit?
Go figure. Concept of ownership really blows when you get beyond a physical object and into the realm of intellectual property.
So, I figure the best way to get around this is to tab everything anyway, and if they threaten to sue you, just say, "Oh, no, these are the tabs from my parody of your song, "Blamerican Girl."
