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October 19, 2005
LotR by WoW
The Brotherhood of the Bracelet from World of Warcraft.
Posted by KinCross at 10:15 AM | Comments (0)
October 14, 2005
A slice of life
D [reading email]: "There's German chocolate cake in the kitchen!"
I: "Ooooh... chocolate..."
S: "I want chocolate cake."
D: "So go get some."
S: "I can't. I have to stay at my desk."
D: "Have someone else get some for you then."
L: "I'll go."
D: "If you're going, can I have some too?"
L: "How much should I bring back?"
S: "The whole cake."
Posted by KinCross at 04:01 PM | Comments (0)
October 10, 2005
Spaced out for a day
I suspect that I should say as little about this as possible until things are resolved, but I'll say this much:
I was involved in a car accident today. There is neglibible damage to either car. The only thing I hurt was my pride, which I was told I couldn't make a claim on.
Posted by KinCross at 10:48 PM | Comments (1)
October 07, 2005
His and Hers
I've gotten a lot of really great voicemail messages in the past half year or so. Two announcing engagements, one where a friend started creating the relationship of his dreams, new jobs, new adventures, even some just to say hi. I think my favourite, though, is the one I got this afternoon from my sister.
[Allow me a moment to be nostalgic about a moment on the dance floor where I got to hold my just-married sister and share a good cry.]
My sister got her wedding present from me, the Best Man, and two of the groom's friends from Toronto today. The coordination between getting a card signed by all of us, having the gift shipped to my Mom's and then having the whole lot wrapped and delivered took a little time.
Sis and Mom work at the same college, so Mom drove her home. Mom forgot to give her the gift while she was in the car so shortly after getting home, Sis got a knock on the door with Mom bearing a gift. "Are they pei dan?" my sister asked. Pei dan are preserved eggs and the package was about the right size for the boxes that the eggs come in. I can imagine my Mom's reaction as she told her that they weren't eggs. Exit Mom, backstage.
When Sis and Matt started opening the gift, they didn't even know what it was. The things were so new in Canada (and even the US) that they had yet to hear of them.
We bought them iPod nanos, one white, one black.
"These are smaller than some of the snack wafers I eat."
Matt got the black one and Sheree got the white one. They didn't notice the engraving until later and then they realised how perfectly they had gravitated to their respective iPod.
The white one read:
You can probably guess that the black one read:
So my voice message had this giddy, jumping-for-glee sister bubbling about her new iPod and Matt's new iPod and how hers says "Hers" and his says "His" and how they were both installing them right now.
I heard later that they had gone out that evening and Sheree had been lightly rubbing circles on Matt's back as they were riding the elevator and Matt was singing and changing volume like the iPod when you roll your thumb around the scroll wheel.
You guys rock. We're thrilled.
(Where's my couch?)
Posted by KinCross at 11:46 PM | Comments (0)
October 06, 2005
How good are you willing to have it?
A lot's been going through my mind of late, not nearly a percent of which has been put on paper, online, or even voiced. Since I've done a decent share of talking, what that really means is that I've been talking a lot to myself in my head.
Being alone in your head, talking to yourself, is a dangerous place to be.
I don't know about you, but the little voice in my head--I've named him Judas, in case you're wondering, Bridget--isn't really my friend. He's been there with me all my life, but his agenda is very different from mine. See, I have dreams. I have ideas, notions, concepts, and goals of what I want in life, what would make things absolutely phenomenal.
And Judas' job is to tell me why I can't have it, why I should play it safe, and live a life that I can survive. Judas wants me to have a life that's neutrally comfortable.
I don't want comfort. I've had comfort and it got boring. Nothing happens when I'm comfortable. I go to work, maybe I work longer for a little more money, then I go home and watch TV or play on the computer. At the end of the day, comfort gets me nothing...
Except survival. I get to survive my life.
But that's not what I'm up to. I want more. I want it all. I want to drive with the top down and the wind blowing through my hair with my favourite person in the whole world sitting beside me. We'd talk about everything and nothing. There would be laughter and tears and no matter what happened, it would all be perfect. I'd have the best job in the world, one where I could blaze the trails and make my mark, but above all else, make a difference in others' lives.
Those are my dreams, maybe not in excruciating detail, but there they are. Judas would like me to play it safe, but I just can't have that anymore.
Raul Julia asked "If not now, when? If not you, who?"
The time is now. The person to do it is me.
I am the possibility of being astonishingly stunning.
I am a leaf on the wind. Watch how I soar.
Posted by KinCross at 12:52 AM | Comments (3)
Which Serenity character are you?
I'm actually somewhat amused that I'm a tie between Kaylee and Mal, but if I had to choose one or the other, I could see me being more Kaylee than Mal. Not sure if that would be any different given where I want to go, though...
Also neat to note is that I'm next most like Wash. I'm also 50% hooker, preacher, fugitive and hunter/assassin, which makes me just about the right blend of conflicted contradictions, I suppose.
Now, excuse while I see if I can still get some strawberries.
 | You scored as Kaylee Frye. The Mechanic. You are a natural mechanic, and you are far too sweet and cheerful to live out here. How you can see the good in everyone around you boggles the mind occasionally. Still you don't seem to be any crazier than that, and it is a nice kinda crazy.
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Posted by KinCross at 12:32 AM | Comments (1)
October 05, 2005
Impossible Picture
This is an impossible shot. Feel free to speculate why in the comments, but I suspect it'll be a very short guessing period.
I intend to try this shot again with a wider lens and a little more patience.
That's the corner of Las Vegas Blvd and Tropicana Ave, by the way.
Posted by KinCross at 11:59 AM | Comments (0)
October 04, 2005
Doppelganger
Check it out: it's another guy named Ian Ng.
Apparently, I'm also a broadband loop carrier.
Courtesy of ego surfing.
Posted by KinCross at 05:09 PM | Comments (2)