Wasting time with Jet

I know it's been awhile and ya'll probably thought I'm blindfolded, nekkid and tied up somewhere in Ghana after falling for that mysterious chick.

Ya'll couldn't farther from the truth.

Things are getting VERY interesting in that story arc that is my Soap Opera of a Life...time will tell REAAAAL soon on whether or not this girl is the real deal.

JOE called, out of the blue Sunday telling us about a Sofabed he left at his house in Long Island.

With his place still on the Market, a deadline has been set before they empty out what furniture was left behind to make the place bare and new. MOM seemed skeptical but intrested nonetheless because the living room is so empty (yet cluttered) with just a dining room table and a TV wall unit.

So the adventure is on to find our semi-usual handyperson ELVIS, rent a U-Haul and figure out how to get the damn thing from LI.

BEEN taking in some new music lately...

Everything from The WHO, to Lady Sovereign from the UK, to Jay-Z's new comeback album...and even the upcoming sophomore entry by Gwen Stefani.

Stand Out tracks include:

*"Anything" by Jay-Z f/ Usher and Pharell (Nice calypso type beat, catchy hook, probably to good for the radio!)

*"Beach Chair" by Jay-Z f/ Chris Martin from Coldplay(?) (Jigga always knew how to send an album off...one of his best songs since "What more can I say" Hova reflects how "Life is just a Beach Chair..."

*"Wind it Up" by Gwen Stefani (This is the first single from the new album, it'll grow on ya faster than "Promiscuous" and "London Bridge" and may even make you yodel, too...)

*"Now that you Got It" (Swizz Beatz hooks Gwen up with a Killer beat, best song on the new album, DO a remix with EVE or DMX!)

*"The Sweet Escape" Gwen f/ Akon (This jus SCREAMS "Summer Time", the title track of the new album, very bouncy.)

*"U Started It" (Remember "Cool"?...this is "Cool" part 2, nice smooth track, probably a hidden message in there about her past, who knows?...great song)

*"Don't get it Twisted" (Gwen goes to the circus with a hand clapping, calliope tune, send in the clowns!)

Gwen is gonna have 2007 on lock if she plays her cards right.

I'm going back to sabbatical now...will let you in as situations unfold...

PEacE!!!

MOM turns the ripe old age of 58 today.

ME and Psycho-Sis (AND Baby-Girl) went down to Canal Street for find some jewelry. Psycho-Sis turns 27 next Wednesday so she was looking for a gift, too.

This, all on Black Friday, the biggest day to go shopping...you KNOW it had disaster written all over it.

The plan was to leave at 3PM...Miss-Lesbo-Thang didn't show up till 4:30.

Canal Street is LITTERED with Jewelry stores...Jacob the Jeweler may not be there, but you can find anything else powdered in diamonds...

Mom has a particular store she's been to a few times...we found it and after 10 minutes of searching...mom came to terms with a nice bracelet.

Then, our journey REALLY began...

We walked, and walked, and walked some more...

Damn, Psycho-Sis couldn't find anything she wanted! We walked crosstown, north, through Little Italy, back to Chinatown and then took a break at a McDonalds.

We stopped by a couple video game stores, thou.

In chinatown, for extra...you can get japanese games and systems that usually aren't available in the US.

In one store, J & L Game Trading Inc.

I saw it...with my own eyes, I was a merely 5 feet away from greatness...

The Playstation 3

Available, in the...flesh?

The sign above stated the package deal:

PS3, Memory Card, Extra Controler and a FREE Game of your choice...

PRICE:1100.00 (PLUS TAX!)

I couldn't believe it.

IF I had not brought my Silver Slim PS2 a few weeks ago, IF I did not have sex with escort from craigslist named "Strawberry" before then...the sight of that damn thing would have go my dick hard!

how much does 1100 divide by 3 credit cards?

I pulled myself away, and we went back home.

On the way, we brought Baby-Girl two baby turtles in a plastic container that those chinese people be pawning off.

We made it back home by 8pm, but the quest is not over yet...

I gotta get her a better DVD player and something for Psycho-Sis myself.

Baby-Girl's going to see some relatives from the father's side in Jersey saturday and mom's being taken to lunch for her B-day by some friends, so aside from Psych-Sis walking us to death and getting pissed for not buying anything...this is turning out to be a cool weekend.

1100 dollars...freaking computer systems cost less than that thing!!!

And it's worth EVERY DAMN PENNY!!!....MUHHAHHAAHHAHHAHAHHAHAAA

Maybe I'm just a sucker for BOND flicks, but the this post's title line will be the MOST MEMORABLE phrased uttered this year in the movies since Captain Jack Sparrow said "'Ello Beastie" or "Look...*BANG* An undead Monkey, Top That!"

With that said, Casino Royale does to the Bond Franchise what "Batman Begins" did to Batman...and it's just so friggin' Awesome!

Daniel Craig mixes Sean Connery Gruffness with Roger Moore slapstick and punchline, to reinvent Bond, James Bond. We see everything, how he got started, how inexperienced he was (Hey, no one's born perfect!) and we finally see how he becomes the pimp we've known him for the last 40 some-odd years.

Lots of action with little gimmicks (A FEW damn gizmos couldn't of hurt, thou!) and GREAT bits of comedy...

The newer commercials are starting to leak some of best scenes...

BOND:(Orders)Vodka Martini...
BARTENDER:Shaken? or Stirred..?
BOND:(Sharply) Does it look like I GIVE A DAMN?

You totally ask yourself "What the fuck was THAT?!?!"

The clincher is the torture scene...you just can't make this shit up, everybody in the theater was in stitches. This movie HAD to be funnier than "BORAT".

See it, enjoy it, see it again...and guys...bring an Athletic Cup...

Word.





M:Are you going to need Time?

BOND:I don't need time...The Job is Done and the Bitch is Dead.

Okay, it's a known fact that I be on the internet trying to get a lil', somethin' somethin'.

From escorts via craigslist, to the webcam freaky-deaky on adult friend finder, to currently hitting the personals with Yahoo. The reason I try some of these site is because of the webcam capabilities. After failed attempts with paltalk, camfrog, and other webcam based chat networks, I gave Yahoo a shot due to the instant messenger quirks...the result, as I mentioned dozens of hits from women in Ghana, Czech Rep., Russia, etc...all trying to HUSTLE me into giving them money in order get them to come to the states...OR it wasn't even FOR money, they ACTUALLY wanna start a relationship in hopes of coming to the states on their own SOMEDAY.

So, dealing with this bullshit, I give up on Yahoo again...

Then, I stumble upon a site called True.com, which has personals AND webcam chat rooms.

There was a free 7-day offer, so I set up a profile and once again, I get all this attention from Out-of-State! It's insane, and it's SUSPECT. These replies are meant to keep you on and subscribe to the full membership...once you do that...it's all quiet on the western front! I know the scam, and for those out there, you should pick up on "The Game" too!

So, while batting away the "impossibles" like zombies in a Resident Evil flick AND weeding out the ones that LIE about where they're from (Say they from The Bronx, but in school out in africa...GEEZ!)...

ONE girl hits me it and LAYS her game on THICK!

With no profile of her own, she says she found me and was told by GOD that I was the one (No lie!, I shit you not! Her words...) She fills my ear with the honey barely able to type decent english (I can understand a few typos, but we're talking 5th grade education, here!) while keeping her info vague (Says she's from New Jersey, has a business in stocks, travels around the world, blah, blah...), goes on and on about how a good gentleman is hard to find, etc...

I finally ask for a face behind the compliments and get these few pics...

Alarms start ringing immediately as the phrases "Jailbait" & "Statutory" scream in my mind, but she swears she's 30 (and I'm a bounty hunter from Mars).

I play along with the sweet talk and how she emphasizes TRUST and HONOR and everything and we start to exchange emails...

As we talk, I noticed there was a website at the bottom of one of the pics...

www.atkexotics.com

Wanna take a bet it's NOT a photo hosting SITE!?!?

But let's move on...

Sooner or later we're on a regular IM schedule, she asks about what I do, and my family...I get some info on her but it's either weird or suspicious. She talks about bonds and the price of gold and everything and how she travels to europe on occasion. She claims she's distant royalty of some country. I keep trying to get details of where in Jersey she lives in...

THEN she says she wants me to remove my profile off True.com. That we're really clicking, she's ready to fall in love with me, so long as I don't lie to her, and stay honorable, she'll take my heart...yadda, yadda, yadda...

She wants me all to herself...I roll my eyes and considering I'm 3 days in the 7-day thing, I might as well...so I blank my profile and keep it hidden (The damn website has no way of unsubscribing!)...

Then I push for a few more pics (I know I'm greedy, but shit I can't help it...)

and she give me a few more (Nice ass, more tattoos, YUM!)

We talk more about TRUST when I hit her up for proof about Jersey, I ask for her area code...just the first three digits of her phone number, to see if "They" know that type of info over there...

After hesitation she give me the area code of Atlantic City and I sorta take her word for it.

So then we talk about meeting...

As a twist, she's actually anxious about meeting, No, "um I got school", or "family business" or whatever, she's really looking forward to seeing me (Supposedly), so we start to talk about it and I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop.

See, I KNOW she CAN'T be real...somebody over there in africa got some pics from a pin-up site and is playing me for a damn fool.

What I don't get is, what they want? They haven't asked for anything yet?

There's more to this story that I'll continue later...but that's about the update of it.

I KNOW this is bullshit, but a TINY part in the back of my is asking..."What if all this was true?"

Anybody out there reading this (which is about FIRE5 and KimmyK, my only real audience...) I wanna know what ya'll think.

P.S. This is NOT the friend I currently talking to from Yahoo Personals, that's someone else (Yes, I know It appears to be like I'm juggling two people...this is NOT normal for me, don't think I'm some damn playa stringing chicks along via IM, that ain't the case!).

Part 2 coming soon....

A while back when I first brought the scanner, I scanned some old, old, pics and put 'em on my flickr page.

You can check it out here...

It's jus 6, but they're old..there's even one of JOE at his wedding!

So, what else...McNabb went down sunday so the Eagles are as good as done, I have nothing to live for any more...annnnnd, BOI hav I HAVE ONE HELL OF a post coming soon!

Imma let ya'll in on how pathetic my life REALLY is...

Stay tuned cats and kittens...

Oh, and PS, KimmyK...you DID NOT mention this blog in as one of your regular reads in that Q&A post of yours...consider my feelings CRUSHED more than usual.

Yeah, I'm still here, maybe I'm bummed out about the PS3 finally here and me with two credit cards with ZERO Balances and still couldn't get it.

Now that I think about it, I DID have a Christmas miracle the year the PS2 came out...the same thing happened and I came across an independent electronic store that sold their last one to me...BUT what are the odds of THAT happening again...

BESIDES, I jus got the Silver Slim PS2 and have been play TIME CRISIS, OUTLAW & HOT SHOTS GOLF, and the two BLOODRAYNE's as much as possible to calm down from the stresses of work.

I'll be fine...till "HEAT:the Video Game"(Pacino/DeNiro movie) comes out, then it's ON!

I'm just taking a break from Blogging for the holidays...this time of year always fucks with my head (Hopefully I'll reveal why in Chronicles of Wabbit)

A couple of things that got me down to create this hiatus...

1) Six Degrees episodes have disappeared till January (I hope they don't cancel this show, it's so good!)

2) Loonatics Unleashed has been moved to the ungodly hour of 8am Saturday Morning.

3) Joined this annoying website, True.com for their webcam chats, only to attract more attention from Women across seas that just wanna IM...

4) Things with MY NEW IM friend are stuck in neutral, we enjoy long chats, but there's no potential of meeting in person anytime soon (that sounds SO fuckin' familiar..)

5) Mom is bugging out trying make baby girl's Christmas everything OURS (Me and Psycho-Lesbo-Sis) wasn't! Trying to take her to see the Rockettes at Radio City Music Hall...

6) The Job, where ever you go, your job always sucks, is there ANYone out there who actually LOVES what they do for a living?

7) just life in general...roaming the streets alone, sucks...

And that's about it...

Enjoy the fixin's and the fam, ya'll...see ya in a week or so...

PEACE

My mom comes up to me and says "I know what I want for Christmas!" in which I reply, "Well, your birthday is first lets get it then."

Her birthday's the 24th (Which 9 times outta 10 falls around Turkey-Day) with Psycho-Lesbo-Sis on the 29th.

Annnyhoo...MOM stuffs a Target flyer in my face and point to...



THIS SILLY Thing!

...A Pagoda Portable Indoor Fireplace with Bench.

Yeah, for those snobby people that live in an APARTMENT but wanna feel like they live in a HOUSE...

I could just see this thing in our cluttered up living room now...

Hell, I can get a Bearskin Rug and lay it down in front for a REAL romantic feel, (Oh, Boy!).

"WHAT is your fascination with FIRE?" I asked her...

"SCENTED CANDLES, Oil Lamps, now FIREPLACES?!, What next a FONDUE set?, You're gonna burn the place down!"

"SHUT UP, I just want it! PAT upstairs has one, I always ask her to put a log in so I can see it work and she never does..." MOM said referring to Cousin Pat who drives MOM out to Jersey sometimes.

Now, normally, I buy whatever she wanted right off the bat, but TARGET is still unfamiliar to us Manhattaners. The nearest on is up in the Bronx on 225th Street and by Target Standards, it sucks! Nothing is there even if it's advertised in the flyer. I heard there's one in Brooklyn and far out in Queens.

I decided to do some research online and it turns out, the fireplace is a piece of shit. Customer reviews say it rusts easily, REAL easily. True, none of the people had theirs in an apartment (They used it outdoor for Mock Camping trips in the Backyard?) I was sure it'd be a waste of time and travel.

I showed mom the reviews and she seemed crushed yet relieved...I'm sure she'll like whatever I get her better than some corny flammable pyramid.

I've played Time Crisis 2, 3 and the 4th one that had some SubTitle for the last 16 hours...taking a break every 3 hours not to overheat the damn Slim PS2. I've also been reacquainted with Outlaw Golf (I still can't play in the snow...), I plan to find Hot Shot Golf FORE soon but I wanna save some money just in case...

In the midst of my stress-relieving gunplay, my new IM friend "Passed-the-Digits".

I guess we're pass the stage of IM greeting each other every morning and night like clockwork before going to work.

I'm so nervous about getting the number so soon, it's shows Trust, but now it pressures me to actually USE it.

Psycho-Sis came over with more music to cram into the RIO Cali mp3 player I handed down to her.

Been chillin, cleaning my room and looking at Star Wars all day on Cinemax...

Ready to hit the grind again tomorrow night.

They say death comes in Threes...



Ed Bradley



Jack Palance



Gerald Levert

Damn, They will be missed...

Unpleasant Memory Time:

When I was around 15, I got mugged for a video game on St. Nicholas Avenue. Me and Joe were a block away from my house when someone grabbed him from behind. JOE, knowing instantly what was going on, tried to hand me the game and telling me to run, my reaction time was like gazelle running from a cheetah (Not that fast.) It happened in the blink of an eye...and scarred me for life.

I should consider myself lucky, no harm came to me, I wasn't threatened, we didn't even see a weapon (Although JOE swears he felt SOMETHING stick him in his back...). I have always been "Street Smart" able to detect danger from all angles. BUT that one time, I ..well, regardless, I'VE promised it will NEVER happen again, if you have ever been robbed or mugged in your life, you know it can be a very emotional experience.

ANYhooo...

Work's been driving me BIZERK as of late (See postings in Chronicles of Wabbit for details...) so I've decided to INDULGE myself a little.

A PS3 is damn near impossible to get this year (Even though I could with TWO credit cards at ZERO balances now, YIPPEE!!!) so I decided to buy a Slim PS2 (Silver Version for the Holidays!) so I can play my old games again (Especially the Light Gun games that relieve me from stress!!!!).

Thinking about the past...I wanted to go as early as possible so nobody would be on the street, BUT I knew the stores around here didn't open till 10, so I waited...

If MOM ever found out I brought this she'll kill me, but who is SHE to nag, she throws away money stupidly too!

The thing about the heights, they're aren't that many video game stores around, there only 2 actually and I think the owned and operated by the same person and both are on...St. Nicholas...

The time has come to face my fears...

I planned to use my unemployment money (Yes, I was still claiming it, my case end in November, we'll we're in November now...it ends soon, might as well keep claiming till it's closed!), this new debit card system they've adapted makes buying things a cinch!

I order the silver package and though about a couple of new games to buy...but changed my mind, I had around 8 waiting for me at home, that would start me off for awhile...

They gave me a free Demo Disc and put everything is a VERY conspicuous bag that almost said "FRESH MEAT" to anyone out there on the street corner...

But I played it cool, I walked out on the street and made my way back home, zig-zaging between streets like a bumblebee...and I made it! *WHEW*

Now, when they say SLIM, they were not kidding...the thing is about the size of Paperback Book. It actually FITS in the space between the top of my VCR and the shelf holding the TV above it. That WOULD be an nice hidden ideal place except it doesn't have CD tray that sticks out anymore, it opens up and the Disc snaps in.

With doing a little rearranging, I set it up and started playing TIME CRISIS 2.

It was so liberating blowing away the bad guys...my developing twitch had finally stopped in my eye...

I was at peace with the world again...

Well, it's 5am and the program to tape Channel 7 from 8:59 to 10:02 HAS BEEN erased!

That's right! I DID NOT tape "LOST" tonight.

And I'm NOT SORRY!

However, I AM curious...

So after checking FIRE5 and Kimmyk's Blogs and coming up with squat...I checked good ol' TWoP...aka Television Without Pity

No official recap yet SO I had to hit the Forums...

Here's what I surmised...

A) Flashback of Kate's "Sorta" Wedding she mentioned in the drinking came with Sawyer way back when show the good (Yeah, I said it!)

B) Kate and Sawyer has "Cage Match" Sex...WHOOP-DEE-DO (If they stick to the rules, KATE should be next to go...Jus ask SHANNON and ANA-LUCIA!...those who have sex, DIE!)

C) Alex (Rousseau's Daughter?) makes an appearance and we find out the children (Remember "Teddy Bear Kid"?) are somewhere else or something...

D) SAWYER came REAAAAAAL close to being killed (Infamous DEATH music in all...)

and finally...

E) JACK finds out about KATE and SAWYER boning and Triple Crosses everyone in some sorta sacrifice decision to become the ultimate Bad-ASS now...

Everythings pretty cut and dry except the last...apparently he did his own thing when it came to either operating on Henry Gale/Ben and Conspiring with Juliet.

I heard it wasn't a Cliffhanger so no one's holding their damn breath for 16 weeks and early opinions are still mixed.

Part of me still doesn't care...I'm not downloading the episode, and if ABC doesn't wanna show repeats, FUCK 'EM...they're doing everything else wrong from jump street.

My feelings for "Grey's Anatomy" have evaporated no matter how good it's doing against CSI, I can forget about "LOST" just as well.

ABC always did having a knack of fucking up something when it's going good...It let "The Practice" and "NYPD Blue" run it's course and stay on too long after certain stars left the show and were replaced terribly, it canceled it's best two black sitcoms at the peak of their popularity "My Wife and Kids", and "The Hughleys", and they're starting to become more like Lifetime with their Woman-Oriented shows (Desperate Housewives, Grey's Anatomy, Ugly Betty, Men in Trees, Brothers and Sisters...) Does ABC stand for "All Broads Channel"?

Oh, well...we'll see how Taye Diggs does with his thing, hmmm... What's "Criminal Minds" gonna be about next week?

It's our right. There was a time when people of our color couldn't...and women themselves seemed the last "Minority" to finally be allowed. People have died so it can be done in this modern time...

But despite all this, I have NEVER participated.

I have yet to vote in a local city, state or national election.

Shocking I know, I SHOULD be ashamed...BUT I'm not, and I'll tell you why.

THIS is America.

The white man basically came over here, alienated the Native American Indian to remote corners of the country and took over their land. Nothing was done about this, it just happened and nothing that can be said or done can reverse what has been done.

With that one act they establish the one and only rule that defines this nation.

"A White Man is, and will always shall be...In Charge."

Now, WE have made progress as a melting pot of a nation. Plenty of races have come here and succeeded in businesses, public office, the courts, and congress. There have been Mayors, Senators, Governors of all races, and even women have excelled to one of the highest ranks of the country, BUT behind every Black Mayor, every Hispanic Senator, every Asian congressman or woman...a White person has been behind the scenes REALLY making the decisions.

That is my mentality of how I see the nation today. He may mean changes and advances for us, but no one, not even William Jefferson Clinton himself can say he know what it's like to be in our shoes. In 1992, I was only 16-going on 17 and couldn't vote. Part of me thinks I WOULD have voted for Clinton if the opportunity presented itself. The same with David Dinkins, he did a lot for the libraries when he was Mayor of New York.

In the 13 years I've been legal to vote no representative in ANY election has put any faith in me that things will seriously improve once they take office. The politicians are just Seat Fullers who pick up where the last Administration left off and continue to steer the course further and further to oblivion.

People believe elections are determined by a single vote. Whether true or not, the outcome is still the same. We are to be judged by our ineptitude to pick a reasonable representative, and this will never change.

So why vote?

My point exactly.

Now, despite not voting, I'm not stupid enough to BITCH about the administration since I did nothing to change it...I JUST DEAL with it, that's all. I'm a REALIST always have been. When people ask me if the glass if half full or half empty, I tell them "It's a glass with water in it." I state the obvious, and that being...

A White Man will Always be In Charge.

Even if there's a Black President, even if there's a Woman President...someone else will be pulling the strings.

HOWEVER, I am NOT without hope.

There IS one representative that has captured my eye...one I believe he can succeed where Jessie and Sharpton have failed miserably....

He's This Guy...



His name is Barack Obama.

He's sorta like Tiger Woods, only his mom's Hawaiian not Thai. I heard this guy SPEAK before finding out what he looked like and thought, "Okay, we have something we can work with here..."

He did a nice speech at the Democrat Convention couple years back and I've been watching him ever since.

Right now he's a Senator from Illinois but people are starting to think he's the one to beat for the Democrat Nomination in 2008. If and ONLY IF he runs for president (and not Vice President) I'll actually register in time to vote for him...it may be a lost cause, but hey, at least I tried.

Saturday I got the exact Printer/Copier/Scanner I wanted from CompUSA of all places. And I am pleased to say...That Busted-Ass PC finally has a printer for Baby Girl to print her Lil' Bill creations...and Mom had a Photo Scanner. I guess the third time was the charm with that screwy PC.

I plan to scan some pics myself...I wanna show ya what I looked like back when I was Happy, em um, Younger, Heh, heh, heh...

Saturday night into Sunday morning I had another IM chat with my Yahoo Personals friend, we're getting to know each other very well playing various games of "Twenty Questions"...The weekend will be the only good time to chat since we're on different sides of spectrum workwise.

Sunday morning I did laundry and cleaned my room then hit the sack at Noon. Woke up at 6:30 in the evening and Psycho Sis came over to pick up Baby Girl.

MOM gave me a head's up that Psycho Sis's Lesbian Lover was coming with her...

"She has a Name, don't call her "Lesbian Lover" Mom quips...

What?, I'm just being PC (Politically Correct)...what SHOULD I call her, The Bull Dyke?

"Her name is Keshia" Mom said.

I immediately Thought of that R&B trio TOTAL, "Kima, Keshia, Pam..." weren't they lesbians too?

I'll think of a nickname soon enough...

SO, Sis comes in, I'm still sleepy and bushy-tailed...when I notice the most strangest thing I've ever seen...

The two of them are wearing MATCHING JACKETS...

It was like that scene from "BEVERLY HILLS COP" when Eddie Murphy walks by those two guys wearing the Michael Jackson "Beat It" jackets...

I wanted to blow chunks...Cherrios Chunks that I just had a bowl of...

I just walked by and said hi and gave MOM a look as she came to greet them.

Matching jackets, she didn't do no shit like that with any of her stupid ass boyfriends!

I'm calling "Keshia", "Memphis" after Jay-Z's sidekick, Memphis Bleek, she wore a doo-rag and a baseball cap tilted to the side like some thug wannabe, maybe BLEEK itself would be better...

Off to work at 9pm, I went through hell last night with a massive workload. (See Post on Chronicles of Wabbit for details...)

While browsing around I stumbled upon a Blogger-like site that is tempting me to the Dark Side...It's called Vox

I combines elements of YouTube, Flickr, and Amazon.com...so you can make your own profile and let people know what your reading, listening too, along with sharing pics and funny video clips. It's worth checking out...I guess.

Peace!

MOM's been in the PICTURE mood as of late. Receiving that picture-cd from her Block Party reunion has her trying to get 21st century all of the sudden. SO, I decided to nurture this idea by shopping around for a Mutipurpose Scanner-Copier-Printer for the PC in the living room. Baby Girl's been wanting to print her Lil' Bill pictures she makes on the computer anyways.

That busted-ass PC has had a bad history with printers. I have tried hooking up 3 printers that have been given to us in the past to it, and have failed miserably. I think is has something to do with the BIOS setup. I may have finally corrected the problem, but don't plan to test the Parallel port again unless it's to add a Zip-Drive.

I had a PSP meetup on Thursday so I had been up since 4:30pm and been catching naps every ten minutes or so here or there. I headed out around 11:30am. I had a perfect one picked out, make and model and a HUNCH it was at a Circuit City down on 78th street. I HATE the WEST SIDE thou, it's even worst in the middle of the day. Nannies walking babies in strollers walking slow, sidewalk cafes and other damn distractions preventing you from walking down the street. And to top it off, I see children running around window shopping and acting a fool. It made me wanna go Samuel L. Jackson on 'em and scream "WHY AREN'T THESE MUTHAFUCKIN KIDS IN MUTHAFUCKIN SCHOOL?!?!?"

But I digress.

I get to the store, go to the second level search the area with the printers and find my baby on the shelf easy. I wave someone over and tell him I want it, he looks it up on the computer and says they have no more. WHY THE FUCK do they display shit they don't have!?!?!? BULLSHIT like this happens all the time! He says there were 3 in the store monday, the last one was sold yesterday, they can order another one...Blah, BLAH, FRIKIDY BLAH! It's my day off, I have no time to come back, I WANT THE DAMN THING NOW! So then I look around and find a similar model and I ask him if they have THAT one, he does his klicklity-klackly on the computer again and tells me they have exactly ONE left. I ask if it was refurbished or anything, I hate taking the last item of anything in the store, he said it was new and I said cool and he rung it up. Gave me my receipt/pick-up ticket and I went back downstairs.

Get down there, give my ticket, they tell me to sit down, others come and go, while I wait, and they start to notice. Turns out, they didn't HAVE that last one, either!

I swear, I am NEVER going to them again, how can approve a sale of an item that is not physically in the store! I asked them to reverse the transaction and walked out.

I'd try again Saturday morning...

After getting a few hours of some sleep, I spent the evening having IM'ing someone who found me on Yahoo Personals. Someone who was ACTUALLY in the city and not trying scam me for money from Europe or Africa somewhere...

We chatted for a good two hours or so...who knows if it might lead anywhere...she sounds like a workaholic to me.

Who knows, it might be the start of somethin'

I'M DONE, I'VE HAD IT WITH LOST...

First MICHAEL and WALT are history, now EKO's gone...

THERE ARE NO MORE BLACK LEAD CHARACTERS on this show! Whether or not we see ROSE again, it doesn't matter, I'm DONE!

There are too many questions, too many subplots, and I'm running out of patience for things to start making sense. This whole "JACK, SAWYER, and KATE in captivity is wearing thin... and even though things are getting a little bit better with LOCKE in charge, it's NOT ENOUGH!

We finally see how the SMOKE MONSTER killed the pilot waaayy back in the begining, but it didn't have to be at the price of EKO

We never even knew WHY he was in SYDNEY and going to LA in the first place!

So much shit is being left unresolved.

This show is a painting going off it's canvas, a freaking runaway train...and it's gonna crash in two years tops.

I'm DONE.

I REFUSE to even SEE (TAPE or DOWNLOAD) NEXT week's show in protest...and come February 7th...we'll see.

As of now, "LOST"...IS LOST!

Peace!

(More and more people are talking about "HEROES", anyway...)