Holiday

Dammit. For those of you who know me... I always forget something. Well... in this case I forgot my cellphone charger. The car charger is in my car, the regular charger is next to my bed. I also forgot the power inverter for the truck. It is also in my car. O well. So my sidekick is dead. And I have to make sure my laptop is charged for the trip back. Its 11 o'clock Sunday night and I just watched the extended version of the return of the king. I really liked a lot of the extended and deleted scenes. Particularly the one where Merry kicks orc ass during the battle of Pelannor Fields I am currently listening to one of my new CDs that I got today during a trip to both Borders and Barnes & Noble. I received gift cards for both and used them both. I am currently listening to The Foo Fighters “There Is Nothing Left To Lose.” I also bought Breaking Benjamin's “We Are Not Alone” and The Vines “Winning Days.”

as for the trip thus far, aside from the collapse of half of my electronics, I have failed to acquire additional music from my cousins enormous library. I was hoping to be able to rip them straight to my laptop, but I realized that would require an internet connection... which he has, but its shared wirelessly with a 48 bit encryption. wtf? My wireless card only supports 64 and 128 bit so..... that was futile. And when I thought to take music straight from his computer(s), I realized that all his music was ripped and sorted as custom compilations. Useless. He has almost no complete albums, and if he does, they've all been re named and re sorted into custom “best-of” compilations and other cleverly named and compiled collections. Clever, but useless to me. And he had a lot of stuff I wanted too.... he just got the complete studio recordings of The Doors for example. But no. I have no internet. (which is why I am typing this out on my computers word processing program).

I guess my cousin bought his wife a karaoke machine.... ugh. Nothing like a bunch of drunken middle-aged women singing to bad representations of good songs.... and ruining them in the process. They did this yesterday to crappy songs, and today having acquired better music to piss all over. Both times I hid in the back room with my laptop and a movie. As for my gifts, the most exciting stuff was the gift cards.... which I already spent, other than that.... nothing of note. I also got a blockbuster gift card which I will likely use to buy Spiderman 2. aside from that,my stay here has been pretty uneventful when there wasn't either a movie to watch, (good) music to listen to or food to eat. This is an extremely boring town. The only things Bakerfield is known for is being the only large city between Fresno (which is famous for the same reason) and Los Angeles; and the home town of Korn. Thats. About. it.

As for my health, I am slowly coming out of this cold, im still coughing once in a while and my throat dries up and gets sore every so often, but ive gotten most of my strength back and my congestion isn't nearly as bad. I should be feeling fine just in timee for it to rain. Yay.