"Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it."

[grindmonkeh]

Books read thus far this year...
The Star Wars Vault: Thirty Years of Treasures... - Stephen Sansweet
Transitions I: The Orc King - R.A. Salvatore
Lord of Chaos: The Bloody Rise of the Satanic Metal Underground - by Michael Moynihan, Didrik Soderlind
Books of Blood - by Clive Barker
Duma Key - by Stephen King
The Road - by Cormac McCarthy

I'm taking back The Road and nabbing No Country for Old Men. McCarthy's writing is visceral (catch-phrase intellectual much?) with momentary emergings of truthfully impacting metaphor, which in my opinion fuel the story. The book is very effective.

Random going-ons...

I forgot to include the roof rack to my Liberty when I traded it in for the HHR, so I sold it on ebay. I had to build a shipping box for it Victor Frankenstein-style and ate into my profit margin by about a $15 dollar undercharge on shipping by underestimating the dimensions. (I have to not do that anymore.) But alas...the money is going into overhauling the audio system in my Grand Am. I replaced all four speakers last week, received the new head unit (Kenwood + USB input = WHAT!?!?!?) yesterday, and should receive the BOOM delivery today. It's amazing how poorly they design a vehicle in regard to accessing/removing/replacing things that should be pretty modular (such as speakers)...but instead I've anchored again in the soup of my latter teenage years and tore apart the doors and entire rear-deck assembly to swap out the factory mediocrity with Sony and Rockford awesomosity put in its place. The head unit and subwoofer should be quick and easy (thanks Crutchfield)...and I should be deaf by the beginning of next week. I would have been hard-pressed to do this in the Jeep...maybe since the factory system was exponentially better than the Pontiac's, but maybe because I have an anxiety about not MESSING UP a new car that was instilled into me by my step-dad. It's an inevitability that goes without speculation...but in his case, when you trade cars like you change underwear you miss the opportunity to witness the degradation of a vehicle from new to broken-in. I honestly don't care if I have another new car again...the HHR is Bran's.

We installed a 400lb. HP blade server the other day. And only later noticed that someone had put the rack in backwards and none of us had the observational prowess to see that we had in turn put the server in backwards. Today we removed it, spun the rack around, and put the 400lb. server back in. Good times.

Damon and I are going to see Circle2Circle and Jon Oliva (Savatage much?) in St. Louis on September 29th, and we're probably going to go to Chicago and see Dimmu, Behemoth, and Keep of Kalessin on May 4th. Good times. We've made it our bi-weekly Saturday night ordeal to go to Long John Silver's and eat some greasy-ass seafood and then watch concert dvd's, drink beer, and trade music.

Bran and I are trying to decide on a football game to attend this year...JFC...Colts tickets are insanely expensive due to the new stadium and relative success. We'll probably go to Chicago and see Da Bears.

This is about the coolest thing I've seen today:

With a crowbar and gauss gun that'd feel just like home.

Comments

[fitfool.livejournal.com]

Where's that video from? It's really cool....those holes in the trail make me really nervous though. But such a pretty view! I had really liked The Road too. Depressing in some ways but also cool for the gutsiness of surviving anyway.

[grindbastard.livejournal.com]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caminito_del_Rey

Those holes in the road would be the vertigo chaser to an otherwise really great view! Yeah...The Road was just depressing. A really endearing book though.

[charasan.livejournal.com]

I don't think I'll ever understand the need to put one's life at risk in order to feel alive. Skydiving, mountain climbing, bungee jumping. Bah. You want a rush? Eat some chili peppers or go jogging or something.

[grindbastard.livejournal.com]

Is that need a fault or is not understanding the need a fault? I'd do all of the above (and have somewhat). Riding a motorcycle can be tossed into that mix too. Come as close as you can to flying and you'll start envying the birds.

[charasan.livejournal.com]

That need is a fault.

[grindbastard.livejournal.com]

Is thinking that need is a fault a fault?