Me and Monkey hopped into the car and shuttled down to the Catch at inferno-o'clock to spend an hour or two in a sauna work on getting a video projector working for tonight. Got some good stories about some stupid decisions someone made that are now manifesting repercussion there. At least it'll be simple to clean up the mess someone else is making.

We managed to get to the NOT A CORNFIELD Park (where Cirque Berzerk is) by 6pm. We horribly mangled the once-proud sport of badminton (SHUTTLECOCK!), and didn't care. It was fun. At one point, a fearless little boy around 6 years old or so came up with his friend, a girl of about 10 or so. They jumped right in and we all had fun flailing about aimlessly as the birdies fell safely to the ground, oblivious to our efforts to assault them. 'Drew demonstrated his usual friendliness, and it was cool to just goof off with people we'd never met before. I also think it's cool that more and more ghetto latina moms are getting out and literally walking their asses off. I grew up in that environment, and the mortality rate for high-carb, high-fat, high blood pressure sedentary lifestyles was epic. There's something VERY cool about argueably disenfranchised mothers getting out and doing cardio in groups. Rock on!

The moms looked very concerned that the kids were talking to strangers, despite the fact that it was me and my very obviously genetically-related son playing with cheap badminton gear and a frisbee. I'm glad they were concerned, at any rate.

Now to take a shower, work on Java, and pay for the sin of physical activity.

Well, no search parties as of yet, but we'll see what happens. I have hope Noah's dad will show up in one piece.

Me and Mr. Monkeypants are going to trek over to the Catch and try to get a video projector working in the disco, for tonight's Das Bunker escapades. Then a round of goofball badminton at the park.

Got to my checkup appointment late, so now I get to wait.

This afternoon, I need to do some heavy, most likely painful, introspection. I need to get an aggressive game plan to start making money. I have a lot of internal baggage and damage that I need to deal with and put to rest.

BBQ was great. Super props to Miss L. All I wanted was someone to flip meat on the grill so I didn't have to do it all night. Instead, she brought a ton of AMAZING and wonderful foodstuffs that she'd spent the previous night and all day Saturday prepping. I had know idea she was going to go to such lengths, and I'm very grateful for her efforts.

My laptop took a dive about 5 minutes into the shindig, though. Saynt Mykl and I discussed it a bit, and I was able to confirm this morning that the problem is in the drive bus connector on the mobo. My laptop is no longer under warranty, so sending it in to be fixed is completely out of the question. Today will be spent trying to figure out a creative solution to the GC master computer problem. The desktop computers I have that can output dual VGA and Composite video as two desktops aren't strong enough to handle real-time video decoding and playback. The laptops that CAN put out dual video aren't robust enough in the graphics card department to handle it either.

I'm sure I'll figure something out. Otherwise, all this hording and Frankensteining of computer parts has been for naught, right? :-P

Happy Independence Day, fellow United Statesmen. (It's not really AMERICAN Independence Day, unless the rest of the Americas had effective revolutions in the last 24 hours that I'm not aware of.)

Happy Birthday to the wonderful, beautiful, and stark raving mad kar3ning ! I think a Jane's Addiction song is in order upon your return.

Lastly, congrats to CAUSTIC and BABYLAND on what sounds like an amazing show. not_eurotic , please make sure you return them when you're done with them. We'll be needing them later.

As some of you know, a certain someone had a non-malignant growth removed from her inner babymaking facilities. I just got a new photo of it.

( CAUTION: graphic photo inside )

Reading through the morning LJ, something hit me like a ton of bricks. I'll spare you the context, although that's a whole other tragic and yet beautiful tale. But there was one part that still echoes along for me.

The usual monkey business: alternative karaoke, strange / obscure / fun videos,
food and drink. You know the drill. The video feed will be up, and we'll be
ready to rock by 9:40. Come down early and get your songs in, because
Round One will be in action before you know it!

NEXT Monday, we'll be doing ZOMBIEOKE!

See you then!
( Who? What? When? Where? How much? )

brokenheather got up early to run out for a peformance at the Venice Eco-Festival thing. I'm plotting my day out. What are YOU up to?

Yesterday wasn't entirely horrible. I got stuff done. :-)

This week is actually turning out rather productive for me, and I'm very excited by a couple of prospects that may yield great results. You'll all get spammed about it when it happens. :-P

Waiting on my mechanic to get back to me. He's trying to make room to get the RV. I can finally get the brakes done and get it over to the smog shop.

Okay, back to work!

Wow, last night was insane! Thanks go out to the people who brought other people, as well as the people who brought themselves. :-)

And thanx to chibimermaid for this little gem: