Saturday, March 10, 2007
Shooting Star |2:31 AM| I'm surprised it took so long, but while I was throwing a boomerang at night, the light came off. I wasn't as confident as usual with the tape job, and just a second or two after I had thrown the boomerang, it failed.
I'd been trying to get the "Kilimanjaro" boomerang to come back to me in medium wind. I'm pretty sure I've only caught that damn thing like 8 times out of god knows how many throws. I threw it, and the LED fell off, and it looked just like I thought it would. The light was spinning on the blade of the boomerang, and then it was a green shooting star, a parabolic path showing it was now only under gravity's control. I lost sight of the boomerang instantly. My thoughts on the matter, at first, were simple:
Sssssssssshit.
When that sonavabitch is returning, it's slow, and you can hear the whum...whum...whum as it turns in the air. That thing had suddenly lost weight, and so I had no idea where it would be flying. I realized it was entirely possible that I could hear it, and spot it against what little light there was in the sky, and then catch it. It would be an incredible challenge, a great test of my abilities!
Instead I took the sane course of action: duck. I may be an overconfident egomaniac sometimes, but I like to think I'm not stupid.
I went silent, lo and behold, whum....whum....whum...thud. It landed directly behind me. This whole evening I had been shooting for a throw that close to me. Figures.
I want to discuss ADHD and my bursts of energy for solving/creating problems, but I should go to sleep.
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Trophies |2:07 AM| I occasionally keep little mementos/trophies from particular incidents in my life, when I can or even occurs to me. It ties into my nature as a pack rat, I assume. Remind me to never become a career criminal, as I'm sure I'd get busted from a collection of deposit slips from the banks I rob, or something along those lines.
List of Trophies I currently have (that I can recall):
74-134 Pencil that I used for the cert test.
Battery kill switch key from the light bar incident
Chunk of pinewood from the Shelf issue.
Drive belt from the worst printer repair I ever had. It took some 5 hours, because the device was so onery, and the directions from the service manual vague in the extreme.
Do Not Disturb signs from every hotel on my Longest Road Trip.
The bottle of captain morgan's Rum from a great trip to E3. It was supposed to be the "Backup Plan" when I was stuck at the airport for 20 hours. Derek and I had been carrying it around all weekend.
An envelope that was supposed to hold my bonus check from being named "Employee of the year". Without a plaque, this is my only memento.
I kept this poker chip from the second best card game I've ever played. The first best, I had to cash it all out, but then I furnished my house.
This chip comes from one of the trips to Arizona. Derek and I were out there to meet friends, it was a grand old time. That was the trip that I ended up driving all the way to Phoenix by myself. Anyhow, Derek needed the hotel room, and I had to wander the wilds of Phoenix without anything to do. I ended up a poker room, and cleaned it right up. Yeah, low limit game, but it paid for all the gas home, plus some.
Necklace This was supposed to be a gift, a looong time ago. It never made it there, and that's tragic. This is a reminder of one of the biggest fuck-ups I've made in a relationship (friend or otherwise). Are you out there, Wickham?
A hemp choker from the first time I was genuinely (I think) in love.
This green ribbon is a reminder of something very, very important and personal to me.
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Shooting Star |2:31 AM| I'm surprised it took so long, but while I was throwing a boomerang at night, the light came off. I wasn't as confident as usual with the tape job, and just a second or two after I had thrown the boomerang, it failed.
I'd been trying to get the "Kilimanjaro" boomerang to come back to me in medium wind. I'm pretty sure I've only caught that damn thing like 8 times out of god knows how many throws. I threw it, and the LED fell off, and it looked just like I thought it would. The light was spinning on the blade of the boomerang, and then it was a green shooting star, a parabolic path showing it was now only under gravity's control. I lost sight of the boomerang instantly. My thoughts on the matter, at first, were simple:
Sssssssssshit.
When that sonavabitch is returning, it's slow, and you can hear the whum...whum...whum as it turns in the air. That thing had suddenly lost weight, and so I had no idea where it would be flying. I realized it was entirely possible that I could hear it, and spot it against what little light there was in the sky, and then catch it. It would be an incredible challenge, a great test of my abilities!
Instead I took the sane course of action: duck. I may be an overconfident egomaniac sometimes, but I like to think I'm not stupid.
I went silent, lo and behold, whum....whum....whum...thud. It landed directly behind me. This whole evening I had been shooting for a throw that close to me. Figures.
I want to discuss ADHD and my bursts of energy for solving/creating problems, but I should go to sleep.
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Trophies |2:07 AM| I occasionally keep little mementos/trophies from particular incidents in my life, when I can or even occurs to me. It ties into my nature as a pack rat, I assume. Remind me to never become a career criminal, as I'm sure I'd get busted from a collection of deposit slips from the banks I rob, or something along those lines.
List of Trophies I currently have (that I can recall):
74-134 Pencil that I used for the cert test.
Battery kill switch key from the light bar incident
Chunk of pinewood from the Shelf issue.
Drive belt from the worst printer repair I ever had. It took some 5 hours, because the device was so onery, and the directions from the service manual vague in the extreme.
Do Not Disturb signs from every hotel on my Longest Road Trip.
The bottle of captain morgan's Rum from a great trip to E3. It was supposed to be the "Backup Plan" when I was stuck at the airport for 20 hours. Derek and I had been carrying it around all weekend.
An envelope that was supposed to hold my bonus check from being named "Employee of the year". Without a plaque, this is my only memento.
I kept this poker chip from the second best card game I've ever played. The first best, I had to cash it all out, but then I furnished my house.
This chip comes from one of the trips to Arizona. Derek and I were out there to meet friends, it was a grand old time. That was the trip that I ended up driving all the way to Phoenix by myself. Anyhow, Derek needed the hotel room, and I had to wander the wilds of Phoenix without anything to do. I ended up a poker room, and cleaned it right up. Yeah, low limit game, but it paid for all the gas home, plus some.
Necklace This was supposed to be a gift, a looong time ago. It never made it there, and that's tragic. This is a reminder of one of the biggest fuck-ups I've made in a relationship (friend or otherwise). Are you out there, Wickham?
A hemp choker from the first time I was genuinely (I think) in love.
This green ribbon is a reminder of something very, very important and personal to me.
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