get bourne

how about this? if u go to best buy, you can purchase the bourne files. it includes the bourne identity, the bourne supremacy, a bonus disk, AND a $7.50 movie voucher to get into the bourne ultimatum. the price? 15 bucks, 10 bucks if you use a master card. do not let the cashier tell you that it has to be a best buy rewards zone master card. that is b-s, as my cashier had her manager tell her. also, a majority of the movies do NOT have the sticker on them. interestingly, all the packages with the sticker on them were buried in the back. if one did not know any better, they would pick up a non sticker unit and think they got a good bargain. they would not know they narrowly missed out on a great bargain. three DVDs for $2.50. how about that?

of course, any time i go to best buy i usually end up getting at least one CD and at least one DVD. true to form, i also purchased the new NIN and the new linkin park CDs. both are good btw. and i also bought the devils rejects. rob zombie rocks!

i am glad i did not see bob marley on the bitter night. a friend from work who went said she got soaked AND although his band was good, bob sucked. i guess he didn't even talk to the crowd at all. other than his incoherent 'singing', the only other words he spoke was to introduce his band members at the end.

anybody know what the iridescent green bugs that live here in AZ are called? somehow, the talk of bugs has been prevalent the last two days.

i do not think i stated it, but monsoon season is upon us. and it has been hitting us hard. an apartment building just down the road had a big arse tree crash into it, renderring many homeless, but no one hurt. we are noi longer hitting the 100's, instead we are 95 with high humidity. makes a huge difference. 105 is much better! i am serial.

ok, a tribe blog is desperately required. kenny is back!

wOW

someone was a little bitter last night, if u can't tell.

the weirdest thing happened to me this AM. two different radio stations were playing the same song, at the same time, totally in sync. the two stations were 96.1 and 107.5, tucson's only two classic rock stations. i have both stations programmed in my raw-dio. i press for 96.1, and motley crue's version of smoking in the boys room is on. i hate the song! i press for 107.5, same song. i thought i didn't press the correct button, which is on the right. i go back and forth continually. the song keeps playing, only momentary gaps from my 'flipping' interrupt the song. the song that is being played on two different stations. it was a freaky feeling. guess you had to be there.

cleveland won today's game against boston, finally halting the smack talk from my cousin from vermont. they won 1-0. yesterday, they lost 0-1. we have not played in back to back 1-0 games since april of 1942. that is also freaky.

i should post a tribe blog, but i sorta had a bad day. then we lost 0-1 to boston. par for the course.

since i have nothing good to say about the tribe at the moment, i figured i might as well post here.

this weekend i went tubing on the salt river with a large group of people. that was sweet. how can it not be though??? as long as the alch'is don't ruin it. there are alot there.

i have only had two cacti bloom so far. much growth, but very few blooms. i still need to repot a few, so maybe they are disgruntled. and spreading the word to the others not to bloom. maybe they are still too young. maybe it is due to the ultra efficiency that is non human life. the cacti realize they that flowering is pointless. they can not propagate themselves. why waste the energy? there would be many reasons. not the right pollinators around. they realize they live in an apartment complex, far away from their native habitats. whatever their individual reasons may be, the result is the same. no blooms.

and yes, that was a backhanded stab at humans. take that, mankind. can we say we are really geared toward survival, or just being for the moment. i, unfortunately, have grouped myself in the non-sensical category.

i could have been at bob dylan tonight. i chose not to. the potential for rain was the determining factor. i am sure since i declined it was bone dry there.

i should go.

the 13th of friday

overall, it was a really good one. finally got my new dishwasher (after 2 weeks of not having one), ran some errands, was given a free iced coffee, ran some errands, finally closed out my storage unit, the tribe won their first game after the all star break, had boston market for dinner, had a good time in hanging out with a friend whom i probably will not see again, and won playing the game of progressive rummy i played tonight. dang, i guess it was a really good day today.

this week, i received a letter in the mail from san diego. a hand written letter from someone i had never met. but he read my question in this month's astronomy magazine. august 2007, ask astro. i just love saying that. so, he read my question and deemed it necessary to write me. why? i still cannot decide. my question was regarding comet wild 2 and the stardust mission. the 'masked man' from san diego wrote two pages front and back in fairly small handwriting about the SETI project and a publication of his in the journal of the british interplanetary society in march 1982. reference numbers were provided so that i could verify his claim. the address is too long to type up, but i would gladly give it up if anyone were interested. but in the four pages, the only connection to me is the u of a, which he mentioned frequently. he (rightfully) respects the u of a for their astronomy department, but none the less is disappointed that they rejected the premise of his way-back-in-the-day publication. he spends most of the letter backing up his premise, a very wordy awkward title.

radiospectroscopic study of astrophysical photon source flares and the SETI. say that 3 times fast.

the last (run on) sentence is as follows:

'I also would like to know if you either do, or do not, share my own personal concern about the possibility of some other hostile nation obtaining very large amount of scientific and technological information, from advanced alien beings, via radio waves from powerful transmitters, and then using it to gain a military advantage over all other nations, here on Earth, including us, which is obviously possible, theoretically.'

people ARE strange. my mom is now worried that a man wearing a tin foil hat will show up at my door. i do not share her fear, but none-the-less, i do not see the need to write him back. a buddy who works at starbucks feels i should write him back. he was intrigued by the letter. he thought the most peculiar aspect of the letter was that it was hand written, not typed. he looked bewildered when i told him i love hand writing letters.

it's all about the music

it is 11:56. i have worked 25-1/2 hours the last two days. i have slept 8-1/2 hours the last two nights. the only reason i am posting right now is because it is starting to rain AND tsuki is still outside. i figured if i started posting, he surely would come running in. so far, that has not been the case.

so, util he does, i guess i will reveal the cause of my short sleeped nights.

sunday: the incubus concert at AVA. i never been a big fan, i do not even have a CD of theirs. but i have always really liked their radio songs. and they are even better in concert.

monday: an 'adopted' family member has left for oregon today. so i went over to her place last night to say goodbye, and have one last game of cards with her and her sister. her sister is leaving for cali next week, btw.

also:

live earth rocked this past saturday. i watched it off and on all day on bravo and sundance, and listenned to it on XM.

the smashing pumpkins are playing in fall ball. looks like i will finally have to attend that now.

i cannot believe tsuki has not come in. where is the dude at??? it finally has started raining good. the monsoons are here.

what a turd! he was never outside. i openned a can o' tuna for tomorrow's lunch, and out he runs from my bedroom, dry as a ... bell. an indoor bell. i guess he sensed the rain, and decided to come in and go to bed. i should have done the same a long while ago.

the weather on mars

yesterday was the 4th. i cannot recall being so enthralled with fireworks since i was a lit'len. TEP and 'your' tucson sidewinders provided the treat. tis a shame they are almost definitely leaving for reno within the next couple of years.

speaking of leaving, that is the way i am strongly leaning. back to OH. away from the mountains. back to allergies. back to cold. back to clouds. it would be the end of my jeep, the gas guzzling whore i adore. back to the sun being a welcome yet rare guest, rather than an almost everyday companion. i would have to find a good home for my cacti. i will miss them all. tsuki will have to endure a torturous road trip. goodbye to the sonoran desert and mt lemmon and all the catalina mountain trails i love. welcome back to the forests and corn fields and flat lands of OH. back to family and friends and my god daughter. i might have mentioned it before on here, but over a year ago, i read a book comparing and contrasting sigmund frued and c.s lewis. in the book, c.s. was quoted as saying to forego all else to be with family and friends. but it mentioned how he really had both where he lived, a place he loved that also had the people he loved. if i could combine OH and AZ, then i would be in shan gri la. unfortunately, i have not yet harnessed that power, and thus i am forced to decide.

anyway, so, july 13th is the new date that the mars rover oppurtunity is now supposed to finally descend into victoria crater. it was supposed to have done that sooner, but a nasty dust storm has hit the region. the same storm has hampered the efforts of spirit also. it is wild, scientist are now trying to predict weather on mars.

as for weather here in AZ, it is hot, damn hot. and i believe the monsoons are upon us. i thought it was going to start tonight. it got cloudy, and it got windy. also, i learned today that SUPPOSEDLY at is possible for it to be so hot that rain evaporates well before it would otherwise hit the ground. supposedly, the phenomena is called vergo (sp?).

on astronomy:

i am now have been published! check out astronomy magazine. the newest edition, august's publication. there is a section penned ask astro. anyone can write in questions regarding anything astronomy. the scientist whose field and work is most applicable will answer the selected question. in just my second submission, my question was picked. it involved the stardust mission to capture particles from comet Wild 2. my question was answered by a member of the stardust science team, george flynn. they went straight to the top. and i learned some information that i could not find on-line.

i will have to double check, but i believe i read the that any human being whose question is picked receives some notification AND an extra copy of the issue. i will call actually. regardless of the policy, i am going to ask that a copy is received by my god daughter. even if i have to pay for it.

what price $100? that is approximately how much i received from two jeep loads of crap i took to a friend's yard sale. the work involved though extreme, for being on a weekend. friday, because i also had to work for NP&G, i was at my house on two separate occasions, for a combined half hour. i got home at midnight, and was out by 05:15. there was a 5 minute pit stop before arriving home at 22:15. i was asleep before 23:00. i turned down a party where there were friends with whom had not seen in awhile because i was too damn tired. obviously, that left today to do things around the house. badly needed vacuuming did not get done, but everything else i wanted to achieve did get done. including this post. thanks to astronomy mag!