downloading entropia universe – yeah I’m gonna give it a go Sephy! ;) Looks like fun, the other half has been playing it for a while now, why don’t you grab it as well!
It’s the COPS marathon, you all may not see too much of me.. ;)
Everything Snoskred
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Late last night..
this painting just came to me as a surprise. It looks a lot better in person than it does in photo form.. :) The sea is way pretty, a mix of emerald green, topaz blue and dark blue occasionally mixed in. I tried to think of how the ocean here often looks and that’s not far from it.
Now why did the art teacher tell me I was no good at art, and I never would be any good at it, and stuff? Because clearly I am not terrible at it, this actually looks ok, and maybe with some lessons I could do even better..
Todays Painting
I now have 4 projects on the go.. ;) Here’s my painting studio –
The start of my new green painting – this time it will be much less structured than the other, with darker green stripes over the top of this color green base and possibly a gold one or two..
And one that came to me as a surprise, a peach painting..
I think I am actually getting better at this, the more I experiment and try new ideas the better the paintings seem to get. ;) I really like blending these things together and I’m going to try a nice sunset painting soon too.
I knew I should have..
bought that great tripod easel thing we saw today when we were out shopping. I’m running out of room on the table fast for my painting projects. I bought several new canvasses today which I’d like to get a start on as well but I already have two projects in the first stage sitting there which need a second coat – with the easel I probably could have sat them there to dry while I started new things.
We did a day out shopping today, it was very busy. Then we went to wash the car. The amount of traffic out there on the roads is scary, and I’m not even sure we’ll get in to the chinese tonight, there’s millions of tourists here.
Yesterday I watched the Dead Poets Society. I really love that film, it’s one of my favourites.
Assorted things..
I just squished a spider with a coffee mug. Well, it was in my house and the rules are clear – stay outside I won’t kill you. Venture in here and I am gonna dead you if I see you.
Interesting to note that a little visitor slash possible blog stalker who once tried to censor me has popped by again. Might I recommend you do something a little more useful than reading my blog? You’re not welcome here. Just so you know. Okie dokie then?
When I was growing up there was two movies my Mother refused to allow me to watch. Silence of the lambs (which I have seen and now can’t work out why she wouldn’t let me see it) and The Blue Lagoon – which starred one of my favourite actors, Christopher Atkins. I finally managed to see the whole thing this morning on one of the movie channels and I get why she wouldn’t let me see that – loads of nudity! OMG. There’s no way you could make this movie today, there would be too much outcry. It’s a really lovely movie though, I enjoyed it. And not just because of all the *male* nudity either.. ;)
I must do another movie review soon, just trying to decide which one it should be.. :)
The other half has had a big couple of days at work, which may mean a nice trip to JB Hifi soon, maybe.. ;)
Soooo bored..
I’ve loaded the dishwasher twice – and unloaded it.
I baked a cake.
I’ve made a start on two new paintings.
The other half and I have played pool.
There is NOTHING on TV, at all. Even pay tv. How is this possible? This is how desperate the situation is – I just watched a biography on Alan Alda. As much as I adore the man, I believe I’ve seen it at least twice before.
Lunch has been eaten. Dinner has been eaten. I’ve had dessert. Twice, once for lunch, once for dinner. I didn’t have breakfast but that’s because I don’t like breakfast. If I could have known how bored I would be later, I may have considered having it just for the entertainment of poaching eggs.
I’ve been trying to write some scripting for the lads but every cell I own is crying out – we is bored, get us out of here! It’s hard to come up with options of things to say to them when your cells are mourning the death of interesting.
I unpacked my cats calender for 2007. It has a cat on the first page that looks like my older cat. I am tempted to flick through and see what all the other pages have, but that would spoil the daily surprise.
I have no unread books. I have a few unseen dvd’s but no desire to see them. I watched The Green Mile last night – a fantastic movie but I’d seen it before. The ending had new meaning – how long does everyone walk their own green mile? I feel like today has been a year long all by itself. And I’ve only been up 12 hours.
By the time I went to bed last night I had sent 3 emails to Sephy – this is the kind of plotting we’re doing behind the scenes. We’re running a shitload of fake check baits, all at once. Almost 150 lads. I bought me a new skype in number specifically for these baits so the lads can get in touch and speak to me – this makes them more happy to send fake checks.
But the scammers are all on holiday – all the internet cafes are shut for at least 2 days. I’ve received 3 scammer emails since yesterday compared to the usual zillion million. Two of them were lads just saying Merry Christmas. Perhaps in a drunken emailing spree, who knows?
Not even Mcdonalds is open. The petrol station in town has run out of pies. That’s because the police turned up and bought all of them earlier, probably for those spending Christmas Day in the slammer. I know this not because I was at the petrol station. That’s how small this town is. I feel completely deprived of shopping. Is this the reason why so many people flock to the shops after they have been shut for one day? I have everything here that I need, but because I can’t go shopping I feel like I need to go shopping. That’s never happened to me before.
So they have a few marathons, but they picked all the boring shows to run this weekend, and next weekend I am spoilt for choice, including a COPS marathon. I love COPS. I think there should be a channel dedicated just to COPS. Yesterday I saw “Naked” cops, a special version they made just for naked people. However they blurred out the nakedness. I think that’s a little odd.
When we went up the street earlier the people next door to my parents had people visiting. I looked at the plates and said “Good, no interstate riff raff” then I realised – this time last year *WE* were interstate riff raff.. ;) Things have really changed in a year and I suddenly feel like this is going to hit me like a ton of bricks over New Year.
Santa brought me money and Lindt chocolates and Danish butter cookies. See what I mean about not celebrating this year? ;) I did not unwrap one single present. I did not *wrap* a single present. The reason for that is we didn’t have any wrapping paper and no shops to get any at. We did give two presents to my parents, and the other half decided to turn the boxes inside out being as we couldn’t wrap them. And yes, we briefly considered other options, such as taping together many sheets of a4 paper, wrapping them in junk mail catalogs or newspaper, and plastic bags. We got the parents a shredder and a wicked bin with automatic lid – a must for all germophobes like me.
Well, instead of boring you all with how bored I am, I’ll go annoy the cats, or something.. ;) or flick channels endlessly in a search for something.. anything..
Normally..
At Christmas, we used to drive from Adelaide to visit my parents in Tamworth, a good drive taking two days at least and it was over 1,600kms.
So this year it feels really not like Christmas at all, because we’re not going anywhere and my parents live a 2 minute walk down the street. And probably because we don’t have a tree, and we don’t have any presents for each other (though we did buy things for the parents), and we’re basically ignoring the whole thing this year except for food.
It makes me start to think about what Christmas really does mean. You all know I’m not religious, so this holiday should not even be appearing on my radar at all, realistically. What’s it all about? Retailers making money, I think. Which is not a bad thing in some ways, but to me it basically means absolutely nothing. This time next week the Hot Cross Buns will be on the shelves. And there, another celebration which should not appear on my radar.
So if it means something to you, Merry Christmas. If you’re like me, and you’re all blah humbug, Merry Blah Humbug, let’s all get sloshed, hey? ;)
But I did win $100 on the pokies today.. now that is something to celebrate. And over the past week, the other half has won a couple of hundred, and my *Dad* has won over 2k on the pokies – that’s $2,000.
What’s the secret to betting on the pokies, I hear you ask?
1. Have a set amount you’re willing to lose. $5, $10, $20, whatever you feel comfortable with. Dad likes to go with $50 but he’s loopy. These days I like $10.
2. Walk around until a machine speaks to you, don’t just play any old machine.
3. Always bet high. None of this one credit per line junk. I like 5 credits per line.
4. If you lose your amount, walk out. Don’t put more in.
5. If a machine is screaming at you once you’ve lost your dough, don’t play it!
6. Don’t be afraid to play a $1 machine just as long as you know it won’t last as long and once you do your dough, you’re done.
Today a $1 machine screamed at me, and I bet one .50 cent credit per line, so I was betting $2,50 per bet. On the second hit of the button, the machine went loopy and gave me $100 credit! YAY!
So when that happens, cash out, and if you want to put your $10 back in, feel free, keep the $90, and don’t put that in a machine whatever you do.
wooooooooooooooooooo
should have remembered to open window before sealing painting.. now I know why teenage boys sniff glue.. wooooooooooooo I’s high.. yet on the bottle it says this stuff is non-toxic? Maybe if you’re eating it, but if you’re smelling it I think it might be a different matter.. I painted four different highlighting stripes – gold, antique copper, the two mixed together, and bronze. If you click on the picture you’ll see a bigger version, and also one of my cats sneaking into the pic.. she’s acting odd today, all sooky.
Went down the main street earlier with the parents to collect the lobster and prawns for lunch/dinner tomorrow. Also we are going to have roast pork which we won in a meat raffle and froze some weeks ago now. Saw many interstate numberplates which was scary. Considering locking doors and staying inside for at least the next month given they will all be holidaying around here.
I hope kitties are not getting high. They are sitting on the sill of the open window and the smell is somewhat strong there.
Next paintings are going to be more not straight lines, like just stripes that don’t really care where their edges are. I want to do a black background and flower painting too. I found a red cow painting in a magazine, which I liked but do not think I have the talent to recreate. :(
And now for something completely different..
As I type this now, it is pouring with rain. Since 9am we’ve had over 40 mm of rain, and the average for this month is just .3mm less than what we have had in just one day here today.
It’s a beautiful sound but very unusual for this time of year. I have not seen blue skies for some days now, but this is ok, we need the rain. I just hope some of it falls inland where they need it even more than we do.
It’s hilarious..
To all scambaiters out there on the planet
My other readers can skip this post, I’ll post something useful and interesting shortly.
Rumours continue to abound that I am secretly plotting against other scambaiters to the point that I feel the need to clarify the following. Please take the time to actually read this post and absorb it, instead of interpreting it to mean something entirely different.
In the past few weeks, I have laughed at the following rumours –
– that I am secretly wanting to take over a site that belongs to a fellow scambaiter – a site which I rarely visit and if I do visit it is only to have a good laugh at the carrots stuck up the rear ends of people who participate there.
– that I am a part of some fictitious group which is plotting to hack and take over sites.
– that I have been goading other baiters into doing things which have caused issues for others.
– that I am a master of puppets, pulling people’s strings from a distance.
I know I am NOT plotting against anyone, and in fact I couldn’t give a shit about any of those people I used to call friends who turned out to be incredibly two faced. You know who you are, if you are reading this. You know what you did.
I have built a bridge, walked over it, and truly am working on MY OWN PROJECTS NOW which have absolutely NOTHING to do with any of you and are IN NO WAY plotting against you. To quote Jane Austen –
You have widely mistaken my character.
Perhaps you need more tinfoil hats? Perhaps you need to stop hanging out on skype chats or secret little boards discussing things and making them into conspiracies that do not exist? And perhaps you need to make sure your secret boards hide their referrers when you link to my blog, because stupidly one of you clicked through to here from your secret website. So it’s not so secret now.
And perhaps I am a master of puppets after all, if me doing nothing at all except for getting on with my life without reference to any person so wholly unconnected with me as these people are can cause such rumours to persist and abound.
It’s been a over a year since I was removed from one site, and almost as long a time since I stepped down from holding any responsibility on other sites. I am not angry, I am not holding any grudges, I’ll be honest and say that when I do occasionally think of you, I think the majority of you are assholes who will find Karma kicking your ass at some point in the future, but that is where it ends.
There’s maybe one or two of you who are decent people but when gathered in a group and something happens, you act like chickens with their heads cut off, and panic, and do stupid things. Remember the advice from the Royal Family?
In a crisis, do nothing.
That’s what you need to do in future.
So instead of saying stuff about me or other people, why don’t you BAIT SOME FUCKING SCAMMERS? This is the second time I have suggested you do that. Why not do something useful? Why not try to be decent people instead of such fuckwits all the time?
And to the decent scambaiters out there, and there are many of you, who don’t participate in these gossip festivals, who don’t wish harm to any fellow scambaiters, who only want to hurt the lads, good on you guys. There are so many baiters who seem to have forgotten it is about hurting the lads and not each other, and baiting the lads and not each other.