Courtesy of Skype . . . and the old Spider-Man theme:
Shimaru, Shinmaru,
Doesn't have a paid job to do,
At his desk, wastes his day,
watching Japanese anime,
Go look! That lazy-assed Shinmaru
Is he smart? Yes and no,
Knows his stuff but is kinda slow,
Writes in prose, wins the jam,
Though he sounds like a great big ham,
It’s true! Lame is that Shinmaru…
In the still of night,
Normal folk are asleep,
Not ol’ Shin’, that’s right!
He’s awake… what a creep!
Shinmaru, Shinmaru,
No-life Mexican Shinmaru,
Real world, he’s ignored,
Paychecks, friends and girls make him bored,
To him,
He’d choose not to pursue,
Neither some plain shampoo,
That’s goddamned Shinmaruuu!
Love ya Shin'. Platonic-like and such, naturally.
SomeGuy's Journal. March 6, 2009:
Woke up earlier than usual. Actually out of bed before noon. Had to follow up on phone call from last night about meeting out of town contacts. She had su...
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What's Good:
Elvis-style fried peanut butter and banana sandwiches. Those things are decadent and delicious. I actually bought bananas just so I could make more of these.
What's Better:
Killzone 2. Since finding Street Fighter 4 is pretty much gonna be impossible, I'm just gonna stop trying for a while - besides, RE5 has priority, I think. In the meantime, though, Killzone 2 shall do quite nicely. Kinda tricky to get used to its "heavy aiming" method, but ultimately the game is gorgeous. Much like many other PS3 exclusives, the deal is more evolution than revolution - most of the things it features have been done, but they've been combined and polished to an absolutely amazing sheen. Aaaaaand . . . I'm fine with that.
Also, I finished playing through Uncharted: Drake's Fortune. I'm excited about cosplaying him in Seattle again, even though people probably won't care again.
What's Best:
Beck's coming into town today!!! YES!!! Definitely shall have a full, fun day to chill later on, and hopefully we can meet for some brunch and other little things in between. Now if only I wasn't working every single damn evening . . .
Better figure out what kinds of local foods will impress the girl the most . . . hmm . . . . .
First off, I'd like to mention that I totally forgot my roommate had gone to the island for the next little while and I was at home wondering why she still hadn't gotten back from work yet. I feel dumb now. A shame.
But that's not what I've been meaning to talk about for a while, now has it?
AD GRATIAM:
I try to live a fairly simple life with very few expenses. I can appreciate my situation enough for that, so I never push my luck with things if I can help it. Always been like that since I was young and had an old allowance of my very own. If I wasn't saving it for some damn stupid tabletop miniatures hobby, it was generally going towards food or into the bank. I never pushed my luck with that.
So naturally, I was always a little unimpressed any time a friend would ask to "borrow a buck" for a can of pepsi or "a few bucks" for Wendy's or something. Let's face it, it's nothing to do with "lending" money - that money's gone and is never coming back to me. The question was always "can you give me a buck for a pepsi?", bottom line. So that never impressed me.
Bigger sense . . . easiest way to get out of debt? Never be in debt in the first place. That's easy now, and one day it might not be so easy (seeing my mom get three boys through school and such probably didn't hurt things). But for now, if I can help it, I'll never try to put myself in a position where I owe someone something if I can help it.
Self-sufficiency is a wondrous thing.
Pretty much the same deal with bills and the like so far. I pretty much only ever use my credit card for gas money because it's a bit of a chore to keep on top of that one and I never set up my banking for it (my work pay goes into a different unrelated bank account, so I can't transfer directly). But I pretty much always have money on my Visa so I don't have to worry about paying up bills later.
So okay, I like to live cheap, and as such I'll probably never ask anyone for money unless I really, really, really need to (though if I'm lucky, that won't come up any time soon no matter how often my grandma offers). Where does that put me with others?
It's pretty straight-forward. I'll never ask any big favours of you, so if you can, try not to ask too many big favours from me. I'm already a pretty generous guy as is; if you want to ask for help or to do something no strings attached, I'm probably fairly likely to do it anyway. If you ask me for something that might require down the road some sort of payback, though, well . . . let's not get ourselves indebted to each other too quickly, now. It's not a responsibility I'd want hanging over my head, and it's not something I want from you either.
It's such a common part of speech, isn't it? "Thanks, I owe you one!" or "Can you do me a favour?" It's not that I'm specifically against the actual words or anything - sometimes words are just words, which is totally against how I usually speak, but that's besides the point.
It sucks to be indebted to someone else. Bottom line. It's not something I'd wish for myself or for anyone else if they can help it.
My dad linked me to a story (originally in the newspaper proper) today. We had talked about it before, but he found the photo evidence:
http://www.theprovince.com/business/Series+police+takedowns+ends+foreign+student+kidnapping+drama/1306473/story.html
Neat story, huh? Nice to know that the police are doing what they can in a really vicious rush of kidnappings and gang activity. Wanna know what else is neat?
See the one ERT officer on the far left? I've mentioned him before . . .
That's just plain awesome. Like, Michael Bay awesome.
Also, since I didn't blog about it, don't forget to remind me to blog about that thing I asked you guys to remind me about.
