Habitualchaos

Being a man who, although I have plenty, actually doesnt want his hair and likes being bald... something I always had to watch out for was sunburns on my scalp.

Well, as a result of a less than adequate moving truck provided by our local UHaul when my good bud Marc moved into his new house... I am now walking around with a (just noticeable under my peach-fuzz haircut) pink head.

I didnt even notice it was burned, until I scratched my head this morning and it fucking hurt after I was done.

PS: a new picturejournal is finally up after a five-month unintentional hiatus

In my version of the perfect world... Tradewinds Iced Tea would be the highest form of currency, or at least would be the national drink. I cant get enough of this shit... now that I found a stable source to buy it.

I found it years ago (talking like '97 or so) at the local Super KMart that was next to the Kohls department store where I was the Dept Supervisor of Housewares. They only had a few styles at that point, Lemon-Lime Tea and Sweet Tea were it... or at least they were the only few sold near me.

They have a couple other variations now, and Ive been ingesting their Green Tea most often lately. Theres a bottle sitting right next to me... seriously its sitting in a chair right next to me, smiling and just waiting for me to dive in.

If we were actually in my perfect world though... I guess this would be the equivalent of wolfing down a $20 bill. And I must say... Andrew Jackson never tasted so good!

In recent weeks, Ive actually been checking my site to see when my last post was... simply cause Ive been forgetting the last time I actually did one. This is bad, as Ive honestly been trying to think of stuff to say to do more posts... seems Im not very good at it thus far.

To my loyal readers, I apologize... you shouldnt suffer from my forgetfulness, but you prolly will anyway, so sorry bout that. The following, as the title says, are enother edition of some random shit floating round my head.

• my "new" camera came in on Monday, to my everlasting delight. I was a little frustrated it didnt come in on Friday, but Im feeling much better now. Ive been doing a little trial and error, and even a little reading the manual... sooner or later I'll get the hang of this thing. Ive shot a couple little videos with it, as it takes 35 seconds of Quicktime video with audio... but its nothing worth showing off just yet.

• I found out today, from a visit to my former college to research some options about going back to school... that since I already graduated with an undergraduate degree, I am not elligible for grants if I go back, I can only get loans. Im hoping thats only if I go to the same school I graduated from (man I hope so) cause when I researched ITT Tech a couple weeks ago... it would cost me $34,000 to get a two year degree there. As much as Ive been leaning (thats for you John) towards going back to school... Im not excited about taking my student loan debt to $59,000 since I already owe $25,000 from my current degree.

• Ive mentioned my redesign of this site on a couple occasions, and my original intent on getting it done at the beginning of this month. Obviously, that didnt come to pass... and although the thought and idea for the newest version are still fresh in my head... the actual implementation of it is another story.

Doesnt seem I have any more to say at the moment. When I started this post, I seem to remember, or at least thought I had more to say. Ah well... youll just have to suffer through what I gave you.

Rot my brain, huh... mindless fun, huh... take that mutherfucker!

Now that thats outta my system... I mentioned last week, since my posts are getting to be weekly lately, that I bought myself a "new" camera from a kind soul in Texas. I also mentioned this little toy of mine took little snippets of video, although in my opinion I didnt have anything worth showing yet.

Well I changed my mind... simply cause I havent thought of else to shoot yet, and I wanna start up my new section of little videos of mine (sometime soon), just like my good buddy Merk does in his "silliness" section.

So here ya go... its nothing special and a little rough around the edges, but its something nonetheless.

Till I think of something else that is...

While I gather the motivation to put together an actual video section for my new Coolpix 4500 snippets, I had just enough motivation to rustle up a little preview window for my little videos... much like the one for the latest picturejournal episode.

Its not much... but it will have to do, just because I say so.

I actually worked on my new design a little tonight, although as much as I dont want to... Ive been going back to my days when I was redesigning to version 2 of this little site and developing multiple concepts.

You would almost think that was a good thing, the way I put it as variety is usually good... but when I ended up with at least 12 different concepts for version 2, even I wished I would just fucking make up my mind.

Im up to 5 already for version 3, and I think Im just gonna stop now and either keep working on one concept I like or just revamp an early version 2 concept and go from there.

Even going as simple as I want to for version 3... I still cant fucking make up my mind.

Aww goddamnit... just when I thought I had enough stuff on my list to drool over, Apple had to go and do this.

Course there is one good to come outta all this, it finally gives me the motivation to go over that list of local banks and their individual structural weaknesses.

I have got to stop shutting off my alarm clock. Whether or not you can tell by any previous posts Ive done, its an undeniable fact that I love to sleep. Not enough to actually sleep any given day completely away... but sleep is a trusted companion of mine, the one companion I visit most; or at least whenever I can.

One of the problems with my love of sleep though, is of course oversleeping. Getting a little too much sleep. That little problem is always around me when I put my little formula for sleeping into play, and then dont follow it.

If you ask anyone, theyll usuallly give you different answers as to how much sleep you should get. Ive heard from 4 hours, to the average of 6-7 hours... all the way to my mom telling me the other day that as you get older you actually need more sleep, and the average for my Dad and her is 8-9 hours. I usually get anywhere between that. I dont usually get the same amount of sleep from day to day.

The way I usually guage it is as the following; Im not one of those people that fall sleep as soon as they hit the pillow, so I try to give myself an average of half an hour from the time my head hits the pillow to (hopefully) fall sleep. That average usually serves me well... sometimes I need more time, and sometimes I actually do just fall sleep when my head hits the pillow. Given that half hour to fall sleep... I think of how many hours of sleep Id like to get, my average is usually 6 hours.

So the way my "formula" goes: If I have to be up at 730 for something, 6 hours of sleep would put me to going to bed at 130, but given my normal half hour of trying to fall sleep, Id go to bed at 1. Ive been told this thing I use to guage my sleep is weird... but hey, dont knock what works for the individual. Everyone has some weird pattern they follow... I just dont mind possibly embarassing myself telling you mine.

The way this formula relates to me oversleeping and to stop shutting off my alarm clock? Last night I went to bed at 2, just cause I was tired and thats what time it was when I laid down. Taking the "formula" into account... lay down at 2, half hour to fall sleep leaves it at 230... 7 hours of sleep (this time) would put me at getting up at 930. Now anyone that knows me would automatically tell theres a snowballs chance in hell youd see me up at 930... but I usually reset my alarm a couple times which might have out me at 11 or 1130.

Instead of resetting though, this morning I just shut the alarm clock off... ooh, bad choice there. Without something to wake me up at a reasonable (or normal) time, Id just keep sleeping till waking up in the early afternoon and wanting to kick myself. That and too much oversleeping gives me a headache.

Thankfully I didnt really really oversleep and wake up in the late afternoon... but today I crawled outta bed and downstairs to get some Excedrin at 145, because I shut off my alarm instead of resetting it.

Think I'll buy several alarm clocks and strategically place around the room so I have to get uo and walk to different points of the room to shut them off. Maybe thatd work.