So now that I got my cell-phone to work with my journal again, I can update with some photos (e:lilho) 's birthday visit. There arn't that many as I was not so motivated to take photos when I couldn't send them right away but here they are.

Basically it involved eating and chillaxing [search]chillax[/search] We had pigwings for the first time at fat bob's, I will write a review about it sometime today. They looked like giant 8ozchicken drumsticks but we really some port cut. They cam with tasty homemade chunky blue cheese sauce. I would suggest them to anyone who likeboth pork ribs and chicken wings.

This browser sucks so bad it makes me want to puke. Unfortunately, some people were giving me slack for not supporting it. So instead of making it not work at all as I did in the past, you can now use it at your own risk. However, I will not be working to make it look pretty as even the browser's creator (microsoft) has dropped all support for it.

UPDATE: I changed my mind, get a real browser.

Today I class I had to teach how to make audio art. As most of you know this is not my thing, all though I like to think I can do all things computer related. Here is the test example I made during class.

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(e:maidencateyes) , [inlink]maidencateyes,198[/inlink] I agree today was a stupid day. Everything I did turned out bad. I mad a bunch of crappy mistakes, one after another and ironically, my fly was also down the entire class but I couldn't zipper it up cause I didn't want to look like I was touching myself, argh!

Seriously, everything that could have went wrong during my class today, I don't think that has ever happend. Everything was the wrong format, wouldn't download, server went down, plugin wouldn't work, student project wouldn't open, etc. I was just wrong and I am glad it is over.

On another note, I realized today that at one point I was chatting with (e:twisted) on my way into the men's room. I wonder if that is the first time a woman accompanied me (be it virtually) into the rest room where we continued to have a conversation as I peed. This is pretty normal with guys - so why not include woman virtually. I know you are all saying just put down the freakin' sidekick and get a life already.

Whoa, this is so 10/18 but whatever it's funny

paulsidekick: I also had a boss who was "psychic" once
paulsidekick: and she was very easy to manipulate
paulsidekick: because she was so spiritual/spooky
friendWithPsychicBoss: that sounds like this chick
paulsidekick: evenitually though, I got fired cause they insisted I was a witch
friendWithPsychicBoss: no way!
paulsidekick: Im an athiest
paulsidekick: so it was really funny
friendWithPsychicBoss: wouldn't you be a warlock anyway?
paulsidekick: but for a long time, I had her wrapped aorund my finger
friendWithPsychicBoss: that's too funny
paulsidekick: it became a game for me
friendWithPsychicBoss: what was the job?
paulsidekick: it was a lame high school at a health food store
paulsidekick: job
paulsidekick: but it was in an old pharmacy
friendWithPsychicBoss: you got fired from a health food store for being a witch. nice!
paulsidekick: and she was terrified of the basement
paulsidekick: it still had all the old medicine etc
paulsidekick: down there
paulsidekick: it did look spooky
paulsidekick: but as I am not afraid of supernatural stuff
paulsidekick: I ha dno problem traversing the basment
paulsidekick: which freaked her out
paulsidekick: but somehow gave me a power
friendWithPsychicBoss: ah ha. well, that just proves it.
friendWithPsychicBoss: superstition is weird
paulsidekick: eventually she felt I was sent take er to the darkside
paulsidekick: which is so funny
friendWithPsychicBoss: lol
paulsidekick: because I am seriously the nicest person
friendWithPsychicBoss: the dark side. ooooohhhh.....
paulsidekick: I just had to much fun with her
paulsidekick: I even told her I had powers as a child
friendWithPsychicBoss: ohmygod
paulsidekick: you should just tell her you also went to a trot card reading and realized you were her cat in a past life
paulsidekick: so you two have an intimate bond
friendWithPsychicBoss: col
paulsidekick: where you can know hat she feels
paulsidekick: they love that crap
friendWithPsychicBoss: oh, she told me all about her two cats too
friendWithPsychicBoss: she would love that
paulsidekick: i knew it
paulsidekick: they all have cats
paulsidekick: lol
friendWithPsychicBoss: I wish I could have recorded the conversation
paulsidekick: col
paulsidekick: you should have put it on your journal
paulsidekick: its so funny
friendWithPsychicBoss: i'm still at the point where I can't quite believe it's happening
paulsidekick: oh man
friendWithPsychicBoss: I can't see where this is going. i just told my family I got the job yesterday. I told jesse this morning, but that I didn't want to talk about it
friendWithPsychicBoss: i'm not entirely commited to it, if you can't tell
paulsidekick: it seriously could go either way
paulsidekick: i mean it could be bad
paulsidekick: or you could use it to leverage your positi
on
paulsidekick: as her f
ormer cat
paulsidekick: col
friendWithPsychicBoss: ha
friendWithPsychicBoss: you are seriously cracking me up
paulsidekick: they love colors too
friendWithPsychicBoss: maybe I should have my aura done
friendWithPsychicBoss: we may be incompatible
friendWithPsychicBoss: please, let me be incompatible with them in some way
friendWithPsychicBoss: (i keep reading 'as her former cat' and it just cracks me up every time)
friendWithPsychicBoss: (holy christ)
friendWithPsychicBoss: i feel like i've joined a cult or something
paulsidekick: sorry my mom
paulsidekick: was on the phone
friendWithPsychicBoss: s'ok
paulsidekick: its so funny
paulsidekick: I know that experience so well
paulsidekick: i honestly would welcome it again
paulsidekick: its entertaining
paulsidekick: I mean you still get paid
paulsidekick: and you can always find another job later
friendWithPsychicBoss: it's hard to keep a straight face. luckily, they're in seattle and I never have to see them. i hope
paulsidekick: and if you ever hate them
paulsidekick: tell them you found jesus
paulsidekick: and he told you they are evil
paulsidekick: it will freak them out so much
friendWithPsychicBoss: omg. i can just see that
friendWithPsychicBoss: she mentioned jesus several times
paulsidekick: oh no
friendWithPsychicBoss: one of the 'army of helpers from beyond'
friendWithPsychicBoss: the tarot card reader could see
friendWithPsychicBoss: and she verified
friendWithPsychicBoss: oh yes
paulsidekick: i totally know those kind
paulsidekick: my energy looks like this 011101010100011110010010101010101111001
paulsidekick: col
friendWithPsychicBoss: binary energy
friendWithPsychicBoss: nice reading
paulsidekick: thats what I should do
paulsidekick: computer energy reading
paulsidekick: i bet people would fall for it
paulsidekick: like a computer fix it man
friendWithPsychicBoss: there you go! oh my god, you could totally pull it off
paulsidekick: tahat doe socmputer exprcism
paulsidekick: exorcism
paulsidekick: and energy reading
friendWithPsychicBoss: exorcise the demons from your computer
friendWithPsychicBoss: people are so superstitious when it comes to computers
paulsidekick: your computer is giving off a blue energy that means it need more power in its hard rive
friendWithPsychicBoss: ;-)
friendWithPsychicBoss: I think i have to go take a bike ride and figure out what the hell i'm going to do.
paulsidekick: have fun
friendWithPsychicBoss: thanks for the consultation
paulsidekick: no problem
paulsidekick: meiow
friendWithPsychicBoss: ha
friendWithPsychicBoss: you'd be allergic to yourself
paulsidekick: ya

Today I went to go see professor Ralf Homann from the Bauhausd-Universitaet in Weimar speak about their Experimental Radio MFA program in Weimar. I want to go back top Weimar so bad, especially if I could do it as an exchange student for the summer. I have this special place in my heart for Thueringen.

Here is a to their page. If you speak German check out the Giardini vs Arsenale, it reminds me oh so much of the chipcrunks from our elmwood radio hawaiin christmas special.

Check out the elmwood radio to listen to what elmwood sounded like in 2003. I promise it's scandalous.

Those of you that know me, know that I go to the movies about once a year so this might be biased. In fact the last movie I saw was The Lord of The Rings 2 at the theater. Yesterday I was convinced to go see that stupid puppet movie called Team America. It was the worst piece of crap movie I have ever seen.

[size=m]The Twenty[/size]
What bothered me even more is "The Twenty." Has anyone seen this? In the twenty minutes before the previews they play commercials for products like SUVs, TV shows, etc. It was crazy, at the end of the twenty, they recap and go through everything they talked about and say if you missed it make sure to come a full twenty minutes early next time so you can enjoy the whole thing. Instead of thanking you for watching their commercial crap, they are telling you how to better perform the observation next time. When did this start?

Not to mention that our snacks cost $22.75 and were worth a total of about $3.00 in terms of product.

So much happend that I couldn't even keep up with my journal for once.

First it was (e:lilho) 's 21st birthday which brought (e:hodown) to town and for those of you that know her, you know it means a weird mix of relaxing and stress. Kind of like sweet and sour, haha. But she is part Chinese so that makes sense in a way.

So I forgot that my account at the server that hosts elmwoodstrip.comm ran out on Sunday, the same time the elmwoodstrip.org server was being updated. So I had a window of about 5 hours to move it all on Sunday after a night of partying. That was oh so fun, it wasn't just a simple move to a server with the same setup, it was huge switch, changing platforms and PHP versions. It was harrowing but luckily I had practiced with the new version of PHP on my laptop's mini server and on the buffalo.kicks-ass.org server so I kind of new what problems to expect.

(e:hodown) tried to kill me with smoke inhalation during the middle of programming but I was able to get through it and add google services to the search. Now if you search for say "checken" and no results come up on the site it asks you if you meant "chicken," it also gives you ten google results for what you are searching for. Basically the search is much better now.

There are so many new surprises and capabilities that will come out now that we have a new server with lots of new modules to work with. I have to go finish working on stuff right now.

It poored down icey slushiness for the first time on elmwood this year. I was going to take a picture of it for you all but (e:matthew) lost the extra battery for our camera and the other is charging so that isn't happening.

I really cannot stand political junk voice mail. Is anyone else getting this trash on their phones. I really think that it should be illegal. I have been thinking about cutting my phoneline once and for all and this just adds to that feeling. It is so expensive to have a phone. I think we pay $40/month with no extra services and I honestly answer/listen to the phone only 1 in 20 calls. You could have a sweet cellphone plan for that much money.

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