construct a life: #190 - madness i say madness!

haven't posted in a long time because i haven't been able to get any down time in the past week... lots of things happening argh. but the election day holiday couldn't have come at a better time, i've got lots of unfinished business to take care of so i'll be out all day. but until then... here is some randomness from the past week and a half it's not in any kind of order because i can't remember what happened when and when i had certain thoughts and not certain other thoughts, so maybe just try and guess when it was i thought these thoughts aye?

1. isn't the weather awesomely halloween-y? i was driving last night to and from waialua the back way, that was so cool. the vog was way thick and driving down that back road it kinda looked like a horror movie, or like what i would imagine driving through some new england-y countryside would be like in the fog and some monster would jump out or you'd suddenly run out of gas and have to walk to an abandonded mansion but then the butler would come out and greet you and you'd ask for a phone but he'd say the storm knocked out the power and everyone would be dressed like it's the 18th century and you'd go inside and they'd feed you gruel and you'd have to spend the night even though you don't think it's a very good idea but you'd do it anyway and things would be all ominous and such.

2. those 50 people living in that housing structure that collapsed are dumb. okay, so they're in a pretty crappy situtation to start with, but in the end they CHOSE to stay there (living with 50 people and 2 bathrooms and 1 kitchen) and pay $250-750 in rent for THAT, and they CHOSE to take those injections... c'mon, how stupid do you have to be to be "forced" into taking injections for fear that you'll be evicted. granted, i understand that they "felt" that they had no other choice, but there is ALWAYS another choice, perhaps not great ones, but i don't consider taking unknown injections as a preferred choice in most any situation.

3. i went to the oahu civic orchestra concert, it was weird, but seemed like fun.

4. i went to the oahu civic orchestra rehearsal, it was weird, but i kinda had fun... i think. it was so funky playing again though, i hope i've got a steep relearning curve though because it was kinda hard to play. i opened up my case and there was all mold and grossness growing on all the wood, yuck. we'll see how this goes, at least it's all christmas music so that's cool right? i'm actually really optimistic that this has a great upside to it, right now i'm still in the awkwardness phase of getting back into the whole band/orchestra thing, but i think this might work out.

5. update - went to rehearsal again today, my cork came off right in the middle of rehearsal! great... repairs. is music center of hawaii still open? haven't had to do that stuff in a LONG time...

6. more repairs! ugh! i hate it. on halloween my computer totally broke on halloween. the lid completely cracked, little black plastic pieces came falling out everywhere, the lid won't close, the lid won't open without coming apart at the seams! it's madness! madness i tell you!

7. tv is lots. i haven't had time to watch about anything since the saturday before halloween and i've got like 10 millions shows recorded argh! and now my writing is getting all frantic and rushed because i'm feeling overwhelmed!

8. uzi kid - well, this was a really sad news article, but once again another great push for my anti-completely-all-guns-go-away campaign. at some gun rally in some state on the mainland an 8-year-old boy was testing out a semi-machine gun (with instructor watching), his dad went to get the camera, the kid squeezed the trigger, lost control of the gun and shot himself in the head and died. what a HORRIBLE event right? geez, that's not even any kind of thing but completely awful thing to happen. no guns. really.

9. halloween was mad fun. bbq was great, chinatown block party was new and fun (even though they were already cleaning up by the time we got there it was cool to do something new) and drinking is always fun... always.

10. after no downtime and lack of sleep for the past week and a half, i slept for nearly 12 hours on sunday morning... yikes.

11. do i seem a little wacked out right now, feeling that way, need more sleep and less busy-ness and just a little bit of boring maybe... but until then i pretty much feel just like this!