Couldn’t let this one pass without sharing…

9 03 2008

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Hey, strangers…

13 01 2008

Yes, I am still alive.

Let’s see…since I last wrote an entry:

I moved in with Laura.
Went to see Little Big Town and Sugarland in Youngstown. Yes, a country concert! (And I liked it.)
I sold my Xbox 360.
I bought a PlayStation 3.
I had a great Christmas with Laura and her family. (Also had a great Christmas visit with my mom.)
I went to Baltimore to see the Steelers play. (And got to eat with them and ride (with a police escort) to the game with them.)
Had a relatively low key New Year’s. (Thankfully, I wasn’t on the toilet at midnight this year.)
I am going back to school tomorrow (Monday, January 14th) to work on a certificate for Internet Programming.

That’s really about it.

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Sorry I haven’t been on much…

21 10 2007

Sorry I haven’t been online much in the past month or so. I’ve been moving.

Yes, moving.

I moved out of the apartment I moved to in July and in with Laura. Best thing I’ve ever done. Well, second best…compared to meeting her.

I’m now living in the sprawling metropolis of Madison, Ohio. It’s a lot more like where I’m originally from in Pennsylvania and I like it so much more than Cleveland/Euclid. It might be a little more redneck than Cleveland, but I’m still close enough to the city to enjoy that side of life and far enough away to relax without much stress.

The apartment really was too small for me. Plus, the guy that I was renting from kept three antique cars in the garage below me…and the apartment smelled strongly of gasoline. So much so that I wouldn’t really sleep as I would pass out and awake with headaches.

Living with Laura has been great. Cannot complain at all. I am the happiest I’ve been in decades.

Even Hendrix is happier. He’s running around (something he couldn’t do in “the mistake” (as I now call the garage apartment)) and enjoying the gigantic bed we have.

Laura’s family is cool and have made me feel very welcome as a new addition of sorts. That’s very important to me because I don’t have any family nearby.

So that’s what’s going on in the time I’m not online. I found a life off the computer. I know that’s a shock to those of you used to seeing me logged in 24/7, but it happened!

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Yeah…it’s been a week of self-discovery

19 08 2007

Your Score: Starving Artist

You are 42% Rational, 14% Extroverted, 42% Brutal, and 57% Arrogant.

You are the Starving Artist! Like some sort of emaciated Frenchman, you sit in your fancy little chair and contemplate beauty, meaning, flowers, and all kinds of other ridiculous crap. You are more intuitive than logical, and are primarily guided by your heart and emotions. You are also very introverted and gentle. Of course, this does not mean that you do not have an ego. In fact, you are surprisingly arrogant for someone so emotional and gentle. This is why you are best described as a starving artist. You are very introspective and quite sure of yourself, as any accomplished artist is, yet your views are impractical, guided by feelings, and overly gentle. You probably find math, logic, and similar intellectual pursuits offensive to your artistic sensibilities, and you prefer the open-endedness of artistry because it’s infinitely easier to ponder the beauty of a sock than to build rocketships. So really you have no reason to be arrogant, you big doofus, because the skills you value (emotion, spirit, art, etc.) in yourself are valuable only on a subjective level, meaning your arrogance is purely masturbatory, like the insipid self-pleasuring of some twat who spouts artistic nonsense only for the pleasant tinkling sound it makes upon his indiscriminating ears. In short, your personality is defective because you are arrogant, introverted, introspective, gentle, and thoroughly irrational…posessing most of the traits needed to be a starving–and useless–artist. So get out there, write a few short stories that are allegories for the indestructible spirit of socks, and starve!

To put it less negatively:

1. You are more INTUITIVE than rational.
2. You are more INTROVERTED than extroverted.

3. You are more GENTLE than brutal.

4. You are more ARROGANT than humble.

Compatibility:

Your exact opposite is the Capitalist Pig.

Other personalities you would probably get along with are the Haughty Intellectual, the Televangelist, and the Emo Kid.

If you scored near fifty percent for a certain trait (42%-58%), you could very well go either way. For example, someone with 42% Extroversion is slightly leaning towards being an introvert, but is close enough to being an extrovert to be classified that way as well. Below is a list of the other personality types so that you can determine which other possible categories you may fill if you scored near fifty percent for certain traits.

The other personality types:

The Emo Kid: Intuitive, Introverted, Gentle, Humble.

The Starving Artist: Intuitive, Introverted, Gentle, Arrogant.

The Bitch-Slap: Intuitive, Introverted, Brutal, Humble.

The Brute: Intuitive, Introverted, Brutal, Arrogant.

The Hippie: Intuitive, Extroverted, Gentle, Humble.

The Televangelist: Intuitive, Extroverted, Gentle, Arrogant.

The Schoolyard Bully: Intuitive, Extroverted, Brutal, Humble.

The Class Clown: Intuitive, Extroverted, Brutal, Arrogant.

The Robot: Rational, Introverted, Gentle, Humble.

The Haughty Intellectual: Rational, Introverted, Gentle, Arrogant.

The Spiteful Loner: Rational, Introverted, Brutal, Humble.

The Sociopath: Rational, Introverted, Brutal, Arrogant.

The Hand-Raiser: Rational, Extroverted, Gentle, Humble.

The Braggart: Rational, Extroverted, Gentle, Arrogant.

The Capitalist Pig: Rational, Extroverted, Brutal, Humble.

The Smartass: Rational, Extroverted, Brutal, Arrogant.

Be sure to take my Sublime Philosophical Crap Test if you are interested in taking a slightly more intellectual test that has just as many insane ramblings as this one does!

The following image was made by Stephan Brusche at http://www.sb77.nl, a real-life “starving artist”. Check out his website if interested.

About Saint_Gasoline
I am a self-proclaimed pseudo-intellectual who loves dashes. I enjoy science, philosophy, and fart jokes and water balloons, not necessarily in that order. I spend 95% of my time online, and the other 5% of my time in the bathroom, longing to get back on the computer. If, God forbid, you somehow find me amusing instead of crass and annoying, be sure to check out my blog and my webcomic at SaintGasoline.com.

Link: The Personality Defect Test written by saint_gasoline on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the The Dating Persona Test

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Pics of the new place.

8 08 2007

They’re not the greatest pictures…but they give you some idea of where I’m living.

It’s currently very messy and unorganized…but it’s getting better every day as I sort, throw things out, and move things around. These pictures are a week old and it’s already much improved.

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This should happen to every hands-free/bluetooth user

23 07 2007

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Move completed

20 07 2007

I’m posting this from my new apartment. It’s currently a very messy place, but it’s getting there. I moved in yesterday and spent my first night here last night.

The actual move went well, except for the rain. We are in the middle of a damn drought and it had to rain heavily during the 30 minutes it took to unload the truck. Didn’t rain beforehand and stopped shortly thereafter. Thankfully, due to all of the trees and the way the wind was blowing, the apartment actually shielded everything pretty well. Still, it’s just my luck.

I’ve been doing a lot of cleaning, unpacking, moving stuff around, and so on. I think I’ve slept about 8 hours total in the past three days. The three days I have off this weekend will allow me to get caught up on a lot and that includes sleep.

Hendrix has been exploring every nook and cranny of the place since he arrived here last night around 11 PM. He’s been extremely stressed out because of all the boxes and moving, etc. He actually hissed at me the last few times I’ve come in the front door because he’s overloaded. As the unpacking subsides, I’m hoping he’ll settle down. (He’s enjoying the windows, though. He loves laying on the window sills and watching the birds and the trees blowing in the wind.)

I’ll take a few pictures once I find my flash drive. (Which could be next year.)

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Update: Things is changin’

17 07 2007

Hey, everyone…sorry for the long time between actual posts. I’ve been kind of busy lately.

Since my last post in June, I’ve packed up most of my belongings. (Only the computer room and the kitchen to go…and they’re getting packed tomorrow.) The move is on Thursday morning. I’ve got Tuesday (today) off to finish up the packing and then I work on Wednesday. And, yes, I work on Thursday too. (Although I may go in late if need be.) Then I’m off on Friday and then the weekend to finish tying up loose ends at both places. The cable is getting turned on at the new place Friday afternoon, so I won’t be without Internet for too long.

Been busy aside from packing too. On July 1st, I went down to Youngstown to see Tool at the Chevrolet Centre. Nice arena. Fantastic show! Big Business (think The Melvins) opened up and were okay. Tool, however, was worth the 14 year wait to see them. I’ve been listening to them since Opiate, but never got a chance to see them live. (I had one chance to see them for free in 2001 but I had a job interview the same day. Grrr. At least I got that job: managing Austintown Movies.)

On Monday, I went to the Q to see The Police. Amazing, amazing show. Despite the reviews I’d read that said the band didn’t seem to be getting along on-stage, I found last night’s show to be quite the contrary. It was Stewart Copeland’s birthday and everyone seemed to be in great spirits. Lots of smiling and goofing around. Sting sounded like he hasn’t lost anything vocally since the 80s. Copeland is an awesome drummer. He was running back and forth between his kit and a giant percussion rig behind it. Almost a drum clinic in the guise of a Police show! Andy Summers, who I’d read was kind of phoning it in on some gigs, was on fire last night.

The opening band, Fiction Plane, is fronted by Sting’s son, Joe Sumner. His singing is a dead ringer for his father. Their music is also very good. While I was a bit skeptical about them being the opening band, they definitely surprised me and good number of other people around me. I highly recommend you get to the show early enough to catch them.

I’ve seen four concerts this year (Billy Joel, Ben Harper/Tom Morello, Tool/Big Business and Fiction Plane/The Police) and last night was probably my favorite of the four. With the move destroying my finances for the next month or so, I probably won’t get to see Rush on August 30th. That’s fine with me based on the track record of the shows I have made it to so far this year. I’ll be on track to see more soon enough.

I also managed to find time to go on a date on Saturday. It was one of those awkward first-meeting-after-talking-online-and-on-the-phone dates that you use to size each other up, I guess. I didn’t pass muster, apparently. Oh, well.

That’s about it from this side of the move. Next time I post, I’ll hopefully have all sorts of good news about the move. (As in, it’s over.)

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