Easter and Aloha

It is Easter. I was raised Presbyterian/Methodist by my mother. My Dad is atheist. At age 12 I decided to be Atheist too. My brain is too smart to be fooled by such nonsense. Unlike sex, there's no payoff for self-delusion. Someday I will die and turn into wormfood, just like everyone else. That's my position on religion.

It rained last night. I'm glad Dad and I finished off splitting the oak and stacked it up for pickup. It was good exercise and now that eyesore is out of the yard and neatly waiting for the folks we donated it to for their wood stove. Not all the wood was any good. There were termites in half the logs, audibly singing Kumbayah and holding hands, all that was keeping that papery mush together. That a tree was still standing with that? Wow.

Yesterday I bought Aloha shirts online, cheap. They'll be here this week, probably Tuesday. Considering how warm its been I'm sure I'll like that. Having lost my health insurance when my wife lost her job, along with everyone else in her career thanks to some Kenyan Hawaiian fumbling the budget pompously and OwnGoaled himself in the process, I will be paying for insulin and diabetes supplies out of pocket. It will be about as much as a real car payment. Sigh.

At least I'm getting a newer PC from a tech friend who is leaving PRK after a year of disappointments here. I plan to use it to play Diablo 3, and Torchlight 2, hopefully without the buggy slowdowns. Its a nice machine with lots of essays written about how he built and modified it. He doesn't want to lug it back. I don't blame him.

Hopefully my friend can use his IT skills where he's going. Apparently, PRK is fully saturated with mostly qualified IT. Considering the IT guy at work is really well skilled, I suspect that's actually true. I was a dabbler in comparison, but I've been out of IT for 6 years. That's a LOT of missed bulletins and updates. I think the price is fair and it will pay for a lot of gas money for his move across the country. He must feel so frustrated.

I really thought we'd see recovery here first, but PRK just keeps failing more and more. It's the Socialism, I think. It's this huge millstone around our necks. The weight of all those useless eaters dragging us down to the bottom of the pond, drowning in debt and their demands for "free this" and "free that". Who do they think pays for that? Some Kenyan Hawaiian who OwnGoaled his Legacy? Yeah, probably.

Aloha shirts. They make a certain statement. Mostly they're loud and cheerful and remind me of Xander Harris. The slightly more normal of the Scoobies on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, viking in the sack, demon chick-magnet, though to be fair Anya was human at the time, Faith was really aggressive about that sort of thing (like a real woman some of the time), and the mummy girl was cursed and died rather than hurt him.

So Xander was one of the real heroes of the show and was good for hanging lanterns on plot holes. The director sort of recreated him in Firefly with the pilot (Wash) who ALSO wore bright Aloha shirts. We'll call it "This Land."

I'll try not to get harpooned when I'm being a Leaf on the Wind, okay?

Not to be confused with Vash, the Stampede.

Vash is a funny alien-guy thing. And he has 3 guns, knows a version of Drunken Boxing, and is good at stealing bullets out of guns. I am not, however, fond of dusters or trenchcoats. I really did enjoy his character though, and recently got to see the Trigun movie.

I had Easter waffles this morning so I may be more random than usual. Sorry if that's a bother. I keep dreaming about packing boxes, since that's my job now. I'd much rather dream about hot women. I am definitely needing to start dating. On the upside the hot girl at work wants to bicycle as well as hike so maybe that will go somewhere positive? At least my bicycle is in good shape and ready to go. I really feel like I should do just a bit more critical maintenance on it. That and buy some yellow reflective tape so it's more visible. Solved: LED pedals and new lights coming by mail. Be here in a few days. These will make me way more visible. Even the blind drunks up here will see me, now. I'll put some tape on the frame too.

Worst case, I suppose I could put that silly 80cc engine on it, but that's risking arrest since they MIGHT violate the law. Closer inspection is they have to be under 15 mph and 2 HP, which they might be. Its also way too loud for this place. I saw a listing for an electric bike at Walmart, but its famously bad batteries and low power don't leave me feeling warm and fuzzy. The exercise is best. Its only a couple miles. With a good blood sugar and a snack, I should be fine. I just have to be safe riding it. It will be funny as hell delivering the last UPS boxes of the day by bicycle, in an Aloha shirt, and shorts. You have to take your comedy where you find it, right?

Happy Easter, if you care. Enjoy your Sunday if you don't.