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| Friday, May 23rd, 2008 | | 1:57 pm |
Myspace.
hey, i don't get back here very often anymore. but i keep up w my friends on myspace better. so if you have a myspace look me up so i can still keep up w you. i'm here..... http://www.myspace.com/toad_ali and let me know who you are if i don't know already. | | Tuesday, May 20th, 2008 | | 11:12 am |
UPDATE!!!
it's been a while. sorry. things are changing quite fast. much is going on. i won't bore you with the details but the biggest thing is my move out of my beloved big red. i'll be moving into a house with a few close friends, benjamin, pony, and Jmac. i really don't want to leave big red but i just can't afford it on my own. it is the end on an era. -and the beginning of a new one. i turn 36 tomorrow. wow. that's all i can say about that. i just wrote a bunch of stuff about my current state of affairs regarding my life. -as you can see i deleted it. i'll try again later when there's some continuity to it. | | Thursday, January 10th, 2008 | | 4:11 pm |
update
here's my new mullet. i've been rocking it since my white trash dance party on NYE. it has powers. great powers. it is my cape.   for motr photos of the white trash dance party, go myspace.com/toad_ali and here's my bunny. i've wanted a velveteen rabbit tattoo for a long time.  | | Monday, November 26th, 2007 | | 3:18 pm |
status update
i'm doing well. i'm getting my house in order. trying to get all my things where they should be. -still waiting on some of those things from julie. we try to talk when we see each other out. we're doing well with that. alcohol always seems to help. i've been trying to ask girls out again. i don't even want close to another girlfriend but i do need to talk to people now and talking with a pretty girl is always good for the ego. so, of all the girls i've asked out (which really isn't many at all) one has agreed to meet up with me (the rest have boyfriends) however it'll be in another week because of her tour schedule apparently. i know better than to ask out bar tenders and servers but i don't even care right now. the fear of rejection hasn't even been an issue as of late. perhaps this is a beginning to a new confidence. i'd like to change. i'd like to open up a bit more. i'd like to emote -at all. we'll see how my new social experiment goes. toad 2.0 i'm still not real comfortable siting at my place all the time so if you want to get out for a drink, give me a hollah. 615.306.three.three.five.one. or IM me at AIM - troh23 | | Tuesday, November 6th, 2007 | | 8:41 am |
today
today she's due in from chic ago to pack her stuff and move out. i feel like she's trying to avoid me but i have to talk to her. we have a lot of things to work out domestically and i especially have a lot of things i need to resolve. i need her to talk to me. i need to see her face. h'm not trying to fix anything. i need my kind of closer so we can make this as easy as possible. otherwise i will be angry and resentful and a dick and she will only counter my anger with more anger. i don't want to make this fucked up. it can be easy. i just need to talk. of course with these recent developments I've acquired more financial responsibility. -like my rent just doubled. I want to stay where i am. i love being at big red. i will find nothing like it for that price. on paper i can swing it. i just have to keep myself on a really short leash. however, right now isn't the time i really want to be spending a lot of time at home. i thought about building a couple rooms and get a room mate, but that would change what it is and it wouldn't be why i wanted to stay. i like the wide open space of living in a studio. i may try to sell my truck so i won't have a payment to worry about. it's a good idea however julie's been driving my truck for a year (still is) and has wreck, broke and scratched a few things. all of which i need her to fix so i can get a better resale value for it. she say's she'll fix them but i honestly don't know. i just bought the truck last year and drove in about 3 months before she needed a vehicle and i let her use it. i haven't seen it since. i still love her and h'm still attracted to her and that's going to take a while to wear off. we have a lot of the same friends and things are going to be weird. -but i don't want to make them difficult. i am respectful. h'm anxious it get this over with. i need to see my place with her stuff gone. i need to get a look at what i have. i need for her to repay me so i don't feel like she owes me anything. i need to clean up and move things around. i need to fill open spaces with something else to take up some room. i need to throw a lot of things away. i need to dig up things that i put away and lost. i need to shed a little skin. | | Friday, November 2nd, 2007 | | 11:43 am |
| | Tuesday, October 9th, 2007 | | 10:24 am |
88.1
I've been feeling like I'm just off the right frequency. not quite dialed in. can't hear the musicr because of all the static and chatter. Jules just left last week for another month in chicago. thaqt may have a little to do with it but generally i like my me time. I think it's just that i feel out of sync with my friends because i really haven't seen any of them in a while. -or actually had real time with them. with jules gone, i've become a house zombie. not much going on with me but sitting in a lazy-boy watching sci-fi and CSI. anyway, enough of that. if you know the aardvarks, then be sure to come out and celebrate with them at Baily's on broadway. It's a launch party for Thr3eSlackers.com, Brodie, Auggie and Rob's new t-shirt company they started. Silly and rude-type t-shirts that are fun for everyone. There should be food and drink and live music. The upstairs is reserved for us all. but yeah, come to the party. it'll be fun. | | Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007 | | 2:10 pm |
Cough-cough wheeeze die....
today was the first day i rode my bicycle to work. it was noly 6 miles but it nearly killed me. i had to stop twice and give myself CPR. i'm just now catching my breath. let's see if i can do this for the rest of the month. | | Wednesday, September 26th, 2007 | | 2:34 pm |
TicketBastards
My bitch with Ticket master. I bought a couple tickets for a Bad Religion show in Chicago at the House of blues for Julie and her step-brother, Tim. I bought the tickets because I was the one who had computerized money (credit card/debit card). I am not going to be at the show as i will be 500 miles away back in Nashville. The first thing you notice is the ridiculous charges that they add-on to the purchase of your ticket... ticket price................................... ...23.00 x2 Building facility charge........................2.00 x2 "convenience" charge.........................8.55 x2 additional taxes................................0.7 0 order processing fee..........................4.60 ticketFast (print the ticket out yourself)....2.50 for a total of ...................................74.90 WOW! now here's the deal, i originally clicked the will call option as we're less than 10 days away from the show and ticket master wont mail them to you after that (for free. they will charge a lot to have them expedited by carrier). will call was our best and cheapest option. HOWEVER, after purchasing the tickets i noticed a disclaimer: the person who bought the tickets has to be present with the actual credit card and a photo ID to present to will call to receive the tickets. Well, fuck. i was going to be 500 miles back home in Nashville. so then i called ticketmaster and waited 15 minutes for a CSR. I told them that I cant be at the show and that the tickets were bought as gifts. He said something about a "special will call" but that would still have to be a person with the same last name as mine picking up the tickets. that would not work either as julie does not have the same last name as me. so he then suggested the "print your own ticket" option. i said, "what"? he said, yeah, you can just print them out yourself. I said sure, that's fine. He also said that it would be 2.50 to do that. I said, Whoah! there's no way i'm going to pay anymore for these tickets. he was already charging me 26 bucks over the cost of the tickets as it was! I told him that their policy created the inconvenienced and that I won't pay that. (look at me fighting for my 2.50!). he ended up waiving the TicketFast charge and emailed the tickets to me. I began to ask him about their policy and that i'ts easier to get on a plane than it is to apparently pick up a ticket at will call. if I purchased a ticket online and printed out a conformation, i should be able to use that conformation page to pick up said tickets. It's the same concept as a boarding pass. show them the info you have and a photo Id to match the data that they have and all is well. but no. Ticket master has to suck! He just said that he was sorry a lot. he even said he would have it "looked into." well, I'm glad he's on it! but aside form the almost total failure of nobody being able to go to that show if i didn't notice some fine print at the end. I think it should be noted that TicketMaster charges WAY TOO MUCH for what they do. I personally don't want to be a customer of their's anymore. I will do what i can to avoid anything purchased thru ticketmaster. I hope you will do the same. with the advent of the internet, I'm sure that in time local venues will be able to sell their own tickets more easily and cheaply. we can only wait and encourage them to do so but in the meantime, I'll be going to the venues and buying tickets straight from them. | | Friday, August 24th, 2007 | | 11:38 am |
Blocked!
so i'm writing from an LJ client at work again because LJ is blocked by Websence through my job. I haven't been keeping up on LJ for a few months now. Sorry, I have almost acquired hermit status at Big Red. -no not really. I still go on motorcycle rides with the fellas and I do a little hanging out on occasion but not nearly as much as I did a few years ago. Julie is leaving to Chicago tonight (if she finishes all her work) to help her brother on a job up there. she'll probably be gone 2 or 3 weeks so i'm be getting a little bord with myself pretty soon. this means that i'll probably be coming out more and you can play with me again! I'd really like to go swimming again. pool or river, whatever as long as it's wet and i'm naked. burning man is about to start again. and again i've missed my chance. the only reason i haven't been going is because julie hasn't been able to go with. next year will not matter. i'm going with or without her. it might be better with out her. she can't stand the heat. once you had heat stroke a couple times your tolerence for heat gets more sensitive and she's had heat stroke a couple times. she hates the south by the way. it's been triple digits for over three weeks now. holy frekin hell it's hot! i typically ride with a motorcycle jacket on (i like my skin) but the roads are near 125 degrees. and sitting on em at a red light almost kills me so i've been riding without lately. i'm definitely more comfortable but i feel a little naked. oh, and be sure to read "The Goon" comic if your into comics. it's awesome. | | Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007 | | 6:33 pm |
| | Tuesday, August 14th, 2007 | | 9:24 am |
oops....
ok, please respond with your email addys. i lost them allz! and joolie's family is coming in this week to stay with us. yes, six of them in out little one room studio. this will be interesting. as long as they can tolerae my snoring! | | Tuesday, July 17th, 2007 | | 2:45 pm |
Aardvarks!!!!
 This is kinda like the "Bat Signal" I don't have a lot of Aardvarks email addys anymore so plz respond with your email addy for me. | | Monday, July 2nd, 2007 | | 11:42 am |
My guppies
I have a little fish tank with guppies in it on my desk at work. I had as many as five guppies in there in the beginning. a couple died after a few weeks and the other three have been in there ever since. A couple weeks ago one of the guppies started behaving sickly and spending a lot of time just hanging there and eventually spending a lot of time sitting at the bottom. he wa a bit of a sad case in that the others picked on him all the time anyway. the others were behaving fine and I try to keep the tank in good order so i just thought he's old or sick and he'll be dead soon. he eventually died and then there were two. now the other two did fine for a while and then one of them started to behave the same way. again one would just kinda hang there and eventually just wanted to sit at the bottom of the tank. the healthy one was still doing fine. I thought i'd better clean things up some more and did another partial water change and vacuumed the gravel and added a few chemicals and salt to hopefully get him feeling better. nope, he eventually died too. And then there was one and he was doing fine too until i came in this morning. now he's doing the same thing. crap. it's some weird bug they got i guess. I'm sure he'll be making his way to the bottom of the tank as well. I enjoy my little fishes. I don't think i'll give-up on them. i'll clean everything up and start all over with some pretty new guppies. | | Friday, June 29th, 2007 | | 10:14 am |
joy!
so i've been working on this xs650 i bought from a friend. for those of you not in the know, its a motorcycle. a yamaha xs650. well, it was running pretty crappy and the electrical was a nightmare. i ended up replacing the entire wiring harness and chopping off a few thing here and there. after a couple weeks, i got it running pretty good but i had no top end. total full throttle loss. it wasn't getting any power when i would twist it wide open. -and i like to twist it wide open. SO, i thought i just need to rejet. i had put pod filters on it which are a lot more open than the uni filters it had so no big deal. I rejetted the carbs with no problem other than discovering that a screw on each of the float bowls is stripped. they still had a tight enough bite for now that i decided that i'll tackle that later. so after i put the carbs back on i took it for a ride only to discover that i STILL have no top end. WTH?! After scowerring the interweb for info i came across a 650 riders group and told them of my problem. i got a few replies the next day reminding me of typical stuff thet i already know like be sure the carbs aren't leaking air into the intake manifold and stuff like that. but one response had me thinking. he said that my pods are probably obstructing an intake port inside the mouth of the carbs. so i take off the pods and try it out. sure enough, total pull all the way through the twist. YAY! I'm really happy with this bike. -even though it's been a total brat to me the whole time. it almost broke my foot when i tried to kick start it and it kicked back. I was on crutches for a week. it still kicks back really hard and that's something else i have to work on but all in all, the bike is total punk rock and i love it. just thought i'd share my news. edit: pictures!!!   | | Thursday, June 7th, 2007 | | 11:51 am |
A-hoy-hoy
wassup, yo? i thought i'd give a little update as to what's been going down here on my side of the planet. well, we just had our inaugural pirate canoe-trip for Jule's birthday last saturday. we had buckets of fun and good times. you can see some pics here. . we hope to do this every year now. it was too much fun to only do once. I'm working on another motorcycle now. -so that means 3hree bike now. I have the triumph, which is my horse that i ride daily. no a lot of wrench turning on that one. it's all gooood. but i just bought a yamaha xs650 from a friend. a 79 special. it's all pretty much punk-rocked out but i'm re-doing a lot of stuff on it to make it better. like i just put in a new wiring harness because the old one was pretty bagged-out. the operation isn't going as well as planned. the front end electronics is still giving me some trouble and i don't know why. I've got some more parts on the way to replace suspect parts that i think may be culperate. The bike itself -as in the engine, runs great...now. when i got it, it was only running on one cylinder. it was a relatively quick fix and now it goes good. I'd like to do it up all brat style like the japanese custom shop after the same name. Bratstyle. everything they do is exactly what i want to do. i have another bike in my shop. a honda cb750. it's still a basket case. the engine is intact and in the frame but that's about it. we've got a long way to go on that one. -but hopefully my partner will be able to fund a lot of the expense at putting the rest of that one together. i've already spent 250 on carbs and pods and new handlebars. i'll be sure to put up some pics of the bikes. lately i've been ridding with these other triumph riders that are really cool. they each have antique bikes that they've rebuilt. ones a 73 tiger and the other's a 72 bonnie. i feel pretty weird with the "new" bike. one of the guys throw a big scooter rally every year. it'll be going on this weekend so i hope to go out to center hill and live it up with a bunch of scooter mods. Bonnaroo is next weekend. i'm getting excited about that. there's going to be so much good music. -clutch, tool, the police, white stripes, the flaming lips, the roots, ben harper, STS9, and about a hundred more. i just hope i get all my finances in order to have enough money to be comfortable there. i got a lot of bills due that week that need to be paid before i go away for the weekend. that's all for now | | Tuesday, May 15th, 2007 | | 10:15 am |
my father RIP.
My father died this morning. he had been diagnosed with cancer just before I left for new york. he was just going into hospice care when I got back this last weekend. I was making plans to go visit him again at his group home. He was doing very well. his treache tube was out. he was going home. Its very strange how this all happened so quick. life can be so fragile sometimes. sadness. some anger. some regret. a little ashamed. | | Monday, April 30th, 2007 | | 4:15 pm |
my father
my estranged father has been diagnosed with cancer. a baseball sized tumor in his throat. inoperable. He also suffers from a type of memory loss (unrelated). He has little short-term memory. He doesn't remember much of the last 10 years. Thinks it's like the early 90's. My mother tells me it's alcohol induced. others tell me it was due to a boating accident. -hit head and lost consciousness in the water. drown a little bit. He did drink a lot. always smoked too. He remembers me. we've only know each other for about 15 years though. I pretty much stay out of his life. no animosity there. i just didn't feel like being a long lost son or something. DNA doesn't mean that much to me. Anyway, I visited him at the VA hospital saturday. He looks horrible. skinny. trach tube to breath. no talking is possible. He's scared. waking up like that and not knowing what the hell is going on has to suck. I brought him some light reading. a book of like 10,000 quotes. I told him i'd bring him some comedy Cd's to listen to as well. He asked for some blues too. He reminded me so much of Rico. I don't know how to feel about this. my mother visited him the day after i did. he told her I came by. that's new. he doesn't tend to remember much of the day before. | | Friday, March 30th, 2007 | | 1:16 pm |
HA!
Yesterday, My undies were on backwards all day. Not intentional. it made me feel like a kid. | | Monday, March 26th, 2007 | | 11:59 am |
Planet Earth
Jules and I watched the discovery Channel’s "planet Earth" last night at our neighbor's who had HDTV. That show is AMAZING! It's an 11 part series of eye candy from out own 3rd rock from the sun. It has incredible footage of wildlife NEVER captured before like a snow leopard chasing down sheep on a mt side and the crazy dances of the Birds of Paradise as well as some surreal shots of migratory animals like caribou from a helicopter with a new-fangled steady lens. Everything looks almost unreal because you just haven't seen it before. -Ther are also lots of satellite views that'll blow you away. Photography has reached a new pinnacle of awesomeness. |
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