MY LIFE - OCTOBER

Saturday, October 21, 2000

I'm the cleanest one in the house, but I get pretty bad sometimes, not so much in the general appearance as much as in how much stuff is crammed into what part of my room. Let's face it, there were just some disaster areas in my room that needed to be clean. So tonight, around 7:30, I began cleaning up. It's now 2:30am, and I'm about halfway done, which means I'm finishing tomorrow. On to what I found.

I cleaned up my kitchen area first, throwing out old stuff while washing the dishes and moving some items around. I scrubbed the stove, but I'm going to have to go at it again tomorrow since the damn thing has been stubborn. I don't know what the hell is on it in some spots, but it wasn't coming clean right away. So that will be worked on again in the near future.

After the kitchen was cleaned up, I began dusting specific areas of my room, such as the area by my computer, including all the equipment here, as well as my dresser and the area by my bed. I then dusted off my entertainment area, including the VCR and TV, but not any of the game systems yet. That's another thing that has to be done tomorrow as well.

I also did my laundry, cleaned and swept around the litter boxes, vacuumed, swept the kitchen area, and changed the sheets on my bed. I also went downstairs and grabbed this extra rug and threw it on my floor up here to try and help out with the fur, since the fur from the two cats up here was sticking to the carpet. I don't think it will clump as much on the rug and the rug is a little easier to look at.

All in all, I got a lot done tonight. Problem is, I still have a lot to do tomorrow as well. I'm also going to try and get a picture of my car so that I can put that online. I'll also be going through all these pictures that I have up here to see if any of them might go in this site somewhere, like in a photo gallery. I don't know if I want to do that just yet though since it would take a lot of work and we all know my history when it comes to doing projects.

But anyway, I'll be busy tomorrow, but I'll be home and might even be online while I do all this shit. I don't know. I guess we'll all find out tomorrow.

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I've been going through all my old notebooks lately to see if there's anything of interest in there. Two or three of them are half filled with notes from when I was in high school while the other half contains information for various web sites and other things that I was doing. One thing I found was a notebook from when I was still writing and maintaining a separate site on Mystery Science Theater 3000. Most of the stuff revolves around what the latest movie was going to be or information on upcoming events.

But there are other things in there, remnants of old projects that never flew, such as my failed attempt at an episode guide (something I tried like three times and never learned my own lesson) and an attempt at listing memorable episodes. There's also a bunch of user ID's and passwords in there, but I have no idea what they're for. That's the problem I have. I sign up for all this shit, write down my user id and password, but not what service they're for. Then two years later I have no clue what these things are for.

I also have a rather large listing of links in this notebook, most of them MST3K sites that probably aren't up anymore anyway (I just went through The Escape Pod). Then I find the motherlode, a page that's just filled with names of .html files that I had written down. This had to be when I transferred my site from America Online to Geocities. There is just an absurd number of files (nothing compared to what I have now, of course) and I remember it taking me a long time to complete the transfer. Then, in case I didn't get it all the first time, there's a second listing of files as well, including a bunch of editorials, pictures, and files that no longer exist.

Then there are all the little html tricks that I learned, such as the "onmouseover" trick that I learned. I don't use it though because I believe people like to be able to see where the hell they're going in my site, rather than some cute little saying that should actually be funny or something. Besides, I don't like those gimmicks that much anyway. I'm lazy, and this suits me just fine.

And what would one of my notebooks be complete without writing from other members of my family who used it as well. I have links and e-mail addresses written in here by both of my sisters and my mom. I'd look to see what these links are, but I'm almost afraid to find out what I'd find. There's just so many of them in here too, and I remember a lot of them being rather subpar.

One thing these notebooks show is how much I wanted to do. I had all these grand ideas of what my web site was going to be like, how much was going to be done, and all the things that people could see. Well, most of them didn't come to pass and some of the things that did, well, they kind of died. I used to keep up a section on the news, but I didn't update it enough and stopped caring.

I used to have a whole section dedicated to MST3K, but that obviously doesn't exist. It became hard to write about a show that wasn't airing new episodes on, especially when other sites were doing it ten times better. I'd rather show you a site that did the show justice, rather than my half-ass attempt. There were several other pages that I wish I would've done, and many more that I should have never started.

Doing a history of this site was a mistake. There was no way I could accurately remember all the little details. I would invariably forget someone or something, and then it wouldn't be a very good history. The collection box was another joke. Try and list the 90+ CD's that I have. It would take days to write it up normal, much less in html. And yet I was going to try it. I was also going to go through and find all my MST3K tapes, but that too would take a long time.

Things like that were just too ambitious, especially for someone who doesn't have the time to keep up with the bullshit I've had to keep up with. I've just been so busy over the last two that even if I had gone through with all those projects, I wouldn't of been able to keep up with them. Right now, I'm perfectly happy with the pages that I have on this web site and don't intend on adding anything other than maybe a photo gallery in the near future.

One other thing, I used to write little bits and pieces of junk in these notebooks, almost like a journal. Maybe at some point, I'll start putting tidbits into these entries, but I don't know. Some of the stuff I wrote is deeply personal, or at least was personal at the time I wrote. Many go back four years to when I was a sophomore in high school. Not all of them, but most of them. So that's something I have to decide on.

We'll see how I feel in the next few days before deciding on doing something a certain way. I'm very prone to changes in heart.

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And now, two more juicy little items that I think might be interesting.

Here's a guide to buying used cars:

• Must sell...before it self-destructs
• Runs fine...would have said "runs excellent" but had a last minute conscience attack
• Needs some body work...was blind sided by a Winnebego
• Well maintained...changed the oil occasionally
• Looks like new...just don't try to drive it anywhere
• All original...never had anything fixed, adjusted, or replaced
• Loaded with options...each one more troublesome than the next
• Never smoked in...unfortunately, that's the best thing that can be said about it
• A real cherry...it's the pits
• Kept in garage...until garage collapsed on it
• Two-tone...several fenders have been replaced
• Great acceleration...on a 70 degree downhill run
• Great second car...you wouldn't want to depend on it for primary transportation
• Project car...doesn't run
• Lots of potential...doesn't run
• Needs minor repair...doesn't run

And here's some uses for a Spice Girls' CD:

• Burglar Alarm - that music would scare anyone

• A Frisbee - because if it lands in the dirt or gets scratched, who would care?

• Police Interrogation - that way the suspect would have to fess up

• Punishment - parents: tell your kids this is what happens to you when you're bad

• Fodder for Weird Al - More songs for Weird Al to make fun of

• Ice Scraper - keep your car's windshield clean next winter

• Chew Toy - keep Fido from destroying important stuff

That was just some weird shit to keep you occupied. If I come across anymore, I'll post it in an entry.