so.. I had totally forgotten how strange things can get when you are far... far away from civilization... like in waterloo.
hehee.
but yea, an odd weekend full of many a strange coincidence.
< starwipe >
it was friday morning. i had been up all night again (happenin more frequently for some strange reason) working on my jewelry manufacturer/designer database when i was side-tracked by the perpetual lack of space on my harddrives, and the perpetual lack of cdr's on which to back shit up to. hi-rez images from my cam, constant influx of new music, apps, tv shows, and Carl Sagan's pbs COSMOS series leaves me with a max free space of a gig or so..
not too much wiggle room, if you catch my meaning.
it was time for some solutioning.
a few weeks ago, i put aside my plan for grabbing a badass alienware laptop. opting instead, to pump the majority of that 4K into celestial gems and spending a bit of it to upgrade my current computer.
so another harddrive was in the cards already, but then i remembered the "burninator", the LG multiformat dvd burner, and the price was right. CDN$220.
hell, i paid more for my cd burner back in the day.
then i remembered that the dorian worked for bestbuy and got discounts on all bestbuy/futureshop stuff. but i would have to wait a while before getting a chance to head out to waterloo to make that happen.
it's been a while since we last chilled, so i was even pondering bussing my lazy ass out there, but the outlook wasn't good.
it was around 7am now, and i was having a smoke with my brother. he tells me he was going to london that eve. intersting, as kitchener was on the way to london. within 5 minutes i had sent the dorian a barrage of msgs outlining the plan. he was either asleep or at work, so i had to wait till the afternoon to find out if this was destined to happen.
he got back to me in good time. and tho he was working that eve, it was on.
after a couple of hours on the road, i parted company with my bro and his lady. i had about 3hours to kill before walt got off work, so i wandered around bestbuy with my backpack and campack in tow. after a few seconds in the store, i noticed that i was constantly being followed by both marked and unmarked individuals.
bestbuy's anti-theft device was flexing it's muscle, and it was time to have some fun.
i wandered the store for about an hour with these people following me. i started picking up stuff i wanted to buy and walking around with it in hand, then putting it down and picking up something else that i wanted to buy. this seemed to really confuse them, probably cus they didn't see me put anything down before grabbing something else. i finally got bored with toying with em and found walt, who suggested that i toss my backpack in his jeep so as not to get the bestbuy ss following me around. teehee.
walt drove a coworker home after work, and we chilled at brian's place for a bit having ourselves a toast-tasting event of sorts. he had a crazy hyperactive 13month old rotty the size of my 5year old silver poodle. he licked my jacket a lot, and feasted on walt's foot. good times.
we arrived at his place at around midnite or so to the tune of his only male roommate goin off about "the crazy" roommate causing more shit.
we retreated to his room and closed the door as he no longer socialized with any of his roommates. we were already quite toasty, so we just chilled out, killed our lungs a bit and watched some sealab.
the rest of his roommates came back later on. the crazy one and her "guest" started being stupid about us smoking in walt's room. the "guest" was coughing as if the other room was full of smoke and she was apologizing to him. at WORST they could smell a teeny bit of smoke, boo hoo.
don't get me wrong, i consider myself quite a considerate person/smoker, i had even offered to smoke on the balcony when i first got there. but when people choose the path of drama as opposed to the path of speaking to communicate a request, or anything else for that matter, i hear nothink.
"coughing" your ass off to imply "stop smoking you assholes", when actually saying "hey, assholes, could you please stop smoking?" would probably work better, is just plain IGNANT.
i think he was just into drama or something.. cus later on that nite/morn as we were heading out for more toast and food, he was on the couch fake-snoring! who the hell would fake-snore for god's sake!? it's so obvious, and you would pull off pretend-sleeping so much better by just closing your eyes and shutting the hell up!
ungh.. gotta love the "special" people.
i came up with a wonderful idea that nite, but had to postpone it on account of walt still having to live there for a few more months.
i was kinda just sitting there thinking about how silent the whole building was, when it came to me:
how funny/disturbing/scarring would it be if walt and i suddenly broke out into gay sex noises. i mean full out broke out. screaming, moaning, groaning... yanking the bed about, smashing it against the wall. with the window open on a silent nite, not only would that have woken up the entire building, but perhaps even the hood.
but as i said, walt wasn't too keen about this idea at that moment, so i figure i'm gonna visit him right before he moves out juuust for this.
i think jack is down with this plan as well. aaaand there has been an offer from a real gay couple to have real gay sex there, making real gay sex noises, while we watch tv with walt and the roommates in the living room. a more authentic experience, yes. but i know these guys, and i dunno if i can handle hearing them doin tha dirty. bah, we shall see. i think it's a small sacrifice for a quite funny payoff.
i think this has "made for interweb movie" written all over it. we just need to find and hide a bunch of dv cams about the house to record the reactions, and somehow keep ourselves from lauging till we soil ourselves.
anyways, it was a fun nite/morn/afternoon of chillin, toastin, and smokin.
we stopped off at the futureshop, walt grabbed the burninator (thanks again bro!) and i headed home, back broken from sleeping on a computer chair.
now that i have some time, i think i'll actually get this burninator installed.
ima make like a promdress and take off.
[to be continued]
