Inflatablesheep’s Weblog
Velcro gloves are your friend!Archive for January, 2008
The weekend.
So I had a great weekend! It was one of the more busy ones I’ve experienced in a while and loved it.
What did I do?
Well I met a new friend at work and let me say she is quite fun! Bubbly and attitude – something that I’ve missed for a while. Erica had that attitude…scary.
Whilst talking to her via e-mail through the week she invited me to go to Station 56 in Tacoma. Apparently her and her boyfriend Eric knew the band.
“Cool!” I think to myself. Never met a band before.
I get ready and head out about 9 pm and get there about 10 – roughly the same time as they do. Needless to say the anxiety of being in a new place with new people built to a crescendo in my head. And of course it was all for naught. I always build shit up in my head. Stupid voices…
So I hang out and meet Eric, Lance, Brian, Rich and many others whose names I can’t remember. Great people and I was overdressed. I should have went with the t-shirt I wanted to. **snickers**
So I watched what was going on. It was loud and hard to carry on a conversation. And I drank too much. What else is new when I’m nervous and in new places?
So I socialize a bit. Eric is easy to talk to. At least the parts I heard. *laughs* The fun part was watching Nona. Damn she can dance! She and Hope would be great to watch together… *grins*
There’s more about my evening but that’s to be told later. Or not at all. 
The meaning of life.
Whenever I hear the phrase, “What is the meaning of life?” I think of Monty Python. Geniuses at comedy and giving you a bit of enlightenment. Their movie, “The Meaning of Life” is funny as HELL.
The fish: “‘oward’s bein eatin!”
The waiter: “Just one wafa thin mint sir. It’s wafa thin!”
But I digress.
The real reason I brought this up is because of the show I was watching last night. As usual, I was watching the Discovery Channel and broadening my horizons. This can be difficult because I think Hope and I have seen just about every show they’ve produced so finding something new on that channel can be difficult.
The show was about predicting the weather and all the steps that go into it: Weather balloons, airplanes, computers.
When they started talking about computers they talked about the supercomputer that is used to predict the weather by the National Weather Service. It’s capable of making trillions of calculations per second.
Here’s the ass-kicker. The announcer made a comment, “This computer could solve the meaning of life.”
Um. If it could, why hasn’t it? Probably because we are using it to predict weather. I mean realistically it can’t solve the meaning of life (42!!) but if it could…
I don’t ponder the meaning of life. For me, it’s just to live. Experiencing the physical and emotional feelings that go with being alive. There’s not necessarily any meaning to it. Just be. *shrugs*
AM/PM.
So I’m in AM/PM this morning. I’m standing patiently in line not really caring about much of anything.
Hey I gotta get in the right frame of mind for the day!
So I’m next in line – or so I thought. The register becomes open and this person comes from no where to the register! I wasn’t irritated more than I was kinda surprised. I had thought he was with the guy in front of me. *shrugs* How could he foil the Ninja Sheep? *gasp*
So the guy behind me says, “Hmm. Where did he come from?”
Without missing a beat I said, “Asia.”
The guy laughed his ass off.
“Good one!” he says. Well he wasAsian. I mean c’mon! Did I lie? No I just made an assumption. *shrugs*
“If you can’t find the humor in everyday life, you may as well stop trying.” I told him. “I should go on tour but I don’t have the balls to stand up there in front of a crowd.” I continue.
Truth.
