Good morning. Time to come alive.

Finally got my package after placing my order on 10/16.  The stuff got shipped 10/28 but due to some shipping issues with UPS I didn't get it until last night.  I don't understand how UPS works at all.  They leave a notice saying there was no suite or apartment number listed in the shipping address so they don't know where to deliver it to.  Uhhh...You left the notice at the right place.  So why wouldn't you just drop it off there?  Anyways, got my package from Triumvir.  As hoped, I received a free flannel due to processing and shipping errors (refer to previous post).  Lucky me!  Got my jacket, a free flannel, and a beanie, which I'm giving to Andy.  For some reason, I just do not look right with a hat or cap of any kind.  Tried beanies, caps, and military style caps.  You name it, I've tried it.  Nothing works.  With the exception of the hard hat apparently. 

Someone at work said something to me yesterday which confuses me more than UPS.  Why do people say "It's opposite day" to cover up a mistake?  It doesn't make sense.  If it was in fact opposite day, you would be saying "It's not opposite day."  And when you say that the other person will think that it's not opposite day at all.  So you still look like a douche.  Unless it's planned or known ahead of time, it's impossible to tell people it's opposite day.  It's a paradox.

Yesterday I had an interesting spur of the moment debate with Chadwick via AIM.  He asked me why was English important and we went on for about 45 minutes debating both sides.  I lost track of time and ended up missing my usual lunch time by a half an hour.  I took the side of English not being important.  It was pretty interesting to hear what he had to say.  And then we started talking about RASSLIN'!  It would be a pretty fun match up.  I'm the perfect weight for him to practice on but I'm a lot taller than his cousin.  We'll see.

Today, on my day off, I'm getting back to basics.  Tutoring.  Helping out my younger cousin in chemistry.  Should be fun.  I just hope she's not a super slow learner.  I really do miss school.  I tried putting those lectures in my ipod but they wouldn't play.  So I listened to music again all day yesterday.  Tomorrow I'm taking another day off.  Spending the day in San Jose and watching the Sharks game at night. 

-Alex Thunderlips

Can't hold a candle to me cause all the moths get in the way.

Not much to blog about lately.  The weekends go by as fast as a speeding bullet but the weekdays are as slow as molasses.  I guess time really does fly when you're having fun.  It's been eight hours of staring at a computer screen pretending to work for the past week or so.  Tomorrow should be the same except for about an hour of meetings.  Can't believe they're paying me for this. 

So the progress on the scooter is going slower than expected.  The person I expected to learn from has suddenly fell out of my life.  Sort of... If I don't get a chance to learn from someone, the chances of me getting a scooter will drop dramatically.  I won't even know how to ride it off the lot without some help.   I need to brush up on how to ride.

I feel like I'm losing my science skillz too.  I'm going to throw all of my lectures into my ipod and listen to them at work for the next few days.  Hopefully the sound of my professors voice won't put me to sleep at work.  For a full year (two semesters), I probably fell asleep twice in this class even though it was at 7:30AM every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.  The teacher was so intimidating that I didn't want to get yelled at.  This teacher was the best teacher I've ever had.  His method of teaching was through intimidation.  It made me feel so inadequate just listening to him lecture.  He's a professor at SJSU, Santa Clara University, licensed veterinarian, owns his own construction consulting company, and has so many side projects it's ridiculous.  This guy was the shit.  I studied harder than I ever have in my entire life for this class just because I didn't want to look incompetent.  A letter of recommendation from this guy would probably be the best one I could get.  One of his top students is now the head microbiologist for Revlon.  This guy is who I want to be.

-Alex Thunderlips

Replay the weekend.

Had a fun filled weekend.  Haven't had a weekend like this in a while.  I can't say every moment was great, but collectively, it was a lot better than the past few weekends.  On Friday, celebrated Chris', Brenda's, and Nigel's birthdays at Supperclub.  Then on Saturday, had dinner at Velvet Cantina and went bar hopping afterward in the mission district as a send off for Jenn who's moving to Chicago.  Bunch of people came out and it was pretty nice.  Went to a house party right afterward for a little bit which was pretty fun.  As we were leaving the last bar in the Mission some random white guy said something like "You guys are like locusts", referring to our large group of Asian people.  I think we were in his way or something.  That was kind of a downer.  But right after this other random white guy walked up to us and started talking about how crazy he was and how we'd never known a real crazy person like him.  He was pretty funny. 

Best moments of the weekend:

• Watching people try to work the stripper pole at Supperclub
• Lifting Chadwick while chanting his name
• Seeing people I haven't seen in a while
• Beating Chadwick in basketball
• Getting my diploma in the mail
  

Worst moments of the weekend:

• Getting blocked twice by Chadwick
  

New show to start watching.  Lopez Tonight.  The commercials promoting the show have been running for at least a month.  Until last Friday, I just thought they were moving the George Lopez show to TBS.  It's actually going to be a late night talk show with George Lopez as the host.  Should be pretty funny.  His guests for tomorrow night are Eva Longoria, Ellen, and Kobe Bryant. 

Big ups to Nabby for his 49th career shutout.  Going to a game on Thursday with Cindy and her boyfriend.  They're playing the Dallas Stars.  The last time I saw them play the Stars, we lost 4-1.  Hopefully things will be different.  Tried to get the Sharks family pack this weekend.  Fail.  Sold out within 15 minutes and I couldn't even get to the page.  So much for that...

-Alex Thunderlips

City of retards.

^^ This is how I feel.  Confused...

 ^^ This is how I want to feel.  Happy and relaxed.



^^ Kellie Pickler will be opening for Taylor Swift in April. 

Right off the bat, I knew it was going to be a bad day.  I woke up 15 minutes early but somehow ended up leaving the house 15 min late.  Got to work 20 minutes late and did my usual half an hour coast.  When I decided to start working I realized all of my test cards and test checks were missing from my ATM work space.  I started looking around and one of my coworkers asked me if I had left my stuff out.  Of course, being an honest guy, I said yes.  She told me security had their nightly walk-through of the test lab and found cash laying out in the open.  Apparently, I had left $55 in $1 bills out in the open.  She told me security was pissed and had filed a report.  I went to the security to retrieve my belongings and got an earful.  I was in such a rush to leave the night before that I forgot to clean up after myself.  Normally I don't leave my cash out, but I always leave my test cards out.  After getting in trouble like that, I always get really flustered.  I couldn't concentrate all morning.  Luckily I had a meeting which went long.  So I had 90 minutes to forget about it.  Fell asleep in the meeting again though.  Today we were talking about some genius in Texas who was cheating the machines using ridiculously smart techniques.  We're working hard and fast to try and come up with a fix to prevent people from doing this.  I'm so close to getting fired. 

Lately I've been feeling an urge to leave the City.  All of these new regulations and laws are getting ridiculous.  The City already gives tenants more power than landlords, they've banned smoking in most places (this one doesn't bother me so much), Styrofoam has been banned, plastic bags have been banned, they have all these gay rights things(which I'm indifferent about), and worst of all, they're giving animals rights.  City government has now put a ban on all declawings of cats.  The reason given is that it is animal cruelty and torture.  THEY'RE FUCKING ANIMALS!  Humans domesticated cats a long time ago.  What does this mean?  They are, for the most part, dependent on us.  Animal rights is the biggest oxymoron invented.  Animal's don't have rights.  They're for our benefit whether it be for food, labor, or entertainment.  We are on top of the food chain.  They have no rights.  We keep giving animals more and more rights.  At what point do we start to value human life?  I don't want to pay more for my steak because some ass hole wants farmers to start regulating their animals better.  It's not cost efficient and that will trickle down to the consumer resulting in an increase in price.  Whatever they've been doing, it's been working.  If it ain't broke don't fix it. 

AND ANOTHER THING! What's with this compost bullshit? If people want to compost, go ahead.  More power to you.  But don't force people to do it and don't fine them for choosing not to do it.  Now my family is forced to use another garbage can for compost.  And we have to buy special compostable bags.  This city is being torn apart by retarded politicians with their stupid agendas.  What a nightmare.  This city is becoming more and more difficult to live in.  I'm not sure about everyone else, but I'm finding it hard to see the purpose of living here if garbage and animals have more priority than me.  The worst part may be that other cities may follow suit.  What ever happened to human rights?

Help control the animal population.  Shoot an animal in the face.

-Alex Thunderlips

A series of unfortunate events that is my life.

^^One of six new tracks on the re-release of Fearless.  Probably my favorite of the six.

Let's start off November's blog with dream sequences.  Last week I had a couple of dreams that were memorable for different reasons.  In the first dream, me, Anjuli, Andy, and a few other friends were walking out of some store and through the parking lot.  As we were walking to our car, hundreds of field mice scurried their way out of the bushes from an island between the parked cars.  I grabbed one by the tail and put it in a plastic box, the kind that turtles are sold in.  Then, I took it home and put some water in the box.  Just enough to cover its feet.  The mouse started absorbing all of the water like the spongy dinosaurs that you soak in water.  It grew big enough to fill the box and that's all I remember.  My second dream was terrifying.  I was in my room arguing with my dad for some reason and it got really heated.  He muttered in Chinese something like, "My own kids don't even love or respect me."  He started to walk away towards my sister room and I tried to stop him.  As I approached the doorway of my sister's room, I saw him open the window.  I could tell this was not going to end well.  He opened the window and jumped out as I reached out to stop him.  That's all I remember and it was pretty depressing to wake up from that dream.

It made me feel guilty for mistreating him for all these years.  My father is a very difficult man to understand and deal with which is still no excuse.  For the past few days, I've been trying to talk to him more, but, like me, he's in a funk that he can't shake.  It's depressing just knowing how depressed he is.  My mom also tells me that he may be going through the initial stages of Alzheimer's which is even more depressing.  It's believable.  My mom said he probably has five to ten years left before it really starts to affect his daily life.  At this point, he's already forgetting people's names and has trouble remembering little things.  I guess I'll need to try and patch things up.  Time to learn to be more patient.

Unfortunately, my patience has run out for a certain someone.  This person will remain nameless but a few people know what's going on.  I guess it's interesting to actually know someone THAT narcissistic.  To be clear, narcissism does not mean loving yourself.  The correct definition of a narcissist is someone who loves the image they project of themselves.  You may not like who you are on the inside, but you take pride and enjoy the image you present of yourself to others.

People are oblivious.  To quote Frank Outlaw, "Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny."  Definitely one of my favorite quotes of all time and applicable to everyday life.  If everyone would be more aware of their actions and how it affects everyone else, the world would be a better place.  I am, in no way, saying that I am perfect.  But, I at least take responsibility for my actions.  For the most part.  I think...  But, what can we do.  The human race is built on selfishness.  Challenge?

Which brings me to my next point.  If I ever go back to school, I am definitely joining the debate team.  Doesn't matter what school.  I don't think I enjoy anything as much as winning an argument.

I guess that's all for now...

-Alex Thunderlips