Jo's Journal

momentarily lapse of my senility

2008-10-16T05:01:58Z

I sit in the chair, cigarette dangling from my lip and a thin stream of smoke nearly blinding my right eye, waiting.
I'm waiting for that moment of inspiration wear my head lowers and my hands fly like a parody of an insane pianist. yes, that is how i usually write.
Nothing happens so I wait.
Much has happened and I have changed so much and so little.
Live journal used to be a place where i allowed myself to pour out my thoughts without a care for grammar or civility. Then i added friends to it. i am gagged. I dont want to hurt anyone by how i think or feel at random moments.

So take this a a disclaimer for those of you made the cut. if you find something here that bothers you or hurts you in some fashion, it is your own damn fault for reading any further. I need the cathartic font of writing without compunction.

Im sick to death of censuring myself for the feelings of others in my private venues. Its like an unwelcome guest who judges you based on your home decor.. i used to write constantly and now i never do it. Im so rusty i cant bring myself to punch out more than a sentence or two.

Im going to be positive for now... im sure that i will lapse later into a rage so i think ill enjoy the positive for now.

I love the folk in my life now.
Gypsy rose... my girl. we are finally reaching a point where things are ok between us. I love her like water.

Amber... she truly is a life mate and i am more grateful than i can say that she has finally wandered back and done the most shocking thing ever. Put down roots. im not a lesbian, but i really do consider her my mate.

Roy. .... my friend. For life or longer i will love that man and I have no greater wish than his happiness.

Targon.... My knight in shining armor. he really is.

Vels... fucked up as things got... i have been forced to face the fact that i love him and am stuck with him forever. i am so glad we got shit mostly straight. the kinks will work out in time.

Jesse girl... she is a light in the dark.. beautiful and happy.. silly and crazy. her beauty makes me shine.

Mike. Mike.... laugh... and sing.. that is my mike.

it's fucking hot in here and i find myself pouring sweat.......

jadoube @ 2008-02-13T11:53:00

2008-02-13T17:56:49Z

Ok Ok

Updated

Im still here.

My kid wrote this as a process paper for school.

This is what pops up when i hit paste... so you get it.

have fun.

I love waking up on a Sunday morning to find my mom making our "Sunday Sandwiches". Walking into the living room smelling bacon and toasted bread is the best thing to wake up to. Since I guess there's other people out there who'd love to wake up to this, I'm going to tell you how my mom makes these sandwiches.

The ingredients for two people are:
Two eggs
Eight slices of bacon
As much Monterrey Jack cheese as you prefer
Some mayo
Two slices of tomato
Green leaf lettuce.
Four slices of whole, grain bread.

The secret to these sandwiches is in two things. The quality of the ingredients and timing. Use good food for this. Wonder bread and kraft singles will not make this. Only make one sandwich at a time until you get the timing right. This is a good way to make a simple sandwich and look like a gourmet chef.

I'm going to tell you how my mom makes hers, because I have mine a special way. First, you pre-cook the bacon, since this takes the longest. Then you to cook the egg, with out breaking the yolk. So, you put a skillet down on the stove, and crack the egg, and put it in the pan.
This is the hardest part. My mom normally has to do it a few times before she gets it right.

While you have your egg cooking; it won't take long, add another pan to the oven to toast your bread. Or put it on one of those George Foreman grills. My mom likes to use the big , slice it yourself whole grain bread, the kind with seeds and other good stuff in it, so I recommend you do too.

Now comes the part with important timing, when you flip the egg over turn the bread over and put the cheese on the bread so it starts to melt. The take the side that does not get cheese and put a little mayo, the tomatoes and lettuce and the bacon.
By now, the egg should be perfect, remove the egg from the skillet and put it on top of the other ingredients and then top with the bread that is now covered in melted cheese. Be careful not to burn yourself!

Put on a plate,slice in half, and enjoy with some fruit, and a big glass of orange juice. (:

Optional ingredients:
These ingredients are for variations.
Avocado
Pepper Jack cheese instead of Monterrey Jack
Alfalfa sprouts instead of lettuce
Sourdough bread instead of Whole grain

For the truly brave

Replace the egg with turkey breast and the tomato with apple

Try it!

remember me?

2008-01-11T17:14:27Z

Shhhhhhhhh

Be very quiet.....

Im hunting rabbits.

No really.

I now live alone with the kid in a apartment area called tigerland. It is a huge zone with thousands of apartments. A veritable rabbit warren. Its like watership down but without the Nazi rabbits. We have lesbians and crackheads and mariachi bands. Oh my.

Im doing the potter thing still... and im doing ok. Pots sell well and my prices are goin up based on demand. and Im actually ok at it. Holy bananas monkeyfolk! Im an artist.

if i get to it..ill post again and maybe send some pics.

jadoube @ 2007-09-03T15:16:00

2007-09-03T20:17:32Z

Yo Nick!

For you...

929-4003777-0907

Silvery Rams

2007-08-29T18:53:01Z

Pennsic was great!

I am totally armigerous now!

jadoube @ 2007-08-28T20:54:00

2007-08-29T01:55:52Z

ALIVE!

jadoube @ 2007-01-17T09:56:00

2007-01-17T15:57:10Z

Still kicking.

Moved to Red stick.

Making a go of the professional potter gig.

www.Goddessshop.net

Buy buy buy

Browncoats Unite!

2006-09-29T05:09:44Z

I just wanted to let everyone know that in the midst of the chaos I am surrounded by I have decided that I need a small reprieve.

As most of you know from hearing me go on and on (at great and tiresome length I am sure) I am a very big fan of the TV series "Firefly" and the movie "Serenity".

The 30th is the one year Big Damn Anniversary of the release of Serenity. As I cannot arrange a proper celebration with fireworks and dancing Midgets, some friends and I are throwing a "Serenifly" festival at the Factory at 422 Palafox st. We will be showing the series and then the movie.

This will happen on Tuesday, October 3rd. We will be starting the first eposode at 4:oo pm. Anyone who shows up dressed as a character from the series will receive free coffee. Bring friends and initiate them to the Firefly 'verse.

One year later and Still Flyin'!

There's good people in the 'verse..Not many, Lord knows, but you only need a few.
-Malcolm Reynolds

jadoube @ 2006-09-05T07:25:00

2006-09-05T12:25:40Z

Today!

jadoube @ 2006-09-01T15:08:00

2006-09-01T20:09:20Z

Alive.

Life has been moving along.

I still feel a bit out of sorts, but between my friends, school and of course the SCA I have found that life is still good.

Yeah...I am here.

And I am aware of just how cool that is.

jadoube @ 2006-07-21T03:34:00

2006-07-21T08:36:12Z

Double XP this weekend on CoV/CoH!!

I am so excited! And so I say this to you all........

jadoube @ 2006-07-19T12:55:00

2006-07-19T17:56:27Z

Anyone have an orkut account they can give me an invite for?

Vanity

2006-07-11T17:16:51Z

Ok.....

I am about 20 percent embarassed that i did this.... but whatever.....

The only thing about it that bugs me is that a 40 year old drag queen got a higher score than me.

I guess drag queens are pretty.

jadoube @ 2006-07-06T11:12:00

2006-07-06T16:14:12Z

I find myself utterly fascinated by the Brad Pitt / Angelina Jolie spectacle. Having a brain in my head means that I realize they are just people and deserve privacy as much as anyone else. Whatever. They are Beautiful. Which means I like to look at them. Doesn't everyone like to look at the beautiful and happy?

While most folk go on vacation and bring back a snow globe, The Pitt Jolie family adopts beautiful exotic children from countries not covered in the public school history curriculum. Want to bet that changes?

The media wants me to love them. The newspapers and magazines tell me they are kind and giving humanitarians. I stare at pictures of Brad unloading boxes from a helicopter in his ratty leather jacket and wonder.... Is the pussy that good or is he really a great person? He seems like a good guy... well, he looks really good and has the disarming smile of a saint.

I honestly would not be surprised to find out that they are superheroes. Angelina is the chosen one and Brad can take the form of a winged lion and fly through the night sky bringing fear and justice to evildoers everywhere.

Or......

Are they Hellspawn sent to force us into slavery for the dark prince? Beautiful and good ....only to lull us into a false sense of security so we will be caught unawares when they rise up.... take over our governments and rule us with a cruel and terrible rage. They only had so many children to start a trend so that they can feed on the tender young flesh of the fashionably produced child masses. Already worshipped as pop icons, is the step to terrestrial god so far? Those lips.... so perfect for sucking the soul from a small child.

Now I am being paranoid. Not to mention creeping myself out quite a bit.

Time to stop.

jadoube @ 2006-06-26T10:00:00

2006-06-26T15:18:58Z

Ok....so let's make a post.

Here it is......

I am oddly gagged by my own paranoia.

October.

jadoube @ 2006-06-19T03:27:00

2006-06-19T08:30:10Z

I find myself in the oddest kind of limbo.

My new word is SOON.

This Old Ho

2006-05-30T03:25:47Z

Today on "This old Ho" we will learn what to do when your deadbeat husband spends your dental bill money on shoes.

First, after pissing and moaning about your aching tooth for the better part of a year, when the cavity reaches a size that a pea can comfortably rattle in, you fill the cavity with orajel and take a double dose of your post surgery painkillers.

Then, marching merrily to the drugstore you purchase a package of Dentek (tm) Temparin Filling Material (tm). This old Ho suggests the pain relief formula because it is pain relief formula.

Finally, go home and spackle your face liberally with the aforementioned product, and don't forget to speak to everyone through a curtain of drool while holding one side of your face out at a sharp 90 degree angle to your head.

Viola!! Fixed tooth!

And you get face spackling!!

Why is a little voice in the back of my head screaming that at home dentistry is a BAD BAD BAD BAD idea?

I will drown the little voice in crown royal and percosets.

Until tomorrow, when we will witness this old ho calling the emergency dental clinic in a panic.

May 23rd

2006-05-23T03:11:14Z

Joi:
lol
Check out my livejournal

Will:
for the love of god LJCUT woman :P

Joi:
dont know how
you do it

Will:
well fine :P
done

Joi:
get that p tongue off of my lj page
say bleh or something...cause you totally did not find the wikipedia event list for me...I cut and paste that all by myself and added myself into the dates even
it was hard

Will:
fine fine fine
no pleasing some people

Joi:
took like 6 seconds
but you can say that i am an idiot and had to get you to do the LJ cut
that would be long
and funny

Will:
done

Joi:
thank you!

Events
1430 - Joan of Arc is captured by the Burgundians while leading an army to relieve Compiègne
1498 - Girolamo Savonarola is executed on the orders of Pope Alexander VI
1533 - The marriage of King Henry VIII to Catherine of Aragon is declared null and void.
1541 - Jacques Cartier leaves St-Malo, France on his third voyage.
1555 - Paul IV becomes Pope.
1568 - Netherlands declared independence from Spain.
1568 - Dutch rebels led by Louis of Nassau, brother of William I of Orange, defeat Jean de Ligne, Duke of Aremberg and his loyalist troops in the Battle of Heiligerlee, opening the Eighty Years' War.
1609 - Official ratification of the Second Charter of Virginia takes place.
1618 - The Second Defenestration of Prague precipitates the Thirty Years' War.
1701 - After being convicted of piracy and of murdering William Moore, Captain William Kidd is hanged in London.
1788 - South Carolina becomes the 8th U.S. state to ratify the United States Constitution.
1805 - Napoleon Bonaparte is crowned King of Italy with the Iron Crown of Lombardy in the Cathedral of Milan.
1813 - South American independence leader Simón Bolívar enters Mérida, leading the invasion of Venezuela, and is proclaimed El Libertador ("The Liberator").
1844 - Persian Prophet the Báb announces his revelation, founding Bábísm. He announced to the world of the coming of "He whom God shall make manifest." He is considered the forerunner of Bahá'u'lláh, the founder of the Bahá'í Faith.
1844 - First Morse code message sent, reading "What hath God wrought".
1863 - The Siege of Port Hudson starts.
1873 - The Canadian Parliament establishes the North West Mounted Police, the forerunner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
1900 - American Civil War: Sergeant William Harvey Carney becomes the first African American to be awarded the Medal of Honor, for his heroism in the Assault on the Battery Wagner.
1911 - Dedication ceremony for the New York Public Library.
1915 - World War I: Italy joins the Allies after they declare war on Austria-Hungary.
1923 - Launch of Belgium's SABENA airline.
1929 - The first talking cartoon of Mickey Mouse, The Karnival Kid, was released.
1939 - The U.S. Navy submarine USS Squalus sinks off the coast of New Hampshire during a test dive, causing the death of 26 sailors. The remaining 32 crewmen and one passenger are rescued the following day.
1945 - World War II: Heinrich Himmler, the head of the SS, commits suicide while in Allied custody.
1945 - World War II: The Flensburg government under Reichspräsident Karl Dönitz was dissolved when its members were captured and arrested by British forces at Flensburg in Northern Germany.
1949 - The Federal Republic of Germany is established, and the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany proclaimed.
1958 - Explorer I ceases transmission.
1960 - Prime Minister of Israel David Ben-Gurion announces that Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann has been captured.
1967 - Egypt closes the Straits of Tiran and blockades the port of Eilat at the northern end of the Gulf of Aqaba to Israeli shipping, laying the foundations for the Six Day War.
1969 - Rock band The Who release Tommy, the first rock opera.
1970 - An outbreak of fire occurs in the Britannia Bridge over the Menai Straits in north Wales contributing to its partial destruction and amounting to approximately £1,000,000 worth of fire damage.
1977 - Two terrorist actions unfold in The Netherlands: Several dozen hostages are taken onboard a train, and about 100 others (mostly children) are held at a Dutch school. The train siege lasts until June 11.
1985 - U.S. engineer Thomas Patrick Cavanagh is sentenced to life in prison for attempting to sell stealth bomber secrets to the Soviet Union.
1995 - Oklahoma City bombing: In Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, what remains of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building is imploded.
1997 - Mohammad Khatami is elected as President of Iran.
1998 - The Good Friday Agreement is accepted in a referendum, with a high margin of three-fourth 'yes' votes to Northern Ireland.
2002 - The "55 parties" clause of the Kyoto protocol is reached after its ratification by Iceland.
2003 - The euro exceeds its initial trading value as it hits $1.18 for the first time since its introduction in 1999.
2003 - 25-year-old Nepalese Sherpa, Pemba Dorjie Sherpa, makes the fastest-ever ascent of Mount Everest, in 12 hours 45 minutes. This is broken by his rival Sherpa Lakpa Gelu only three days later.
2004 - Part of Paris Charles De Gaulle International Airport Terminal 2E collapses, killing five people and injuring three others.

Births
1052 - King Philip I of France (d. 1108)
1100 - Emperor Qinzong of China (d. 1161)
1606 - Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz, Spanish writer (d. 1682)
1617 - Elias Ashmole, English antiquarian (d. 1692)
1707 - Carolus Linnaeus, Swedish botanist (d. 1778)
1718 - William Hunter, Scottish anatomist (d.1783)
1729 - Giuseppe Parini, Italian writer (d.1799)
1734 - Franz Anton Mesmer, Austrian physician/hypnotist (d.1815)
1790 - Jules Dumont d'Urville, French explorer (d. 1842)
1795 - Charles Barry , English architect (d. 1860)
1810 - Margaret Fuller, American journalist and feminist (d. 1850)
1820 - James Buchanan Eads, American engineer and inventor (d. 1887)
1824 - Ambrose Burnside, American Civil War general (d. 1881)
1834 - Carl Heinrich Bloch, Danish painter (d. 1890)
1844 - `Abdu'l-Bahá, Persian leader of the Bahá'í Faith (d. 1921)
1848 - Otto Lilienthal, German aviation pioneer (d. 1896)
1865 - Epitácio Pessoa, Brazilian president (d.1942)
1875 - Alfred P. Sloan, American business professor (d. 1966
1879 - Dezső Lauber, Hungarian sportsman (d. 1966)
1883 - Douglas Fairbanks, American actor (d. 1939)
1884 - Corrado Gini, Italian sociologist (d. 1965)
1887 - Thoralf Skolem, Norwegian mathematician (d. 1963)
1888 - Zack Wheat, baseball player (d. 1972)
1890 - Herbert Marshall, English actor (d. 1966)
1891 - Pär Lagerkvist, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1974)
1893 - Ulysses S. Grant IV, American geologist and paleontologist (d. 1977)
1898 - Scott O'Dell, American author (d. 1989)
1900 - Hans Frank, German Nazi war criminal (d. 1946)
1908 - John Bardeen, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1991)
1910 - Margaret Wise Brown, American author (d. 1952)
1910 - Sir Hugh Casson, British architect and painter (d. 1999)
1910 - Scatman Crothers, American actor and musician (d. 1986)
1910 - Artie Shaw, American clarinetist and bandleader (d. 2004)
1912 - Jean Françaix, French composer (d. 1997)
1912 - John Payne, American actor (d. 1989)
1917 - Edward Norton Lorenz, American Mathematician and Meteorologist
1918 - Denis Compton, English cricketer (d. 1997)
1919 - Betty Garrett, American actress and dancer
1920 - Helen O'Connell, American singer (d. 1993)
1921 - James Blish, American author (d. 1975)
1921 - Humphrey Lyttelton, British musician
1925 - Joshua Lederberg, American molecular biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1928 - Rosemary Clooney, American singer and actress (d. 2002)
1928 - Nigel Davenport , English actor
1928 - Pauline Julien, French Canadian singer (d. 1998)
1931 - Barbara Barrie, American actress
1933 - Joan Collins, English actress
1934 - Dr. Robert Moog, American inventor (d. 2005)
1936 - Ingeborg Hallstein, German Opera Singer
1936 - Charles Kimbrough, American actor
1939 - Reinhard Hauff, German film director
1939 - Michel Colombier, French composer and songwriter (d. 2004)
1943 - John Newcombe, Australian tennis player
1945 - Padmarajan, Indian film director (d. 1991)
1946 - Frederik de Groot, Dutch actor
1951 - Anatoly Karpov, Russian chess player
1952 - Anne-Marie David, French singer
1952 - Marvelous Marvin Hagler, American boxer
1956 - Ursula Plassnik, Austrian politician
1956 - Buck Showalter, baseball player and manager
1958 - Mitch Albom, American writer
1958 - Drew Carey, American actor and comedian
1961 - Karen Duffy, American actress
1963 - Wally Dallenbach Jr., American race car driver and announcer
1964 - Allan Kayser, American actor
1967 - Phil Selway, English drummer (Radiohead)
1970 - Yigal Amir, Israeli assassin of the Prime Minister of Israel Yitzhak Rabin
1971 - Charmaine Sinclair, Playboy model
1972 - Rubens Barrichello, Brazilian race car driver
1973 - ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1974 - Ken Jennings, American game show contestant
1974 - Jewel, American singer
1974 - Monica Naranjo, Spanish singer
1977 - Ilia Kulik, Russian figure skater
1978 - Scott Raynor, original drummer for San Diego rock trio Blink-182
1979 - Ilias Kaklamanos, Greek Architect
1982 - Malene Mortensen, Danish singer
1983 - Patrick Martin, professional wrestler, more commonly known as Alex Shelley
1983 - Heidi Range, British singer Sugababes
1984 - Adam Wylie, American actor

JERRI!!!!

2006-05-11T05:31:45Z

Check it out!!!!

http://nickciske.com/tools/octal.php

jadoube @ 2006-05-07T20:06:00

2006-05-08T01:12:12Z

I went camping. It was fun.
We had a campsite that did not flood in the rain, but we left our tent open and it rained in the tent for a bit... Good thing we dry out fast.

I have a doctors appt. in the morning. I don't want to go.

I uploaded a couple of new userpics to my LJ....

The first man made object to break the sound barrier was a whip.

2006-04-23T06:19:28Z

I am recouping well at Jerri's. It has been very kind of Jerri and Roy to allow me to stay here to heal.
Getting to hang with Vinni some has been great as well. He is quickly becoming one of my favorite people.

On to the trivial shite.

This is a repost from one of my very early LJ days.

If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee .

If you farted consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.

The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.

A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes.

A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death.

Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off.

The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It's like a human
jumping the length of a football field.

The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.

Some lions mate over 50 times a day.

Butterflies taste with their feet.

The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue. (hmmmmmmm)

Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people.

Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.

A cat's urine glows under a black light.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

Starfish have no brains.

Polar bears are left-handed.

Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.

Nicotine prevents Alzheimers disease.

Statistically, you are more likely to have lottery winnings sent to you accidentally, than you are to win.

It takes 7.5 lbs of pressure to remove a man's testicles.

The average human head weighs 8 lbs. (But you all knew that one)

jadoube @ 2006-04-05T20:48:00

2006-04-06T01:59:04Z

OK......

Home now.

Kind of surreal.

So I almost died. What I thought was food poisoning turned out to be a massive tumor. (The biggest baptist hospital has ever removed.)

They tell me that when they remove it, if it is attached to my bowel, which they think it is, I will have to have a shit bag on my hip for the rest of my life.

Can you take my Uterus? No. You are too young to make a decision like that. I AM 33 AND I WANT NO MORE BABIES!!!! ONE IS PLENTY!!!! I DID IT ONCE! I LIKE HER. NO MORE!!!!!!!!

They refuse to spay me.

So I go into surgery. It's massive. and attached to my uterus. THey remove my uterus, (So there!) the tumor and a large piece of my youthful feeling of invulnerability.

I sit in a hospital bed for days. Water weight and hospital smells.

Morphine and chocolate.

I have staples down my belly. They say I will be thinner now.

I just want my muscle wall to recover so I can laugh. I can't laugh.

Surreal.

jadoube @ 2006-03-23T12:58:00

2006-03-23T19:00:38Z

Mixed and muddled.

I feel out of place and off center. I am suddenly very aware of being the round peg.

I do not want to be back in this century.

When can i go Back?

Gulf wars was incredible. I made friends with a Weasel.

Sharon (my history prof, and friend) had a muscle spasm in her neck today while teaching. I drove her home.

I am a bit worried. She was shaking like a leaf and uber pale.

jadoube @ 2006-03-11T12:31:00

2006-03-11T18:33:54Z

I am going to war.

Actually i am going to go play pretend in the woods with a bunch of people who love to wear REALLY out of date fashions.

I am going to have soooo much fun.

jadoube @ 2006-03-09T00:22:00

2006-03-09T06:24:56Z

I need hits........

Make with the clickety click.......

Hit me