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overcomp @ 12:00 am: strip for November / 10 / 2009: Guns Week Part Two

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Guns Week Part Two
Vermont Pete has a gun. I been thinkin' about gettin' a gun myself. Not for like, self-defense or whatever. I want to get a gun for the same reason most people want to get a shredder.

This week in Overcompensating we are exploring the topic of guns from all angles in an effort to figure the answer to America's most riddling question -- what's the deal with guns?

Don't forget, I slashed the price on the first Wigu book so go buy it! And I have a new surprise shirt coming out this week.

shabs @ 09:29 am: weekend
I had a decent weekend. When Liz told me she'd be in Ottawa all weekend, I was wondering what I'd do with my time. I managed to spend most of it having fun while still getting a lot of housework done.

Friday:
- Borderlands
- hung out with Mark at my place
- watched Flight 666: Iron Maiden documentary directed by Sam Dunn (of Metal: A Headbanger's Journey fame)... it was very well done
- played through the new Gears chapter in splitscreen

Saturday:
- Borderlands
- karate advanced class (I LOVE this class... every class feels like a seminar, and I'm relying on my learn-things-quickly skills that I haven't used since university)
- more Borderlands (yes, there is a trend here)
- hung out with Tony and Ian - eating, drinking, and lots of Left 4 Dead
- this was my favourite Left 4 Dead experience... I week before #2 comes out! At least I am pumped for #2 now

Sunday:
- BRUTAL HANGOVER
- Helped my parents with computer stuff at the office
- Continued hangover... ugh
- A steady rotation of television, music, and housework
- Left 4 Dead 2 demo with Zack, Ethan, Kev through the magic of the internet
- Relaxing with Liz after she got home

Tags: friends, video games

overcomp @ 12:00 am: strip for November / 09 / 2009: Guns Week Part One

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Guns Week Part One
Guns don't kill people, people kill people. It goes to follow that we don't need gun regulation, we need people regulation -- we need people to be smarter. But people have proven to be violently opposed to this idea.

This week in Overcompensating we will explore the topic of guns from all angles in an effort to figure the answer to America's most riddling question -- what's the deal with guns?

Don't forget, I slashed the price on the first Wigu book so go buy it!

kyasuriin @ 10:23 pm: It's like a renaissance!
... or something. It's like me posting here again and ignoring tumblr. I can't seem to do both well at once.

Tonight was accidental craft night! I was talking to a coworker about how i hadn't been able to get all my supplies for my program tomorrow because the dollar store had been out of pliers and she offered to take me to another dollar store to get supplies which was super sweet. Then we came back to my place and I taught her how to make necklaces with crimps and things which was good practice for tomorrow. We also made buttons since she has a button maker. WIN!
( look what I can do! )

so that was my Saturday... how was yours?

Tags: jewelery

overcomp @ 12:00 am: strip for November / 06 / 2009: Buying a Church

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Buying a Church
Did you know that regular people were allowed to buy churches? I had no idea. I thought you had to have a special license, or blessing or something. Nope. You just gotta have some money. And you can buy a church.

And I only missed one update this week! Not bad. It's been a busy week, we got a bunch of new equipment. You know how it is. You got to set up the equipment, and sit there with unfocused eyes and kind of pet the equipment for a while.

lastunicorne @ 11:16 pm: it's nice to be feeling something again.
it seems that it was this time last year that i was also feeling something.
really strange timing i'd say!

i feel how i felt sooo many years ago.
and now it's freaking me out because it's happening so quickly.

i suppose that's what happens as you get older
you've learned a few things
it only makes sense that you've got the ability to make decisions faster.

but this?

can a change of the person change the way i feel about a situation so dramatically, for real?
bad sentence.
but yeah, i feel very differently about things.

i don't want to say it all.
i don't want to jinx it.
i don't want to jump the gun.

but i'm starting to think in ways of logic.

is it better to follow logic or ones heart?
or logic *and* ones heart?

for some reason i feel like:
if logic says no, but your heart says yes, then go ahead and listen to your heart.
if logic says yes and your heart says no, then still, listen to your heart.
so it seems to reason that the heart is the thing to follow
but
if logic says yes and your heart says yes, could your heart not just be getting swayed by logic?

how do i know?

how do i know what's real?

is there a certain amount of time to wait?

times does change things.
this i know for certain.

but everything else, i do not know.



i know i had a wicked halloween night.
i know that i will make it through work even though i don't feel like it.
i know that, relatively speaking, i have nothing to complain about.
i know my life is on the road to change.
and luckily, i also i know that i will make the right decision.
i don't know how right now.
but i will.
i trust myself completely.
it's trusting others that's the hard part!


i'm ghost.


ps- got my new specks today!! fuck yeah!

pps- happy b-day!

overcomp @ 12:00 am: strip for November / 04 / 2009: YHWH The Author

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YHWH The Author
Here is a picture of a group of Americans who just found out they have successfully denied equal rights to another group of Americans.



Ever since I stopped believing in Christianity, I've had the opinion that "worship whatever you want, as long as it doesn't hurt anybody." Recent events are making me rethink this opinion, because your religious beliefs are hurting people.

It's a good thing there isn't a commandment in the Decalogue that simply says "Don't Be an Asshole," because a lot of American Christians would be in trouble right about now. And before you send me an email saying "I'm a Christian and we're not all like that," first write an email to a Christian you know who is like that.

Anyway that's why my version of YHWH is this laid-back old guy, instead of a gigantic crybaby that has a weird obsession with human genitals.

The point is, I slashed the price on the first Wigu book so go buy it!

overcomp @ 12:00 am: strip for November / 03 / 2009: Hot Dog Man

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Hot Dog Man
Internet Businessing is crazy! I should write a book about it. Except instead of some boring book about businessing, it would be more like a Hunter S Thompson thing. The point is, I have to get this Overcompensating book done or Andrew WK is gonna be mad at me.

Hippie pellets may not be used as substitutes for Hungry Hungry Hippies.

If you need me I'll be out in the shed compressing hippies.

shabs @ 11:16 am: Karate is totally the hobby for me. I went to a seminar on Sunday despite being tired in the morning and though it was extremely tiring (mentally, physically), it was quite rewarding.

Though I hurt for all of Sunday after that, I feel pretty awesome and powerful today.

shabs @ 11:03 am: Hmm. Borderlands looks good on 360, but I can tell it would look 1000x better on my laptop.

If only it had achievements on PC.

Tags: video games

overcomp @ 12:00 am: strip for November / 02 / 2009: Halloween 2009

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Halloween 2009
We had small Halloween at Vermont Pete and The Outrider's house! This week is gonna be so great. They're gonna write poems about this week.

kyasuriin @ 01:22 pm: and an update...

so, I did a couple things on my list - grocery shopping & showering/getting dressed. I'm counting it a win.

Lately I've been trying to plan out what I'm eating for the week before I go grocery shopping so there's a chance of me actually eating the food I buy. My strategy with Susan used to be for us to just buy a crapload of veggies and some noodley things and we'd stirfry or make pasta or pad thai or whatever. There's lots you can do with a crapload of veggies and noodles. But when you're just one person, more often than not all those veggies don't end up getting used. I've taken to buying frozen veggies instead which makes me a bit sad but is more practical than buying an entire head of broccoli.

I got The Accidental Vegan out from the library and am going to try their potato and pea curry. If it's any good, I'll type up the recipe. It's pretty simple which is key for me when cooking.

Also going to finally make that butter chicken that's been on my list for a while and do some chicken fingers later in the week. My freezer is getting full. Fortunately it's full with things like cupcakes and homemade banana muffins! YUM.

wigufeed @ 01:49 pm: Comic for October 30, 2009

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shabs @ 09:26 am: Music is the healer.

overcomp @ 12:00 am: strip for October / 30 / 2009: Warts

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Warts
I've been so messed up lately it didn't even occur to me to make a Halloween comic, like I usually do. I'll do a Halloween comic on Monday.

I used to have a wart on my wrist that I got from touching my own weenie too much. I got it burned off, but it came back. My Grandpa, an old Cherokee, told me to catch a grasshopper and have the grasshopper spit its weird black spit on it for a few days. It totally worked, I think. I was a little kid.

kyasuriin @ 12:02 am:
In case you were wondering how things shook out in my poll, Wild Things won with A Great and Terrible Beauty following close behind. I'm thinking it's because people have either read these or want to but would rather hear what they're like before they read them.

I actually read Diary of a Wimpy Kid 3 in a couple hours (over two days) while I was waiting for Fearful Symmetry to arrive and then once it did, instead of reading that I started reading Fire (at work) and Shadow Magic (at home).

Three other books have arrived for me in the meantime (the third Benedict's Society book, another Enola Holmes book and Fragile Ink by Melissa Marr, sequel to Wicked Lovely) which just adds to my list. I think it'll be another double-digit book month. This month I've read 13. Mind you some of those have been children's novels or graphic novels, but still. Thirteen more things I can recommend to the right person (or not recommend, depending).

So far:

• Gingerbread by Rachel Cohn
• Tiger Rising by Kate DiCamillo
• Battle of the Labrynth (Percy Jackson and the Olympians series) by Rick Riordan
• Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
• Murder Mysteries by Neil Gaiman (both the short story and the graphic novel)
• Beyond the Grave (a 39 clues book) by Jude Watson
• Suite Scarlett by Maureen Johnson
• Diary of  a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules by Jeff Kinney
• Love is Hell (short story anthology) ed. Melissa Marr
• Pretty Dead by Francesca Lia Block
• Y: The Last Man Vol 1 by Brian K Vaughan
• The Beautiful Room is Empty by Edmund White
• Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Last Straw by Jeff Kinney

Not too shabby.
I know a lot of people on here do detailed reviews when they finish books and I tend to just gloss over what I liked about them (or didn't) and move on. If you'd like more info/thoughts on any of the above, just let me know and I can try to elaborate.

I read a bad review of Fire earlier today and I wish I hadn't because now those person's thoughts are going to cloud how i see the book. I'm only 30 or 40 pages in and enjoying so far though, however the person's complaint about the book hasn't had time to manifest yet. I loved Graceling soooo much, I want to love this too.

Shadow Magic is good so far too. I like that they're focusing on a different area of the world. Actually, both books are doing that. Both books are companion fantasy books by first time authors, only Fire is a prequel and Shadow Magic is a sequel. Still, odd that I'm reading too books in the same sort of genre at the same time. (Speaking of Odd, I really want to read Odd and the Frost Giants too!)

Off to bed, hopefully to read a bit before I pass out. Different storytime tomorrow than my usual. A bit terrified.



Tags: books

lastunicorne @ 11:21 pm: getting closer
i'm getting closer to finally doing something about my life.
i can feel it.

you could say it's just adds getting to me, but i've been hearing the same adds for ages but only now am i hearing what they have to say.

i need to start making some real decisions about the direction of my life.

i want to open a business.
i'm really really sure it's what i want to do now.

so that's step one.

what next?

1-figure out all the various things i need to know in order to open my own business.
2-decide how serious i am about this boy
3-choose a place to stick my roots
4-figure out what sort of shop it will be
5-start putting all the things i learned in step 1 into action
6-move to step 3
7-get on with it!

do i have any sort of concrete time line??
hells no!

but, i can feel that it's starting.

i like this feeling.

i've been in limbo for so long.
something is going to change.

it will be a long process yet, but i don't feel so lost anymore.

my chest feels heavier - my heart is finally beating!

i'm going to do this.

not now, but 'soon'.

i'm ghost.

lastunicorne @ 12:31 am: oh yeah!
aaaaand!!

how could i forget!

happy birthday dear dreadies! <3

4 years young, yesterday!

and we're still in love!

*le sigh*

i'm ghost.

lastunicorne @ 11:48 pm: three little words.
yeah, so he kinda said them this morning.
and i don't blame him.
when we're in those moments i can't deny feeling the same way.

but therein lies the problem; in those moments.

what about the rest of the time?

i dunno.
i'm not sold on this one just yet.

( it gets a tad explicit back here )

i'm ghost.

shabs @ 10:02 am: Fervid Whisper Message Board
To whom it may concern:

The message board is at the following URL -
http://b3.boards2go.com/boards/board.cgi?&user=FervidWhisper

Geocities (i.e. the host for the official site) is being shut down (today?), so no more website. But the message board is still there.