Oh no you didn't.

TheOatmeal.com

Bah! I always wish TheInsaneDomain was so much cooler than it is, more interesting, and actually updated on some sort of reasonable basis. It EATS at me that it's not - but I just don't have the time I used to, and I don't have a site that can do all sorts of fancy things to make it easier for me and others to update. Anyway, I was pointed to a site that is what I'd like TID to be like in some ways, mainly twisted and funny.

Tapeworms!
What interesting is that they have things about tapeworms. A few people who know me well know my on-going (mostly) joke about tapeworms, and how I think they are lurking in ALL meat. If I'm handed a red-centered steak by my husband, I ask him if I might get tapeworms from it. I have even made a Mr Tapeworm out of construction paper and put it up as a 'halloween decoration' for someone. It all stems from the time a tapeworm was shown to me during a science class. Since then, I've always wondered about these worms, if I would get one, and how many are going around using humans as their own personal puppets? They could even be reading this via some poor victims body. It could be YOU and you don't even know it! You have to be careful, those tapeworms are everywhere.

Random randomness.
I have NO character. NONE.
I shouldn't have to watch Hank Hill shake his ass.

NO cheer here.

So I updated the list of things that sucks about xmas & the holidays.
Here are some of those that I found funny, and hell yea, I'm allowed to find myself funny. Somebody has to.

-People who are refusing to buy anyone gifts because the world will be ending on the 21st. Of course, they will feel like complete idiots when they realize that the end of the world is scheduled for 2012, not 2010. They're thinking of the book by Arthur C. Clarke and that crazy movie with the crazy computer.
- Finding out 'holiday spirit' doesn't mean alcohol. 
- Having neighbors who have contests or enter decorating contests, so they come over and bug you to decorate when you don't want to. So you wake up to find your damn house decorated by that crazy lady down the street who's into christmas, even though you told her NOT to touch your place this year.
-TheInsaneDomain.com brings out pathetic no cheer here bullshit articles and lists just like shitty holiday decorations each year.

Books.

Finished within the last month :
Paul of Dune
Stardust (non-fiction)
The Road

Currently reading :
Cosmic Jackpot (non-fiction)
Keeper of Dreams (collection of short stories by Orson Scott Card)

To be read next:
Under the dome

THE sickness.
I think I'm getting ill. My throat is getting sore, and it feels like it's 3am when it's not even 9pm. Woah is me.

Love and kisses, JCP

Dear Faith No More, 
You need to have a concert in Toronto so I can FINALLY see you jerks play live. I've been a fan FOREVER and it's just getting insulting that everyone but me has seen you in concert.
Better yet, come and play in my backyard. I think you owe me that.
YOU OWE ME.
YOU OWE ME!
Love and kisses, JCP

Dear Skittles,
Your commercial where the man can make things turn into skittles is ridiculous. There are a million things wrong with this commercial, but here is a short list for you to consider.

1. The man is sitting at a desk, with a telephone and computer. If everything he touches turns to skittles, why the hell would anyone hire him for a desk job, much less assign a phone and computer to him?
2. Why does he reach for the phone when he KNOWS that everything he touches will turn to skittles?
3. If everything he touches turns to skittles, he should be stationed in major dumps all over the world, turning our garbage into something that people can eat. Sure, it isn't exactly healthy for people to consume nothing but skittles, but still, it's better than having garbage pile up, and better than eating nothing if you're starving.
4. It shows him as depressed that this is happening, insunating that he does NOT like skittles and is fed up with them. This would lead people to think, oh that's right, skittles get boring after awhile because they're too sugary. 
5. Co-workers are taunting him, showing that they have no sensitivity for this man's odd condition, and are poisoning his work environment. Do you really support this sort of behavior in the workplace?
6. Wouldn't it be better for this man to at least stay at home on disability, instead of risking the chance that he would trip and fall, turning the building into skittles and everyone in the building being killed/harmed?

In closing, your commercial sucks, and whomever came up with it, and whomever approved it should be force fed skittles until they puke up a rainbow.
Boos and hisses, JCP

Dear KFC,
Your holiday commercial is beyond ridiculous.What sort of people invite over their whole healthy-looking family over to their expensive house, get dressed up, set the dining table with nice dishes and napkins, and then proudly serve them a bucket of KFC?
NO KIND OF PEOPLE BEAUSE THAT WOULD NEVER HAPPEN.
The only way that would happen as shown in your commercial is if it were as a JOKE on those who were visiting. Even then, they would simply have gotten the bucket, refusing to allow your horrible food anywhere near their house and their childrens well-balanced diets. Get a grib.
If you want to have your commercial show reality, then show a family that is in their torn up pjs, staring at the tv so they don't have to talk to each other, look like they've endured the holiday from hell and are just hoping that they don't survive the year so they don't have to endure another. THAT is when people will break out the KFC during the holidays.
Boos and hisses, JCP

Dear Mike Patton, 
YOU OWE ME.
YOU OWE ME!
Love and kisses, JCP

TheInsaneDomain updates!

The Insane Domain stuff :
A random call. - New insane conversation with JCP.
Information about the moon -Updated due to water being confirmed found on the moon.

Don't question, just obey.
Mike Patton should be tied up in my basement and being forced to sing/record whatever songs/music I tell him to. It's not fair that he is out there, recording whatever he wants and taunting me with his voice. I demand he report to my house immediately and endure my insane musical requests. As a musician, he should desire nothing more. It's all about the music Patton, and I'd MAKE you make BEAUTIFUL music. You'd be made to sing until you spit up blood.


Randomness.
No, YOU are the hallucination!
Oh wait, that was something else. Nevermind.
 Insane thoughts & ideas

Universal Tropes.
This is a website I've been reading lately and have found it interesting enough to share with you all. Keep in mind that I didn't say YOU would find it interesting, but that it was ME who found it interesting. If you hate it horribly, then that sucks for you.   Universal Tropes homepage.

Random things I've read, heard, or made up recently.

Say mister, that'd be SWELL.
Employees only.
Robots and dinos, oh my!
At least we've got food.
i cried to myself in the pisser.
DON'T DATE ROBOTS!
Error. Does not compute.
You're a legend to us.

Image - Sugared coffee by DecoyRobot -

Autumn & stuff.

Pumpkins!
Autumn has arrived and that means Halloween is near. The local farms have pumpkins, and of course, I'm there to get a few for myself. Some may laugh at me for picking an 'ugly' pumpkin, but I think it's far cooler than their boring old only-orange pumpkins.

Halloween.
It's always so hard to come up with ideas for a halloween costume. Something simple but fun, and be ready to wear a winter jacket with it. It always seems to snow, rain or something nasty on halloween, making it suck to be outside for long! Seeing as we're too old to go door to door, we're handing out candy and usually have a fire-pit going to keep us warm.

No, I'm not telling you what my costume is, that would spoil the surprise. Last year I was a skeleton and that was boring, but this year it's a bit more original and totally boring.

Leaves.
Now that it's autumn, it means that leaves are falling all over my lawn. Raking leaves is sort of fun at first, but quickly becomes annoying. With the amount of leaves that fall on my lawn, it's more of a raking them into sections so they can rot out of the way - bagging them or anything would take weeks and I don't have that kind of time for leaves.

Maybe I'll make a huge pile and jump into them. It's been a long time since I've done that.


Image - Pumpkin patch by DecoyRobot

Flooded with autumn.

Not quite of biblical proportions.
A few weeks ago my basement flooded, and I don't mean in some nudgenudgewinkwink way, but in the literal water an inch high covering my laundry room, downstairs bathroom and into part of the rec-room. I got the joy of mopping up water until 1 am too. Luckily nothing of major value was damaged, but it was a pain in the ass to deal with, at first. Now the basement is being re-done and suddenly it's a good thing that this happened. Not that I'd wish it upon anyone, but it's good when things seem to suck and then turn out good.
Image - Bubbled moment : 28

Things that rock about autumn.
Apple crisp.
Pumpkin pie.
The awesome colors of the leaves.
Jeans and a sweater weather.
Campfires are PERFECT for this time of year.
The bugs are mostly dead and gone.
It's cool at night so you don't sweat like a freak while sleeping.
HALLOWEEN.
People who put up their halloween decorations early.
Stores start bringing out cool halloween stuff.
Thunderstorms.
Students go back to school so they're finally out of the way.
TV shows start giving us new episodes again.
Image - Autumn sneaks up

Things that suck about autumn.
Leaves on the ground are slippery to walk on.
Raking leaves is fun at first but sucks horribly when you've got a big pile of leaves and there isn't a close place to rake them all too.
Bagging leaves is for losers; I rake mine into a place where they can ROT, or somewhere to be BURNT.
Hardy bugs that survive the chilly nights and like to buzz in your face.
Bees that are getting dumb and slow due to the cooler air.
Stores and people that start putting out xmas crap.
Too much rain and cloudy weather.
The summer vacation is over for students.
Having to prepare for winter by cleaning up the yard of all the fun stuff.
Forgetting to prepare for winter and having snow fall early, buring things that then rust.
Lame shows you hate start showing new episodes and getting in the way of TV you actually like.
Image - Tree tops : 04

Robots in the HOME.
Tonight, my husband called me into the kitchen and told me, with total surprise in his face, that the oven was self-cleaning itself. SELF CLEANING. You press a button and it locks the door from being opend and CLEANS ITSELF. This might be old news to others but this is new to the both of us. We've heard of these things, but never have we witnessed it in action. We stared at the oven for about a minute, thrilled at thise newfound knowledge. Right now, as I type away, my oven is cleaning itself. What's next, self-cleaning kitchens? Sign me up. And I'd like a replicator too, so I can get rid of this oven.

Gotta love it.
Don't you just love it when you're trying to focus on writing things and someone else in the room keeps yammering at you, even though you politely asked them not to? Yea. I guess that person forgets that when THEY need to focus and do something, you let them, but someone they can't do the same for you. That sucks when that happens. Next time, I will start up on the drums. TAKE THAT!

Sleep, or lack thereof.
The last week of sleeping has sucked royaly. If I'm not tossing and turning, I'm coughing, being woken up by others or having bizarre dreams that make me feel like I haven't slept. It sucks. I really need a GOOD night's sleep so I can think properly again.

Goodbye things.
Now that the basement is being redone due to flood, we're taking this oppertunity to purge a bunch of crap from the house. It's good to see it go, but it takes a lot of work to sort through it and then get it out the door. When you're sleep deprived, the process takes a while. Bah! It should be like in the Sims, I just click on something, delete it and the cash value of it appears in my bank account.

Take that, jerks.

Yea, you thought I'd forgotten all about this trying to update more often thing I was trying. BUT YOU WERE WRONG! That's right. Wrong. Here I am, and there you are.

Random stuff.
"Being John Malcovich" is on the TV right now.
I was at a campfire in a provincial park earlier tonight.
It's kind of cold right now, but I'd rather be cold than hot.
I still have no idea what I should be for halloween.
My nose is cold.

Beam me up?

Things in the sky last night.
Last night, I saw the space station go whizzing by - and shortly afterwards, in a different part of the sky, I saw two lights traveling along before they suddenly disappeared. As for the space station - I waved hello and they all waved back. Nice people.

Autumn is creeping up.

Each day that goes by brings more colors to the leaves out front of my house. The greens have given way to yellows - officially announcing the beginning of autumn. Autumn is by far the best season - so I hope it lingers for a few months before the nastyness of winter sinks in.

Photo : VISITORS

Greetings.

The FINAL countdown.
That's right - we're heading to Venus - though maybe they've seen us....

And now back to our regularly scheduled programming.
So it's been a bit since the last update - but not MONTHS overdue. The end of summer brings guests, events to celebrate and other fun things. I might even mention that I've now been married for 10 years. Yes, it sounds just as long to you as it does to me! Scary. What did we do to celebrate? Nothing. Well okay I was dragged into 'dancing the in full moons light' once, but other than that, we're just not the type that celebrate anniversaries - at least not yet. Maybe when we're horribly old and have nothing else to keep us going.

HALLOWEEN IS COMING!
Everyone decorates for pissmas 3 months early - so I'm starting on halloween 2 months early. I've scoped out what I've got halloween-wise in my basement so I can start bringing it up and setting up. This year will be good - we'll have some help decorating and handing out candy. That's right - we're bringing in some hired help this year, which leads me to the next bit of info.

Mzebonga returns!
That's right - Mzebonga will be here for halloween!

Photo : By DecoyRobot but no longer online =

I want a pool.

I would like a swimming pool.
It doesn't have to be a HUGE pool, just a nice sized one that I can swim around in without bumping into the edges every 5 seconds when swimming. It doesn't have to be really deep - 6ft at the deepest is fine. I would like it out in my backyard, and not need a lot of fussing to keep it clean and safe. I really wish I had a swimming pool.

Insane Q&A updated!
Hard to believe isn't it?! So yea, I had to get the interface fixed by an admin - and then actually go in and update. There is a question still in there unanswered - it's a long one and I didn't have the time to give it a good answer, so I've held onto it for now. Hopefully I'll get to it tonight.

Facebook? Sigh.
I've had two people asking me about that this week. Should I get a 'fan' page for TheInsaneDomain? I don't know. I'm still thinking about it.

Photo : Blue world by decoyrobot

ZOMBIES!

"A zombie outbreak is likely to lead to the collapse of civilization, unless it is dealt with quickly."
Link to article.

Guess what I did?

That's right - the questionnaire results. Wow - I'm SO prompt with ALL my updates!
Oh, shut up. Go check out your answers and see if you got a good question award. It seems that I (for all but one question) gave out only FOUR good question awards and NO bad question awards.

I had started giving the GQA to anyone that put effort into it - but now I'm back to just awarding those that I find funny, or something like that. That means it should be harder to get one now - well, in theory. If you send me cash and/or shiny things, I will gladly award you with many GQAs.


LIARS.
All those weather jerks should STOP saying that there will be thunderstorms when there is no chance in hell that there will be one. It's been weeks of this nonsense and still, NOTHING. All sorts of other people are pelted with crazy storms but what do I get - NOTHING.

Who took all my popsicles?!
They should somehow generate new ones every time I take one so I am never without one.

Photo : REDRUM by decoyrobot

A Sims 3 uh, review?

Well, maybe not a proper review, but it’s me blithering on about the sims. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

Those of you who know the site (TheInsaneDomain.com) know that I like to play the Sims and routinely kill them for my own amusement. There is a whole section of killing the sims on this site, so we can all be amused. (Killing the Sims) I now have the Sims 3 and, well, it’s just not the same. I’ve had the sims 3 for a few months now and quite frankly, it’s just not as good. The graphics are nicer, the neighbourhood is great, the objects are neat, but the sims, they’re just not the same. They have no real personality, despite the fact that now you can customize them more than ever. I know it sounds like that doesn’t make sense, but that’s how it is.

Aging.
The neighbourhood now ages around your sims, which is sort of interesting in ways, but also means you don’t really get to know any of them. Instead of always bumping into that idiot Angela Stamm and then eventually liking her enough to have your friends sim knock her up, you now barely notice she’s alive before she’s old and dead. Aging can be turned off, but then your sim doesn’t age either, and damnit, they need to DIE before they get beyond boring.

Killing them?!
Killing them isn’t near as fun or easy in this version. At least, not on purpose. My one sim worked on a broken dishwasher ONCE and he gets fried. Another one dies by setting a birthday cake on a wooden table, and suddenly half the family is dead. When I TRY to kill them by luring them into rooms to starve – it takes FOREVER for them to finally die. One sim I had locked in a room with rugs and other items, left food on the oven to burn and the whole room burns except for the bed my sim was sleeping on. ?!?!? It took several tries to kill him, and no way of getting a fire sparked without the oven. The sims 2 had a nifty fire ‘party’ device that would always do the trick. Trying to get one killed any other way just isn’t easy period – it takes forever or I just haven’t managed to get it to work.

Evil? *Yawn*
You can pick traits for your sims, and even though Evil is an option, it is not very evil at all. You can imply someone’s mother is a llama, which is funny the first time you read it, but after that, things aren’t very evil at all. You don’t get wants to kill other sims, to knock up several unsuspecting ladies, or anything truly evil. You get to call them names and maybe kick their ass, whoopdedo. That’s not very evil, that’s being an asshole. The mean-spirited trait is even more lame, stealing candy from a baby isn’t as thrilling as it always sounded. An ‘evil’ sim I created was given a whole backyard filled with neighbours that were starving to death – and he somehow got offended by something they were doing and got all upset. He should have been by the giant window I put in his bedroom, watching them all cry and suffer. You make a few sims upset and have a nemesis or two and that’s about that for being evil in this game. I haven’t tried having anyone follow the crime career just yet, so maybe there is something that might resemble fun for an ‘evil’ sim there.

Yeaaaaaaaaaaa baby.

Random things I didn't like:
Your sim baby/toddler now waits to be EXHAUSTED before falling asleep. If left to fill the energy bar - your child will be starving, lonely and dirty. When they age up, you're told they had a difficult upbringing.
You don't always get to pick a trait, so it picks one for you, but then it never appears in their list of 'traits'.
You sit there FOREVER while they sleep.
When having them make a meal, you have to then click on the disk and make them EAT it.
There are things to 'collect' in the game, such as diamonds, but after getting them cut, all you can do is sell them. What is the point? Same goes with the fish and seeds. You get these things, but you don't really get much out of them.
There are no fire sprinklers to help put fires out.
You can only grant 4 'wishes'.
There seem to be NO aliens, crazy creatures or anything. How boring.
Things break down WAY quicker it seems.
There are no crazy devices that mess with the weather, bring back the dead or anything fun like that.
They don't fart and laugh about it anymore.
You can customize everything about them, but the little preview pictures make them all look similar.
Kids end up coming out with the same haircut as their mom, and each time they age up, they get it back again.
The vegetarian trait is a total rip-off and I'd be surprised to hear Sims didn't get a lot of hate mail over that particular trait and it's side effect of 'getting sick more often'.

Wow, do I suck for updating or do I suck for updating?!

I think I suck at updating.

What's really funny is that about two weeks ago, I told myself I'd try to update this EVERY DAY for TWO WEEKS. Look at ALL those posts! Such clever and insightful things were said. Sigh.

So, let's see if I can try and update once a week. That is something I should be able to do, right? Sure. Maybe I'll make it a TIDTuesday thing. We'll see how long that lasts - feel free to place your bets as to how long I actually keep it going, or if I even start it!

Seeing as we're on the topic of never posting, how about we address TheInsaneDomain and it's lack of anything good for what, years now? I think part of the problem is that the writers/contributors, though mainly me, is getting older. Okay, we're ALL getting older but the content of the site hasn't been growing up with me. I guess it's time to make it grow up. When the start first started, I was finishing highschool and just 'playing' with HTML. I still lived at home, and was still working my first sort of serious job. Now, I've been married for 10 years, I own a house and I've moved away from where I grew up. Needless to say, my world has changed a lot since a lot of TID was written. I need to start updating with things that are more relevant to me, and ask the previous contributors to return, and share what they think. I realized the other day that a half of the TID contributors are now parents. How is THAT for frightening?! Out of those, I'm sure all of them are good friends with those who have children too.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that TID needs a good update, and I know it. I'm going to have to stop pretending we're not actually responsible adults in reality, and start writing about these things that ARE in our lives. Makes sense doesn't it? Yea, well time flies and suddenly you're an adult doing adult things. Maybe my previous contributors will agree to help me, and we'll tie into their sites (if they have them!) and things that they feel the need to spam us all with.

Now all I need is a well designed website. Sigh. Site design has come a long way since I started, and really, look at the site. It's clunky and has SO much text to it. Maybe I'll just try something new, without killing the old one. I'll think about how to do that.

I've also got an adventure to finish writing for TID - It's 2/3 done - I just need some time to sit down and FINISH it. No really, for real. Really. Shut up, I will try! Really.

Ok, enough of that already - my to do list is getting longer and to accomplish anything, I've got to pick ONE thing and just DO it. So I'll try posting more here. Lucky you.

Photo : Small talk by decoyrobot

Halloween is coming - are you ready?

YEAAAA BABY.

Did I mention?

Faith No More is getting back together for a tour. BASTARDS aren't coming to North America. THEY SHOULD. They should come and play in Toronto so I can see them. They should also release another album so I can have more FNM music.
___________________________

Random posting.

Earth hour.

So, now we all have to plan to spend time sitting in the dark? Maybe all those people who sat in the dark should shut off lights when they don't need them, recycle more, buy less and just generally live every day as though they care, not just one hour a year. Bah. How many people took the time to go outside and see what stars are hidden from them the rest of the year? Shutting off all the lights for an hour should be done weekly so more people can see the stars.

What I'm reading.

Yep, it's come to this - me telling you what I'm reading. I've been reading a bunch of these new Dune books and have enjoyed them. It's hard to find new sci-fi stuff to read that is consistently good, and so far the Dune books have been keeping my interest.

Is it spring yet?
This winter has seemed to drag on forever! Finally I'm starting to see the ground outside and be able to wander out there without piling on layers upon layers of clothes.

New list!
There is a new list on TheInsaneDomain - Facebook sucks!
___________________________

Yay - Friday the 13th!

Did I scare you?
Apparently, people are actually afraid of Friday the 13th. Not ALL people, but some people. That just seems so strange to me - to be afraid of a day due to its number. Then again, people are afraid of the weirdest things. There was a show on the other day about a woman who was horribly afraid of thunderstorms and tornadoes. She spends several hours a day watching the weather network for signs of trouble, and when there is a storm, she hides in her bathroom praying with her sister. (Of course, she lives in tornado ally - which does not help.) While I do have some fears (we all do), I don't think I've got any that border on that level of weirdness. I know that I prefer not to be around very large animals (horses and anything larger) but that's only if they're not behind a fence. Even then, I wouldn't run screaming from them, but merely hope they don't decide to come over and stomp on me. I also don't spend hours a day worrying about them, thinking that they might be right outside my house, waiting for me to come out so they can harass me. It's the strange and obsessive fears that I find interesting. It's sad for those who have them, but it's always interesting to see what variations humans have to offer.
What sort of fear do YOU have?



Randomness.
Many of us are on some sort of website where people post things and then you post them and so on. So here is a snippet of something lame I filled out and posted.

I hate commercials. They're poorly written, are a thousand times louder than the show I'm watching, and just plain stupid. There are a few I like, but the rest make me yell at the TV, or just turn it off. Yes, they bother me THAT much. And anyone who has had the misfortune of watching TV with me will verify that no, I can't just block it out. I shouldn't have to block out chunks of my life because of stupid commercials!

I hate to take baths. I shower.

I hate throwing plastic things in the garbage when there are no recycling bins around.

I hate when people say "Let's get this party started" or "That's what I'M talkin about" or "You know what I'm sayin".

I like coffee. I do not like cream in it, just sugar.

I'm not a morning person.

I like that sore achy feeling the day after a good workout.

I've had a website since 1996, and been using computers since I was about 13.

I can't imagine my world without music.

I love to read and hear about space and the universe. It gives me hope and makes me feel like I'm part of something important.

I always feel like I should be doing something, but no matter what I do, it doesn't feel important enough.

My favorite smells are cinnamon, vanilla, garlic and campfire. I hate walking into Shoppers Drug Mart or other places that have the perfume counters right at the door. I hate the smell of perfume and flowers.

My favorite planet is Jupiter. It's huge, it's awesome and it has lots of interesting moons.

I'm not convinced we're all the same species. Just because we all look like we're human doesn't mean we are. There are just way too many people doing horrible things that I can't even begin to comprehend.

___________________________