Keiichi's Garage

my online distractions:
I-Club
Club RS25
7th Step/BFU board
reallife comics
custom html colors

fun video of the day:
click here
rice accessory of the day:
fake BOV sound making thingy

Hmmm
Saw a cop car parked in the lot tonight, and i noticed the screensaver running on the car laptop. I'd never want to be a cop, but having the mobile internet has to be nice...plus being able to drive as fast as you like, and make everyone in front clear out of your way...
Hmmm, maybe i'm in the wrong line of work.


Wednesday, June 5, 2002 10:35 p.m.

*click click*
I actually did this a couple days ago, but i ended getting a new toy, a camera tripod. On my way out from a tummy upsetting but oh-so-good lunch at the thai buffet place, i randomly walked into the store next door and found it was a camera shop. I ended up picking a decent and cheap (emphasis on cheap) tripod for my digicam for $40. Now i have no idea if it was a good deal or i paid too much for a POS, only time will tell. That night i started going camera crazy taking all sorts of night photos, including shots of downtown Indianapolis that you can see
here.
I also took some photos that go progressively from daytime to night at the IRP (Indianapolis Raceway Park)
here.
Boys in their hondas were asking me if i was a photographer from a car magazine. I should have said 'yes, i'm from impr0n super max boost tuner performance magazine, and *your* car may appear on our next months cover, congrats!'.

Wednesday, June 5, 2002 02:28 p.m.

God Bless the US Post Office!
Remember the days when the post office had fast courteous service, and your waits in line were over before you realized it? No? Neither do i. While i was trying to deliver a package to a friend in Malaysia today, i learned that the little BFE contracted branch post offices (the ones you find in hospitals, office buildings' and not 'true' post offices aren't qualified to handle any interntaion parcels, only sheets of paper. This forced me to haul my butt out in 90 degree, 99% humidity weather to the nearest branch post office about 15 min away and when I went in, I stuck myself in the line of 3 ppl that might as well have been 300. You remember how you need to mail a single package, or buy a book of stamps, or fill out a damn change of address form (and they have none at the back of the room) and it seems like that the ppl in front of you are 1) exchanging life stories with the post office employee 2) moving everything they own in the form of 1000 little wrapped packages 3) torture everyone else waiting in line.

I was going to accept the fact that i was trapped all afternoon in the evil line until i turned around and notice...a TV set! Some very thoughtful person, while realizing that the PO was never going to get any faster, decided to entertain us with mind numbing daytime television. I thought this was a wonderful idea and kicked back and relaxed to watch some cheesy soap, which got boring after 30 sec so i started to flip channels and tuned into the Ananda (not Amanda) Lewis Show. Some of you may remember Ananda Lewis, the former MTV VJ whom i often confused with Tatyana M Ali, the little cutie who played Ashley on the 'Fresh Prince of Bel Aire'.

Ananda was doing a show on helping people confront their worst fears and this 30 something year old lady was a guest on stage who said that she was deathly afraid of 'puppet people' as she called them. What she meant were people walking around in giant Disney character, Looney Toons, you name it costumes at amusement parks and TV kids shows. So as shes talking about this, two ppl dressed in a cartoon elephant and donkey outfits come out on stage and she throws up her arms screaming hysterically like a little girl, grabs a pillow to shield herself and then runs behind the cameramen on the set. Everyone in the studio audience is laughing their asses off. In the post office a 40 something year old woman was in front of me in line and saying 'man how could a grown woman be so scared of something so silly' and I thought 'yeah and i bet something even more ridiculous scares the living crap outta you too, you just won't admit it!'. I tried to tell her that fears can be irrational and while some you grow out of, some will stay with you for life.

It started to make me think of what my most ridiculous fear was, not necessarily my darkest or most deep seated, but laughable. It didn't really come to mind, but i'm sure theres something that'll make me flip out too.

Ok this went on long enough, i need to turn the A/C back on *sweats*

Tuesday, June 4, 2002 03:54 p.m.

Introduction
Hi, for those of you who don't know me, I don't know why you would be reading this unless you were truly bored. I've been toying around with the idea of starting my own weblog. Maybe because i've become a more thoughtful, introspective person, maybe because i'm letting my personal issues get out of control and i feel the need to share/burden, or maybe i simply have too much time. Sometimes you think of something you feel the need to say and if you don't capture it on paper, those thoughts will be lost forever...or until you think of them again. Its much the same reason I keep my digital camera on me at almost all times; its much easier to capture some of life's visual absurdities on film than to try to explain them (lets not even get into the 1000 words bit). As I begin, this format is very rough and is going to change over time as i see fit, for better or for worse.

Shalom
Ed

Tuesday, June 4, 2002 1:00 p.m.

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