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I don’t know where I stand with organized religion. I went to the same church for 20 years and I watched it implode on itself with in-fighting, power struggles, lying, manipulating and more and I’m glad I left when I did.

Now I’m older, I’ve seen a ton of ignorance come out of Christians who aren’t willing to accept that just because they’re Christian doesn’t mean they’re flawless, make mistakes, screw up on a moment to moment basis and even worse, they judge others all the time.

Hey I know I judge people all the time. It’s part of life, but I’m also not labeling myself something and then using it as a title in a way that screams out “I’M BETTER THAN YOU!” I don’t use terms to define the rest of the world as a whole because what good would that do?

Aren’t you as Christians supposed to bring more members into your fold? Into the flock? Labeling them things like “sin slaves” because you dislike the term “bible thumper” does nothing but prove them right. 

/End Rant 

I’m moving, and because I’m moving I’m getting my house (which I own) ready to show so that I can rent it out. An impropperly hung shower door had to be removed months and months ago, and finally we were going to take it as well as some old couches, garbage, junk, old broken video game stuff and more to the dump. While carrying the door I didn’t see where I was going and tripped. This of course caused me to drop the door which shattered, fall into it and cut myself up pretty bad.

I can’t recall the last time I was injured this bad. I mean I’ve broken bones, toes, my spine, my knee and more but to be lacerated like this where my elbow bone is completely expose and such, well… never that bad. 

Stitches, some bandages, some antibacterial creme and I’m on the mend. But it still sucks. I cant’ get the wounds wet as water may carry bacteria into them and then they get infected. Today more than any other day in recent memory, I needed to shower. I still had dried and crusted blood on me and just had to get it off. In orderfor that to happen I had to wrap my arm in cling film and try to keep it dry.

I feel bad for anyone with one arm, because everything is harder when you can’t use one. My hand is also thrashed so it’s harder for me to even write this (my fingers have little cuts on them) and playing video games is out of the question because it stings too much.

and yes this last photo is my butt.

Today was a gigantic cleaning day at my house. Folks came by to help, my sister helped me pack up DVDs and organize them, dust, clean my kitchen, organize the dishes and we even had RotoRooter come out and fix my sink, add a new faucet and do a lovely job repairing the leak on my shower.

I really love my shower. It’s this custom marble shower, with a giant rain style shower head and it’s just such a lovely place to collect my thoughts at the start or end of the day. With all the work I did today, getting rid of stuff, cleaning and such it was nice to be able to finally strip off all my dirty clothes and turn on my newly fixed shower.

BUT WHAT’S THIS!? 

MY SHOWER HANDLE IS FACING 90 DEGREES AWAY FROM WHERE IT USED TO IN THE OFF POSITION?! Well I don’t know if I’ll be able to get used to this, but the guy did fix it, it’s done and now I can take a Nice Hot SHOWER!

I turn my handle and… and… oh no… there’s water here but it’s freezing. Ok maybe the position of where I like my hot water is no longer relative to the angle that the handle is now directed. I guess I’ll have to get used to this. Lets just crank the shower up to max and dial it back from there.

STILL…FUCKING…COLD!

Rotorooter sucks a big bag of dicks. This guy David comes into my home with his messy boots and rookie attitude and proceeds to do things that make me feel like he’s incredibly new to the job and just might be on his first day without a supervisor.

So first we direct David the kitchen sink which no longer mix cold and hot water without the cold water running all the time, so we have to replace it. Not bad actually. The unit was a little odd, the dial was stripped anyway and it’ll make the house more presentable to the renters since there is no dishwasher and time in the kitchen needs to feel good.

So then I direct him to my shower which had a leak earlier and he tells me that he’s going to need to take a look at this part and see how it works. Well it’s basically the dial for the hot and cold. He says that it’s over engineered but that all he really needs to do is fix “the rubbers” and by that he means O-Rings.

Now this is the first thing that made me take notice of this guy and his skill level. He’s calling the rubber O-Rings… “rubbers”. That’s what a high school douche calls a condom. The term “rubbers” is now silly and when my dad who is an landscaper and has dealt with water systems most of his life corrects him the guy blows him off basically. Ok attitude much?

David then says that he can fix it but that the part needs to be dialed back in when replaced to get the hot and cold water temp mix perfect. Ok great David. We are willing to pay you for the time to do that! Too bad David just hooked it all back up without checking and now I have a shower with ZERO hot water.

WONDERFUL! I would assume that North America’s largest plumbing repair company would be ontop for a reason. Apparently that reason is not their trainees skill level.

Honestly it’s not that big of a deal on it’s own, but it’s the other thing that happened in the middle of the job. When David is over hooking up the new faucet in the sink he realizes he doesn’t have a certain size part. This can be chalked up to him not looking at what size the part he purchased for us uses. He bought two different faucets when out getting parts, brought them over for us to choose from and we picked the nicer one with the handle, sprayer, spout. Not a bad piece of hardware actually. But the fact he didn’t look at the box of either thing to see if he needs adapters or anything shows a lack of either skill or understanding.

He had to leave to go pick up two simple parts which took nearly an hour. That’s an extra hour of our time he needs to be spending to dial in the shower and faucet so they work correctly. Those things all tied together make it a shitty day.

I really dislike when a service is paid for, costs a lot and is horrible. Luckily his work is insured for 6 months and the parts are insured for life, but if some one doesn’t come out here and fix it tomorrow I’m going to be pissed… and I don’t want it to be David.  

I got into a writing fit the other day and just started putting pen to paper and for the first time in my entire life I wrote a story involving some one else’s character. I suppose it’s “fan fiction” since it’s not original but I will never ever publish it because I’m not a fan of that term or the use of it.

I feel like fan fiction is often this weird strange literary limbo where people go to tell stories about their favorite characters who never got to share a romantic entanglement and they “SHIP” them or create what they feel is a “OTP”. I’m not about that. I honestly just wanted to write a one off story about one of my favorite characters, a character I grew up with and who I’d always wanted to write for. The question is this… how does someone ever get to become a writer of a famous character? 

How do you approach getting your story into the hands of the people that matter. Now make no mistake this is a character dozens upon dozens of writers have handled in his decades long history and who has had many interpretations which is the only reason I felt ok even starting to write a story for him. I would never just tackle some one’s creation if I didn’t feel there were room for my take on them.

So what now… I wish I had the contacts for something like this. I honestly feel like it could go some where and I have a vision in my head of how it could all play out. 

so all you cute girls who hoop for fun best be getting ahold of me. This shit is going to be too hot.

I’m looking for a few new dance tracks to drop into my set tonight and I’m looking at Beatport and iTunes since they both have MP3s of the same bitrate quality now and I’m finding that the iTunes customer review system (at least in the dance music categories) are absolutely horrible.

Reviews like “XD: I already own these songs so why would I buy it again? XDDDD Stupid!” which was followed up with a 1 star review. How does that actually rate the quality of the music. Clearly if you own all these songs you must like them, think they’re of some value and if some one has compiled them together in some kind of collection then that must be an album worth owning. I guess not since “XDDDD Stupid!” is the last line of the review.

Who writes this kind of review? Children? Morons? Let’s find another shall we?

“Itz okay i guess. I didnt buy it tho just ripped from piratebay” Followed up by 5 Stars. Ok. Well awesome. Now iTunes and the artist have all your information. Clearly you’re a moron. 

Tomorrow is a very big day for me. I have a very important performance to put on and it’ll be my first big return to DJing in years, probably since I moved into this house. I hope it goes well and that everyone is receptive. I’ve been practicing for pretty much 2 weeks straight. Here’s hoping! 

It’s very rare that I’ll meet some one through Tumblr and then have them cross over into my facebook life as well. As much as I vent and send out my frustrations here on Tumblr, talk about my personal life and worries here, Facebook is that true insight into everything including my family which I like to keep incredibly private as my family are private people.

That said, some one from Tumblr saw me on Facebook and added me on there and I’m happy to say they’re some one I think is worthy of that cross over. 

To boil this all down… If I add you on facebook or accept a request it’s because I think you’re an interesting and dynamic person and I wouldn’t mind you getting insight into my private life. As lame as social networking can be, I do take that kind of thing seriously and you should realize that there’s a level of trust there.

Oh or it means you’re a really hot chick that I want to make out with. 

Having to deal with limited space is always a challenge and when you live with 3 other people privacy becomes an incredibly important thing. With that in mind I’m trying to figure out how I want to arrange my new room when I move to Portland this coming month. 

Having ideas in mind is always good before the move because it helps you put into context what you do and do not need to take with you. Of course being the giant nerd I am all my electronics are coming with me, and being a community driven kind of person and wanting to share I’ll be putting my PC and gaming rig out in the community space that will be adjacent to my room. But I don’t want all of it in there. Whenever I want to browse the internet or watch a movie or something, do I want to have to deal with the people in that area who want to hang out? 

So right now my 50inch plasma is going in the living room, as it makes the mots sense because it’s bigger than my future room mate’s current TV, and the sound system would be put to it’s best uses there. Then in the basement commons area I’ll be putting my desk with my PC, Xbox 360, 24inch 3D TV, and of course my DJ set up. I want to be able to work on my mixes. 

In my room will go my cubbies, my bed, all my clothes of course and my iMac which will double as a TV and entertainment system. I’ll probably hook up my blue tooth/Sharper Image speakers to it since I like to listen to music and chill and it just seems like a good place for it. 

I’ll actually have a lot more wall space than ever before so I plan on bringing all my posters, but I’m going to ditch the lame frames I have and get some new ones. The ones I have are the plastic rim, cardboard backing that you just hang on a tack. Kinda cheap and not very great. I’d like to keep my posters in something a bit more dignified. Maybe get some new posters even. 

I am getting rid of the couch I have… I have to see if I can bring my leather chair, as I LOVE it so much and never get to sit in it. Maybe for the gaming section of the house… who knows. 

I know a lot of you probably don’t care about this, but that’s what my blog is about. I need to get some of my thoughts written down to work through them and seeing as how this is my first really big move, I’m giving up a lot to make it work, I want to take it seriously and work through all my issues with it. 

I’ve been a DJ going on a decade and a half now and with my new gear, new set up and equipment I can’t help but spend a lot of time in front of my rig, just spitting out remix after remix and dancing my ass off while I do. Yeah I’m a fat man and I dance my ASS OFF while I DJ.

I become this giant nerdy, sweaty mess while I rock out beats that I’m sure my old man neighbor HATES. But I feel really good after. I’m pretty sure that I’m totally burning calories. I’m using my whole body, moving my feet constantly, dancing like an ass hole, but dancing none the less.

So if I do this every day, for like 4 hours a day is it a way to get fit and work on my career? We’ll see!