Just thought I'd mention I'm going to Reno for the weekend, leaving Thursday. It's a function of the WCC jazz band, which I'm a part of, but there's also the fact that I'm going to have to ride on a plane to get there. I don't particularly like flight because commercial aircraft have this tendency to crash and stuff - not that it's unsafe, but for me I don't like being in a place where I'm not in control or not able to control the vehicle I'm riding in if there's a SHTF situation, and when planes crash everybody usually dies. Plus security, which really seems like this huge fear machine and so forth... blah, totally not my cuppa.

On the bright side, I remembered that lulzy Mistah Fab song about ghost riding and an appropriately hilarious video with some old people ghost riding a yellow Scion xB, so the lyrics have been stuck in my head for the day. Kinda annoying, actually...

Uh, $250 or so in repairs to my car after the parking brakes started to rattle uncontrollably, but on the upside I'll at least have the money to pay for that plus my insurance plus the car payment, with new wheels a month or two down the line from here, so I'm keeping my head above the water, though insurance is really just a state-sponsored numbers racket. Though I could save some money if something horrendous/awesome happened and a couple (hundred) thousand low-intelligence teenage boys got confused in their migration and accidentally stampeded into the Mississippi River or something. That'd save me a lot of money.

Getting all the school projects I've put off until the end done about now, including a paper about Turkey due tomorrow which I have yet to start. Procrastination, as far as hours spent, is probably the subject I've spent most time working on. After I get back from Reno I've got a fair amount of work to rush through as well, though that might get put off until the *very* end because GTA IV is getting launched Monday at midnight, and I fully intend to pick up my preorder around then. Classes on the 29th can go shoot a hooker for all I care.

BTW, my current activity list for Reno, since I'm not old enough to enter most casinos, bars were actual jazz events are happening, or other fun shit, is limited to some notebooks, a copy of Gravity's Rainbow - that I'd lost for a few years and just found yesterday, yay! - and my Fatboy with Pokemon Red. Probably going to be a boring weekend, but maybe I'll write some interesting stuff.

Hopefully Steven Segal will be on the television a lot while I'm there.

Edit: Oh, forgot: I've been trying to re-organize my gallery recently, and when I tried to re-sort my Handguns gallery everything disappeared. So, could somebody that's not me observe and tell me if anything is visible? I can't tell if it's something with my OS not displaying the page correctly, or if it's just crummy coding by whoever did it.

That said, cathedral and bazaar. Bazaar FTW.

Edit 2: FFS I CANNOT SEE ANY OF MY GALLERY PICTURES OH GOD I AM NOT GOOD WITH COMPUTER HOW DID THIS GET HERE