Cinnabon and Weight Watchers

This is the trend that I've seen in the past: I get a job, the job is a 12 hour shift back to back to back and is so far from my house that I consider sleeping in my car at the site to get more sleep. But I have to eat and change my clothes so I go home and have a maximum of 8 hours of sleep if I go to bed instantly. The dishes are all dirty, the place is a mess, an unfinished chess game sits around. And instead of doing anything related to house work I sit at the piano and play "Faithfully" by Journey for two hours. Then I brush my teeth and fall asleep in my clothes on the sofa. When I get up there is exactly enough time to speed to work. But since the job only allows 30 minutes to eat and the nearest eatery is 15 minutes away I have to bring something to eat. What do I bring? Fucking Cinnabon roll ups from Ocean Job lots. Disgusting cheap calories and a $2.50 Weight Watcher microwave Salisbury Steak meal.
See, something has to be sacrificed if I want to eat a salad and since what I really want to do is play the piano I refuse to sacrifice money or time. I'd rather eat my single serve meal and play "Walking in Memphis" by Marc Cohen than prepare a plate of pasta to eat at lunch.
The job causes so much blood clotting in my legs that by the time lunch comes around I don't even care about eating. I must ice my ankles.

My back is killing me but I fucked up so much today at work that they will soon fire me. I love it, you deal with 5,000 boxes and when you have 5001 address labels they look at you like, "Don't you know how to count?"
I guess I don't because I need Weight Watchers to add my calories.
Time for sleep.

Bygone Portsmouth Tour

Led my first walking tour of "Oggy's Bygone Portsmouth" tonight. The big hit was the Laverdier's Drugs store story where myself and Bradley got caught shoplifting gum. It is now Jumping Jay's fish restaurant. And the Alf figurine encased in epoxy at the old mystery spot location brought gasps of amazement.
The fact my brother's first job was at Strawberry Court, a restaurant that no longer exists, did not excite anyone even when I said we were all proud of him and came down to see him in his apron. More interesting was my job at Richardson's Market where I smuggled beer out the cellar door to pay my debt to the paving company for dumping two wheel barrows full of hot tar on a customer's lawn.
I improvised a little when it came to the Richardson's house which was moved after purchased for $1. Anyone know more about that story? Where did the house come from?
The Alf story got me remembering that my own mother was responsible for having flag holes put in the sidewalk for colorful flags on Market Square Day back in 1976. And those holes are still around town and I believe Alf now resides in the hole that was originally for a flag. I could be wrong but that's what bygone history implies; it's the story you would never read in books.

My dogs are barking after a brutal day at the hockey distributor. Fortunately, I daydream 90% of the time which means a company in Michigan that ordered several dozen ice skates will receive a box of old taco bell receipts.

Ragtime

Rags were a poor man's music and I'm a poor man, but my world just got a little richer. I sold my last piano in August of '08 so it has almost been 2 years without one. I did have access to one in Mexico for two months and that was nice. But I got a paycheck that gives me a few days of breathing room and I lucked out with a guy who priced this Clavinova CVP 20 to sell below my price range and I made my move. My goal is to learn the entire Late For The Sky album by Jackson Browne or at least the pretty ballads. And this piano will make that happen. Thanks to the Chicken Man for helping me carry it up the stairs without breaking this old man 's back. Any song requests?

Monadnock

It's pouring rain, I work 12 hours a day on my feet, I am starving and I just bought a Clavinova digital Piano I can't afford. What else is there to do except hike to the top of Mt. Monadnock and look around at the fog? Now I'm so sore I can't walk and I need someone to help me drag my piano up the stairs to my apartment. Any volunteers before I go to Labor Ready and pay someone five dollars?

Newts and salamanders are fragile animals and rarely seen. They live in the mud and hide under leaves. This little red guy was hanging out on a log probably because the rain had saturated every other place. I'll ask my wildlife friend if this is a newt or a salamander. I forget the difference.

Thanks to Naomi for identifying this: "Red Eft"- it's a juvenile Eastern newt:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_newt
a newt is just an aquatic type of salamander."

It moved very slowly when I approached it. Long live the Red Eft!

I told you so...

How many times has someone said, "Oggy, how in the world is Hannah Montana related to the demise of civilization?

I thought it was obvious. She normalized a high resource lifestyle, was wasteful, ego-centric, ethnocentric and deceitful. She dressed like a prostitute.
Here's a sample of her lyrics to the song "Let's get crazy."


You see me on the cover of a magazine
Remember, things are always different then the way that it seems
Here's an invitation, to every nation
Meet me on the dance floor and we'll make the scene

Let's get crazy
Get up and dance
Take a swing, do your thing
If we're taking a chance

Let's get crazy
Yeah just kick up your heels
Don't miss out, time to shout
Always keeping it real
Let's get crazy





If you're brave then you'll watch the video. I literally gasped when I hit play. It's making me rethink the first amendment.



She is so obviously a manufactured Disney device, customized to sell memorabilia to girls and habituate a totally unsustainable lifestyle. Oh, it's so repulsive! This, this is willful negligence. Really, Disney is a despicable den of vipers. This is pure propaganda directed at the most impressionable kids. I'm serious, a 6 year old girl does not stand a chance to resist the incredible weapons Disney has at their disposal. This is an all out attack on autonomy. I know I sound insane but then I read the following news item today...

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Wal-Mart said Wednesday it is pulling an entire line of Miley Cyrus-brand necklaces and bracelets from its shelves after tests performed for The Associated Press found the jewelry contained high levels of the toxic metal cadmium.

In a statement issued three hours after AP's initial report of its findings, Wal-Mart said it would remove the jewelry, made exclusively for the world's largest retailer, while it investigates. The company issued the statement along with Cyrus and Max Azria, the designer who developed the jewelry for the 17-year-old "Hannah Montana" star.

Now do you see? Now is it clear? I'm not fabricating a conspiracy. Disney is actually killing people with the propaganda of a social menace. Kids are paying to be killed by toxic accessories. We are not only turning our children into brainless barbie fuck dolls, we are KILLING THEM IN THE PROCESS.

Unforgivable! Jesus, how much more evidence do we need? I'm so repulsed by the existence of Hannah Montana and I was questioning my own sanity until I saw this news. Now I see that the only thing I have to question is how deeply brainwashed are those around me. From the looks of it not a single person has agreed with me and therefore you deserve all the cadmium laced jewelery you can get. You are all guilty of murder! And for refusing to sign my petition to boycott all things related to Hannah the Whore of Disneyland, you can go to hell. Why do you question my judgment. I'm making things so easy for you. I'm being forced to start my own cult where people just do as I say. I'm not out to rule the world but I am out to protect everyone from obvious snakes in the grass like this talentless tramp. Please, rid the world of this repulsive monster.