Month: June 2007

What are your deal breakers in a relationship?

I used to think that simple cheating was what would do it for me; that is to say that the other party is in another romantic or physical relationship outside of our own.  Sharing is a no go, if you will.

Now I’m not as convinced, I’m still very jealous but I will have to say that simple cheating is not a deal breaker any more.  It has to be lying about it.  Cheating then lying would be the killer.  Honesty about such things might save the relationship.

Originally posted on nitemayr.vox.com

I’ve opened this LJ because I have a  distinct desire to post my creative works on the web, but no longer want to hassle with my Blog Software at nitemayr.com.

LJ allows me to customize my journal and style-sheets, letting me get under the skin sot to speak, which will let me achieve the same things I have done at nitemayr.com with someone else watching the back door for me, so to speak.

So, I plan to use this blog for my creative work and maintain nitemayr.vox.com for my personal online diary.  At least for the time being.  live.nitemayr.com will continue to aggregate my online presence…  which reminds me that I should have tweeted about this.

Wow, I’m making my life all kinds of complex now.

So, yeah.  It’s over.
85 episodes, some good, some bad, some great.

I was hooked by Tony Soprano way back when, and now I’m just left wondering.
The Sopranos ended for me, like it began, in the middle of something.  I caught something with Christopher in some early episode, and got hooked on it.  Tony swaggered into Dr. Melfi’s office and I didn’t stop watching.  The Drama surrounding Tony’s Mother reminded me about the troubles my Family had with my Gret-Grandmother as senile-dimentia took over her mind.  AJs constant struggle for approval in Tony’s eyes, and their strained relationship reminded me how hard it has been in the past to connect with my own Dad, which I think we’ve done.

I watched the Sopranos because they were a family, a family with Drama beyond my own, but a microcosm of all the Drama around me, sometimes exaggerated, sometime eerily close to the bone.

There was fraternity and honor.  Something we all respect, in proper context.

There was loyalty and laughter, which we all could use.

Then there was the crime.

We all indulge in little crimes, sometimes without meaning to.    When we see Tony reap the rewards of large and (sometimes) bloodless crime, especially against a larger institution, we got a thrill.

Now it’s over.

And all we are left with is a long cut to black.

Perhaps that was for the best.

EDIT: A more succinct statement on the ending

Crossposted from: http://blog.nitemayr.com/2007/06/10/sopranos-finale-spoilers/

Hippies Suck.
Rain Sucks.
The DVD Store ripped us off
The Book Store Loves my Graphic Novels
I am still about 200 dollars short.

That is all.

Yep, rain. As predicted.

I nearly called off even going out there (I wish I did, as it would have saved us a ton of effort moving all that crap around)

It started raining before we went out, I asked them to move the damn sale into the gym.  Everyone’s stuff got wet.

I sold all the DVDs and Books, and m,ade around 300 bucks for it. I should have made 500, but I couldn’t get a fair price for my dvds.

Jen and I fought a bit over her driving, but I think I was just frustrated and lashing out.

Oh well.

Crossposted from: http://blog.nitemayr.com/2007/06/09/garage-sale-post-script/

On Saturday June 9, we will be taking part in the community Garage Sale at River Terrace Apartments in Eugene, we;’ll have a ton of toys, comics, electronics and various stuff for sale.  These things would be staying in the house if it was practical to ship it home to Canada, so take this opportunity to come on by and pick up some former treasures.

See you on Saturday, barbecue at 11AM!

Yes, we are selling even more stuff tomorrow, A tivo and all… sigh.

Crossposted from: http://blog.nitemayr.com/2007/06/08/garage-sale-ad/

We took NiteCat to her classmates birthday party out in Springfield today. It was at splash, a water park type deal. Thankfully they let me wear a shirt into the pool, no one needs to see my fish-belly gut.

We also attempted to surmount spencers butte again, we got about a mile up this time, I really want to get to the summit before I leave the states.

Crossposted from: http://blog.nitemayr.com/2007/06/03/birthday-party-at-splash/