This Is What I Think.
Wednesday, August 05, 2015
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JOURNAL ARCHIVE: September 5, 2006
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 9/5/2006 10:45 AM
If I am remembering the past correctly, I crashed to Earth on June 27, 1994, in “Stargazer” and then shortly later, perhaps on July 8, 1994, I launched into space for to Moon for a 25 year reunion. That may be the basis for that memory I wrote about of going from one extreme to the other.
The in turn got me thinking again about the STP bicycle course I did in July 2001. That month would have been the 25 year reunion of my supposed landing on Mars. And then that in turn makes me wonder just how much mental control I have had over the years. I think I have had control, but I wonder about how much. How many of my activities were “suggested” using some form of mind control? For example, did I finish Ironman CDA on June 27, 2004, because that was the 10 year anniversary of the “Stargazer” crash? Did that even happen? My mind feels like swiss cheese.
Maybe I have such detailed memories about the Univac because that was the computer system aboard my Mars spacecraft. It would make sense. The system processed data from radar and made calculations that would allow one object to intercept another object. That is essentially what the spacecraft was doing: intercepting Mars just as a missile would intercept another object. The concept of using weapon systems for peaceful purposes was explored in “First Contact.” I have been wondering if a Russian ICBM sent me back to the Moon in 1994.
As I begin to understand more about all this, I feel more forgiving to certain groups. But the fact hasn’t changed that I was in serious danger last year, for instance, and the authorities did nothing to help. They would have let me die, knowing they could get away with it. Nothing has changed.
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JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 9/5/2006 4:59 PM
This episode would have originally aired right around the time my temp job with Microsoft. There is also a metaphor here in that Corbis has tried to steal my past experiences and those are represented by the paintings.
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The relationship between Grampa and Bart deteriorates after Grampa's senility and abrasiveness embarrasses Bart at the elementary school. At around the same time, one of Grampa's fellow-veterans of the Second World War dies, leaving Mr. Burns as the only other living member of Grampa's war squad, the Flying Hellfish. In the final days of the war, the unit had removed Germans from a castle when Burns discovered several paintings. The group had agreed to place the paintings in a crate, and each member received a key. When all but one of the members died, the final member would inherit the paintings.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 9/5/2006 9:06 PM
I remember why I disliked this place so much. The only purpose of the case managers is to hassle the residents. They serve no other purpose. Apparently, they have decided to treat everyone as some kind of drug addict or alcoholic and they do nothing other than antagonize the residents. I'm probably not going to be here for long because I am not going to tolerate being hassled.
I told the guy that people are following me around everywhere I go outside so what does he, or someone make him, do but tell me to check in with some other moron on staff twice a day. Why do I want to talk with them? They're freaking idiots. I have not seen any one actually provide any kind of professional service, case management, or whatever the hell they call it. They're just here to hassle me.
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I see a boy's face in the mirror every morning.
It doesn't look all that much like him but the only other possibility is Three, and I kinda doubt he grew up in a place like this.
Yeah, I know what you mean.
It's nice.
It's better than nice.
He's got two parents who love him, they've got a farm, animals, food on the table, it's perfect.
How long have you been here? I've lost track.
It was summer when I came, it's winter now.
Every day I go skating on the pond.
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Whoever grew up here didn't wind up on that ship without something happening to them
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Maybe maybe this has been broken for a long time, and we're the only ones who don't know it.
Joanie.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: posted by H.V.O.M at 6:53 PM Thursday, September 15, 2005
I think that never really having what I perceived as the normal family when I grew up is what makes it harder for me to settle down. I guess I am afraid of not being able to create the kind of family I want to have. My only real long-term experience with marriage is just that it ends at some point.
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Kali
But you're not, are you, Joe? You're an accident.
You're something that happens to people who deserve better.
I'm not an accident.
I deserve better.
I deserve you.
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Halt and Catch Fire Season 2 Episode 10
Heaven is a Place
Aired Sunday 10:00 PM Aug 02, 2015 on AMC
AIRED: 8/2/15
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You know, Telenet wants to have a conference call to discuss the rate hike. It never ends.
Have you read this? Upwards of six million in damage and they actually refer to Sonaris by name.
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Westgroup's cover story is that some network assessment software went awry. I always hoped one of my inventions would go down in history. I just never knew it was gonna be a goddamn computer virus.
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All right, let's wrap up the day by looking at our stress journals.
Last session, I asked you all to note your stresses, big and small, conflicts, frustrations, fears, and rate them from one to five, five being the most stressful.
First, I'd like to quickly go around the room and have everyone say their final stress tally out loud.
- Robert? - 39.
- Paul? - Uh, 24.
That's excellent, Paul.
- Diane? - 57.
Why so much stress this week, Diane? The bus route changed, so I've been driving the girls to school myself and I had to go by K-Mart, and the K-Mart by our house isn't open yet, so now I have to go all the way to the one in Carrollton Okay.
We'll discuss that.
- Gordon?
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- Uh, ahem, 0.28.
That's pretty low.
Must've been a good week.
Yeah, nothing to report.
I'm home, taking my medication.
Kids are headed back to school, so What registered the .28 of stress? Oh, uh, I couldn't find my glasses.
Anything else come to mind? Something you might've failed to capture in your journal? Nope.
Just seeing the glasses thing here, Brendan.
Okay, well since that's all we've got, that's what we'll workshop.
Why don't you role-play your stress for us? Sure.
I woke up and I thought "Where are my glasses?" And then I found them and I said (chuckles) "Here they are.
" No, let's get you on your feet.
I'd like to see you act it out in the center of the group.
Here, why don't you take them off and I'll hold them while you look for them? Okay, it's the morning.
You just woke up, but can't find your glasses.
Go.
Oh, no.
I can't find my glasses.
Where are they? I'm never gonna be able to see again.
I'm blind.
Oh, no.
Brendan: Rather than caption what's happening, why don't you tell us how you're feeling? Right now I feel like I'm wasting my time.
How do you feel about losing your glasses? I'm mad that I can't find them.
What else? I'm, uh I'm frustrated and I'm I'm worried.
Why are you worried? Because it's been a few minutes and I'm worried that I lost them and, I don't know, I can't remember where they are, and is this just me forgetting or is this something more? Does it scare you that your illness might progress? No.
'Cause they were on the damn kitchen counter.
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JOURNAL ARCHIVE: August 18, 2006
And to top it all off, I got these morons hassling me in this lousy homeless shelters about interacting more with the other stinking morons. All I can guess is some people just need to feel accepted or recognized by me. It is freaking idiocy. When did this become an un-free country? Where does it say that I have to interact with people I don't want to interact with? It is freaking lunacy. I sure as hell do not want to be in a stinking homeless shelter so why the hell do they think I want to interact with them? Maybe if they put that effort into getting their pathetic lives straightened out they wouldn't be losers in a homeless shelter. Worthless morons. It's not bad enough I got all those stinking morons in D.C. hassling me, but I have to put up with this bullshit every goddamned where I go.
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Flight attendant over intercom: Ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard United Flight 242 to San Francisco. If everyone could please take your seats, we will be pushing back momentarily.
- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 8:28 PM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Wednesday 05 August 2015