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Yadde Yadda

I’ve been trying to make the words appear on the screen but I’ve either been too busy or too tired.; in some cases both. At this point I once again lack a topic so I must resort to the Yadda Yadda.

The good news is that I’ve gotten approved by the credit card processor’s. The bad news is that I’m not on day 12 of the 7 to 9 days it’s was suppose to take to set me up. I called them and the issue was with their Canadian partner. I called them and they basically told me to call back in a few days. This is so pathetic. At this point, they are costing me money in lost sales, so I’m REALLY pissed.

I’m now looking at Pay Pal’s Merchant services. I should have known “something’ was up when the other parties involves with my site recommended that I get something going with Pay Pal first. So that’s the plan now, I’m going to look at these guys to see what they can do for me. After all, I was planning on accepting Pay Pal anyway. Everyone uses Pay Pal; even the Donate to Miss Jay’s Tattoo fund was done through Pay Pal. I’m going to have to give Pay Pal a closer look.

I’m starting to miss TV. I’m downl… ummm viewing my shows through other means but It’s getting to be the fall and I’m going to want Cable soon. The issue is that I wanted to wait until I bought a Plasma TV before I got Cable about, but since the delays in launching the website I might have to go longer without Cable. Poor me. Actually not having Cable isn’t totally bad. I’m spared the horrors of Big Brother and Canadian Idol. Doesn’t the name Canadian Idol just roll of the tongue?

Oh I heard that the guy who plays Sylar (or is it Cylar?) on Heroes is going to play Spock in the next Star Trek movie. This is going to bring a whole new meaning to the mind meld thing. Doctor McCoy will now question why Spock needs a fork, knife and a plate to do a mind meld (In Heroes, Sylar steals people’s powers by eating their brains).

I’m finding myself to be lost once again so I’ll call it a night.

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I don't like it here anymore

This city is going to hell and I think that it’s time to get the hell out. When I mean hell, I mean crime, violent crime. Last week we had sex homicides (Yes I said SIX). We had woman brutally attacked, raped and murdered. We had a 17 year old punk (I say punk because he admitted to dealing on his webpage) push into the path of a C-Train. We had multiple gang related shootings. There were two guys run down and killed by a driver of a stolen vehicle. This is Canada. It’s not supposed to be like this.

One of the things that really piss me off is how the Police Chief is going on about statistics about how Calgary isn’t as bad as it really getting. All I need to say is, STOP LIVING IN THE PAST. We’ve become a victim of our own growth. As the city continues to grow (we’re over 1 million people now), the criminal element and scum in general have decided to make Calgary their home and the police are understaffed to meet this new wave of crime. I’m basically saying we need more cops as well as a court system that will keep these scumbags off the streets.

I’m starting to regret my decision to move to the downtown core. I tend to hear sirens at least once a night, and I’ve had to call 911 because of a huge fight in a park across from my building. It now has come to the point where I’m no longer willing to leave my building at night.

In the past few years, it’s been getting worse and worse and now it’s getting ugly. It’s now at the point where I want to leave Calgary and live in one of the smaller communities outside the city. That way I have the benefits of living near a big city, like having a NHL team, lot’s of shopping options and other big city benefits, but not having to deal with the big city problems like the crime. I’m sick of it.

Recently, a chapter of the Guardian Angels was started in the city and from what I’m seeing, that isn’t the answer. We don’t need guys in red berets walking around, acting like they’re going to make the city safer, we need Batman. We need the criminal element to feel some fear, because they’re not scared right now. I think they’re laughing right now. It’s pathetic.

I was talking to my boss, who has a farm outside of the city and he tells me that it’s not much better there. He tells me that the key is to have a shotgun, a big dog, and to lock everything up. I’m just sick of it.

I have the feeling that I’m not the only one either. There was a memorial for the 17 year old at the train station where he was pushed 48 hours after it happened and someone who matched the description of the person who pushed the guy nearby waiting for the train and all hell broke loose. It turned into a mob lynching. It was a good thing that the police were there to take her into protective custody, or it could have gotten a lot worse. We’re all sick of this crap and we want the scum out of our city, one way or another.

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I do it to myself

Everyone knows that I love playing City of Heroes, but no many people have ever asked me why. Why do I love that game? It’s time to tell everyone the truth. I have super powers. The problem with my super powers is that I can’t control them. My subconscious controls my super powers, and cause of this. IT MAKES MY LIFE A LIVING HELL.

My first power is the power to project my thoughts and control people. Again, I have no control over these powers so this is what happens. I decide I want to buy Item A in a store, so I go to get this item. What happens next is my super powers kick in and they make EVERYONE in the store want that same item. Next thing you know, there’s a huge group of people in front of what I want to buy so I can’t get it. This power even works when there’s only one other person in the store. That person will go to the lane I need and block access to what I want to buy. THIS HAPPENS EVERYTHING SINGLE TIME.

Also, when I’m walk around, my powers make people stand in my way. If there are only one or two people near me, they will move and deliberately stand in my path. Children are particularly vulnerable to my powers, in fact they will start to cry and lay down on the ground in front of me, impeding my journey. THIS ONLY HAPPENS TO ME.

I’m still trying to figure out why this happens to me. I’ve considered bad karma, a magnetic field and ever a curse, but I’m sure that it’s super powers, because it would prove that I’m doing this to myself

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