Pennywise is my favorite band, for those of you haven’t heard of them, I suggest you pickup a copy of one of their albums. This is the one band I’ve listened to since I was in high school that hasn’t degraded in quality with successive album releases. Their next album is slated for Summer 2005.

You can listen along to My God.

Lyrics to My God
People on the street they want to find a god they’ll never know
Organized religion pulls the blinds then they pull the wool
They open up your head they’re fucking with your mind
Now you can’t see because you’re blind

You try to make amends but your heads still spinning round
The church of Jesus Christ says it’s time don’t fuck around
You want to go to heaven you see it isn’t free
Give your money up to me

My god is not the one that you wanna to see
Your god is a mirage, a conspiracy
You pray for forgiveness cos your sinning
Scared to death so your money you’ll be giving

Holier than thou with your one way morality
I think your shallow faith isn’t based in reality
You don’t like how were living,
We’re sinful and obscene
Why are you judging me?

You’re richer than god, but you’re crying out for more
You’re living like a king, while you steal from the poor
You wanna be forgiven, get on your knees and pray
Send in your cash and be saved

My god is not the one that you wanna to see
Your god is a mirage, a conspiracy
You pray for forgiveness cos your sinning
Scared to death so your money you’ll be giving, yeah!

Better hope you’ve been chosen to be saved
Cos your empathy only goes so far today
Pay no mind to those in pain
They just want the souls that are willing to pay… their way
Your god’s not for me

My god is not the one that you wanna to see
Your god is a mirage, a conspiracy
You pray for forgiveness cos your sinning
Scared to death so your money you’ll be giving, yeah!

My god is not the one that you wanna to see
Your god is a mirage, a conspiracy
You pray for forgiveness cos your sinning
Scared to death so your money you’ll be giving, yeah!

Stop!

Why is it that when I select the checkbox “do not notify of these updates again”, Microsnot keeps asking me to upgrade?

I don’t know how many times I’ve said NO THANK YOU, I DON’T WANT SP2, yet they still don’t get the f-ing message.

(Can’t wait to install Gentoo on my pc again).

I’m sure this is the driver’s fault, but I could’ve easily prevented it had I not been walking down the street while talking on a cell phone.

Today I went for a good hour long walk, and was talking to a buddy of mine on my cell phone while waiting for the crosswalk to turn green. When it did, I stepped into the street, and from out of seeemingly nowhere, a red miata turning right hits me. I jumped up, and at first thought - “wow, that was close”…but then she hit the gas, unbeknownst to her that she had hit me. I remember thinking “WHAT THE HECK???” as the car started to speed out of the turn and I rolled up ontop of the hood, and then back off and landed on my butt in the street. She started to slow down, as I yelled at the car. She motioned she would pull over (duh!), and at that point I picked up my cell phone, and proceeded to cross the street.

I didn’t realize it until I had already walked off, but my wrist is messed up. Sprained or at least bruised. It’s some of the worst pain I’ve felt since my ankle got ran over a year ago. I realize I probably should’ve stuck around and taken her information so her insurance could pay the bills (hopefully, there won’t be any - Kaiser charges $150 in the emergency room, so I said “Forget it, I’ll go in if it still hurts next week”.

Some drivers. No friggin’ clue. At least she wasn’t driving a suburban :-)