20080417-Resist Rant

I cannot resist the ranting and raving by blogging via WordPress.com. There is no stopping me now, notwithstanding the ‘disclaimer’ and ‘copyright’ located at the two bottom-most ‘text widget’. For almost two years, I’ve entered over one thousand post entries about my dirty laundry (with the usual twist or lessons at the end of each story) and may have to place the more sensitive subjects to private mode.

Y’all know who you are and there is no hiding the truth no matter how hurtful, opinionate, bias, prejudice my subjective interpretations on these topics may happen to be by those closest to me - family and not so much the ungrateful relatives and friends (whom I consider mostly acquaintances, nay, and strangers at best). So to play the game safe, I’ll have to force my honesty underground and reveal more juicy material only to trusted eyes regarding my point of views with a ‘password’ to access these ‘Private’ posts.

In the meantime, the freak weather continues. Around the time of April 11, 2008 when American Airlines grounded some of their aircrafts for some ‘inspections’, the weather was very hot for three days thereafter. Then the weather started to cool down (enough to warrant the heater to kick on at night) with some gray morning clouds giving way to some chemtrails laid directly over our home again! (I’ve taken photos of these chemtrails and posted those in my Flickr.com account).

Anyway, I am assuming that mysterious ’package’ sent from back east around April 3, 2008 was really received in the form of BEAUTIFUL weather with crispy blue skies, mild temperatures, sunny days and hopeful outlooks in life from supportive and loving parental units, understanding sibling brat and any good news from TPTB. I’ve been sending my heartfelt thoughts of gratitude and mental thanks to the dude et al (i.e. team orgonite), by the way.

I do recall telling my one and only chatter (via Windows Live Messenger) back in December 2007 that I would keep my blog clean. But I didn’t and got ‘caught’ but forgiven. (Haha! Touché!) I’ve got lots of insurmountable stress and frustration that needs to be unloaded (like crap) and shared with the whole world; for noone else, I feel is, trustworthy enough to lend a listening ear.

As a result, blogging has provided an outlet for practicing both my writing and web designing skills during my downtimes alone upstairs in the computer bedroom and while unemployed thanks to TPTB (sans ‘moi’, of course). I may pursue computer courses in CSS, HTML and other computer-related graphics design. It’s more fun than sitting as a cubicle slave (or rather a data entry clerk) in front of the computer all day. It’s a pain in the back or butt (with pun intended), really.

Copyright © 2008 by Fluffy von der Flynn. All rights reserved.

20080330-Hover Levels

Okay, I’ve been playing around with my paid CSS upgrade for my current ‘Pool’ theme via WordPress and cannot be satisfied with the layout because I still don’t understand how the different list levels (li, ol and ul) affect the hover mode. I couldn’t get ’list style type’ for the second level to appear as ‘circle’ but for whatever reason that is the same as the first level as ‘disc’, which are those dark filled in circles to the left of each list item.

I still cannot figure out the differences between the ‘li’, ‘ol’ and ‘ul’ and how grouping those as ‘li ul li’, ‘ul li’, ’li ul’, ‘li’ only, ‘ul’ only, or any other combination affect my hover mode. All I know is my final combination ‘li ul li’ works nicely to set the long, horizontal ’li’ color (I used from the ‘comment form’) apart from my ‘content’ (wrapper or container) background color of ‘pale white blue’ (#CCCCFF).

Here are some combinations that I didn’t like: With the ‘ul li’ combination, the ‘li’ color is the same color per paragraph and the ‘hover’ color is not shown. With the ‘ul’ alone, the ‘ul’ color appears as the background for the ‘li’ items only. With the ’li ul’ combination, the ‘li’ color is the same as the ‘hover’ color, with the ‘ul’ color being the spaces in between as the ‘margin’. With the ‘li’ alone, the ‘li’ color is the same as the ‘ul’ color.

For the header of the sidebar (below), I reduced the ‘letter spacing’ from 0.2em to 0.1em (to keep that the same as the size for the header of my posts and pages) and I matched the background color for both this header and the appearance of the text with a hover color of ‘pale white cyan’ (#CCFFFF). I got the hover color for the ‘li’ of the sidebar (below) from the header to my posts and pages (above), by the way.

Anyway, y’all may check out the sidebar (below) and look for other changes that I may have not yet mentioned but will later if I’m not too lazy to blog. The whole day was clear blue skies after some fluffy, puffy white clouds — I took some photos but will upload to my Flickr.com account. I did sleep well in during the ‘prana dip’ in the mid-afternoon over the past few days, too.

At around 04:33PM, the ‘Satanist’ marked my intersection, took off like a scared chicken and fill the air with burning rubber, which was blown away southward by the fresh winds. He came back a few minutes later because I ’summoned’ him. If he really wanted to meet or visit me he could have rang the doorbell to my parents home. Chickens! Puck! Puck! Puck!

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20080315-Dream Scenes

After dropping off ‘Maw’ to the hair salon at around 01:00PM, I awoke at 04:30PM to a series of dreams. I barely remember three scenes: I saw a guy standing and looking outside my bedroom window. I was lying in my bed and held my hands over my face, laughed, peeked to make sure who that ‘dude’ was. I covered my face with my hands, laughed out loud again and fell asleep.

I then remember wanting to wake up and someone was standing to my left. I begged the person to help me pry my eyelids open but they wouldn’t budge. ‘He’ kept trying but my eyelids were too heavy and I went back to sleep.

In another scene, I saw ‘Squirrel’ remove the telephone handset, which was sitting on my bedside table to my right while lying down in my bed. I saw him replace the handset with the recharger, which was not hooked up to anything. I wanted hear the phone ring so I could pick up ‘Maw’ but couldn’t because ‘Squirrel’ took the phone away.

There was a bunch of other people upstairs. I remember sitting down on the toilet and woke up cramping again.

I then woke up to see lots of fluffy, puffy white clouds after a bit of rain and drizzle earlier this morning. This is the third day in a row where some rain was in the morning, followed by cool weather and breeze in the afternoon. I took a shower and saw ‘Maw’ already doing her sewing downstairs. We are supposed to attend evening mass but I’m not sure as I finish up this particular blog entry.

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20080314-Old Theme

Well, I went back to the old three column theme of ‘Andreas09′ instead of the one column monster of ‘ChaosTheory’. I was annoyed at the fact that the posting information was off to the left of each article and I wanted to move this particular ’element’ (as well as others) around somewhere to the top instead but couldn’t because we are not allowed. The time stamp is included at the bottom but only by clicking per individual posts.

So I went through the sixty of the free WordPress themes available, activated a few and worked on those but was not satisfied with the results. I really wanted the post to occupy most of the ‘top’ without the sidebar widgets on either side but there were only three themes. ‘Ambiru’ didn’t have widgets while ’DayDream’ only had one sidebar instead of two or more that I wanted for readers to view. I was truly wasting my time deciding.

My only other purpose for changing themes (due to boredom again) was to stick the ‘blogroll’ widget somewhere towards the top. While the ‘ChaosTheory’ theme allowed for larger viewing ability of the post, the sidebar widgets was unfortunately stuck all the way below and at the bottom where I’m sure noone would notice, scroll down or take the time to read. My decision was to increase business for team orgonite.

I like ‘Andreas09′ for now and thought ‘ChaosTheory’ was a keeper. At least my pink and purple colors were retained but I had to get rid of the ‘heart’ image as a banner on the top of each page. The image was pretty but distracting and I couldn’t get the size reduced and placed to one particular background position at the top leftmost corner. I’ll have to try harder.

So the whole day was BEAUTIFUL: wispy clouds of sylph were all over the skies the whole morning followed by fluffy, puffy clouds of white in the afternoon. The airs was crispy and clean after this morning’s surprise of rain fall. The air smelled like ’skunk’ when we went to this morning’s mass. I thought of chemtrails or the seeding of clouds by those flyboys.

While upstairs most of the day, I managed to redo my categories and tags one by one. I still have over 300 post to tackle and this is all because there is no ‘batch system’ that will allow us bloggers to better manage and organize our ‘errors’. Plus, there is no way where the tags are located without opening up the posts one by one.

It was a great pain as I navigated to Manage>Posts> and sorted by Status of ‘Published’, Month and then ‘Uncategorized’. I took care of the smaller months and worked my way to the ones with only one page showing after the ‘Filter>>’ has narrowed down my choices. I would like a batch system in the near future for tags and categories, really.

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20080201-Today’s Clouds

Me love you long time for fluffy clouds of white
Puff, puff, hugs of ‘Wee!’ everything’s all right
Kiss, kiss, sylphs of ‘Ahh!’ against clear blue skies
Me love you long time SMILING widely, no lies

Thanks Father for looking out for us
Against this morning’s brown-filled puss
Of chemtrails laid by government tools
No white washed blankets by the fools

Author’s note: There were heavy chemtrails being laid by high-altitude spew planes. The noticeable ones came from the NW direction (originating from where Moffett Field, CA is generally located) over the Paramount’s Great America Theme Park in Santa Clara, CA. There were three chemtrails. One was dissipating with two parallel trails which actually crossed through the clouds spewing upwards from a factory near Bayshore Freeway (101) in Santa Clara, CA.

On westbound 237, I could see to my left that there were many chemtrails laid out in a fan-shape over Mt. Hamilton, CA. Later and while waiting in the parking lot of the El Camino Hospital in Mountain View, CA, I decided to boost the sylphs. Then the police appeared to make two rounds in front and behind me as I waited for my parents. I, of course, subtly flicked off these gun-toting jackboots from inside the Mercedes Benz E430.

At home, I discovered online that Hillary Rodham-Clinton will be visiting San Jose, CA today in the San Jose Convention Center off of Market Street from 04:00PM to 06:30PM. I suspect this morning’s chemtrails were laid by the government to pollute our fresh air, knowing Hillary — this less than genuine character who sided on Bush’s ‘preemptive strike’ on Iraq - would be coming to the Bay Area.

20080106-Old Bags

After having lunch of leftover Chinese food from last night and with my parental units, we three decided to go shopping at Moffett Field, CA. This was my idea since spending for grocery and other products is way more inexpensive via the military than as we would describe as ‘outside’.

So at around 02:00PM we drove up HWY 101 slowly at around 60mph. The traffic wasn’t too bad and the spacing between the cars allowed me time remove my gaze from ‘driving’ and admire the lighter fluffy clouds among the lighter gray skies. The rain came a little bit but subsided halfway into our travel.

We arrived at the parking lot of DECA, chose a smaller cart and proceeded up the ramp, which was to the ‘right’ of the main entrance of the store, where an older Asian lady was checking for the sponsor’s identification. All other accompanying the sponsors had to be identified and stayed close to each other while shopping this and two other Navy Exchange stores.

Our goal (my idea) was to buy ‘Maw’ her painkillers for osteoarthritis of two-100 count of regular strength (325mg) Tylenol tablets at $6.48 and another bottle of the same brand at 650mg. Prior to shopping, I saw some coffee, got some, poured my creamer into the swill and tried to swish it around since there was no stir stick available. Then ‘Maw’ got mad at me for walking around with the drink and so I went back to the place up front where I got the tiny cup of coffee and finished up the liquid.

This kept me warm and I actually enjoyed myself for whatever time I have left with the twosome. I picked up only two items — carrot juice and three big muffins with chocolate chips in it. ‘Paw’ asked later who bought that one. Of course, I wouldn’t admit it; while ‘Maw’ claimed she didn’t know. And so of course that meant ‘Paw’ bought it because he had the receipt, technically. Get it? It’s our little joke we do with the old man sometimes.

We saw some green, environmentally friendly bags for $0.70 each and bought four. The bagger used one of the three and I didn’t understand why ‘Maw’ wanted to use the paper bag when we already bought something that would be phased out in the Bay Area. I thought we could get a head start but old timers like her are hard to cross-train.

It’s time to stop wasting our precious resources like trees for paper and oil for plastic. Old bags need to give way to the new ones, now!

So later we went to Longs Drugs store and compared prices of the over counter painkillers. The ones in Longs for the 325mg was $8.49 (without tax). The other painkiller for 650mg was $13.99 but on sale as advertised for $8.49. I’m not usually price conscious when spending my hard earned money but now I’ll have to be more careful and scrutinize what was being sold to the receipts.

Next we went to the Valerio Bakery and bought a bag of freshly baked pandisal. There were 14 and they also bought two deep-fried ongkoys, which contain shrimps dipped in tempura batter. These had larger than normal shrimps in it. I won’t touch the stuff because I really got to watch my weight and detoxify with whatever minimal health foodstuff is around the house.

So we went home and did our business of unloading the grocery cart, pooping and cooking my fried rice, only this time I chopped onion and garlic. And the twosome walked in to pick up the chocolate colored curtains that ‘Maw’ had finished sewing since yesterday. I couldn’t finish my cooking and sort was able to get it at least to taste good enough to eat.

All the while, the ‘Win-Tea’ explained that she ran out of minutes (probably from talking too much with HER family and friends), which she reimburses with her company, but not willing enough to leave a message on my voicemail message. I told her that she used to be good about returning OUR calls and that (as the ‘next’ one in line to my parents who gave up trying to improve the twosome) I feel the emotion of not receiving a courtesy return call.

She claimed to have told ’Squirrel’ from her work about my text message to her yesterday. But ‘Squirrel’ claimed he had an emergency of spillage of liquid on his motherboard that same day. He did call me twice on the phone yesterday but failed to leave a message on the answering machine (at least) personally to his ‘Paw’, who was the original sender of the FYI to pick up the darn curtains.

To me, both their excuses continue to plague me since I will be surviving to see how they are part of my life. I cannot leave new dirt in my bags of old sentiments and ‘Maw’ is holding her tongue lashing that will surely make people (especially ‘Win-Tea’) cry, which to add as already been done prior to her moving in with ‘Squirrel’ back in May 2006.

In summary, old bags need to be replaced with newer ones. I am seeing some slight improvement from the both of them and feel happy they were able to stay briefly for about, say, fifteen minutes before they went about their own business. Like I said, I am family. And their business is my business (although lacking in having a life and family of my own).

Copyright © 2008 by Fluffy von der Flynn. All rights reserved.

20080106-Rain After

Well, I’m at the computer again. I modified the ‘font-size’ under the CSS stylesheet edit and centered the top header. That was about it for this theme. I read my usual feeds to three of my favorite orgonite sites because the rest are main websites, which are slowing down quite a bit as well as another discussion forum where I’ve been posting. I saw the PayPal button, too.

But this time instead of the light gray clouds, slight winds, some rains off and on since yesterday, the sunshine came out with fluffy white clouds hovering over the Mt. Hamilton, CA area. And then later on about two hours into my computer work, some on the westside hills, just beyond where the Pacific Ocean is located.

The air is still cold and crispy but not freezing to open a few windows upstairs. The wind is starting to pick up a bit as I see the euclyptus tree branches swaying in the breeze. Two days ago there was a storm and the wind was almost 75 mile per hour (per ‘Paw’). We had to move three of ‘Maw’s pink, Christmas cactus from the railings of the front porch and ‘Paw’ took care of any items backyard, well, sort of he needed ‘Maw’s help again to move the cardboard covered iron grill.

Copyright © 2008 by Fluffy von der Flynn. All rights reserved.

20080105-Cloud Faces

Here are some faces in the clouds. Enjoy, too!

It’s past 03:30AM, Saturday, 01-05-2008. I don’t know why I’m still awake. Oh, I know: It was the fragrant, jasmine tea after dinner last night!

 Smiling Face 04-04-06

 Bear Face 02-19-06

 Fox Face 06-09-07

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20080104-Raining Today

It’s been nothing but rain last night and this morning, where droplets of water cover our white acrylic windows upstairs, located in the south and west sections of the house. The cypress, eucalyptus, sycamore and fruit trees are bending to the strong winds, blowing northward. The gray clouds cover the whole Bay Area. And I could see but the darkened, faint outline on top of Mt. Hamilton eastward, too.

We didn’t attend today’s morning mass due to the rain storm. And ‘Maw’ wanted pandisal (a larger, generous hand-sized, Filipino version of a small dinner roll, only slightly sweeter and tastier, too) for breakfast. Instead, she ranted about her rude awakening to the fact that ‘Paw’ will never change his selfish ways. ‘Paw’ is a good man. However and throughout his whole life, we discovered his functioning of normal day activities requires our programming of simple commands.

Her story went back to the past (again) when ‘Paw’ almost left us to burn at Camp Allen, Norfolk, VA because he was too sleepy to wake up and check on the burning smell of our small military apartment; that ‘Maw’ had to get up to do most of the leg work during the snow season and take the bus and how ‘Paw’ would stare blankly into space while listening to the sermons as my brother and I played and got hurt without disciplining us.

Lifting the finger for my paternal side of the family is only good for themselves, especially on the surface to those persons who don’t know them all too well. And ‘Maw’ has learned that a good teacher (or wise woman, as I would describe her abilities to reconcile marriages of couples) is only as good as the student who is willing to learn and improve upon outmoded attitudes, thinking and bad behavior. And the tear-filled, sadness of ‘Maw’ is an expression of her acceptance that ‘Paw’ will never change his ways.

This brings me to ‘Squirrel-Ling’ who claims he could change ‘Win-Tea’. As in my previous blog entries, ‘Squirrel’ denies that he is happy in the relationship, knowing the nit-wit will continue to spend more time with her Chinese family and that her actions is but a precursor to the inevitable, which is to do whatever she wants, leave ‘Squirrel’ alone and by himself most of the time and all because she is used to doing her own ways prior to living together with the guy AND without marriage, which to the ‘traditional’ Filipinos is a ‘no-no’.

Today’s rain storm is a further expression of my frustration at the whole world and how corporate greed and its government cahoots continue to do themselves justice while the rest of us struggle to make ends meet with high cost of living. It’s no fun staying indoor knowing there is more than being computer geek who is always thinking out loud via the keyboard.

Copyright © 2008 by Fluffy von der Flynn. All rights reserved.

20080101-Afternoon Rant

Thanks for the nice cleared up skies and sylphs in the afternoon. The morning was slight with chemtrails and then the whole day was a bunch of wispy clouds. My Flickr.com account has eleven photos from today. I took a few shots prior to attending morning mass and then a few more during the removal of the outdoor lightings.

‘Squirrel’ came over around 01:15PM (after I texted both of them for a quick lunch). And I got angry again for his Chinese fiancée ‘Win-Tea’ for not showing up just for today. I was visibly shaking for another ‘disrespect’ on my family by her over and over again! The boy is letting her do whatever she wants; and in return he gets to get away with whatever he wants.

Instead he ‘defends’ her butt again by claiming she had to go ‘help’ her family again — but on our ‘new year’? I believe this is in retaliation to the fact that the guy doesn’t attend her family’s ‘new year’. The point is if she were interested in showing us she is meant for the guy, she could have come over for a few minutes and leave — and on this first day of the whole year.

Although both came over for the midnight celebration that didn’t count on my books for her not showing up for a few minutes during the DAYTIME too! I didn’t warm up snack foods or fry my eggrolls for nothing! I’m sorry but just because ‘Asians’ are grouped together in one category don’t mean we get along. As a matter of fact, there are LOTS of different DIALECTS and each ‘village’ has its own customs.

And by far the twosome are quite into their own pleasures and their showing face to us family members doesn’t feel like they ‘care’ (to me). I see that I really shouldn’t be too upset or bothered with their affairs even though in the end the family will always get involved some way or another.

I’ve been told to get a life by ‘Squirrel’. I know now my interest is not for them or their kids but for me and mine. But I told the ‘Squirrel’ I expect improvement from the both of them. I know ‘Win-Tea’ can’t change her mindset due to her coming over to America since 18 years old via Vietnam.

I know theirs is ‘kayak’ love and how convenient for the both of them. As a matter of fact she was the one courting the guy, who kept telling us she was crazy for calling him all the time after a breakup with another co-worker (a divorced Portuguese). Yes, the guy was her mentor at this technology work.

I think I said too much and I’m trying to laugh off the ‘free-love’ attitude by the younger generation. I do value my Filipino tradition. If those Chinese want to stick to the superstitions, oh the heck I’ll stick to mine. I will continue to blow steam until ‘Squirrel’ takes a hint that being quiet and not saying anything means everything is perfect (or fine and dandy). No!

I’ve already heard horror stories from older folks about Filipinos (even White folks) marrying other Asians. Sometimes the relationship doesn’t work because certain stubborn, outdated thinkers are unable to adapt to the Westernize culture.

It’s really unfortunate that this good looking ‘Squirrel’ picked on this country bumpkin out of love - yuch. I see this as an opportunity to live his life with a dumb one, which she is not. I wonder what is going on in ‘Squirrel’s mind right now and how he would let the girl know. I guess I’ll have to wait just as she is waiting for the big day, if any.

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