Amazon LLC, do you recognize what I've done for you??!!!

My sister "didn't understand a word" of this scenario
Autorip - for those that don't shop for music on Amazon, autorip is Amazon's term for a CD or vinyl album that comes with a "free" mp3.  As you would expect, if you cancel the CD order that comes with a free mp3, you'll be charged for the mp3.  I had a $5 gift card that could have covered the $5 cost of THE LAMB LIES DOWN ON BROADWAY by Genesis, which I had pre-ordered the CD of in the form of a November 17th, 2014 re-issue.  Anyway, I cancelled the CD pre-order edition, and had already downloaded the songs.  I was expecting to be charged per Amazon's rules, but had ordered an in-stock CD along with the Genesis pre-order, and accidentally did not cancel the in-stock CD w/ the rest of the order.  So: the gift card that could have/would have/should have (wawawa) paid for the mp3 download conversion of the autorip was occupied by the instock CD, and I didn't have time to fix the mistake b/c the order for the autorip conversion was instantaneous.
This explains the most recent non-sufficient funds fee I owe my bank.  The other one I owe my bank is because this Target.com withdrawal was taking forever and late at night and after a mini-rush of adrenaline I temporarily forgot that Target charge was slated to come out.  So I bought some songs on mp3 @ Amazon, and bam!  I have a 3rd one I owe the bank b/c I figured "hey, why not?" and ordered something else from Target b/c Netflix nor my local video store had it for rent/streaming and I really wanted to see it or so I thought.  Some stupid arthouse erotica, which I was disappointed in anyway, so WTFFFFFF!!!!!  I know, I know - I bring this unto myself!!

But it's weird.  I was thinking these past few days that I've been disloyal or something to Amazon.  But I've purchased a gift for my mom w/ my sis' assistance and an $11 + S&H blu ray from their "marketplace" AND THE TWO MP3 ORDERS that have devastated me financially for the month of November, since I still have not been capable of paying the $56++ I owe the bank.  I get my welfare hit on Halloween, since November 1st is a Saturday and the office workers who peddle the welfare offices don't work on weekends.

So - if you - Amazon.com - have some beef with me, come on, bring it!  For the time being, I'm going to have to assume it's all in my head and if it turns out I'm wrong, boy will I be pi**ed.

Santa Vs. Jesus - 12 wishes........

'net was down earlier today, wrote this on Microsoft Word apprx 2 hours before time stamp...

1Stay puft man bank @ Hastings $25 (DST 2011)
2Ghostbusters Fearsome Flush Kenner 1986
--That time me and one of my parents were racing out of a side                exit of the Salinas, California mall to get in the car where my other parent was waiting for our presence.
3Palemaris (sp?) the wonder land…
4My dad’s pipe, Mom’s oil lamps, their ice cream maker, the noise-less dice roller primarily used for Yatzi(sp??)…shapes of things that move in my head…
5My cat Napoleon – from the age of 15 to the age of 30, I owned and mostly cherished his presence.  He was a one of a kind.
6The bliss of ignorance.
7Heaven, the absence of the sin that makes me feel so uncomfortable in my own skin when I’m around people.
8Satisfaction when I find the knowledge I seek – “when all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed”
9Honesty that overpowers everything untrue
10The satisfaction I used to find in being sad
11Apologies that make pain I’ve caused disappear.
12The battle between nostalgia and the Hope that Christ has brought ending on a high note.

February's the Big one!

FEBRUARY - THE BIG ONE

$50 groceries/health

$20 God

$20 DVS

$30 Ice Cubes

$60 Amazon Prime

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$180Wow.  To think the entire month of February can be surmised into five things (basically - groceries are several things, and health is actually a different category, although toothpaste etc. often gets lumped in to "Groceries"...and FYI, if you didn't know already, I get food stamps.  Oh, yes, the simulated horror....)

Amazon Prime might be less than $120 by time Feb '15 comes around.  I'm banking on them raising the price.  My mother suggested splitting the cost in half.  So *if* it stays $99. I guess I'll have $10.50 more than otherwise, which is $0.  Actually, I'm not entirely sure about that.  I'm not sure what my monthly disposable income amount will look like.  Right now I'm getting $720, $174 of which can be spent on things I want rather than things I need (groceries don't necessarily need to cost $50, but I have a very hard time controlling my food intake...) and the welfare deposit I get is going up $12.  So in theory, I'd get $186 - $180...but I don't know if my bills are slated to increase.  For some reason, me & Mom are only $27 ahead per the last bill we got from the gas/electric co (we're on budget billing).  I don't know if we've been using more... electricity than I realized or if they raised the rates *A LOT* sometime real recent...

Anyway.  Those Ice Cubes (which is a type of candy, FYI...) are dirt cheap and taste great but aren't being sold locally.  A gas station/convenience store named Kidd's used to have 'em but they stopped carrying them.  This Kidd's is on Broadway, easy to get to from my house.  The Kidd's on Kingshighway is "within walking distance", but KHW is a busy street with no sidewalk.  In any case, I don't know when the last time I went in there was, and it's a possibility they might have Ice Cubes.  I guess I should go look sometime one of these days...the $30 pack on Amazon has one hundred in it.  You'd think 100 Ice Cubes would last a long time, at least two months, but...............

So much b.s.

On the heels of "the right to farm" (huh?), we have legislators trying to further f*** things up, with Amendment 6, seemingly a hastily put together bill, and Amendment 3, which sounds ideal, but since it's all centered around standardized testing, that the students have no input in, I think its success or failure ultimately depends on the content of the tests.  I don't know if that info has been published, but I'm not bothering to find out.  There are good schools and bad schools.  It depends on the leadership ultimately.  SCHOOL CHOICE is the only solution for bad teachers.  I remember there was this teacher that was unilaterally hated for what sounded like crimes against humanity (my words, exaggerated, if not already clear...).  I never had her, and I suspect it's because the school board only put students in the class that are limited in their credibility.  I had credibility.  I wasn't a straight A or A & B student, but I showed up to class and did what was asked of me.  Those "rules are meant to be broken" hellion students had to suffer the consequences of this hellion teacher being given tenure.  The non-brainDead kids, like myself, were kept away from this she-beast.  Overall, Cape Girardeau High probably was a mediocre school.  My sis was a bright kid and she was bored out of her mind through most of jr and sr high school because school meant worksheets and more worksheets.  I hated those, too...worksheets and "take notes!".  Why take notes?  If you aren't rambling on about nothing, chances are I will remember what you say.  The same could not be said of my classmates, but most of them were sick and fed up to HERE! of school long before they were old enough to drop out.  The fact that it's considered remarkable for a former student to remember 10% of what they "learn" in high school when they go to their 10th High School Memorial (aka "high school reunion") is proof that school is largely a waste of time and the new standards proposed in Amendment 3 will not have much of an impact on anything important.  I think it would be a more valuable use of taxpayer dollars to find a way, if one exists, to maximize students' intake of knowledge.

  Amendment 6 will cost $2MIL to implement.  Or is to $2BIL?  Can't remember, I get the two confused, despite the fact that there is a astronomical difference between 1 million and 1 billion.  And according to Jason Kandor, whose name I recognize from where I do not know, it's not a very wisely constructed bill.

Neither of those compare to the Right To Farm fiasco.  Which really isn't anywhere near as big of a deal as it sounds.  You'd think Chinese Military was about to storm in and take some misc.# of people in some rural land under martial law.  Yeah, I don't have the law memorized, never read it, but I don't think that's even mentioned in the RTF.  The real problem lies in commercial farmers not doing their job correctly, not rotating the land that crops are harvested on.  We keep this crap up, we'll end up like those starving villages in Africa.

UPS Dispatch!

Jonathan, you have a package coming tomorrow.

So begins the confidential email I got from UPS My Choice, in regards to the stuff that Amazon didn't mail until the wee hours of this morning.

CAN YOU FREAKIN' BELIEVE IT???
And it's not UPS Next Day Air, either.  It's UPS Ground, which is like the UPS equivalent of a USPS postage stamp.  ONE MO***RF***IN DAY, MAN!!!!

Stupid that I'm this excited about it, given I probably won't watch the movies 'til heck freezes over.......

Rented GODZILLA last night courtesy of a freebie coupon code from Redbox.  Didn't care for it.  Might've made more sense the further along I could have got into it.  I don't like puzzles.  My mom's watching it now.  I'm in here listening to "6th Avenue Heartache" by The Wallflowers.  I've been marveling over the oddness of the '90's lately.  So many bands with so many hits, most of them forgotten.  Somebody on Rdio posted a 300 song playlist of 90's hits and despite a few repeats,it was mostly jam packed.  I remember this song "Groove Is In The Heart".  I can't remember who wrote/performed it, but I don't think whoever it was is still makin' hits.  And then "6 Underground" by the Sneaker Pimps.  That song was used in that movie THE WATCHER with Keanu Reeves and I was thinking "I know that song!  What's it called?"  And then eventually somehow someway - don't remember... - I found out the name of the song and band.  I'd heard the name Sneaker Pimps but was not aware of their claim to fame.

I ordered HOME ALONE. What? I AM Home Alone!!!

Here I am, having just ordered HOME ALONE (1990) on DVD, since, as if Swagbucks heard my pleas from within my heart, they awarded me the aforementioned Amazon gift card I needed to pay for it...all the while, I've been home alone myself unless you count a few cats (pffft) and two dogs that aren't yours <> as company, as my mom is visiting her terminally ill biological brother Joe.  The docs said he has 3 days minimum (which have already passed) all the way up to three months at max.

So my threeeeeee Christmas mo-vies are now all lined up, ready to shoot!

threeee christmas mo-vies!

I signed up for an Amazon Prime 30 days free trial a few days ago.

Ordered SHORT CIRCUIT and THE LAST UNICORN last week the day I signed up.  Got 'em two days later as I was promised (Saturday via FedEx).  Got refunded on SHORT CIRCUIT, since, like the time I ordered it from Sears.com a few+ months ago, the cover-art is NOT what it once was but, again, the stupid looking one @ Amazon still has the glorious original on their site to represent what it is customers would/will order...Amazon LLC did not require me to send it back, so I guess I'll keep it...it's not horrendous, just disappointing...and for free?  Heck, why not?  I do like watching the movie once in a while...which was mainly why I bought it...

Just ordered GREMLINS on DVD.  It's from the Amazon FBA program, it's used..."very good" condiiton...I'll see how "very" good it looks sitting on my shelf.  It's the old 1999 DVD, so it's a snapcase, since Warner Bros. didn't put their stuff in keepcases until the mid-2000s.  What I like about the 1999 snapcase is it has the original horror-y cover-art featuring a GREMLIN (as opposed to a mogwaii, which is what is shown on all the newer pressings of the DVD).  However, being a snapcase, I'm going to have to trust that the people who put together the DVD case knew what they were doing...I always used to be like "what?!!  It's made out of cardboard!  The weight of the keepcases surrounding it will crush it!!!!!!!!!!"  But if that's a problem, I can always buy the newer pressing and just deal.  Or better yet, use one of my blank/replacement cases and just stuff the disc in there.

Also just ordered END OF DAYS, the Ahnold movie from 1999 that people all across the USA didn't see because they got doped up on something or other and ended up seeing only God knows what during playback...it's not a Christmas movie, the bulk of the movie takes place a couple or so days after Christmas, but it does have a chilly day in NYC feel to it, with rich people wearing expensive comfortable coats.... which is really what the Holidays are all about, am I right?  Well, some people insist Christmas is all about Jesus, and for those that feel that way, whatever.  I'd like to think I'm doing the right thing, but if being consumed by Jesus and his ways is the meaning of life and doing otherwise mans I'm going to Hell, so be it.  I feel much more alive looking at NYC in END OF DAYS than I do singing songs in Church.  Yes, that's my fault.  I don't pray enough.  My priorities aren't straight.  The same can be said about 95% of the world.  Christmas is, for most people, all about big shiny boxes with big shiny things inside them + snow.  Yes, I realize those big shininings will not mean anything when the economy collapses and the less economically fortunate (i.e.: me) have no electricity...and when the Antichrist takes over, I will need to be aware and remember to say "no" when it comes time for Satan's helpers to implant his mark on the public.  Otherwise there's no hope of anything good coming out of my future.

I should be getting a $5 Amazon gift card courtesy of Swagbucks anytime within 7 days from today.  With that, if my shopping cart contents don't get bought by someone else, I will buy HOME ALONE on DVD.  Almost everytime it gets to be late fall, I think of that movie.  That movie also has a distinctly Christmas feel to it.

Someone wrote a list of movies you might forget take place during Christmas.  On that list, they put GREMLINS on there.  I was like "WHAT????!!!!!!!!!"  How dumb can a person be to FORGET that Gremlins takes place during Christmas?  I mean, I can see someone who hasn't seen the movie in 30 years, or 20, but if you forgot the movie takes place during Christmas, you probably don't remember much if anything of the movie....

moves coming soon...the only ones...left...

Have I seen every GREAT movie ever made that isn't made for people who aren't me?  Hmm....that depends if FARGO is for me or not.  I tried watching it.  I didn't "give it my all", but I did try.  Didn't like it.  Didn't like RAISING ARIZONA either.  I'm not sure if I've seen any other Coehn Brothers movies...unless you count the agonizingly unintelligible few minutes of BLOOD SIMPLE that I tried watching.....
So, for the future, since I can't hop over to my local Cineplex and watch ANY of these movies, here it is:

THE JUDGE - looks worth a peek.
GONE GIRL - Almost certain I'll at least enjoy this movie.  It probably isn't mind-blowing this-is-what-I've-been-waiting-for-all-my-life material, just like Fincher's re-make of THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO wasn't either, and neither was FIGHT CLUB or SE7EN...all of which were good movies, outrageously stylized and full of an almost breathing presence...
IF I STAY - haven't read the book, rarely do, although I did start reading it on Amazon's "look inside" feature, not terribly boring, should improve as it goes on, a lot of books don't, at least not quickly enough for my liking.  I don't read very fast.  It takes like 30 minutes for me to read 5 pages of THE BIBLE.  For an ordinary fiction book of modern day style, it takes me probably 10 minutes to read that many/that few pages....Either way, the subject matter does show potential.  And no, I'm not a teen girl.  I'm a 30 year old male.  But I'm part Irish, so I'm prone to melancholy.  Don't judge me!!
JURASSIC WORLD - The Park is OPEN.  THIS is the BIG movie I'm so looking forward to.  Too bad it isn't anywhere NEAR June 2015!!!

Freakin' crimany is that all?  I thought I have more on there...guess I'll revise it if needed...hmmm......

PEPSI True - not so true....

Pepsi True has 27 grams of sugar in one 12 oz can, whereas regular Pepsi has 41.  An improvement, but to what end?  27 grams is still a lot of sugar!

Wait...Seriously??? [foreign aid...]

What strikes me about the oft neglected debate regarding foreign aid from the USA is that the USA isn't paying for it.  We will pay for it.  But only when there's no other choice.  If that doesn't sound right, when will it be paid for?  Anyone with a reasonable answer would you please stand up!  I mean, c'mon.  We keep borrowing money with no intention to stop borrowing.  We keep paying interest and a little smidgeon on the principal, with no plan on how to pay more on the principal.  How is this going to continue to work?
Yet this country, the United States of America, thinks it is RESPONSIBLE for spending boatloads of money on foreign issues.  Welfare is one thing, although I admit the USA's love for its fellow American is rather small in general, so if a vote came to toss out welfare, I wouldn't be surprised; the people of this nation are so concerned with our individual accomplishments and struggles there's only a vague shadow of patriotism for many of us.  What's worse, a lot of people really don't struggle to accomplish anything.  So they feel like all that matters is the payoff.  What is the payoff?  Hedonism and fornication etc. for the most part.  Love comes from God.  God is increasingly being relegated to Sundays at best, often times denounced altogether.  As this trend continues, I'm sure welfare will be cut off.  I'd give it another 20 years.  Certainly no reason for folks like me to worry just yet, but that's what I do best, so who cares if I don't have a reason?  Do I NEED a reason?  I wish that was a joke...

Anyway, still not sure why Obama insists upon running this country into the ground by using Air Force One every chance he can.  Thank God for the ebola virus, or there's no telling where the hell Obama would be sneaking off to now.
Here's one mathematical riddle: The federal deficit has tripled since Obama took office.  How is this George W. Bush's fault?
Next I'm sure I'll be written off as another mindless Bush "patriot".  No.  I don't support Bush.  He may be a "good guy", I don't care.  He was a terrible president.  If he wasn't responsible for all the terrible things he did, then you still have a story of a bad leader.  From the extensive use of torture to the pardoning of Scooter Libby and a million small things that nobody talks about because nobody cares about, the guy is a disgrace to this country.  It's sad that as hated as he was in 2004 even, he still won because of that dimwit John Kerry who ran his campaign as if it were a school yard.  "You're wrong".  "No, YOUR'E wrong!".  "Hey, you take that back".  "No.  You're wrong".  "Well, you're more wrong than I am".  "No, you're wrong x infinity!".  "Yeah, well I know you are.  What am I?".  The guy thought he could win on the strength of how wrong everybody knew George Bush was.  That's mistake #1.  Mistake #2 was all his damn back peddling.
I'm tempted to say we haven't had a good president since Ronald Reagan.  But if he's so wholesome, why the heck did he choose George H.W. Bush as his running mate?  That guy was the leader of the CIA in the '60's.  The news didn't hammer this and related info into the public's brain, so most of the people my mom's age don't know or don't remember.  They cleaned up the CIA after he left, supposedly.  Of course, cleaning up wouldn't have necessarily meant a floor to ceiling bright shining clean, from the little my mom has told me...