Last night Sean surprised me with a trip to the beach, something we haven’t done in a long time. Since the tourist season has officially started, there were a lot of cops and security guards floating along the boardwalk. Since school is out for many colleges, a lot of stupid college teens are floating around. They go from bar to bar, eatery to eatery so naturally when they wonder towards the boardwalk, cops take notice.

So we’re sitting on the bench talking and listening to the waves (helps inspire us) and noticed that a few rather stupid children were making their way towards the sand. With two cops standing there he leaped over the boundary and right onto the dune – it’s illegal to be on the dunes. It’s also illegal after 12am to even be on the beach. The cop looked at his partner and rather loudly said “is he that stupid?” me being nosy and well…from New York naturally I quickly responded with “He’s a teenager, would you expect any less?” He hopped on his bike and then repeated the “Are you that stupid?” statement to the child. The kid attempted to take off but speedy decided to run right over. He looked rather bulked up in his tight cop shorts, I seriously thought that was something you could only see on Reno 911.

So they give the kids a good talking to, make their way onto the beach to do some more clearing out and then come back up to see another set of stupid children running onto the beach and I kid you not he literally said “He’s taking a piss, ain’t he?” I guess his night-eyes adjusted and he saw both kids, dick out, taking a piss on the dunes. Oh so interesting. I pulled one lady aside and asked her if it was wrong that I wanted to film these guys running around. She said they actually just filmed a show called Beach Petrol so I can only imagine what this is going to look like. They haven’t filmed in Rehoboth but I’m sure there are other area’s that are just as amusing.

I get a little click happy with Firefox plugins, some of which I don’t even use but sometimes can find useful depending on what I’m doing. I like having the Weather one plugged in though, I’ve always had an interest in meteorology and oceanography especially so naturally I want to know what’s going on around me. At the moment there’s some thunder shooting offshore which is always fun, the kicker for me is the current warning surrounding the area.

There’s a coastal flood warning in the area until about 3PM on Thursday, there’s also been some documented instances of small tidal waves floating in around the shore as well. This is exactly why I’m going to bother Sean and convince him to bring me to the beach during high tide tonight :heh: I know there’s a lot of tourists floating around on the boardwalk but for the sake of enjoying the beach tonight, I absolutely need to be there. I love when the beach disappears, I know it sounds strange but until you’ve actually seen it for yourself, you probably won’t understand where I’m coming from. It’s all about how quickly mother nature can take things away. Sand castles, holes left by children who got dig happy and many other things. It’s just an amazing site…I’m bringing my camera tonight.

Shauna has tagged me to tell you six weird things you probably didn’t know about me. While I’m close to positive that it won’t be a great list, I’ll still give it a shot anyway.

#1 – I love the smell of gasoline.
I know this isn’t really a ‘weird’ thing because I’ve heard of many people who feel the same way. The thing is, I spent close to 20 years living next to a gas station. I never really got used to the smell until I was about 10 years old and now I can’t get enough of it.

#2 – I’m sound sensitive.
This is why I’m so easily agitated by noise around me. I can hear basically everything, even if it’s from across the room and when background noise gets to being too much for me, I typically wind up going crazy and wanting to rip my hair out. I’ll frequently ask the higher-powers to make me go deaf for a few days but they haven’t quite gotten around to it yet. Sometimes even the sound of the keys while typing can agitate me and I have full control over that. I’ve been through many pairs of head phones over the last few years trying to drown out the noise behind me, nothing’s changed.

#3 – I have more than perfect eye sight.
Everyone in my family from both sides has trouble seeing. They either wear glasses or contacts and if they don’t, they’re to the point where they need to but are too stubborn to admit to it. Even looking at a monitor for close to 15 hours a day I still have better than 20-20 vision. I can read liscence plates for up to 200 feet away and it freaks some people out when I’m driving with them because they’re lucky to even be able to SEE the car 200 feet away, let alone read the plate on it.

#4 – I have O.C.D.
I’ve had this problem for years. If I can’t do it with even numbers then I can’t do it at all. I wash my hands twice, I clean things twice, the volume number on the television has to be able to be divided by two or I go crazy. For quite some time I was washing my clothes twice but knowing how much water was being wasted I had to stop myself from doing it. I now, however, get my way still. I only pour half caps of detergent into the machine so I can do it twice to get one whole. I light cigarettes twice, I take two sips of everything I drink, I chew only with even numbers before swallowing…it’s just a whole series of things that build up.

#5 – Organizational Freak
I’m sure this falls under O.C.D. but this is another problem of mine. I live by the motto of “A place for every thing and every thing in it’s place.” I file paper work that most people wouldn’t even think of saving. I have everything labeled in a way that’s easy for even the dumbest of people to figure out. Kitchen cabinets need to be organized in a manor that makes sense when I’m cooking. Karen has things kind of all over the place because she doesn’t really cook so she doesn’t understand a chefs point of view on accessibility. Since it’s her kitchen, however, I can’t rearrange anything and I have to tell you – it’s driving me bananas.

#6 – I’m engaged.
While it’s not really a ‘weird’ thing, I haven’t been that open about it either. I’m in a very happy relationship and will more than likely be in this relationship for a very long time. We get along very well, know what each other is thinking and can battle it out like no tomorrow and still love each other five minutes later. It’s a great feeling. Now, if only I could get him to clean his shit up to cover my issues with number 4 and 5, and maybe this will be a match made in heaven…heh.

So yea, there’s my six. I’m going to tag: Ranee, Esther, Jenny and Sean for this one.

Recently, just for fun, Baby and I had a sit down with a psychic who told me that my “aura” is pink, I’ve also been told that it alternates between pink and light shades of green. I never quite understood what any of it meant so I looked it up on Google and came up with the following:

Pink-bright and light: Loving, tender, sensitive, sensual, artistic, affection, purity, compassion; new or revieved romantic relationship. Can indicate clairaudience.

Green: Relates to heart and lungs. It is a very comfortable, healthy color of nature. When seen in the aura this usually represents growth and balance, and most of all, something that leads to change. Love of people, animals, nature; teacher; social.

Another resource told me that Green means healing. I assume it’s based on my year of mourning over Joe. Days are much easier on me now, I do still think about him a lot but I also know that he’s around me when I need him.

I had to do a little bit of research on the Pink Aura though, quite a few resources told me that pink indicates “clairaudience”. I had no idea what this meant either, but Wiki is great for things like this.

Clairaudience
In the field of parapsychology, clairaudience [from late 17th century French clair (clear) & audience (hearing)] is a form of extra-sensory perception wherein a person acquires information by paranormal auditory means. It is often considered to be a form of clairvoyance.[10] Clairaudience is essentially the ability to hear in a paranormal manner, as opposed to paranormal seeing (clairvoyance) and feeling (clairsentience). Clairaudient people have psi-mediated hearing. Clairaudience may refer not to actual perception of sound, but may instead indicate impressions of the “inner mental ear” similar to the way many people think words without having auditory impressions. But it may also refer to actual perception of sounds such as voices, tones, or noises which are not apparent to other humans or to recording equipment. For instance, a clairaudient person might claim to hear the voices or thoughts of the spirits of persons who are deceased. Clairaudience may be positively distinguished from the voices heard by the mentally ill when it reveals information unavailable to the clairaudient person by normal means (including cold reading or other magic tricks), and thus may be termed “psychic” or paranormal.

I personally found this to be a bit strange considering I don’t pay much attention to this kind of stuff but to some degree, strangely enough, it makes sense. I assume it means that I may possibly be right when I know that Joe is around. The wind, shooting stars, animals acting up, could all be signs of this. Maybe I’m just tapped into it in regards to “nature” which I guess would explain the green aura. Either way I think it’s fairly interesting information to know, even if I don’t quite believe it.

So I decided to see what the big deal with Halo was. I’ve never really played any kind of video game other than Mario on my DS so having to maneuver this dude around proved to be rather difficult for me. I don’t see myself ever playing again, even though Baby insists that all I really need to do is get used to the controller. I know how to use the controller for Hexic and that’s all that it’s ever going to be used for.

My stomach is bothering me but that’s because I ate too much at dinner. I’m done with email checks, I only have to email two people back in regards to design work and then I’m done for the night. Considering it’s after 1am I doubt I’m going to be up for very long anyway.

I’m not sure when they implemented it into their system but PPP has finally edited their code to show you when an offer has already been taken. I know a few people who have walked away from their program because they were unable to find any opportunities to post on. Now they’ve labeled things for you so you know before you click if it’ll even be worth your time. Green means it’s a featured post, pink means that you’re not eligible, white means that you can take the offer and grey means that the offer has yet to expire but there are no longer posts available. Naturally I wonder why they even bothered with the grey considering no one can post there so more than likely no one is even going to bother reading it. The advertiser has already gotten their money’s worth so it makes no sense to me but I didn’t code their database so in the end that’s just the way things are.

I’m not quite done with all of my email checks but that’s because I keep getting side-tracked with things. It’s also a little hard to do anything at the moment considering how hot it is in the office right now. Baby seriously needs to invest in LCD monitors because the CRT’s are giving off so much heat it’s unreal. The television also plays a roll. I know the computers do as well, I just wish there was a way to work around it. We’re going to be investing in some fans this week. I think we were going to put one or two in here and we’re definitely going to be putting one in the bedroom because that room is like a heat-box at night with the two of us so close together in such a small bed. There’s got to be a way to increase your tolerance to eat. It’s not like I can roll around in ice before I go to bed and I sure as hell can’t take my skin off either. Hopefully the fans will resolve this issue.

At the moment we just have a full sized mattress on the floor. We’ll eventually be upgrading to a king sized bed that will actually have a box-spring and frame so we’re going to need a fan that sucks the air up from the ground and spews it back at us. I found a fan that sucks the air in on one vent and blows it out from another. So we could have the ‘suck-in’ side right next to the air conditioning vent and then the blow-out side angled straight to the bed. It sounds more complicated than it really is but I’ve had to do something similar in New York. Living in a brick building for 20 years, you learn a few tricks of the trade about how to get things to work with you in the summer. Brick naturally holds heat so the house was typically 10¬? hotter at night than it is outside. In the winter this was OK because it cut down on heating costs (if it was a sunny day) but in the summer it’s borderline obnoxious and fixing it with proper fan placement is obviously the way to go.

In any event, I’m going to start wrapping things up for the night so I can get to bed. I need to be up around 10:30am so we can get out of here early tomorrow.