Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

Misc. junk
News still is a little slow, especially since I'm not really looking for it. Go figure. I've been putting more attention into a new site layout for when I transfer everything over to a new server still to be determined. Actually, it's still the same layout; I'm just messing with different color combinations and with making a new title logo and background image. I also have a new survey ready to go, but I'm gonna hold off in putting that up until after I upload everything in a new Geocities account or something. Yeah.

Nothing To Lose is a funny movie. It's a little dated, but it's got like Martin Lawrence and some other people in it. The best line of the movie is when Tim Robbins is trying to be a decent convenience store robber and yells "Freeze Sucker-Bitch!" in a rather unsure way. Hehe!

I also ran over a small chipmunk or squirrel this afternoon. Not intentially, but I was too lazy to turn the steering wheel when I noticed it crossing the street, which was less than one second before its death. I already had the opportunity to hit some sheep or some geese, you can't expect me to dodge every creature out there. ;p I'm pretty sure I hit it, anyways. I didn't try to seek confirmation of the kill... I'm such a heartless bastard.

People who rent Sega Dreamcast games for their rented Playstation system are funny.

It's getting kinda cool now, huh? This morning, I woke up and I swore I was gonna piss ice cubes. My room is on the north end of the house, and the only time sun comes in very early in the morning and right before sunset. It kinda sucks during the winter months. Hum.

I should never get a haircut again. Vivre the afro.

And, I'm spent. Later.

A brief list of things that suck
- FTP servers with a 100:1 upload/download ratio.
- Uploading your stuff only to get disconnected when you start downloading.
- Look-only and "leech access only" FTP servers.
- Uploading at 1.5 KBps.
- Did I mention uploading your stuff only to get disconnected when you start downloading?
- Phone modems.
- Servers that do not support file transfer resumption (*cough* AOL *cough*).
- Terrorists.
- Downloading... eh... "digital music" and finding out that your new copy has a "hiccup" in it or some other undesirable thing.
- Getting disconnected after uploading your part of the bargain, be it by the server admin or your ISP going down (usually the latter in my case).
- Exercise videos from the 80's.
- Hell, everything about the 80's.
- Being hungry but there isn't anything in the kitchen that you want to eat.
- My ISP.
- FTP servers with ratios, in general. No ratio works best for my slow connection.
- Pentium III's never going down in price.
- Yellow-bellied "We didn't do it, please don't kick our ass" terrorist organizations.
- Oh, before I forget, getting disconnected after waiting an hour to download something. Repeatedly.

I think that's enough for now.

Pffft.
I ain't got shit to post. Nothing's going in the world. Ever since those assholes felt the need to take out the World Trade Center and part of the Pentagon, it's the only thing that has been in the news. Rightfully so, too, I guess. One would think that there are other tidbits of noteworthy news out there, but there isn't at the moment. It kinda makes my job as a personal weblog superhero a near-impossible one when time hasn't been flowing for the last three days. Perhaps this is the work of the evil... uh... time-freezing super villain guy.

"Shut up, Jerome."

Alrighty then.

Maybe I'll just go join this clique in a squad car, and then I can head north to Scotland to seek redemption. Churches up there are looking for new members. The phrase "Free pancakes!" comes to mind.

"Hey, have you been to Club La Vela yet?"

Aww, spring break.

I was watching the Discovery Channel...
... and I learned that the Galapagos Islands have the greatest concentration of boobies in the world.

The more you know, huh?

And I always thought it was LA or something...

How to get beat up:
Step 1: Get a shirt from these guys.
Step 2: Wear it.
Step 3: Go out in public.

The end.

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Update your bookmarks if you haven't yet, people. In the mean time, I'm gonna have to find a place to put this farce of a site.

*grumbles*
We lost power some time during a storm Monday evening. I guess a tree fell somewhere on Route 9 and they rerouted traffic to go down my road and around the closed area. Having little to do, my mom and I and some other people hung out on our front porch to "watch TV," which essentially consisted of staring at the trees across the street and looking at the cars drive by while waiting for the power to come back on. It's pretty sweet. :p But at least our "TV" is widescreen and has surround sound on three sides. Heh.

More cars must have went down my road in one hour than have ever gone down my road in the 15 years I've been at my house. Hehe.

Power came back that night at about 9:00, but my ISP was down until now. So that's my excuse for not having posted in the last couple days. Those bastards at Conknet or Monadnet need to get their thumbs out of their asses. There's no reason for an ISP to be down for three days because of a 5-hour power loss. Bah.

Quite a bit going on in the news, huh? I was pretty emotionally charged for obvious reasons yesterday, which would have made for some sweet posting material.

Blogger is slow.
I'm not liking it.

Sex, religion, and superheroes.
Oh yeah.

Nothing too new on the Jerome forefront. I didn't really bother watching the later football games since watching the Redskins' quarterback fumble repeatedly in the first half made me laugh as the Chargers took the win. Now the Chargers already have the same number of wins this year as they had last year! That's awesome. They must have made some sweet transactions during the off-season. Like aquiring Flutie. Flutie is the man. He may not be the best QB in the world, but he's friggin' fun to watch, especially when he's making blocks for his running back.

No new survey. Go figure. I haven't been at my computer long enough recently to put much thought into some questions and stuff. Maybe later.

To make up for it, here's some wonderful stories you can read:

* Convicts in California can now have mail order sperm businesses. Clearly, those are the genes we want to continue propagating the world.
* Similarly, some people in a Finnish town urge their residents to get it on. Perhaps they should consider mail order man juice?
* There was going to be a link here for next-generation emoticons and something called "Human Markup Language," but the links seems to be dead. Sigh. Maybe the link will work for you. Click here to find out.
* This is tight. Are you a superhero or do you know a superhero? Get added to the registry.
* "I shall exorcise the demons!" Looks like Mother Teresa took comfort in getting Satan out of her chest so she could sleep well on her last days on earth.
* I loved high school chemistry. Especially when there's compounds like these. I didn't like college chemistry too much, though. Maybe it was because of those gay weekly exams we had with questions you couldn't answer in time. I think I still have those quizzes somewhere in my room...
* If I had my own webcam, I wonder if I could get free stuff from other people. Too bad I'm not female. And I don't have a webcam. And I disdain the thought of having people watching me all of the time. Especially if it's the same people over and over again. Well, maybe if they're hot supermodels or something, we can work something out.

Watched some football today.
I went to this place up near Lake Sunapee called Murphy's for a couple beers and some burgers with a buddy of mine. There were a couple of football games on TV, and since this is the season's opening weekend, we decided to go out and watch them. We only stayed until halftime, though. The games weren't that great (New England vs Cincinnati? Come on. And Baltimore vs Chicago? Please.), and they decided to play a Bare Naked Ladies CD throughout the bar, so I was like... "Uh... I gotta go." Heh. I'm surprised I didn't flip out because of the music alone; I guess I'm starting to get more tolerance for the band since I didn't really have to listen to them in the last two years. But I still don't like them. But anyhoo...

The NFL games that are over now were kinda weak. I think most teams are still trying to get into their groove, since offensive scoring in all games was at a minimum. There were some exceptions, though. The Detroit Lions' defense broke down more often than Mariah Carey.

That's it for now; time to see how some other games are turning out.