JINZONINGEN 73

You think bruises hurt, A lot. But only until you find other things that hurt worse.

Interesting question. The same night I was finishing up my last visit to the old house to clean it, the "new kid" helping the old man next door just walked in at 4AM because he saw I was still there. I told him about what was up in the new house and he pointed out he hears dead things all the freaking time, knows "good" witchcraft, and him and his buddies know how to purify things as they've done it before. (I'd say he was a numbskull for dabbling in witchcraft, but he did seem responsible enough to know about closing portals. Most people usually mess around like a blind moron stumbling around an art gallery full of fragile items, smashing their way through the front door... which they left open. He further impressed me when I discussed what it looks like on the other side of a portal. Oh, he knew.) But he was kinda' goofy about one thing. He was WAY too gung-ho to offer to close off the things happening here. I'm like, ...why bother sealing these things off or putting them where they should probably be? I don't have kids, so it's not like children are being tormented by them. And... it's kind of entertaining." He kept on pushing me to let him come in and try to halt all activity (which I might add, sometimes backfires, making things worse and portals way larger), but I pointed out that no one was being hurt, nothing seemed "bad". It's all just kind of "there". I think it's very possible so far that it's what the guys on that Ghost Hunters show refer to as a "residual haunting"... meaning it's just events playing out over and over, whether you're even there or not. On a side note, even if things were to escalate and get crazy, a specific someone in this house could make it all stop more absolutely than a kid who read a few books lol. If things get ugly, yeah, they'll be removed. EDIT: 08/12/2008 ---------- 8:40PM -Friend sees white ball slowly drift a few feet in front of dresser drawers in front room. i pointed out lightning bugs are in season, but they swear it wasn't yellow or greenish. 08/13/2008 ------------ 11:30PM -Dog goes crazy barking at stairs, I'm already in hallway walking down. In dead silence, I hear something "shuffling" loudly on the staircase. (It was a shuffling noise, much like that of an old record skipping after it's played... but it wasn't quite that either.) Sound stops about 5 seconds after I stare down staircase. 08/14/2008 ------------- Well now THIS is interesting. Talked to the daughter of the family that used to live here. It seems the spot that I isolated as being "odd" on the other side of the staircase at the bottom (the likely origin of whatever goes on here) just happens to be the place that the family had stored the grandfather's ashes in his urn! Ok, so let me get this straight: --Our dog hears (and sees?) stuff. --My wife hears stuff. --Our friend hears stuff. --One of the guys living here before us heard the same stuff. --And I've seen lights, heard stuff and located the exact point where a dead guy's ashes rested for 8 years straight. It's time to throw coincidence out the window, yes? Likewise, I checked the latch on the attic door. It's totally solid. The door does not shake, rattle or accidentally pop open. Believe me, I tried to get it to do so. So I'm guessing that the area near the bottom of the stairs has grandpa or whatever not quite understanding why these weirdos moved in and started moving furniture all around (hauntings often happen when remodeling takes place). And then either they or some other thing is messing about in the attic and making it sound like the door's doing things when it's (probably) not. Could be the same thing doing all these things, or 2 or possibly even more pooling their energy. Beats me, but after talking to the woman, I'm fairly confident the "stairs" issue could be removed. If one were to bother...

3:15 AM More footsteps heard by all 3 of us. A door opening by itself heard by 2 of us. Midnight the crazy German Rottweiller finally going kookoo and barking at the stairs again. Prior to all this I heard a growl. Was probably one of the Rotts, but it didn't quite sound like them. Went downstairs to get a drink and noticed a decent shiver go up my spine when walking to and back from the area between the stairs and the kitchen doorway.

Wheres do babies comes from?

I don't know... for a man to be talking as femininely foofy as that, it had to be something pretty good.

Yeah, no color changes going on, just a neat, 3-D diffraction effect. I wanted to say Krika was my favorite set, but after realizing the glow in the dark-looking parts were not glow in the dark... meh. Gorast wins this year. The mask is great too, what with it's rubbery needle chin. (Quit commenting on the moc, it's a poopy Toa Moderator I slapped all the heck together!) ... ... ...(Ok, you can comment on the head if you want lol)

Hmm. I don't know how to talk political while not talking political, but i'll try. Okay, the reporting of this whole event seems a bit... "manufactured" to me. Here's some things I consider to be facts: This "war", is, once again, ...all about an oil pipeline. This entire fiasco is due to a pipeline right-of-way across Georgia. That pipeline does not pass through South Ossetia - at its closest point it is 55km away. When the USSR disbanded, South Ossetia and Abkhasia voted to stay with Russia, not Georgia. To give you an idea of how overwhelming the decision was, the data from South Ossetia the voter turn out was 95% and 99% of those voters elected to stay with Russia. Condoleeza Rice visits Georgia and is told by the Department of Defense that war games are scheduled for Georgia for most of the month of July. Those war games ended July 31, Georgia attacked August 8. Do the math. The purpose of the war games was to train the Georgian Army in 'counterterrorism operations' and 'door-to-door urban warfare.' In reality, it was prepping it to invade South Ossetia. There was no 'urban war' or 'terrorism' in South Ossetia until Georgia and its allied advisors personally delivered them. The advisors included both US military Israel military. Evidently, Ukraine troops were also involved in the invasion and murdering of civilians. The war started with the death of at least 10 Russian peacekeepers, and then Georgia started in on the genocide of civilians. This premeditated act of war has slain 2,000 people and injured many others. Russia responded, logically, properly and quickly to the attack...the sovereign right of any nation to defend its territory and citizens. The people of South Ossetia made the decision in the early 1990s to stay with Russia. Most of the people who live there have Russian passports, not Georgian passports. President Medvedev has instructed Russian military judicial and forensics professionals to document these war crimes against the people of South Ossetia. Russia intends to press charges for war crimes against the perpetrators. The Russian Black Sea fleet has blockaded Georgia to prevent any further military arms from coming into Georgia from Israel and the US. Often unreported in the news is that Russia has also rushed humanitarian aid into South Ossetia. We don't live in a very nice world people. I hope not all of you believe things as they're told to you by your "news" programs.

The prism-effect wings kick all sorts of butt cheek meat! I hope they use this effect more often.

Saw that new Cheetor... nice, except the eyes better be colored better. First off though, they NEED to get better sculptors and designers. "Ooh, Venom car looks GREAT! Awww... his robot form blows..." "Ooh, a cool black and green jet in the movie line awww, his robot form blows..." I dunno' man... I can't remember the last time I bought a Transformer. They're like noob mocers... get some things right, but mess up horribly on others. Even worse, making the same mistakes year after year, like a kid not taking logical criticism. I like how the NEW Beachcomber fig has WORSE arms than the original G1 one does. And the upcoming redo of G1 Bumblebee? YeeeEEEeeesh... Too corporate. That's HasTak's problem. They NEED to hire that "jizaitoys" guy, PRONTO. (Google jizaitoys, I'm tired).

Never expected feedback like this from a person on BZ. : D Back to the "simple" stuff... It seems that the night I was out telling the previous tenant of what went on, more stuff was happening here. My wife already was aware of the attic door moving open by itself (I really should check to see what the latch's situation is), and the footsteps returned, this time in the attic, where the last guy heard them as well. But another thing going on (closely timed to the footsteps) was her computer. She put it in hibernation mode. It came out of it... twice. To do this, you not only move the mouse, but also click on the icon to return to the desktop. Maybe it's a program acting glitchy, but the timing makes it more curious.

If I had to wear glasses, I'd wear contacts. And the contacts would be funky, with demon pupils or complete black-out looks to freak old people out. THEN one can claim to be cool beyond belief.

You know what, I really do think the employee may have been right. Unlike every other year of Bionicle, I've found two stores near me who are missing certain guys of the 6, and SWEAR they never got them in. After waiting 2 weeks at my Walmart for Krika and Gorast, I'm leaning to the idea that they're being honest. Even when I finally found them at K Mart, then there you had some MAD disproportional assortments going on, with (LITERALLY) 2 dozen of some guys and just one or two of the others. Again... just one Krika, and 2 Gorast. Fishy stuff. Though I must say, maybe Gorast and Krika weren't as produced? I mean man, Gorast is what, FIFTY-ONE parts!?! That has to cost a bit for Lego I'd imagine. (They're the 2 best sets, in my opinion).

WOAH, you actually know about what I'm talking about!?! Is the person who can do stuff you, or someone you know? Also, does it have a role in the events about to happen?

I give you my whole, entire... ... ...boot to the head. *BOOF!* And one for Jenny and the wimp. *BOOF!* "Ow!" *BOOF!* "Aaah!"

Trust me, taking the hard road because it's hard is... walking in an active cow pasture with much traffic... as well. Been there, done that, feel stupid for doing so. Balance, dude... balance.

Because we haven't thought before we complained? AS you said, limited colors. Big no-no. They are GIANT. Bad to a mocer if you want it to be used as anything but what it initially was made for. Looks... see above. On some torso pieces, connection points are SEVERELY lacking, also bad for mocs. I do give them credit for making "easy" bodies for the googoo's out there with no creativity, but geez... 7 years into the line and the canister guys (all the guys?) still have no waist articulation? WHAT?!? They're great if you want every dang figure in the BBC to look like every other dang figure in the BBC. Hades forbid the parts inspire creativity of any sort. Most mocs seen now are no more than "dress ups"... essentially the same thing your SISTER'S Barbie dolls are good for. That's very un-Lego, and getting too close to one of the main reasons the Galidor line failed so miserably.

WELL NOW! Went to the old house one last time to get my stuff and clean up... along for the ride was a guy who was living in here just before us. I playfully said, "Saaaaaay theeeeere, anything straaaaange happen in the hooooooooouse we're in now?" The guy's eyes popped wide and he was like, " I TOLD you guys I wasn't freaking crazy! THANK YOU!" Before I'd said what we'd had happen, he described that there's disembodied footsteps (in a different part of house) as well as the attic door opening by itself (yet that could just be the act of air pressure, when another door in a house is moved). Still, they were very happy to finally "stick it" to his friends and family who were making fun of him all this time.

Are we talking about the BBC contest of October 2005 by any chance?

Lol. Doesn't work like that. I have a lifetime, hours and hours of stories with no backup or no more backup than other people who were present at the same time. Oh yes, I do plan on getting some neat devices in the future though. There's even a few devices in my head not yet created that should stabilize "proof" even better for future development of the field.

Yeah, guess it was the right move, considering. Did they ever go into detail with you on what exactly was happening to them there?

Just so you know, I'm an exemplary customer who treats workers with respect and sticks up for them openly when other customers get rude. I've been in retail and MAN is the customer often rat-******* WRONG. Then again, you have to understand WHY some customers are rude... because at way too many of these "lower" jobs, the workers really are everything they're assuming you're like. We buy fast food. We buy fast food from many different places. The fast food we buy, with ZERO exaggeration, is wrong at least 50% of the time. It does not matter if we are regular customers. It does not matter if we are yearly customers. No joke, ...fifty ...five-zero... percent of the time. So yeah, it's wrong for a customer to treat a worker like dog chow, but understand, your peers have likely done the same to them a hundred times over. That month. All you can do is lead by example to show the customers and your coworkers how it's done. Personally, I watched a lot of japanese tv in my teens and 20's, really liking the "japanese hostess" type chicks who were very subservient and apologetic with customers both in action and in body language (eyes especially). It's not a bad role model for workers (male or female) who really give a darn about their fellow man's happiness to take into their character. ::finds Starbuck's you work at:: ::fills up tray with piles of condiments and napkins:: ::does a fake pratfall going "WHOOOOPS!" as it explodes all over floor:: (Hey, I'm only human. I need entertainment too.)

Angry or not, you're alive and they're... eh, well something else. One's home is their castle. You shouldn't have to leave. I see it this way too... if I was out in public and some gun-toting maniac was capping people left and right, I'd go in there regardless of what happened and try to stop them. Reason being, if you don't, you're just passing the problem onto someone else less prepared and more likely to be hurt. It applies here, I'd say. You could move, then it'd be someone else's problem all over again. The negative energy left behind would stay the same and or have your negative experience with it tacked on to make it even more strong. I'm just not cool with that. If bad energy left behind in a place is what causes it to be haunted, then isn't it logical to send some of your own energy into the place to bring things to a head and possibly neutralize the situation? There's a good chance that us living things have a pool of energy larger than the things that have been around too long. We're strong things, us living humans. People forget that way too often, in paranormal AND most aspects of normal, daily life. Of course, like I said, if kids are involved, you can't expect them to always be able to handle the stress of such insanity. Moving might be the only option, however humiliating. : /

Ew, they actually sid they left because the things going on were too much? That's sad, or just really weak f them. ...Unless of course their kids were getting hurt physically or something. ::facepalm::

Man, I TOTALLY misread the title to this blog entry. ::slides out with haste::