Looks like I'm going to have to change my locks

I came home last night and my roommate was talking to me. Unfortunately he and his idiot girlfriend were also accusing me of stealing his Playstation and his DVD player. All my receipts were lying on the coffee table and other stuff had been thrown around but nothing was taken. When the cops came, they accused me of everything and then tried to add that I was a messy housekeeper and didn't pay my rent on time (like that matters) and then kept going "I don't know this guy. This guy is dangerous."

Load of shit.

So either my roommates trashed their room and trashed the living room in an effort to annoy me with cops or someone actually got into the apartment and ripped open the envelopes full of receipts, threw them around, knocked over some check boxes (didn't take the checks or even the TCF check card - which is no good but how are they supposed to know that) and took the Playstation and DVD player, leaving the television set, checks and check card and DVDs alone. Both are actually possible, but I'm still more inclined to believe the former since these roommates were very eager to call the cops and accuse me of everything, even staying stupid things abotu me being a good actor when I gave absolutely no indication of guilt. I was at work all day and at class until 8 that night so I got in about a minute before the cops.

The rest of the night was them packing with a couple of exchanges. Oren accused me of stealing his stuff some more. His idiot girlfriend tried to give me a lecture on how I was immature. I told her that she was old (she's 46. Found that out when she gave teh cops her date of birth. It's an old version of 46.) and after some more bitching on their part (my messiness, the fact that I left a note because I didn't want to argue about utilities and rent, more accusations of me stealing the DVD player) we settled back into the non-communication that had characterized the apartment. Around 11, he asked me to turn down the television and I did because he asked nicely.

When I went out to take out the cat shit I noticed that the bottom lock, which is always locked and locks behind most people automatically, was unlocked. So maybe Mr. Genius left the door unlocked, but it's still a strange way for a burglar to behave - tearing open envelopes, not taking checks, locking the door behind him (if Oren was right in saying that he came to the place and the door was locked) and not leaving anything open. I know from experience that most burglars take what they can carry and usually leave the door unlocked on their way out.

So hopefully they are gone today. I don't know who took their shit. I assume it's them. I hid my DVD player and lap top. I can clean up tonight when they are gone, but I really have to get the locks changed. Hopefully they'll just move out and that's the end of it.

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I need a roommate.

Hopefully there'll still be a place standing after the idiot pair move out.

Adam Baldwin really needs more credit than he gets

There were plenty of great actors in Serenity but Adam Baldwin as Jayne was just one of the better scene stealers.

It wasn't until I read a review of the TV movie version of the Poseidan adventure that I found out he was in My Bodyguard as the Bodyguard (it's about a kid that hires a large guy to protect him against Matt Dillon in case you don't remember the 80s coming of age movies.) So it would be nice if he got better roles.

Although mostly I find that he does movies like this:

Amazon.com
Any connection to Robert Louis Stevenson's classic horror tale is tenuous at best in this action-packed superhero story with dark undertones. Adam Baldwin is San Francisco surgeon Henry Jekyll, whose honeymoon in Hong Kong becomes a nightmare when a triad gang murders his wife and marks him for death. Saved by a mysterious Chinese healer who speaks in fortune cookie clichés, he becomes a kind of hero-in-training (think The Karate Kid and Mr. Miyagi) with a mystic twist: he discovers the herbal formula to release his inner brute and transforms into a demonic-looking Hyde. The colorful mix of cop show, gangster thriller, and mystic martial arts adventure ends on an anticlimactic note, as if this made-for-TV feature was the pilot for a never-launched TV series, but it's an energetic and spirited film that, for all its kooky clichés, remains oddly compelling. --Sean Axmaker

Arab Companies owning something to do with Docks

I saw the news story. I saw Bush defending the practice. I heard about legislators trying to pass protectionist laws in that Arab=Terrorist foolishness. I thought the news was making a big deal out of nothing and I was disturbed by the whole logic problem of citing two of the 15 9/11 terrorists came from Dubai. Well, Son of Sam comes from New York. Does that mean I shouldn't see Woody Allen movies (besides the new one that takes place in Britain) because I'm endorsing serial killers? Should I be worried about cheese and beer because 2 of the chief Cannibal Serial Killers came from Wisconsin?

Anyhow, I didn't know anything about dock politics and management and I didn't say anything about it, because I don't know enough. For once I actually admit superior knowledge on the part of nihilistic_kid.

Beyond that, most of the critics and proponents of U.S. policy use the same assumption - that Arabs are basically rational despite some cultural differences and the terrorist element in the Arab world is no more ingrained than the racist element in the American South. Neo-Isolationists think that the Middle East should be left alone. War proponents have visions of Marshall Plan running through their heads. Either way, Americans have shown that they really don't buy any non-racist assumptions.

Funny, considering how American deals with oil companies all the time from the Middle East and no one freaks out over BUYING from Arab companies, even if oil is a flammable dangerous substance.

Either way, I find it odd that so many people have bought into the media hysteria so completely.

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