07:42 - Sunday, Oct. 23, 2005
overall, journalcon sucked ass!! but everything else was A-OK!

i missed out telling you all the stuff from friday, so, fridays stuff, along with saturdays stuff, will be here for today!!

this may be a rather long entry, so buckle ya belts, and gather ya egg sammichs and coffee!!

fridays stuff!! brought to you by knitting mushrooms! dont know how to knit? no prob! just call the knitting mushrooms! they will knit that scarf for you in no time flat!!

and now on with the stuff!!

we went to meet that famous of all the roman catholics, (no, not the pope, but close!) poolas sister!! she is just lovely, and looks a bit like some of the NUNS i've encountered back in the 1960's, but without the habit! (if ya dont know what a habit is, you need to go to mass, real. bad.) whereas, she has a lovely apartment, and even showed us a video of a wedding where the main singing sensation was none udder than poolagirl herself!! singing the ave maria and playing the piano, and doing the hand waving gestures that wedding mass singers do, it was a riot!! someone asked big sister where the sofa was and she said it got repossessed!! then, after miss poola was throughly embarrassed, we trotted off to breakfast, big sis has a car, unlike miss poolas go cart! hehehe!!

so here we are at the old folks breakfast place, (no, not IHOP, International House Of old People, but a place called FREDS, a subsidary of IHOP, whereas, big sister regaled us with stories of hookers in the hotels of new york!! the breakfast i ate was bland tasting, and then i recalled that old folks have to eat bland food. it was lousy, but i kept my mouth shut about it, cause thats what polite folks do, and since i have been re-civilised, and living again in the mainstream of society, thats just what you have to do! but, i digress!!

so, since i am the only member of the phillip morris baptist church in attendence, i went outside to smoke, and alas!! dumbass FORGOT his lighter!!!

whats a nicotine addict to do?? and theres no store in sight that sells lighters!! so, with head hanging, i went back inside, and big sister asked, what happened, and i explained in great detail as to how i lost my lighter, and to my suprise, big sister came to the rescue, and announced that SHE has some matches!!! and she proudly announced that "yes, i smoke on occasion!" hehehehee~~~ i wasnt expecting this!! what a doll!! so, the morning was saved by big sister!!

we soon left and went our seperate ways, and off to the tall ships we went! because poolagirl is a world famous pie-rat, we got to see all the ships in which she is in command of for FREE!!!! wheee!!! we got to the paying booth, and she commanded that all our hands be "stamped" so we would have exclusive passage to all the ships!! woo-woo!! 1st is the star of india, poolas main sailing ship, and she gave us a private tour! what a remarkable sailing ship it is! we seen how the pie-rats lived back in the day, and miss poola is highly skilled at giving us the low-down! also in attendence is the HMS SUPRISE, that ship that russell crowe commanded in the movie, master and commander!! and there in the harbour was an authentic russian submarine, of which i did not go aboard, because it is just too small for my big fat ass to be trapising about in!

just about this time, we decided to check in at journal con! so we went to the fancy rich folks hotel downtown where we introduced ourselves to the journal con folks, and we picked up or "swag": little trinkets that folks brought to be given away, and i put my daily drivel buttons that cosmicrayola made for me back in the spring, along with the udder junk! and people actually took them!! yay!!

soon, it was time to eat dinner, and i had the chicken dinner, and it was good, even though it was hotel food! we tryed to socialise with the other people, but it seems like every one there knew each other, and it was very clique-ish, so, we made the best of it while we were there, then after several unsuccessful attempts at "socialising" we all piled into miss poolas go-cart, and went to coronado, where the real swanky hi- mucky muck rich folk live and breathe!! not a tramp in sight! hehehe!

we went to the hotel del coronado, where the rooms are probaly costing 10 c notes a night, easy! and miss poola took us to the beach, where the water was cold and refreshing, after a bit of nighttime wading on the shore, we went back inside, where we met mom-on-roof's travel pal dar, her cousin. and we sat like rich folks sipping tea, and i was trying to listen to what dar's cousin had to say, but she is a motor mouth, and spits out the syllables at 80 MPH!! it was getting late, and i was lapsing in and out of unconsciousness on the comfy fancy sofa, knowing full well that if i was there by myself that hotel security would have given me the heave ho outta there, and chaosdaily was getting a mite cranky, cause of her leg was acting up and we needed to go home, so we all left and came home and as soon as i hit the sofa at poolas home, i was down for the count!!
this concludes fridays festivities, now its time for intermission, so grab a smoke and some coffee, and return to this thrilling tale of the adventures of 4 wimmen and one guy at journalcon!!

then poola got up, and a reading from the holy book of poola, she told of the tale of the lingering washcloth, of which she got a diarist.net finalist award!! it was funny, about how in catholic school, one of the nuns who was 1000 years old told of the mortal sin of the lingering washcloth to all the catholic schoolgirls, and how poola when she was a lil pie-rat at the time, couldnt understand why it was such a sin to be with a lingering washcloth!! it was a funny story for sure!

about this time we went to lunch and maul exploring!! i did the touristy thing and bought some stuff, and miss poola bought some of that hot as holy hi hell mexican candy, and gave us some! mom asked if this stuff was hot, and i warned her not to eat any, but she did anyhow!! she ate a candy, and after a minute, she said "this isnt so bad"! but then the spice kicked in, and her mouth was on fire!!! hahahahaha!!! i told u so! i sez to her!! wheeeeee!!

so we went back to the hotel, and sat in on the "popular journalists panel" this too sucked, as these people all claimed to have over 1000 hits a day, and they were supposed to be telling us how to become a popular journalist, but that never happened! these people were so full of themselves, and i dozed off again, just to be inturrupted by head wacking by poola and chaos, cause i was snoring! hehehe!

so we left and went to seaport village where they had a merry-go-round!!! i aint been on one of those in years!! and it was only 2 bux, so we went to it and hiliarity ensued!! we get up on the merry-go-round, and only the white horses go up and down! so as it is with me, my ride was wayyyyyy up in the air!!! the foot pedal to step on was tits high on me, (im 6 ft tall) and i attempted to climb up on this thing, and couldnt! so, mom jumped off her horse, and sez, c'mon, i will give ya a boost!! so she interlocks her fingers, and i warned her im 300 pounds, and poor mom was only 90 pounds sopping wet, and she insisted: " i can do this, i have kids!!" so i sez allrighty then! and i gave her my foot, and the next thing ya know, KABOOM!! we fell over like a ton of bricks! hahahahaha~!! so, not missing a beat, she gets on one knee, and slaps her thight and sez, cmon, art climb on here, i will getcha up there! and again, KER-BOOM!! falls head over heels!!! i do manage to struggle up on this high horse!!! and in the interim, chaos is snapping pics of this shameful but funny display, and we were all sober!!! the udder tourists were snapping pics of us too! i can imagine what was going thru these peoples heads!!! wheeeeeeee!!!!

so after the merry-go-round, we went exploring, and we came upon some yachts, and the place where poola rents boats for 150 bux for 4 hours. we didnt go rent a boat, but she pointed out jerry lewis' yacht there, and i took a pic of that, and we didnt see jerry or his kids there, so we decided to do more exploring, and we went into a kite store, were mom bought a coupla kites! that place was spendy!! the had all types of kites there, including some pie-rat kites!! can you imagine paying 4,000 thousand for a kite??? not me pal!! woo!

so, we went to get some foodies, mexican food, my treat!! then after wards it was time to head back to journal con and karaoke!! i sang 2 elvis songs, american trilogy and the wonder of you, and it was loud!! all the while, no one there made any attempt to be social with us! i tryed and couldnt get anything more than a polite hello out of people, they had a cash bar, which meant that the booze would be flowing, and so it did, i paid 4 bux for a 16 ounce glass of coke, and thats all i got on that!!! sheesh!! then they brought out the appitizers, fried shrimp and salad goodies, and some unidentified food! (our motto: "if we cannot identify the food, we wont eat it")

after a few hours of the karaoke, i noticed that my hero, the non-complaining poolagirl was looking sickly, and i asked if she was all right, and her head was hurting, and i sez to every 1, well lets go home! and miss poola sez to me ya got one more song to sing! and i sez screw that! you aint feeling well, lets go!! the music was LOUD!!! it was inna small room, and was wayyyyy tooooo loooooooouuuuuuuuddddddd!!! YIKES!!!!! so we came home, and along the way the general consensus was that journal con really sucked ass, and if it wasnt for the fact that we were all together and at miss poolas, we would not have come! oh well, live and lern. i aint going to any more journal cons! fuck em!! all it was realy was a big fat booze fest!! and if you wernt a part of that hippo weetabix, (who really NEEDS to lay off the weetabix, and possibly the DONUTS!!) and her clique, you were not welcomed there, really!! it was all just a show. assholes!!

so, in closing heres the rating system that i devised as i am typing here:

POOLAGIRL and HER WONERFUL ROOMIE AND HOSPITALITY = 4 stars, A+++ SUPER-DOOBER SWELL!!!!

CHAOSDAILY AND HER BUM LEG = 4 stars, A+++ SUPER-DOOBER SWELL!!!!

MOM ON ROOF and her PAL DAR = 4 stars, A+++ SUPER-DOOPER SWELL!!!!

TUCKER & SOPHI (poolas wonnerful doggies) = 4 Stars, A+++ SUPER DOOPER SWELL!!! they didnt piss on me at all!!!

JOURNALCON: journal con sucks ass!! i aint coming back! fuck em!! i dont need "friends" like this!! piss on em, sophi!!

SAN DIEGO: it was gloomy and overcast, but thats just the way it is heer this time of year! excellent resturants, and touristy places! = 4 stars, A+++ SUPER-DOOPER SWELL!!!!

and last but not least, that wonnerful ole lady that reminds me of the nuns back in the 60's, none udder than poolas big sister herself!! "BIG SISTER!!" YAY!!!! WHEEEEEEEEE!!! WHATTA GAL!! WHATTA PAL!! = 4 stars, A+++ SUPER-DOOPER SWELL!!!

amtrak train i will be taking! uh huh!

the show ends for me tonight at 10 pm as i make my escape from here and go back home, and to my lil cat, creamsicle! who has been at the cat kennel all week!! i hope he is ok, and not too pissed of me for leaving him!!

well, folks, dats all da news you can use before ya take a snooze, all day long!! overall, i had a blast meeting the world-famous pie-rat, and finally, after 5 years, the one who taught me diaryland, none udder than that famous chocolate loving gal from cheeseland, chaosdaily!!!!! whatta gal!!! whatta pal!!!! see folks, long ago and far away, i used to live in yahooland! where upon i met drkchoclover, and we became chat pals!! and she has helped me thru some tuff times, and i have done the same for her!! and last year, when i came to SLC and settled in, she told me about diaryland, and i moved from yahooland to diaryland, and with her help, the daily drivel was born! and this is just been real swell, too!!! thanks guys!!

heya onewetleg!!!!! i got some of the pics u asked for, and when i get home they will be posted here, and also in photobucket!!!

heya boxx9000!!!!!!!! i gotcha some posty cards from here, and if i say "pretty please with sugar on top," i betcha chaos and poola and mom on roof will autograph them for ya!! i will mail them when i get home, and you should get em by the end of next week!!!

well thats that!!!

next update will be tuesday morning, late, when i get home!!

this has been a screengems/filmways presentation!!!

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