Qryztufre

My house, in the middle of the ... woods?

Thu, 30 Jul 2009 20:37:21 GMT

Have you seen the blog that Cyndi & I started about our life without electricity?

If not, check out Tennessee homesteading

~~ we won ~~

Tue, 21 Jul 2009 20:02:35 GMT

~*~ we won ~*~

I never post here anymore...

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:23:42 GMT

Anyone ever notice that?

Email help

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 14:34:02 GMT

Ever have one of those days where nothing ever seems to go right? I have, in fact, have them all the time. Well recently I had some issues with one of my email accounts and so I looked up the FAQ provided on the site and could not find the answer, so I tried to use the contact form to get my questions answered. Heh, they emailed me the solution... sadly, the issue I was having was that I could not get my inbox to load (LOL) so how the hell did they expect me to get the answer if I could not access it?

At any rate, I found the answer on an e-mail forum so YAY!

I got into my inbox to find the answer they sent me, which by then I didn't really need it so I marked it as spam (LOL again).

That email site was pretty cool, though I didn't make an account there, as I found my answer using a search... but if you ever have email trouble, then check them out, as they can give you the needed answers to email problems.

I hope I helped someone,
Q

Attn: Trekkies

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 20:31:35 GMT

http://www.wrcbtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=9792715

Not sure if you can see the link, but if ya can, check out the comment under it... it's classic.

Ok. get this....

Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:18:51 GMT

The first five people to respond to this post will get something made by me! My choice. For you.

This offer does have some restrictions and limitations:
- I make no guarantees that you will like what I make!
- What I create will be just for you.
- It'll be done this year.
- You have no clue what it's going to be. It may be a story. It may be poetry. I may draw or paint something. I may bake you something and mail it to you. Who knows? Not you, that's for sure!
- I reserve the right to do something extremely strange.

The catch? Oh, the catch is that you have to repost. We can all make stuff!!"

Stolen from a fellow Q (http://qtheallpowerful.livejournal.com/)

Stress

Mon, 12 Jan 2009 18:58:14 GMT

A week before my birthday Cyndi and I were given some pretty bad news that I am not currently going to talk about, but it's bad and bad in a life altering way. The news, for the most part, ruined my birthday which is really hard to do as its the one day a year that I claim as MY DAY and was the first MY DAY to ever be a bad one. The news escalated on X-mas eve, once again ruining one of my favorite days of the year... was Thanksgiving ruined? Heh, sure, but that was pretty much our fault for trying to slack off and not cook, lol. (NOTE TO SELF: Thankgiving dinner at a buffet is a BAD idea). News Years eve we had to work on the issues at hand, which all but ruined a night a drunken fun with the family. What is the next most wonderful holiday? Heh... that would be MY DAY which wont be around till October, so here is to hoping that one is not ruined.

Once this is all said and done I'll give a real update, but until that time, I am sorry if I am an ass to you or yours, distant, dismissive, or otherwise not myself.

Life is pretty bad at the moment, and while we are close to the end of the problems at hand, it still could potentially be a looooong road. So forgive me.
Q

Cyndi is upset because i

Mon, 22 Dec 2008 12:21:39 GMT

Cyndi is upset because i wont pee in her ear.
~Chris

Looking for shop owners

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 13:50:39 GMT

I am trying to do a few things on Occult Corpus...

The first one is to get prizes for contests. I simply can not afford to pay for them, as the money the OC currently makes barely breaks even. So I am looking for promotional items from anyone that has an online shop. I could possibly afford the shipping provided it's not too much... but I'd rather offer something else. I can get links to the site/shop through various methods. I can start a "sponsor" page. I can link to the shop in the various contest threads. I can even place a link at the top of the contest forum (It'll likely be NOFOLLOW thanks to Google's policies). I can also offer a signature link on my Qryztufre account....though likely not ALL of them. Additionally, I will post the contest on the various social networks, currently OccultCorpus.info (the OC blog, which is not used as much as it should be, but that should be changing). The LJ community here (that does have a few members). And I am working on getting facebook, myspace, and a few other networks up and running. Not to mention the outgoing feeds and the links those can potentially generate. The follow status on these last ones will depend on the individual sites. Lastly I can offer Gold Status to anyone offering anything...it's not much, but it's something I can offer.

Secondly, I am looking for incoming links to the Corpus through various sites. The details of such a link can be worked out with me personally, thought there will not be a sitewide link exchange on the part of the OC, unless the incoming link completely rocks... I am trying to keep the OC as ad free as possible, and currently only GUESTS see any ads at all.

So if you can provide a link, or a promotional prize, please contact me here, on the OC, or through Email.

Thanks!

Power Rangers

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:37:47 GMT

Perrin was watching something on TV, well, half watching... some dumb show that I had no real interest in. When it was over, I happened to be in the kitchen getting coffee and heard him go OOO OOOH! blah blah Power rangers something yada blah blah yada and chuckled to my self. Walking back into the living room with every intention of CHANGING THE CHANNEL I noticed him completely entranced by the television. He was sitting in his little blue chair just staring at the tube in complete awe as real life monsters battled for good an evil. I didn't have the heart to change it. Once it was over I asked if he wanted me to find something else to watch and he said "yes, power rangers" so I gave a brief sigh and said I don't think it's on any other channels. He was about to cry when we both realized it was on again... so there he sat. A complete hour enthralled by b-movie quality antics and bad acting.

*sigh*

Home sweet home!

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:50:45 GMT

I am at Amanda's house today, as the homesite is simply too freaken wet to hang out at. Most of the work I need to do requires it to be rather dry outside or requires me to have another adult there incase I cut off a limb or fall from a great height, so heh... I'm here doing the computer thing *YAY 4 MEH*

While I'm here on a highspeed connection I thought I'd take the time and fill in a few blanks to a site that I start months ago. The site in question is www.homesteading.us and is the account of how Cyndi and I have been doing on the new house. It's eventually going to go through the entire process step by step, but sadly only two steps have been covered at the time of me writing this.

In the future, I am planning to come over here once every week or two and do more updates there, here, the OC, and everyplace else I visit. I miss all of you guys and it'll be nice to actually be on a connection that will actually load LJ in a reasonable fashion (my flist takes 15 minutes to load on dialup sometimes).

Either way though, check out my homesteading site, and if you have an interest in my story feel free to bookmark it...

Q

Cartoonist...

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 20:21:58 GMT

Someone on my FList was making occult/religious cartoons, but I can not remember who it was. If you are that person please let me know...as I may be looking for a cartoonist and can offer both hosting and semi-promotion for such toons. LOL.

Michign

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:24:37 GMT

I am in Michigan for two very long weeks. I came up here with my mother and had to leave the woman I love the most back in Tennessee...

Seeing my grandmother has well been worth it thus far though, as I have not seen her for a year and a half and the last time I saw her I thought it would be the last time. So I am glad I got to give her a great big hug one more time. We got Lake effect snow in Holland (8 inches) so we didn't get out for a day and a half while I was there which meant no site seeing...but I did make it to a shop to get another wooden shoe for the garden.

Now I am in Battle Creek at my brothers house. They are good people! I have gotten the chance to see my Friend Laura which is good, as I miss her & her family. Cody (my nephew) is supposed to pick me up shortly so I can hang out with him, and Bryan (one of my best friends up here) is supposed to come & pick me up this evening so I can hang out with him and his daughter. I'd also like to be able to see Scott and his Mother, but am unsure if I can make it over there before I head south again.

I miss Cyndi A LOT, I also miss Perrin and Cletus... it will be good to get back home.

Dear Father...

Sat, 18 Oct 2008 16:05:41 GMT

My biological father is nothing more then that... a sperm donor. He was an abusive drunk that was hauled away when I was three. A year or two later he sent my brother Rick a birthday gift with my name on it. How could he forget MY birthday? I was born on his birthday *sigh* When I was 16 I tracked him down without telling my mother where he was at (so she could not get him for his 13 years back child support on three kids) so I could talk to him. What he had to say was pretty much NOTHING. I gave up on him, change my last name to my Grandfathers name (because he was the last in his line with three girls) and carried on my life fatherless. When I was 28 my Grandmother (his mom) died and my father went to her funeral....again, he had little or nothing to say. I made it a point to let the family know if he wanted ANYTHING to do with me HE had to call. I got calls from family to go to parties, reunions, and the like, but HE never called... I'll be 36 tomorrow and still have not gotten that call...

In that time my mother was single for much of it, though she did date a few times. He boyfriends were just that...boyfriends. They didn't do much with me, or even talk with me for what mattered. One of them she even married, he was likely one of the best of them, though still he was far from a father, and I never once even considered calling him "dad". For the most part, I never even really liked him. My dislike was not a matter of him taking away my mother or whatever Freudian crap people may like to impose on the matter, I just didn't like the guy as a human. *shrug*

Then she met Norm, her current husband. I never disliked him, I never really knew him... when they got together I was grown with my own busy twenty-something life and rarely even talked to her in that point of my life. To me, he was just some other boyfriend of my mothers...When I moved down here to Tennessee I talked to them even less and didn't think much about it one way or the other... but a few years later (last year) they moved down here, just down the street in fact. With them so close I came down often and hung out. That was when I actually got to talk to him. I actually liked him, heh, he was (and is) a gruff old bastard with a sense of humor that can often be taken as offensive, but we had things to talk about, things in common, and at times, we often did things for each other, and more importantly WITH each other. This has been the first time in my life I've ever had a 'father figure' in my life that was actually IN my life... I'm not sure how to take that sometimes, as I've never had it before...

Over the last few months, while Cyndi and I built our home, he and I did two things... first, we grew apart in some ways, as I would have to put my home ahead of the things he and my mother wanted/needed. Though, in another way, we grew closer. I would often take a break from working on the house and go over to their house. I'd leave Perrin inside while I'd site on the porch with him and talk. And sometimes, when I needed to climb a latter or use the chainsaw he'd come over and make sure I did not kill myself. More and more like a father this man has become, and still I'm not sure how to take it, as I've never had it before...

And even more recently, when I was likely in the greatest need in my life, he was there with sympathy, respect, kindness. No gruff jokes, no cynicism, only a pat on the back, a hug, and the words, "Chris, it'll be OK".

Norm, when you read this looking over Mom's shoulder tonight, know that you are the closest thing I've EVER had to a father, and while I'm not sure how to take that, as I've never had it before... Know that it's true, and I am grateful that you are a part of my life.

Many thanks from your son,
Christopher.

Life @ the moment sucks.

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:16:38 GMT

Life @ the moment sucks. Things seem 2 b falling apart and i hope that we can gather up enuf pieces 2 keep our dream...

Storytime

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 19:41:02 GMT

This morning has been the COLDEST morning since we moved in... and as the heat is not hooked up yet there was only one thing to do. Cuddle with Cyndi till the headlights of Amanda's car lit up the house, then cuddle with Perrin in my Magickal Armchair telling stories of treemonsters, wizards, and most importantly Transformers ;)

How much wood could a woodchuck chuck?

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 19:23:44 GMT

I got the trunk of a tree from a friend of a friend.... the lowest piece measured 33 inches across at it's narrowest point, and 37 inches across at it's widest.

I've spent the better part of two days chopping it...\

Bringing the wood in

Unloading the wood

Perrin "breaking trees" (helping me chop it with his wooden mallet)

The chopped wood

Jimmy, we love you!

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:07:08 GMT

A dear friend of mine passed away last week, while I was holding him (along with several others that loved him dearly). He died of Cancer which had spread throughout much of his body. He died with his pain managed, which I think is a good thing, as we likely could have had him longer, but that would have been selfish on all of our parts. I got a chance to tell him that I loved him, and that he was like a father too me.

I dug his grave on Saturday, and we buried him on Sunday. The funeral was very nice and had a rather large turnout (around 100 people). He was read his last Masonic Rites, which was done beautifully, a preacher (that married him) talked, and then they let doves out. It was a beautiful service, one I will remember forever.

I met Jimmy just over three years ago when I moved down here to Tennessee, and in that time he proved that there are still good people in this world. He was a fantastic neighbor, and a good friend. In that short time that I knew him, he taught me many things, and most importantly showed that one does not need to die alone. So surround yourself with friends, and love them. If you do that, they will be there till the very end.

Jimmy, you will be missed, but I also know that you will live on, up there with Jesus, as well as down here watching out for those that you truly cared for.

I loved you, and love you...

ER & Water

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 18:31:35 GMT

This weekend we took a trip to the ER via ambulance. I sat in the waiting room, as they only allow two people in the back. We too our neighbor, so his wife & Cyndi went back with him. He was in there for 15 minutes when they said they would get him a room, and FIVE hours later he finally got one! Out in the waiting room there were two people who had not even made it to Triage for an hour and a half. One of them with painful kidney stones, the other with four kids, one of them with a busted and bleeding lip. There was a lady with a baby that had a horribly high temp in triage, for that same hour and a half. Once they made it out of triage, they lady with kidney stones went in, and then came back out to wait. The people with the kid with the busted lip left, the bleeding stopped, and it just didn't seem like it was worth the wait... the lady with the kid with the fever also left (after waiting for another hour). A hospital administrator came in with his daughter, they skipped triage and saw the doctor immediately.

If you are ever in etowah and have an emergency, just lay there and die, it'll be quicker to get a hearse then it would be to see a doctor.

Blah...

I made a water system for the house and it was tested today! We collected three hundred gallons of rain water in a single morning! YAY 4 H2O!

Two 55 gallon drums on one side of the house. Two thirty gallon tanks on the other. We also got several buckets, totes, and bottles full...

See the overflow in action ;)

At the movies

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 14:38:43 GMT

I watched the Transformers Movie yesterday for the first time and it really did bring back some fond memories from my childhood. I liked the story line, the transformers themselves, and thought that the humor in the movie was not over the top.

Optimus Prime was one of my childhood heroes as I had that truck and it was one of my prized possessions. Mainly because I grew up really poor and getting such a large toy was simply awesome! I had a few others as well, but heh, can not for the life of me recall just which ones I had... but that's OK, I still loved them all.

I also watched the cartoon religiously, I also watched Gobots, but they were not nearly as cool as the real transformers, but was on at times that were easier to get to the TV.

Anyway, back to the movie... it did have some flaws, which I guess most movies have. The only time they used the age old saying of "more then meets the eye" was a silly reference to Sam flubbing his words to the hot chick. Then the Autobots learned to speak English though the Internet. They all talked, even Bumblebee (through the radio). The Decepticons however didn't speak english at all (well, I guess Barricade spoke... but the rest were all like Beep Zoooop Zap with fancy multilingual subtitles.

Megatron spoke pretty good English, which I guess was a bit odd... he certainly didn't have net access, not even dialup like I have. No, he was frozen for 50 plus years in a block of ice at the bottom of some big damn. So how did he learn to speak better then his comrades that did have net access?

I guess that is a question that'll likely never be answered...

Oh well. If you liked the toons in your youth and have not seen the movie, then get out and rent it now. I give it 4 out of 5 *asterisks*

All the luxuries of life!

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:35:39 GMT

I installed Direct TV to the outhouse recently...

Though I guess it does not help much that there is no electricity. ;)

Cell phone test post ~Chris

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:46:45 GMT

Cell phone test post
~Chris

Been a long time

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:36:47 GMT

I thought I'd post as I've not done so in months on end.

I've been at home for the most part with a few visits over here to Moms to check the forums, email, and the like, though that does not leave a lot of time for journaling.

I want to get a lap top so that I can write while I am there, and not have to be bothered with all the commotion that takes place here... but that'll likely need to wait for a few more months, so don't expect a lot from me until then.

I have been keeping putting up a few cell phone pics, so if you'd like to keep a brief eye on my goings on check out my photobucket.

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v243/Qryztufre/?start=all

Other then that though, life is good off the grid. I am happy as happy can be, though most of the family seems to not believe me when I say it. I'm working hard on the house, and getting things in order before the first frost. I have about a cord of wood cut and need another 4-6 more to make sure I'll have a toasty winter. The porch has a roof on it, though I still need to put up the siding. The inside of the house still needs a lot of work, and I still need to build another coop for the rest of the chickens (currently they are in a very small brooding house).

Heh, I skipped redneck and went straight to hillbilly! So how about them taters?

I will try to get this updated more often, or maybe I'll start updating my other blog, which I turned into a pagan news thingie, but *sigh* I simply do not have time for that any more.

Love ya all!
Q

One Word meme

Thu, 08 May 2008 13:49:53 GMT

1. Where is your mobile phone? pocket
2. Your significant other? Cyndi
3. Your hair? SHORT
4. Your mother? Michigan
5. Your father? Drunk
6. Your favorite thing? Cyndi
7. Your dream last night? none
8. Your favorite drink? Dew
9. Your dream/goal? Solar
10. The room you're in? Living
11. Your ex? Jenna
12. Your fear? Ladders
13. Where do you want to be in 6 years? Next door (lol)
14. Where were you last night? bed
15. What you're not? Human
16. Muffins? Gloves!
17. One of your wish list items? Sleep
18. Where you grew up? City
19. The last thing you did? Livejournal
20. What are you wearing? clothes
21. Your TV? Idol
22. Your pets? Cats!
23. Your computer? Broken
24. Your life? Living
25. Your mood? Tired
26. Missing someone? Cyndi
27. Your car? lol
28. Something you're not wearing? Underwear
29. Favorite Store? antique
30. Your summer? hot
31. Like someone? lots
32. Your favorite color? a certain shade of BLUE
33. When is the last time you laughed? Today
34. Last time you cried? Yesterday (tears of joy)

PSA #364

Fri, 02 May 2008 12:58:39 GMT

I have stepped down from being a moderator on OccultForums. I was not very active there as of late and plan on being much less active in the near future. I am also sick of the favoritism and drama...

I may still show up now & again to see how things are going, but I no longer want to be associated with the staff there, as staff.

*shrug*
Q