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July 31, 2006
Oh Mel. WWJD?
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- An official police report on Mel Gibson's arrest on drunken driving charges substantiates claims that he made anti-Semitic remarks and threatened a deputy, a law enforcement official said Monday....
....TMZ reported that Gibson said, "The Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world," and asked the arresting officer, "Are you a Jew?"
And from what reports are coming in, this looks like only the beginning of what he said in his meltdown.
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Disclosure -- I'm no fan of Mel Gibson.
Some people can get pretty honest when drunk. I have been around many people that start spouting off after throwing back a few. Still, he supposedly only blew a .12. While that is considered drunk by the states for driving it does not seem like the tilting point when the part of your brain that controls this kind of thing shuts down. I have probably been, no I'm sure I have been to the point where a .12 was well behind me but there is still that wee bit of awareness of what pours out of your mouth no matter how staggering blotto you are. Unless perhaps they are real ingrained deep rooted feelings......
Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting....
All day long in my head. Over and over. I wanted to jam my pen in my eye.
Stupid song
July 30, 2006
Important news
Starbucks now has Banana Chocolate Chip Coffee Cake.
That is all.
I know, I'm too easily amused. But....
Adult humor in cartoon form is awesome. Simpsons, Futurama, Family Guy etc. Now in DVD box sets:
July 29, 2006
Time on my hands at work today
Satan in the news again
Ann Coulter said in an interview this week that Bill Clinton is a homosexual. Yeah right, the guy who risks a scandal to get a blow job from a female in the oval office. Maybe he spurned her advances. I guess if there is one person who could turn him or any other straight person gay it would be that boney-ass psycho bitch.
Golf cart with power windows
Daimler Chrysler will be selling their new "Smart Car" in the United States by 2008. Looking at the size, it seems like it would be pretty scary on our highways filled with big sedans and suv's. According to the company the car, which gets 60 miles to a gallon of gas, has a super strong steel frame that when hit, bounces it away like a ball on a pool table rather than absorbing and crumpling like larger cars. The story I read interviewed someone who was hit by an suv and he was not hurt. Still, to me it looks like a car you could take to dinner, but after that big steak dinnner you may not be able to get back into it.
Does KFC count?
Speaking of steak, I saw a bumper sticker today that read "Peace Starts In Your Kitchen. Go Vegetarian." Would peace be worth giving up meat? Could Tofu solve the world's problems? I'll try having plain pasta tonight and see if Al Quaida surrenders.
Elastic loaves. Delivered in 30 or it's free
Iranian President Mr. berka lerka derka or something like that, has decreed that some foriegn words that have crept into their language be replaced. "Pizza" is now elastic loaf. "Chat" is now short talk, and so on.
I think they are also replacing the word dictator with Bush.
July 28, 2006
Rambling
The day just dragged by today. Last night I met up with a few coworkers for happy hour at Fanatics after work. Contrary to its name, happy hour can actually run until midnight. Fun times, but it makes for a slow start the next morning. And I have to work tomorrow -- ugh
My trainee is working out well, she is pretty eager and wants to learn. I have to slow her down sometimes when I am going over things with her as she tends to get ahead of herself but I would rather have to do that then get someone who gets a blank stare when you try to teach. I work with someone like that so I don't need another one. But not for too much longer. My bosses are talking more and more about my transfer and even spoke of a little raise that will come with it so I really want that to happen sooner rather than later.
I hope the weather turns nice for the weekend. I have been kind of lazy this week and need to get out and get some fresh air and move around. I want to get out and take some pictures but my camera seems to be dying little by little. I may ask to borrow one for a day or two. I will have to fit somewhere on my purchase list.
July 26, 2006
How much longer till 2008?
Our elected leader, who really wasn't elected and couldn't lead you out of a room with only one door with flashing arrows pointing at it, vetoed stem cell research funding claiming to "protect life." Do you think he even begins to understand the irony of someone like him using the phrase "protecting life?" I know of a lot of soldiers, civillians, repressed groups, people standing on roofs during hurricanes, and people with devastating illnesses that would like some protecting.
In other obvious news...
Associated press on MSNBC
NEW YORK - Lance Bass, band member of 'N Sync, says he's gay and in a "very stable" relationship with a reality show star.........
July 24, 2006
This and that
Back to work today. The new manager is off this week, she is the one who just recently started and will be off for three months soon on maternity leave. I guess she needs some time off now too??? Anyway Crazy was continuing to drive me nuts today. I can't wait to transfer, it should only be a little while longer. Tomorrow I get a manager trainee who is going to shadow me for a few weeks. It is kind of a pain to take on this project since I have to pretty much do everything else, but on the bright side as a certified trainer I get a couple hundred bucks for each person they send to me for training so that makes it worth it.
Got my new table and chairs this past weekend along with a new floor lamp. Some pics of them along with my new chair in my re-arranged apartment are in the link below. I would have put them in my gallery along with some other pics I have, but for the life of me I can't remember my login info. I thought it was the same as this blog, but apparently not. I will see if Paul will get me that info or reset it for me. Anyway, finally my home is starting to feel like a home with the latest additions. I think one more chair and some art for the walls and I will be all set.
New Table
New Chair
Some Glass
Back
Front
TV
More Glass
July 23, 2006
CLERKS II
Hilarious.
Frank discussions about sexual acts, profanity, friendship, love, the movie has it all. It is all surprisingly wrapped around an actual plot where the characters, through some hilarious scenes and adventures, all learn something about themselves and find the love of their lives be it a person or a job.
I think loyal fans will be happy.
July 22, 2006
Anyone want to jam with Kitty?
Maybe Hypno-Toad can persuade you
Observations from a coffee shop
Large women should not wear sweat pants with glittery letters that spell out "Tight End" across their ginormous ass.
Pomegranate and Mango Smoothie looks tatsty in the picture, but in reality I just paid $4 for something that tastes like feet.
Is walking to my car in the rain to plug the parking meter worth it, or should I risk a $11 ticket?
One guy just had a cell phone ring tone that is music of impending doom -- "Dum Da Dum Dum Duuummmm." I wonder which person in his life that is set to ring for.
I would like to buy the CD they are playing, but I know I will not like it as much at home. It must be the atmospohere or acoustics that make it sound better here.
July 19, 2006
Since not much else is happening,
Please enjoy a picture of a bunny with a pancake on its head.
This and that
Busy week so far. Lots to do at work in preperation for a meeting downtown tomorrow. After the meeting, I head to the airport to pick up Paul and Alison. Being the wonderful person that I am and best house and cat sitter ever, I made a pan of turkey lasagna tonight so they would have something to eat when they get home tomorrow night. And if I do say so myself it is pretty darn good. And no, it is not fake or frozen, I actually made it.
I heard from a reliable source that Crazy has applied for her old position at her old bank. I'm keeping my fingers crossed.
My chair came and I need to rearrange my apartment in the next couple days as well as pick up a dining room table I picked out at IKEA. I need to move my cable wires/modem since I am moving the TV cabinet. It's great fun moving a clusterfuck of wires like that and trying to hide them behind trim or along the baseboards. I'll take pics when it's done this weekend. Other than that, not much happening....
Perspective
From Jeff Matthews blog
.....people complain "that it now costs $3.25 for a gallon of gasoline that has been shipped via crude oil tanker from depleting oil fields in Saudi Arabia across 3,000 miles of ocean to an offshore tanker port, pumped through pipes to a refinery in the Gulf Coast, refined via an energy-intensive distillation process into a variety of fuels -- jet fuel, diesel fuel, kerosene and even asphalt, not to mention three types of gasoline -- and then shipped by pipeline to distribution terminals from whence it has been loaded into tank trucks and hauled up an interstate highway to a gas station for the Starbucks customer who is complaining about the 'High Cost of Gasoline' ...and doesn't think twice about paying $9.85 for a gallon of water."
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Ok I am the Starbucks customer bitching about the cost of gas. A little perspective is good....But I still feel violated at the gas pump.
July 17, 2006
Important matters
Anyone else find the Starbucks commercial with all the business people pouring out into the street and chanting kind of inspiring? I find myself singing along with it. Everyone should watch it before heading to work in the morning.
"I will make today the day, tell success I'm on the way, there'll be no ounce of doubt in me, (something something) economy, who the man, you the man"
Yeah, he scares me too
Picture caption contest. Mine:
"Bush spends day helping Army recruit." or "What stinks worse, the diaper or his second term?"
Others?
July 16, 2006
F-word
I have become a fan of HBO's Deadwood. At first it did not seem like the kind of show I would go for, but it has grown on me. I thought the same thing about the Sopranos and Six Feet under when they first came out. It goes to show you should give a show a couple viewings before passing on them. I have also tried to count the number of times they usethe word "fuck" or some variation of it, but wound up losing track. I mean, like every other word. It's like their trademark. But not to worry, there is actually a place and people that do keep track.
Copied from Wikipedia:
The show that holds the record for the most numerous utterances of the word on television is the HBO series Deadwood . The constant use of the word soon inspired a web site dedicated to keeping track of the Deadwood Fuck Count, which has recorded about 1.54 "fucks" per minute......
Song to get stuck in your head
8-6-7-5-3-0-9Jenny I got your number
I need to make you mine
Jenny don't change your number
867-5309, 867-5309, 867-5309, 867-5309
Hot hot hot
It is so hot in PIttsburgh. The temp was 90 today and is supposed to be 96 tomorrow and just humid enough to feel like you are breathing in water. I have been out and about a lot today, coffee shop, jogging, IKEA, errands etc. I have a headache , I think from getting hot then cooling down over and over while going in and out of air conditioning. So for the rest of the evening I am being a couch potato in front of the TV in Paul and Alsion's comfy surroundings with plenty of reading material on hand and a crown and coke (or two).
Took Alison and Paul to the airport so they could catch their flight to Vegas. That means that through Thursday I am house sitting and looking after the super cute wonder kitties. I have also been given the task of watering the flowers on the front porch daily so if anyone wants to email me and remind me to do that, I would appreciate it since I am pretty much death to flowers.
July 15, 2006
Purchases
I splurged on a couple items yesterday. I bought a leather chair for my living room. It is the matching piece to my couch that I couldn't quite afford when I bought the couch last fall. So that comes Tuesday and I'm pretty excited. I'm also going to hit IKEA tomorrow and see if any little things catch my eye. I know I want to get another lamp, perhaps a reading lamp to go next to the new chair.
I also bought a new pair of running shoes which I desperatly needed. I will never buy shoes again from a large big box store. I have been spoiled from the experience at a local retailer. I went to one of the neighborng businesses where I work, an independant athletic shoe store. The salesman actually asked to measure my feet, had me roll up my pant legs and walk back and forth in my socks. He noticed I tend to roll my right foot a bit when I walk and after additonal measurements, suggested a couple different pair of my chosen brand, Asics. He explained why these were the best and talked about the support features etc. It is nice getting the expert knowledge and attention that one gets from the smaller stores. And since I worked in the same developemnt, they gave me 10% off. The prices were not much higher, actually about the same.
Message for coworkers
Work kicked my ass this past week. I was so glad for 5:30 yesterday for that was the beginning of the weekend which me and a select few coworkers kicked off with some good food and drinks at about 5:31. Thank god for
It wasn't so much my workload or even the customers who always think they are right and we are evil. "Customer is always right" -- my ass. Whatever moron thought up that slogan did not live in the real world. I'm right, everyone else is wrong, that's all there is too it. Anyway, it's the drama between two of my coworkers that is so tiring. We should build a stage in the office and sell tickets. We could give Broadway a run for it's money. I get to listen to both of them bitch about each other. Usually it is at different times, but yesterday one was in my office complaining while the other buzzed my phone and started in then stopped and asked "Is she there now?" "Yes that's right," I said. "Oh, I'll call you back in a few minutes." Oh please do you psycho, I have nothing better to do. The bank just runs itself, so don't worry about any real work that might need to be done. Idiots.
July 13, 2006
Urp
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are the leading off story in my news program tonight. Excuse me while I throw up in my mouth a little bit.
Couple of news WTF's
WTF is the Army thinking? According to news reports, white supremacists are enlisting and volunteering for battle assignments so they can get training for what they see as a coming race war in America. The New York Times says that the Defense Department positively indentified 320 racist extremists in just the past year and only TWO were discharged. So let me get this straight, gays are not welcome in the military but a blind eye is turned on neo-nazis? Is the militray that hard up for recruits? Does anyone in the military command think this will prove disastrous in the long run?
Forget fighting evil abroad, it's in your own ranks. "sigh"
WTF is with talk of using diplomacy with North Korea? The leader is a major nut case who craves world attention. Granted this make him dangerous to a point. But since it has only gotten worse since "W" labled them as part of the axis of evil in a show of his own cowboy diplomacy, I think we should leave any kind of diplomacy to the likes of Japan, China, and any other country who has an actual leader to be taken seriously. Contain North Korea until 2008 and let a new leader, hopefully of the blue state persuasion, rebuild our foreign policy. In the meantime, just in case, keep our engineers and scientists working on the defense program thats goal is to shield teh US from incoming missiles. Yeah it's been expensive and not too successful so far, but it's necessary for the future.
July 12, 2006
R I P
Alex became part of my family several years ago in Michigan. Adopted from a rescue shelter, she was kind of a loner but once she got used to you, she would grant you the priviledge of being in her company. When circumstances made me need to go live with friends for a bit, she went to my grandparents. It was funny at the time because my Grandma at first said no when I asked if she could come live for awhile, but just a little while later I got a call back saying it was ok. She just couldn't stand to tell one of her grandkids no. I saw her often until last November when I moved to Pittsburgh. I always heard from my Grandparents "guess what Alex did" when she did something cute, and "guess what your cat did" when she was a bit naughty. When I moved to my own place again in Michigan, I did not want to take her from the big old house with the huge yard and picture windows in which to sit and look at the birds, to bring her to a small apartment. She had found a home. I like to think she also helped make the house a little less empty for my Grandpa after my Grandmother's passing a few years ago. So there she stayed until her passing today. I will miss her. She was a good kitty.
July 10, 2006
Freeze Earthling, or I will be forced to annihilate you
Marvin amuses me
July 09, 2006
I have strong convictions
There are people in my life who like to put vegetables in desserts, carrot cake, zuchinni things, etc. I won't name names, but you know who you are. Now I like some vegetables, corn, broccoli, green beans, and such. But I've said it before and I'm saying it again, veggies don't belong in desserts. Sugars, chocolate, frostings, creams -- these are the things that go into desserts.
Today, while house sitting I am taking advantage of Alison and Paul's baking equipment and making chocolate chip cookies. And there is no wierd stuff in them, just chocolate gooey yummilicious goodness.
There, I'm glad I was able to deal with this serious issue that affects all our lives. Next topic after we recover from this important debate: Diet pop.
July 08, 2006
Personal test, your true self revealed
July 07, 2006
Weekly wrap up
This week was kind of hectic at work even though I had a day off for the holiday. The new Mgr seems to be working out ok. We get along well and she recognizes that I do much more to contrinute to the success of the office than Crazy does. Today I had a great converstaion with my Regional Manager who came out to visit specifically to talk to me. We spoke of conditions at the office recently and I gave my professioanl assessment and view of all the drama and reiterated that I can speak for myself and would when I have issues that could not be solved among ourselves and needed her attention, and would not like being lumped by association into the views expressed by others. For instance, Crazy tends to assume I feel the same way she does when she bitches about something. I am of the opinion that we are professional adults and can handle our own issues in our office without the need to bother the higher-ups with things that are often petty. So it felt good to get that off my chest. She also talked about my career path and had some positive things to say that gave me some new reasons to look forwrd to the future with my company.
Also this week I joined an organization called Thursday Night Live named for the fact that monthly meetings are held on Thursdays at different local restaurants/bars. It is a LGTB professioanl organization designed for gay professionals in Pittsburgh to network and discuss trends affecting our community. It also advances the learning of other professions and career advancement. Besides Networking, the membership also partners with local charitable organizations to perform community service and help with fundraising events. So my first mixer this week went well, lots of good food and drinks while getting to know people and learning more about the group. So I'm pretty excited about how much I enjoyed myslef and am looking forward to future meetings and events. Hmm, maybe I can get work to pay the membership dues?
This weekend is supposed to be nice weather wise so I may head downtown to the festivites that are going on for next weeks All Star game. But first on my list of things to do is sleep in tomorrow. I'm also on kitty duty while Alison and Paul head to Michigan for another wedding.
ABS is working
Note to self:
When you get new brakes on the car you must remember that you don't need to press on the brakes as you are used to doing because when the car comes to a sudden stop your body will continue to fly forward just long enough for your seatbelt to catch and dig into your neck and that makes you utter a naughty profanity.
Ouch.
July 05, 2006
She sucks more than a vacuum
The NY Post is reporting that Ann Coulter, the hate spewing right wing monster of a woman who satan looks up to in admiration, plagarized not only parts of her new book but also parts of her past syndicated columns. Investigators have found passages lifted from other works taken word for word. She's so busy covering the world in her own bitter moronic venom that she couldn't even change some words around. Maybe while we are burning her at the stake we can have a book burning party too.
I don't like her.
July 04, 2006
Today
It's amazing how you think things look clean but then you clean and find that they really aren't. It turns out my bathtub is white, not off white. Go figure.
Since the rain was falling today as it has for a few weeks now, I stayed in with my coffee, music, and newspaper. Then some kind of alien life form must have taken over my body because I went into cleaning mode and cleaned every inch of my apartment. Like with cleaning supplies and everything ! Do you know you can actually pick up dust instead of moving it around? No dust bunny was safe from my wrath of cleanliness.
But now the rain has ceased and the alien has left. I am again relaxing with coffee and since I am getting antsy to get out of the apartment and moving, will soon be heading out for a run along the river.
Tonight is a cook out and fireworks at Paul and Alison's. From what I have been told their street/neighborhood which sits high up on a hill, is a great spot to watch Pittsburgh fireworks. So I'm looking forward to that. I shall come bearing the traditional fireworks munchies of turkey chili dip with tortilla chips and scoopable Fritos and some yummy apples with carmel dip. I will try to run a little extra today.
Clean Apt pics
This is Jake, my guard duck. Don't mess with him, he's one bad MoFo.
I need pictures for the walls
Hands free driving?
(CBS) MINNEAPOLIS On March 30, Minnesota Timberwolves center Eddie Griffin was drunk and masturbating when he crashed his luxury SUV into a parked Suburban outside a store in Minneapolis, according to a lawsuit filed Thursday by the man whose Suburban was hit in the crash.
WCCO-TV obtained copies of 911 calls and store surveillance video of the incident, along with an accident report the police submitted to the state, reports WCCO-TV's Caroline Lowe.
Several of the 911 callers that night said Griffin was drunk. One witness said Griffin told him he was watching pornography in a DVD player mounted on the dashboard of his Cadillac Escalade SUV when he struck a Chevy Suburban parked on University Avenue Southeast ........
Happy 4th !!
July 01, 2006
Superman Returns
Good Movie. A bit long, they could have cut thirty minutes from it and not affected the movie at all, but overall I liked it. The only aspect that I expected and wish had happened was more of a one-on-one struggle between Superman and Lex Luthor. When it came down to the face to face action between the two nemesis in a pivotal scene, it felt like it was over too fast without much of the "edge of your seat" action and anticipation one would expect. Nontheless, it was still a well done scene and the rest of the movie was great with lots of aspects left open for further installments. Kevin Spacey by the way does a great job as the villian.