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Green Acres is the place to be!

November 28th, 2006. Published under General. No Comments.

Seems lately there isn’t much to write about here about me. I could go on and on about how happy I am, how busy I am, how [insert perpetually repeated item off blog here]. It’s getting a bit repetitive and it’s getting a bit old.

So instead, I’m going to blow the dust off a time-honored tradition of unleashing the snark on a news item from today’s paper.

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Yesterday, there was a big “OMG SCARE!!!1!!!one!!” at the Minneapolis/St. Paul Airport because someone found the “makings of a bomb” in a returned rental car on Sunday morning. A quote:

The device, which was loose in the compartment, included tubes, wires and shrapnel, airport officials said.

“It had the makings of a bomb” but didn’t include explosives, said Pat Hogan, airport spokesman.

OMGWTFBBQFTW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So, really, anything in the world could be construed as the “makings of a bomb”. Hell, MacGuyver made a bomb out of a hair tie, a rusty can of Tab and some duct tape. And what constitutes “shrapnel” anyway? Loose bits of anything? So the debris of gum wrappers and lip balm that litter the bottom of my purse could be used as a “making of a bomb”?!? Dear god!

The best part is the follow up to that story, in today’s paper.

Apparently, the “makings of a bomb” were a forgetful scientist’s equipment. Another quote:

[The scientist] had picked up the device, called the Stowaway Tidbit Temp Loggers, from the St. Anthony Falls Lab along the Mississippi River on Wednesday. The equipment includes several lengths of 1-inch plastic pipe filled with gravel, all linked to 15 flashing electronic monitors. She stowed it in the tire compartment to keep the gravel from showering all over the trunk.

Of course she forgot about it and the bomb squad blew up the $1500 worth of equipment. Nevermind the fact that all the data she’s collected since June has been lost.

It was gravel - in a tube. Apparently river rock is considered “shrapnel” now. Do they hire idiots for our security?!

Seriously.

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There’s an attorney on my floor with the last name of Perryman. Every time I walk by their office the following lyric from the Chris de Berg hit runs through my head:

Don’t pay the ferryman,
Don’t even fix a price,
Don’t pay the ferryman,
Until he gets you to the other side

Except substitute “ferryman” for the attorney’s name. I’ve done it EVERY SINGLE DAY that I’ve worked here.

At least it’s not the theme to “Green Acres”…

Rodney Yee hates me!

November 22nd, 2006. Published under General. No Comments.

I have the Power Yoga DVD at home - one of two yoga DVD’s that I own. I usually do the other one (Yoga for Weight Loss) because it’s great for stretching out and unknotting my perpetually knotted muscles.

I’m quite sporadic with my Yoga-ing - but due to other factors, I’m not able to run right now so I decided to pop in good ol’ Rodney Yee to give me a good workout.

Dear god. I am so sore today.

If you don’t do yoga, you don’t think these relaxing poses or something as harmless as a “sun salutation” or a “half moon pose” would kick your ass.

Rodney Yee, while having such a soothing demeanor, is a tyrant and a slave driver. Making these poses look effortless while one is wishing they were dead trying to attempt a camel’s pose is just cruel.

Why, Rodney, why?

Hell, there were 4 rounds of doing an upward bow pose on this workout - and there was no way in hell I was going to attempt that one without an ambulance on hand to cart my broken self off to the hospital. Honestly, I don’t think I could bend that way.

And even though I didn’t break much of a sweat, I am one sore puppy today.

So, Mr. Yee, I shall be back for more!

Well, except for that upward bow pose - no fucking way.

Week Two

November 21st, 2006. Published under General. No Comments.

So far, the second week of my new job has been great. The fuzzy-headed lack of coherent thought due to information overload is subsiding somewhat.

I’m definitely having instant messenger withdrawal, though. I feel so disconnected from my friends now.

I need some down time for myself and I really need to get back onto a schedule to work out. Sure, I like the activity and going out with friends - but my brain is overloaded with everything and it needs to reset. Either that or I truly am a hermit at heart - where I’m more than content to stay at home on a Friday night or just do nothing.

Even this weekend, I’m going to be busy. Wednesday night is recording the next show with a party afterwards, Thursday we may have a friend over for dinner, Friday I work at the part-time job and Saturday/Sunday we’re down at my parents’ for my family’s Thanksgiving.

I just feel so burned out mentally right now. My body is also rebelling against me too, but we’ll save that topic for never - because you really don’t want to hear about any of that nonsense.

So yeah. Good times.

Happy Turkey Day!

GROG NEED COFFEE!

November 17th, 2006. Published under General. 3 Comments.

I need to find a solution to the coffee problem here at work.

My old office had Starbucks coffee (for free!) and a plethora of flavored and unflavored coffee creamers (also free!). My one daily cup of coffee consisted of this wonderful Starbucks coffee with French Vanilla liquid coffee creamer.

Side Note: What you may not know about my coffee drinking habits:
1. Unless I brew it myself, I need coffee creamer.
2. I cannot stand powdered coffee creamer.
3. I cannot stand plain coffee creamer - needs to have a flavor.
4. Sweetener is optional, depending on how toxic the coffee is (see: Diner Coffee).

My current office has free coffee, but all they have is generic plain powdered coffee creamer.

*shudder*

I tried - really tried - to get my one cup of coffee out of the supplies they have here, with disastrous results! After two days of that, I just started going to Dunn Bros. to get a skim vanilla latte every morning. Considering the fact that the latte is $3-4, I refuse to spend $15-20 on coffee per day.

So my dilemma is: what do I do?

Do I get up even earlier and brew my own coffee at home, allowing me to drink it on the bus? Or do I go to the store and buy my own container of fat-free French vanilla liquid coffee creamer? Even better, go to Costco and get the “institutional size” box of single serving coffee creamers (like my old office had) so I don’t have to worry about refrigeration.

I may have to figure out the set-ahead timer of the coffee maker and set it up to brew automatically. That might be the ticket. Less calories too!

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Speaking of such things, I haven’t been logging my runs on here lately. Mainly because I forget to write down the times every time I’m on the treadmill. I certainly haven’t been working out every day like I used to because of the part-time job and the fact I have a busier social life now.

Oh no! A social life!

I think I’m going to get an iPod Nano in the next few months, along with the Nike shoes that will automatically track my progress. Not sure how they work on a treadmill, but we’ll see.

Back to work!

Like a scared turtle…

November 16th, 2006. Published under General. No Comments.

I haven’t had time to make a post lately - between the new show schedule, the part-time job and now the new job, there just hasn’t been time!

I finally got my own desk and computer yesterday afternoon - so I have really been out of the loop for about a week.

The going away party last week was great. Tim got to meet a lot of former co-workers and friends of mine, which was great. I’m going to miss (some of) the people there, but I sure as hell won’t miss the job.

I am absolutely loving the new job! I wish I could go into more detail about it on here, but I don’t think that’s the best idea since I do work at a law firm. I will say that this job, while challenging, is going to be a breeze and the group I work with (all 3 of them!!) are so nice and are so great to work for and with!

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I’m getting quite frustrated with the couple of web design clients that I have. Sure, I’m getting paid to do their work, but they either don’t give me the information I need to get anything finished or they’re so high maintenance that I want to scream every time they want me to do something.

I work my regular job. I work a second job. I’m on a twice-weekly recording, nationally-syndicated podcast. I’m trying to find time for Tim and I to spend together. Add this design crap on top of everything, and I start to get overwhelmed. Something needs to give - and I know where the design stuff falls: at the bottom. I’d much rather work the part-time job than have to deal with this bullshit - especially since I had to discount my time for one client because of a personal relationship I have with that person. I’m just sick of being the proverbial whipping boy and getting attitude over shit they know nothing about. WEB DESIGN IS NOT LIKE A FUCKING WORD DOCUMENT.

Yarg.

So yeah, something has got to give. I still haven’t finished painting my upstairs hallway that I started over the 4th of July weekend!! Seriously. WTF?

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Speaking of a social life, somehow BSG Night just up and died on me. Who knows what happened there.

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I need a vacation with Tim and go someplace warm where we can do nothing but hang out and do whatever. Seriously.

Retarded, child emperor!

November 6th, 2006. Published under General. No Comments.

Bill Maher, while having questionable tastes in Halloween costumes, once in a while will write something interesting.

The Democrats’ best slogan: “Bush lost the war”

Yes, it’s on Salon…but just click the “free pass” thing and get it over with.

Favorite quote: “Vote Republican, and you vote to enable George Bush to keep ruling as an emperor.” A retarded, child emperor, but an emperor.

Go vote tomorrow!!

The Return of the Towel!

November 6th, 2006. Published under General. 4 Comments.

This past week’s Battlestar Galactica was very interesting to say the least.

Don’t worry - I’m not going to post any spoilers here. Well, other than the fact that one of the Blogkitten Trifecta of Actors is back to his rightful place in the “Awesome Hot” area. Good ol’ Apollo (Jamie Bamber) has been stuck in a fat suit all season and in the past few episodes they’ve been making cracks about the character’s weight - and this week, we see all the hard work pay off.

Shirtless sweaty Apollo!! Wooooo!

*ahem*

For those of you who are regulars of BSG - the sweaty weigh-in scene is almost as good as the “tiny towel” scene from last season. Almost.

Heh.

Also, the season is getting very interesting - and it’s better than I even dreamed of after the way last season ended.

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Final Fantasy 12 is AWESOME. That’s all I have to say about that.

Office Death War Zone

November 2nd, 2006. Published under General. No Comments.

I can’t believe how quickly this place has gone from “OK” to “Office Death War Zone” and I am feeling so goddamn lucky that I will be out of here very, very soon.

It’s insane! Even if this new job doesn’t pan out to be as awesome as I’m anticipating, it would still be a vast improvement over where I am now. At least I can be in a position where I can work on different projects and not have to support 12 fucking people with their WYAT* Projects of Monotony every single day.

It’s freeing to be in the middle of the shitstorm that’s building up to hurricane-like velocity and not give a shit. I do care about my friends that will be left here afterwards that still have to deal with the psychotic supervisor. But for the most part, I’m at a level of near Zen-like calm.

I’m going to come in on Saturday to “work” on some projects and take home a lot of the stuff I’ve accumulated here over the years. I also have a meeting with a web design client on Saturday as well.

I might get to play FF12 sometime this weekend!! Which, by the way, is OMG AWESOME!

*ahem*

Have a great weekend!

* - WYAT stands for “Wipe Your Ass Too?” and is used for projects that are so insignificant and mundane and so “I can’t believe you’re giving this to me, you lazy ass” that it begs the question “when I’m finished, should I wipe your ass too?”