RAVE! Just went and saw the Olympic Flame pass through my little city of Thorold, On. Was right up front and got some pretty cool pictures/video of the torch bearers and all that other jazz. It's is a little over commercialized, but god damn that was cool to see a once in a life time event and something that has HUGE significance in the world. I'll post the pictures/video when I upload.
RAVE: My buddy came to town this weekend. He is the craziest most hard core partier that I know. I've barely been sober at all in the last 3 days. I feel miserable and wish I didn't have to work in the morning. I could probably sleep all day. But I only see him a couple times a year so it's a good kind of pain that I am feeling. RANT: Had a whole lot of hot bbq wings from Buffalo Wild Wings. My butthole is gonna be hurting tomorrow when I shit them out.
MotherFUCKER. Steelers win in the last 3 seconds. I'm done crying (almost) but instead of thinking about it, I'm drinking about it. But still...ow! Oh and ps: yeah, feel sooooo bad for B. Murphy who died of a heart attack cuz she did shit tons of drugs. Maybe we'll cry some tears over the next person who dies from something like primordial dwarfism and then I'll find a fucking tear in my eye. Fuck celebs who drink/drug themselves into their death. Whaaaaaa ;(
Rave: Drinking whiskey to help write a paper on the Philosophical Discourse of Modernity. Rant: I think I drank too much whiskey and I think it might be a bad idea if I keep writing. Writing anyways. Rave: I love whiskey.
I haven’t cried in about 8 years, at my mates baby’s funeral today that changed. It was all just so fucking sad, this little baby in an open casket looking just like he was asleep with his parents struggling to keep it together as they said goodbye. RIP Oscar, I would have teased you, thrown you high in the air and introduced you to beer at an irresponsible age.
Rave My daughter just pulled herself up to a standing position for the first time. Rant She also almost instantly discovered standing requires you to fall further, and more painfully. It REAAAALLLLLLLLLY hurts when they cry like that. Fuck.
RANT Who the fuck brings an infant and two little kids to a movie theater? Dick-heads, that's who. I don't care how "well behaved" your spawn are, if it isn't a showing of Shrek...spring for a babysitter ya cheap fuck ya. RAVE Seeing a movie in a nice, clean theater is awesome.
Rave: Saw two of my best friends that I haven't seen in 6 months. I wish they lived closer, my life would be a lot nicer. Fingers crossed for them moving to NYC and not LA!
Rave: After 3 hours of delays yesterday, mom's plane finally departed for NJ. Sis, she's all yours. What's the likelihood she'll lose her passport while there and not be allowed on the return flight? Nah, my luck's just not that good. Rant: Today we get to spend the day disinfecting her bedroom before the in-laws arrive tomorrow night.
Rant: Last week I found the perfect light duty truck. Low mile 2007 Nismo Frontier with all the options I wanted down in NJ. Was going to fly down after Christmas and drive it home. The current owner called me this morning to let me know the truck was unavailable. His wife took it out yesterday in the storm and got t-boned by a plow truck. The vehicle will likely get totaled but at least his wife is alright. Rave: Two day workweek!
Rave: My building had a progressive cocktail party thing on Saturday. Since it was snowing sideways, it turned out to be a good thing to do inside. I found out that I live with a bunch of really cool people. Rave: One of those cool people is the Chief of Police in my town. Really cool guy. We got along well.
RAVE: Flying down to Florida tomorrow for the holidays. It'll be my first time not having to deal with snow and cold and shitty driving for Christmas, so I'm excited. Weather looks like it'll be fine for the flight so looks like no delays or cancellations which is always a worry flying out of Wisconsin in December. RANT: Seriously how did the Packers lose that game yesterday. You know they are throwing and you only have to cover the endzone. My dog took off running outta the room when the Steelers scored, she thought she was in trouble. Have a good Christmas everybody.
Rant: I just came from the post office and I don't know who to be more pissed off at: the idiots that come unprepared and start filling out their shipping forms at the counter or the moronic postal workers who allow them to do this. Total time in line: about 20 minutes. Total time at counter: about 1 minute.
Rant: When for a run today to try to kickstart my winter break get less fat program. It's official. I am out of shape. I'm exhausted. Getting back on the treadmill tomorrow is going to be even tougher because now I know how out of shape I am. Rave: Pond hockey today! Finally I can skate.
Rave: Avatar. Caught it last night. Got to the theater late, had to sit in the front row. Even with the shitty seat, I definitely enjoyed the movie for the effects, if not the story as much. Doesn't hurt that there was some tasty herbage passed through the nughuffer before went in. I'll definitely go see it again
RANT: Just paid 6500 bucks for the next ten weeks of book learnin'. Not counting books yet, and I know my finance book will be at least $200. This degree better pay off or else I'm fleeing my debts and moving to the bahamas to bartend. RAVE: Made awesome taco salad, and now my place smells delicious. RANT: Gotta visit the post office soon. I fucking hate the post office.
RAVE: Snow day today and tomorrow is supposed to be a half day followed by our work Christmas party and Christmas vacation!! We're all texting furiously as the different school districts close, one by one, and hoping that we're closed tomorrow until January 4th as well. Could this be an early Christmas present for Chirpy? I'm buying another bottle of Baileys just in case! Yay for adult hot chocolates!!
Rant: I'm going to murder someone at work today. I would think that people would be thankful to be employed this time of year and go the extra mile to keep our few busy customers happy. One of our biggest customers has been waiting for a fucking widget for over a week that is keeping a $150k per day production line down. The components for this widget could be completed by a semi-competent machinist in 5-6 hours. The assembly of the widget could be done by our widget technician in 2 hours. After promising the customer we would deliver said part last Friday we failed. I was then told that it would be completed without fail this weekend and I could hand deliver it today. I arrived to find the parts 1/2 done. The machinist that was supposed to be wrapping up the work is a literal drunk and didn't show up until 10AM. Then he cut 5!, F-I-V-E, 2" long pieces of aluminum over the course of 3 hours (No he wasn't using floss dipped in sand, we have a 18 full cnc Haas machines here). Then he disappeared. Not only did he fail to finish the aluminum pieces (drill, tap, etc) he hid the material for the remaining components. The missing material is a pretty expensive plastic sheeting that has certain required properties. He hid the fucking stuff! He snuck out after 3 hours and now he won't answer his phone. All the while the customer is calling me every hour to get a status update and I'm thinking of how bad the truth sounds as I spin a tale of mis-machining, "work in progress", etc. The reality sounds so much better to me. Sorry Mr. Customer we put our best drunk, fresh out of rehab on your parts this weekend but he didn't quite finish on Saturday. He was supposed to come in early today so we could get the widget finished and out the door but you know how hard it is to stay sober during Sundays when the NFL is in full swing. We were happy he at least showed up but after 3 hours of scratching his ass and cutting five aluminum bars he wandered out the door and we can't find him. We're not worried about him since he'll show up sometime after New Years and give us some sad-sack story about how he really quit drinking this time and of course we'll rehire him. The bad news is that while we've got a handful of qualified non-alcoholic machinists available to finish the job it seems that he knew we might try that and decided to either hide or abscond with the special plastic we need to finish the job. Unfortunately as you know the material takes about a week to get in and with the holidays and all that we won't receive it until after New Years. Luckily this is only my second biggest customer. Whew I was worried for a second.