Rave: Dockers thrash the wankers up the road by 75 points yesteday! Rant: The captain Matthew Pavlich was robbed of a famous goal by a shit call from a even shitter goal umpire. RAVE: Best part of the day was "eagles hard man" Beau Waters trying to run through second year player, 20 year old Matt De Boer and getting dropped on his ass seeing stars while MattyDB ran onto lay the next tackle. Awesome!
Hmmm, According to the many facebook statuses I see, it is apparently shark week. Thinking I may have outgrew sharks, I decided to flip the TV, and see what was up. This shit is insane in HD! I'm not sure why everyone isn't watching this now. I'm also not sure why this wasn't the theme for the weekend drunk thread. It probably should be next week. You fucks that all talk about how awesome it is to not have cable don't know what you are missing. Unless you are reading a jaws comic book or whatever you all do in your free time.
Rant/Rave/I don't fucking know: A friend got me to help her boss with some IT stuff when their previous IT guy vanished. And by vanished I mean fucking GONE. They went by his house looking for him even and house still had furniture - but looked kind of abandonned. Turns out that the guy vanished because the police had invited him to the station to answer some questions. Then they invited him to spend the next 8 to 10 years as their guest over his involvement with Child Pornography. That explains why he's not answering his calls lately. Today, their email isn't working. A little investigation shows that their domain just isn't resolving at all. The prev guy who's now getting to know just how it feels to be unwillingly molested by someone three times your size, was hosting a whole bunch of their infrastructure. They're so boned.
RAVE: The sweet bitch mother hand of Karma struck quickly for me. A little over a year ago I had ranted about a friend I basically gave a free place to live for several months fucking me over. She was supposed to take over the last couple months of a lease, having been living in my room a couple months previous to that free of rent, till she got on her feet. She bailed and I ended up with a broken lease on my illustrious record. She just got fucked by a friend on a deposit for a place they were supposed to get together.
Rant: RIP Skipper's. You were my favorite bar during my time at Miami. I'll miss the griminess. Rave: Glad I graduated before Oxford (and presumably Miami) started stripping Uptown into a husk of its former self. Rant: Dayton, for the most part, is still way worse than the current handicapped version of Oxford's main strip.
Rave: I was in Barcelona/Ibiza for three weeks. Rant: It's over, back to boring reality Rave: Did loads of drugs for my first time, most notably ecstasy. Rave: ecstasy is the greatest drug known to man. Rant: I'm afraid that I'll do it again soon and get addicted to the whole euro-trash trance scene. Rave: hooked up with a cheerleader that was featured in SI as college cheerleader of the month!
Rant/Rave: Just sort of got offered a management position at my old company. The money is much more than I'm making now (a little over 40% more) and it would get me out of this miserable state and back with the GF, but I wouldn't be managing actuaries, there would be no incentives to keep taking the exams and I think long term it would steer me away from the path I want to go down. On top of that if I put in the effort I'll be close to that pay within 2 years and have a much higher ceiling compensation wise if I don't go back. I don't like the old company, I love the people and my old bosses but the company overall, at least the division I worked in, was extremely toxic. Also, I know how to do the job of the people I'd be managing, so I'd probably have to roll up my sleeves and pitch in instead of getting temps or being a slave driver. Lastly I'd have to dress up in business casual attire and work 40+ hours a week, yuck. Rave: I love my job enough to turn down a 40% raise. Rave: I have options if this whole actuary thing doesn't pan out.
Rave: sippin on a cold one in humbolt red wood country just before 9am. It's quiet, it's perfect. Probably the best vacation of my life, so I'll ensure to post details of killing it I'm NoCal in the travel thread. Rant: its been cold and expensive up in this Bitch. Rave: leaving in about to hours to blue dog it up on a river to the east. Beer, music, jah, and most importantly...90 degree weather. Peace.
Rant: Almost got skunked two times last night while walking my dog. Literally, they were less than three feet away from me both times, tail up and all. The first time I thought for sure I was definitely going to get hit with the juice, but I pulled the shit out of my dog and booked it in the opposite way. Having to looking out for these things are starting to become a pain in the ass.
My grandmother died at 95 yesterday in Scotland. Seeing as I just got back from a two week vacation there, I can't afford to go back for the funeral. However, even though she had been having mini strokes for the last 2 years and was slowly slipping away mentally, the day I walked into her room at the hospital with my brother and she perked up and said I know you but not you, I know the wee you j and a, and then saying she loved us a lot was awesome for me. Add the fact our girlfriends got to meet her and she said they were lovely made it even better. I did my undergrad in psych so I know what she was going through, but those five minutes where she was lucid were extra special to me. I'm glad I got to see her one last time before she passed away. Rest in Peace Granny Susy we all love you so much!!!
Rant: Fuck. Financial Aid hasn't processed my paperwork and I have 8 days before tuition is due. Fuck fuck fucking fuck.
RANT: Fucking $1 bills, how do you Americans live like this?!?? RAVE: It's always nice to see booze sold at gas stations... maybe you guys aren't so bad after all. RAVE: Holy hell Subway is WAY cheaper down here! I remember a while back I mentioned something about spending $10 at Subway, and I got a rep saying something like "$10?! Did you get the double lobster sub with cavier??" Now I understand. RAVE: Been visiting family here in Santa Cruz, California, for the last few days, and tomorrow I'm off to Florida! Never been there before, should be interesting.
RANT: Started my car to go to PT at 530 am today and it was very very loud. Someone stole my goddamn catalytic converter.
RAVE: For the first time since January, I have a valid drivers license. Rant: It took since fucking January to get all the paperwork cleared between MD and CA. Rave: I'll no longer be giving myself an ulcer, driving to work on a federal installation with no paperwork.
Rave: Camping, canoeing, and fishing RIP, Midnight. You gave your life to animal husbandry, dieing an early death of a broken back while being mounted by a bull. But damn you were mighty tasty, cooked over an open fire in steak form.
I have no idea where else to put this but, I watched the X Games Motorcross "Style&Speed" finals last night. The race for the bronze was fucking epic. Twitch won but it was hilarious. I'm looking for the footage, if you find it watch it, it's totally worth it. And please PM it to me if you do.
They shut off the interwebs at my house. Not sure I'm going to survive. On the upside, I hear a guy on the radio today whose name was Dick Lord. Hehe. Dick Lord.
Rant: I am now completely set financially, so I paid off my final credit card balance. But they double charged it, and I can't seem to get a straight answer on when they will give it back. I don't know how my bank let the double charge go through.
Made me laugh Rave: I was reading an ESPN Insider article about College Football player Mark Herzlich and his recovery from cancer when this was just randomly in the middle of the article: