Rave: My sister got my girlfriend and I tickets to go see Tosh last night. His two openers were really funny and he had a fantastic set. Rant: The show didn't start until 10:30. On a Tuesday night. Who does that? Rave: Since I cover for a woman at work all the time, she came in early this morning so I could sleep in. Getting in at 1:15 and being able to sleep until 8:45 was a blessing. Unrelated Rave: Mom closed on her condo. She's finally got a home of her own. I don't even mind that I have a lot of work ahead of me helping her get things set up. It's awesome to see her this happy.
Rave Jackass the Movie had some pretty funny stuff, it was a good way to spend a Tuesday night. Rant One of the scenes dam near made me throw up in the theater.
Rave: Apparently, when I signed up for classes, I fell ass-backwards into a class that involves a study-abroad opportunity in Costa Rica. While I am apprehensive, can I really turn down that kind of opportunity?
Rant: It appears that the show I wanted to road trip to Dallas to see is sold out. I'm going to call the venue to make sure, but it looks like I'm shit out of luck. Rave: Lucero has added a show in St. Louis. It's on a Tuesday night, but I'm pretty sure I can make the 5 hour drive up there. What sucks is that I'll have to come right home after the show and then go to work at 5am...that equals no drinking at the show as well as no sleep before I go to work. Fuck it, I'm buying tickets today.
I saw this on WWTDD. I find it hilarious so I thought I'd share the laugh. Everytime I look at it I do. Rave.
RAVE: Last day at the current contract. RANT: Bunch of layoff going on here. Some stupid ones, too. Not a fun environment right now. RAVE: Flight back to see the parents tomorrow morning. RAVE: Be there for almost a month. RANT: It's been a LONG night, long day, and will be an even longer night tonight as I thrash to get shit done before I leave and pack for the trip. RAVE: Leave for the deer camp on Saturday, without a care in the world. RAVE: My new set of custom bagpipes showed up at the parents place this morning. RAVE: We'll get to see if deer flee in terror at the sound of poorly played bagpipes. We'll also see if my lung capacity is anything like it used to be.
Well, I've told all of the people I'm supposed to tell, so I guess I might as well share with yall as well. I'm going to be a daddy. Yay!
Mega-Rave: My Grandma died three years ago, and unbeknownst to me, my uncle has been too busy to finish dealing with her estate until recently. I spoke with my Mom yesterday, and she told me she was going to deposit some money in my account that Grandma wanted me to have. I was pretty surprised, since Grandma wasn't well-off by any means, and she has nine kids and a million other grand kids. I was expecting to see a couple hundred bucks deposited, and almost fell off my chair when I saw it was $10,000! Money has been ridiculously tight lately, and I was going to be in trouble in two or three months without this. One last gift from one of my favourite people that ever lived.
Rave: My kid. MY FREAKING KID actually got all A's and one B on his report card! Granted he's only in 6th grade but I never got honor roll in my whole life! One of the A's was in Advanced Math too! I'm so proud!
Rave Awesome pitcher vs. Lincecum Rd. 3. This one better be a dual no hitter or I'm going to be pissed.
Rave: December 22, bitches! That's the day I get a new ankle. Better yet, I think having it so close to Christmas might get me out of spending the holiday with my white trash cousins in west Texas! Rant: I haven't figured out what to do with my cat. He's an escape artist and tries to run outside every time the door opens. I'm gonna be on crutches for 12 weeks, and getting in/out like a fucking lummox will prove difficult in keeping him inside. Twelve weeks. Ugh. That sounds like forever.
Rant: So as I was parking outside of Microcenter to pick up some parts and I noticed the SUV next to me had some truck nutz dangling from the hitch - this is the first time I've ever seen truck nutz on a vehicle. My first instinct was to rip them off and throw them in a ditch but there was no way I was going to actually touch them. So then I considered waiting for the toolbag to walk out so I could slap him and/or betrate him before deciding it just wasn't worth my time. I'm writing about this because I had of course seen pictures of vehicles with truck nutz but didn't realize that seeing them in real life would actually really make me want to punch someone in the face for being such a tool. Rave: I walked into the CEO's office today for a quick meeting and was out of the blue handed two hundred bucks for some work I've been doing on a couple of projects. Unexpected money is awsome!
Rant: What the fuck. How do you have that much hate for any child, homosexual or otherwise and end up as some kind of school official? Rave: It took about 5 minutes for his information to be published. Rant: There's apparently not a clear path to removing the guy from the school board. Unbelievable. Apparently he had a whole 6 hours of education training that should have covered why this was bad. I'm suddenly much happier with the Australian education system.
Rave: One of my photos from Lake Garda was put in the Times of Johannesburg yesterday, in the travel section. It's good to know a reporter!
Rave: For the first time in my life, I've started running BEFORE I go to work in the mornings. It's only the first week, but I gotta say...I like it. I like the whole "not having to plan for it during the day," because it's already done. Raver: My dog scared the living shit out of some guy this morning. It was awesome. I was walking down the sidewalk (doing a walk/run program right now to ease back into things), and unbeknownst to me, there was a man walking on the opposite sidewalk in the same direction we were. My big dog (a Newfie/lab mix) doesn't see too well. If it's poor light, and if the person is wearing black, Abraham doesn't know what's going on. On top of this, the man had an umbrella and it was pointed directly at us; he couldn't see us, and I didn't notice him. Abraham did. Abraham also doesn't like it when people have umbrellas or weird-shaped backpacks (again, cause he doesn't see very well). Good old Hamster doubled in size when he raised his hackles and from a distance of about twelve feet away gave his loudest, "FUCK YOU WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU CARRYING AND GET AWAY FROM US!!!" bark. It echoed down the streets at 6:30am. The guy almost shit his pants. He reacted like he'd been shot. Or, rather, like the end of his life was approaching. He wheeled the umbrella down, looked at us in abject horror, and froze. Here's a guy with a great reaction in the face of danger, eh? I can't be sure, but he may have peed his pants. The good news is Abe is harmless. He'd just bark, run up to the guy and ask for pets. Fortunately, though, he was leashed. Rant: Some lunatic went door-to-door a over the weekend a few neigbourhoods over from me and shot people. Three people, three different houses. They still haven't caught him. Dude escaped on a ten-speed bicycle. Winnipeg police force, hard at their jobs! Rant? I suppose I shouldn't take joy in my dog scaring the bejeezus out of someone, but fuck it. Best people keep their distance if someone's gonna be driving around with a semi-automatic weapon and the Keystone cops tracking him.
RAVE: It's my Friday. RAVE: Clonazepam and wine. RAVE: Eating home made nachos and playing Buddy Holly songs quietly on my acoustic while everyone sleeps.
RAVE: I've been sitting up in Idaho for the past few months and my old beat up hillbilly truck made the 3000 mile drive without so much as a hick up. RANT: I came up here to help out my mom who is 77 and has advanced MS. She is a skeleton of her former self. I had to pick her up and physically put her in my pick up. I also had to take her car away from her and get her a wheel chair. Seeing her in that wheel chair reminded me why I was up here...to prepare for my mom no longer being here. That sucks rat balls. RAVE: On the plus side I am around close friends that I've known my whole life and it's great to spend time with them. RANT: I've had to turn down my act by a few notches. I'm out in the country, but my shenannigans would not be tolerated up here. The neighbors might get a wee bit excited if I started firing at clouds that annoy me late at night. Damn prudes. I'm also pretty sure that Mississippi mice have formed a conga line in my house and are shitting all over everything. Fuckers.
Rant: No drunk threads for Wednesday ... this site has gone soft, makes it seem like it's unacceptable to be drunk on Wednesday with an 8 am Thursday class
RAVE: Done the contract. 2 long years put to rest. Cube's all cleaned out. No more having to pay the daily Stupid Tax (using small to medium sized pieces of my sanity as currency). Until the next boneheaded client, of course. RAVE: Just waking up from a nap and now get to pack for my flight that leaves in 4 hours. For not having had hardly any sleep over the past 3 days, I feel remarkably refreshed and found myself actually singing and playing air guitar spontaneously for the last hour. I'm actually pretty good at air guitar, if I do say so myself. RAVE: Had a long, 2nd meeting today with the potential new clients. They were trying to woo me pretty hard. Seems like I've now achieved a bit of a positive reputation in the video game industry. I find this humorous, and somewhat surprising. Just for shits and giggles I was setting some kind of "out there" terms around me coming back to work without taking 6-8 months off first, and it was all "really can't see that being any kind of issue" in response. It's nice to be in the driver's seat, when everyone in the room knows that they need you way more than you need them.