Rant: Ran out of coffee at home so I waited until I got into the office to have some. A small headache started on the way in that got progressively worse. No sooner had the coffee touched my lips and the headache vanished. Guess it finally happened, I'm a caffeine addict. Rave?: For now, all I need is one cup in the morning and I'm good, so I'm not tethered to a coffee pot yet. Rave: Sighting in the shotgun this weekend. 6 more days until I leave to go hunting.
Rave: Knicks-Warriors tonight at Oracle Arena. Begins sick weekend where I will be attending Cal-Stanford and Tampa Bay-49ers. Rant: Waking up still drunk.
Rave: Traded an un-opened TomTom GPS unit, which I received for nothing and had no intention of using, for a couple bottles of good Shiraz. Now to see what booze I can get for some of those old baseball cards I have lying around.
Rave: Tried Four Loko last night to see what the hype is about, and am going to buy a ton more and have a Four Loko party when it's all discontinued. I had the "shattered dreams spiked with cough syrup" flavor and it made me feel awesome and alive, for the first time in ages.
Rant: One of my best friends had an abortion last month. She just told me a few days ago, and I'm still pretty stunned by it. It's not the fact that she got one (it has its merit, and I'll leave it at that), but rather that she's usually responsible enough not to put herself in the position to need one. Needless to say, she was scared shitless. She waited to tell me until afterward, because she didn't want me to be equally worried. If anyone here has experience with this sort of thing (firsthand, a wife/girlfriend, or just know of somebody), I'd appreciate any advice on how I should behave going forward. I don't want to blow it out of proportion, but I want to be there to support her. Like I said, she and I are very good friends, and surely this kind of thing can take its toll.
Rant- Word of advice to all the other 22 year olds thinking about quitting your job to pursue a career as an artist: not having health insurance sucks. Of course in 22 years i've pretty much NEVER been injured, but now that I quit a job offering me health insurance I have a nagging neck/shoulder injury that I don't have money to get checked out and all I can do to cope with it is stretch and suck it up.
Rant: 3 hours of work left and I am jonesing for a beer like nobody's business. Fuck, I need a drink. Rant: I'm supposed to meet someone for shopping after work. That's not going to happen. Rave: It's Friday bitches!
Rant: There were some kids on the bus the other day and they were making jokes back and forth. Right before her stop this woman got up and laced into the funny, loud one for being offensive, rude and disrupting the busride. The kids were 12 tops, and the funny one as actually funny - he was making everyone around him laugh. An occasional crack was directed at his very fat friend but the friend seemed to joke back though. In either way, they were in grade six and this old woman thought it was right to publically shame them. Rave: Before she could finish her second sentence I laced into her and told her to get off the bus. We had some loud banter but my point was that she has no right to shoot down little kids because they're disrupting her bus ride and it's cruel for an older person to do so, especially when they're not being disruptive or swearing or anything at all. She stammered and said that she was trying to defend the fat one because she was bullied herself, to which I replied "what do you think you're doing right now then?". This all happened within two minutes but I felt good about myself, everyone on the bus agreed with me. I wasn't sitting near the kids at all, I didn't even see them - bullying kids because you have your own issues is just cruel though.
Rant: Winter has arrived, and with a bang. 6" fell in the last 24 hours, and it went from a pleasant 10-15*C to -15 before the wind. Yay! Ranter: Winter driving. Ugh. Thank you, City of Winnipeg, for acting all surprised that it snowed and waiting until sometime around 9am to start plowing. It was great trying to negotiate the streets full of powder this morning, and it was even better to drive on the packed snow that is essentially ice on the way home. Good job! Rave: Thank Christ I have a standard. I don't know how people drive on black ice with an automatic.
RANT: A little while ago I bought a new computer on credit. I paid about 1/3 up front and was supposed to get 18 months at no interest that I can basically pay whenever I want in that period. Well today I get home from work and there's a letter saying late fees suddenly apply and so much is due every month. I can easily afford it, but what the fuck? Shouldn't that be illegal? Then, apparently, since I'm late on my payment this month they randomly charged a fee BEFORE EVEN NOTIFYING ME OF THE CHANGE. Fuck them. The fee is light, but this is such bullshit I want to choke someone. I'll pay the rest of it off soon, but I'm still fucking pissed. Edit: I'm so pissed I forgot to mention. I had paid online earlier this month and it magically didn't go through. Yeah right. I'm sure there's just something wrong with my bank account. Fucking assholes.
I HAVE A JOB! LIKE, A REAL GROWN UP PERSON JOB! Wait. Why am I excited about this? i'm going down the shitty rabbit hole, aren't I?
Rant Driving to Bronner's in Michigan. A year ago I did this with my wife and daughter, he we were hit head-on by the only car on the road. I'd be lying if I said I wan't feeling a little edgy.
Rave: Finally done for the weekend, and now I can kick back and relax. Next week is going to be a breeze. Rant: Lots of shit coming up due in early December, that I should really be working on getting completed. Rave: Fuck it. I have a bunch more stars in Super Mario Galaxy 2, along with Assassin's Creed Brotherhood to play. It is going to be a fun weekend.
RANT Pissed the day away being a hungover wreck. RANT Spent about half an hour after the bar closed last night, looking for my car. My dumbass then realized I parked in an apartment complex. Yep, I got towed. Shelled out $100 dollars to get it out. I really think I need closer supervision when I'm out drinking.
Rave: Have a job interview set up on Tuesday for a job I'd love to have. Apparently the first interview will only be questions about why I would be the best candidate for the job, and a fucking touch-typing test. I really hope the most merit gets placed on the typing test since I type about 100 wpm, but that obviously won't happen. Still, I've been unemployed for months, sending out 15-20 resume's/week, so even an interview seems awesome at this point.
Rave: 700 Posts Bitches! Rave/Rant?: Just realized that I am in the top 20 by number of posts on this board...not sure if that is a good or bad thing. Rave: Just started downloading Phish's 3 day Halloween run off of <a class="postlink" href="http://www.LivePhish.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.LivePhish.com</a>, should be some pretty good stuff. This year they covered Little Feat's Waiting For Columbus in its entirety. For those of you that don't know, every Halloween show that Phish put's on, they don a "Musical Costume" and cover an album from another band. So far they have done The Beatles, The Who, The Talking Heads, The Velvet Underground, The Rolling Stones and Little Feat...with a surprise cover of Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon on November 2nd, 1998. One of these days I will hopefully make it to one of their Halloween shows.
Rave/Rant: I've learned more about the law from reading the Strict Liability story in Assholes Finish First than I have all semester in my torts class. Rant: I'm wasting a lot of fucking money on this law "education". Rave: *pours another scotch*
Rave: Get to fly two flights with the Base Commodore tomorrow. Cool! Rant: He wants to stay in the local area. Possibly the worst place to fly for the kinds of flights that we are doing. Rave: Oh well, 6 more flights, and after tomorrow, only 4 Visual Navigation flights left...the easiest flights.
Rave: Big Rick is calling for troops into Mexico to fight the 'The War on Drugs'. Finally, someone said it.