Rant It is -40C this morning. What. The. Fuck! Rant My last rave probably should have had a spoiler tag so hopefully I haven't ruined anything for anybody. Though, if I have you are entirely welcome to come to Calgary and I'll let you punch me in the face. I won't feel it anyway because it's -40C OUTSIDE!!!
Rave: 2 day work week with only 4 hours to go. Rant: In the office dealing with messes up until 4PM today. There's literally a line of people waiting to have me sign off on projects for delivery this year. Rave: As long as I keep typing this the sales guy waiting will think I'm very busy. Might just write a bunch of adsabkjajsh ahdhs oaoadhww. ajahya. To keep him out there for a minute. Rant: Fucking customers that wait until November 23 to order shit they absolutely MUST have delivered by Dec 24th. Rave: The only fun part of this is requiring written POs by 3PM today and 50% deposits wired in by noon tomorrow on the dot for us to guarantee delivery. If they miss it I tell them that it's unfair to expect us to engineer and manufacture equipment on time when they can't even get a paper signed on time. Rave: My gamble of demanding new hires to keep up with production has worked out perfectly. We added six new skilled people in production in the last 4 months and we're the only company that can offer less than an 8 week delivery because of it. Rant: Fuck I stopped typing long enough for him to knock and enter. Back to the grind.
RANT: Fucked up ankle in a clunky walking cast, second degree burn on the inside of my arm, flu from hell. I've gotten 3 bitchy calls from various family members informing me that my ailments mean jack shit and that I still need to make the six hour drive to my grandparent's for Thanksgiving. I don't fucking think so. Though I'm half tempted to go and puke all over the fucking turkey. Pricks.
Shitty/tiny desks in the auditorium + large frame = crushed nut sack. I think I'll file this one under rant.
Not Sure: I've never really found her attractive, but apparently Miley Cyrus is now 18. I don't particularly care, but some of my friends are very excited. ... Creepers.
Rant: As you can probably tell by my avatar and signature I am AWFUL at MMA predictions. Rave: I've only ever bet cash on two fights and won on both of them Rave: I've been wearing VFF's almost exclusively for a while now, they are awesome. Rant: They smell I think scootah would disagree.
Rave Rampage won. Barely but he won. Rave This means that my MMA buddy Frank has an AWESOME new Avatar. Rant Its too small Rave I can help with that! Spoiler Thanks Rampage! Rant I didn't have the heart to make it this Spoiler
Rant: It was -35C (with windchill) when I woke up this morning. For you barbarians, that is -31F. More accurately, that is -WHAT THE FUCK?!
Rave: Even with a shitload of deliverables for school due next week, this is a perfect week for vacation. Mostly families here (and MILFs in bikinis!) as opposed to drunk and obnoxious college kids. Weather here in Cancun has been great--just a brief shower yesterday morning. Other than that, abundant sunshine and 80s. The resort is beautiful and the rooms are magnificent. Kids having their own adjoining suite is priceless. We didn't have this much sex on our honeymoon. Ravier: We're here until Friday.
Rave: My girlfriend just got an offer for summer internship up here in Minneapolis from a very large local corporation. Holy fucking awesome. Rave: Grilling a turkey this afternoon.
Rave: Thanks to a free student trial of Amazon prime, an Applebee's gift card, and plasticjungle.com, I paid $1.58 for both The 48 Laws of Power and The 33 Strategies of War. With free 2-day shipping
Two R/Rs in a day? Yep. Rave: A month ago a company I had never heard of called me to inquire about buying some SUPERSIZED equipment for their fledgling manufacturing facility. While preparing the quote I did a little research on the company and found out they're a huge global mining company. WTF did they want with our equipment? I just got off the phone with their Senior Ops VP who wanted to discuss the scope of the project with me before issuing their PO. I had assumed that this was some company kicking tires... I was very very wrong. Turns out it's to manufacture some safety devices that must now be installed in EVERY FUCKING MINESHAFT (thanks Chilean miners!) they currently maintain and every single one yet to be created. Holy shit. Their surprise PO is worth 30% of what I've already sold this year and I had no idea it was coming in. Goddamn I'm pumped.
RANT: Wow. Philadelphians will boo just about anything. http://thekey.xpn.org/2010/11/philadelphia-boos-the-worlds-saddest-wimpiest-wrecking-ball/ RANT: In this case, it's well deserved. What a pathetic anti-climactic attempt at tearing down one of the city's most cherished venues. So many childhood memories go with that place. Sigh. Bye bye, Spectrum. We'll miss ya.
RAVE!!! 5 days off from school for Thanksgiving break. Rant: I have to waste Thursday at my opinionated asshole in-laws house. I'm trying to dodge it. I told my wife I would happily stay home with Tonka to watch football and eat a fucking turkey pot pie than deal with them. Rant: I got a 96 on my OChem exam. Yeah, rant about a 96. The four points I missed were stupid mistakes. In my defense, it was a long exam (most people didn't even finish) and I would have caught all my mistakes if I had time to check through it. I usually take one hour exams in 15 minutes, so the fact it took me the whole hour tells just how long that fucker was. Worse, she threw out two questions that "everyone" (meaning, everyone but me) got wrong. I know that shit though. Out of 413 possible points thus far this semester, I've got 403. Highest grade in the class. Rave: I can actually waste some time playing PS3! As soon as the kids go to bed tonight, I'm going to get re-acquainted with Batman: Arkham Asylum.
Rave: Today is the one year anniversary of "I squoze a(nother) baby out of my vagina" day! Drinks are in order (as is probably a vaginoplasty). Rant: I have to open the store in the morning, so there won't be too many drinks. Rant: This year has gone by far too fast, especially for this being my last baby! Why they gotta grow up so fast?!
RAVE: Landed a huge catering gig from one of the larger investment groups in the city. RANT: Bombed it all to hell and was told in person that they wouldn't be coming back.
Rant/Rave: Apparently I can be a total asshole without even trying. I should just be a cop. Spoiler because it's not all that interesting. Spoiler A girl came to the property I manage asking some tenants where unit 705 was. I told her that the unit was vacant. I inquired as to what she was doing and she hesitated and got visibly nervous. She then got in her car like she was going to leave, but then just drove over to the other side of the lot and sat there talking on her phone for a few minutes. Then she walks over to unit 201. I go over there, see that she has some papers in her hand and ask what she is doing. We don't allow soliciting. And I don't want my tenants unnecessarily hassled. She gets confrontational. I don't snap back, but I don't slink away. The conversation continues with the same banter of me asking her what she was doing and her deflecting. Then she launches into some feminist diatribe saying that I should go somewhere else to act like a man and that I should quit being an asshole and get off my high horse and she was just doing her job and that I'm not the owner so I should just leave her alone. I told her I was just trying to do my job as well and that I am the legal representative of the owner. She asked for my bosses phone number so I gave it to her. She then called my boss and left a voicemail about how big of an asshole I was and that she was just trying to inform someone of a death in the family. When I asked her what she was doing she said that by law she couldn't say, but has no problem telling my boss? Wtf? The funniest part is is that I made her job easier by telling her that the unit was vacant whether she was trying to serve her papers, collect, kill the person or whatever. She should have been glad to know she wasn't wasting her time whether or not the death in the family bullshit is true. Rant: This was by far the most attractive girl that I have seen in this town. The one hottie in this town now (or at least the only thats apparently single/baby free) hates me. Wonderful. Rave: No chance I will ever stick my dick in that piece of crazy. Rant:Then I got cussed out again 30 minutes later, by a guy applying to live here. Unfortunately I am so desperate for someone to move in that I just had to grab a spoon and eat that big bowl of shit, because I am desperate for people to move in, so that I won't get fired 2 months into the job.
Rant: Complex, poorly drawn houses. Dear all you architects and bad draftsmen (notice I didn't say "bad architects." That's because they are all bad, and the word 'architect' is sufficient to imply 'bad'): Please stop drawing multi-wall height, multi-trayed, cottage style roofs that have no symmetry and tons of site framed saddles and valleys. You are driving me and the framers nuts. It is not easy to figure out what you meant to draw, never mind produce it so that it will not be a disaster for the homeowner. And if I could have more than a week's time to design it, that would also be great. Thanks.