Rant/Rave: The holidays have come and gone. Presents all given and received. Seemed to go by in a blink. Rave: I ate whatever the fuck I wanted over the holidays and actually lost weight. I either have a tapeworm or the extra 2 miles I tacked onto my daily hike with the pooch did more than I expected. Happy to be dialing it back to 5 miles again. Rave: Car shopping. My favorite time of year. CTS 4 or Buick Enclave? Unfortunately I'm limited to GM products this time around. Rave: Decided against starting a "for personal use" grow operation in my house after touring a rather ridiculous grow room operation of a friend of a friend. I'll just get the high end product directly from him and save myself an asset seizure from the DEA. I was very impressed that an 18 year old kid had put everything together himself and is making serious bank from it. He should really cut down on giving tours though. There's no way I should even know he exists.
Rant (I think): last night I had a bizarre dream that went on seemingly forever in which I joined Stringer Bell in his meeting with Bunny Colvin to give up Avon. I HAVEN'T WATCHED THAT SHOW IN OVER A YEAR! I hate head colds.
Rave: Finished the opposite wall of my record collection: The good-to-silly ratio is much stronger on this side.
Rave: Day off to watch the motherfucking Orange Bowl and my Stanford Cardinal!!!!!! I bet every disposable penny I had on Stanford -3.5, can't wait to see the rout. Final score prediction 38-17, Trees. Rant: I'll be really sad to see this season end as it doesn't look good in the immediate future for Stanford, who will likely lose its head coach and #1 draft pick quarterback. I'm still holding onto hope that either one or both stay on, but everytime I have found myself in this position with favorite players, etc. in the past they've always left. That's what happens I guess when you grow up an A's fan...
Rant: Had a dream last night where I kept getting faxes over and over. The noise pissed me off in my dream so much that I woke up. Turns out my printer decided to go into "Clean Mode" at 3:35AM (sounds just like it's printing non-stop with nothing coming out) This results in me stumbling in the dark, to my desk, where I rip out all the cords plugged into the wall because I couldn't find the printers power button. Seems I ripped the power cord out of my printer in the process. Fuck.
Rant: Fuck once again I am posting in this thread but motherfuck somehow I tore the screw holding my strap thing on in two. Half of it's still the in the guitar, and I'll probably have to drill a new hole. God damnnnnit
RANT: Blizzard + Jealous Paranoia = Probably the worst weekend I've had in a long long time. RANT: Worst hangover I've ever had on Saturday. RAVE: I don't have any reason to be jealous. RANT: I'll be stuck in the dog house for a while I think.
Rave Simple things in life. Good marmitako (Basque fisherman's stew) and strong coffee, dog curled up right next to me. Despite all the trouble, financial, mental and emotional stress I've gotten myself into, these simple things put me in a good mood.
Rave: Just watched love and basketball. One of my favorite movies of all time, and I watched the fighter yesterday, also a great movie. Now i'm heading to the man cave to drink some beer. Rant: Fuck feelings. My life was awesome until I started to like the girl that I was hooking up with on drunk nights. I can't drink hard without having some kind of binge about her now. Fuckk. For example on new years I went on a rampage about how she was fucking this other kid upstairs at the party we were at, turns out she left and was at one of my friends house hanging out with the named kid on his couch just talking. Fuck me right? Getting attached sucks, many other issues attached with dating this girl also, awesome. AND she's not even that cool, i'm not sure why I even like her, but I can't help it.
Rant/Rave The Browns fire Eric Mangini...and the coaching carousel continues. I wish Mike Holmgren would just man up and take over as head coach. I think Mangini is a decent guy when it comes to football, but losses to Buffalo and Cincy after beating New England and New Orleans is just unacceptable. Rave Movie gift cards. Not having to shell out $10.50 at the box office is awesome. True Grit was a damn good flick.
I forgot to rant about this last week: Rant:I saw one of the fucking most hipster scenes driving back from LA. So I was on the grapevine (I5) heading north, and cresting a hill I see a hat. Now in that area, there are 4 lanes of people going 80 MPH. The hat was in the number 3 lane. It is a hipster hat. I point out, "look, someone lost a hipster hat. Stupid jackasses" And many laughs were had at hipster expense. So about 30 seconds later, I see a group of three hipsters walking in the direction of the hat. I couldn't believe it. These stupid fuckers thought they were going to get their hat back. Typical naive hipsters. You lose a hat on one of the busiest and most dangerous highways in the country? It is gone man. Then I saw the car they were in, and the 4th hipster of their group. . . . . Taking "articstic" pictures of the 4 fixies strapped to the back of their car.
Rave: http://io9.com/5723302/own-the-playboy-pin+up-that-apollo-12-took-to-the-moon Rant: Not enough disposable income to even think about starting to bid.
Rant: Back to work today. Have to make money to replace that bottle of Crown somehow. Rant: I need to stop procrastinating so much, my massage license expires the 31st and I have to get 12 CEUs by then. I ordered a home study course last week but now I need to fucking do it. Rant: I pour a lot of money into keeping my license current and hardly put it to use in this tiny town. Rave: I fully intend on sneaking out of work early today. I might as well ease back into it.
Rant/Rave: Going back to FL today. RAVE: Start Helo school on Monday!!!! HOORAY!! Rant: couldn't sleep because I was wondering what you guys were doing...just joshing.
Rant... Rave?Oh, good. Snooki has a NOVEL out. Excerpts: "Gia danced around a little, shaking her peaches for show. She shook it hard. Too hard. In the middle of a shimmy, her stomach cramped. A fart slipped out. A loud one. And stinky." "He had an okay body. Not fat at all. And naturally toned abs. She could pour a shot of tequila down his belly and slurp it out of his navel without getting splashed in the face." It's like reading Dostoevsky. She's a fricken' poet, ya mook head. There's a tear in my eye. Which brings us to: Rant: New version of Huck Finn gets the N-word censored. Goddammit. Just leave the historical and literature records alone. Next they'll do it to "To Kill a Mockingbird." Sad day for the printed word.
Rave: I got my time off approved. Hurray for a month straight of three day weekends. Rave: Going to Habs/Sens in a few weeks
Rant: Having to sit at lunch and listen to the older women I work with explain the jokes and punchlines of Two and a Half Men to me because I have the audacity of not liking that show, which they comprehended as me not getting it. Rave: Later when one asked, "Where can I find a CD/cassette combo player?" I responded with, "Probably at a museum." Rant: No one else thought that was funny.