Rave: Some ungodly organic brain buster weed courtesy of my hippie neighbors. RAVE: We smoked it in their sauna ?: I think they're swingers RAVE!: Bagel pizzas.
RANT: My very best friend is filing for divorce tomorrow. Bitch of it is, she'll have to pay him due to living in a no-fault state. She doesn't sleep, suffers from panic attacks, and has already lost ten pounds (and was already a rail to begin with). She's also neglecting to take my advice to at least take a mild xanax so she can get a speck of rest and respite. Sigh. I hate to see her go through this. It's heart-wrenching but I'm tremendously proud of her courage. ?: My mom called it the day of their wedding. She said, "Today will be fun but it's not going to last. She's marrying down." How the fuck do moms just know things? The Silver Lining: Their child, hopefully, is going to be too young to remember living through this and the residual fallout.
RAVE: Big Day Out yesterday, culminating in Rammstein immediately followed by Tool; side by side. Pictures to come as soon as I'm done tidying them up. Rammstein blew everything up. It was awesome. MINOR RANT: Fuckwits who think it's better to slam into each other and everyone else than watch the show. It's not as much fun watching pyrotechnics when I have to keep one eye on getting king hit from behind.
Fucking Christ it's cold in Boston. I think I heard on the radio coming to work that it's something like -3 degrees out. yeesh.
Rant: My co-worker just put in his two weeks. My team comprises of me, and what used to be him. I am already putting in like 50+ hours a week at the office. This is not good. Anyone care to give some insight into how I can leverage this to get a raise?
Rant: Today I put my Cincinnati Bengals PSLs on the market. I've been the proud owner of them for seven years now. With what is going on in the front office I really just can't justify giving them a few thousand dollars every year. I feel like a bandwaggon fan. I have stopped giving them my financial support. This makes me want to cry. It's not fun to go to games any more. And I can't even give the tickets away for the games I can't attend. Rant: I put the PSLs up on the internet for 1/4 what I bought them for. I'm pretty sure I will get less than that for them. Assuming I get anything at all. Rave: Every year that goes on Mike Brown gets closer to dying!
Rant: Reminded my ballsack about a time in my last hospital when a paralyzed man with a colostomy bag went from having an intestinal block to a complete clearing in just a few minutes. He was down in radiology to get an abdominal x-ray for, you guessed it, constipation. While we were moving him around to get him set up for the exam, his bag filled completely. Actually, it overfilled. So much so that the clip on the end of the bag which is supposed to seal the bag became overwhelmed with pressure. The clip came off the bag and unleashed a fury, the likes of nothing I have ever smelled or witnessed. At first I thought some gas just leaked out or something. But the smell just kept on intensifying and then I saw it. As tears came to my eyes, I went to call environmental to take care of this. But we had to contain it first. It was just....so much.
RANT There is something wrong with Tonka. He's limping and he's lethargic. We're thinking Lyme disease. And we can't get him in to the fucking vet til tomorrow. Small Rave: I just called the vet and whined a bit (hey, he's my fucking puppy!!!) and got an appointment for today. I'm still pretty upset he's so uncomfortable and limping around. We keep him on Frontline and constantly check him for ticks, I don't know how the hell it could be Lyme.
Rant: Went to bed at 11 pm last night, planning to get up at 6:30 this morning. Didn't fall asleep until midnight, though. At 3 am, I wake up to a random beeping noise. Turns out one of the smoke alarms had low batteries, so it is chirping every couple of minutes. Of course, hour house has 6 smoke alarms, and I couldn't figure out which one it was. Turns out it was the ONE smoke detector that was about 12 feet up, on our vaulted ceiling, so I couldn't reach it without a ladder, that I couldn't get without waking my wife. I officially didn't sleep at all the rest of the night. Rant: 8 am class. Rave: Got the battery changed. Chirping stop. Rave: Wife slept through it all, so she wasn't pissy this morning. Rave: Three hour nap when I got home.
Rant/Rave?: My wife and I went to a fundraiser on Saturday night with my boss and his wife. It was a black tie event with both silent and live auctions. About halfway through the event, I leave my wife unattended to go grab a couple of cocktails at the bar. On my walk back, I hear over the loudspeaker: "Congratulations Mrs. [Nick], the winning bidder of a 1-week stay for 6 at a villa in Athens, Greece for $5,000." Not only was she the highest bidder -- she was the ONLY bidder, which means she way overpaid. She thought it would be fun to get the bidding started, but had no intentions on winning the auction. Unfortunately, she has no concept of value and didn't realize that the opening ask was WAY higher than what people would be willing to spend. I thought about trying to bow out gracefully, but my boss is on the board of the charity, so that wouldn't look very good. To add insult to injury, I went home after the auction and looked up 4-bedroom villas in Greece, and the going weekly rate averages between $2,500 and $3,500. The good news is that I get a tax deduction, so in the end, I didn't really overpay too much. It's my parents 40th anniversary this year, so I think we are going to take them. They are in their 60s and have never left the country (except to go to Canada), so I guess it was money well spent.
Rant: I fucking HATE noisy eaters. It is worse than nails on a fucking chalk board. My co-worker is one of the noisest eaters around. She insists on eating breakfast at work EVERY morning. This morning her breakfast consisted of watermelon and cottage cheese. My office is down the hall from where her desk is, and I could STILL here her slurping up her god damn watermelon. I wanted to make her wear the god damn watermelon. Why the fuck can't she eat at home like most people?
Rant: At -25, it's pretty cold outside. Cold enough that the sprinkler pipes in the office building froze, causing the fire alarm to trigger. We were stuck outside for almost 40 minutes. Not cool. Rave: My aunt moved the Chinese new year festivities around so I could attend. It's going to be a full-on asian shitshow.
RANT: Just watched a man walk up my driveway, hop on my roommate's bike, and pedal away. I reacted as fast as possible but couldn't get a hand on him. I'm sure the neighbors got a kick out of me running into the street brandishing an ice ax, though. I've told the roommate in question to lock up her bike on several occasions, so she got what was coming, as far as I'm concerned. RAVE: Fucking coolest cop ever. He was smoking a pipe. A PIPE!
RANT: Tonka has Lyme. RAVE: Started him on Doxycycline today, will feel fine by Wednesday the vet said. He has to be on it for 30 days.
Rave: Tax returns filed. Getting about $600 back. Hooray!! Rant: Duty tonight. Rant: No idea what's going on in my helo aerodynamics class, by all accounts these things should not be able to fly.
Rave: Three 750ml bottles of Ommegang (Belgian Pale Ale, Three Philosophers, and Tripel Perfection), plus an Ommegang glass, for only $17.50. Those bottles are usually closer to 9 or 10 bucks apiece. Score!