Rave: So much great help from the board so far on my MS150 fundraising! Its amazing how generous people can be!
Rant: On the first day of my "Teaching Writing" class, everyone is introducing themselves. One girl introduces herself as 1. an undergrad freshman 2. a vegan and 3. a person who does not own a TV. After telling everyone how she doesn't own a TV or eat meat, she pauses for a full 30 seconds and looks around the room expecting validation from everyone she makes eye contact with. This girl has been put in charge of critiquing my short story work. "I don't own a TV" is officially the most pompous, pretentious sentence in the English language.
Rave: Whatever you do, go to a vineyard in Spain before you die (Castilla la Mancha, or Villarobledo to be exact) and stay there for a couple of days. Fuck French and Italian wines, this stuff is off the chart. Added bonus: great (but rather unknown) food, cool people (as opposed to France) and almost no tourists (suck on that Italy). Rave: This road trip has been so much fun I'm actually sad it's ending. The good thing is, the end of the road trip means the start of a 4 month stint in Lisbon. Whoopde-fucking-do!
Rave: It's 74* here in Texas. I sat on the ramp today in a tank top and shorts. It was AMAZING. Rant: Snow and ice in the forecast for Tuesday. Rave: Bootcamp class tomorrow. It's going to pretty awesome, I think. Rant: It starts at 7 a.m. I hate the WORLD at 7 a.m. Even puppies suck at 7 a.m.
I don't own a TV either, but that's because I can't get cable and I'm too stingy to buy video games. Rave: Squared-away headmate took it upon himself to take the shower curtain and run it through the washing machine. It's so CLEAN! Rant: We had a Mandatory Fun day (You WILL have fun. That's a direct order) and played dodgeball with the Navy. Bunch of cheating bastards, all of them. Rave: Got to see my normally unflappable sergeant go completely apeshit on a couple of them. I have NEVER seen him get mad before today. Once, a PFC on restriction told him to fuck off, and he simply took a deep breath and said, "You might want to rethink that last sentence." Dodgeball brings out the animal in him, I guess.
Rant: Painful red sore at the base of my dick Rave: It's just an ingrown hair Rant: Digging an ingrown hair out of your dick with tweezers.
Rant: For some god forsaken reason I decided to watch The Human Centipede. Rant: It's Friday night and I can't drink. After that movie I could really use some alcohol. Rave: It's the weekend and the only things I have to rant about are self-inflicted. My weekend plans include cleaning house, watching movies, reading my book, and going to my cousin's 14th birthday party tomorrow night. Nice and relaxing.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm vodka is delciious, and beer is oo. I'm drunk and trying to deal with Comacst customer service. As of now I hve been on hold for.............................................................................................48:58. I WILL NOT GIVE UP!!!!!! FUCK YOU COMCAST, YOU WILL NOT BE RID OF ME SO EASIULY!!!! WHoooooooores. Eh, I'm gonna hang up and try again tomorrow. I'm not actually that proud. Getting old and complacent kind of sucks.
Rave: A buddy of mine just bought a Nissan GT-R as a winter beater. I will be borrowing it every single time it's offered (or when it's not since I know his garage code and where he keeps the keys). His non-winter ride? Ferrari F430 Spyder. Fucker. Rant: I haven't seen him in almost 6 months because works about 100 hours a week as an oral surgeon. Gotta pay for those big boy toys somehow. Rant: The economy is even fucking with people in healthcare. His appointments are down by about 20% and a friend of his who joined us for drinks that's an orthopedic doctor said his were down 40%. Meanwhile I haven't sold fuck all in January. Blank fucking board. Not good. Fucking Obama said the recession was over... hahahahaha.
Rave: I know a lot of people will scoff at some of the claims and are not fans of the author, but The Four Hour Body by Tim Ferriss is a pretty damn good book. Even if you only read it for entertainment purposes, it's pretty intriguing. My rave is because I started the Bodybuilding.com/Optimum Nutrition 12-week Transformation Challenge just under 3 weeks ago, using principles and workouts from 4HB. In less than 3 weeks I've gained 15 pounds and, while it'll be another 10 days until I get a comparison bodyfat assessment, my waistline is exactly the same as when I started. Will I win the challenge? Probably not, but damn if I don't feel like a million dollars, pre-tax.
Rave We did something we should all be proud of. We destroyed a possible future internet celebrity who rivaled Arthur Kade for Douchebaggery through just our famous charm and polite power of suggestion. However, in the end it got too familiar and downright personal. Though truthfully, nobody did anything wrong but there's always a step too far, and I'm glad we still had enough class to know when enough is enough. R.I.P Ryan Miliron (I am assuming you are dead from suicide now). You will NEVER be forgotten here.
Rant- Felt sick at work yesterday and left, still sick so I am not going in today. Rant- My days off are Sunday and Monday so I will probably get balled out when I return under the assumption I was just trying to make an extended weekend. Rant- As much as I sometimes hate my job I would rather be there then sick at home. Rave- The cat knows something is up and has been following me around all morning doing cute things to amuse me
Rave: My wife's company just signed a client that has a company centered in Stockholm, and the owners came to the US to sign a contract, and they thought my wife was just awesome, and she is building a rapport with them. It seems likely that they would offer her a job over there.
Rant: Working a meaningless job on a Saturday. Rave: Nohting to do but hang out and lurk around TiB. Rave: The "Bitch Please I'm Friends with Milly" thread. Easily one of the best things to happen around here in a while.
I guess we didn't split this into a 2011 thread? Did anyone enjoy that from the old board? Anyway... Rave: I really love being single. Had a date with a girl last night and ended up staying at her place. Have another date with a girl tonight. No calls to check in with a jealous girlfriend (I wouldn't go on dates when I was spoken for, but she hated when I went out with friends and not her.), no stupid fucking parents of said girlfriend getting all up in my shit, no irrational behavior, no Bible-thumping. Life is good. P.S. My ex and her family and church legitimately believed that the earth is only roughly 6,000 years old and that the stars and cosmos are "God's artwork", meaning not actually suspended balls of gas and other substances millions of light years away. Do with that what you will.
Rant: Spent the day with my parents. Dad? Totally cool. Mom? Fucking exhausting. That woman can single-handedly suck out all of the energy/life out of a room within minutes. I'm literally fighting a migraine and general bitchiness from dealing with her negativity/passive aggressive bullshit all day.
Rave: Good friend of mine came 3rd in the Aussie Millions main event. He made a deal 3 handed that gave him $1.15m, 3rd originally payed $700k, he finished 3rd. The deal netted him an extra $415k. Rant: Couldn't get over to Melbourne to rail him. Rave: Party when he gets back will be monster. Rave: Last night my housemates and I played the Lethal Weapon drinking game (Google it, fun!). We watched all 4 movies (and the It's Always Sunny episode with Lethal Weapon 5) in a row and drank 3 bottles of vodka and 2 cartons of beer between 3 of us. Rant: Sore today! Rant: Got mugged walking through the parklands the other night. 4 African teens chased me, in the end I just gave them all my cash and only copped a slight beating. I was pretty drunk at the time, so was definitely in no shape to defend myself. Rave: The stupid fuckers didn't take my iphone, wallet, $1000+ ring or my expensive watch (Omega Planet Ocean chrono). I only had $50 cash on me at the time. Rave: Friends birthday tonight at a ridiculously good steak restaurant. He also booked a penthouse suite for afterwards so we can have a poker game. Huge amounts of booze and a topless beer wench. Sounds good to me! Rave: Can't wait for Superbowl. Having a BIG party at our house. Drinking starts at 9am on a Monday morning. Go Steelers!
RANT: Failed my firearms qualification this week at training. Many of my coworkers failed and qualified the second time around and I'm not worried. I'll be proficient enough in shooting by May when I go for round 2. Just humiliating to come home three weeks early from training. RAVE: Friday night 11pm to 1pm today was spent in bed with a gorgeous man. Did I mention southern boys are so fucking good in the sack? Because I meant it. He and I have only slept together a handful of times but we've already gone through a large box of condoms. Shit, this man just looks at me and I am ready to throw down and fuck him. Did I mention how good he is in bed? RANT: Despite the amazing marathon sex, it doesn't lessen my sadness at the thought of me filing for divorce on Monday morning.
RANT: this turkey thing has me thinking: How do we help these people? We really need to put everything on pause and get over there and do something. They are screaming that in the streets and we are completely tone deaf. Why is this not being focused on more heavily? Why hasn't the President responded? We should be asking ourselves these questions and having this discussion in bars and have some way to support them as they seek to get what we already have. That youtube video is just... how do not help those people? We are really focused on the wrong everything in our country at the moment. Stop writing articles about the Chevy Volt and 10 Famous Spies (on the home page of MSN) and help these people. It makes you wonder how we could shift our national discourse to calm the anger. But where do you start? You start to make the national discourse more civil, I think, my realigning our perceptions. Our world of Facebook, twitter, blogs, 24 hour news service - they should be able to have these same things. Its patently absurd that they can't. We need to help.