Rave: made it through the tornado, and had a nice lightning show to boot! Rave: I haven't had cable or the internet since Saturday, and I won't have it until Tuesday. It's a little irritating to have to do all things online via iPhone, but my apartment is so peaceful. It's nice just coming home and reading a book with no noise.
Rant: Why the fuck do we try and kill every thread to death? What happened to the humour this forum had? I remember we said the purpose of this site was to "bring the funny". It's been on a slow decline and become very clique like. Let's get back to the funny stories and less What noise do you like.....jesus christ.
For reasons I have yet to determine, my home internet connectivity is almost nil. Add to that the fact that IT at work has started blocking sites i visit (not TiB yet, but I know they're onto me), and I haven't been around much. So here i am in a hotel room in southern NJ, drinking from a pint bottle of vodka, bored out of my mind - but at least I can get on TiB. Thank Harold Camping for small favors.
RAVE: As if you're not all celebrating it already, the Vancouver Canucks just beat the Super Gay Assholes (San Jose Sharks*) to make it to the Stanley Cup Final!!! (*Actually my #2 team... distant #2 after the Canucks, clearly.) RANT: Tampa Bay and Boston both look pretty good... Too bad they're both super gay assholes.
We had 3 rounds of storms last night with numerous funnel clouds, some of which did touch down, serious hail and strong winds. Rave that there doesn't seem to be much damage here (and certainly nothing like what Joplin experienced, or Oklahoma/Kansas/Arkansas did yesterday). On the plus side, the local Fox affiliate preempted Glee to provide continuous live coverage of the storms.
Rave: Good news, I'm alive. That's the crazy thing about these damn tornadoes, is they will change direction, intensify or up and disperse out of fucking nowhere. We just sat in our conference room at work, glued to the TV, just watching these things plow through the area. This video was from a storm chaser in Piedmont, OK, just over 10 miles from where I live. EDIT: More fucked up video, especially near the end where it shows an entire house that was wiped clean off the foundation.
Apartment hunting is most fucking absurd thing in the world. Why the fuck is 5 weeks before I move in too early to be looking for apartments? That makes absolutely no sense.
Rave: High Tea at work today. Little crust-less sandwiches? Check. Scones and clotted cream? Check. Enough baked goods to satisfy an office of women?... well, we'll see. Rave: Chair massages at work today. It was all I could do to keep from drooling in the chair. I feel amazing right now. Minor rant: Sister is still pulling for Dexter as the name for my soon-to-be-nephew. I am not pleased.
I just got my seni-annual review and I think my boss wants to fuck me or something, because at this rate I'm on track for a very pretty bonus. Happy dance.
Rave. Survived my first night in Vegas. We got a table and bottle service at the chateau were I met the Devil Fish who is a world famous poker player and a really nice guy as well. Rant. Vegas is fucking expensive.
We were at the Ballpark last night. It was pretty incredible how quickly it, hit, especially because walking into the ballpark, the weather looked to all be to the north. They literally quit playing minutes before we got to our seats. While we were enjoying rain delay theater, they evac'd the park. Which brings me to my rant: What the fuck is the deal with the complete lack of preparedness on the part of the grounds crew in dealing with a 'disaster' like last night? We were shuttled down to one exit behind home plate, then shunted over to the left field exit, where the crew started stuffing people in and shoving people back, and tying off the tunnel. THEN when the alert was lifted and all the hail had stopped falling, they told us "Ok, y'all are free to go, you can't go the way you came, but you can just kind of head that way and find an exit." 20k plus people milling about underground in the tunnels is a bad idea. Particularly when they're not communicating with the crowd and are threatening to arrest anyone who "poses a threat".
RAVE: Seeing the original Wailers tonight! Starting with lobster and oysters at my favorite restaurant and then letting the night take us away. I can't think of a more perfect way to officially kick off the summer!
RANT: Sister had a vertigo attack on the weekend, and has now been officially diagnosed with MS. Fuck.
Rave: Went to the bank to get some change, asked if they had any half dollars. They did, 12 bucks worth, of which 7 dollars was silver. 200 bucks in silver for 7 dollars? Don't mind if I do.
Rave: Pre authorization just hit my debit card from Phish Tickets, so it looks like I got both of the 3-day passes I requested for their Labor Day shows in Colorado. That makes me very excited. Rant: That makes for a pretty big charge that I wasn't expecting to hit my card until next week sometime. That's going to make things very tight right before Memorial Day Weekend.
Rant: Storm tracking NE from Indiana is showing enough signs of possible tornado activity that the sirens are going off. I'm watching live on the local news channel, and I'm right on the edge of the projected threat path. If it shifts to the right as they're expecting it might, I'll be dead center. Strangely enough, the skies look pretty clear, but I'm sure there are plenty of tornado survivors who would point out just how little that matters. RAVE: There's a secure basement that's about a ten second sprint from my apartment. Bigger Rave: I finally have the connections for two possible new jobs. Both are looking good, as is the future lowering of my stress level/increase of my income.
Rant: Hadn't been able to keep food down since Monday until this morning. From the looks of things, I have a hiatal hernia. This does not bode well for my normal consumption of spicy foods, alcohol on a daily basis, etc. Rant: Have to get it checked tomorrow. Heading to Germany on Wednesday, and this is the last thing I need interfering with visiting my fiancee. Rave? I kept down food all day today. It was only soup and crackers, but it's a start!
Rant: just had a cancer council speaker about healthy living. Her advice was to never spend any time in the sun with exposed skin, never drink alcohol or you will immediately be over the legal limit for the duration of the night, and never eat more than 100g of red meat per week... No discussion of the fact that sun exposure is quite necessary for many health functions, no concession that if you drink a single serving of alcohol and you're over the legal limit for the duration of the night, you're probably a midget with a failed liver. And no discussion of the notion that lean cuts of red meat have no credible health implications at twenty times that reccomended consumption rate. And to manage your weight, you should do pretty much anything except lift fucking weights because that has no benefit to your health at all. Grah. I know that I'm fucking fat and unhealthy - but awful information is still fucking annoying. Rave: Somebody else paid for the presentation and paid me to go to it.