rant so after getting home at 1 am from work yesterday, i grab some food, and a beer and just crash on my recliner. the 1st thing i see on sportscenter is the news about Jim Calhoun's retirement. Just another trophy for the NCAA and their bullshit, sanctimonious, retro-active rulings. That program is done for the next 5 years, minimum. I then switched on something else, and noticed, i now have an entire row of pixels out on my tv. looked up possible fixes, and there appears to be none. mother. fuck. rave riotfest this weekend.
Rant: I don't normally do gas price rants, but seriously 12cents/liter(45cents/gallon) jump in one go? FUCK YOU.
Rant: An hour before brief time, one of the other pilots comes into the planning room and tells us the whole mission changed. Rant: We couldn't get our power point complete in time to give a good brief, therefor the brief sucked a lot. Rant: It all got cancelled anyway in the end. Rave?: I get to watch some puppies this weekend and stay at my buddies house. I'm going to bring them to the beach, the park, let them play all around the house and the yard, try to pick up women with them...all the stuff I wish I could do if I had a dog of my own. He also has a 70" LED TV and surround sound system...I wonder what kind of porn I could watch that would look good on a 70" tv...
RANT: This will never become a real game, and yet Dragon Age is getting another fucking sequel. Fucking Bioware.
Rave: I got my ass to the gym for the first time in...well, too long. I have lost what some would say is a considerable chunk of weight over the past year through diet alone, but it is time to kick it up a notch. Posting this here to make myself a bit more accountable in keeping up with it. Rave: A smart and attractive lady quoted some poetry and I impressed her by identifying the poet. For 2 nanoseconds it made my English degree seem valuable to me. Rant: Said lady was the medical professional who immediately afterward had a face full of my infected toe.
Rant: The god damn Chicago Bears. Every time I get even mildly excited about this team, they go out and absolutely go out of their way to shit the bed. Rant: My dumb ass started Cutler. Why the fuck did I do that? 0-2 here I come.
Huge Rave: My English professor handed back my final draft of my thesis and said to me, "That was one of the best papers I've ever read. You are an excellent writer."
Rant: For some god forsaken reason, my laptop slipped off the kitchen counter today. Now I am certain the hard disk is destroyed.
Rant: Home alone on a Friday night, baking. So confused. Rave: Scratch red velvet cake for friends birthday tomorrow
Rant: I was watching a Modern Marvels mini marathon last night in between other shows and happened to flip over during the "Pigs" episode. Right at the point when they were talking about artificial insemination. Right when they showed some guy spreading a pig vagina and shoving something into it. Really close up. Right in there. If I had gone to the channel a second later, I never would've seen it. What the fuck?
Rave: My girlfriend wants a bike for her birthday and last night I got one that she loves. A little work (including paint but that's fun for me to do) and it'll be like new, which is awesome because it was a super cheap Craiglist sale- a diamond in the rough buried under a rusty heap of bikes filling a garage. Most importantly... she is very happy with it! Rave: She's been up here for three weeks now and it has been great. The move and transition has been a little easier than I expected. Rant/Rave: I should be bear hunting right now, but instead of sitting in a tree stand I'm in a cubicle. But I've still got my match this weekend and only 12 days 'til the Boundary Waters trip (aka the lake where I took my avatar photo), so I can look forward to that. Rant: Photos on my blog aren't working. What the fuck??
Rant: I'm stuck at work with a migraine with no fucking pain killers. I feel like I am going to die. I can barely see out of my left eye. Rave: It's Fridaaaaaaaaay!
Rant: Finding a job while I have taken on the work of three people who have managed to get away from this soul sucking company has proven damned near impossible Rave: This is no longer my problem because I can negotiate like a motherfucker. As of a week from today I no longer have to do client visits and will never step foot in this office again. I am 100% remotely working. Rave: Why you say? Because I'm moving to Fuerteventura in the Canary Islands. Peace out London. You have both been amazing and a dirty, dirty siphon of time, energy and youth Rave: This means I can surf and run on the beach every day, have a London salary and a third world country type outgoing. I think I just came in my pants.
Rave: I will be spending the weekend watching my friends dogs. I haven't played with any dogs in a long time and two of these three are playful as hell. I get to take them to the beach too, and for walks, and to the park. I'm excited to entertain some pups. Rant: I get itchy eyes as my animal allergy. Rave: I found some Claritin. Rave: I have lots of beer, a 70" TV, and lots of food.
Rave: Finally started playing fairytale football. Rave: First draft was a success (I think). Rave: Every week of football is another week closer to the end of baseball.