What Flour? & an Onion I actually LIKE
Note
To Self:Avoid
Wheat flour at all costs. Remind The Girl to
avoid wheat flour at all costs.
See it happened like this: She wanted to try
something new, something healthier than our bleached
(yet still 100%-Organic), white, plain ol’ flour.
Fine I said, how bad can it be? They’re derivatives
of one another. Go for it. This was two days ago.
This morning before I had to go to work, I figured we
could have pancakes that she would make for me (see
how that works?). So “we” got hard at work making
them and getting them ready.
We should have known almost immediately – and
thinking back, we kinda did – that they were going to
taste like crap as we were cooking them. They just
didn’t cook the same, you know? They looked like
crap. Like, literally. Like someone had a “runny day”
over the skillet or something, which was not aided by
the fact that we put chocolate chips in them. Anyway.
We sit down to eat them and sure enough they taste as
bad or worse than they look. It was like eating
stale, past-its-prime sawdust or something. It was
bad.
What was worse that The Girl informed me she had had
worse. I couldn’t believe such a thing existed
and
demanded she tell
me where the hell she’d had pancakes worse than
these. Turns out?
She had eaten wheat flour pancakes
recently at a
restaurant with some friends. Which really makes me
wonder… if
she’s had wheat flour pancakes before, and knew
they sucked, why would she decide we need wheat flour
for our pancakes? I do not
have an answer to this question.
Color me perplexed.
Sigh. I know where
Zoey gets it, I guess
;-)
A
Good Onion
I have
known about it for some time, but I rarely make time
to stop by and take a gander at all the wonderful
“news” items they have available.
I am referring to The Onion News
Network. Check
out the videos. They’re a riot. Especially nuggets
like
this one.
And This
one. And
so on; you get it.
Peace.
A bit of Irony: The local Titty Bar
Of
All the Ironies in All the World…
A few
nights ago (as I was making the bed to get in and
sleep the night away), I got a call. It was a good
friend of The Girl’s, and
she called to tell me/us that she was going to be
celebrating her birthday that night, and she was
to be having this bash at The
Tip Top Club. The Tip
Top Club is a local (the only) strip club around
these parts.
She’s bisexual, by the way. Yes, she’s every guy’s
dream girl. Well, half of the dream, at least.
So The Girl went. Which means, she’s now been to a
strip club, whereas I have not. See the irony? My
girl has been to the titty bar to see hot, naked
women rub up on everyone. I have not. This is just
too weird.
I
would have gone,
but I had to be at work @ 6:30am the next morning.
The call came in around 11:30pm. Wasn’t in the cards.
This
is why women are so much cooler than men, btw
Okay, so
imagine a couple (heterosexual, please). Now, imagine
that they are gearing up for a night out. Never, I
repeat,
never, would a
girl bring up an idea that involved a place with men
stripping to nothing and both would enjoy it.
It
does seem to
work the other way, though. You can take your girl to
an establishment that involves scantily-clad women
getting non-clad and rubbing themselves on you.
Everyone is happy.
Yes, women rock.
In the “Strange Things” department
The Girl got
home around 3:30am and felt like chatting.
Apparently seeing lots of nipples helps you forget
that your significant other has to work early the
next morning. Anyway. So we’re chatting and she
tells me that they didn’t serve alcohol there. I
think it came up when I asked how plastered
everyone got, and made sure she wasn’t drinking
then driving. Anyway. The don’t serve alcohol.
Yep. Not even a titty bar, I guess, what with no
“bar” and all.
The Girl said that she thought it helped keep
customers from getting out of control. I agreed, but
it creates another problem: lost profits. Drunk
people spend more. So, more tips. More money on
booze. You know, because drunk people may not like $4
beer
at first, but a
few later and it seems like a great deal!
The next day, The Girl is poking around on the web,
looking for information on the club. And here’s the
“Strange Things” hook: They’re an RV sales lot. Yeah,
no joke. They sell RV’s, apparently.
You see, they are not serving alcohol because
they’re not zoned to serve
alcohol there; it’s technically an RV sales lot. And
all those naked women shoving faces in crotches?
Sales girls.
Man, I
LOVE this
place! And I haven’t even been there!
Peace.
Straw Men Drive down Sales, & Carrot Cake Rocks!
Business
Down? Blame the Straw Man
One thing
that seems to stick out at me in the business world
is how they are oh-so-willing to create a straw man
of any sort to blame for slumping sales.
Sales are slow? Must mean that we’re not building
good displays! Or they
attribute characteristics to people that may or may
not exist, but state these as fact and look to
exploit them.
We need signs that show how much they’re saving
off of MSRP, cuz people love to save!
Yes, people love to save, but they love to save real
money, not fake money. I don’t doubt that
some people are going
to look at a sign saying that this bag of cookies has
$5 written on it but wow, we’re saving you so much
money because
we’re only
selling it for $3! Well yeah maybe a few poor
schlocks are going to fall for that, but mostly?
Well, the people with the money, the people you
should be chasing for sales, are smart enough to say
“yeah but those cookies are only worth $2; they’re
crappy.”
The issue is that these things used to work.
Advertising is fairly new, the way we do it. When
these tactics first started to appear in the 50’s and
60’s, they worked well, and they worked well through
the 80’s. But something happened in the 90’s that the
business world is still trying to ignore; it’s the
elephant in the room, and they keep falling back onto
old habits instead of dealing with the reality of
today:
The reality is that
I am the
consumer now. And I’ve seen this mess of advertising,
and I don’t buy the hype. Since all I’ve ever known
is to see products completely over-hyped at every
turn, I’ve tuned that out. I’m oblivious to it. Not
only that, but more typically, I am turned off by it.
I have swam in the sea of advertising-speak since my
birth. I am numb to it, and quite frankly, tired of
it. I don’t want to hear marketing-talk, I want to
hear about the product, honestly, and what it can do
for me. When I read the box, I want to know where it
came from, who built it, and what I’m paying for.
Made in China? Hey that’s not an automatic
disqualifier, guys. I might still buy your product.
But at what cost is the question…
There’s a matter of psychology at work to know your
business and your customers and be a success. But you
have to learn about your customers, not make blanket
statements about them. And if you want to be more
than head-above-water, the best way to create success
is to see not just where your customers
are now, but where
they’re going, and more importantly, why. It’s not
the signs guys, it’s the value system behind it.
Home
Late, honey? Surprise!
Aw,
isn’t The Girl sweet?
I had to stay late at work last night (floor guys
came by to wax/polish), and when I got home, she
was in bed asleep. But on the counter… was carrot
cake! Hey, those of you who know me know
that I’m a fool for a good carrot cake. And hers
in the best, because she makes it from scratch –
even the frosting! – and it’s all organic.
Strange thing is, I
love carrot
cake, I
love the frosting, but I
can’t stand cream cheese. Weird, huh?
Oh well. Cake was still excellent. But again... Don't
tell her any of this. It'll just go to her head. :-)
Syriana, & The Girl's Health
Syriana...
Wow. Just,
Wow.
What an important movie. But
yet,
What a boring movie.
It’s very important in that it deals with big
corporations being in bed with government, and the
“illusions” of justice & whatnot that they
promote in order to do the dastardly things they do.
But some characters are so superfluous, only there to
put big names in (why the hell is George Clooney important
again?). And generally, there’s no connection to
any one of them, even the non-superfluous ones. It
does tie all the government & Big
Businessaction together with possibly the largest
conspiracy/collusion of politics, business, and
intelligence that exists, within the worldwide oil
industry. Very important movie, yet, somehow, so
very boring.
Where have I heard that before? Oh yeah!
I wrote it, about 4
sentences ago! Bottom line? You should probably see
it. Even though you won't enjoy it.
C+
The
Girl is Sick
This
morning, The Girl wakes
up shortly before she has to get up to get ready
for school, and says “I don’t feel good.” Well
that sucks! Now get out of my bed!
Seriously. I haven’t been sick since we moved up
here, save for a morning or two I woke up with a
scratchy throat. I have no intention of falling ill,
sorry. Get out of my bed! I order you! I
Command you! I
Emplore you! Do it! Do it now!
But of course she did not. We fell asleep, maybe some
10 seconds later, but it was a harrowing, tense
10-second standoff until then. Before we fell asleep
huddled up together for warmth. Believe me, you could
feel the tension.
Peace.
First Shoot w/ the New Rig
First
Day shooting with Canon SD870
So with a
Friday off (yeah unbelievable, huh?) we took the
morning hours as a chance to visit the beach. Now
typically we do this often, but I had not seen the
beach for some 5-6 weeks, so that’s where we decided
to go, since I’ve been to the Delta so many times in
that stretch as well.
It was also my first chance to try and make use of my
new Point-and-shoot
camera, after
giving up the DSLR gig. Verdict?
I’m
certainly going to miss the DSLR. Don’t get me wrong,
the new camera is nice. It’s very nice, I got quite a
few decent pics, but yeah that last 5% or so is
lacking, I can see that. Of course I knew that would
be the case, so it’s no surprise, but there were some
shots that I was like “if only I had a lens…” And
yeah, if only. BUT, if I had the SLR with that huge
honkin’ lens, chances are that I wouldn’t have
gotten
any shots, as
I wouldn’t have brought it. Seriously. That was one
of the issues for me, was that yeah it takes pictures
that are, on a scale of 1-10, an 8 or 9 as opposed to
the 7-8 I’m going to be shooting with the P&S,
but now? Now I’ll have bunches of 7-8 shots, where
before – since I wasn’t taking the dang camera with
me – I was only getting a handful of 8-9 shots, and
for that chance extra point shot here and there was
doing
tons more work.
So I know, and I knew, that there would be this tradeoff. I wish it wasn’t so, and I wish that I could magically make a good DSLR appear when the situation calls for it, but I think I’ll get used to the new rig well enough. After all, it’s mostly about sharing some decent pics anymore, I realize I’ll never be printing large-scale pics to sell professionally or even semi-pro. Now I have the gear that suits me.
Another Nice Canon SD870 Quality
Shoots movies. Hell. Yes. Say it with me now: PORN!
Oh come on, don’t look at me like that. You know we were all thinking it. I just said it.
And another thing that I thought
One thought that hit me while I was trying to zoom to a too-far subject was that this camera would probably be a good replacement for having a wide-angle lens on a DSLR. You know, just get a newer, nicer DSLR with a GOOD telephoto lens, and keep this on me for all those shots the DSLR really wouldn’t be handy for.
No really, it’s a possibility. The Girl said that if I didn’t like the P&S route, there’s nothing stopping me from “going bigger” later. And that might be the best of both worlds. Except of course that I might still not take the DSLR with me anywhere, I suppose…
Not that I’m contemplating that right now, but I’m writing it here for future reference, just in case. You never know. But hey, the pics I took today aren’t that bad...
Yes, yes they are
All the pics posted here with this blog entry are indeed from my new lil’ Canon SD870. So obviously the camera takes well-enough pictures, huh? Probably why the DSLR will never come.
But of course that probably won’t stop my from pining, so get used to it.
Peace.
Movie Night: 01.18.08
A
movie trailer
I saw
over the last few months intrigued me. At first it
seemed kinda dopey, then all of a sudden, the
party is broken up by a rather large incident.
I’m referring of course to
Cloverfield.
Tonight’s opening night, and although I've said that
once I go Blu-Ray you can count me out of the movie
scene, there’s one piece of the puzzle that’ll
prevent me from staying indoors tonight: The movie is
produced by Paramount,
one of only two companies holding out on the
HD-DVD
side of
the fight (losing fight, I might add). So, since
it’ll probably be at least a year or more before
this movie hits the Blu-Ray shelves – if not
longer – I’m going to splurge tonight and partake
in this “Movie Night Out” experience once more.
Review to follow, but of the few one-liners I’ve
read, it appears that it’s basically
“Godzilla-meets-blair-witch.” Which I hope isn’t
literal or too Frankenstein, because quite frankly I
could do without ever seeing either of those movies
on their own.
But hey, maybe it’s one of those things where two
wrongs make a right. You know, two ugly people
getting together, bumping super-uglies, and
producing Marisa Miller
or
Heidi Klum or
something.
Or maybe two ugly people get together and
produce Quasimodo. God I
hope not.
Especially after $20
in tickets.
Peace
Wind and sleep, & Democrats and the South
Sigh.
Wind And rain and awake, oh my...
My sleep
routine has been all but f*cked for the last few
weeks. It seems almost every night, the wind comes,
and its sole aim is to keep me awake. A task I might
add that it has been very good at marking complete.
It’s not that I mind rain hitting my window. It’s
that I mind rain being
thrown into my
window – a mere 2 feet from my head – at a speed that
makes it sound as though an army of young
whipper-snappers is outside my bedroom walls armed
with Red Rider BB guns or something.
The other night it got so bad, and I was so tired
from previous nights, that I decided I’d go and try
to sleep on the couch. Bad move, as when I got out
there I realized that in all actuality, the bedroom
was the quietest room in the house. How’s this? Our
front door was knocking back & forth, the gate on
the other side of the house was rattling in the wind,
and chimneys & vents everywhere were howling
something good. So I reluctantly retreated back to my
bed. I have to come up with a solution. And I think I
have, too. I think I have a way to fix the wind &
the rain. How? Earplugs.
Yes, earplugs.
Democrats
confused; can’t decide between girl, black guy
Clinton makes
a comeback.
Whoop-Dee-Do.
See here’s the thing: if you’re going to win the
presidency, you need to win some states in the south.
You know, that bible-thumping place, filled with
rednecks and lots of people that know how to tie up a
good noose…
And I really think the dems are not putting forth an
“electable” candidate. Don’t get me wrong; I love
both Clinton & Obama, but you have to understand…
the south ain’t going to vote for no nigger, and they
ain’t gonna let no damn woman be in charge of no man,
neither.
Yes it seems ass-backwards to the rest of us, but
this is
The South. You
know, the ‘incest is OK as long as you keep in the
family’ bunch. Yeah I know I’m being a little harsh,
but… these are the states that “voted with their
morals” in 2004, and decided that homos suffering
through marriage was
more wrong than
sending their children to die in foreign countries
for reasons that don’t benefit anyone here. Yes,
these same people.
And the dems are going to give them… a black man or
a
woman? This
will not go over well.
But
if there was ever an election to lose…
This would
be it. I mean, think about it. I think that the
republicans deserve this win. Do you have any idea
how bad the fallout from the last 8 years of the
bushie-regime is going to be? Someone’s going to get
blamed, rightly so or not. And the way I figure it,
let the repubs take the fall for it, since he
was
their guy, and they
saw fit to stand behind his dumb ass most all the
time. Now they want to distance themselves? Man, I
say don’t let the public forget: let the fallout lie
on their shoulders.
Republicans did this to
you.
And besides, no matter who wins, it’s going to be an
improvement. All those guys running? Well, they’re
going to try and avoid any connections to bush and
his policies for fear of a less-than-25%-approval
rating. And any one of them is better than the
current monkey, right?
So I guess if the dems need to get this out of their
system, this is the safest time to do it. I mean
hell, if you reckon you want to elect a damn black
man or dang-nab
woman, I think
you need to fix education first. Educate the south.
Let them in on these little secrets we call
education, civil rights, equality, evolution,
electricity, and philosophy. Once they have an
education, maybe they’ll consider a girl or even –
gasp – a black man!
But c’mon,
now? Yeah
right. We’re barely 50-years-removed from the Civil
Rights Movement. And there it was more a slow push
than a ‘movement,’ anyway.
Go
Republicans for 2008. Hope you
enjoy the ride that the bushies built for ya. And
hey, you helped too. You should have done something
when you had the chance. Suckers.
Peace.
The Day of: a Christmas Timeline
We
begin by...
We stayed
up late (didn’t get home from work until 11:15pm
anyway) and opened gifts around, oh, 12:01am
Christmas Morning.
I got a nice sweater, some shorts, a piece of workout
equipment, a Blu-Ray Movie (which I don’t have a
player yet to watch it with :-( … ) and a mini
wet/dry vacuum.
The Girl got some pants, a sweatsuit, some shirts, a
couple sweaters, a cast iron pan & handle cover,
& a Victoria’s Secret Nightie & Undies. And
handcuffs. Yes, Handcuffs.
So you could probably say I got a piece of ass for
Christmas, too.
Later
that day…
We got up
and had breakfast (using the new cast iron pan), then
hung around and eventually got up enough strength to
take the dogs out again today. We were helped along
by some wet-nose prodding, of course. We went out to
the less-frequently visited portion of the beach,
then trekked around (in 4x4 mode) along the beach to
the tip of the peninsula and around to face the bay.
Here, we let Miles have at
it in the waters for an hour or so.
Hopefully they’ll be worn out enough tomorrow to
leave us the hell alone! Well Miles,
hopefully. Zoey’s already
so tuckered out that she’s falling asleep standing
up with her face on the couch.
Then…
The rain
came. I had plans to do a workout and also to mow the
lawns. Suffice to say that instead, I took a nap and
lounged around all day.
Not that rain prevents working out. It’s just that I
figured,
what the hell. It’s
Consumer-mas. So I
skipped it. Well, not so much skipped it as pushed it
back a day. I’ll be home by like 3:30pm tomorrow,
provided I don’t get fired. So I should have plenty
of time.
Then
it was movie time
We
rented
Meet the Robinsons on
Christmas Eve, to watch on Christmas. I’m not going
to give an overview here now, but maybe in another
day or so.
And,
you?
Like I
said yesterday, “Joyous festival of your choosing.”
So hopefully you did that, huh? Was it everything you
hoped I would be? Did you get a 60” Sony Flat-screen
LCD HDTV with 2ms response time or less?
Because if you did, I hate you.
Peace.
News Hits for the day: Spears, Star Wars, Women, & Drugs
Oh.
My. GOD. It runs in the Family
Hey, sex
at 16? You’re not going to catch me getting all
uppity. But
pregnant, too?
C’mon!
Hey, I think maybe addictive behavior runs in the
family. That and being slutty. Nothing wrong
with
that per
se, but
pregnant?
C'mon, that sort of ruins it.
Star
Wars Fans get collective Boners over Science
Hear about
this monster galaxy shooting photon death
beams at
another galaxy? Yeah, they nicknamed it the “Death
Star Galaxy.” Shwing.
Yeah,
it’s sexist. Just like the Early Bird.
This
lawsuit in NYC
I think has merit. I mean, the only way the club
can make their case I think is if they can
convince the judge that women are indeed just
objects for men to behold.
Yes, it might very well have far-reaching
implications for other “only you and not them”
specials. But the guy is completely correct, OK?
If
I smoke pot, can I have $9,000?
So a game
bought for
$90 somehow becomes worth
$9,000? Just
because a kid smoked pot?
Sign me the f*ck up. This is quite the investment
opportunity. And I’m getting in on the ground
floor.
Who’s with me?!
So what I’ve never smoked pot? I just won’t inhale.
Worked for a certain President. And no I’m not
referring to bush. He
definitely inhaled,
mouth & nose, & probably did some licking
& swallowing too. Have you
seen his
agendas?
Yeah, he’s fried. Like, to a crisp. Couldn't find his
way out of a sandbox, that guy.
Peace.
Sleep-Deprived, but a fun day at the beach anyway
Sleep:
Highly recommended
So last
night I closed the shop down. What with the holiday
hours, that means I got home sometime around 12:45am.
Actually, it was on the dot, as I had said in the
afternoon to expect me around that time, and when I
got in the 4Runner, I saw I had two minutes to make
that statement a fact. And so it was.
However, it’s not like I could go home and just go
to
sleep or
anything, mind you. Nope, especially not this
morning, as The Girl was on her way out of town via
airplane to visit her kooky family in So Cal. A plane
that left no later than 6am, and required us up by
3:45am or so.
Now couple that with the fact that when I got home, I
was informed there was chocolate pudding in the
fridge, and you can piece together how I maybe got
one or two good hours of sleep before I was up and at
‘em. That’s the saying, right?
But
it lead to a mighty fun day
Now I
admit that after the drop-off at the airport, I
managed to get a couple more hours of shut-eye. But
the puppies cut that short as they felt I had both a)
slept long enough, and b) started coming dangerously
close to letting them starve to death.
Since I was up, I got started on our day together,
which largely revolved around them. It was off to the
beach, where I ventured to an area we hadn’t been to
before. It was kinda cool, actually, as the waves
broke way out, so there was lots of water to wade
through to go and get the ball I was throwing out
there.
But this wasn’t all I had in store for them. The
other day when we ended up
going off-roading, we also
came across a little area that faces the bay, not the
ocean, so there is
no crashing
waves or anything, just abruptly receding land that
gives way to nice, deep water. This is great news
for Miles, as he
loves to swim, and I love to see him swim because
it works his butt out something fierce, and
getting him to actually work up a doggie-sweat is
hard-damned work. Other than swimming, I’m not
sure there’s enough hours in the day to do it
anymore, actually. If a fiddle was fit, I'd say he
was that, I guess.
But this wasn’t all I had in store for them. The
other day when we ended up
going off-roading, we came
across a nice, steep access point from the dunes to
the actual beach. I didn’t go this direction at the
time because a) we saw a truck stuck there (damn
Chevy's; yeah sure this is your country, huh?), and
b) I didn’t want to also become stuck there. However,
today I was following a Toyota Tacoma loaded with a
couple dogs going this route. I figured that if he
could do it, so could I. And so I did.
We followed the beach around to the peak of the
peninsula. There’s a Jetty on either side of the bay
entrance, and I parked the 4Runner then took the dogs
out on a ½-mile walk to the end of the northern
Jetty.
But that’s not all….. OK you’re probably sick of that
literary trick, huh? Well after that I took them
around to an even
better spot that
faces the bay, and miles got a really good workout
swimming into and out of the water. So much so in
fact, that I fear he may actually end up sore
tomorrow. He’s not showing signs yet, bet we were out
there swimming for the better part of 3 hours. We
shall see. We. Shall. See.
Peace.
Carpet Questions, 4Runner fun, & How nice to really be
To
Carpet or NOT to Carpet: that is the Question
So happens
I have the answer.
Down South, we had regular ol’ carpet, a low shag
type of fluff. It looks great right after you vacuum,
no doubt, but it tends to look trampled relatively
fast. Like, as soon as you touch it. I understand why
people used to be so anal about not walking on the
carpet; pretty to look at, hell to maintain.
We move up north. The place we rent? Has berber
carpet. Has a mix of colors, which we assume will
wear well, hiding daily dirt and whatnot. Great that
it has no real ‘grain’ or anything, as now whether
your vacuum or not, walking on it doesn’t make it
look trampled. Yay.
BUT, we were dead wrong about the wear ability of
this sh!t. I mean, our carpet is most definitely
spotted where it’s used the most. And I think it’s
actually a function of the low shag; since there’s no
grain, there is nowhere for a stain or discoloration
to hide.
Our kitchen is tiled in a sort of renaissance-type
color scheme, with mixed reds, oranges, browns, etc.
I don’t know what to call it, but I can say this: it
stays clean, it’s easy to clean up, and eventually, I
will have a house that’s floored entirely with
something similar to it.
Though maybe not the grout. I hate grout. No grout.
More specifically, I was thinking something
like this
here. Ah
yes, a solid, easy-to-clean surface without grout
lines. What do you think?
The.
Most. Fun. EVER
That might
be a small exaggeration, but I
did have
more
fun than a barrel of monkeys with their pants
down today. We
took the dogs out to the beach where we normally do,
then as we were leaving, I decided to take a right
instead of a left and go exploring. What did I find?
Dunes. The kind that you go off-roading all over. I
knew the dunes were there, sort of, but I didn’t
figure I could just drive there, keep going, and then
be free to do as I pleased out there. It was a
surprise, and lo-and-behold it was a fun one.
Unfortunately, The Girl had to work tonight, so we
had to skip home earlier than I would have liked. I
took some quick photos that didn’t come out, so you
can look forward to me not putting them on the web to
share, too. We’ll be back there soon enough. We have
some friends (turns out I have a couple) that are
going to be visiting us during the late stages of
this month, so I plan on taking them out there and
4-wheeling the hell out of some dunes with them.
They’ll enjoy it.
The Girl is too damned nice
I mean,
it’s a good thing for
me that she’s
nice to
me, but
she’s too damn nice to everyone else. I keep telling
her she needs to stand up for herself and not let
people walk all over her all the time, otherwise
they’ll continue to do so because they know they can
get away with it.
Case in point: We get home, and there’s a message on
our machine from some girl asking if she could work
in The Girl’s place tonight. Cool, because The Girl
needs to finish getting ready for her trip back to
Southern Hell-ifornia this Sunday. They make the
plan, all is set. We have lunch, look forward to
another night together, then the phone rings.
This lady is calling back to say that she kinda
changed her mind, and doesn’t want to work for The
Girl anymore. Now since she’s technically scheduled
for the shift, it’s not like she can really say too
much to the effect of “tough sh!t,” because it
is her ass on
the line.
But, she was
so overly nice about it that she made it sound like
she was relieved to be having to work tonight after
all, which wasn’t the case.
If it had been me, instead of being all “oh it’s
alright, I’ll do it, no problem,” that lady would
have heard “You mean now that I’ve gone out of my way
to give you the shift you asked for, and subsequently
made other plans, you’re calling to renege on that
deal? So I’m going to have to cancel my plans because
you changed your mind? No no, that’s fine, I’ll do
it. I have to go and get ready. No really, I’ll do
it. I’m on the schedule anyway. I can’t talk anymore,
I have to go and cancel my other plans and then get
ready for the shift I thought was covered. Bye.”
Yes it’s petty, but how the hell else do you get
across to these people that this sort of behavior is
just not acceptable? A little shaming can go a long
way, OK? And really, that's what I sorta feel is
necessary.
Yes I told The Girl this.
Yes she gets it. It’s just hard for her to do,
because it’s in her nature. Which is why it’s good
for her that it’s not in
mine. Don’t
worry, baby; I’m here to keep you from being a door
mat ;-)
Peace.
No Really: The Girl & Marisa are a "Thing"; & updates
So
you thought I was kidding….
Last night
after getting home from work, The Girl plopped down
on the couch and actually read my blog. You know, the
one about
Marisa Miller being HOT. That
one.
Anyone that read that probably thought that I was in
for a severe case of the girlfriend blues, and I
would think that about someone else, too, had they
written what I wrote. But not me, not with
my girl. She
reads that? Then checks out her site. Then stares
at
every picture of
her on her
website.
I casually dropped that in my research for the blog,
I discovered
that
she started out as a nude model in
Perfect 10
magazine (which,
btw, means her boobs are real). Did I get slapped?
No. I got asked “are there pictures of her naked?
Can I see them? Where are they?”
Marisa Miller is
that Hot. My
Girlfriend, who would never consider a lesbian
encounter in her lifetime, wants badly to make it
with Marisa Miller. Of this I am certain.
God Bless my Girlfriend. And God Bless Marisa Miller
;-).
So,
uh, you’ve been blogging a lot recently….
I have had
time. Suffice to say I have had the time to do it,
without detracting from any other of my multitude of
activities. There’s really nothing else to say about
it, honestly. Like I said, I’ll be doing it when I
can, and probably mostly for myself, and time has
permitted this in the last few days.
So enjoy it, ‘K? Who knows; The Girl goes back to the
death trap on the 16th
and will
be gone until the 20th
of this
month, so I’ll probably even be able to get a Mac Tip
or two up during that week. Time will tell, eh? And
if you’re a recent Mac Convert, and you haven’t been
reading…. You have no excuses. Make it over to
my Mac Help
pages, you
fool. Read. Enlighten. And stop asking me the same
questions every 5 minutes.
Peace.
New Gallery Styles, Marisa Miller, & Saving your Work
I have no idea why The Girl watches this stuff. You’d think that she’d keep hot, barely-dressed women as far from my sight as possible. But nothing could be further from the truth! I think she has a little girl-crush on Marisa Mller, is what it is. Which is fine with me. I don’t mind competing with that.Read more...
Ocean's Big Number; Da Weather; Not Mad; & JLH Pics
Ocean’s
13: Booooh!
What can I
say about Ocean’s
13? How
about:
MAN, I sure liked Ocean’s 11.
And that
about sums it up.
The Girl said something equally accurate. Namely,
that it’s sort of been-there, done-that stuff. Not
only that, but where the first two
(first
ONE in
particular) was measured and conceived – the plot,
that is – the 3rd
just
sort of throws stuff at you, then tries to explain
it away later. Which I hate.
It’s too fantastic and not well-enough designed to be
worth watching. Guess I’ll have to remove the Trilogy
from my wish
list.
Wind
& Rain & Bears, Oh my!
The last
couple of days it’s actually been windy here. I was
curious so I looked to see what the wind speeds were
that everyone around here is so apt to complain
about. 20mph. 20mph. OK, so again, I come from a land
where they
name the winds
they’re so strong, right? So, uh, 20mph.
Now don’t get me wrong, it’s still windy. But we’re
talking between
⅓ to ⅛ the
strength of the Gale-Force, 100mph-+
Santa
Anas.
Here, you lay awake in bed, thinking
man it’s hard to sleep with all that
noise. Down
South, you think
Man. I hope my home is still standing in the
morning.
I think I’ll survive is what I’m sayin’.
No
Really, not Mad
Hey for
those of you taking it personally that I’m rewiring
myself in regards to the website? Calm down. Like I
said, I’m not mad, just a little disappointed. I was
stating facts and explaining how I’m going to be
taking care of things considering. You’re not being
singled-out, you’re being
en massed out.
Yes, you rarely visit. Yes, I’m disappointed in that
fact. No, I’m not mad, it just is that way and that’s
fine, so long as I bring my expectations in line with
the reality of it. So stop sending violent emails and
throwing things at me on the street.
And uh, my pages save a history of the last 500
visits, including time, IP location, etc. So yeah,
I
know when
you’ve visited, it’s not just a guess on my part. :-)
JLH
mad at her body
Yes, I
know she’s been telling everyone
that
she’s mad at Hollywood for giving young women a
sense of beauty that’s unrealistic. You know, all
those beautiful size 0 women.
I think she’s focusing her distaste for her own
appearance on the media on this one, however. Look, I
agree that hollywood DOES give people an unreal sense
of beauty when they touch up people’s photos and do
this & that to make such & such person look a
way they don’t really look. BUT, to say that a level
of beauty is unattainable is hogwash. I see girls
every day that are FAR more perfect than the famous
faces we see on TV. Perfect bodies. They just didn’t
make it in hollywood. I mean, there’s only so much
room, and once you have an established act, you stick
with it, right? It sells. You have a following. So
JLH gains 120 pounds, you try to slim that down on
film because everyone loved her in
I Know What your Beautiful Big Breasts did 3
Summers Ago at that One Place with the Boats &
the fishermen & that one hunky guy; You know the
one I’m talkin’ about. But
that’s not to say there’s no women out there who look
a certain way or are beautiful. That’s what we
call
a reach.
Because you see, I believe Art imitates Life, not the
other way around. Hollywood shows me things that turn
me on, because that sells. They don’t tell me what
arouses me, because Willy Knows best, OK? You try to
dress up the ham, I’m sorry, but I’ll call BS and
point out that it IS just a pig in lipstick. I have a
built-in beauty pointer, and it never fai