what. the. fuck?

my daily display of human idiocy was in full effect tonight. there was nothing wrong with the road conditions, but for whatever reason, it was a fucking abortion.

i left work around 420 to get to the post office to mail my rens gifts. after being in line for just over 30 mins (expected, didn't bother me) i hit the road. at first i was stuck behind some fuck in a bmw who seemed to think checking his email was more important than rolling his car forward.

then, on the on-ramp to 93 that i use, i was cockblocked and had to take an alternate route. that was nothing short of gridlock. not that 93 was any better. but dealing with traffic that had me crawling wore my patience thin.

then M called and i was curt with her (sorry dear). by this point, i had gone 2 miles in 30 minutes. and then the straw that broke the camel's back fell.

John Denver's 'Please Daddy, Don't Drink on Christmas'

i lost it.

TK made a comment at lunch today about how one day he swore to the point he made jesus weep.

well TK, i made god cry like a little girl.

there was a minor break (FINALLY) but any good will that may have been provided quickly evaporated and it was back to making god cry again.

so, by the time i got home, i was in rare form. ~15 miles in 100+ minutes.

i was pissed when i had a longer commute last year in the storm of 12/13, but compared to what i experienced tonight, that was enjoyable.

so to all you fucknuts who ruined my evening, a hearty fuck you.

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random pictures of the moment: and boom goes the dynamite

something tells me that this isn't going to be a big seller here in the boston area. i can't quite put my finger on what it is, something isn't right.



new series: view from the desk (not mine)



daily display: *bloop*



this monster is currently in the process of destroying the building behind it. that claw is bigger than i am and it's fun and entertaining to watch.

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random picture of the moment: oops

i was just arriving home getting ready to drop my stuff off and obtain my new phone, and i rounded the corner from my house and saw this:




as i rounded the corner, the lady who lives in the house on the right (you can see her driveway) was waving madly at me to get my attention. which at the time was focused on the tree. she was able to flag a passing cop who called it in.

spoke with the homeowner right after taking the picture and he told me that he was glad it didn't fall on anyone (there are a bunch of kids nearby). i noted that it was a good thing the power/cable/telephone lines were on the other side of the street.

i'm not sure when it was cleared by the town, but they made short work of it, and yesterday, the rest of the tree was removed. a little odd seeing that yard a bit more open now.

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random pictures of the moment: the daily display (v06.24.08.am)

taken during my daily display of human idiocy(tm) this morning.

lots of red lights.



i wonder what those pieces make up. i saw a similar truck the other day with the same type of pieces and wondered.



cliffs along rte 93 south



pleased with this picture, altho slighly misframed. but not bad for how fast i had to take the picture. i liked that the trees that are around this one are full and lush, and then you have the grizzled bark of this one standing proudly above them.

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it's picture time!

unfortunately, they were all taken with crappy cellphone camera. maybe i will upgrade this weekend...ponder ponder ponder...

june 17, 2008
348p

i received a brief email from M that simply stated "sideways rain!". we didn't have the sideways rain, but it was POURING. (yes, that is a touch of blue sky over the roof of a doomed building)



june 19, 2008
817a

taken during my daily display of human idiocy(tm). i recognized it as a front loader, but wondered why it had a large fluid filled tank on the back. then i got around it and realized that it was probably the hydraulic fluid that drove this beast.



june 20, 2008
512p

stopped by chez target on the way home tonight. when i went in, it was sunny and clear, like the right side of the first picture (shot looking west). when i came out 15 minutes later, i saw dark clouds on the left (west/southwest). and it started to rain. i'm pleased (and surprised) that the crappy camera was able to catch the light streaming.

the second shot is looking southwest as i was starting to feel the rain fall. wasn't heavy or last long, but it was enough to deter me from enjoying a nice ice coffee that i would have obtained at the said starbucks in the picture. (it does have a drive-thru but i wanted to walk over.)

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random picture of the moment: license plate of the day

also from last weekend (also NH):

DETHSTAR
PIR8SHP

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jebus xmas. 2 1/2 hrs to get home. fucking snow storm came in early and everyone bolted early and the snow plows had no chance to clear the roads.

at least i'm home now.

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random picture of the moment: heading to work

this was my view this morning - i felt like i was in The Mist

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screw you jim

actually, you were one hell of a guy. yesterday on my way to work, i was stuck in traffic and Opie and Anthony were on a commercial break so i had the afternoon show The Doors did in Boston (April 10, 1970) playing. while the concert is starting up, my PPC (technically not mine, the one i use at the grace of AP) was making noise about the battery being low (so i forgot to plug it in over the weekend. big deal). as traffic was heavy (see the slideshow from last week for a taste of my usual traffic), i figured i'd see if i could find the charger for my phone to shut it up. so just as i start rummaging around, Jim proves just who prophetic he can be.

Ah keep your eyes on the road,
Your hands upon the wheel.
Keep your eyes on the road
Your hands upon the wheel.

thanks Jim. just what i needed to hear as i'm rummaging around for the charger i couldn't find. i did find the charger for my previous phone, and my nextel back when i had that. (i still need that worm game and flight of the bumble bee for my phone)

at least my ride into work was nicer today. didn't hurt that i was heading to work at 10am after my dental appt (which went well).

sad thing is that was pretty much the highlight of my day. there's a war brewing at work between Ops & IS and it's going to be really fucking ugly.

there's a lot of moving people around planned for the next few weeks (including myself) and one of the bitches who was sposed to move out of her office (LO) cried like a fucking whiny bitch to AM who told her that she was moving. (that had been netogiated w/FAS)

so rather than accept her fate, she went to our new Veep and cried to her because AM didn't say 'deal with it'. so an office that was given to IS (in this case, LJ) is now no longer going to LJ. which means LJ and i get to share our office for now and LB (currently) ends up getting screwed.

LB is giving me her office, as LJ was sposed to have her own office (currently occupied by whiny bitch LO), i would get LB's office and LB would move into the office that LJ and i are currently sharing.

it looks as tho i'll keep my office and LB is going to move into some enlarged cube that whiny bitch LO was sposed to get. LJ's pissed at LO, AM & KD for screwing LB. i'm pissed at LO, AM & KD for similar reasons, plus AM's been a real bitch to IS of late, so the schism that exists between Ops & IS is only growing wider.

work is going to be interesting in the coming weeks. i wonder if our phones work at 10mb or not...

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now there's something that doesn't happen every day

i was driving into work this morning, stuck in the traffic that surrounds the local T station and the minivan in front of me dives into the pull off (that isn't really much of a pull off) to drop her passenger off (who thankfully jumps out pretty quickly). she starts to pull back into traffic (i can't do anything but let her in) but then she starts to turn back rather than out in front of me. so i start yelling at her to move left (pull back into traffic, go around the idiot in front of her)

then Uncle Al usurps me.

the final four lines to LiesLiesLies (a fine little ditty off Rio Grande Blood, also available in remixed form on Rio Grande Dub) are:

Don’t listen to me, listen to your head
Don’t listen
Don’t listen to anything they say
Don’t listen

i know the song is a political rant, but taken out of context (me yelling at a stupid driver), it sounds like Uncle Al was telling the foolish driver to ignore me.

D'OH!

(turned out she was being kind to the car in front of her who wanted to pull out, but i couldn't see due to her being in a minivan obstructing my view (i saw the first car, but not the one immediately in front of her). by which point the CD had moved onto the next track - The Great Satan)

i laughed.

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on my ride home tonight i saw something interesting. road rage at its best. fortunately, no one was hurt, but it provided some entertaining moments (for me at least).

at one point in my ride, a car was behind me and flashed their highbeams at me. i didn't think much of it as i had cars to my left, right and in front of me so there wasn't anywhere i could go, so i just ignored it. that is until i was in the left center lane, there is a car in the left lane, and he gets highbeamed by the same car. rather than ignore it, he slammed on his brakes. which got the highbeam guy to back off.

for a moment. he sped back up and so did highbeam which again flashed his highbeams and again, the guy slams on his brakes and slows the entire lane down to much less than it was. i had to laugh, but i was glad no one got into an accident.

then when i was at the supermarket, one of the kids who packs the bags correctly identified the eyeball on my shirt as The Residents. he thought they were pretty cool, but had never heard anything by them.

at least there is some recognition, even if people have no idea what it is they have an idea of.

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and to add insult to injury, there's an accident right AFTER the exit i use to get on to the highway.

YOU FUCKING IDIOTS!

and to hell with the good thing now. now i'm just pissed at the 10 FUCKING IDIOTS who don't know how to drive.

MERRY FUCKING X-MAS YOU STUPID FUCKING DRIVERS!

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oh goody...

i turn on the news and the top story is:

8 CAR PILE UP

where i'm going to have to drive. it's now backed up for some 10-15 miles they say, and i get on around mile 11 from the accident.

you FUCKERS.

WHAT THE FUCK WERE YOU THINKING?

enjoy your merry fucking christmas you 8 FUCKING IDIOTS!

in other news, M bought me this for x-mas. thank you M.

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