that sucked

well, it's some ungodly hour right now and i just got back from the office. we had some sort of network issue that i'm sure could raise some hell had it not been resolved. fortunately, it was and that is good.

the only reason i'm posting this is on my way home, i saw one of those trolley tour buses on the highway and it was having a party. for what looked like 6 people or so (one woman dancing, most likely sloshed). it looked like your typical dance club, only on wheels which i thought was pretty amusing for 150am. i don't think i've seen that before. i did see a converted school bus that was similar, but that was the first tolley tour bus dance club.

rather odd. anyways, i'm tired and hope to get some sleep before my boss wakes me up in the morning to find out what happened. i was leaving him VM and as i was wrapping it up, i accidently hung up, so i just left it at that. hopefully he'll check his email, but i doubt it. it could prove to be an entertaining call if he wakes me bright and early...

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beep beep richie

at 3am this morning, i was rudely woken up by a loud beep, similar to a pager that hasn't been looked at type beep. it's loud, obnoxious and won't shut up until you look at it. i didn't think too much of it and started to fall back asleep semi-wondering what was it as it pulled me from a dead sleep.

but just as i was slipping back into that wonderful dark embrace of sleep, BEEP BEEP.

at which point any hope of falling asleep flew right out my open window. i knew it was not a pager i had (not on call until tomorrow), and i knew it wasn't my cellphone, because it isn't anywhere near as obnoxious about missed calls (my KRZR did beep like that, but it's off). it couldn't be a laptop as that was powered off, and the beep was the wrong pitch. the only thing i could think of was maybe the smoke detector in the hallway was the culprit. in my last apartment, i had the battery die on the smoke detector before and it's a similar beep, so i grabbed a flashlight (which i didn't really need) and wandered into the living room. i opened my front door and waited on the couch for it to beep again. after ten minutes of looking back and forth between the smoke detector and the clock on my cable box, i figured it wasn't the culprit.

i did notice one odd thing tho - stinky (neighbor) who ALWAYS has her tv on when at home (day and night), usually at obnoxious volume levels, actually had the volume down on her tv. i could see a slight glow around the door so i saw that it was on, but i thought it was odd that she didn't have the volume up. after a few minutes, i heard the channel change and was pleased that the volume was actually at a reasonable level until it went to commercial where it was then back to the usual obnoxious levels. a few seconds later, the volume dropped so i was left wondering if she falls asleep on the remote and her rolling about then pushes the buttons until she wakes up. there is this morbid curiosity, but at the same time, it's an unpleasant thought to observe her in her natural environment. it's bad enuff that i'll come home and be assaulted with a new smell.

afterwards, crawled back into bed, twittered and then attempted to fall asleep. after a few minutes, i closed my window and turned the fan on my A/C to create some white noise, but that didn't help much so it was probably close to 4am when i finally fell back asleep. so when my alarm went off at 602am, i managed to sleep thru it until just after 7am, which is something i would prefer not to do.

fortunately, there was no traffic on the road so even leaving a little before 8am, i was at work in plenty of time.

so for the 4th night in a row, i've had a crappy nights sleep and i'm getting starting to get cranky.

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dog + beer != good idea

i don't quite know what to say about this. if you give a dog the taste of beer (and they like it), doesn't that make it more likely they are going to go after MY beer?

Bowser Beer

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water water everywhere

and who knows what to drink? i went to the new market basket that opened recently near me to pick up some stuff last night and as it was less crazy (and i wasn't feeling like shit) when M&i went on saturday afternoon, i took the time to actually wander up and down the aisle to get a sense of the layout. it wasn't that different from the others in the area, but i had to laugh when i hit the water aisle.

it was nothing but water.

bottled. spring. fruity. plain. vitamin. fizzy. flavored with sweet n' low. flavored with splenda. energizing. relaxing. filtered. distilled. big bottles. little bottles. gallons. pods.

i just stared in amazement at just how water crazy a society we have become. in the past, water and soda would live in the same aisle, usually soda on one side, water, bottled teas & energy drinks on the other. but there, they have an entire aisle for soda. a separate aisle for water. fruit juice/drinks are in their own aisle (filled one entire side). energy drinks are somewhere else. tea/coffee based drinks have their own 1/2 side of an aisle. i was amazed at just how much variety there is in the beverage world. sure i know that it's nuts - everyone wants a piece of the beverage market, but i hadn't realized just how bad it was when i realized that there was more beverage selection than there was frozen foods, or the entire produce department.

guess we like water.

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random picture of the moment: are you sure that is a mushroom?

follow up to this?

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huh

for once it really is all about the cock.

and in Atlanta?

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in a silly kind of way, this is pretty cool.

and i had to look up hoonage. i believe the first definition is a good one.

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snap, crackle and pot

talk about your non-sequitors. at lunch today, i was telling R & D about how when i was coming to work this morning, i was behind a car on the off-ramp that let out a large cloud of smoke. as i had my sunroof open, i was able to smell it, and it didn't smell like something i would expect, esp for 830am.

so as i'm telling my story, LO walks in to wash her glad bowl, and i notice she's listening to our conversation. she certainly heard enuff to know that i was talking about pot and she starts to wash her bowl. then out of nowhere (and i mean way beyond left field), she says "oh, a snap, crackle & pop bowl". the three of us look at each other wondering what the hell she is talking about. D hears 'snap, crackle & pot' (based on our conversation) but R and i see her holding her gladware bowl and we both wonder what the hell is she talking about.

LO: you know, snap, crackle & pop.
R: what?

obviously, we know the reference, but still have no clue what she's talking about and so she picks up a cereal bowl someone put in the sink that has snap, crackle & pop on it.

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who knew...anti-monkey butt powder

heh...monkey butt.

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well, after seeing the news of Dune (cool) i figured i should write about what i wanted to write about originally.

i've noticed lately, when i've gone into the mens room at work, and it is empty, there is this phobia of flushing the urinal. now, the first thing i do is flush, attend to business, and then flush again.

when there is someone else in the bathroom, the odds of the urinal being flushed are pretty high, but empty the room, and all of a sudden, some 'manly' guy develops this phobia of flushing.

it's gross. and i don't want to see it, and i fail to see why there is such a phobia. hell, if you are that scared of flushing, WASH YOUR HANDS afterwards. i do that regardless, but i FLUSH, so i don't care, but i certainly don't like having to flush because some guy develops this phobia of flushing, or is it really that hard to raise your left hand chest high to pull the lever.

i wonder if someone designed a flush lever in the shape and feel of breast if that would help increase the odds of a guy flushing...most guys seem to be able to lift their hands up to chest level if given an opportunity to cop a feel...

fucking cowards...

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