Blog 34: The New Suitcoat

Yes, well, the title has nothing to do with anything. I always feel bad when I slack off and don't write for awhile, cause I have so many things to talk about but they fade with memory so it is hard to divulge when I write. But I will do my best. Perhaps I will one day actually write every day like I first promised. At this rate getting to step 1000 will be like when I'm 80. Bah! Get off my lawn!

Lets see, fun things to talk about. Went in for a job interview recently. One of my friends got me the interview so I figured I would see what I had to offer the world, seeing as my job has me doing the same thing day in and day out. Now don't get me wrong, my job has a lot of perks, but I want to be able to feel like I have skills people want, and currently, that ain't so. With my current job skill set I feel like I have the ability to BS and piss people off in written form. But back to the interview. It was for a Contracting company that does analysis on other companies to help them run more efficiently when completing their own projects. I find it interesting how companies pay other companies to do all their thinking for them. Very interesting. But anyway, it was an unusual interview cause I don't actually think they had a position in mind. I'm used to the whole "We have a square hole, are you a square peg sort of guy" attitude. I think my Friend pitched me well enough so they were like, "Sweet! You are a dodecahedron shaped guy, let us see if we can scrounge up a dodecahedron shaped hole". Very odd in that regard. One part of the interview that freaked me out was that they have 4 divisions, and I was asked which I liked, and it felt like he had laid down four cards and asked me to choose the right one, and under the other cards were certain death. How can certain death be under a card? Spider probably. Trained, spider otherwise it would bite him too. Crazy company and their trained spiders.

Lets see what else have we been up to. Went to Reedville, and have been meaning to blog about that. Good times were had by all, and the car ride was laughs non stop. But let me tell you this. I don't think that there is much to do in Reedville, ie. there are no Best Buys or Starbucks or Target or any of that stuff. Can't even get cellphone reception. Very very peaceful and I like it. But what, do I ask myself, do they do for something to DO down there. I think they work out their livers. Those people can DRINK. I was up till about 4 for three nights running and was still put to bed by everyone down there. They have endurance let me tell you. And not only do they drink more and stay up later, they will then proceed to do household chores in the middle of the night for no real reason, such as airing up tires on bikes, cleaning, and building and installing a dock. That's right folks. Leave it to Reedvillians to build and install a dock in the middle of the night after a case or two. These people are Tanks, and I can only hope to try and keep up. Hehe, I like the term Reedvillians, as though most of America's corporate villainy comes from this small town. Amused.

What else is new. Getting a puppy. Finally. Little Pug puppy, picking up next week, should be good times. I apparently get to name the puppy according to Meg. I have to wonder if that will actually be the case. I tried pitching a few names. Sheera, Skelator, Captain Planet. It is not my fault that the 80's took all the good names out there. I have been shot down so far, but we will see. I also chose Jezebelle as a possible name, though I was then informed that calling my dog a whore (apparently that is what a Jezebelle is, you know, if you are from the Eighteen Hundreds!) is not so Kosher. So we are still looking for a name. I think I will probably come up with something when I see her. Probably Hey You, or Dog. We will see.

No real projects in the works. Been mulching steadily for what feels like years, and still have a giant pile in the yard. Still fighting the city about a fence. Apparently my 300$ was not convincing enough and they need a persuasive letter. Boo that crap, just take my 300$ as a bribe and let me build. Work is still a pain in the ass, though I got promoted, but all that really means is I need to churn out more work for, wait for it, less pay. How you may ask? Because if I worked it as overtime like I had been doing I would have been getting 4 times the pay that I will be now for that difference in work. Lame. Oh well, I hope to one day hit the next pay grade so I can work from home. Or "work" as I call it. If you can do it in your underwear it stops being work and becomes "work". Porn stars "work", though if you think about it, they aren't really in their underwear either. They "work" half the time, and *work* the other half. I am running out of ASCII code to use to define the different forms of "work*.

Watched the worst movie in the world the other day. The new Tim Burton's "Alice" was quite possibly the most ridiculously horrible movie I have seen in years. I think Tim Burton is no longer used to directing real people. I mean the new Willy Wonka movie was bad, but this Alice movie was something unreal. I mean, seriously, it ended in a dance party. A DANCE PARTY. WTF!? None of the characters were well developed. For example the Hatter himself, played by Johnny Depp, would switch between normal speech and a Scottish Accent for what appeared to be no reason at all, and his eyes would change color... you got it... for no reason at all. It just didn't make sense. And it ended Prince of Persia style were everyone in classic Disney Mode is like "Yea, we'll follow you whoever you are to stop the bad people cause they are... well... bad. Huzza!" Super Dumb. And there was a lot more violence in this movie that I recall in previous Disney films. I mean, eyes are gouged out, heads cut off (and not just talked about, actually cut off) and the movie ends with Alice drinking blood. Yes, she DRINKS BLOOD. Seriously??! Has this whole Twilight Fad gotten so out of hand that it is now okay to Drink BLOOD? Fuck That! Also, the preview for the new Twilight Movie called something like Moon over my Twilight or Twilight Mooning out the window or some crap like that is quite possibly the culmination of everything I hate about movies right now. I think the day it opens a black hole will open up and suck in all the kittens and babies in the world (but only the quiet babies, the loud ones would stick around cause they suck), and the puppies. The day that movie opens I'm gonna be in a bomb shelter under my house with my girl, my puppy, and my turtle. The cat will be fine cause he is annoying and will probably hide on his own anyway. I wish I could set fire to ideas like I set fire to the people I do not like. Sadly, I am metaphorically restricted. But really, when did Vampires stop being evil. I mean they drink BLOOD and KILL PEOPLE, they do NOT FUCKING SPARKLE IN THE SUN. Screw this, I'm gonna go watch that terrible Van Hellsing movie from a few years ago, Lost Boys, and Blade to feel better
cause those movies put Vampires in their PLACE, and that place is not in your BED. Stupid Twilight Crap.

Out and Annoyed!

Fig 3a and 3b. I don't get it. But all I can say is... I kinda wanna try it.
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