gouged at the patch

so sunday afternoon i go over to lauri's after church. lauri, pete, and i planned to carve pumpkins for halloween. we all pile in the car and drive down to arcadia to a pumpkin patch where we expect to score on some great carving candidates. you know, with a good "face side" and a big stem to lift off the top. it's the day before halloween so let's face it, the patch was pretty picked over. but the three of us managed to each find large-ish, robust, handsome looking pumpkins that we were very satisfied with. we take them over to the "register" if you will. which is basically this gypsy lady (she was dressed as a gypsy for halloween... or was she?) who works out of her r.v. she's got a table set up under the opened canopy and is calculating everything on a notepad. anyhow, lauri, pete, and i are expecting big discounts because a. it's a pumpkin patch, b. it's the day before halloween, and c. she's a gypsy lady. anyhow, after figuring prices in her crazy head, she proudly states that our total is $36. after our discount! we were stunned! lauri says, "i was thinking $10!". the gypsy lady said okay and we all breathed a sigh of relief... but the lady was thinking $10 each. i told her that pumpkins were selling for $2.50 at trader joe's. and she says, "honey, they're billionaires. i'm like a boutique... they're macy's." lol. crazy ass.

wondering what we ended up doing? we all put our large-ish, robust, handsome looking pumpkins back down in the hay, got in the car and drove up the street to albertsons, talking boatloads of shit all the way. and we got our pumpkins 3 for $12. the end.

Little Lauri

again... Happy Halloween

Happy Halloween

Happy Halloween From Lauri and Sheila (1980)

New Posts

If you're interested, there are some new posts on my other blog.

Xenu

Here's a decent Wikipedia article about Scientology for those of you curious about the Galactic Overlord Xenu.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientology

I might have done something stupid

I might have done something stupid. You ever get so pissed about the way your being treated at work and you swear your going to do something about it? Well I did. I sent two pretty controversial emails to my boss. Noramlly, i'm allowed to be controversial and direct just because I have good diplomacy skills. But in an email? Thats dangerous. The recipient could take it totally the wrong way. But I never see my boss he leaves a lot of times before I get there. Anyway, I think I have enough goodwill built up to weather a storm, but my new boss is kind of a hothead. We'll see how it goes. The funny thing is, i'm really not treated that badly. I get lots of leeway, good hours for the time being and regular raises. It was just a series of bad incidents that set me off.

Positivity

I titled my post "Positivity" because it seems I have been under siege for making my posts boring and not interesting. the reason behind this trend was because I was feeling less than positive. Sitting in an office with no windows tends to get me down. Today though i got to leave the office and drive to Simi Valley to help set up a new store. Sure it was Simi Valley but I got out during the day. Traffic sucked and I spent more time in the car than actually doing anything at the store but it was just so nice to get out of the office.
Simi Valley is really kinda far. I never thought it was that far away but it is out there. It took me almost 2 hours to get there however most of that 2 hours was sitting in rush hour traffic on the 405 which as usual was a nightmare. Luckily I had my trusty iPod with me and the tunes were flowing. Once I got to the store I met 2 of my co-workers and everything was pretty much done. I helped set up some phone lines for the modems, the corporate phones and the Eclipse machine. And if you really want to know what those are and how to set them up and why? Just ask me. After that was done my co-workers and I hung out for a little while but then it was time to go and I departed to once again face the droves on cars on our wonderful freeway system.
Traffic on the way down was pretty bad as well. Not as bad it seemed as on the way up. I was driving slower because the more time I spent in the open meant less time spent in the office. So I cruised along and eventually got back to the office around 7:15PM. I am just hanging out now not really feeling like doing any work so I am not going to.
I can't think of any interesting stories to tell now though. The store in Simi Valley was nice I have only been to 2 though counting this one. So I don't think I have racked up enough stores to make a judgment on whether a store is nice or not.
Oh I got a story kind of. There is this store. Store 404 in Ventura. I guess it's not really a good story. i was just going to say that there are these2 girls there. Lisa and Veronica. While I was at the Simi Valley store one of the girls there mentioned how Store 404 loved me and especially Lisa. Now this doesn't seem like a big deal to me at the time because I have never been out to Ventura or even met Lisa. I have only flirted on the phone I do that with certain females who call. I ma thinking about it now and she has asked me before to come up and visit her store. But Ventura is a fucking long was away though just to met a girl I have talked to over the phone. I aslo flirt with Veronica but that is because Lisa has told her to call me whenever there is a problem. So I get a lot of calls from her. Anyway like I said not so much of a story but more me thinking out loud.
Well I guess I will get on outta here maybe do some work, not likely though. If you are going to Happy Hour tonight I will see you there. If not your loss. PEACE!

The Afternoon Post

While this day has been insane here at work, i've also been doing something fun. What kinda something fun you ask? Sheila and I have been getting together a Christmas Wish List. Yes folks the holidays are coming! And they are coming fast. It's already less than a month to Thanksgiving. Heck, just going to the mall and you'd think that Christmas is tomorrow. This is the last weekend in October. As i write down the things i want for Christmas i realize all the money i'm going to be spending on others. Now don't get me wrong, i like this time of year. I like giving and receiving presents. I like the food and the music. I however do not like the shopping. The crowds are ridiculous and after i buy the presents, i can't wrap for shit. I'm not creative in my gift wrapping, its so blah. This year i won't be going to Texas. Not for Thanksgiving and not for Christmas or New Years. Its home sweet home for me. My birthday is in December too. That i'm not to excited about. I feel bad for people who have to get me a birthday present and then a week later a Christmas present. But i sure as hell do not feel bad for those who try to give me the bday/xmas present. Unless its super big and expensive. Anyways, as i was writting my list i was coming up with some crazy things. You know, those things that no one can really get for you. For example, my parents can't really get me a new sofa i want. Or there's the things that are truly wishes. So here's the question to everyone...what do you want for xmas? Pick a reasonable thing, then an actual "wish". Mine? I want new bed sheets, but i wish for a dog. So what's yours??????

The Morning Post

Good Morning everyone! Today has been a challenging day so far. There are idiots teaching idiots and many preventable fuck-ups. But then again, what's new?! My boss informed me yesterday that a worker's comp. auditor was coming in today to check things out. My boss wanted me to go around the manufacturing and shipping areas and "baby proof" it. So i did and the guy is here now. No matter what i did, i'm sure it was wrong and/or not good enough. Moving on...

I didn't do much last night. I decided to cook myself some dinner. I have a recipe from my mom for beef stroganoff. Its very simple. I like it a lot, Pete thinks its the blandest thing ever. Who cares what he thinks though. So i went to the store and got what i needed to make it. I grabbed a couple of items that were low in sodium (i'm trying to be careful about what i eat). When i made my dinner is was extremely bland. So i was disappointed. But the fat pig that i am, i still ate that shit till it was almost gone (after adding some of my own salt...sigh). After dinner i watched some tv. America's Next Top Model was on, i like that show. Why do i like it?? I really have no idea. I then realized that there isn't anything on tv. I flipped by the World Series Game a couple of times and it was around the 9th inning. Then after doing some dishes i flipped again and came to the World Series Game and it was in the 11th inning. Then it became interesting to me. So i watched the rest of the game and it was a long game. Did anyone watch it? It went to 14 innings! That's ridiculous. It was 1am in Houston and for those watching in the east coast, it was 2am. I'd be like, "Forget it! I'll hear the end on the radio as i drive home!". But of course no one did that cuz it was something that hasn't happened in years. Pete said something about it not happening since 1916? I could be wrong. So after watching a baseball game for about two hours, and it being intense, i dreamt about baseball. It was a dream that mixed what i was watching, to the feelings and experiences i had with being on a softball team. I didn't sleep to well.

Its hard these days to get up in the morning. Its chilly and dark. My heater is broken at the moment. I need to call my manager but i don't like having strangers in my apartment. And i know that it won't be the manager that will fix it, so its even worse, total strangers. But there is nothing more i hate than being cold.

What should i do tonight? Happy hour at the Crown? I've had a rough week and could use a cocktail. So maybe i'll go. Who's down?
I guess i should rap this up. I think i'll blog some more later today. I do have more to talk about. So check back here later. Hell, i check the blog every 10 minutes. Its sad, so, so, sad.

Monday night

Hey everyone sorry it's been so long since I have written. I have been kinda busy at work and too lazy as well. So it's around 9PM right now and I am sitting at work all alone. I am listening to my iPod and wishing I had a time travel machine so I could travel forward an hour and leave. But alas no time machine so I am forced to sit here for another hour and listen to my iPod.
I am pretty stoked about this week though, I have Thursday and Friday off, which is pretty cool. In addition on Saturday and Sunday I am off by 6PM which is far superior to getting off at 10PM and it allows me to go to any weekend parties that may be going on. So I am pretty excited. I need to know if Tim is going to be Han or not so I can either decide on Chewie or think of something else. Anyway time is dragging right now and all I want is to go home and have a beer. Man life can be so unfair sometimes.
Fuck I don't know what to write about actually I don't have anything to write about, but making it sound like I don't know what I should talk about makes it sound like I actually have something to write about. So now that I have confused myself I am going to sit here listen to my iPod and hope that next time I open my eyes it is 10. Bye.

Now Open!

According to Marcos' website, the shop is now open! Call Marcos and make your appointments to get your car fixed or tuned up. He needs the support and most of all, money. Just to reiterate, he's a great guy who is honest about car repairs. You'll never feel ripped off or uncertain. He's awesome! check out the website: www.marcosgarage.com

Insomnia Strikes Back

Well...It's 4:40 in the morning, and mt brain won't shut off. I lie in bed and strange images of work blend into whatever I start to think about. I tried getting up and watching TV for a while and then going back to bed but it didn't work. I think the big ass cup of coffee I drank at 8 might have soemthing to do with it. I tried taking half a sleeping pill before I went to bed, but I think its contributing to my loopyness. I don't even have anything to write about I just don't know what else to do, there's nothing on TV. They're playing Robot Jox on HBO. Its a movie where people in giant Robots battle each other in a post apocalyptic world. Also Gremlins is on.
Man this is weird. I have my Itunes on Random, but it just played like 5 songs in a Row from the 60's. I guess most of my music is from the 60's but it happens all the time where it will play like five random selected Rap songs in a row. Or 5 similiarly themed songs in a row. Its like...it knows. ooooohhhh scary. By the way have I told about my plans for halloween. Me Randy and Alex are going to get together and watch spooky movies. Not scary movies. Just spooky movies. You know, like Scooby Doo, Harry Potter, Ghostbusters, that sort of thing. I'm being sarcastic of course, it just sounded hilarious when I told Randy and Alex about it. I just realized I work on the Saturday before Halloween, so, no dress up for yours truly. I guess that takes the whole pressure of finding a costume away. Me and Lauri got paid to clean Randy and Alex's apartment today. I don't mind saying, it was a hell of a job. It had reached a level of filthyness that no apt. should reach. My god the magazines. My god the mail. Years of it. My GOD the sink. Wow. There is an indefeatable stickiness living in that broken garbage disposal...I don't know, but scientists might be interested. Some dishes had been sitting dirty for so long I think they are ruined, particularly Randy's engraved beer mug. I consider myself lucky though, Lauri had to do the Bathroom.

Couple of Things

The Lebowskifest has been postponed indefinitely. I think we're looking for a free saturday so we can have it at Tim's house. Also, it might start a bit late so Randy can show up after work.

The Conference Center was a flashpoint for global war tonight. We had a Taiwan Independence Event with a former president of Taiwan as the Keynote speaker. There were protestors...lots of them. We managed to get the "One China" people situated across the street at Paseo, but there was a definite shouting match going on between the two groups across the street. I don't know what they were saying because it was in Chinese, or Taiwanese? But it was getting ugly. Once we got the Taiwanese into the X-Hall the Chinese dispersed. And actually I thought they dispersed a little too orderly, like maybe they were paid by the Chinese government to stage a protest? I dare not speculate. Anyway, things calmed down after we got started. Its just so weird to me that there are still entire nations who hold so much hostility toward others. Just look at India and Pakistan. There all hella poor over there but they still hold a place in thier hearts to hate the other. China and Taiwan and Tibet. Isn't China big eneough? Less headaches it would seem to me to just let those two countries go. I guess we're not giving up Hawaii any time soon though so who are we to judge. Well sir, thats all he wrote.

everyone come see how good i look

hey i just want to give a shot out to my boy Randy Moe for fixing my computer and putting my pic on this shit

I ain't no white trash peice a shit, om better n' you all

First of all lets get one thing straight, i still read these post everynight. Its great entertainment. second of all if your going to call me gay you should want me to know and not hide behind some blog. so sense were still in the 8th grade i only have one thing to say to you Jeff, your Mom is gay. Oh and i"m noy gay

Going Down the Wine Hole

So I worked the Distinguished Speaker Series tonight. The speaker was Colin Powell. He's very charming for a Republican. The first part of the talk sounded like this..."blah blah blah the terrorists, blah blah...can't let them win...blah blah...the terrorists....blah blah blah way of life...blah blah blah...the terrorists. But once he got past the republican talking points he told some interesting stories about working as Sec. Of State. Anyway, the thing about tonight was this...the event manager, the person who's supposed to be in charge was awol while the shit was hitting the fan. We were sold out tonight and things were BUSY. All the big wigs were there and when things needed doing and fears needed to be allayed they called me. And you know what? It felt fucking good to be the guy who gets things done. And at this point I'm gonna give a shout out to Lauri who, in her power suits and suvelliance kit is not only the sexiest head Usher/ Staff Pro Supervisor I've ever worked with but also the most competant. We fucking rocked that place. I almost feel like I'm I'm too good at that job. The people above me... the people who disappear when the shit hits the fan...like to say that the job is mostly common sense. But its not. It's experience. Its knowing every possible outcome of a situation and anticipating for it. Anyway enough about the job. When I got home, i decided to go down the wine hole to unwind. Are you familiar with the wine hole? It when you drink a lot of wine to...you know... unwind. In this case it was half a bottle of Chardonay. Plus one of my favorite movies, Kelly's Heroes, was on HBO . Its simply Donald Sutherland's finest performances and I'll hear nothing to the contary. I'm starting to crawl out of the wine hole though. I downlaoding a few songs and when I went to update my ipod, it turns out that like 200 song needed updating. I'm not sure why it does that from time to time , but it does. Plus Tom had just updated his shuffle so like 500 of my songs were unchecked so I had to through and re-check them all.
So a strange thought occured to my today. A lot of people have been commenting on my beard lately. I that annoying tendency of humans to state the obvious "Hey, you grew a beard!"
"Holy Shit!" I reply, "Really?"
Anyway, while rehearsing cnversations in my head. As I'm wont to do. I thought od what my answer would be to the question, "why did you grow a beard?" The first answer that popped into my head was, "because Jedi's have beards.." Isn't that strange? Its not the reason I grew a beard. I grew a beard because I didn't shave at camping and when I came home I thought it looked sweet so I kept it. But that wasn't the answer that popped into my head, it was the Jedi thing. Even my subconscious is a Star Wars nerd. Good to know. Well you see what going sown the wine hole will bring you...Outing yourself as a nerd once again. I don't care. I still go out with the sexy Staff Pro Supe with the Power suit.

Anyone Wanna?

I propose our very own Lewbowski fest. In honor of the collector's edition DVD coming out. I think we should do it Friday night. We'll watch the movie. Eat In N' Out and drink white Russians and Oat Sodas (MGD). And if you wanna Do a J well thats up to you. You should feel free to wear your jelly sandals or shooting glasses. Anyone wanna host? Tim, I'm looking in your direction.

WARNING :The Fog Is Coming

Wassup peoples. I thought I need to write this down so everyone can see it. I saw the movie THE FOG last night with my friend nate. Now before you say what were you thinking I have to say Tom Welling is a good actor so I think he might be able to save the movie Nate thought that too. We were wrong!!!! It should've been called THE FOG OF SHIT cuz that's what it was. Holes in the plot. THE FOG killed some people that deserved it and then killed some people that had nothing to do with it. It should've killed the people that made it come out. It's stupid how it even happened (the fog coming out and how killers were in it). The ending was stupid I was close to walking out but then the credits rolled. Every other petson who was leaving the theater was also saying the movie was horrible. But the movie was number 1 in the box office what is going ON!!! Over Elizabethtown and Domino?! YES!! I've seen some horrible movie "Surviving Christmas", "Abandon", "Planet Of The Apes 2001", "2001: A Space odyssey", "A.I.", and more. I can't label this is worse than those but I'm gonna do something I never thought I would do. This is the worst movie remake EVER!!! Even over The Planet Of The Apes. Everybody comment and say what you think is the worst movie ever. With me is Surviving Christmas. OH MY GOD IT"S THE FOG!!!!!HJGj,hgkfl;ejfjlAHHHHHHGUUAAHHH

Friday

Well folks another week has come and gone. Not a very exciting week in my life at least. I had two days off again this week, Wednesday and Thursday, and next week have those same two days off. It seems as if work is entering that rut, you know where you know what days you have to work, when you have to work and nothing is going to change that schedule. I hate it when that happens. But I guess that is life, falling into comfortable ruts.
I was gonna write some quotes from this book my parents gave me when I graduated but while browsing through it I noticed they were all like "believe in yourself" kind of quotes and right now I am am not in the mood for those. So sorry maybe next blog I will hook you up with some of those.
I really have nothing to do at work right now. I could be trying to close some cases but most of them have to do with pinpads and to do those cases the stores have to be open and only west coast stores are still open now and all their pinpads work. Anyway so I blog. I haven't done so in a while and I feel bad about it. Poor Lauri and Pete and Sheila now that she is back are carrying on this blog by themselves. I really have no excuses except that I really have nothing going on.
So I am bummed cause I realize I still have 2 hours left before I can leave, that blows. I got my paycheck today it wasn't as much as I had hoped, I wish it was more. Too bad though I guess. What else...? Damn I think I am at a total loss of words. I got nothing to say. I will participate in Pete's little Desert Island thing which he got from "The Office" but it's all good because he implemented it and I wouldn't have minus the quotes.
Movies
The Matrix
Star Wars Trilogy(obviously IV,V,VI)
Napolean Dynamite

Books
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
The Bible (great stories)
Jurassic Park (the only book I have ever read more than once, sad I know)

One luxury item
My iPod

Ok I guess that is it. I am going to in fact read and listen to my iPod so I bid you all farewell and perhaps I will see you sometime this weekend. That would be cool. Bye-bye.

Dark was the night. Boring was the Day.

I hate these kinds of posts, but i am bored to tears man. So far today I have done three loads of laundry, got the camping pictures developed, bought some new work clothes and got lunch at subway. Its 3:20 right now and I am out of my mind bored.I have an hour to kill before I start getting ready for work and I have no idea what to do with my time. I can watch Seinfeld reruns, or watch while CNN tries to create bullshit news stories (I haven't trusted them since I saw them create the NY subway scare. The story just went on and on while everyone they talk to said it wasn't a reliable threat.) Camping pictures came out pretty good. There are about ten pictures of sunsets. We need a digital camera. I look terrible in all the pictures I took as usual. Its funny, when I look in the mirror I don't see that fat guy with a funny haircut, but there he is in pictures. What does it mean when your self image is actaully better than your real Image? anyway thats all. This killed about five minutes. I'm goin for a walk.

bumbling idiots

to me, the words "knucklehead" and "millionaire" don't really fit together. but then there's my boss, the president of the company, a scientist for god's sake. and he's such a dimwit it amazes me. when he fumbles into the room, it's like you can hear the jingle bells in his head.

speaking of being scatterbrained, isn't it annoying when you forget the one thing you've set out to do? example: lauri and i went to target during our lunchbreak and the only thing i needed, i forgot all about. we even stood in the aisles thinking that there was something else i was going to buy. then on the way back to work, i asked lauri if i could bring in a tape from her car to listen to on the radio in our office. it wasn't even a span of five minutes, and we walked back in here emptyhanded.

apparently i'm dog/housesitting again in pasadena next week. i don't think i was asked this time as much as i was informed of it. hm. anyway, i'll be there from the 19th through the 28th. and i could use some happy hours!

Top 5's

Top 5 desert island movies:
The Big Lebowski (yes Amanda, its that good.)
Star Wars Episodes IV, V, VI (no explanation necessary)
Joe V. The Volcano (Some call it one of the worst movies of all time, they just weren't paying attention)

Top 5 desert island Books:
Lord of the Rings (you'll notice I chose the book form. In retrospect, I really hated 90% of the movies I hope I never see them again. Seriously.)
Cannery Roe (The Ultimate Slacker Novel, before being a slacker was chic)
Norton Anthology of The Romantic Era (The best of the Romantic Poets, plus a full version of Frankenstein. Even though I don't agree that it fits in the Romantic genre.)

Top 5 desert Island Movie Quotes:

"What is that...a teddy bear?"
"No it is my soul."
"I hope you don't lose it."
"So do I."
-Joe Vs. The Volcano

"Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter."
-The Empire Strikes Back

"Quit hittin me with them negative waves Moriarty...Its a mother beautiful bridge...and its gonna be there."
-Kelly's Heroes

"This is life, and sometimes it fuckin' hurts"
-Garden State

Quint's whole speech about the sinking of the Indianapolis in Jaws.

Top 5 desert Island Shakespeare quotes:

There are more things on heaven and earth than are dreamed of in your philosophy
-Hamlet

I'll have her, but I will not keep her long.
-Richard III

What a world that hath such creatures in it.
-The Tempest

Life... is a tale told by an idiot filled with soulnd and fury, signifying nothing.
-Macbeth

Cry Havok! and let slip the dogs of War!
-Henry V

I Drink Too Much?

The answer to that question...Yes. Yes I Do. I mean I don't a much as some people, but still. This damn Wednesday night happy hour has me drinking in the middle of the week. Then there was Oktoberfest. Then there are the Random Tuesday Happy Hour forays. Am I worried about alcoholism? Not really. Its not the alcohol I crave or even the drunkeness. I just like to be social. Which is weird because mostly I hate people. But I think we've got solid group of friends here. Good People all. I need to be careful though, my belly grows faster than most people's and its beginning to get a bit more prodigous than I would like. I find myself overly corpulent at the moment. I find myself shunning physical activity as a result of the fatigue that follows a night of drinking. I need a hobby. I need something productive to pass the time at and between work. Any suggestions? I wish the weather would cool down so i could enjoy a hike. I need a new place to hike. After the 5000th time, hiking first water is starting to get a bit repetitive. Anyway, just wanted to put that out there. Maybe I'll blog some more later.

time to waste

I seem to have things running smoothly here at work so now i'm bored. Sheila is gonna leave early today so then i'm really gonna be bored. Rochelle was supposed to come in today but i guess she decided not to. Let's see what can i talk about...

Does it bother anyone else that Katie Holmes is prego with Tom Cruises baby? It bothers me. And i'm sure they'll name it something crazy too. Rich people suck. They get to do everything they want. Get married and divorced on the drop of a dime. Give birth to kids left and right. Travel all over the place. Work if and when they want to. Sounds wonderful. Sheila and I bought some (actually Sheila bought) scratchers yesterday and we both won! we won another ticket. yay!

What should i do for lunch? I brought a soda but that doesn't sound good. Does anyone wanna meet me for lunch? Chili's sounds pretty good right now. A big southwestern cobb salad. mmm. Dinner tonight is at Sheila's. She's been making the bomb dinners this week. One night was chicken and the other night was salmon. who knows what tonight brings.

No one blogs anymore. Tim is gone. I even check Amanda's blog daily, nothing there. Well we're busy i suppose. Except for me today. I've blogged twice, i don't think it'll be the last. Now if i recall, Jeff will be at happy hour tonight cuz he doesn't work tomorrow. Lucky duck. Enjoy the beers!

Well i guess that again is all for now. I wish i had better things to type about. Pete comes up with poems and articles to type about. Jeff has lists of things. I have rambling. BUT don't say i never blog! :)

Beware the Bird Flu

Shun the Pidgeon.

Forsake the Seagull.

mind games

Last night i couldn't fall asleep at my usual bed time. I stayed up watching ATHF with Pete so that i wouldn't be just laying in bed doing tons of thinking. I hate that ya know! And i do it every single night. I try to be in bed by 11pm or so and then when i get there i usually lay in the dark thinking and thinking and thinking. Ah it drives me nuts! So since Pete was over i decided to forget about bed. Then later in the night i woke up and got a drink of water and went to the bathroom. When i got back to bed my mind wasn't awake or something cuz i couldn't comprehend how people sleep. I was very close to waking up Pete and asking him how does he sleep. Like there's an explaination? Apparently was getting insanly confused with sleeping and work. Yep i thought that when people go to sleep they have to put a kit together. When i say "kit" i mean what i do all day. I put together stuff all day long. So i thought that i needed and Pete had already, put the kit together in order to get to sleep. It made more sense in my head, but now that i'm typing it, it doesn't make sense. Well that's what happens when you sleep walk, right? You think your awake but your mind isn't. This even happend to me earlier in the month. I started talking nonsense to Pete in the middle of the night. My brain must be fried.

a friend of the devil is a friend of mine

i don't know when the last time i blogged was, but it's been a while. my mom and sister are in town staying with me. it's a tight squeeze but what's a girl to do? drop them off at a motel6? our weekend together was nice... we went to check out this year's la fiesta grande or whatever at the church. it was pathetic as predicted. but we sat down for a beer and then took off. what else? we went to the mall, mass on sunday morning, i don't know... just stuff. it's cool to see sharon's crazy ass. she held the original "funniest person i've ever met" title until i started hanging around lauri. so you could imagine the three of us together at dinner last night.

at this point, i'm trying to post a picture, but there's an "error" occuring so my segue is ruined. but anyhow, it's of megan and me on our cruise. and then i was going to talk about how i'm going out on saturday with a guy i met on our cruise. see how that would've worked? oh well.

Bob Loblaw

What's been a happenin? I'm not sick anymore, thank god. Still have a cough though. My mom and sister are still in town. I pretty much see them after work for dinner. They seem to keep busy during the day. Sheila and I are trying to think of something for dinner, any ideas? As Pete had blogged earlier in the week, the whole stage distruction was something interesting. I was watching the symphony that night and wondering just what i would do if the stage fell or something during the performance. Well it fell alright, just after the show. Do you think i forsaw it happening? Am i psychic? We all had a good time at Octoberfest on Sunday. Man, there is nothing worse though than drinking heavly on a "work night". At least it ended fairly early and i was able to pass out by 9pm instead of midnight or something. What's the plan for this weekend? I didn't sign up for any work. Things are kinda messed up over there. So i'm free to do what i want. Sunday is National Boss Day! Funny how its on a Sunday. Daylight savings time is near. Then its Halloween. I did have a cool idea for a costume but since we aren't going to a party i'm not dressing up. Plus Halloween is on a Monday, that sucks. OK now that i've blogged about the most random things i think i'll stop here. Enjoy your day folks!!!!!!!

Oktoberfest (or what DOES come out a chicken's butt?)

Let me just say that I went into this year's Oktoberfest with some trepidation for two reasons. The first was that last years Oktoberfest almost killed me, I was so drunk i pissed in the wastebasket in my bedroom to avoid a trip to the bathroom that might hive made me throw up. I was hungover for a full day afterward. The second reson is that this years Oktoberfest was at Matt Denny's instead of the Crown.
I knew it was gonna be a good day, however, because we started out at the Nano Cafe with omlettes and Mimosa's. We took duel Cabs to MD's to avoid drunk driving. Actaully, all it did was force other less drunk people to drive our drunk asses home. At first I panicked because it looked like all they had were reserved tables. But those in our group who had connections around the place got a place to sit down. Things progressed nicely after a few chicken dances and Ziggy Ziggy Ziggies.
The chicken dance happens when the band plays a song that goes "what comes out a chicken's butt? What comes out a chicken's butt? Its not an egg." The funniest part of the day was when it occurred to Lauri what it was that came out a chicken's butt. Its Poop. She went around telling everybody about the poop. It was great. Some people got really hammered, some moderately. I could say more but I'm goin to bed.

And the walls came tumbling down

MAN! So I'm closing out the Symphony last night and I hear on the Walkie "Engineering, We Just lost the back wall of the Orchestra shell and it broke a water main, its flooding pretty good back here." Immeadiately I ask if anyone was hurt. No one was. So I go into the the Auditorium and lo and behold, the back wall of the shell had crashed into the stage. Literally put a 4x4 hole through the stage, and punctured it in several other places. Water was filling the corridors below the stage. I'm not talking Titanic here but it was ankle deep in a matter of minutes. While I got on the phone to the higher ups, 11pm mind you, the engineer managed to find the shut off valve for the water line. When we went down below to inspect the damage, we found a huge wooden beam, the size of an oak tree had been splintered. The damage to the theater is MAJOR. The only thing we can be thankful for is that no one got hurt.

Long Time!!!

What's up peoples. It's been so long since I've blogged and everyone is mad at me for not blogging. So after a pep talk from Pete tonight I decided to blog. Now for the last month I've been working a movie called ACCEPTED about a college Called South Harmon Institute of Technology or easier SHIT. I was a student AND IT WAS ALL FUN (oops hit caps lock)also made a lot of new friends including some stars ( i know they are not stars yet but I think this movie will make them big). It was sad leaving like if you really graduated a real college. But here's the intersing part of the blog. About The Movie I just worked Called The Fast And The Furious 3 or called The Fastest And The More Furious. New cast featuring Bow Wow, Lucas Black from (Friday Night Lights), and Zachary Ty Bryan from (Home Improvement). Anyway this movie that did not to be made mostly takes place In Tokyo but there are some high school scenes and thats what I did. I was booked as a football player which was good because I never played but I like to say I did. But we didn't play we just wore jerseys and hung around together with Zachary. We were supposed to be the assholes picking on the other kids but we didn't I thought we should done somethin to a nerd. But I met some interesting people one guy took the cake he said He was a quarterback in high school in ohio and won state3 times and just thoughthe was hot shit. I guess he was cuz he started talkin to one of the girls who played a cheerleader and 5 hours later they were makin out and she had a boyfriend. Here's the big thing: he went on a trip to pakistan and was thrown in jail for not knowingly having opium in his bag. He was tortured and he beat up some prisoners for respectand here's the wierd thing a guy enterd his name on imdb and there is a break between 2001 to 2004. I forgot his name and it's buggin me now. Also he wrote the story and they are makin a movie and he said he had a meeting with Jake Gylenhall to play him. All this stuff is true. He keptsaying I was the funniest thing evenwhen i called him a man whore and that girl he met there a slut (but jokingly). Also another thing he said they broke his fingers in pakistan and it was true he didn't throw the ball that well not the guy who would win state3 times. Also he looked fine for a guy who was tortured no scars nothing. Manthis is a long blog. But one question should I make up a story to get chicks and stuff? What should it be about? I need ideas people.

Friday night blues

So How's life going people? Good I hope. It's Friday and I am an hour away from going home.
I was thinking about going to the Crown for some beers but I can't seem to find my drinking buddy, Pete. So it looks as if nothing will be happening tonight. If by some miraculous coincidence Pete should happen to call me then I would like to think he would be down for a few beers but who knows. This is all of no importance if I don't hear from Pete so whatever.
This was a pretty good week for me. Nothing bad happened so that is good. I got to go to happy hour at Moose's on Tuesday so that was pretty cool. I don't really have too much to talk about.
I basically got on just to talk about the Crown and how I wanted to drink with Pete and now that I have done that I realize don't have much to talk about. So I am going to get out of here and listen to my iPod till I have to go home. Buh-bye!!

Pete

I am looking for Pete. If anyone sees this man could you tell him to please contact me. Thank you for your time. It is 8:00pm on Friday Oct. 7, 2005.

happier post!

After work i'm headed to Sheila's place for some home made dinner! I'm so excited about that. Sheila even experimented with something. She made some Sangria! Oohh its gonna be good and funny tonight. Sharon is a funny gal and put me in the mix and Sheila might explode! Tomorrow i'm gonna sleep in and then go to work. On Sunday? Well the world is my oyster. Its Fiesta time again and my mom wants to go visit the church. They have a beer garden and they actually serve the Crown's Octoberfest there. So i might go to that. Everyone is welcomed to join me and Sheila at the beer garden!

yeah its friday!

What will my friday consist of? well first off i'm waiting to go to a meeting. this guy is coming to talk about our 401k plans and either he's really late or we were notified wrongly.......its been an hour and i just got done with the meeting. i am now depressed. i'll never be rich, heck i'll never be able to care for myself when i retire....when i retire, please, i'll be working till i die. i think that 401k's are a bunch of bullshit. thats right, bullshit! you have to be enslaved at a company for years and then on top of that you have to be making a certain paycheck to be involved in any kind of investing. do i think that investing $25 a paycheck into my 401k is gonna get me my $300,000 when i retire? hell no. its so sad. what's even worse is that i'm the only person i know of who has a full time job (9-5, mon-fri) and has a part time job. I still don't have a penny to my name, ok maybe i have ten cents. I'm just venting here cuz if i don't i'll cry. So for all those who are making great money and living life without worries, i'm so envious. I personally think the statement "Money makes you happy" is true. I can only imagine how happy i'd be. I think i'm going to buy a lotto ticket tonight. Life is cruel...............sorry for the very depressing blog. i'm in a funk.

Can this be happening?

you guys have to check this out. I read about it in Rolling Stone and immeadiately went to the Website. Its a Big Lebowski Fest, where fans and stars of the movie show up. Like a star trek convention only cool. Next time its in town, I'm SO there.

http://www.lebowskifest.com/

You guys have to check out this blog. I heard about this site on NPR but didn't know it was on blogspot. Its funny and heartbreaking.

http://postsecret.blogspot.com/

Poetry

Lines Written in Early Spring

I heard a thousand blended notes,
While in a grove I sate reclined,
In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts
Bring sad thoughts to the mind.

To her fair works did Nature link
The human soul that through me ran;
And much it grieved my heart to think
What man has made of man.

Through primrose tufts, in that green bower,
The periwinkle trailed its wreaths;
And 'tis my faith that every flower
Enjoys the air it breathes.

The birds around me hopped and played,
Their thoughts I cannot measure:--
But the least motion which they made
It seemed a thrill of pleasure.

The budding twigs spread out their fan,
To catch the breezy air;
And I must think, do all I can,
That there was pleasure there.

If this belief from heaven be sent,
If such be Nature's holy plan,
Have I not reason to lament
What man has made of man?


-William Wordsworth

I discovered this poem last night. 
I really dig it. Just wanted to share it.

headings

For Randy's graduation he got a present from his parents that has a whole bunch of quotes. I think he should start putting them on our blog header. A new one every week. That way he can get some use out of it and we can all enjoy it.

Family Time

Sheila is going to be host to a couple of my family members this coming week. My mom and little sister are coming for five days. Sharon hasn't been out to California for at least a year i think. She has vacation time that she needs to use up so she wanted to come out here. My mom decided to come with her. So they arrive tomorrow morning. Sheila called Texas today to say she got them a car rental and while speaking with Sharon i could hear that something happened. I guess Sharon was swimming last night and someone elbowed her in the nose and it made a popping sound. Now she's all swollen and wondering if its broken. Either way, it doesn't sound good. Then Sheila was talking to her about things to bring. Sheila said to bring a swim suit, i guess Sharon doesn't have one and Sheila said that she could borrow one but to make sure that she doesn't poke holes in it. After hearing that i remembered that Sharon has both her nipples pierced. I mean who thinks thats a good idea? She's totally pierced up and now shes got three tatoos. I can only imagine the places she has piercings that she keeps secret. I guess one of her good friends has a piercing place so she goes there and pierces herself. Plus she's a total smoker. I can only assume that she smokes alot. No wait, she does smoke alot. I've seen it. So Sheila is really worked up about all this. She's known for a while now but i guess its really hit home. It doesn't bother me to much. Piercings can always be taken out. I'm already taking out some of mine. She won't wanna have her nipples pierced when she's older....i hope. Tatoos suck, plus at 19 years old, she just got what was cool. I'm just super excited that she isn't on drugs or populating the world with many stupid men. THANK GOD! She's still a good kid, she's hard working, thats very responsible. Maybe you'll all see Sharon, maybe you won't. At 19, she drinks and all, just like we did, but i can't bring her to bars. Even though she is taller than me and looks older for her age, i'm sure she can thank the cigarrets for that. well that's all for now. Sheila and i are off to Target for some random things. Hopefully we don't spend to much money.

Okay Now I'm pissed...

This blog has gotten so boring. Everyday I check it, and theres not a new thing to be read. Not even any comments on the shit that I write. I know, I know, we all have jobs and are busy, blah blah, blah. I'm looking for renewed commitments from everyone within in the week or I will administratively drop you from the blog. And posts about how "I'm just sittin' here at work..." are unacceptable. Substance people. poignancy, comedy, drama, conflict, these are the makings of a great blog.

Coincidence

One of my favorite movies is Spike Lee's Malcolm X. Right at the end of the movie there is a song that I never thought much about. Its really good song but it blends so well wth whats going on in the movie, I never thought about it independent from the movie. Then, about two weeks ago, I'm working this huge Alumni Party and the band plays this song. The singer says "you all remember Sam Cooke right?" At first I don't remember where its from. But then it hits me. So I go home and download the song. I've been listening to it on and off ever since. The song is called "A change gonna come". This month's Rolling Stone has an article about how Sam Cooke started the Civil Rights movement with a song called "A change gonna come". My life is filled with little coincidences like that. Its hard not to lend signifigance to them. Is life a series of coincidence? Or do you believe in the interconnectedness of all things?

Fuck you...and the Horse you rode in on. (Poor Horse)

Yesterday was spent eating, drinking, and listening to music. Oh, and being completely treated like shit by an old friend, thanks.(not you Randy, he knows who he is.) I went to Randy's to start the process of ripping my CD's into Randy's computer so he could put some decent songs on his iPod. Not that Ryan Cabrera's not decent, well actually yes, he's not decent. For shame Moe's. That is 12 year old music. Anyway, at around 4pm we checked in on the infirmed Lauri and went to Moose's for happy hour. Hot wings and PBR all half price. Our waitress was hot but didn't look twice at these scruffy looking nerf herders. Not that I care, I got a hot ass girlfriend anyway, but for Randy you know. I'm takin names for a wingman for Randy, because, quite frankly, I suck at it. We then went to the Crown for a few, because beer is an evil enticer. I sat down at one of those cocktail tables, facing away from the baseball and football on the TV's. I had to move positions, because I didn't want people to think I'm gay. Not that there is anything wrong with that. I could see a gay dude having a big problem in the sausage-fest that is the CCB. After that we went back to Randy's and had a few more beers and uploaded a few more songs. Nothing special you know just hanging out. Lauri even came by after succombing to cabin fever. We watched Eurotrip for the hundredth time and then I left. Didn't want to disturb the Lord of the Manor. I had a great time, I should have saved some energy for hump day Happy hour. But I firmly believe in living in the moment. So I ended up staying home Wed. night.

Hello

Wassup people it's Randy. It is Monday evening and I am just hanging at work. I have been really busy today actually doing all kinds of stuff and answering about what seems like a million phone calls. It wasn't really that many but it was for dramatic effect.
So there were a few phone calls that stuck out in my mind. There was the one from a girl in Houston who wanted to give me her home phone number. She was 19 though and lived in Houston. But who knows I will probably end up getting it anyway who knows I like the idea of not knowing. The there was the girl from Ohio she is hilarious. It seems like everyday she has some problem with the computers in the store. We talked for a really long time like 40 minutes or something. It was mostly about her store and the messed up computers but it was fun. She is cool.
I don't know why I just told you about two random strangers I talked to on the phone today. I guess this is what my life has become a string of phone calls and strangers.
I actually walked across the stage and got my degree cover on Saturday, there was no degree inside only a note saying I could get my degree in like 10 weeks or something. Whatever... My family did come down though so that was cool. Seeing my parents was nice. They bought me an iPod. It is cool. I am using the word...cool...a lot. So my iPod is pretty neat I haven't even scratched the surface of the 60GB storage. That is approx. 15,000 songs. Now I seriously doubt I will ever have that many songs on my iPod but its nice to know its there just in case.
I am rambling I feel this blog of mine is going nowhere fast. Just one more thing I have 2 days off this week tomorrow which is Tuesday and Wednesday. Just thought I would let you all know. I got to go I am starting to bore even myself.

I don't Fuckin know... they don't all have to be genius

the game of Life is hard to play
the losing card i'll someday lay...

thats one of the lyrics to the song from M*A*S*H. The title of the song is "Suicide is painless". You should see the movie you uneducated bastard. I didn't mean that. Robert Altman sucks.