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- For those left wondering about what the hell the meaning of the ending of the series The Sopranos was all about, here is one guy who sums everything up in 100,000 words of less. Visit him HERE. Caution: ***SPOILERS***
- For those looking to declutter their lives, a nice article on the 100 Item Challenge, located HERE.
- For those people who just could never get enough of Dennis Leary's song Asshole, HERE it is in video form.
- Also in video form, for the kid in all of you, the LY song. Once you see it, you'll remember it. Found HERE.
- Something Wow!! for the Douglas Adams people out there, located HERE.
- For those who need one more reason to hate Star Wars comes THIS crap-tacular special! Guaranteed to make you gouge out you eyes and run screaming into oncoming traffic.
- Something for all the CO fans out there who just cannot ever ever get enough cuteness, THIS video.
- For the engineering geek with a fetish for Lego Bricks, THIS is for you...
- For those who wondered about what the original Fight Club was about, there is THIS piece...
- Ever wonder how far your car/truck would go after the needle reads empty? Then THIS is for you...
- Bored with Electronic Cameras? Need a little more challenge? Make your own camera HERE!!
- For those in the Green Movement, wondering what can be done, there are THESE tips to help out.
- When Geeks get tattoos... Located HERE...
- For users of Toilet Paper, excuse me, Bathroom Tissue, ever wonder how they make it? Well, wonder no longer when you pay a visit HERE.
And that's all I have for now. Hope you had fun clicking away.
Things I am Loathing today:
- Going to work. Maybe it really is time to think hard about moving on to Austin or San Antonio
- Um... That's about it for loathing today. Yay!
Things I am Loving today:
- Sleeping in late, in my new bed, next to my darling wife. Noonish sounds about right...
- Burgers on the grill and zucchini and squash too!!
- Being left alone most of the day to get my work done.
- Actually almost getting caught up on my work.
- Fresh rolls and tuna fish with a handful of jalapeno cheetos...
- Getting my new software today!
- My Cutco knives. Especially my spatula thingie with the serrated edge.
- Fixing a really complex work problem in a very simplistic way. And it worked.
- Pudding. Lots and lots of pudding... LOLOL
<yawn> Good afternoon everyone! After the crunch of the last few weeks of 12 hour shifts and a full schedule, I find myself lounging around before work this afternoon in a pretty good mood. I got home last night and watched Craig Ferguson with the wife and daughter, made some pudding and tuna fish, separately of course, for tomorrow at work. Then it was off to the showers and bed, where I managed to put in a 9 hour long stretch before my body decided that I better do something about my full bladder before it did and since we just bought a new bed, which I'm McLovin by the way, I got up to take care of the problem.
I went to the store last night after work to get some essentials for the week. I needed some fresh fruit and a couple boxes of triscuits as well as some cottage cheese. As I was rounding the meat aisle and saw that they had put out the remainder of hamburger from the display case into bulk containers. There before me was five pounds of 95% lean ground beef for just $1.99 a pound!! Normally something like $3.60 or so. First thing I though of was hamburgers on the grill. So, that is what I had for lunch today. I made up some patties, threw them on the grill with a little garlic salt and let them cook. I also had some small zucchini and yellow crookneck squash left over, so I sliced them up and coated them with a bit of EVOO and put those out to grill also. Sliced up one of those salmonella free tomatoes and I was good to go.
So here I sit, stuffed and happy from a wonderful lunch and I even got to enjoy some of the pudding I made last night as well for dessert. The sun is shining, the weather is superb, It's the kind of day you wish could just linger on forever. <sigh> Unfortunately I have to go in to work in a little bit, but other than that, the day has been wonderful. I was rebooting all the computers in the workshop due to a power outage a day ago and just thought I'd post this because I hope your day is at least as wonderful as mine has been so far. Have a wonderful day!!!
Don't even ask where that title came from, I have no clue. It was the first words to pop into my already sleep deprived head. After sweating my ass off for 12 hours, doing the full court press on the plant floor, trying desperately to keep equipment functional, suffering the worst case of swamp-ass ever, I am tired people, tired. And yet, I have eight hours to be back here and do this all again. Well, like I've said before, it's a crazy job, but it pays well. At least I've got one and that's not an easy thing to say in this economy. No telling for the future.
On some side notes, today is Sunday, actually 3:30AM Sunday to be exact by Central Standard Time. Which means it is Father's Day. I know for a fact that my father will be celebrating the day with about one hundred people at his home, but I won't be one of those people. Not that I have to work, I could have turned down the overtime and gone up to see him, but there are some bad things between us still and we haven't talked much since about two years ago or so. I think I'll make a post about that later too. Crazy crap that I find hard to put behind me. Anyways, I know the kids want to see me tomorrow and it'll be hard to get in sleep and visiting time in the eight hours I'll have between now and work again.
I also know that there will be some bad news at my work in the next 60 days. Not sure how bad it will be, but I'm planning for the worst case scenario which is selling the house quickly and getting the fuck out of Dodge. Time will tell, but the plans are being made and adjusted as we go. Texas may be coming sooner than anticipated. All the cleaning and pitching stuff is in preparation for getting the house in market condition. Sales in our neighborhood averaged about 60 days or so on the market in the last year. So, that's real good news if we need to move fast.
I've been working a whole buttload of overtime and haven't had too much time to post, but I try and spend my lunch hours entertaining myself with neighborhood posts. As I said, I've been putting overtime funds to use in paying down notes, loans and such to make sure I am as solvent in 60 days as possible. Need to travel light. So, make hay while the sun shines, just before a possible tornado whips through and wipes your house off the foundation. Or maybe it's just hail damage to the roof. Always be prepared.
So, if you've made it this far I have some reward for your diligence. About the title? The Crack Whore is from something my daughter said. She went on a class trip to New York and her first thoughts about going on that trip were that she wanted to find a crack whore named Susie and give her a dollar. Why? I don't know, other than the kid takes after me... The Bottlenose came while I was trying to think of a type of Monkey. My brain pattern went something like this: Sock, <a miracle happens here>, Bottlenose. Hence, a Bottlenose Monkey. In herds! Monkeys. Lots and lots of Monkeys. Just imagine that scene from the Matrix. There I am, as Neo, Standing in a blank area and asking for Monkeys. Lots and lots of Monkeys. Soon, cages of Monkeys come zooming into view with every size, color, shape and type of Monkey known to man and fourteen not currently in the books too.
So, there you have it. I hope you have a very safe, wonderful, peaceful, joyous Father's Day. With lots and lots of Monkeys...
Here I am again, at work, late into the hour of Thursday. Working these long hours sucks goat balls, but hey, the money is really good and at least I have a job, right? But lately things have been out of sorts. Thursday has begun to feel like Friday, and Friday has begun to feel like Saturday (I have been trying to look at things in the positive perspective). Night shift payday is on Thursday, so that is another reason it seems like Friday. I am still here from Thursday, but technically, right now it's Friday. I know, screwy circadian rhythm thingies going on here too.
This week, I actually took a couple of days off to take care of some business around the house. I think I would have been better off relaxing at work than all the stuff I got done around the house. I almost wrecked this guys truck for one thing. Well, to be honest, he deserved it. I called a recycler dude because I want to be environmentally responsible for all the E-Waste in my shop. I called him up and asked if they took E-Waste and what they did with it. They do it right, I know about these things. So I explained my predicament, that is, having a few hundred older hard drives and some other computer waste needing disposal. He says that yes, absolutely they want to pick them up and will be over the next day.
Now, before I get into the meat of the story, some of these hard drives are from the early 90's and are the size of two cdrom drives stacked on top of each other and weighing in around 15 pounds each. Then I should mention that by the time the guy arrived at my house, I had cleared out some more crap from some of the back shelves. Just how many hard drives did I load into his truck? A few shy of 400. 100+ of the big drives, 300 of the smaller drives. Weight of them was probably right at 1500 pounds. Which would have been ok, if not for the other scrap I had to throw in alongside it too. Then the big problem became evident... He had brought a half ton truck to pick the stuff up.
By the time the guy drove away down driveway, he scraped bottom getting out onto the street. He mentioned something about getting air in his tires before heading back to the shop. I hope so. Maybe som extra tires too? I dunno... It wasn't quite riding on the rims, but still. After he pulled out, my sweetie pokes her head out the family room window and was just as happy as can be to see another load go. Still, I have several thousands of pounds more to get rid of. A little at a time I guess. The last load that went out was about sixteen thousand pounds and I think it actually was casuing my garage to sink. The garage slab used to be above the driveway about an inch, now it's about a quarter inch below the driveway. Ugh.
Which brings me to the next part of my computer saga. I will be taking down all the servers I have running currently and selling/getting rid of them shortly. I have purchased a cheap, yet reliable solution to consolidate things from five servers down to one. So, with all the other hardware laying around the shop, I should be able to get rid of another five thousand pounds of computer stuff the next go around. If the college doesn't want it as a donation, or I can't sell it, I told the recycler dude I would call him to come get it. Only this time, bring the BIG truck...
He just laughed and drove away, very slowly.
I was perusing the GIS (Geographical Information System) for the county in which I reside. I encourage you all to check into yours as well. They have all sorts of information on properties in the county. Mine is in there somewhere too. Anyways, I checked the house down the street and found it was in there, complete with plat layout, parcel drawing, even pictures from around the house. Kewl. Hopefully this LINK will work to take you there. Lots of info as I've said. The picture below is from the GIS. Of course, now the wife wants me to look at THESE too... Ugh...
Things that go bump in my brain in the night...
- Petroleum fire yesterday in Kansas City. Huge fire = Gas prices going up and up some more...$$$$$$$$
- I've realized that, having been broke and having money, it is worse having money. If you are just broke, you really only worry about how you are going to pay everything. Having money, you tend to get yourself in too deep debt-wise and then have to figure out not only who to pay first but how much to pay them. Can we all go back to the cash standard again? I think life was much easier with a crappy credit score from paying cash for everything and still managed to have some cash in the bank.
- There will probably be another round of buyouts in the automotive industry, so lately I've been contemplating finally taking one and moving on with my life somewhere else. Possibly Texas. More research needed in this direction, but I already checked out the job market down there and found several jobs paying over $25 an hour I could easily qualify for, so that's a plus. Somewhere between San Antonio and Austin would be nice.
- There was a car place recently advertising that they would pay you the sticker price on your trade in car, 2000 or newer I think, when you traded in your vehicle on a new one. So I started thinking. For what the sticker was on my beast, I could easily buy three cars today. Think maybe I should take them up on their offer?
- Our phones have been acting wonky. I love that word. Wonky. LOL. Anyways, contemplating keeping my existing cell plan and buying phones with no need for renewal, in case we want to boogie down to Texas, or get them free and sign another two year agreement. Decisions, decisions. Man, I hate phone companies too...
- Still thinking about the house down the street. The one for sale. Got the number last night from the For Sale by Owner sign. Man, they wrote it in tiny little numbers too. Will see if I can pull up something to post on it. Very nice place, but not sure if I want to put Missouri behind me or not. It does have a pool though and the latest real estate brochures show seven houses in our neighborhood averaging less than 80 days from listing to sale. Hmmm...
- Swimming pools. Speaking of swimming pools, wondering whether to put up a temporary one again this year. We've wanted to build an inground one, but if we're moving soon to a new place, I don't think we'll get the money back out of it. A deck, definitely. A pool, probably not. Have to talk with the kids, maybe they'll pay half the cost or something so that they can come over and use it too. Ah, good old summertime. Hot, sweaty, armpit muggy summertime. Such is summer in Misery, er, Missouri.
- If I had X-ray vision, would it be all the time, or just work if I concentrated on things real hard. If it was all the time, how would I know if I hit the toilet when I peed? Awkward...
Things I am Loathing today:
- People not following established processes causing massive headaches
- Eating too much for lunch. I made meatballs for sandwiches which were too good...
- Getting a glass sliver in my thumb. Yikes!
- Gas was $3.75 before work, $3.85 after work. Crap to the Nth degree...
- Summer electric rates
Things I am Loving today:
- Selling stock options for $2 more a share than the stock is worth today.
- Finishing up reports in six hours that normally take eight hours.
- A new bed waiting at home for me tonight. A HUGE bed, super softastic bed...
- Check number one of three from the government hitting my bank account already.
- Homemade parmesan garlic bread. Oh yes.
- The city is tearing out the massive pothole and wavy pavement down the street. Smooth....
- Having a coupon for $0.20 a gallon discount on gas and using it to fill up my 42 gallon tank.
- Getting a personal letter from the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses. Ok, so many ways to go here... LOL
- The new Walthers model railroad update catalog is here!
