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May 2007

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• 05.31.07
  some downtime was good   Rant! (0)

  it was the best of times, it was the worst of times- my vacation that is. today or this morning I sit here drinking my coffee sad to say goodbye to the short time I had off from work.
  I don’t want to bore everyone completely so I won’t mention every little detail, but only of [...]

• 05.25.07
  pot smoking customers   Rant!, Work (0)

  yesterday afternoon I’m at a guys house fixing his internet.. a middle aged car salesman. I spent a lot of time there trying to figure out what the hell was wrong with his wiring, or actually I should say I was trying to find out what was all wrong with his wiring- I knew it [...]

• 05.23.07
  helmet boxing craze?   TV (0)

  I’ve seen it on the news the last two days, a sport kids are calling helmet boxing?. I actually heard about it on fox news the last two days- I thought it was funny how the stories were on the topic and also how to watch for signs of your kid doing it. putting [...]

• 05.22.07
  black women who sport goatees   Rant!, Work (0)

  a customer I talked with this morning- an elderly black lady with grey hair. she was sporting a fuckin grey goatee, and this thing was thick. I’m not sure if she was purposely growing one or not- it didn’t look like she was shaving any part of her face, it just looked like it grew [...]

• 05.22.07
  I feel like the fast guy who lost the race.   Rant!, Work (2)

  I can’t really describe it any other way. I feel like the fast guy who’s in first place and takes a look behind him only long enough for the slower guy to pass him by.
  today I find out that two other guys I know got the job at the company I applied at and have [...]

• 05.21.07
  what’s with monster?   Rant! (0)

  for some reason I decided to go check out monster.com yesterday and my user experience was a lot different from that I had years earlier, this was not a good thing.
  I simply wanted to do a job search in another state out of pure curiosity, for jobs in my related field. well in order to [...]

• 05.21.07
  halo 3 has been good to me   Uncategorized (0)

  but maybe not to my hands… been busying playing the beta most the weekend and will say I’m rather impressed. the graphics are slightly better than its predecessor but not quite on par with some of its peers- some of those being Gears of War and my personal favorite Lost Planet, and maybe not even [...]

• 05.18.07
  my days are about to get longer, fuck you xm   Rant! (0)

  yesterday while on the way to work I find it weird that Ron and Fez are on and not Opie and Anthony. Generally they don’t come on till noon. I knew something had to be up.. even if they had to stop the show to get some shit in order they’d usually just play worst [...]

• 05.18.07
  tgif.. I guess   Rant!, Work (0)

  fridays should be exciting days for most- people who either work all week or goto school, or both. then there’s me, I can’t be excited about any friday. I’m either a) working saturday so it doesn’t fucking matter or b) get raped with work making it difficult to enjoy any aspect of the day.
  I’ve already [...]

• 05.17.07
  today’s funny work order quote.   Work (0)

  “CUST STS ALL CHANNELS ARE FUZZY AND NOT GETTING B.E.T…..”
  generally we’ll get a comment on our work order that tells us a little bit about what sort of problem the customer is having before we get there- that was one of the comments on a work order I had today. I just thought it was [...]

• 05.17.07
  my days are about to get longer, fuck you xm   Rant! (0)

  yesterday while on the way to work I find it weird that Ron and Fez are on and not Opie and Anthony. Generally they don’t come on till noon. I knew something had to be up.. even if they had to stop the show to get some shit in order they’d usually just play worst [...]

• 05.17.07
  God damn you Xbox LIVE!   Gaming (0)

  Halo 3 beta was suppose to come out at 5 am PDT, well it’s late in the evening right now and it still isn’t out. How does this not surprise me?
  I’m just glad I didn’t call in sick today like I had planned on doing,. what a shame it would have been to not get [...]

• 05.15.07
  Halo 3 tomorrow kids!   Gaming (0)

  thats right buddy, Wednesday morning the Halo 3 beta will be made available for all those who were smart enough to pick up a copy of Crackdown.
  “Microsoft Game Studios and Bungie Studios confirmed the multiplayer beta of “Halo® 3″ will debut to audiences worldwide via Xbox LIVE® on May 16 at 5 a.m. PDT and [...]

• 05.15.07
  V-Tech Rampage   Gaming (0)

  While on my lunch break I came upon this flash game on newgrounds called V-Tech Rampage. Yah its exactly what it sounds like, a cheap little flash game modeled after the V-Tech massacre that happened all to recently. I spent a few minutes playing it/beat it. I got a chuckle out of it but I [...]

• 05.15.07
  I hate building shit and I hate mondays   Rant! (1)

  Since I’ve moved in to my new apt 6+ months ago I’ve had to build a variety of things- a couple dressers, stereo stand, bbq grill, some assembly of kitchen appliances and tonight a new dinning room table.
  Do not believe the box. “easy assembly” does not mean fast assembly, for some reason I thought it [...]

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