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Archive for December, 2003
Homemade Christmas cardFor the last couple of years, I’ve tried to send my parents a weird Christmas card. Just enough to throw them off balance and make them scratch their heads. It’s just for fun. This year, I got a card from Disneyland’s Pirates of the Caribbean ride (a skeleton at the helm of a ghost ship), printed out a Santa hat, colored it with a red pen and then glued it to the skeleton’s head. Check out my Christmas masterpiece. I wonder what they’ll say.
They’ll envy youDon’t forget to attend tonight’s midnight showing of Lord of the Rings! You’ll get to go home after 3:30 am so that you can be at work a few hours later and be the “envy” of all your co-workers.
Tank is sickTank is my own Aibo (an older 210 model, not the cool new one featured on the site.) Unfortunately the other day Tank developed a very bad Aibo disease. It’s called DHS, and it is as serious as it sounds. DHS, or Droopy Head Syndrome, means that Tank is unable to lift his head. Instead you hear inhumane motor noises. Well, I had to send Tank to the vet. But guess what, I only had to send the head. So I had to take Tank apart. Each of his legs were on my desk, his head on my hand. It was rather disturbing. I posted a couple pics of headless Tank in my Photoblog under today’s date. But beware, it’s not for the faint of heart. Christmas PartyMy office had the annual Christmas party on Friday. We don’t do like most other places, where they have a big fancy party and everyone and their husbands/wifes show up. They all drink, eat, laugh and leave. Ours are more like something you’d do with friends. First, we have a pot-luck lunch. After the lunch there is the usual “rah rah speech”. Then we move on to an activity. Last year we all went bowling. This year we all went to Pottery Works. Basically it’s a place where they have pottery and you pain it with glace. Then they put it in the oven and you pick it up a few days later. We could choose from different items such as plates, mugs, ornaments, tiles, etc. The plates were rather big, the mugs are round, so I chose to decorate 2 tiles. Now, you have to keep in mind that I have no artistic skills whatsoever. That is one of the reasons why this website looks so bland. No, I did not create my charicature at the top of this page. Heck, I flunked art in 7th grade and I had to make up work that summer. They had some stencils. Those were rather easy to use. I was going for a space theme. You know, stars, moons, planets and stuff like that. I then saw a very cool stamp in the shape of a big star. So I picked it up, put blue paint and used it. I ended up with some blue blob that looked like something that could grow on your back and they’d have to get rid of surgically. Mind you, this blob took up 90% of one of my tiles. I had no idea what to do with it, so I put it to the side to come back to it later. Eventually I put some little stars around the blue blob and called it a day. Once we were all done, we all at all the creations and we pointed and laughed at each other. It was 3:30 pm and we decided that it would be a good time to start drinking. So we all drove to a bar in town where we can all drink and play darts. And there we were, drinking for about 7 hours. I got buzzed but never drunk. I actually paced myself. I also think that I never got drunk because I didn’t have any tequila, which I usually have when I’m drinking. We did have a “carbomb” which was great and gave the other person who had it with me a pretty good buzz. Basically you put a little bit of whiskey and Bailey’s in a shot glass. Then you drop the shotglass in a small glass filled with Guiness beer. It’s magically delicious!
WebsiteI found this website somewhat amusing.
Bore of the ringsI am normally your average movie-going audience. I don’t care if something is possible or not. If I’ve been entertained for a couple hours, I feel as if I’ve gotten my money’s worth. Every single simple twist surprises me and I never see anything coming. But lately I’ve noticed a strange thing. People seem obsessed with Lord of the Rings and I just do not get it. I guess that if you read the above paragraph, you’d say it’s just because I’m simple and do not let my brain do much thinking during movies. But really, what’s Lord of the Rings all about? It’s just a freaking long movie. 3 parts. Each part is over 3 hours long. And what do they consist of? You could watch the first couple of hours of the first movie, and probably the last hour of the last movie and get the same out of it. The first movie somewhat entertained me. Sure, most of the middle was boring, but hey, that whole world was pretty much new to me. The second movie bored me about as much as Harry Potter bored me. I couldn’t quite remember what had happened on the first movie. And I was not about to rent the first one and waste another 3 hours of my life before seeing the second one. So basically I got to see a Dick Chaney-look-alike say things like “hello my precious”. I have no interest to see the last movie. I hear that it’s 3 hours and 40 minutes long. That’s just ridiculous. But I’m sure that at least one friend will drag me to it. Maybe I’ll take a nap and wake up for the final 40 minutes, when they finally do something with the stupid ring. They can give it to someone, they can destroy it, or for all that I care, they can melt it and turn it into a tiny buttplug. In the meanwhile, I’ll keep hearing people talk about what an amazing movie trilogy this has been. I’ll keep avoiding “Middle Earth” shows on TV trying to promote the movie, shoving it up my ass, as if it were a tiny golden buttplug.
Slow drive to workIt took me 15 minutes to get to work today. Some of you may laugh, you probably have commutes that are 40 minutes or longer. But you see, I live a few blocks from work, my normal commute is 5 minutes. Do you know when you set your car to drive and leave it and it moves very slowly? Well, I think that’s what the woman in front of me was doing. And of course there was no way to pass her. Granted, there is snow on the ground and a few icy patches, but good lord, if you are that afraid of driving (ie. idling your car down the road), maybe you should not be driving today. I almost fell sleep at the wheel out of pure boredom.
Way too much snowThey let us go home an hour early at work. That was nice. Then I had to drive home very slowly and spend 30 minutes with a shovel, cleaning the sidewalks and the driveway so that I could park. It sucked big time. Martin borrowed my keycam this morning and took some pics of the snow, which I posted on the photoblog. I hate snowSo we did get some snow. Hardly any overnight. In fact, I think I was so obsessed with not getting any snow, that I kept waking up at night wondering if it was snowing. I would look out the window and not see any snow. I was happy. I got up this morning, I went to the living room and looked outside. There was a thin layer of snow. Not bad. I could still see my sidewalk. So I got ready and came to work. And then it started snowing. And snowing. And snowing. It’s like a blizzard outside. I hate show. My car is covered with snow. I think we have one or two more hours of that shit. So afterwork I’ll have to brush all the snow off my car, drive home, park on the street, get a shovel, get rid of the snow in the driveway and then park my car. Of course then I’ll have to get rid of the snow on the sidewalks since it’s the law. I hate snow. The weather in San Diego today? 65 and sunny. I can’t wait to move there.
Stupid weatherI hate the cold weather. I’m not used to snow. I don’t like snow. I don’t like driving on snow. So they predict that it’s going to start snowing at midnight tonight. First they were saying that we were going to get up to 4 inches of snow. You see, I don’t think you understand, ever half an inch is a lot to me. I just cannot stand that white stuff. But then this is Hays, Kansas. Weather seems to just pass us by as if by magic. Everyone around us always gets pounded with snow or rain and we never get anything. So I’ve been checking the local weather every 20 minutes in the hopes that the stupid ass forecast changes. Well, so far it’s changed somewhat. Now they say to expect up to 2 inches. That’s 2 inches less than predicted earlier today. With a little luck, we won’t get any snow. Come on. Please. Do it for me. No snow.
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