I have been pretty busy today, doing laundry, trying to find out where I am staying this week, fixing stupid errors. Whoever made the flight reservations put them in all of our nicknames. I don't have any kind of ID with my fucking nickname on it, so my trip to the airport should be all kinds of fucking fun tommorow.
If anyone is around, I will be stayng at the Wyngate in D'Iberville. Don't have any idea what kind of free time I may have, if I do have any, it is likely that I will be sleeping.
I read the entire Narnia series when I was about 8 or 9. Anna has started reading them (particularly since the movie has come out), and since I am leaving town on business Wednesday for four days, she got to play hooky today and we are going to see The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe. I haven't had the opportunity to take any of the kids to a movie in a couple of years, so we should have a good time. Maybe get a bite to eat beforehand, over at the Gyro place, and some Starbucks. Very low key day.
Spent the entire morning dealing with Quicken and Turbotax in preparation to filing. I am still waiting on a couple of forms in the mail, hopefully they will be here soon so that I can send the government some of my hard-earned fucking cash.
See, I'm not a fucking asshole all of the time. Only to YOU!!
Damn, these are most definately the people I have to deal with on a daily basis.
Not really, but it looks like I will be flying to Mississippi on Wednesday afternoon, my first day back from vacation. I will have to make sure to bring the camera.
Found this over at Gut Rumbles this morning
All of these are places I've been and will not be going while on vacation this week :>
create your own visited states map
or check out these Google Hacks.
I finally managed to get the bluetooth dialup connection working between my ipaq and my phone. w00t!
I don't know what it is, but the closer I get to vacation, the longer it seems. Damn, two days left.
Looks like I will be spending four days on the gulf coast later in February. Don't know what the fuck came over me, but I volunteered for it. Apparently we are doing so much business down there, noone is getting days off, managers and hourlys are burninig out and quitting. They are trying to send people down for short stretches just to get some folks the time off. It'll be a nice change of pace anyway, and I am the only one I know in my area that can handle that kind of volume. No extra pay or anything, but sometimes a change of scenery is nice.
I have another vacation to get out of the way next week, if I don't take it I may end up losing it. My boss goes on vacation after that, so I will be doing her job for awhile. I don't think I am going anywhere this time though, unless someone is getting together for a blogmeet. That would be kind of cool. After spending a small fortune at Disney World back in October, I have to be very cheap.
UPS just dropped off the latest Alan Dean Foster book. Hell yeah. I have been reading the Pip and Flinx books since I was pretty young, and always look forward to the new ones when they come out (which is not often enough).
We all have certain things that we do every day in order to maintain. You know, brush our teeth, shower, clip fingernails, etc. I hate trimming my toenails. Don't know why. I do it once every couple of months whether they need it or not. I just finished with that chore (slow blogging day) while watching Tank Girl, and I just gotta say goddamm those things were huge this time. Tear thru your socks scratch yourself in your sleep huge. They were so fucking big if I had my teeth in I would have had to chew on one for awhile just to savor it.
Well, apparently Elmo is too.
local6.com - News - Toddler's Talking Elmo Book Asks 'Who Wants To Die?'
It was pretty slow today at work, so I had my hostess go in back and get some of the afternoon prep work done. She is a large gal, and right in the middle of making up a bunch of waffle batter she stops and announces to no one in particular "I am going to be covered in flour before I am done". That fucked me up for the next two hours. No matter what I did, all I could think of was that old bit about Roll her in flour and look for the wet spot. God I can be a bastard sometimes. If I were a real asshole I would have passed along THAT nasty visual to one of the guys that works for me, but that is the kind of shit that gets people fired for sexual harrasment.
Still can't get that fucking picture out of my head.
Reading this post over at Acidmans abode got me thinking about oysters, which immediately led to road trips.
It was back in '85 or '86, when I was at my utmost unemployable, irresponsible (I was 17-18). One of my good buddies had a dad who was a VP of sales for IBM. Me and a couple of other guys lived at their house. No jobs (maybe occasionally, if we were really cash-strapped). Didn't need them since Mr and Mrs C took care of the food thing, as well as gas. Chicks took care of the rest.
It was mid to late November, about 4pm on a shitty winter afternoon, and we all decided that we needed raw oysters. Not to fuck around with that frozen shit in Atlanta, but real raw oysters. So we made the drive to the redneck riviera (Panama City Beach). The Oysters were ok, but it was the TRIP that was so fucking cool.
I travelled the eastern seaboard and southeast several times during a four year period before I settled down. Roadtrips were a hell of a lot more fun in my teens than they are now, that's for damn sure.
Gut Rumbles
I don't usually tell blonde jokes, but this has got to be the best one that I have ever heard.
Due to the fact that this was a holiday weekend I managed to get one whole day off again this week, yesterday. I feel like a big old dog turd. Had a very hard time getting out of bed again today. Some days I just start feeling old I guess.
I think that it is a good idea and all, but it would be much faster with my mouth rather than my hands, but I think I would need to disinfect the fucking wall first.
I must be bored shitless. I have cleaned most of the entire downstairs. Vacuumed, mopped, doing laundry. Damn. I haven't folded anything yet, but I may do that later. I think I am going to enjoy a nice pot pie and a beer for dinner first, then maybe balance the checkbook (Quicken). Sat down for awhile and watched Goodfellas. I have seen parts of it, but this was the first time I have seen it in entirety. Pretty damn good.
