Month: May 2003

This month is almost over with already. Where in the hell did it go? I swear it was just May day. We need some sort of a lame ass holiday on the first of June. We have New Years Day in January, Groundhog day on the 2nd of February, April Fool’s Day, and May Day. What about June? I know what you’re thinking, but fuck March. I’m talking about June here, we’re looking forward, not backward. How about holy shit is it hot day? Maybe first day of the monsoon? We need something to get this month off on the right foot. Maybe we could start a national BBQ day. I suppose that would tread on the toes of Memorial Day, Independence Day, and Labor Day not to mention every Saturday & Sunday in the summer, but dammit at least it would be official.

I was reading in the paper today that NASA is going to hit a comet on July 4, 2005. You can sign up online to have your name put in the craft that is going to hit this comet. Won’t that fucker just disintegrate when it hits? Worse yet, what if there are aliens up there, and now your name is on this rocket that crashed into something of theirs? Anal probes for you!

Well, Monday is hardly half over and I’ve already accomplished all my goals for this weekend. I went golfing today, and I went fishing yesterday. I’ve managed to eat chicken, beef and pork this weekend in case you were wondering. I’m getting ready to go out to a cookout now, so then I will eat even more animals.

I also managed to take in two movies this weekend. I watched The Matrix Reloaded on Saturday Night, and watched Bruce Almighty Sunday Night. Both were really good movies I thought. I laughed my ass off last night at Bruce.

I’ve seen many mixed reviews on the Matrix, so here’s mine. There was a lot more story here than action in my opinion, and that may have thrown a few people off. There was also more stuff going on outside of the Matrix. The scenes from Zion weren’t exactly action packed or anything, but I feel were necessary for the story. In the last movie, the only time they were really out of the matrix was when they were in the ship, which led to more action. I still enjoyed the movie very much and can’t wait until November to see the conclusion. I only have one fear in this whole matter of the Matrix. Please don’t let it turn into another Star Trek type of thing. We don’t need conventions and shit where fuckers are trying to explain in detail what happened in the movie and what would be happening right now etc… And please stop after the third one. Make it a trilogy and give it up. We don’t need to go back in time like Star Wars did… because that worked so well.

So, they found the cause of SARS. A fucking cat. That was the only part of the news that I had heard this morning. After I heard the whole story about how they were eating the cats and that was the problem, I almost felt bad for doing this. Well, almost. Damn cats anyway.

So here is a question that is starting to bother me. All these new mystery diseases are starting to show up suddenly in animals we consume. Deer have Chronic Wasting Disease, cows got their Mad Cow Disease, and now cats have joined the party with SARS. Here’s the question I pose. Could this possibly be an evolutionary defense mechanism that has developed over the ages? Think about it, after hundreds of years of being raised and consumed, cows have finally had it. They can’t do anything physically about it, because hey, they’re fucking cows. So it is possible that somehow, someway that they have developed this as a defense mechanism.

On a brighter note, it’s the official start of Memorial Day Weekend and yes, I’m going to consume a lot of beef this weekend. I’m going to also eat some fucking chickens and maybe some pig. I will also be fishing and hopefully golfing. So bring on your funky diseases on, I’ll just grill them off.

There was a kid in the store today running around grabbing all the paging microphones and blurting into them. I was getting rather irritated by that shit. The little fucker was lucky I didn’t have any french fries in my hand or I might have done something rash.

That’s right, french fries are now a registered weapon in some parts of the country. If someone pisses you off, you just put them in a headlock and rub hot fries in their face. Works for 18 year old girls who can’t take a 4 year old on by themselves. This is pretty frightening news here. We may have to invade Idaho searching for Weapons of Mass Destruction. We know they’re there, they might be buried, but we’ll find them dammit. What’s next, someone gonna fuck you up at the mall with a Ruffle? “Better give him your wallet honey, he’s got a whole snack pack!”

Holy shit, three days in a row of blogging. That hasn’t happened since the last time I did that. I see they raised the terror threat again today. Guess that means the Bush Administration wants to invade another country and needs a distraction to get us simpletons diverted. I am trying to decide on which country we will go after next. I’m guessing Iran.

It is hella cold out tonight. We actually have freeze warnings out for the night. What kind of bullshit is that. It’s a little fucking late in the year to decide to freeze now. That should be against some sort of Nature law or something. Fucking Wisconsin.

As you can tell, I’ve done another facelift to this front page. I am searching for some templates to work on, but everything seems to either cost money or suck. I will have to just keep working on it. Maybe I will start on a Macromedia Flash design. That would be cool.

Another day another dollar. Monday is never a fun day, although it seemed that today went a little better than most. It might be that I know next Monday I won’t have to be working. I got partially sunburned this weekend with all the outdoor activities I had. I am not too burned, but it fucking itches and I keep putting aloe on it to keep it moist. It actually looks more tanned than burned, I just hope the itching goes away.

Weather was shitty today. I have about a 15 mile drive to work each day, and it was raining so hard on the way home it made it hard to see. There were actually some cars pulled over to the side waiting for it to slow down. Fuck that noise, I’m on my way home from work, the last thing I want to do is sit by the side of the road and wait for the big semi to slam into me. I’ve seen those police videos on TV before.

I was hoping to go check out the Matrix Reloaded Saturday or Sunday, but didn’t have time yet. I will go either this week some night or sometime in the holiday weekend. I’ve heard some pretty mixed reviews on the whole movie. Some either loved it or hated it. Most have been saying it wasn’t the greatest, but if they took in over 92 million it couldn’t have been that bad. I’ll find out for myself I guess.

What a day yesterday was. Got up at 6:30am (on a SATURDAY!) and got ready to go golfing. We golfed two rounds of 9, and we walked it. Got home around 1:30, then I had to go to my uncles and assemble a saw for him. After that, I drove by the lake to check out my cousin and families fishing experience. Then from there, we went up to the mall and checked out the little carnival they had going on there. When that was done I had to go over there and check out her computer and fix it. When I finally got home it was after 10pm. What a day!

Today I think I might buy my fishing license. I haven’t had one for a couple years but just being down there watching it, I had the itch to go. It will cost $14 but I pay that for one round of golf, I guess I can swing it to go fishing for a year.

I’m still learning all the stuff I have on this computer. So far I really like it. For running 2.66GHZ it sure is quiet. I turn it on and can’t even hear it. The first time I turned it on I had to get down there to listen to it. It boots up super quick so far. I suppose when I put all my shit on there it will start slowing down. The first thing I did was take all the stupid AOL free offers and shit off of here. I hate AOL. I am updating the computer picture page, that should be up by the time today is over.

It’s Friday finally. I got my Dell Wednesday afternoon and have been transferring data ever since. I was up until midnight last night because I was almost done and said fuck it, I’m going to finish. So far I like it a lot The monitor screen is the same size as my old one, but the casing is smaller, and it looks tiny. I need to start playing with the video editor, because I would like to burn a DVD soon. Dammit you know I’m itching to do that. I am still trying to learn a few things, for instance I have Outlook now, instead of Outlook Express, so I have to learn all the bells & whistles of that.

I notice I haven’t mentioned how much work sucks lately. In case you were wondering, it still sucks and I’m still there. I personally can’t believe that the company still functions anymore as pathetic and lame as it is. I don’t have the time to bitch about all the stupidity and I don’t need to stress that shit now that I’m home, just rest assured, they aren’t any better than they were.

My Dell is getting closer. I checked my status, it should actually either be in my town already or damn close. I don’t know if I will get it today, but if not then definitely tomorrow. The way UPS works sometimes, I could see it being delayed until tomorrow because we don’t get our stuff at work until noon, and that’s where it’s going. Oh well, that’ll give me another day to keep cleaning off this system.

I read in the paper at work yesterday that some people in China are smoking because they think that will ward off SARS. Um, good idea. Won’t you feel triumphant as you die of lung cancer, choking out your last breath saying… “see, at least I didn’t get SARS and die…oh wait, forget that last part.”

I saw that Tommy Chong was arrested and charged with selling drug paraphernalia. No way, not Tommy Chong. Can’t be. Who would have ever suspected someone who starred in such films as Up in Smoke; Still Smokin’; and Nice Dreams would be capable of something like that?

Dude, I’m getting a Dell. I’ve been experiencing some technical difficulties as of late on here, and have been getting a little pissed off about it. My computer is now officially old and cannot keep up with the shit I want to do anymore. I am currently running 750MHZ with 256MB of memory. The Dell I just ordered is going to be a 2.66GHZ, 512MB of Ram, a 120GB hard drive, and a DVD burner. Sweet huh? I am to the point on this computer where it just freezes up. I have removed a lot of programs and stuff, but to no avail. It is just time to replace this computer. I didn’t even bother playing around with the memory chip yesterday.

Instead, I updated a bunch of my picture pages. The pond page is finally done. I redid the South Dakota picture pages, and the computer page. I added a page for my Police Scanners also. It took a good chunk of my Saturday, but then again, what else was I going to do?

Hey, I know we were really really dry around here, but it could stop fucking raining anytime. I would guess that we had somewhere around 5 inches of rain in the last 24 hours. There was actually puddles in the yards around here, which I can honestly say I have never seen before. It sounds like it is going to warm up and dry out tomorrow. That is good, although it sounds like it will rain again on Wednesday. Just in time for me to get off work early. Wonderful.

Friday sucked. It rained and thunderstormed all day, so there went the golfing idea. Played some pool instead, which just showed me that I should probably stick to golf. It still was better than being at work though, but that’s a no brainer.

I bought a 256MB memory chip for my computer yesterday. The motherfucker won’t work for me though. I did a lot of research on this, and it sounds like I may have to update my BIOS/RAM to get it to recognize the larger chipset. That is pissing me off royally. I didn’t intend on spending my Saturday afternoon making backup copies of all my important shit so I could screw with my BIOS. Sounds like it is going to be a long fucking day.

On a little lighter note, I finally took some pictures of the pond and will hopefully have that page ready to upload in the next few days (barring any trashing of my computer). I am also planning on redoing the picture page of my computers and I will be adding a new section on the pictures page as well.

No work Wednesday! Golfed 18 holes today, the first 9 were shitty, the second were much better. I have no idea why but I cut at least 15 strokes off the second round. Maybe it takes me a round of golf to warm up? I think I just sucked so bad the first time around, there was no room to get worse. If the weather cooperates, I will be going out again on Friday. Have I mentioned that a few hundred times yet? The fact that I’m off again on Friday! If not, then I’ll say it again. I’m off this Friday, have fun at work.

In case you didn’t know this, I feel that this whole Iraq thing was some gigantic Bush Administration bullshit job to line his and other’s pockets full of money. Yes, an oil war is what I’m saying. Oil giant Halliburton, once run by Vice President Dick Cheney, will now be involved in operation and distribution of oil products in Iraq, the U.S. military said on Wednesday, indicating a more direct role in Iraq’s energy business than originally believed. Ok then, so I guess that we’ve now awarded our good buddies at Halliburton a mainstay in Iraq. Nice to know even though the president has fucked up our economy, the oil men will still prosper.

Saw this online tonight while I was reading some news. BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese peasants, lacking the medical know-how and funds to fight the deadly SARS virus, are lighting firecrackers to scare off the “god of plague.” Um… I can’t even fucking follow that one up, it can stand alone without me making any fun of it at all.