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What a disappointment that was. Going back to work sure does suck after taking a week off. Luckily it was Monday so it was supposed to suck anyway. This was probably the best my department was when I came back from vacation. Normally when I go away for the week, it ends up so fucked up it takes at least a week to get it back in order. This time it was only partially fucked up, and I was able to fix everything today. I am just looking forward to Wednesday so I can get the hell out of there early.

I bought The Family Guy seasons 1 & 2 on DVD Friday. I think I spent the better part of Saturday watching all the episodes. Damn that is a funny ass show. I still love South Park, but this show is great. Too bad it didn’t last longer. I see season 3 (the final one) is coming out on September 9th, so I know I’ll be buying that when it comes out.

I saw on the news that a priest was killed in prison. The first thing I thought of was a priest was giving the last rights to someone and he got killed, until I saw the full story. Now that I know the entire story I have a question. What’s the big fucking deal? This priest was a convicted child molester that molested close to 150 boys in his 30 years as a priest. Although the guy that killed him is a few beers short of a six-pack, I applaud him. This shouldn’t be a topic on news shows everywhere except to say… Look at the dead fucking priest. I think they should start throwing all these child abusers into cells with psycho maniacs. Maybe that would become a deterrent instead of the pussy ass justice system that continually fucks itself with all this lawyer bullshit. Better watch out, I might get sued.

Well, I’m back. Not bad timing for leaving at 5 am on Saturday and getting back before noon on Wednesday. Not to mention we went all the way to Arkansas, then to St. Louis Missouri, Springfield Illinois, and Wisconsin Dells all in five days. On the way down, the gas gauge malfunctioned and we wound up running out of gas 5 miles south of Perryville, MO. That was adventure number one. I would like to thank the guy from the pest control service that was nice enough to pick us up and take us to the nearest gas station when he saw us walking down the highway, it was close to or over 90 degrees at the time. We still made it to Arkansas before 7 pm, so it was only a 14 hour trip. Arkansas wasn’t anymore than I expected, and there really wasn’t much to do there. I did go see American Wedding while there, sadly the highlight of that part of the trip.

We decided to leave Arkansas Monday morning instead of Tuesday, mostly because it was a little boring. On the way back through Missouri we had just passed Sikeston when we heard on the radio that U.S. 61 was shut down and DO NOT come down this way, apparently some guy had just robbed a bank and had a bomb in the Arby’s Parking Lot or some shit. We got to St. Louis somewhere around noonish and went and checked out the Arch. That thing is huge. We planned on riding the tram to the top to see it, but the next one was going up around 4 pm, and we wanted to get the hell out of there before then, because about a block away Monday Night Football was about to happen, and we didn’t want to stick around too long for that big ass traffic mess. We left St. Louis around 3:30 and headed north again, getting up to Springfield, Ill. We got to Springfield and checked into a Super 8, then set out in search of food. We ended up at Hooters!! Great place to eat, and the scenery is excellent.

We got up Tuesday morning and headed for Wisconsin Dells. It was supposed to storm all day today, so we decided that Tuesday would be the day to go do Noah’s Ark. We got into the park around 2 and had fun up until we crashed on the Black Thunder ride. We were riding double in a tube and when we got to the bottom, I went down and Mike went over top of me snapping my head forward and putting me into a world of hurt. My back still hurts but seems a lot better today compared to yesterday. That pretty much sums up my last five days. I am still off of work until this coming Monday, so I will try to thoroughly enjoy that. Now I need to go to bed and relax from all the stress of vacation.

Today is the one year anniversary of my blog. I started this the day I got back from Rapid City, South Dakota. It was supposed to be a nice little way to communicate my thoughts, however in about a weeks time from inception, it became my venting tool, and a way to share my warped point of view with the Internet world.

So how about that blackout on the East Coast. I noticed how they kept praising Bloomberg for how well he handled the situation. You know Giuliani was sitting somewhere going… Hey, remember the Trade Center? City in chaos ring a bell??? I am just waiting for Alan Jackson to try to make a buck off this whole deal. I can already hear the “Where were you, when the power went out” song on country stations everywhere.

As I said, today is the one year anniversary of this blog, and also when I got back from vacation last year. This year it is the day I’m going on vacation. Although not posting daily on here is common nowadays, I will actually have a reason this time. I’m going on vacation dammit.

Only a couple more days to go, then I’m free for a week. In case you haven’t noticed, I’m excited about not working for a whole week. I am so sick of damn near everything at work that I think I need this week off just to regain my thoughts. Between the corporate stupidity and the customer stupidity I am losing my mind.

I see there is a new worm on the Internet. The Blaster worm as it’s been called. I didn’t seem to get infected, although I seem to know a few people who did. This one was a little different, since it didn’t slip in through an e-mail, but instead it sneaks in through an open port. This is new, at least to me. Well, it’s basically a Trojan that instead of sneaking onto your system found an open door. Luckily I downloaded the patch a month ago when it showed up, otherwise I might be somewhat fucked.

I was thinking about going to California and running for governor since I was off next week, but I think I’ll pass this time. I don’t know if I could compete with the stripper, the Terminator and that little black boy from Different Strokes. Whatchu talkin’ bout Willis? That kid. Actually there are going to be 153 people to choose from. I guess California just wants to show Florida how to really fuck up an election.

Another weekend almost over. I can’t seem to think of a worse feeling than Sunday night, knowing you have to go back to the bullshit of work tomorrow. Well, one. The last day of summer vacation when you were in school. That always sucked ass big time. I don’t think there was one year that I didn’t dread going back, at least until after my senior year, and I couldn’t go back. It got a little weird. You do actually miss it. Getting a job sucks ass big time and if I could go back to school days again I would. So I guess I changed my mind. Going back to work on a Monday is way worse than going back to school after summer vacation. Fuck you, it’s my blog.

Just got home from camping, I guess I’m out of tune. I don’t think I’ve went since last Labor Day during the big ass storm. Well, of course it stormed again today. Luckily it was this afternoon, long after I was awake. The good news is that I only have this week to go, then I am out of work for a whole week! Yeah, vacation. Can you tell I can’t wait? I’m going to Arkansas, although I’m not sure why. Supposed to go up into the Ozark Mountains while I’m there, so if I do, I’ll take a few pictures and put them up on the site.

Holy shit. I went to Valleyfair today. I haven’t been there since before I was a teen. The last time I was there, The Corkscrew Roller Coaster was the newest attraction and the second coaster in the park. Well, times have changed. I think there were five coasters there now, none of which I rode. I did do the water rides however. I was soaked from head to toe from about 11am until I got home at 7 tonight. I rode the Flume once, which seems to have a steeper drop than I remembered. I rode the Wave two or three times, and stood on the bridge afterwards each time. If you’ve ever been there, you know, if not, I can’t describe the experience. I also rode Thunder Canyon four times.

I heard on the news that a panda bear in the San Diego Zoo is pregnant, but they don’t know who the father is. The slut. Damn, I can’t wait to see that Maury Povich show. He’ll get the two male pandas out there claiming that ain’t their child, with her telling each one it could be. Look Gao Gao, he has black around his eyes just like you. And Shi Shi, you know we got our groove on. The whole thing will stretch an hour worth of afternoon daytime television time and end up with Maury paying for another one of his wonderful DNA tests to determine the real father of the baby.

Well here it is, the first day of August. Is there nothing going on out there? It’s getting boring. Hey, Bob Hope died. I was totally shocked by his death, because I thought he died like five years ago. Shows what I know. Hell he made it to 100, not too many people do that. Not too many people want to do that.

I’m starting to think about what in the hell I want to do with my life, and I honestly have no fucking clue at the moment. It’s like I have about 10 different things that I want to do, but none of them coincide with one another, meaning to do one, I would have to sacrifice the other. I think what I honestly need to do is get the fuck out of here. New job, new place to live and new outlook on life. If I can change the job and my residence, then I can let the rest of that shit fall into place when it needs to. I’ve already lost the weight, so my confidence is here, so now I just need to go conquer some shit.

Oh wait, that’s right, the president I didn’t elect has pretty much destroyed America’s economy and jobs are at an all time low. Better jack up the terror alert again George, because the rest of the public are starting to catch up with what I already know. The real threat to America is living in the White House.

Yeah!! Last day of July. Oh wait, that’s a bad thing. Only one more official month of summer. This is one of the first years that summer hasn’t bothered me extremely bad like in the past.
Today was fun. Had some old lady in the store and she wanted some Stress Vitamin with Iron in it. Well, we have it but it has Vitamin C in it also, and apparently that wasn’t good enough for her. I say take the C and quit your bitching. Some people are never happy, and they wonder why I’m disgruntled. After her I had another one ask me if we sold meat juice in a can. Um, you mean broth? Yep, that’s what she meant. Then another one asked me where the Ben Gay was, and I showed her and she goes…Oh, nevermind I already got some in my cart. I swear they line up and plan to annoy us. I might have to update my customer page soon.

I bought a new CD at Best Buy last weekend. Ugly Duckling – Taste the Secret. It’s a very nice throwback to the old days of hip hop, if you remember that. If you were a hip hop head back in the late 80’s and early 90’s, go out and buy this CD, in fact get their other discs if you can find them. Journey to Anywhere and Fresh Mode. You won’t be sorry.

Holy shit, another month almost gone. This year is over half done already. Worse yet, summer is coming to a rapid close. Hell, back to school sales are in full swing, and we know what that means… Halloween isn’t too damn far behind. I’m getting rather sick of the same ole, same ole lately, I need to get away. I’m actually going to be going down to Arkansas in about three weeks, so that should be a nice vacation. I wonder how I’ll get along without the Internet for a whole week? It’s going to be scary shit.

I see the government is warning us that the terrorists may be planning another airplane assault. That’s just wonderful. Good thing we have all our people in place and our security is now top-notch. It is, isn’t it? I’m shocked the terror threat level hasn’t been raised yet. I guess we will wait until campaign time really heats up, then we will start trying to scare America into re-electing George. I certainly won’t vote for him, in fact I will vote for whoever runs against him. I don’t give a shit if it’s Kobe Bryant, I’m voting for that fucker. Hey, Clinton got a BJ in the office and he was a hell of a lot better than Bush, so Kobe would fit that bill rather nicely.

OK, what in the hell is going on with these old men and the farmers markets? First last week some old man runs down and kills 10 people in California and this week it happens in Florida? What in the hell is up with these old bastards? No more Viagra for you pops. So when are we going to start taking these old fuckers into the DMV and make them take their driving tests again? You can’t deny reality and think you are still as good as you were when you were 20. Your vision and reflexes and judgment are all on the downslide and maybe you should be checked on your ability to drive a 2,000 pound hunk of metal and plastic before you kill someone.

OK, onto something else. We killed some Hussein’s or something I heard. Shit I saw too. At first I thought it was a pizza commercial offering some buy one get one free pan special, but it was some blown up Iraqis. Hey that’s good, at least I know we are killing some of them too, since every morning I turn on the news and I have to hear about more Americans dying every day. Hopefully in 2004 Bitch Bush won’t get reelected and we can get our country going again. What the fuck am I thinking, the sonofabitch wasn’t elected in 2000 either. Funny how that works.

Another shitty day today. This week has been a little different than usual. Monday I was so tired that I left work early and came home and relaxed. Tuesday when I got to work, I found out I had been volunteered to install the new computer at 1pm. Well, after waiting until after 2:30 to get the tech support phone call from our office (apparently we’re all idiots and can do nothing on our own without these people), he tells me it’s too late and we will just have to do it tomorrow. That doesn’t sit too well with me. About 3 he calls me back and has now decided we will start with the backup of the old computer and get the whole process going. I was at work until 6:30 that night working on that shit. That brings us to Wednesday. I came in early because I set up a Link Sys and some other crap Tuesday night in the back office thinking it was temporary, only to find out it was permanent. I had to come in and run all the wires and shit so everything would be hidden. I only worked until 10am and came home and did some biking. Today was a normal long day, and some more computer fun stuff. They installed Word 2000 & Excel 2000 on the computers in the back. Now these are old computers that are struggling to run Windows 98SE mind you, and there is no way in hell they should even be having an Office 2000 program on them. Well, they installed them and when you open them up, they shut down in about 5 seconds. They were still dialed in when I left today. At least it isn’t any of my concern, because tomorrow’s Friday dammit.

Another Monday here and gone. It’s been a hella busy weekend for me and I’m still tired from it. My friends moved about 50 miles away so I ended up helping them. Friday night we were up until midnight packing the big ass truck, then back up Saturday morning at 7, packed until about 5pm, drove down to the new house and started over in reverse. We unloaded until about midnight again on Saturday night and got up at 7 Sunday morning to start again. I didn’t get back to my house until sometime around 8 last night and I was extremely tired. I am still somewhat tired and will probably go lay down for the rest of the night and just relax.