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Fashion

I made one of those stupid connections a couple of minutes ago. Steve Huff wrote a piece about pimping out your MySpace profiles. I commented on it, and went on a bit longer than perhaps I should have. I kind of drifted off and realized that I would be better off just posting the rest here.

I hate fashion. I am like a lot of guys. My hair stays the same (actually it is shaved right now) and I pretty much alternate between keeping it extremely short and sometimes I will get lazy and let it grow out a bit. Comb it straight back. Don’t need any of that goop in my fucking hair, or blow drying or styling. If I can’t rub a damn towel on my head and brush back a couple of times I am just not comfortable.

I am the same way with clothing. T-Shirts and Jeans for the most part. My jeans are the same ones I have been wearing for 25 years. Stuck in the late ’70s and ’80s. Straight jeans that actually fit between my beer gut and my hips, not below.

I hate the pants that fall down around your ankles, showing underwear and whatnot. I embarrassed my hostess at work a couple of weeks ago. She came behind the counter to get something and bent over. All I had to say was “Oh, pink today, huh?”. She wore a fucking belt the next day. Of course this is the one that wants to get her own name tattooed on the small of her back. Jesus. All I could think was “reading material if the guy fucking you from behind gets bored”. Couldn’t say that though. I like being able to pay my bills. Her name? Is that in case she forgets or for the stranger she just fucked?


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Groggy

Well, after taking the Benadryl I crashed at some point between 8:30 and 9 o’clock last night, just got up. I may end up having to do the same thing tonight. Damn, the sleep does me good but my back is fucking killing me this morning.

We did manage to get a pretty good thunderstorm through here last night. Need the rain for my plants and lawn so that was nice. Not that it will really cool things off at all. Supposed to be in the 90’s again today. Shit, normally August is the hottest month here but July was pretty damned hot. I have needed to get out and cut the grass for about a week now but it has just been too hot. I actually have the weekend off, so maybe I can get it done then, if I don’t get into Atlanta.


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Blonde Joke

Why did the blond put lipstick on her forehead?

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She was trying to make up her mind.


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Uninterrupted sleep

…is what I hope to get tonight. Just took a couple of benadryls and told the girls that they would be going to bed soon.


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Todays Pick




Todays Pick

Originally uploaded by rmiles.

The jabeneros and jalepenos should be ready soon.

Posting from my iPaq…

…while dinner is on the stove got me to thinking about how pissed off I am right now at Handango. If you are not familiar with them, they provide a central location for the downloading and purchase of software for handhelds.
Since I cannot sync my ipaq and PC, but my wife wants something called Sodoku, I figured that I would download a demo or purchase it straight from the ipaq. You can no longer access the site, at least with this one. I was forced to download a catalog app and use it. It won’t let me download demos, only have the option to purchase. Ok, tried that and it tells me the file cannot be found on the server. Six different apps and I get the same message. Fuck you Handango.

Just some general web surfing bullshit

At least the US is being straightforward and honest when we didn’t sign the Kyoto treaty, unlike most of the participating countries. Thanks, LL. I also came across an almost unbelievable article about a guy who called in with a dead family member, more than once (and the KID wasn’t dead). Fucker.

Mel Gibson apologizes to the Jews.

Read about the Hit-and-Run Grannies. I know that this is pretty serious and all, but for some reason I am laughing my ass off.

I admit it. I am a big Harry Potter fan. I am eagerly awaiting the last book in the series. I am certainly not a literary critic, but I have been reading SciFi and Fantasy novels since I was five and have always been in love with them. Stephen King, John Irving, and J.K. Rowling got together for a charity fund-raiser and there is a bit of discussion about the final book here

What a fucking maroon..When showing your stolen ID, make sure that the person you are showing it to doesn’t resemble the picture (or have the same name).

AOL finally has a beta version that work under Windows Vista. Good deal. Yeah, I still have AOL. I use the excuse that my account is my grandmother’s only internet access (which is true), but the real deal is that I have had the same email account for 14 years. I use it for 95% of any transactions I make on the internet, and am loathe to give it up. I did read over at CNN the other day that Time-Warner is considering making their aol.com email addresses free, which would be nice. I might have to set up my grandmother with something else, but then again, maybe I will just keep paying for it.

Another article about Castro is here. Nothing new, I guess they are just trying to keep it alive in the news cycle. What I found interesting is that when all this was announced, President Bush was in Miami to talk about the US economy. The US Mission in Cuba finally got power back today after not having it since June 5th. Damn, and I thought I was hot after driving for 20 minutes. Redstate and Val Prieto comment on the fact that the announcement was made AFTER the surgery, not before. Hadn’t thought about that yet, but it’s possible that Castro is in really bad shape or we might never have even known.

Is there anyone out there that does not know to BLOW OUT THE FUCKING FIRE before drinking flaming alcohol? Apparently this stupid bitch doesn’t and is suing Bacardi as a result. Snakes.

Here’s and article about Metallica finally allowing some of their music to be sold on iTunes. It mentions the fact that The Beatles and Led Zeppelin still aren’t being sold, but doesn’t say anything about the other holdout that I would love to see, AC/DC.

I have a lot of respect for Jimmy Carter as a great humanitarian, but he was a terrible president, and he still doesn’t have a clue about politics, particularly politics in the Middle East. His article for the Washington Post “Stop the Band-Aid Treatment” can be found at the link. He has some good points but the fact is that Hezbollah is hiding among the civilian population of Lebanon and Israel is defending itself. It is a tragedy and unfortunate that civilians are being killed, but if Britain or the US had turned pussy during WWII and NOT fire bombed Dresden, or we had not nuked japan, the war would NOT have stopped as fast and the casualties would have been much worse. I would love to see all of the current conflicts stopped without any further death, innocent or otherwise, but it ain’t gonna happen.

Elisson decided to post a picture from the Vman’s recent vacation. WARNING -DON’T click if you have eaten recently.

That’s enough for now. Chris and Stephanie are both at work until after 9pm, so I need to get off my ass and fix the girls something to eat. I did have my employee meeting this afternoon and may post a bit about it later.

Oops. Fucked up my tags and had to repost.


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Happy Birthday Buddy Guy!

A little belated perhaps. Buddy Guy turned 70 on Sunday. The dude is still performing, doing something like 30 shows in July and August.

Unfortunately all I have is vinyl, I haven’t had the chance to finish copying all of my albums to hard drive as my turntable went TU a few months ago. Need to get a new one I suppose.


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Spiders on my fucking head

Damn. I’m in my car trying to find whatever crawled on my fucking head. Must have walked through a spiderweb or something.

Back to the Grindstone

It was actually a pretty uneventful day today. I certainly expected a lot more bullshit after being off for the last two days. My bosses boss has been on my ass lately about payroll, so I have made a bunch of major changes to the scheduling. I cut some of the mouth breathers a couple of days, and my first shift cook that has been so much of a pain in the ass the last three years is now a 3rd shift cook. Now the trick is to see if he actually shows up. Even if he doesn’t it’s not that big of a deal. If he hangs me I don’t have to worry about how the next manager is going to get rid of him. If he DOES show up and do a decent job, well good. The position will actually pay him a little more and give him the opportunity to make a little more money.

I am having a mandatory meeting on Tuesday afternoon. I don’t have too many employee meetings. I don’t believe in them. Generally they are a waste of fucking money (you have to pay them for coming) when I can go over what I need at the beginning of each shift or on-on-one with the folks that need a bit of meeting time. This is a bit different though. I have to pretty much put my foot down about the pill heads and some rumors that some of them have been buying and selling on my property. I have the feeling that at least a couple of them may quit afterward, which is fine, they are the ones that need to go. It will hurt my money a little bit to lose them as I get paid off of retention, but in the long run I will be much better off. Besides, I will be in a different store three months from now and I can’t leave the new guy with a bunch of shit that I inherited from the last manager. I’ve been around long enough to be able to deal with most of them and do it successfully, but he has not.

There are also some issues I am going to have to go over as far as these people getting along at work. I could give a flying fuck if they like each other, as long as they act like it at work and do a professional job, that is all I care about.

I think that this new guy is going to do a pretty decent job. He worked a double on one of my off days since the cook called in. Had it been me I would have found someone to else to work. After 20 years I don’t believe in working fucking doubles, or 2nd and 3rd shifts. This guy is still young and gung-ho and willing to cut a bit of payroll. Hell yeah. He can work all the fucking doubles he wants while I am still getting paid off the store.


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