To have nice manners, think good thoughts, walk a mile in someone else’s shoes, be empathetic, etc. I also vow to finally finish putting down flooring over the subfloor in the closets. I vow to take the dirty gym clothes and towels out of the car and wash them. And above all to be less [...]
Archive for June, 2006
Her: “I’d bet dollars to donuts” – what precisely does that mean? Who wouldn’t prefer donuts to dollars anyway? Me: Well it is sort of a strange expression because I think a donut only costs about 50 cents. Her: I was thinking that’s like saying I bet you 2:1 that x happens…dollars to donuts, there [...]
Maybe the ipod will come today! And if it doesn’t, technically I bought another ipod yesterday.
It Was Nice Meeting Your Dogs
Published June 29th, 2006 in Blacksburg, Daily, Sample Conversation and in the darkness of iPod death. 0 CommentsSetting: A park, Blacksburg Woman With Greyhound: Are those whippets? Me: Yes. WWG: Proceeds to have long conversation mostly with herself about the dogs: similarities between whippets, greyhounds, and italian greyhounds, how she hates her children today, and it is like that sometimes, etc. (Later as I turn to go) Me: See you! WWG: It [...]
Sample Conversation
Published June 29th, 2006 in Daily, Sample Conversation and in the darkness of iPod death. 0 CommentsHer: (digging through under sink cabinet.) Oh no. We are out of yellow sponges. Me: What are we going to use to clean the counters?? Her: We will have to use a blue sponge. (removes discolored blue sponge with brown splotches and sets it on the counter.) WHAT DID YOU DO TO THIS SPONGE? Me: [...]
Setting: Kroger pharmacy Time: After waiting 10 minutes for a gabby woman to describe her 18 year old son’s illness to disinterested pharmacy staff. He’s got white blisters in his throat. He got them at the beach. It hurts. The pharmacist refuses to diagnose the illness but she is obviously thinking IT’S GOT TO BE [...]
This movie took a lot of cheap shots, but it also came together nicely and more importantly also avoided making any concrete moral statements. A movie about American moral relativism in the post-911 era is almost inconceivable. But here it is. Shades of gray. A very refreshing change from the sort of Christian-undertones, black-and-white, good [...]
IS. IT.
I would like a tshirt like this. Not pink. Some other color.
Sample Conversation
Published June 29th, 2006 in Daily, Sample Conversation and in the darkness of iPod death. 2 CommentsHer: Are you sure you don’t want to come to El Guad’s (Mexican lunch)? Me: No thanks, I’ve got a date with my bike. Him: Are you taking the seat off? Me: Uh, no, it’s not that kind of date.
Not exactly the right kind of relief- the right kind of relief is the kind you feel when your ipod arrives (which it hasn’t). Kind of a quiet feeling that all is right in the world, and the reason for that is that Anne Rice has a mac.com email addreses, which means she uses a [...]
I am barely hanging on to my sanity with this ipod order/fedex tracking thing. Times I have checked the fedex website today: approximately 1 billion. I’m trying to work and I find myself back at the fedex site. Refresh. Refresh. Sacramento. SACRAMENTO!!! Why!!!! Of all freaking places, why don’t they have the iPod refurbishing factory [...]
from the Spanish for ‘delayed’; slang term meaning: whack, ass-backwards, completely f***ed.
Grim iPod Deathmarch
Published June 28th, 2006 in Daily and in the darkness of iPod death. 0 CommentsMaybe it isn’t technically a deathmarch if you are sitting at your desk. But still. The need to constantly check the order status on my ipod is getting wearying, especially since that wretch at Apple fed me the line about the loading dock and ‘let’s hope it’ll just get there by friday’- now I SAID [...]
Still hasn’t shipped -or- in the clutches of OCD
Published June 27th, 2006 in Daily and in the darkness of iPod death. 0 CommentsI sometimes get obsessed. Like the ipod situation- my behavior is not rational. It is frenzied and scary. At about 7:50 AM I ordered a refurbished ipod shortly before going to work. This was following a frazzled morning that involved spaghetti (whole wheat angel hair actually) exploding out of the cabinet and all over the [...]
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