Friday, May 05, 2006

Friday Fragments

Fast acting relief for your urge to do any work today

  • So apparently I've been wearing a pink watch for about three months now, ever since my old one died. I did not realize it was pink, since to me, it looks 100% silver, but I stuck it in Photoshop which cannot tell a lie when it comes to colour. You may now proceed to mock me mercilessly for my fashion sense. I still think it's silver, but this leads me to wonder how many articles of clothing I own that are an unfortunate shade of silver.

  • While cleaning out my laundry room yesterday, I found a grey (yes, it's definitely grey, maybe with a tinge of blue) sock behind the washing machine. If you have done laundry at my house in the past two years, please check your feet to make sure that you are wearing more than one sock. Once I figure out who the owner is, I will wash it thoroughly and return it.

  • Surprisingly, there have been five other people besides me who have done laundry in my home in the past two years. I should slap a quarter slot on the front and profit.

  • I will need all the quarters I can get to pay for the repair of my car window yesterday, which stopped going up and down in the winter. It did so last winter as well, so I just figured it was cold-weather-related and would start working again soon. It turns out the motor went kaput -- I blame the caustic salty air of Florida, which is also responsible for the fact that Booty has one ear.

  • Because the window was broken, my car didn't pass the state inspection, which was the whole reason I took it in in the first place. I don't quite understand why a power window is a safety feature, unless your car is quickly sinking in the bay after you careened off the pier to escape the cops, and you can't open your door because of the outside water pressure, so you're forced to roll down the window to escape. Either way, you're screwed because your electrical system would have already shorted out. Better start kicking out the plexiglass and hope the paramedics are standing by.

  • Sunday is Best Meat's birthday. I haven't talked to that boy since I left college -- the last I heard of him, which was a couple years ago, was that he was deciding whether to be a country music singer or a paramedic. I think he should sing, but be a paramedic in the music video for his first single, Meat Wagon.

  • The next version of my Warcraft III map, Micro Frenzy, is now available for download here. I'd tell you what's changed, but none of you care because only people with pink watches play video games. There are meat wagons in it though.

  • I remember that time I bought Warcraft II for Kelley's birthday and he didn't shower or go to class for the next four days.

  • Speaking of video games, that game, Nintendogs, isn't suitable for me. I did not realize that time keeps going if you don't play every day. On Wednesday before LOST, I turned it on to play with Tuba the labrador only to find that she was famished, parched, and very dirty. I took her for a walk and some other dog owner in the town scolded me for not taking better care of her.

  • Speaking of LOST, holy crap. Wednesday night's twist makes a lot of sense, but I didn't see it coming, or expect it to happen so suddenly. That's some good TV. If you have already seen the episode, you can read this article for the producer's spin on what happened: (spoilers for last Wednesday's episode!). I'm not entirely sure I believe them.

  • I still don't know what's going on in the last season of Alias but I hear it's as good as it used to be in the early seasons. I plan on getting the DVDs in September and watching them all together. With the show marked as cancelled, it's not like my support during primetime would help it at all.

  • This weekend, the plan is to mow the lawn, restart Poker Night for the summer, and go to a company picnic with some happening ladies. I'm also going to learn how to make Eggdrop Soup next week. If you would like to taste my early iterations, please send a self-addressed stamped tupperware bowl to my house.

  • Have a slaphappy good weekend.

  • What did we get from the dot com boom?
    Al-Zarqawi can't fire his gun, if you know what I mean
    It's no different than putting a worm in it

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