The Workermonkey
Sunday, July 30, 2006
The New America
Where the Public gets Short Changed.
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That's annoying considering mobile phones are such a ripoff in the US.
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Damon, at Monday, July 31, 2006 3:02:00 PM
why is this suprising?
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Post a CommentFriday, July 28, 2006
Kegger at Ron's house Saturday
the bible says it all. He's getting a keg for tomarrow night, come one, come all. Spread the word.
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wait a minute, did i write bible? i ment title, nice little slip there...
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did you or did someone edit it?
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i didn't think i did, who would edit that and not leave a comment?
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Post a CommentWednesday, July 26, 2006
interesting quiz
i found this interesting and think that some of you would have fun with it, so i decided to post it. as with any of these things, i'm sure there are inherent flaws. i found a bunch of the questions difficult to answer because i didnt think i could just either agree or disagree with the statement. several questions seemed to carry multiple contradictory parts which add to this confusion. either way, it's interesting. try it out.
You scored as atheism. You are... an atheist, though you probably already knew this. Also, you probably have several people praying daily for your soul.
Instead of simply being "nonreligious," atheists strongly believe in the lack of existence of a higher being, or God.
atheism
88% agnosticism
75% Satanism
67% Paganism
54% Judaism
33% Buddhism
33% Islam
25% Christianity
13% Hinduism
0%
Which religion is the right one for you? (new version)
created with QuizFarm.com
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i turn out 100% atheist
Atheist 100%
Buddah 33%
jew 25%
agnostic 8%
Born again 0%
Catholic 0%
Protestant 0%
islamic 0%
Hindu 0%
some good polls on that site.By
atheism 100%
Satanism 75%
Buddhism 50%
Paganism 50%
Judaism 46%
agnosticism 46%
Christianity 33%
Islam 33%
Hinduism 0%
Josh you're right, some questions were N/ABy
Buddhism 71%
Hinduism 71%
agnosticism 58%
Paganism 54%
Islam 50%
Christianity 38%
Judaism 38%
Satanism 33%
atheism 21%
Im glad my Judaism score is low and i think my Ganesha statue is speaking to me at night...By
Post a CommentElectric sports car
130 mph, 0-60 in 4 sec, 250 mile range, available next year for $70+
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holy mid-life crisis
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maybe, but the point is it's electric and it can toast most sports cars twice as expensive off the line, so it's environmentally better than regular cars, and depending on where you get your power might be actually "clean."
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Post a CommentMonday, July 24, 2006
who care about getting laid....
when you get to ride this whenever you want? Check out my new bike!
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wow, I just hope you're not afraid to climb with that thing
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is it missing some spokes or is that to cut down on weight? looks sharp.
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High end wheels have fewer spokes than regular cheap ones, and sometimes they are different shapes, to combat drag, as you can imagine how they chop up the air. The most aerodynamic wheels are solid, but that's usually only on time trial bikes and only on the back since you can't steer very wheel with them on the front. Some have four or so carbon wings for spokes.
Look at you follow me around the cycling world but going far more extreme into each style. How many bikes do you have now? Are you going to race this one? What kind of races?By
I follow no one!
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I took a spin around my yard on this thing. I'm not used to thin tires, but even at low speeds it seems like the thing can fly.
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Post a CommentBill Clinton
I saw Bubba today! He was in Waterbury at the Palace Theater stumping for Joe Lieberman at his rally. Also speaking were Sen. Chris Dodd, House Speaker Jim Amann, AFL-CIO CT president John Olsen, Hartford Mayor Eddie Perez, Attorney General Richard Blumenthal and more. Looking around the place made for a pretty fun who's-who for the political world of CT, especially since I've been getting more familiar with the elected officials and Young Dem members.
And might I say Clinton is still a God in the form of a master statesman. Taller than I thought, also. These guys are all very good at presentation and revving up a crowd, especially when it's their own flock of course. Sen. Dodd is definitely presidential material. I'll be rooting for him come 2008, maybe volunteering where it's needed. You'll probably read the better quotes from Clinton in tomorrow's paper, so I'll give my favorite Speaker Amann ones:
"We will not allow a screeching vocal minority to hijack our party. This is not amateur-night. " - referring to Lieberman's Democratic primary opponent Ned Lamont and his ad campaign. Bursts of applause followed. At exactly 6:00pm (during Clinton's speach) the reporters on the political beat started their broadcasts right next to us. It was kind of weird the way they all began talking at the very same time for different cameras.
And do you know what the coolest part of it all was? And this is just ridiculous....
The opening band was the Tuesday trio for Harbor Park - Bloomer. Fucking A. I almost laughed out of my seat.
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bloomer??! nice
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hahaha that's awesome. maybe they'll play something presidential for us tomorrow. perhaps something by the presidents of the united states of america?
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if i hear lump, i may piss myself.
those guys get around don't they?
since i really don't pay attention to local politics, i have to take your word on some of these guys. I'm not supporting liberman, and i really don't know anything about lamont except for the stuff i saw on TV, i've heard good things about dodd and i think i'd supporrt him too.By
Post a CommentSaturday, July 22, 2006
False advertising
After clicking an ad for Verizon's unlimited VOIP service, I find this amusing fine print:
Usage must be consistent with normal residential use for one household. Verizon reserves the right to monitor usage for possible abuse of service. For packages with unlimited calling, more than 5,000 minutes a month is considered beyond normal residential use and may be investigated, resulting in potential termination of service.
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Wednesday, July 19, 2006
People are amazing
I have this customer. It was one of the first jobs I got that I had quoted when I first started here. I was excited, this guy seemed cool, his project seemed easy, they liked the price and asked us to do it. Great. Well, it came at a time when we were very busy and no one in the shop wanted to touch this thing. I couldn't get the coil guy to coil the tube, I couldn't get tom to test it, I couldn't get anyone to actually work on it. Well, it came time to ship this thing back and we hadn't touched it. I begged Hot Bosses husband who does stuff for us to just take care of it, I had more important stuff to do. I was busy, and at this time a bunch of people were on vacation so I was running around like a maniac. Well, I like HB's husband do it and when it was done, it wasn't right, it didn't work and i was left with a bunch of crap i couldn't use. WTF.
at first, this customer was understanding. When we were 3 weeks late, and now that we were done, it didn't work, he was pissed. i didn't blame him. We kind of screwed him and did a shitty job of it. When our production meeting came around that week i asked everyone what i should do since i had everyone in the office in one place. My boss, Ken, literally said "who the fuck is (company name here), we shouldn't even be working on this". He told the foreman to stop working on it, mean while we're now very late, this guy has been screaming at me every day to get it done and i'm being told to not work on it. i told Ken that maybe he'd like to tell this customer what he just told me and he said to "forget about it, who cares about this guy? We've got other stuff thats due!"
well this was what really tipped me off with him. The next day he had told another crazy customer to come down and see what we're doing for them, well this guy showed up looking for my head on a platter, while Ken was nowhere to be found. i had a day from hell between the crazy guy yelling at me in person and the other crazy guy yelling at me over the phone. Ken called at the end of the day and i told him it was bullshit he had his guy come down and then didn't show up, him line was "I'm in NY, what do you want from me?" the least he could have done was tell me this guy was coming and then maybe scheduled it for a day he was going to be here, not one were i was already by myself in the office and stressed out. After he said that to me over the phone i was pissed, i told him so, nicely (really), and he rattled on about my other responsibilities around here, "yeah ken and you're not the only person i work for around here, i have other responsibilities too" and hung up on him.
well, when he got back on that Friday, i was asked to have a "meeting" with him and HB. it happened to be just after lunch so when Ken strolled in, i could tell he'd had a few drinks at lunch. Well he laid his case out, and ripped into me for not doing something else. i let him have it in return and made myself very clear. HB sat in amazement that i didn't take his shit and that i was actually 100% right about everything while Ken as woozy and just being a giant dick. After that, HB said she was going to have a talk with him about how he treats me. Since then, he's just not talked to me. Period, we don't even say hi in the morning. I've asked him for stuff in front of other people, and he stands there and claims its not his job, or he wants nothing to do with it. I've made a spectacle out of this in front of our secretary, she likes it. its funny.
well anyway, it was a shitty week capped off by a shitty boss and yells from a customer. we finally finished the thing, it took 3 more weeks, some expensive parts by another machinist and lots of angry phone calls. This job came back twice because of something stupid, and once because the customer thought they had not sent it back yet when really we turned it around before he noticed.
well, its been a few months and now this thing is broken again. I got a call from this crazy guy last week, when i picked up the phone and said hello, he stated his name plainly and all i could say was "oh". His response was "it leaks, I'm sending it back." me; "I can't argue with that" and we both hung up. This unit showed up on Friday. I've kind of stopped answering the phone at all because of a bunch of things, so now i just collect the 20 messages i have once a week and sort through them. Well, this guy has called and left 3 messages just today about his unit. The first one was simple enough, where is it, call me back. No problem. The second one was amazing, "matt, this shouldn't be that hard, all you have to do is the same thing you did last time and have it ready by Friday" the same thing we did last time? What you mean the project we bucked up and took weeks on, now is easy and has to be ready in 3 days? Not possible. The third call was just plain creepy. "matt, I know you're in today, why aren't you returning my phone calls, i don't appreciate this and it doesn't give me a warm fuzzy feeling that you're working on my coil" wow. He knows I'm here? Huh.
well after this, i decided to call him back. When he answered the phone, everything was great. He was happy and understanding and i told him we might test it today but it certainly wasn't going to be ready by Friday, and maybe not even next week. He said "OK, but its for the power company and they're screaming for it because of all the heat" ok i understand all that, but this was the guy who hours earlier had said he knows where i am and sounded ready to rip me apart for not answering the phone. People are amazing.
wow reading back on this, its just a rant, with no point other then i deal with crazy people. And most of the stuff i wrote has nothing to do with that point. fuck. well it feel good to spit it all out somewhere, and at least some of you were suckers enough to read it. HA!
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"matt, I know you're in today, why aren't you returning my phone calls, i don't appreciate this and it doesn't give me a warm fuzzy feeling that you're working on my coil"
matt, beware. sexual predators come in all forms, not just on the internet.
but seriously, that sucks. glad you laced into that other guy though. and ranting is what the blogs are all about, feels good to get it out, eh?
an attorney for the adverse party in one of our cases was being a huge dick yesterday about when his client could come here for a deposition. it basically ended in him sending us a letter saying that our notice must be sent via certified mail, and he refuses to go pick up his certified mail. so we're slapping him with a motion to compel. it's just how we roll. he's gonna be pissed.By
yeah, never piss off a lawyer, they can mess with you in ways we've never even dreamed of.
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Post a Comment“The Environmental Paradox of Bicycling”
First, this was in the signature of someone on a forum: "Advice of the day :: Don't get in a Bible quoting contest with an atheist"
And now, this article says that if people trade their car for a bike, environmentally it doesn't really help. The main assumption is that the person was sedentary before, so by cycling, they increase their energy use and therefore need more food. They also live longer, which has a very negative impact on the environment. The bit about eating more is significant because our food typically contains only 15% of the energy required to produce and distribute it. So while of course the basic assumption is pretty goofy since the people that decide to trade their car for a bike are probably pretty fit already, the assumption about the inefficiency of our food supply is a good one. Seven Days had several articles about this last week, as some people in Vermont prepare to eat locally in August. While giving up all food from outside your area is far too hardcore to become mainstream and therefore won't affect America as a whole, people consciously thinking about where their food comes from and just taking the local option when possible, could have benefits.
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this reminds me of a solor power project i did in school, everyone wanted to use PV solar cells for everything as a great way to save energy, but at the time, it took more energy to produce each cell then it could possibly produce durings its life time, an overall loss of energy.
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Post a CommentTuesday, July 18, 2006
The older you are, the longer you stare
This was a social nuance I noticed while drinking in an airport bar. When I pretty girl walks by, the length of time a man stares is directly proportional to his age. The older you are, the longer you stare. I've noticed it in other places too, like baseball games, malls, and any other public gathering spot. My first thought is this is caused by a lack of caring as people get older. Say I'm 25, if I look at a pretty girl, odds are I have a better chance then a man twice my age, say 50. If I were the 50 year old, I wouldn't expect to have a chance in hell with someone younger than 25, so who cares if I look at them in passing for a few more seconds. I'm just a creepy old man.
I would also think that the odds of two young people meeting again in another random circumstance would be much higher than that of a 20 year old girl and a 50 year old man. Does this cause one to look away a little faster? I wouldn't want some girl, relatively my own age, to turn, catch me staring and think I was that creepy guy. There's a chance I might see her again. We've all bumped into people who we'd rather avoid because something awkward happened in the past. If I had stopped caring, I could look as long as I want and be placed into the same category as the 50 year old man.
is this a battle with time? Are we all going to slowly give up and just flat out stare at people? While I'm also looking a the hot chick, I'm also trying to look around and see what the other men standing around me are doing and how long it takes them to break off the "holy shit look at that!" stare. Old dudes just don't give a shit and will flat out stare pass the point of what's appropriate or generally acceptable. Even the guy who will stop, turn to a total stranger and point at a girl saying "wow, check that out!" doesn't stare as long as a man in his 60's. He's busy telling the guy next to him how awesome it is to see her. The old guy is just looking, sometimes blankly, studying the subject until something else catches his attention.
discuss:
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Accurate!
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Post a CommentMonday, July 17, 2006
wtf
The West is so biased toward Isreal it is beyond belief. The bias is so thick that the West is totally blind to reality. If the massive over reaction and bombings were the other way around, there'd be a huge international army already mobilized and defending the victims. Instead check out Google News and read hundreds of headlines that say things like "Israel Steps Up Attacks Across Lebanon".
However, Kofi Annan would like a UN force to go there to stop the violence. Not surprisingly, "U.S. officials hesitated to embrace the UN effort...Sending in an armed force ``may be a tad premature,'' said White House spokesman Tony Snow." ... " The European Union also wasn't ready to endorse the force." So basically we all sit around and do whatever we usually do and don't care that a nation the receives billions in military aid is bombing its neighbor into the stone age.
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we spread ourselves too thin as it is. i'm not advocating for helping any 1 country or picking and choosing, i'm just observing.
we are "team america: world police" and it's going to get us attacked again. i understand we like to push our undemocratic notions of democracy around the world, but enough is enough. we dont do shit comparatively for all the strife in africa, where perhaps it's needed most. well, they have little to offer us. our whole decision making system of who to help is skewed and hypocritical anyway.
how about we back off and let people who dont affect us bomb the shit out of each other. or, we can do what we really want, and go imperialistic on the world's ass.
isolationism isn't the answer, but we have enough of our own problems. sure, "helping" everyone else out is a nice distraction, but when will we address our own? of course, some might say these people are so much worse off that we should help them get to where we are before addressing our own issues. hmmmm, evening out the classes so to speak. sounds a little bit communist to me.By
I didn't mean to advocate being the world police although it's a good film, just that we're so unfair about it like that Family Guy episode when Peter finds out he's black, we're those police. We should invade ourselves because judging from the past decade, the US is the most dangerous nation, and Isreal is attemping to challenge us for the title. Sure North Korea is testing some missles, but they shoot them into water, only the US and Isreal are using theirs on people.
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Post a CommentFriday, July 14, 2006
My life, Updated
Ok, so I’ve been complaining about not having any time to do stuff and being totally stressed out. well, no one is here at work right now and its Friday, so fuck em. I'm going to write a big piece of crap and just rant my ass off. Enjoy.
lets start with work. that’s been the biggest problem in my life currently and I guess everything stems from it. I’ll start at the beginning because if I didn't, I think some people would be lost. When I got this job it was after I had been fired/freaked out and quit the last one. They had told me they were looking for someone to do heat exchangers and tanks and they wanted to expand that side of their business. sounded cool and the money they were throwing at me was good. it was kind of an offer I couldn't refuse. I quickly found out that I was on my own with this stuff and kind of expected to be an expert from day one. well, I’m not, and I’m still not. The first big thing I had to do here was get us through our annual ASME audit. After I started it became apparent I was supposed to make sense of the mess that was left by the guy I was replacing. so I did. I got through the audit and moved on to other projects. the heat exchanger (HX) stuff was kind of slow so I picked up some other stuff to do so I could keep busy. I ended up helping everyone and kind of learning how to do everything around here, both because I was trying to help, I wasn't retarded, I wanted to get stuff done to help this place out and I’m just curious by nature so I wanted to know everything about everything. I also got to do some other cool stuff along the way like business trips and trade shows, both kind of cool. I also got to hire an old family friend of mine, Tom, who I kind of saved from a shitty job. Tom had worked at the place I was fired from for 9 years and was how I found it to begin with. my dad and I happened to bump into him the week after I graduated and he mentioned that the engineer at that place was leaving the next week and maybe I should send them my resume. he said he had nothing to do with them hiring me so I should expect nothing. I ended up with the job like 3 days later and was behind a desk working within 2 weeks of graduation.
when I left the last place and came over here, we happen to be constantly looking for welders, so I extended the same offer to tom he had given me, I can't promise anything but it would be worth your while to come over and give it a shot. well, we hired him and so far he's been happy here because he's had no stress as he is no longer a foreman and no longer has to take shit from the bosses. Tom took a lot of crap over the years from the last guys because of his record, they figured they had him by the balls and he kind of took it. my offer to get away from that was almost too good to be true to him and just so happened to come at the right time. I’m glad I was able to help him out and it makes me feel awesome that I’m 24 and can get my friends jobs they like.
Everything at this new place has been going great up until recently. I’m making good money, done some cool stuff and now I’m starting to get more orders for HX's because of the work I’ve been doing. plus I’ve learned a million things I had no clue about. I was kind of grateful that they trusted me to come up with prices and designs and kind of leaving me to do what I needed. well now I’m too busy, I’ve brought in more work then I can handle on my own and I need help. of course, now my needs are ignored and when I’ve relied on others around here to help a little I’ve been burned. I’ve had a few fights with people (fucking rick, he's been trying to screw me since too) and things aren't getting done. I've run out of people to tell and complain too and at this point its just not worth my effort, I’ve figured out that they don't care and what I had previously taken as them trusting me and giving me credit was more of them not paying attention and trying to take advantage of the fact I’m willing to do so much. I’ve made a million suggestions about how we could be things better around here but they've fallen on def ears since, hey, I’m the fucking kid around here, what the hell do I know. I've identified a bunch of problems and come up with solutions about fixing them, solutions for how to pay for them, and I’ve given outlines about what kind of people I need in the shop to do this stuff. but again, no one cares. well now that I’m busy, I need this stuff.
We have an insurance inspector who has to check all the HX stuff I do, he checks calcs, drawings, and he has to do all this stuff to the ASME code and help us follow our QC program. well I’ve been having some trouble with him lately because I’m trying to do too much and I’m missing a lot of little things. I’ve been making mistakes on both drawings and calcs and trying to cut corners to get stuff done. plus when things don't go right or the shop has a problem, I have to fix it since, A) no one else is here to do it, B) no one will do it C) because I do everything, I’m the only one who knows what’s going on or D) when I’m the only one here, I’m the only one to answer the phone so I get thrown into it whether I like it or not.
Well this inspector happens to be the same guy who I had at the last place who spent the time to teach me a lot of this crap which is way above the scope of his job. he shouldn't have thought me anything and instead told my employer to train me. instead he was totally cool and just taught me what I needed to know to make both of our lives easier. well I was also forced to fire him from the last place for something my bosses had made up in their heads, this was one of the reasons I told them off and I was gone 3 weeks later. the inspector has every right to feel a little stressed when he comes in here, now that I’m on my second company and second year of this stuff he expects me to know it a little better and is trying to hold me more accountable for the simple things. I don't blame him and its a very professional attitude to have, but a couple of weeks ago he sent me a nasty email. I responded with a nasty email of my own out of frustration and confusion. I’ve been a little upset at him because he's been going around me and instead of telling me about his findings he's been going to my boss and complaining while ignoring me and just not telling me about these problems. in return I get shit from them because they don't want to hear the inspector complain, period. so I wrote a very sarcastic email back to the inspector. in part because I was pissed and in part to invoke a reaction from some of the other people around here. if I explained the Master Plan at this point you'd all stop reading and instead pick up the phone and call some one to come pick me up and throw me in the looney bin. (no offense Tim). you're going to have to trust me when I say that the nasty email served its purpose and the large amount of bullshit to follow was expected and planned for.
basically, I’m a crazy genius. I want something. I haven't gotten it. the other things I’ve tried haven't worked. so I covered my ass, did something to invoke a reaction from the people around me, and get what I want. I expected to have to put up with a lot of shit. I didn't expect this much but so far it seems to be working. I took two days of serious ass fucking to half prove a point, half get something done and half by luck this shit worked. I want to accomplish something and every step of the way I run into road blocks so I do what is necessary to push through them. it might not always be the best way or the smartest, but its gotten me this far. again, please don't lock me up.
Monday and Tuesday were the worst. today and yesterday I’ve actually seen results. Tuesday was an afternoon of yelling and fighting with two of the people I work with, both of whom are my bosses. i was pushed and i pushed back. i was ready and I made my case. i placed the blame where the blame was due and i took shit for it. i took shit for doing too much and not doing enough. i took shit for speaking my mind and i took shit for calling people out. i kept my cool, took my lumps and let the people around me get angry and prove my point for me. of course i did loose my cool a little when i was repeately lied to about stuff, i was told i'd been leaving early, when i've been in the shop while other people leave. i took crap for gettign stuff done on time while other people said they were going take care of it and didn't. if they aren't going to listen to anything but rasied voices and yelling then i can stoop to thier level too. the fall out is the scary part. Wednesday was the day to piss off one of the owners. I took that one easy but it worked. yesterday I finally got someone else to see what the hell I was talking about and now I’m within reach of getting some of that stuff I want, the wheels are in motion so to speak. today everyone has been very helpful, understanding and actually asking my opinion on stuff that matters again. oh yeah, they started to noticed how busy I’ve been too. the ideas and plans i've laid out are starting to make sense to other people and now it doesn't just look like some scattered mess of me trying to spend everyones money.
the worst part about this work crap isn't what’s happening, but the fact that I can't just leave it at the door when I leave. I've been staying late a lot recently because of all the work and my time outside of work has been sucked dry from a bunch of different things. more on those later. when I do go home I’m still thinking about it and it really does consume my thoughts to the point that I’m not thinking about what I’m doing or what is happening around me. I’m sure most of you noticed Tuesday night. I do give a shit. if I’m going to spend a significant chunk of my life behind this desk, well then I’m going to damn well make sure its worth it and I’m going to do something awesome. if not, then fuck it, I’m better off wondering the countryside a nomad. its not my company but they do pay me and they have the resources I need to do stuff. I have the opportunity to actually make good on some of my crazy ideas. in a way I’m using them as much as they are using me. I just don't like to be used.
outside of work, I’ve been looking at houses for my next place to live and as my next investment. what’s killing me on this front is that I need the job I have to be able to afford the house I want. if I fuck up the job or I push this shit too far, then I can't have the house. which I also want. its been kind of hectic to look at stuff and thinking about everything that’s involved in this process. I’m trying to plan for years down the road when I can't even figure out what I’m going to eat for lunch. plus, this thing itself is making me feel old. a mortgage?!? fuck, the word itself is kind of scary. I’m going through kellyns' dad for this, who happens to be a mortgage broker. I got a copy of my credit score and all the crap that comes with it. THAT is scary, they know way more about me then I hoped and they've been tracking me for some time now. but my credit is very good so that’s cool. it actually comes up on it that my addresses don't match up, they have the VT one which I send bills and stuff to and the one in CT which is on my paycheck, so for some reason this is a knock against me.
my realtor happens to be someone we went to high school with. she wasn't someone I was ever friends with but its been kind of odd talking to her. the parallels between our group of friends and hers from the same town are stunning. basically everyone ends up back home. everyone. she’s marrying someone who lived down the street from me and they bought a house at the other end of said street. staying as local as possible. that isn't what I would have wanted, and if that first job hadn't be so close to Haddam I don't know if I’d even still be in the area right now. this line of discussion should have its own post down the road so I’ll leave it at this.
I've also got a new girlfriend now who is awesome. this has certainly helped with all the stress and added to it at the same time. the highest highs and the lowest lows. I’ve been spending a lot of time with her and its great, but its also a reason why I don't have a lot of time for other things I’d like to do, like write huge posts like this one. I can't complain about this one because it's been cool.
there are about a million little things that have come up too. like my lease is ending this month and trying to get the proper paper work from the leasing office to extend it has been a bitch. my car needs new brakes, I’ll take care of that tomorrow. I owe Brian and Murphy copies of the pics from Montana. my sister is trying to find a job and I’ve said I’d help when I can but I’ve basically been blowing her off. my parents are doing ok, my dad has a new job which he hated before he even started. my mom's been good but she's still not totally better from that hit to the head. that kind of worries me but there isn't anything I can do about it. my grand mother (mom's side) isn't doing good at all and we're all kind of waiting for that phone call. I feel bad about the whole thing and a little guilty that I haven't been able to spend more time with her. I’ve been busy with my own life and I’m sure she'd rather have me doing this stuff then spending time with her. I do call and talk to her at least every week but I think I’ve been slacking lately. I’ve been trying to get to the gym when I can but staying late and finding time for other things means the gym suffers. and baseball. I haven't watched more then an inning or two in a while now. I’ve been very scattered lately and everything has suffered from it. from blog posts to work to Tuesday nights, its all been crazy. of course this is the price I pay for being awesome.
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Read the whole thing. All i have to say is...where are my fucking pictures Barone!?
Ha ha, jk of course. I know what you mean about trying to shape the future of things at work. It takes so much effort, planning, ingenuity, and brains to actually make something happen. And you have to fight the entire fucking way. Its like a gauntlet at times. But dont you realize sir, you are not only an engineer by title , you are one in life.By
Try to reign in your house expectations man, you don't want to need that job. People get a high paying job and think of the freedom all that cash gets them then spend it all and then some, then they are slaves. (I get freedom from my shit job in just 20 more days of work, ya-freakin-hoo!)
Of course the young guy has all the answers, because he has a fresh perspective and is more creative and blissfully unaware of their unproduction politics and intertia. Just remember these truths when you are the intertia.
I hope things work out and you get some more time to relax, and you have to watch more baseball - do the shit you love. Because you can't pretend like you'll have more time in the future, make time now.By
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part of the reason i'm tryingto do a lot of stuff now is that i think i'll have much more time in the future for cool stuff. look at your parents, my parents, all of them, they don't do shit. i mean my parents work and work on the house and a million little things around the house, but they don't realy party or go out with friends much or just hangout over someones place. getting togeather or going to the mall or seeing a movie is starting to be a big event for them. i need to do more of that crap while i'm young and capable.
brian, i'm going to try and get the pics out tomarrow, i need to go to the bank on my lunch break and i'll do it then.
for the house, my parents came down this weekend and i showed them a bunch. try this link:
"http://www.realtor.com/Prop/1056441889"
this is one i kind of like, my parents agree, i wouldn't offer what they are asking and its been on the market since march. this is also a little higher then i'd like but its nice, very convienent (?).By
"look at your parents" Yes you'll have more time when you're 55, but I meant people often think they can start exercising, or reading more, or eating right when they get a bit more time, just after this project, or this summer, or after my friend's wedding, and my point is that time never comes.
What are you going to do with all those bedrooms? Whatever floats your boat, this is what I'd like to buy: http://www.thehindslofts.com/overview.html unit 2 on the grd floor, I'm told it'll be less than $200k while the penthouses will be more than $400k.By
"parially finished basement" eh Matt. Hmmm...that all sounds familiar.
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Post a CommentBrits making fun of us
I don't know whether to laugh or bash my head on the wall...
War on terror
Stupid Americans
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Thursday, July 13, 2006
Left's Losse's
Two recent setbacks for the peaceful leftist revolution south of the Border.
1. The Center candidate won the Peruvian election, this... was unfortunate but, I kinda saw it coming as the Lefty was a high-ranking Officer in the Army and the other candidate played this up as a military takeover. After years of CIA back coups in South American many are very tired of military leadership.
2. The Mexican Election, in my opinion, was never really an election, it was predetermined that the Right would win, but narrowly to make it look feasible. Why do I say that, well besides the "irregularities" bullshit you hear all the time, besides the exit polls showing a clear Left advantage, besides the popularity of the ex-Mexico City Mayor within Mexico city itself,(18 million residents of 104 million population of Mexico, important because normally rural areas vote left, while urban areas vote right due to business ties, yes it’s the opposite of the USA.) The real telling fact for me was, what Bush and company said, or I should say, didn’t say.
Let me explain. When it was clear that Bolivia would be taken over by a leftist candidate prior to the election, rhetoric started to be heard from Rice and others in the administration, you know the normal "nationalization is bad, don’t do nationalization." And there is no way this administration would let Mexico’s 1.6 Million barrels(2nd only to Canada) a day of petro be pumped for the people. But as the election in Mexico neared and the Left looked very strong... not a word was spoken by the administration about the elections, why? Afterwards a simple, congrats to the new conservative president and then business as usual, anyway... it just stinks of fraud. To bad too.
Hey... one thing the ex-mayoro was campaigning on was keeping Mexicans in Mexico, as in stopping the flow of cheap labor north... im sure that was just another thing that old-bush INC. could not stand.
Anyway, free elections(if they ever existed) are over with, I think.
The views reflected in this blog are not necessarily that of the worker monkey.
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wyldshaman:
I can't speak about Mexico or Peru, but in case of Bolivia for us in Brasil, the Election of Evo Morales was a disaster, more 15 percent of Bolivian PIB was gerator in this operations of Petrobrás (Mix National Company of Petroleum of Brasil), so now Evo after have invaded a Petrobrás in Bolivia, want a new price to gás and want that the Brasil give a loan to him (god pay, sure), is not amazing?
I agree with Evo when he defends the soberan posicion of Bolivia in the internal issue but i think that he overdo in this case, in Brasil the people say : "He plays to auditorium".
Congratulations from Brazilian's worker monkey, sorry i spank the English the all ways.By
no problem buddy, good to have you aboard. its always nice to have a little international flavor around here.
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welcome to the madness! although I must say its tamed over the years
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Yes, I think the election of Populist candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador in Mexico would have been a disaster for the USA as well, the Price of Mexican Oil might have gone up, supplies would go down and the flow of cheap labor to America would have been slowed. Oh... but it might have been good for the Mexicanos, just as, in my opinion, Morales is doing the right thing for his people in Bolivia.
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Wyldshaman:
I agree with you about the right action of Evo for the Bolivian People but I think there is some possibility that Bolivia will be isoleted cos the position, nowadays the only country support openly this Bolivian actions is Venezuela (by Hugo Chavez), Brasil support but not directly, I am afraid of the future of Bolivian and the South America in General cos a radical left posicion like the Bolivian position, the future will say.
Guys, thanks for rare opportunity to a democratic conversation.By
To Marcos
Always nice to get a fresh perspective. After all, most of the people who post here have known each other for too long.
By the way, what's "Gotas de Fel" in english?
Also, is Portugese your first languarge? Can you speak/read any other languages?
Please don't be offended, I am jsut curious.By
No brain Required:
Literal Translation of "Gotas de Fel" is "Drip (blob) of Bile (gall)", in my blog I post a small tales about life, opinions about politician in Brasil, impressions about others issues.
Portuguese is my first language, I am Brasilian and I (try,try) write, read and speak in English but I haven´t many opportunies to practice it, I am not offended, absoluty not, I like very much the form how you share this blog and the posts are very interesting.
In the top I stoped in blog cos the picture of Monkey, I was in doubt: am I a clone of him or is He a clone of me? (always worried).By
Post a CommentTuesday, July 11, 2006
One reason I HATE tucking in my shirt:
Because when you spill some of your drink...it looks like you pissed yourself.
God damn it.
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Worker Monkeys
Follow in this blog walking in the blogsfere, congratulations from Brasil.
I laught a lot with the picture of worried monkey, like me, worker a lot and stress a lot.By
holy crap, we have a week's worth of posts today! Long live the monkey!
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Welcome aboard Marcos! Always nice to know our insanity can cross oceans (or, at least hemispheres). Unless, of course, you are a cleverly disguised FBI agent, in deep cover, here to infiltrate our ranks. That would be a bummer.
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Worker Monkeys
Ok, ok i was unmask, really you of monkey worker company are very clever , but i will link you im my blog...i am not so smart than you...
My insanity can cross the ocean and other dimensions too.
if wait for you in my blog, actual post is about the saint mens..By
sweetness, you don't need to come up with a cover story just because you were thinking so hard on me...
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Doing WHAT to the hard-on with you?!
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There is really only 2 things to do with a hard-on...... well, one I guess if you just count the act of.
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Post a CommentLet's hear those big plans!
So Matt tell us about those plans. Just now thinking of buying a house, or ready to sign? Where? How big? New? Old? Zero net energy use? (it's possible but I think like 0.5% of people know it and care) Standard 30 yr fixed mortgage? Supposedly the rising rates put a bit of a damper on house prices, but the rates are stable for now it seems. Anywho, I for one am interested to know what you're thinking, as I am kicking around a similar idea though unlike you I don't have a stable high paying job.
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the stability of said high paying job is seriously under review at the moment, yet i'm still moving forward with the house.
yeah, my lease is up at the end of the month and i'm going to do month to month for maybe two more, depending on what happenes or how quickly i can get into something else. Where? well thats not really something i have too much control over as i'd rather find something i like in my price range. I'm kind of looking in middletown, and along the 91 coridor. i'd love to do durham but that town is simply out of my price range. I've contacted a realtor and guess who they hooked me up with, Courtny Emshwiller. Kind of akward at first but we never really talked at all in highschool. she's getting married to John Swokla and they bought a house down the street from where i lived in hadddam. (old man zupan died and they bought the house for anyone who knows it) Where is kind of dependant on whats available.
zero net energy use? if that was my goal i'd be dead before i found a house. I spent this past weekend looking at stuff. i liked a few of them but i'm still unsure how much i want to drop on this thing. i'm getting thet paper work over to Kellyn's dad for my morgage this week and i'll see what they tell me i can afford. I got prequalified last time i tried this and it was way more then i wanted to spend, which i'm sure will be the case this time too since i'm making a little more now. i'll be fully qualified this time around as i'm a little more serious about it.
i'm looking at a 5 year fixed morgage as the rates are a little better and i don't plan on staying in any house i buy for longer than that. if i could filp this in 3 years for a solid profit i'm sure i'd be ready to.
right now i'm basically freaking out. i had a hard enough time last time and lost my job. now i'm under more stress at work and taking more crap (what happened today alone merits a giant post). i have about a million things on my mind and i have no answer for most of them. i'm crazy about aisling right now, job really sucks, parents are coming down on me for spending too much or not getting a condo, plus they've been kind of a mess lately, worried about that, realtor asking a million questions, rental office giving me problems, bills due, trying not to think about my car but i'm going to need new brakes in the next week or so before i go to maine rafting, fuck, still need to give greg money for that, i think the battery in my cell phone is crashing, i haven't had a chance to get to the gym in weeks, which i'd like to cancel and switch to the north haven raquet club, but i've been doing other stuff, fuck.
fuck. big plans may be to just disappear for 5 years. if i suddenly stop answering the phone and no one has seen me for a few weeks, well, you'll know why.By
what, no response to this one? i'm shocked
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well, i'd be interested to hear more about it matt. unfortunately, we were on opposite sides of the table on tuesday night.
i think that's pretty hilarious about cortney emshwiller. she was pretty much a bitch in high school, and i think it's hilarious that her face is plastered on all those "linda's team" billboards.
as for the rest of the stuff, i think it would be better if you either just vented it all out in a blog post or just told me/us in person. your call.By
i'm sure noone's noticed, but i haven't posted in a while now and i haven't found more then a few minutes to actually write a comment in a while. i'd love to write some giant long post about everything but i haven't had the 20-30 minutes to spend on one. this huge comment was written a few minutes after i got bentover and fucked in the ass with a cheese grater. it was a little ventand rant but it just wasn't enough. i'm sure most of you noticed, but i was on a different planet tuesday night.
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Matt you need to do what I need to do. Entangle ourselves from all this stress and so called 'life'.
"View this fleeing world a star at dawn, a bubble in a stream. A flash of lightning in a summer cloud, a flickering lamp, a phantom, and a dream."
Ah that helps....By
i did notice. and let me say, with a staunch record of heterosexuality, it was a sexy planet. we are the sexy people. now play something sexy before i boo you again.
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screw branciteams hippie shite, just relax buddy, your 25 and well ahead of the curve by any measure.
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Brian, in response to your hippie logic: If i'm a star at dawn it because i've been busier than all the other stars and i'm still out, a bubble in a river, i'm the biggest bubble and trying to help my other bubbles make it to the top, i'm the brightest flash of lightning which fries the shit out of what it just hit, a lamp which does not flicker for i am more stable and can battle any wind, a phantom, well that'd be cool, and i'm the hottest dream anyones ever had!
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Its not hippie fools! Its a buddhist mantra. Ancient wisdom thats lived long before and long after you.
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Post a Commenttuesday
it's tuesday, which of course means that today the beer gods smile down upon us...for 2 hours. i'll be there 730-8, who's in?
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i have no idea what you are talking about
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Post a CommentSummer BBQ leaves house in ashes
Read the story, or just laugh along with these highlights:
The guy was having trouble starting the grill so he decided more lighter fluid was in order,
"...when I turned the bottle over, the flame went up into the bottle so it just blew off."
Realizing his clothes were on fire, Häglerud flung himself to the ground and rolled around trying to smother the flames. Friends rushed to him to try and help.
Of course, during the time when everybody's eyes were on the flaming chef, nobody noticed the rocket that the lighter fluid bottle had blasted off toward his house that was under construction.
"The whole house burned down in 11 minutes," he said.
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Monday, July 10, 2006
Too bad it was closed
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i think i need that
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fantastic
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I clearly remember it. Walking down the left foul line toward the practice field as two girls' soccer players, one was Suzie I think, were carrying a box of uniforms to their field, and (one of you - take your credit if you want it) yells "Hey! Nice box!"
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hahaha that sounds exactly like something i would say, however, it seems as though you were heading down to the practice field for football, in which case it was certainly not me.
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Post a CommentFriday, July 07, 2006
Swedes can't bear the heat
As much as they cry about having such a short summer, now with the temp over 30C every day things are going wrong. Sometimes I use the Swedish news as a way of showing how good it is here, like they are putting up video cameras to catch people who leave their recyclables on the ground next to the containers. If that is news you know things are going pretty smooth. But this week, things aren't too nice. I'm not feeling so great in this heat, and the nights don't cool down as much as at home so it's hard to avoid it. Anywho, here's some of this week's headlines:
Woman pours boiling water on sleeping husband
Elk hunted down after attack on man What they call elk, we call moose. Some kids were throwing things at it so it whipped some other random guy. That's not fair; the stupid kids antagonizing a huge animal deserved the beating.
Man injured in Stockholm gang fight
Family feud leads to Malmö court violence
Ok, not that those are all interesting, but the point is Swedes have been a bit nasty since their beloved summer finally came.
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Thursday, July 06, 2006
Lieberman vs. Lamont
Now here's something worth mentioning:
Did anyone see the debate on NBC tonight? It was the only one these two will have before the August 8 primary that'll determine who the Democratic candidate will be. As a thinking Democrat who voted for Nader in 2000 and got Bush instead, I realize there is a danger here of handing the vote over to a Republican if the vote is split 3 ways as Lamont (Dem), Lieberman (Independent), ____(Republican).
Whether or not you vote for Lamont all hinges on one thing, essentially, since Lamont is running a one-issue campaign. Lieberman sided with Republicans on the war issue. Does that outweigh the experience and congressional seniority Lieberman has, along with the money he can bring to the state as a result? From the way I'm framing this, you can tell that my vote is with Lieberman. Yours? Bergan - I know you're Republican; Ron - I know you abstain altogether.
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good to know. we talked about this the other night. there is a huge danger of a split since lieberman has said he'd run as independent if lamont wins the primary.
i havent decided what to do yet. i guess time will tell. we can talk more about it on tuesday macunas.By
I heard it would be the other way around too (Lamont running as Independent if Lieberman wins). Either way i suppose.
Ya, i always kinda liked Lieberman for some reason. Even if 'Moveon' is telling me otherwise.By
I just wish someone would grow a pair and do something significant. Lamer-man Vs. Lamer does it really fucking make a lick of difference?
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Ron, I would consider running against a popular three term Senator who was almost vice president, from within his own party, and causing it to be a national issue as Dems are trying to gain control while like Matt said this could split the vote and let Republicans take a formally Democratic seat, as having a pair. Lamont's campaign is lame, but if I could vote in the primary, I'd vote for him.
Lieberman has been pretty good and predictable on the bills I have been concerned about, but it's just business as usual with him. I think the country is really messed up and I'm not so happy about it or the way things appear to be going, and Lamont seems more like that. I hate how much bullshit there is in politcs, and how much of politics is just politics, without any real substance. If everyone forgot about points like those Matt made in the post and just voted for whomever they most agreed with (including those third parties, because they'd forget they'd be throwing away their vote), then I think we'd have a vastly different and more functional Congress. It is decidedly not business as usual these days.By
Macunas... im a little surprised with your stance.
In my mind there really is only one issue, the war, the illegal mess of a war. How can we talk about saving the spotted owl, or getting a better healthcare system when we are raping a country and buring through an easy billion or two a week in the process.
I dont care how environmentally sound Liebermans voting record is, he is a warmonger and a strong supporter of the TERRORIST state of Israel.
How many people must die?By
war? are we still at war? I haven't hear much about it lately.
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That's because the bodies have been Iraqi.
The Joementum may be flagging, but I'm still supporting him. And it sometimes confuses me too. His political stances lately have been really enigmatic. Considering the fact he's up against a rookie with cash, a vote for Lamont is more like a disapproval vote for Lieberman. Although there's reasons for disapproval, I think as a senior statesman he can do a better job for the state. Oh...did anyone read the article about how an out-of-control old man's car wounded 27 people at SailFest in New London and just about hit Lamont? I was there later that evening for the fireworks - BEST EVER. The Grucci brothers put on a million dollar show and the whole thing was like the grand finale of any other fireworks show. Ill. It was such a bonanza that we saw several bloodied people at different points in the aftermath of fistfights. Sorry I know that's a tangent.By
Post a CommentWednesday, July 05, 2006
They make movies about this stuff
Over some 4th of July beers, a friend of mine told me an interesting story. He had been home in the Czech Republic recently and was taking a bus back to Sthlm. A "nice" girl was sitting behind him, as he says when he means she's hot. They didn't speak, but later when the bus entered Sweden, all but these two and one other person got off so the driver asked them all to sit in front so he could clean the rest of the bus. So again they sat near each other but said nothing. Later when they were getting off the bus in Sthlm, she asks for his number, and he gives it.
He didn't hear anything from her and assumed he wouldn't. They didn't even know each other's names. But she sent him a text "This is my new number." So they starting messaging and emailing and whatnot. (This is like online dating backwards.) They arranged to meet and he found out a lot. She had come for a summer job to earn some money for the university she had been accepted to back in the Czech Rep. Supposedly a guy living outside Sthlm, who was a friend of a relative or something like that had a job for her and a place to stay. When she first arrived it was fine. He brought her to his place, made dinner, and opened a bottle of wine. Then this 40 year old friend of someone tried to get this 20 year old girl in bed. She'd have none of it. There was no job for her, he didn't give her keys, and the one time they have gone outside together into the city, when she asked about the places around them, he said she didn't need to know. So she has been just staying inside this creep's apartment for a couple of weeks. She arranged to meet my friend when she was going out with this old guy. Once they were out, and she asked if they could meet my friend, the guy said "No, you are here with me." But he was already on the way to the spot and after they met, the old guy just left them here. She didn't know how to get home, so my friend helped her figure out the subway and whatnot, and helped her apply for a few jobs.
My friend offered for her to stay with him and she initially said hell no, since that arrangement had obviously gone wrong just weeks earlier. While neither of them trust each other, she must have decided that she knows the old guy is trouble, whereas my friend only might be, so she agreed. Well from my perspective my friend talks about her like he likes her, so he's not dangerous to her, but may be after the same thing the old guy was.
That is where it stands now. I thought that was better than usual bar conversation, and hope that she makes the move without any trouble and that the old guy isn't a total wacko.
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2 August 2005: Italian guy moves into shithole temporary building used as MSc student housing and called "The Container" (there is also a bar in the city called that, but it has never sounded enticing enough for me to check it out.) In the summer it's full of Finnish girls, so that helps cushion the blow of how crappy it is. The Italian guy starts going out with one of them. She goes home, the Italian guy and I both move out to better places, and I hear that he's been to Finland a few times to see her. I'm talking to him now (asking what he's doing for the World Cup final and he's going to be on a plane.) and he's still with her.
Me: "some benefit to living in the container eh?"
Michele: "oh well, yes i would say the best benefit over the time in sweden"
So there is it, free degree be damned, my friends are hooking up in Sweden but not with Swedes. As for the Canadian that repeatedly shot me down? She's in Spain for a month visiting her hookup.By
PS, if someone else would post something interesting for me to read, I wouldn't have to post such stupid stuff.
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i dont mind. i come over here everyday to check out what's going on. but if it bothers you, you could always start your own blog. i'd obviously link to you and read it.
i try to make an effort every now and then to post some sort of update here, but it's usually pretty lame, and understandably so since i post mostly on my own.By
if work wasn't so carzy i'd post more often. if i had more time in the afternoon or spent less time away from the computer i might post more but i do read this thing like a monkey on crack.
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I check it really often, and that's what drives me to post something because you can only look at the same exact page so many times.
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....so just visit once a week.
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Post a CommentMonday, July 03, 2006
Superman vs.
HowStuffWorks.com seriously debates whether a Jedi Knight, or any of several other comic book and movie characters could take on Superman. I had thought a Jedi would easily win, but given their arguments it occurred to me that I don't know much about Superman.
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i could talk about this one all day. superman has so many powers that are so cool he could beat anyone from anything. part of hte problem some writers have isx that he's too pwerful, they have to make him seem weak in other areas to make it a compelling story. They play with his emotions and make him seam metally weak because there is no way he has any physical weaknesses. kriptinite was invented so that he would have a weakness. there are like a dozen different colors of it too that all do something different to him. like red makes his crazy or blue makes him loose the ability to fly. i think in one of ht e massive world crushing crossovers they eliminated amost of them though.
anyone see the movie yet?By
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