Halloweenies

Happy Halloween!

Though, I must say, this has been the absolute least eventful Halloween I have had in ages. That is, of course, not including the last minute work conference call about NOTHING that I had to be on today - my day off. It would be really nice to wind up in a new job after the holidays. I can put up with their bullshit for another two months, especially considering it is the big money making time. But God help me, I so want out after that.

Anyways.. back to the eventfulness. Not a single Trick-or-Treater today! Not necessary a surprise in a gated community. Without fail though, the woman went out and had us pre-stocked with tons of Halloween candy in case the masses showed up. Shame not even one did though, they would have hit the jackpot with me.

"Hey kid! Here are a dozen Snickers and a dozen Butterfingers. What? No, the Three Musketeers are ALL MINE!"

As fate would have it, however, ALL the candy is now mine! Mine I say! Woah, sugar rush...

Your'e in for what?

Not sure what's up with me lately, but I am tired as hell recently. That said, I realized I stayed up until 4am last night, but that is after coming home exhausted and crashing for over two hours. So, meh, need to get my sleep patterns back in order.

I downlo...eer, I mean rented, yes, rented Transformers the other day. Very kick ass movie, I was quite surprised at how much I liked it. I was expecting something less, but it ended up being damn fantastic. Sorry I missed that one in the theater now.

I ran across this little article this morning. I have to say, I never understood this behavior. Basically, the dude is shopping at an Albertson's and gets caught on camera "sampling" some jelly beans. Well, you ate them and did not pay for them - that is theft. Albertson's called the cops and had him arrested! LOL at this guy! Now, should they have called and had him arrested, versus asking him to just pay for them first? Heck, I dunno, guess it depends on what kind of day the manager was having. But that's gonna suck in the future...

"hey, what did you get arrested for?"
"I stole some jellybeans..."

*hears a voice from the kitchen*

Ah.. It is my woman. You see, she is cooking dinner today.. So, I expect a day full of her being extremely vocal with many swear words uttered. This seems to be some type of ritual when she cooks. She yells at the dishes, the ingredients, and it seems anything else related to the cooking process.

Once I start to hear "Oh, no no no no!".. that is when I start cracking out the phone number for pizza delivery.

Out of Control

So, it appears that all of Southern California is on fire. From news reports, 1 million people have been forced to flee. That is friggin crazy! It seems the fires are completely out of control at this point and are just rampaging the state.

I was online playing Warcraft tonight, when one of our guild mates mentions in chat "Well, the fires are getting closer, the authorities are here telling us to evacuate, so we are going - now." So that sorta brings it home real quick for you. He logged off soon after. Hopefully everything will work out for him and he will contact us soon with good news.

Check out this image. How crazy and lucky is this? Someone needs to find out what religion this guy subscribes too, because apparently he's got it right.

The Grind continues

OK.. so, I am back at work after 4 days vacation. I must say, working SUCKS! Whoever invented this concept? I hate to say, but at this point, hook me up with some Utopian society where you do not have to work! Hell, I might even be tempted to settle for France right now!

Home life has not been much fun either, as of late. Both of the woman's cats are having health issues. Just crazy shit. They won't eat or drink at times, they both need to be hand stuffed antibiotics, and one needs to have intravenous fluids daily! What an absolute fucking mess that is. We have to stick a damn need in him (or attempt to, its not going very well so far) then turn the spigot on and fill him up with fluids.. It's absolutely insane.

The woman is not taking it all too well and, hell, neither am I. She is massively stressed over the stupid cats and I am massively stressed over her being massively stressed over the stupid cats. So, another week or so of this insanity and we get to see if they improve or not. Hopefully they will, so we can get life back into some semblance of normality.

Hmm.. Talented.

Ran across this on Youtube.com last night. Not exactly sure what this is an advertisement for, but it looks like a dating service perhaps. Anyways, that part is not important! I just thought it was amusing.

Vacation time!

Alright, starting today, I have taken 4 days off from work. Hopefully enough to get me rested and ready for the oncoming storm known as Christmas. Early or mid October is the only time I can really take a "vacation", as late October and early November work will start throwing stupid planograms and meetings at us before the big run into the selling season.

As fate would have it, the woman also has this week off! Not sure if that is a good thing or bad thing yet! We have not spent this amount of time together since our honeymoon!

And what the fuck is with this? Russian leader Vladimir Putin is meeting with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Now, the Iranian guy is a fucking nutjob. Like hardcore nutjob. I am dismayed that a real world leader like Putin would even waste his time on someone like that.

Honestly, in retrospect, it just tells me Putin is after something. Most likely something anti-US. Why else would he meet with the Iranian nutjob President? The only topic of conversation has to be how he wants to kill Israelis or how he wants to kill Americans. Something to watch, I think.

Anyways, I will not let it disturb the peace and tranquility of my vacation! So, I am off to go do something relaxing and vacationing!

Skool

I was just reading a news story about this shooting at a high school in Cleveland yesterday. Sure, I could go off on tangents about school shootings and disgruntled teens.. but instead, I will bring up what really caught my eye in the news story. It was this line from a student talking about the gunman:

"He's crazy. He threatened to blow up our school. He threatened to stab everybody," Doneisha LeVert said. "We didn't think nothing of it."

"We didn't think nothing of it" ?

"Didn't think nothing"... awesome. That sort of adds insult to injury, no? First, the damn school gets shot up, then, in the story about the school getting shot up, they quote a student who has no idea how to speak proper English!

What a shining beacon for the Cleveland Metropolitan School system!

And please, don't even get me fucking started on who the hell would name their kid "Doneisha"...

Identity Crisis

The woman and I were watching some TV last night. As there was crap on, we ended up landing on I Love Lucy. It was a set of episodes that focused on Desi and Lucy being in Hollywood and featured several movie start guest appearances. So, that was pretty cool, to see all these old movie stars. Much to the womans chagrin, John Wayne even had an episode.

In another episode, they focused on one person from a famous comedy trio. About halfway through the episode, the woman speaks up:

Woman: "I really never understood the fascination about the Three Stooges."

Me: (after a slight pause) Honey, that's Harpo Marx.
Woman: "What?"
Me: "Yeah, that is Harpo Marx, from the Marx Brothers.
Woman: Confused look

It was just one of those damn funny moments. Maybe you had to be there, but thought I'd share.

Lead Dread

Alright, this is really starting to get way too crazy. Every day, I see a new story about some item getting recalled due to high lead content. The items are always from China and always seem to border on semi-ridiculous. The most recent ones are Boy Scout Badges! 1.6 million of them, to be exact.

Seriously though, *how* much lead does an item have to have in it to be deemed dangerous? Even then, exactly what does too much lead do to you? OH, ok, it poisons you. Sure, got it. But, I guess I am just a bit dubious at this point that we need to keep recalling millions of items because of lead? Unless the scouts are eating those badges, it seems like someone is crying wolf a bit too often.