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| Well, a very good friend is about to tie the knot, so the wife and I are headed to Miami for the night. The wedding is Friday morning, and then we board a weekend cruise to the Bahamas. A nice escape from the everyday life, I must say.
Pictures to follow... | comments: 2 comments or Leave a comment   |
| Verification:
A: "I'm tired today."
B: "Word?"
Validation:
A: "That sure was a good movie."
B: "Word!"
Solidarity:
A: "If my colleague speaks to me like that again, I have a mind to stop talking to him."
B: "Word."
Skepticism:
A: "I am super-human. I can fly in the sky like a bird and see through solid objects."
B: "Word!?"
Clarification:
A: "Gracious, what an attractive woman."
B: "Word?"
A: "That one."
B: "Word?"
A: "No, THERE! Over there. With the Shitzu."
Negation:
A: "Beautiful, isn't she?"
B: "Word."
A: "Oh."
B: "But nice Shitzu."
Diplomacy:
A: "Aloha!"
B: "Word!" | | comments: Leave a comment |
| ...turn off the lights.
To all friends, family and passers-by - have a happy thanksgiving. | | comments: 2 comments or Leave a comment |
| | Subject: | Why bother? | | Time: | 09:27 am | | Current Mood: | ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/classic/sad.gif) disappointed |
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| Why bother updating? Nobody reads.
Why bother updating? Nobody posts.
Why bother updating? Nobody cares.
Why bother updating? | | comments: 7 comments or Leave a comment |
| | Subject: | YEAH! | | Time: | 02:08 pm |
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You are Taime Downe, lead singer of Faster Pussycat
and the Newlydeads. You are sarcastic,
immature, perpetually horny, fun-loving and you
take very little seriously (including
yourself). Most people who have encountered you
think you are a pompous, egotistical, self-
absorbed, irresponsible brat. If there is a
party going on, you're surely to be there, very
likely playing the host. Your style is glam
through and through, and you deck yourself out
from head to toe, even if you're just going to
the grocery store. You're wardrobe ensemble
consists of much leather and vinyl wear,
fishnets, feather boas, cowboy hats, and
anything shiny or sequined (all black of
course!) You wouldn't be caught dead or alive
without your black eyeliner, lipstick and nail
polish. You look better in a dress and high
heals than most girls. The theme of your music
(and your life) is not the most original one,
but it suits you - LIVE FAST, DIE YOUNG - SEX
DRUGS & ROCK N ROLL 4EVER DUDE!!!
What 80's Butt Rocker Are You?
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| From http://www.chooseyourownny.com/
"The taxi pulls away after dropping you off at Studio 54, and you immediately notice the insane line outside that seems to be wrapped around the block several times! God Dammit!You decide your only chance to make it into the club is to make a run for the door.
You sprint at top speed, bursting through the velvet rope and knocking over a snotty hermaphrodite bouncer dressed as Carmen Miranda.
When you get inside the club, your eyes dance at the decadent orgy of sex, drugs, Peaches and Herb that shimmers before you. Celebrities are seemingly everywhere- within the span of three minutes you see Truman Capote doing "The Hustle" and witness a disturbing group sex act involving Liza Minelli, Rod Stewart and "Tattoo" from Fantasy Island.
You avert your eyes to reduce the psychological damage of what you have just seen and- wait a minute...over there-it's Mick Jagger!" | | comments: 1 comment or Leave a comment |
| For a lack of anything else to update with, and since I haven’t updated in a while, I figured I’d just ramble on and on about nothing. If you read into it, and can piece some of it together, I applaud you. Al Queda. That’s the entire scope of the weekend at a glance. The Yankees lost because of Al Queda. It has to be. Come on – the Florida Marlins? How in the hell could Jack McKeon come back and manage them to the title? He’s never done that. Ever. Never. I repeat – NEVER. (Editor’s Note: Hats off to the Florida Marlins. They played one hell of a World Series, and had an awesome Post Season run. They deserve the championship every bit as much as the Yankees deserve to have lost it. Ivan Rodriguez is the man. That was a big fuck-you to the Texas Rangers who gave up on him. See you in ’04.) And the Jets playing the shitty way they’re playing. Yep . You guessed it. Al Queda again. They’ve got their hands in it. If you see someone on front of you at the supermarket paying for $200 worth of groceries with food stamps, and they’re taking a hell of a long time to check out because something is wrong w/ the register. Al Queda. Get stuck in traffic because some moron decided he absolutely needed to make a left turn from the right lane, and he/she caused all sorts of traffic mayhem and accidents – Al Queda. Lose your luggage on your way home from a business trip? Al Queda. And that shitty Ben and Jennifer movie, Gigli? Yep. It HAD to be mother fucking Al Queda all over that one.
And on another note – what the hell happened to my computer yesterday? One minute I’m up and working and building a website for a friend, and the next I can’t get an IP. I do an IPCONFIG and am told that the command is not supported. Go figure. I did a system restore and everything works now. Go figure. Probably Al Queda also.
Just got out of a training class. More of an information talk on a piece of software that we roll out to our business community. Boring. It was prefaced with “I am going to talk as if you know nothing about the software. I know it will be boring, but that’s why I’m here.” She didn’t look like Al Queda, but you never know. She could be part of one of the sleeper cells here in the Northeast. She is cute, though. Oh well.
Oh yeah - while I'm ranting and raving about nothing in particular. Fleet is being bought out by Bank Of America. What gives? At least my 401K is actually MAKING money today.
If any of you have any questions, please feel free to ask. Any comments, please feel free to leave ‘em. Any extra money, as always, please send it my way.
See you next update… | | comments: Leave a comment |
| ...how "KICK-ASS" my sister is. a 95 on her Cisco final! That's how KICK-ASS she is.
ROCK ON, LORYN! I HEART U! | | comments: 6 comments or Leave a comment |
| ...don't stand a chance after I unleash another entire can of Ultra Bee/Wasp/Hornet kill on them this weekend. Then, it's time to uproot their home and evict their stinging asses.
I'll try to take some before and after pictures of the project. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| | Current Music: | unknown artist - unknown title | | Subject: | Bees: 5 Pete: 0 | | Time: | 10:42 am | | Current Mood: | ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/classic/angry.gif) annoyed |
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| Well, I guess the lesson I learned yesterday has to be:
"When cutting down a tree in your own backyard, make sure there's nothing LIVING in the tree"
Once on my right shoulder, three on my right leg, once behind my left ear. Hornets suck, beavis! | | comments: 2 comments or Leave a comment |
| | Current Music: | no music - just the wind blowing and the servers humming... | | Time: | 03:23 pm | | Current Mood: | aggravated |
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| Ok. It's been about 24 hours since I visited PCExpo in NYC, and I think it is about time I sound off on my day.
First off, I would like to let you all know how much fun I had @ the Javitz center. Not because of the show (it sucked, but more on that in a minute), but because I got to spend the day w/ my father. Something that, 6 months ago, I did not think I would be able to do. He was very sick, and admitted to the hospital w/ Kidney failure, a heart attack, almost no blood pressure, and on life support. Today, he is alive and kicking (had to say that)... He lost a leg due to diabetic complications. Dad - thank you. You made my day. Every day I get the chance to spend w/ you, now, as an adult, is a wonderful day. We didn't have the type of relationship that I would have hoped for as a child, but we are definitely making up for it now. Dad, I love you.
Now that the mushy part is over...
PC Expo sucked big hairy greasy dust-covered monkey balls.
Maybe it's because ...
- technology isn't as pretty as it used to be (to the general public).
- corporations are not spending the 'tech show' dollars they used to.
- vendors hire 'faces' to sit there and hand out leaflets about the current hot products, and they only have one or two people there running the show that actually know anything about it. I stopped by a few booths and was told, on more than one occasion, "oh, let me get someone over here that knows something so you can ask him/her. I am just here to hand these things (the white papers) out and answer some basic questions..."
Regardless of the real answer, PC Expo was nowhere near the show it used to be. There used to be a specific energy in the air that you could see, feel, hear. Vendors used to try to drag you away from other booths w/ laser shows, 3d virtual presentations, half-naked women serving beer and pretzels while you wait (not really, but you get the picture...).
The show was boring, the day was great...
And, to top it all off, they partnered with OutsourceWorld.
This pissed me off, and still pisses me off as I write this update...
OutsourceWorld focused on "off-shore outsourcing" which, if you are unaware, is the practice that some companies have taken recently to move entire operations and departments to other countries. In doing this, they save a shit load of money at the cost of their domestic staff. More than one friend of mine has been replaced by an off-shore outsourcing vendor, and it just plain pisses me off. Executives and companies are so concerned by the dollar, that they are willing to sacrifice someone's livelihood (hey - it's not theirs, right? so why should they care?) to save their company a few bucks. Why? because they look good, and get that bonus regardless of how their 'peons' do.
Anyone have any ideas on the matter? feel free to engage me in a lively conversation about it.
I'm done. I need to go outside and cool off. Maybe that bitch Isabel will give me something to take my mind off of this.
-Pete | | comments: 1 comment or Leave a comment |
| ...about how wonderful a cook my wife is. Yeah, I know, I shouldn't brag because there aren't that many lucky people in the world, but she is amazing. She has made many an awesome dish in our time together, but Sunday took the cake...
Brandy's parents moved this past weekend, so for the past two weeks, I have been noticing different food appear magically in our fridge that I knew I didn't buy. There was a Roast (yummmm!). There was a Ham (awesome!). And there was a 22 pound turkey. Now, I know what you're thinking. "A Turkey? Been there, done that!" It wasn't the normal turkey dinner. It was different for some reason.
Maybe because it was also, coincidentally, the first Sunday in the football season. Maybe it was because the rest of the week had been lousy, weather-wise. Maybe it was because we actually had the time to sit around the house and relax while she was cooking. I don't know.
I woke up Sunday morning around 8:30am and left the house to help her grandmother close her pool for the season. When I got home, the house smelled like Thanksgiving all over again. There was Turkey in the air. Something about that first or second whiff of turkey-aroma-induced-heaven made me glad to be alive. Made me glad to have her in my life. Wow. A meal made he appreciate my wife more than I think I have in a while. Imagine that. Something that insignificant in the grand scheme of things. Ok. Now I'm rambling, but you get the point.
Brandy - Wow. I love you. Thank you. | | comments: 5 comments or Leave a comment |
| Ok.
I did my first *REAL* car repair the other day. I replaced the brake pads on my Explorer. Yaaaaay! In doing so, I noticed that I have a cracked Disc Rotor (component which is the surface that the brake pad/shoe press against to stop your vehicle).
I called a local service center (STS Tires) and asked for a ballpark figure for replacing said part. I was told that they could not give out that information, and that the best bet was for me to bring in the 'vehicle in question' and have them throw it up and take a look at what the REAL problem could be. He notified me that some 'home garage mechanics' (heh - I'm being considered a mechanic) *THINK* they know what the problem is, and when they get the car in their shop, they find a host of other problems. I thanked the salesman for his time and hung up on him.
I then called a different location for the same service center and got a very helpful service technician named "Bill" (I wonder if that's his real name or just the part he plays in that store...) and he informed me that I could get a cheap foreign-made Disc Rotor for $30, but that wouldn't be the reccomended course of action for a truck with the mileage I put on it. He explained to me that it would be a 30 minute service necessity @ $37 and that I would be able to get a decent/good rotor for approx $80-$90. He then explained to me that service in that shop was first-come-first-served and that I could bring it in today if I needed. I thanked him and told him that I would most-likely bring it by this weekend.
Some people are assholes, whereas other people are a pleasure to deal with. It's all a game of chance when you dial that phone... | | comments: 3 comments or Leave a comment |
| | Current Music: | Danzig - Long Way Back From Hell | | Subject: | Yes! | | Time: | 09:15 am | | Current Mood: | accomplished |
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| The Dante's Inferno Test has banished you to the Eigth Level of Hell - the Malebolge!
Here is how you matched up against all the levels:
Take the Dante's Divine Comedy Inferno Test | | comments: Leave a comment |
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