So my nieghbor wants to be my enemy.

FINE!

Here's what happened:

As many of you know I went to columbus wed-fri last week. Well my bastard nieghbor called the cops on my car sitting in front of his house for more than 24 hours. THe cops towed it on Saturday. Its worth mentioning that I wasn't in "his spot" or anything. The dude is just a dick.(there's a city ordinance that states cars on public streets must be moved every 24 hours. The police Dept. however was quit to defend itself saying that it doesnt enforce that unless my nieghbor dude called it in.)

That's Fine if he wants to be that way. I can be a dick too.

Motherfucker Lookout.

3 things.

1. I cant wait to get home. Everybody here is really nice and accommodating and I had that comfy hotel room and all but there's something to be said for sleeping in my bed and being in my own house. I fly out of Columbus at 6:45 tonight and arrive in Brainerd "airport" (ever see that Wings sitcom?) at 11:05, 3 hour layover in Minneapolis. Ick.

2. Taxi Cab drivers are very nice even if their English is rather broken. They get even nicer when you give them a 10 dollar tip (and in return a got a hand full of receipt slips that I can fill out for any amount in return. HEHEHEHE), Look how it pays to not be greedy!

3. If someone logs into hotmail and then fails to delete their internet history and temp. Internet files then you can see who they were sending and receiving mail from, as well as the subject fields. So don't forget to empty all that crap if you're using a checkout laptop. (this is what happens when Im trapped in a room with a laptop and no internet service, other than setting the high score on MS 3D Pinball.)

Well (theres me starting a post with well again.), Im in Columbus. The flights out here were horrible. From Minneapolis I rode this 44 seat jet and let me tell you. Scarey Shizzle, scarey scarey. When it deployed its landing gear there was this giant crash bang and I really thought I was about to die.

But now flying is half over. I cant wait until 2morrow when I return to Brainerd.

Lets see...

In other news the people here are very very very kind. The cab drivers, the front desk people and my fellow -Insert company name here- employees, Quite nice.

I am drinking my first Pepsi since the day before yesterday. Im surprised I didnt have any bugs or snakes crawling on me last night. Incidently I didnt eat yesterday AT ALL, so far I havent eaten today either.

And just one more thing before I go:

WTF good is turn down service in your hotel room? WTF? You're too lazy to pull down the sheets yourself? Or you're an invalid or what? Who the hell would ever need pull down service. Its stupid.

Well the guy doing my training should be here soon so I had better go.

I have this butterfinger treat thing on my desk at work.

Its been there since before xmas. I opened it then too.

I think maybe I should throw it away. Instead of just obscuring it with a tissue.

Yes? Yes.

In other news I leave for Columbus, Ohio 2morrow at 7:15 AM, returning to Brainerd, Friday at 11:15 PM. I am supposed to have a solid 2 days of Lotus notes administration training.

I dont really want to go.

So I dunno when Ill be able to update next. I might be able to do it from the hotel but I wont really have a PC at "work" in Columbus.

Im thinking I might try and checkout a laptop.

Ever wonder which celebrities would be the right height for you to kiss?

Find out here...

Tall or Not?

You can also feel big compared to same sex celebrities....
Im taller than Tele Savales? COOL!

What do you think an error is?

Let me tell you what I think its not.

If MS office pops up and says enable macros? and the buttons are yes/no.

Thats not an error. Its a question. Errors mean something is wrong. Nothing is obviously wrong if it's asking macros? yes/no

Same with an internet explorer window that says "open, save, cancel" thats not an error either.

The reason I bring it up is all these people are calling them errors when really the only error is user error.

Maybe I should have said err?

Nope I think I got it right.

The GF is so funny....She paced the house for like 2 hours tonight because she couldnt decide wether or not to goto her friends house.

I told her to go.

I told her to stay.

I told her I needed some time alone.

I told her I couldnt bare to be without her.

Then she decides shes not going. OK, Im fine with that. :^)

Ten minutes later she is going again.

I meant to log into blogger and fix all my typos this morning but all of a sudden blogger seemed to go down...Now Im home its working again, perhaps work blocked it...

Cha' Right.

Sorry everyone for missing my posting yesterday.

I was down with the flew, Low grade fever, stuffy nose, aches, pains and sore throat. I'm still not 100% but lingering problems amount to stuffy nose and slightly upset tummy. Most likely a result of being so phlegmy and sleeping with that junk running my throat all night.

The infection is jumping to my family however. Melissa had it on Monday, This mornings count includes my GF and Stephen(13).

Who will be sick by 2morrow? Only time will tell.

Well I have the flew:

Sore Throat
Cough
Fever

Melissa has it too.

Ontop of all that school is canceled due to -35 f air temp.

I was thinking of archiving every link Ive put here, Good idea? I thought so.

It is so incredibly cold today

-25 when I left for work this morning. High all day -6.

So thats -40 with windchill. Schools are open (for some reason I cant figure out) so I still had drop off the kids this morning. Its worse for the 2 who had to ride the bus. I sat in my window and watched until they got on and rode away. It made me 5 or 10 minutes late but was well worth the peace of mind that my kids didnt expire from the cold.

Finally, MS has released its anti spyware tool.

I installed it at home with all the bells and whistles....

Works better than Spybot S+D, and Adaware SE.

Heres the link, do your PC a favor and go get it.

MS Anti-Spyware

Well sometimes your best efforts goto shit.

1/11 8:30 PM

Our little girl has a problem with her bowel being extended, Therefore its important for us to keep her good and "cleaned out" for 18-24 months starting from last July (when she had surgery).

Me (to GF): Well she hadn't pooped in 2 days yesterday so I gave her a dulcolax when I got home last night, but she still hasn't gone.

GF:Ugh...That's no good.

Me:Yeah, maybe we should give her an enema....

GF:Its too late...She needs to be going to bed.

Me:Well its 8:30, she should be all done going by 9, if we start now...

GF:Ok, you do it.

Me(to Melissa,8):ok...Let's do it.

At this point she pretty much started screaming, "MOMMY!MOMMY!MOMMY!", So the GF did it. Big sigh of relief out of me. Well everything went great, she got the enema and then she started crapping all over the place. She continues to crap until like 11 PM. Also I was scrubbing the bathroom floor at midnight.

Well this morning rolls around and when I go in to get her up for school she kinda groans at me about how her stomach is still upset and I tell her she doesn't need to goto school as long as she goes back to bed. When I complete the statement she jumps up out of bed and runs for the bathroom.

Me:So, great you're going to goto school anyway...I like it!
Melissa from the bathroom:I dunno daddy...I still have diarrhea(insert child crying noises here).

So once she was done I gave her some juice and put her back in bed. Maybe in a few hours she will be up and feeling better.

I hope so. I feel like its all my fault. But I gotta keep the crap flowing out of her. Close as I can figure it that dulcolax from 2 days ago must have been eating its way down meanwhile the enema broke whatever plug she had going on in there and walla a 24 hour crapfest.

I think maybe we should get a 3rd doctors opinion. :^(

Yes, because its all microsoft's fault that you cant tell the difference between a pop up and an os generated info button.

Wait I know the answer. STAY OFF THE INTERNET! I bet you didnt get that pop up by going to a "company name here" internal website.

Now that you mention it maybe I do have grounds to sue microsoft, FOR RUINING MY LIFE!


----- Forwarded by Robert Schultz on 01/10/2005 03:17 PM -----
01/10/2005 03:13 PM

To: IT PC Support-Brainerd
cc:
Subject: Pop-ups

The pop-ups seem to be getting more and more devious. One popped up and asked if I wanted to install. Since I didn't, I selected "cancel," which was followed by a message that said "download complete." Since when does "cancel" mean "I give you permission to download"? God only knows what was downloaded, but I'm sure I'm in for an unpleasant surprise. Please let me know what I should do next.

Anyone care to join me in a class action suit against Microsoft Corporation?

A few years ago (long before the invention of winXP). I tried this program out called WindowBlinds. It was nice and cool and could do alot of things to the look and functionality of windows. It was neat.

But nothing I wanted to saddle my PC with.

Now its 5 or 10 years later. And Im stuck with 3 color choices in WinXP, Silver, olive, or blue.

Well that sucks.

Hop on over to Stardock

And get yourself some other color options. Im using this NeoOS skin and it comes with this nice transparent feature.

Check my screen shot.



Incidently it all seems to be free (theres some blah blah blah about getting the full version but I really see no need to. Im just sick of olive, silver or blue.)

Well I just got up.

Its nice being on vacation.

Down side is Day of Our Lives is about to come on. Bless my GF's heart.

Oh...Im sorry.

Im not prepared because Im on vacation.

Im dancing around my bedroom and going back to bed.

It sucks dropping kids off at school when you have the day off.

Forget that its -19.

No strange dogs stalking me.

No funny anecdote either. :^(

Maybe you heard.

I have 5 days off! Say it with me 5 days off! Yeah 5 days off.

Anyway I'm on my way home and its like -500 degrees with the wind chill, and when I get home. I'm stuck in the van.


I'm not stuck in the snow. There's some strange golden retriever circling the vehicle.

I could have made a break for it, yeah. I also could of tried to make nice with the frozen puppy dog.

But I have a rule not to mess with strange dogs...I've been bitten too many times. I decided to wait until it turned into a dog-cicle. It wandered off after about 5 minutes.

I hate myself sometimes. My typing skills specifically. I can crank out a post pretty darn fast. The only problem is its totally ridden with spelling and grammatical errors. I used to think that I didn't care, but I do.

Maybe I should take more time to make a better post.

???

Do you think I should not do things like double spacing?

???

Should I not use things like ???

My Night Summed Up


Well, Some crazy 26 year old Japanese schoolteacher started IMing me out of nowhere last night. I talked to her until about 7:30. She was VERY nice, even if her English wasn't quite perfect. Apparently when Im here(here being at work) at 6:30PM its 8:30AM in Japan. She was having coffee and preparing lesson plans for when her and her students go back to class.

How do these people always find me?

When I got home my girlfriend was watching that stupid "Las Vegas" show. If you've never seen it, let me tell you, the highlight is the opening music. Ill share what I saw while mostly playing Civilization 3.

The casino boss (who is a retired gangster I guess) gets kidnapped in the beginning (I missed this part) by a dyslexic plumber who he had previously fired for installing the H and C water faucets backwards all over the casino(you don't learn that until later). So the guy keeps the mobster/casino boss in a bath tub and beats him with a stick for about a day while waiting for the x-marine guy to come up with the cash. Meanwhile blaming the mobster/casino boss for all his problems. Most notably for losing custody of his daughter.

you're following me here?

Well, anyway, x-marine guy pays the cash and dyslexic plumber guy hits the mobster/casino boss with his stick a few more times. Mobster/Casino boss guy then says "Your dead...blah blah blah...When I get out of here your dead...la tee da...Im gonna find you and get you...", Well plumber guy beans him with the stick in the noggin and then everything goes black...

...Its 6 hours later and x-marine guy is showing up in the room where mob boss is being held. (heres where the writing really goes south)

They go back to the casino where Mobster/Casino boss guy's daughter is waiting for them. She wants the x-marine dude to go see Duran Duran with her...Like...Um...Right now...

"is that ok with you boss?" he says to the mobster/casino boss.

"sure, go have fun! We can take care of me being kidnapped 2morrow!"-I shit you not. That's what he says.

Well then x-marine and mobster/casino boss's daughter goto Duran Duran. Mob guy is poring over his records, meanwhile, to find the dyslexic plumber he crap canned. Low and behold he finds him.

So he shows up at the plumber's house with a bat and a cane(which hes been kinda gimping on ever since he was released). And he gives the plumber the bat, then the dyslexic plumber comes at him. Well him and dude fight for a few minutes but the mobster/casino guy is going all bruce lee with his cane and just destroying the plumber(forget that hes like 65 and gimping from being beat on in a bathtub all day. Hes stomping the plumber).

Well plumber dude goes down. (Did I mention that Duran Duran was playing during the "fight scene", It was) Then Mobster/Casino boss guy starts choking him with his cane.

But then...Just as the plumber is about to die the Mobster/Casino boss guy looks over at the night table. There's a picture of the plumber's daughter all smiling over at him choking the shit out of her dad.

So he lets the guy go and leaves the room without even taking the ransom money.

THE END

What a steaming pile of crap.

After that I did a bunch of laundry and went to bed.

Well I decided one of my projects over the weekend would be learning to play the piano.

Its probably important to mention.

1. Until 3 days ago I never tried to play a piano.
2. I realize I completely suck.
3. I have nerve damage in both my hands. The left because I broke it roller skating in 17 places when I was a kid. And the other hand has had various parts broken and cut off and sewn back on.

So far Ive leaned.

Row Row Row Your Boat
Frere Jacques
That one chinese song (You know the one thats always playing in all the opium dens)
The Theme to Halloween
Gloria
And about 2/3rd of jingle bells.

Like I said I know I suck...


But I feel so fucking cool.

:^P