Me: Does anyone know where the PS2 memory card is?
Everykid in the house: No
Me: Well Mars said it was there yesterday and no one went anywhere, so whichever of you boys took it to school to borrow to your buddy better fess up right now or this is going to get alot worse.
John(14)(Meekly raising his hand): Me...
Me: Does it belong to you?
John: No.
Me: Who does it belong to?
John: Everyone.
Me: So shouldnta you ask everyone before taking it?
John: Yeah, I should have.
Me: Well, no internet cave until its back, and my data on there better be all intact.
John: I have it in my bag.
Me: What?! Why did you take it to school?
John: My teacher has a PS2 he lets us play and I wanted to use my save thats on there.
Me (now infuriated): so your teacher is collecting my tax dollars as pay to sit around with a bunch of kids playing playstation!!!
John: um...erm...
Me: Lazy teachers just dont want to do their job, they want to sit around and play PS2 on my dime! UGH! How dare they!
Wife: Calm down Robert, I dont think this part is really Johns fault.
Me: I saw his report card and I dont think he should have time to be playing video games at school! And teachers should be, GET THIS, TEACHING! Not "having free time" with ps2's!!! This is the whole problem with the public education system, and then next year they will be whining that they dont make enough money! LAZY! LAZY! LAZY! GRRRRRRRR!!!!

Well, My wife killed the battery on the van and then she took the car to work, so I am stuck at home because the van wont start.

I needed a day off anyway I guess.

The thermometer in my bedroom is reading 51 degrees F, the thermostat in the living room is set to 70 but is reading 61, the thermometer I have outside the kitchen window reads -23 F.

My furnace is apparently not keeping up. :^( !

I am running the oven with it open until the temperature gets up in the house a bit.

Wish me luck.

Yesterdays high: 41 F
Tonights low: -25 with a -80 wind chill.

Thats torturous.

I felt like wearing shorts. Then mother nature kicks me in the nuts with this clipper junk.

In other news I have Ed's computer and once it thaws out enough Ill fix it up, load it with warez and prolly blow some dust off it. Also I have been driving the people at work nuts like this-

Any random person: Anything they say
Me: No, you anything they say
Them: retort
Me: No you retort!

This can go on for quite a while and is always good for some cheap laughs.

Have a great day!

Im going to be sitting at my computer eating chex chocolate right out of the box while playing CNC for a bit.

:^)

I hope everyone had a nice weekend. I sure did.

I did all my water changes and added more ramshorn snails to my 55 gallon tank. I also cleaned out my filter so now it sounds like Im filling a bathtub in my living room. The fish in the 55 gallon appear to be much happier now. Alot more activity, I should do that more often than once a month I guess.

Guppies are doing great too, I can see the colors of the next generation of males, and while Im not happy about having to kill the least colorful ones, by and large they are much more colorful than the last generation. This is progress I guess.

Also, in other news Ive been playing command and conquer 3: tiberium wars (2007), and I tell you as far as real time strategy goes that game has it all, fast paced intense action and alot of video sequences staring Michael Ironsides and that Cameron chick from House (did anyone see the episode where she got all strung out on crank and banged chase? Hawt.).

I cant wait to get home from work and put in a few more hours on it.

Anyway, I gotta go, have a great day!

things I did today:

375 inverted above my head curls with 25 pound boat lift motors.
Almost cried during a harry chapin song.
Made venison stew.
Ate too much.
Got a call about a job. heh heh...Tell you how it goes later.

Pretty good day, except now I have tummy ache. I just couldnt stop eating meat. I want more meat right now. I am craving protein something fierce.

Ugh I am all pissed at my wife now. She called here about a half hour ago and ask/told me that she was going to the bar. :^( It kinda makes me feel like she would rather go out with her friends than be with me. I know by the time she gets home tonight (1 AM) Ill be completely furious about it and give her a piece of my completely irrational mind.

If I dont tell her it made me feel like shit I feel like Im hiding my feelings about it and then Ill have a giant blowup about it later regarding meatloaf instead of spaghetti or something equally as stupid.

My weight loss plan is going great! My belly is at about 1997 levels. Woot! And Im getting all muscular. Woot! I got on the scale today and it said 206! Woot! Way down from 235! All in about a month and a half. Also for the past 2 days I havent had any pop at work, and only 1 or 2 glasses at home.

I feel fabulous! And my wife can hardly keep her hands off me! WOOT! Gotta go!

I got the "newish" TMBG album, The Else. I love it. I dont know why I didnt fall in love with TMBG before last year. But now that I have, I cant get enough of it.

My favorite song on the album is Climbing the Walls. I identify with it very strongly.

here's the lyrics (Homemade music video here):

I can't talk, I got to go
Don't call me back, I won't get the door
Got to focus on the job
'Cause I got a new job climbing the walls

I was grinding my teeth, I was wasting my youth
And using up my teeth
Now I'm done chewing my nails
Hanging my head, chasing my tail
It got so bad I quit my job
Then I got a new job climbing the walls

Too much junk, too much junk
Can we please clear out this house?
In the trunk, in the trunk
And then we'll take it all to the dump
Then we won't need the car
'Cause we'll stay where we are
And I'll have all this room

I got tired of pacing the floor
Sick of it all, I'm done with the floor
Walked away ever since I got a new job climbing the walls

I was grinding my teeth, I was wasting my youth
And using up my teeth
Now I'm done chewing my nails
Hanging my head, chasing my tail
It got so bad I quit my job
Then I got a new job climbing the walls

The deep end, the deep end
People talk a lot, but they don't know
They pretend, they pretend
They don't really know how deep it goes

Now I misunderstood,
Thought the wall was just good
For staring blankly at

I got tired of pacing the floor
Sick of it all, I'm done with the floor
Walked away ever since I got a new job climbing the walls

Now I'm done chewing my nails
Hanging my head, chasing my tail
It got so bad I quit my job
Then I got a new job climbing the walls
Got a new job climbing the walls
Got a new job climbing the walls

I am so sick of the geico gecko.

Ya'know what is really fun but I never thought it would be?

Sandblasting!

I did that at work today (sorry didnt have a chance to snap any pictures, maybe 2-morrow.) And it ruled! I started with rusty junk and I made it all shiny and new! I really cant express how much I liked it.

Too bad I dont think thats whats on my plate for 2morrow. :^(

Oh well. Ill take what I can get.

I wanna take some pictures and post them.

I cant really think of anything else to blog about.

Melissa (11) stunk up the house with a bunch of farts. Thats about all the news I have on hand at the moment. Oh, I smashed my left hand today while moving a boat lift out of where it had been ploughed under the snow. Nothing serious, I might lose a fingernail out of it but I doubt it. This stuff is character building.

I dont understand whats so funny. Please explain.

Me: Thanks Adam.
Adam: For what?
Me: Reminding me to start my car.
Adam: Its no big deal.
Me: To me it is. That would be a long, cold drive home. And I saw you doing other nice stuff for people today. And I appreciate niceness. Greatly.
Adam: Like what did you see me do?
Me: I dont wanna say because then when you get to heaven you wont get credit for it.
-EVERYONE IN THE SHOP BURSTS OUT LAUGHING-

Whats so funny?

I dont get it.

Fashon show at my house tonight. My wife's best friend is parading crap around. Im not stupid. I know the correct answer to everything is "yeah, sure, that looks fine I guess."

I will be as non commital as possible in this situation. You would think after this many years they would learn just not to ask me.

Im pretty depressed. I usually dont get depressed.

but I am.

I didnt get the college job. :^(

So now I guess we wait to hear from the Wadena Electrical Company. I applied there and at charter now. The first is all around software/hardware technician, and the second is a cable monkey. im qualified for both jobs. Hopefully one of them will call me for an interview.

Well i gotta go drop off some stuff for the saturday medical delivery job I got. So Im out the door at 0-darkthirty in the morning.

Have a great day.

Today I am going to be picking up and dropping off my new friend Ed, Ed is from California, he is very black. He moved to Mn to get away from the outrageous crime rates in CA and to raise his kids.

Ed is never bothered by anything, his car broke down about 2 weeks ago and he was riding his bike (pedal bike) 25 miles in the -10 degree weather through the snow, and he was still at work on time. Smiling and laughing like it was all some giant joke on him that was really funny. For this reason I love Ed, he is my hero, I wanna be able to smile and laugh no matter how crappy things are. I think Ed is a great role model for that.

So anyway he needs a ride to work and Im going to pick him up right now. Ill tell him you all said hi.

Have a great day!

The new snails seem to be surviving, mostly. Additionally I forgot to shut the lights off on the tank when I went to bed. whoops!

Tonight Im having liver. Im taking it out of the freezer now. for 95 cents a pound it really cant be beat. Plus I love it, smothered in onions, YUM!

Also my cat is so silly when she comes in the shower and jumps in and out of the water. I laughed my butt off so hard it was hard to complete washing my hair.

Anyway Im off to work, have a great day!

PS. Still havent heard anything from the college. :^(

Well, My wrenching hand is alot less sore this morning. Just in time for me to goto work and abuse it some more. I really hope the college calls me soon. Me and my wrenching hand really NEED it to. Please do not hesitate with the candle lighting and prayer bead handling in the name of that cause.

I stuck about 20 ramshorn snails in my 55 gallon fishtank yesterday, Hopefully at least some of them will evade my loach and breed so I can watch them in there for quite some time. I find snails to be the dust ruffle of my tanks. They add a nice ambiance and give the impression of a natural habitat quite nicely. Too bad the loach gobbles them all up and doesnt leave any for reproduction. However I did notice last night that at least one of the 15 trumpets I put in about a month ago is still kicking.

In other news I made homemade bread yesterday, my fluffiest loaves yet. I think that by increasing the temp in my house and putting them on a chair near the heating duct really helped them rise (dont worry I covered them with a towel). I took those 2 loaves and made some super yummy french toast for dinner. Everyone seemed to really enjoy it. I would like to have liver for dinner tonight but my wife will be home from work so that really isnt an option.

Well Im off. Have a great day, and sorry for the exceedingly long post.

I hear alot of stories at work:

"The old riverton high school is haunted..."

"I was cruising at 85 on my way back from Montana when I got pulled over..."

"I saw on the news that 75 percent of all corona sold in the US has traces of urine in it..."

"I drank my own Pee once..."

At the mention of the last one I piped up, "I would love to hear that whole story!"

"Well, I was running for the bathroom all super fast, cause I really had to go, I got to the toilet, whipped it out and Pee just started shooting everywhere, I got some in my mouth! I immeadiately brushed my teeth and drank like 4 gallons of water."

After hearing that story I laughed for about 20 minutes. LOL. I didnt think that was possible.

Hey its funny. Have a great day! Im off to work.

Lets see, what to blog about?

One of my kids RESET MY ROUTER to system defaults yesterday. I hit the roof. whoever did it didnt fess up, so I yelled and screamed and spent an hour reprogramming in all my NATS and such. After I changed the default PW to something they dont know. They aint gonna get the new PW either. If the router needs reset they can go and do it the old fashioned way, by manual power reset.

Then I felt bad for throwing a fit and yelling at them. UGH. I hate when I get mad.

When I apologized for yelling and screaming they said it was perfectly natural for me to be mad about that. They said everyone gets mad sometimes and that was a pretty good reason.

Im not convinced I still feel guilty.

Also I had dream last night that I was helping my mother and Nan(my grandmother) move, in it I was emptying out a dresser and I found a bag that had a book in it. When I took the book out (I dont remember the title) a fricken live bat came out of the bag, scared me half to death and flew away. I tell you I have the strangest dreams. What the heck is that supposed to mean?

Beats me, Anyway Im off to work, hope everyone has as good a day as I am telling myself to have now. tootles.

Ugh, I am dreading going to work 2morrow already.

Hopefully I hear from the college soon, then I could have a job I didnt dread quite so much.

Hope everyone had a nice new years eve.

I gotta go clean up my house, and do some dishes now. Enjoy your day!