At Home He's a Tourist

If you aren't reading Blue Meany, you are very sad, because she's freaking hilarious. Unless, of course, swearing offends you, then you might want to give her a miss, but believe me, she's darn funny.

I am, at long last, listening to my iPod Nano at work. I need to see if the AC charger (or is it DC?) works before I give everything back to him, so I had to wear down the battery on the ol' iPod. It's kind of nice to listen to different music, as I've been listening to the same stuff for a while now (except yesterday when I listened to my new Strip Club CD, Cold Comfort, but since I listened to that all day, I went for the iPod. I'm listening to the playlists I created for my friend Sal's CDs. When I get my lazy butt to the post office, he'll be receiving FOUR CDs of my choice of music. I hope at least some of it is new for him and that he likes most of it.

Let's see, what else is up with me? The coffee room is still broken, and the cafeteria here doesn't open until 7:00 which caused for an agonizing hour. Actually we went there around 6:45, so I was able to get hot water for my tea, and even though the woman was standing right there, she ignored us as Jim wanted to pay for his coffee. He finally just left the dollar next to the cash register and we walked out. The old building's cafeteria opened at 6:30 and of course, there were coffee rooms in every section, so this wasn't an issue.

I was too sick last night to care about taking pictures of yarn and coats like I said, so you'll have to wait another day or so for that excitement. I'm tired of fighting this darn bronchitis. I'm half ready to declare a truce and let it win. At least, then I'd know it would be over shortly. I just know that it's going to take a proper hold of my lungs on Friday when I'm supposed to take Marianne's son, Jesse to the symphony. Tonight I'm going to try the wasabi cure of all that ails you when I go for sushi with Ursamajor. Yum, asparagus tempura sushi!

Dang, it's 10:05, so no hot water for tea as the cafeteria is closed until 11:00. I don't think I've mentioned how much I hate this FUCKING building lately, have I?

Monday (at least that's when I read it), the Lovely Loopster had a great post ranting about things she hates. She did such an incredible job I decided to emulate her and list things that piss me off and why.

1) Drivers who drive the speed limit in the left lane – I've decided there are two classes of people who do this: a) the self-righteous twits who say "The speed limit is the same in every lane." And feel they're doing their part to help maintain proper speeds on the freeways; and, b) the selfish assholes who just don't give a shit that s/he's backing people up behind her/him because s/he's comfortable. The only time either of these two types gets their sorry asses out the left lane is when their exit is coming up. I hate them.

2) The new set up of Washington (Street? Avenue?) in Royal Oak. Yes, I understand more parking spaces were needed, but the first light you come to heading north from 696 has a right turn only lane and a left turn/going straight lane. I can't tell you how many times I get stuck behind someone wanting to turn left there and wanting desperately to pass them in the right lane, but can't (and won't because with my luck an RO cop would be sitting there just waiting to bust me). So frustrating.

3) The new building – I won't reiterate.

4) amazon.com – I used to love amazon.com but I think they've gotten too big for their britches. I remember when I would order something and they would put it in the mail that day. Now it's weeks later and they don't even send a "We've shipped your order" e-mail anymore. For DVDs, I'm patronizing www.dvdempire.com and for books www.alibris.com. Check them out. For DVDs, there is also www.dvdplanet.com.

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