Friday, April 13, 2007
Damn I'm cranky
What a fucking Year, Last year......
I ran across a purchase for cheez at an albertsons in Provo during the Tour of utah.
Yesterday I call this woman to go hiking this afternoon, she won't go. So Here I am doing taxes... what does she do.... Calls me, I'm sure she wants to change her mind.
Why The fuck can't you people make plans and Keep them........ What is wrong with you people....
Grrrrrr Fuck you people......
I'm going to end up going running as soon as I get this milage shit worked out.
I'm also in a foul mood.
What I realy want to do is procrastinate and test out my new coffee pot, up in them thar Hills.
hmmm, wonder how it will turn out.
Thursday, April 12, 2007
Kurt Vonnegut dead at 84
Vonnegut died on Wednesday after suffering brain injuries following a fall weeks ago, said Donald Farber, Vonnegut's friend, lawyer, agent and manager.......
(Article)
obsession Du Jour
Oil is $60 a barrel which is $1.20 per gallon
Gas is $2.something per gallon on the open market.
and your paying almost 200% markup on gas for processing and shipping.
So, Coffee. for roasting the bean and shipping. 4000% from the farmer. The money is in the roasting........
Well, I may get a roaster. even if you don't have a roaster, Millstone actually has some free trade coffee. Also you can get it through e-bay, or on the web
http://www.cafecampesino.com/index.php
http://www.fairtradecoffee.org/coffeelist.asp
http://eeretail.stores.yahoo.net/coffee.html
http://www.elanorganic.com/
Ok, back to work.
You can find your favorite blend for roughly the same price, especialy when you talk about 5 pounds at a time. All we are talking about is forcing the coffee distributers to Kick another .50 to the farmers.
Maybe if I get 10 grand in cash together, I'll get some shipped
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Swore I was going to stay away from this.....
This shit isn't fit for print. What is he excited about....
"I Fucked Anna Nichole, and now there is evidence"
"I get the windfall of the child's estate."
Good god, I didn't care, but now I'm hoping anything that kid gets goes into a trust. And that Lawer dude has to get a job.
I was thinking that he was outside this ridiculous, circus. I was hoping that he wasn't one of these white trash "having their 15 minutes" at the expense of this child.... but, I was wrong.
Please!!! everyone deserves to lose custody
why the fuck am I blogging about this.
But.....
have you ever heard the crap on fox.....
Imus needs to accept the fact they are just using this as an excuse to fire a guy that stopped being funny years ago.
Lowering the bar-Mop Style
Blog Category: Blog — Blogged by: Art on April 11, 2007 at 11:04 am
(wanted to see if I could be funnier than art.... Cause I'm competitive like that)
1. WERE YOU NAMED AFTER ANYONE?
No, uninteresting thing is that there was a trend in naming my older siblings, and my name completed the Set/Sequence. This is just proof that my Folks should have had kids. Unfortunately abortion wasn't legal until after I was born..... Condoms people!!!!!!!
2. WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU CRIED?
When I read art's post.
3. DO YOU LIKE YOUR HANDWRITING.
I'm in lust with my handwriting, every time I see it it gives me an erection and I have to leave and "come" back in 15 minutes.
4. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE LUNCH MEAT?
Fuck this question, My favorite Lunch bread is Marbled Rye.
5. DO YOU HAVE KIDS?
None that I know of, or want to know about! I have enough trouble with my childish siblings and people I work with.
6. IF YOU WERE ANOTHER PERSON WOULD YOU BE FRIENDS WITH YOU?
Hell no, Fuck that dude.
7. DO YOU USE SARCASM A LOT?
Only as a defence to my insecurities.
8. DO YOU STILL HAVE YOUR TONSILS?
No, I Rent.
9. WOULD YOU BUNGEE JUMP?
Bungee jumping reminds me of those dudes who mountain bike....... Oh Sorry, I meant, dudes who use a Ski Lift to Mountain bike.
10. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE CEREAL?
Oatmeal....
11. DO YOU UNTIE YOUR SHOES WHEN YOU TAKE THEM OFF?
Let me look, Nope. If they still sold Velcro on shoes I'd buy them.
12. DO YOU THINK YOU ARE STRONG?
I defiantly think, I'm tough. I suspect you would have to outweigh me by 75 pounds for me to back down.
13. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE ICE CREAM? I don't even think about ice cream any more. I stick to doughnuts and Pie.
14. WHAT IS THE FIRST THING YOU NOTICE ABOUT PEOPLE?
There are people?.... Oh, Tit's or lack there of..... I'd say I'm being funny, but I think it's true.
15. RED OR PINK?
Who writes these questions, Starting with the Black and white nature of things, which is bullshit. But then to escalate it to something like this. The root of this question is Saturate color or Pastel. I pick the color color. Point I'm making is that Pink is Red, Dumb ass.
16. WHAT IS THE LEAST FAVORITE THING ABOUT YOURSELF?
Self loathing is overrated.
17. WHO DO YOU MISS THE MOST?
Hell of a question,........ Fuck them if they chose not to be in my life.
18. DO YOU WANT EVERYONE TO SEND THIS BACK TO YOU?
What the hell does it matter, will it mean that they don't really love me....... I figured that out.
19. WHAT COLOR PANTS AND SHOES ARE YOU WEARING?
Pants, Shoes? when you work at home these things are...... Optional.... Now let's talk about my underwear.
20. WHAT WAS THE LAST THING YOU ATE?carrots.
21. WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO RIGHT NOW?
cnbc
22. IF YOU WHERE A CRAYON, WHAT COLOR WOULD YOU BE?
Recycled Crayons, because there defiantly a limited amount of Wax out there, we just have to conserve. and that shit takes days to biodegrade in the landfill.
23. FAVORITE SMELLS?
Burning Hair.
24. WHO WAS THE LAST PERSON YOU TALKED TO ON THE PHONE?
This isn't as interesting as the conversation.
Me, "you want to go see a baseball game?"
Them, "I'm sorry, I'm busy."
Me, "Ok, catch you later."
Them, "Maybe some other time."
Me *just another person who wants me to reschedule so they can shine me later*
Me, "sure, maybe"
25. DO YOU LIKE THE PERSON WHO SENT THIS TO YOU?
Art would never respect me, if I said I liked his curmudgeon-ie(is that a word).
26. FAVORITE SPORTS TO WATCH? Football.
27. HAIR COLOR?
What, are we dating?
28. EYE COLOR?
did somone run out of decent questions.... I can't wait till we get to height.
29. DO YOU WEAR CONTACTS?
Amazing incite, people with contatcts are assholes.
30. FAVORITE FOOD?
Blueberries.
31. SCARY MOVIES OR HAPPY ENDINGS?
Tragic endings, I like for the dude to suffer Tragic, Blood Sweat and Tears, Bone Griding Suffering. Then He gets the girl in the end, then she gets hit by a Bus. Which reminds me of most my relationships that end with me wishing they would get hit by a bus.
32. LAST MOVIE YOU WATCHED?Batman returns. but only the first 45 minutes, the rest sucked.
33. WHAT COLOR SHIRT ARE YOU WEARING?
are we getting into clothing again?
34. SUMMER OR WINTER?
What are you High!!!! It's fucking cold in the winter, and there is that fucking Christmas, and new years, and thanksgiving, and Ice, and face masks, and Jesus... Fuck you for even making me think about it.
35. HUGS OR KISSES?
I think we can universally agree......... Handjobs!!!
36. FAVORITE DESSERT?
Revenge!!!!!!!
37. MOST LIKELY TO RESPOND?
Dr. Pistachio
38. LEAST LIKELY TO RESPOND?
people who don't read the blog
39. WHAT BOOK ARE YOU READING NOW?
CCSP cisco secure PIX firewall---- It's a nail bitter, how will it end????
40. WHAT IS ON YOUR MOUSE PAD?
Mostly sweat and grease from my manage hands
41. WHAT DID YOU WATCH ON T.V. LAST NIGHT?The Shield.....
42. FAVORITE SOUND?
It's all just Noise Really!!!!1
43. ROLLING STONES OR BEATLES?
Alright, the Beatles are by far better than the Stones. And the tragedy is that Ringo will probably out live them all. But to be honest, I don't give a shit. I still have an open offer to anyone who can explain the popularity of "The Who"
44. WHAT IS THE FURTHEST YOU HAVE BEEN FROM HOME?
That is some full on math, So, if your moving somewhere then that doesn't count. You have to be visiting somewhere, and still live elsewhere..... How the hell is this relevant to anything about me. Fuck you..... "the rolling Stones"
45. DO YOU HAVE A SPECIAL TALENT? The things My Bowels are capable of are "Super Exciting"
46. WHERE WERE YOU BORN?
I'd like this poll to end with a *plonk*
One love!!!!
K, this is pissing me off today.... Have to blog about it
So, The New one!!!!!! The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't..... Wholly Shit, Let me get this out of the way, I'm an asshole at work. Let me further qualify, I have a huge work ethic. I started working at 14 sweeping floors, and cutting vegetables in a deli. I then worked in a print shop from 16-19, then as a finish carpenter till 26. In that period of time, the number one thing I learned is "Keep your hands busy/when your at work. it's time to work." It is rare to find someone who is more focused and who doesn't dink around when trying to get a job done. I work all the time, 6am or earlier till 6pm then maybe 2-4 hours at night.(less bike time).
A friend of mine was complaining about how they were discouraging him from surfing the Internet at work. I said, "if I was your boss, I'd give you one warning, then fire your ass. If it were my company, the rule would be "no Internet surfing, we are monitoring your surfing, and if it's not directly work related, you will be fired."
When I see people dicking around at work, it absolutely offends me. Once I was working at a company and they did an efficiency study, and I ended up on top. But when they showed me and congratulated me, I looked at the rest of the statistics and literally 5-10% of the office were doing 70-80% of the work.
On the other hand, there defiantly is Team moral, but my point is that Lazy people kill moral, twice as much as someone being insensitive. If I work with someone and they keep their hands busy, and when they don't have something to do, they ask. When they need help, they ask. You will never see me speak an unkind word to them.
I guarantee that the ones who, sit at their desk and try and look busy while jerking off. or who want to take naps at work. or who complain about how so-and-so, is a jerk. These are the ones that aren't productive. Show up ready to work, and make it happen.
I am still looking for that job, where I get to Nap, and I don't have to do any work. Seriously if left to their own devices, employees would just suck every nickle of of the company, and then wonder why the company and their jobs went "Tits Up".
Nut Up Fuckers!!! You have to work. This bullshit about napping and no Assholes is just a good excuse to be Lazy!!!!!!
See the pile of work in his hands, I'm the one who ends up doing it, while he sleeps. And that's why I'm an asshole to him. Fat, Lazy, Fuckwhit!!! Staying up too late watching American Idol.
Tuesday, April 10, 2007
Insomnia persists
Hmmmm, I was group riding this weekend and as people fell off the back.. Well, I wasn't the one pushing, I don't see any reason to have people fall off the back in a friendly group ride. Since the reason I would group ride is to make and have some friends. not to spend 70+ miles regretting that you came out as you end up grinding through the wind alone.... I can do that at home.
As people are coming off, I always see it like the heard of Gazelle and the pride of lions in pursuit, the weak ones falling off the back. I shed a small tear, never to see them again.
Maybe I'm not drinking enough.
Monday, April 09, 2007
you may think gas prices are high now
H1B visa
Then the big "Tech Boom" went bust, and only the strong were left. There were tons of Really great I.T. Pro's that suffered, Tons of people took big pay cuts. Finally about 3 years ago the industry started to recover, but this is what the companies did. They hired contract workers. There are alot of ways to do this, alot of them are illegal. There are a quite a few times where I get a call and someone wants me to work 8-5 as a 1099, and I threaten to call the IRS. (let me point out that calling the IRS on a potential employer, won't get you the job). To be honest, the way I look at it, you don't want to work for companies that are either ignorant or turn a blind eye to employment law. Call me goofy.
The median starting wage for a tech worker is 50k, right now. Also there are tons of actual contractors that make Tons of money, but only work as needed. If you didn't know about 80% of the people who try and pass themselves as "Microsoft" employees are Microsoft "partners" who are contractors who work for Microsoft. Your average decent Tech worker makes 70-90K that is SQL managers, good Network managers and engineers. The problem is that that is the rate that the Managers make, the MBA's and the small time V.P.'s make. and they resent it. So, what the companies want to do is bring in Indian I.T. workers...BTW it's not Asian ones, because they won't do this. But the Indian I.T. workers will work for 30-40K which is big money to them, coming from economies that people make less than 10k a year.
The only other option that these companies have is to increase the pay and try and lure some of the old I.T. workers back from the Tech boom. This all means that they need to pay people another 10-20K a year. This is what the H1B visa's are all about. If it wasn't, you would see companies trying to recruit just about anyone who could type on a keyboard to work "High Tech"
Sunday, April 08, 2007
Ugh, Potato victory.....
Then I go, "well I was thinking, just a nice, aerobic ride around the valley. 5,6,7 hours as long as we can stand."
And you go, well.... "why don't we just go do this ride, with a bunch of rec riders..."
"Alright, sounds cool. "
Flash forward, 2 hours before the ride.
"um, dude, it may rain."
"Nope, that system at 10am will miss that ride. it may rain in ogden and provo till noon, but the radar says it has missed us."
"that's not what weather underground says."
"Weather underground is for fools. The national weather service and their current radar and satellite images."
(so, I didn't have this conversation. my buddy left a message on my voice mail.
But seriously)
I tried to call back and then reschedule a nice calm ride, maybe a little later or whatever. But nope, to chicken to pick up the phone (I can be an overbearing Prick). But seriously, if you make plans with me, Follow through!!!!! especially if I reschedule what I'm doing to fit you in. Otherwise your going to get this message, "I'll be leaving from here, at 9am. Join or not"
So, there I am, riding with Rec. Riders. I'm ok with this, but I don't really know anyone. And this is how most of these rides go......
Some Dude, "Man, i'm wicked strong." Then they sprint until they are bonked or dehydrated. I ended up Holding a groups wheel, then forming a more elite group which then managed to Reel in the rest of the riders for the rest of the ride.
It's one thing to ride strong for an hour, it's another to do it for 4. Certainly some things vary based on environment, after 30 miles you should have emptied your bottles and have eaten a significant amount of food.
By the way, the potato's Rocked!!! um, lightly foiled and pieces no larger than 3" on any side.
Saturday, April 07, 2007
Taters, and fruit punch
- First, do you boil them then cut them into handy bitesize pieces.
- Second, how do you know when they are cooked, are you skrewed if you over cook them.
- Third, How the hell do you wrap them in foil. maybe two pieces, one on each side or wrap them. and how much wrapping will be unmanageable on the bike.
Yep that will be me, the guy with 3 pounds of potato's in his pockets.
This "Health" thing, a person should drink 2 quarts of water per day. Sure I can dial in the water intake when I'm on the bike. But the question is "How much off the bike." I keep finding myself dehydrated so I've been setting a target of 3-4 quarts a day. Still, I ten to binge, and drink a quart at a time, which flushes right through me.... Point being, I've been mixing up cool-aid quite a bit. Yep, it's like being 6 years old.
Well, my lips are chapped, legs hurt, and I've eaten every carb in the house.......... 100 miles tomorrow. even worse is my hydration when My kidneys are trying to dump the Overdose of ibuprofen I try to kill myself with.
So, I don't realy post this stuff
Umn, Sure I went to a race that excluded the utah cycling elite, since that was HOTN. I did make a promice to do this race 6 months ago, who knew the two would conflict. Like I say though I'm a man of my word and when I say I'm doing it, I do it.
Overall I went top 10 out of my group, and it realy wasn't my race. Also, I was only 20 some odd seconds off of 2nd and I could have shaved that with a little better prep and focus. But, I've been scatterd, and best not to bitch a top 4.
Also, after last years embarasing Spring drop by a member of the superior sex. I was very happy to have put on at least 20 seconds on all the woman. Not that ..... Well, I may be an asshole, But seriously who want's to get beat by a chick.... (which could be why Julie and I havn't ridden together.(I do know however that I could out drink her(cept knowhing her she would put on some kind of Indiana Jones, Nepalies-Miriam Ravenwood Drinkfest, smackdown on me.)
In other news I've gained my own nemisis, the guy who got the UNO, Just but the smackdown on me, Like I was nothing. Big up's to him, but unfortunatly he is now my nemisis. Sorry that's just the way it works. Specialy when I gave him the cold shoulder, not realizing who he was. This is obvious a sign of new found respect for him.
Funny, there are 60 some odd people that would have loved to have had the ride I did, and I bitch. now if only my knees will still feel good tomorrow.
One love everyone. sorry no pictures.
Thursday, April 05, 2007
Can you be to tired for coffee?
So, I'm just blogging for me at this point. I figure I may estrange myself from most of you. But... it gives me something to do when I need to vent, or am just ..... So, fuck it. I figure blog.
Easter, damn I want some of those cream filled eggs, or just some chocolate ones, or some m&m's. My on bike feast of bad food has kicked off a sweet tooth of epic proportions, I'm going to need to stop that a bit. I'm going to boil up some potato's for this weekend, maybe some fig newtons. My legs are killing me, it takes 4 miles for them to loosen up, I'm trying to take it easy for the next few days till the weekend racing.
Time to get some work done.....
Wednesday, April 04, 2007
Silly Rabbit.
Good god, I'm going to have to shut it all off soon. Rough day.... Not bad, just Rough, I ended up doubling down today, and after 3 hours of dragging that bottom I doubled into I ended up in a 2% rally, none of it is a big deal since anything I buy, I'd own for 2 years if I chose to. But no reason to hold onto a dog for 2 years......
So far I'm infamous for buying just before the very bottom, which is good cept the hour of "Wholy shit" I just lost half a point, then like I said 3 hours of I'm breaking even. From now On, I buy then shut the TV and Internet off for the rest of the day.
Do something easier on my heart like ride a bike. The broad fucked up nature of our "U.S." economy. Wow, baby boomers have roughly 100k to retire on. ....... And...
Dubya again........ Talking about the income gap between the rich and the poor. What the Fuck with this guy Again..... What an Assfuck, Damn I guess someone should do something about that, like give the upper 10% another fucking Tax Cut.
I've seen a ton of fucking rich dudes talking about the AMT tax... Ok, for those of you who don't make over 50k the AMT applies to those who do, and if you make 70K you have to pay at least some tax...... and at 100k you have to pay 10% Minimum, and at 200k you have to pay 20% and here is the Heart breaker, at 500K you have to pay 25%.... I know I know it's absolutely tragic that there is now a minimum tax for those in these tax brackets, I'm sure this is the worst thing in the world that you can't deduct your way out of paying your fair share.... Yep Life is tough on those in these brackets.... Cry your way home. The Gaul of somone making 100k to cry about how they have to pay 10k in taxes. Just shows how the rich are fucking the poor, I'll pay 10k this year easily, and I won't make 100K.
*chuckle*
Circuit city fired employees, because they were making to much money and they could be replaced by cheaper workers..... Why were they making more money? because they were the ones making all the sales and getting the raises from good evaluations.....
Message to employees.... If you do a good job, you will lose your job.
I'm going to chuckle about that all day.
bike coffee ...
hmmmmmmmm
Ok, I should stretch before Swifty shows up...
one of these days, pictures.
Obama.... WTF comes out and shows the dem. Hole card. Asshole what good is a bluff if they know it's coming.
When the hell did Dubya learn about ethanol..... and like I said, easy for him to say in lame duck of his term. For years we are going to hear about how his presidency was about conservation...."I was totally for conservation, I pushed ethonal, and alternative fuel cars in my term as president." forgetting how he invaded a country to secure oil for Haliburton and Exxon... And the bonus of Military contracts for KBR and Blackwater... Both being such blacksheeps even Halliburon is trying to distance themselves from them.
Monday, April 02, 2007
Hi
I registered for LoToJa today, guess I'm doing it. This doesn't sound very positive. It just hit me at the wrong time, the registration I'm referring to. Umn, I realized I'm doing a different event this weekend than Hell of the North, which means I can't even come out and watch. I dialed in my bike for the most part, today. She feels Rocking..... ready to roll,
Ok, time for a shower and probably bed.
Here Comes Swifty!!!
Ok, the bad news...
- Lost a skewer spring under the deck(where I work on my bike). Every time I do this (yes, I lose springs and bolts and nuts, all manner of gear seems to go under my deck, which escalates into a mad dis assembly of it, plank by plank, I always say... Damn I have to stop working on my bike here. Or put something down to stop the lose parts from falling into the cracks. But as my dopie father says "those who don't learn from the past by becoming tormented and paralyzed by the Torpor of "could'a Woul'a Should'a", Are doomed to repeat it."(hmmm, I think my dad doesn't say this. Me bet is it's a play on a sort of conundrum, catch-22, we all, or at least I live in.). This time though I think I'll just go get a new spring, instead of pulling the deck apart and digging through the dirt. So, hopefully I've learned.
- My Laptop needs a good rebuild... Bla...Bla...Bla order some fans, do some other stuff.
- I'm so sick of the self aggrandising of the film/TV industry. I was watching "Planet Earth", I'm a huge fan of documentaries, So.....Why the Fuck do I have to put up with time talking about "How we got the Pictures." or "How we did the Effects.". You See, I don't give a shit. I want to learn some new things about the Nature of our world, "the how and why of the Lizards of Afghanistan." Not the How and why of taking pictures of the lizards of Afghanistan. You see, In my industry no one cares how I got the computers to work. They just care that they now do what they were supposed to.
- My coffee pot is fucked up. I did a thorough cleaning. I think I got some moldy beans, and they skankafied my pot. So, I did a full on cleaning, and some of the circuitry seems wet. Till it dries out, I guess I'm here suffering. and maybe I'm in the market for a new one.
I was thinking about this today, this is one of my generic philosophies:
if you flip a coin, your going to be right half the time. Using the slightest amount of brain power you should be able to be correct 60% of the time. The Crazy thing for most people is, What the fuck, how can you be wrong all the time..... I can't imagine the amount of delusion and stupidity. To be wrong 70-80% of the time... It's almost a testament to Darwin being Wrong.... how can people do it....
Don't trade Flow!!!!!!