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Boots tomorrow - incase we get errant patches of "ass hole dumped their thermos here 2 hours ago".
And if you can - something to cover those legs.


I'll be pulling out the inverness.

It's fun when computers (or I-D-10-T users) screw up my account and I have to call the IT desk and they have words like, "I've never seen anything like this happen," or, "I have no idea how to correct it even though I can see exactly what you are talking about."

Did you know that it's possible to pull a permit with the city of Fort Worth in the future? Who knew.

In other news, my spending spree with Steam over the past week and a half has yet to hit my checking account. The credit card people show the transactions pending and the Steam people show my account in good standing (now that they unfroze the account after they were thinking I was a bot or a credit card thief or something - yes, my spending spree really did throw up the red flags). So, this evening will be round two with the bank and Steam to try and figure out how much longer until they realize that they still don't have any money in their coffers to pay for the pretty shiny virtual objects that I have in my possession because the money is still safely housed in my accounts.

Nadya Suleman will sue her doctor this year for the 8 embyro implantation.

(I'm going to create a tag for this type of thing)


Reply!

I'm going with Bet

The society recommends no more than two embryos for women under 35 years old and no more than five for women over 40, for whom it is harder to get pregnant, according to guidelines published on its Web site. Suleman was 33 when she gave birth to the octuplets. The reproductive society expelled Kamrava from the group in September.

Hmm... they implant more embyros because there's the chance that one or more won't take.
Meaning they die.
Meaning they are implanting living embyros - knowing the body will abort some.
So are these "lives" are considered "acceptable losses"? Are they implanted with the care and reverence of tucking a sleeping babe back into the womb?
No, I'm sure someone's sipping coffee and regretting leaving his watch on during the procedure.

Meanwhile, I think I finally figured out Nadia "DeepOne" Suleman.
Other than that she's a DeepOne*.
She wants to take care of babies all day. She didn't think to turn this into a career as a day care worker. She is still striving very hard to not work. All she could think of was babies, babies, babies. Maybe she hoped some glory grabbing guy who might be father material would crave the limelight enough to come marry her. Then he'd work hard to provide while cameras followed him around showing what a great guy he is for marrying this Anti-Virgin Mary and providing for her brood.


Well thanks to Steam's buy-a-thon, I purchased Left4Dead for a few friends. Thanks to Steam being a jerk with their time outs and their anti-theft triggers, I bought the game at full price for a friend instead of the discount (switched RIGHT after the Purchase button was hit) and sadly could not buy one for her hubby which sucks. It would have been nice to have a couples only server.
I sadly fell short buying the game for 5 more friends. :(
Note: 2 games at full price = 4 games at the discount. pooh


In case you don't live here, Texas is about to get cold. We'll be facing temps in the teens tomorrow morning and every morning until Sunday. Our high tomorrow should be 25.
I may need to lay a heating pad in Tom's amazing Feral Friends Cat Coop. I would have uploaded images of this thing - but the computer doesn't want to see my camera anymore and I can't reload the software because I have no disk (and the website carries only updates not the full version).

Oscar still farts. He tried to bite The Cheat on the neck twice on Monday. Funny thing, Kevin said it appeared the Cheat was going to let him. WTF?
He stole Kevin's sandwich, too. He's hell on Kevin during Mondays. He doesn't try that crap in front of me. And if I get mad at him, he runs and hides behind Kevin.

Well time for lunch. Next month, I plan to start my diet. It'll be rough because
1: Eating healthy is not cheap. Seriously - get a Taco Bell burrito and a salad. Which cost more? Which tastes better?
2: Convenience: Sometimes it's easier to grab something on the way in than make it in your kitchen at 5 fucking am in the morning. flemco's working my old schedule - he knows what I'm bitching about.

So even if I prep 3 days of salads, I'm still stuck for breakfast. Must research caloric count for smoked salmon slices.




*while their heads were the heads of fish, with prodigious bulging eyes that never closed. At the sides of their necks were palpitating gills, and their long paws were webbed. They hopped irregularly, sometimes on two legs and sometimes on four. I was somehow glad that they had no more than four limbs. Their croaking, baying voices, clearly used for articulate speech, held all the dark shades of expression which their staring faces lacked ... They were the blasphemous fish-frogs of the nameless design - living and horrible. The Shadow Over Innsmouth

Is that orange juice + cold pizza is a bad combination.


oooof

FASHION OF THE DECADE - This Aug. 16, 2009 photo shows first lady Michelle Obama and daughter Malia Obama walking off Air Force One at Grand Canyon National Park Airport in Tusayan, Ariz. While some were up in arms over the appropriateness of the first lady showing her legs, others questioned the newsworthiness of a mother of two young girls hiking in shorts in the August sun.

Word. It wasn't newsworthy. I'm glad Michelle is ditching the Victorian/Southern Belle values of attire set aside for her "class". In a country where you can change your "class" in the blink of an eye, I don't think attire should matter.
In fact, with the sudden insurgence of velor pants suits amongst the glitterati, I'd say it's more than evident that everyone has inner trailer trash.




FASHION OF THE DECADE - A woman wears a necklace by SanDisk of a 4GB USB flash drive made of tiger eye stone and gold, shown at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Jan. 8, 2008. Having technology at your fingertips continues to be fashionable and functional.

But most of you folks reading this who are drooling over this have a much louder inner geek.

Yay geeks!


Now for a vent:
When I say "Winter with a capital W" I mean Winter. Not W. Did I say "W as in Winter"? No, in fact I said it quite out of order for that sentence. So why customers since Nov have been typing in "W" for their fucking passwords is quite beyond me. It's been happening on EVERY PASSWORD I SET. Doesn't matter the word. The first letter must be capital and all these people think it's the ONLY ONE.
This is far more annoying than the Grill incident - where over the phone, none of my friends could tell the difference between GRILL and GIRL when I said the word.

OT at work = 3 cold pieces of pizza.

mister_free: I found an interesting phrase for a story concept that I find very spooky:
Occult Toxicology - They were poisoned by metaphysical essences and spiritual resonances.
me: and therefore needed a soul cleaner to eject the poison
Soul Cleanser
For Hire
mister_free: Keep that spiritual scrub brush away from me!!!
me: it's just soul twine
we use it between your butt cheeks
mister_free: "Send in the Cabalistic Cleanser"
me: and then all will be better

Anyone interested in Lost - Season 2?

My latest DVD shopping spree garnered some really hard to find movies, but also some duplicates. I normally take along with me a list of all the movies and tv shows I own so that I don't buy duplicates (yes, this is a required list for me), but guess what I left at home during my latest shopping spree? You got it.

Movie duplicates I usually end up just giving away to people who are interested, but this last go ended with me accidentally buying LOST - Season 2, which my to-buy list (which I always carry around with me as well) still showed as being needed. Apparently I also forgot to update my to-buy list from the previous shopping event.

So. Anyone interested in Lost - Season 2? It's not something as easy to just give away as duplicate movies. If possible, I'd like to sell it for $20, but I'm easy and would also settle for someone buying me fast food or a drink.

Is 2010 the Obama of the years?

Because the last one ended rather terribly and left many of us in bad positions (kinda like Bush bailing out all the car companies and leaving Obama with the check).

My 300GB hard drive is filled with shows and games.
That was one of the biggest HDs available when I built my system (they went up to 1T at the time, but the price was still out of range), and while I love games and load the crap out of my computer, I honestly thought that I would need to upgrade some computer stuff before having to upgrade the hard drives.
I have 2.7GB 1.2GB left and still plenty of online game purchases that need to be downloaded.
I guess I need to watch some shows* and upgrade my hard drive capacity.

**No, I don't want to just burn the shows to disks. If they are on my computer it's so that I can watch them and then either 1)decide if I want to buy them or not, or 2)watch them now because I was lazy and didn't set the DVR and they haven't come out yet to be purchased. If they are good enough, I'll buy them as efforts allow. If you know me in real life, then you've probably seen my DVD collection and know this to be true.

Is there a site where they are showing via webcam or better yet - streaming video - of the various New Year's celebrations as they happen? I just glanced over and saw Fox was displaying the New Year has struck (10am cst) in HongKong and Taiwan.

I think it'd be neat to have an internet window open and every hour on the hour there's a fireworks display in various cities.

Keepman said the security at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport was nothing like what she is used to in the United States.

"We walked through and did not have to take our shoes off," she said. "Also, my mother had a water bottle in her bag that she'd completely forgotten about. And it went right through and we didn't realize it until we were on the plane."
Recount of the near bomb attempt.

Yeah. It's totally our fault he slipped thru Amsterdam's airport security. The fact he got TO the plane already tells us volumes.

I really hate how Fox News is on a screen at my work to my 10 o'clock position.

First off, there's this video of a man punching an elderly WalMart greeter. The caption in this video says the greeter was trying to get the man (who happens to be young and black and therefore must be guilty of something) to show him his receipt before leaving the store.

Watch the video. You can correct me if I'm wrong, but what I'm seeing is a black man coming into the Walmart, talking to the greeter, heading out, coming back in and then the greeter snatches the guy's bag while body checking the black man into the sign. Then I see the "suspect" deck him.
Rightfully so.

Of course I could be wrong. I could also be a black apologist.
,,|, (-_-)


On the radio today, and of course I can't find this data on the web anywhere (even their own website KRLD.com), I heard that it was a tie for most respected woman in America for 2009.
Palin and Clinton.
What the Fuckkity Fuck? Kevin theorizes that the pollsters must be asking people in WalMart. I never saw a poll for this and I visit yahoo daily (to get to my email accounts) and Cnn (to kill time).
In a world where Oprah comes in 3rd to these 2 hack jobs, I say verily "Fuck this."

And I also say that I rather like the current story arc in Doonesbury where BD is winding up Boopsie about Sarah Palin.

Did she really say this? If so - I'd say we have our own Prince Philip. She's more of a disaster than Quayle.
"They were a minority type thing and it wasn't glamorous, so she came home."
-- Chuck Heath, Sarah Palin's father, on why she quit college in Hawaii

Well the year's wrapping up. I'm sorry I didn't see many of you as much as I'd like to. Sadly part of it was my fault. Now that Oscar has proven twice in a row that Mondays are his day to break out of his crate and destroy the house while we're cashing Kevin's paycheck and grabbing dinner - I doubt I'll get much chance to redeem this. That dog is hard to please.
Monday Kevin tired him out twice the point he laid down in the yard instead of continuing to play. I took Kevin to the chiropractor and then the check cashing and dinner eating. Came home to find trickykitty caught him tearing up the place.
Yesterday Kevin was playing with him and .... slipped in such a manner that it involved the yard and the concrete driveway. Sooooo back to the back-cracker. At least this time Oscar didn't break out of his crate. It seems he does save that for Mondays now.

Working this New Year's Day, so I asked for yesterday off to get some things handled. We have more wood for the fire place, new thermal curtains in the living room as well in the bay window of the kitchen and finally the stain for my backdoor. I bought some redwood toner normally set aside for decks and fences since water is an issue with that area of the house.

Sat, Kevin I will be out of the house and making plans. Tons of plans. Diet, Dog & Finances. I'm hoping to get his credit to an area where we can qualify for the loan on the electrical repair. So do not ask to come over or make plans with us Sat unless you intend to hang out with the other 3 people that live in the house instead. We'll be gone.

Saw 2012 last night. To the person that gave me this obviously illegally recorded movie (in a theater with a cam corder where at one point the audio flicks off): did you even watch this? Whatever made you think I'd like this - SHAME! (to quote the lovable mundeemo.
Though chances are Kevin must have said something like "Well I'd like to see it for the eye candy."
But seriously - don't see this movie. It's fucking terrible.

Here's a scene: there's a breach in the hull and water is coming in. The gratuitous flood gate slams shut, separating the party. We now have Chamber A where the water was flooding in, and Chamber B where a Russian socialite and a little girl are. The next Floodgate starts to close. Little girl escapes and Russian Socialite selflessly tosses her dog over the side to the little girl who is now in what we will call Chamber C.
Chamber C is naturally the exit everyone was running towards so there are stairs and waist deep water.

Chamber A where the breach is ... is filling VERY slowly. Why? Because the majority of the player character party is there.
Meanwhile Chamber B - between the breach and Safety - fills JUST enough to drown the Russian, but not enough to bother the animals that are above the grid she had her face pressed up against. Why would Chamber B fill faster than Chamber A?

Oh and reversing the polarization of neutrons? >EHN!< They're neutrons, ass hat. Flipping the polarization of a NEUTRAL particle is not going to stick the South Pole in the middle of Wisconsin.
And again to the person that gave us this movie, please don't out yourself in my LJ. Not only is it an illegal copy - you may prejudice people against your taste in movies if it's even hinted you liked this.
(whispers in a loud hoarse voice with bugged out eyes) "It. Never. Happened."
And I paid money to see Freejack in the theater no less than 3 times.
(Hey, Mick Jagger is a better actor than Emilio Estevez and if you like Cyberpunk - that's got the right attitude).

Well time to wrap this up. Hope it entertained you. One last thing on the Oscar Charlie front: last night he wandered into the bedroom solely to fart next to Kevin and leave.

So, if you have a Steam account and are following along with their Woot-Off-Like holiday sale, you should note that they managed to run out of keys for Prey. Yes, indeedy, it's official. It is entirely possible to sell out of a digitally sold, processed, and distributed game. Who knew?