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7718's livespaceZen and the art of Pizza delivery / xbox 360 gaming December 22 Holy Shit , major snowfall Batman!
So we got dumped on bigtime, I'm not sure how many inches total but its well over 28 inches. This of course does present a problem to me being as I deliver pizzas for a living. I had to scramble and get a loan from my mother (thanks mom) to buy a 4x4 so I could still work. I had a Dodge Durango before gas prices went apeshit, but I sold it when gas was over 4$ a gallon. I called in a favor with Cliff over at "Cliff's Autos" and picked up a 1987 Dodge RamCharger for 1256$ after tax , etc. It doesn't really run great, and its passenger side window won't roll up all the way , the paint is pretty trashed and all but one of the blinker/brakelight lenses are broken. But she gets around in the snow like a champ and honestly, I've always wanted a RamCharger sine I was a kid.
My dad used to drive a 1980ish Dodge Ram and it regularly traveled country roads covered in snow or deep with mud. I'm not saying it didn't get stuck sometimes, it surely did. Dad was a logger and he could get us unstuck from just about anything. I still miss the guy everyday, I would like to think he would like my new rig. My mother sold dad's pickup before we moved to Oklahoma back in 1989. It was big red and silver and had the spare tire mounted on the front end. It was a full bed 3/4ton club cab with four wheel drive and kickass 360 V8. Ah dad's glorious truck. Speaking of snow and Christmas time, I have a suggestion for all the folks snowed in and unable to travel to loved ones for the holidays. If you look around outside you will probably see that your neighbors are often also in the same predicament. Perhaps you could go talk to them and ask them if they have anyplace to go for Christmas? I have two elderly gals that are stuck by me and I've invited both of them over for dinner, since my in laws won't be able to make it. I am really blessed to have a warm house and food enough to share with my neighbors. I hope you will do the same if you have the means. I'll post some of the funny crazy stuff that has happened over the last year later on. Maybe if your lucky I'll even tell you about the UFO my wife and kids saw. Happy holidays! December 03 I had a ball I'm not sure if I've mentioned this before, but my family and I train in the antient (according to carbon dating Korean cave paintings over 2.3K years old!) martial art Tae Kwon Do under Master Don and Master Andrew at Jung Kims Martial Arts. We have been doing it for about 9 months now ( I think, don't quote me on that) and on the first of this month we got to attend our first annual Jung Kim's Martial Arts ball. It was at the swanky "skylight ballroom" on the 13th floor of the "red lion inn at the park" here in beutifull Spokanistan. My wife wore a sexy black dress, with sparkly shoes , I wore my brand new pinstripe suit (with a dope ass Playboy tie) and man did we look good! I bought my instructors each a mixed drink (mental note, Mr. Andrew likes rum and coke, Mr. Don is a scotch on the rocks guy) and we ate , drank and danced the night away.
I swear something happens to me when I put on a suit, suddenly I am so much cooler, and alot more forward about socializing. I didn't know many of the folks at the party (I'd say 80% of attendies were from the northside dojang, which I don't attend) but it was a great crowd. Talk about high quality company, everybody there was a practicioner of Tae Kwon Do and they were all friendly and polite, something I've never ever experienced at a large party. If you are a member of our school there are certain expected pleasantrys , such as referring to people as "sir" or "mam" and bowing (no BS) whenever we see eachother out in public. I'm going to put some pictures up on my livespace for whoever (thats you Pete!) to look at and to prove to the world , that I look damn good in a suit! After the party we had to stop by my work and show off to my coworkers, I was a bit drunk and that was fun too. Poor babysitter had to wait till almost 11PM for us , we are animals!
I haven't had so much fun since I took my family to see Weird Al Yankovic live at the fair a few months back, what a blast. A little note to all those reading who are parents, get out and party once and a while without the kids, can't forget to have some special "mommy daddy" time occasionaly. November 29 Arrrgghhh! My Eye Bitch!!OMFG tonight I was dragging the garbage can back from dumping it and it got covered with snow. I slammed it into the curb to knock the snow off and got shot in the eye/face with putrid bottom-of-the-garbagecan water (I'm using the term water very liberally). I made a noise alot like Ice T's scream in the hit single "Voodoo" from Body Counts first albumn. "AAAaarggh!!! My Eye Bitch!!" October 01 Job crap , againSo yesterday was what we pizza guys like to call "a doozy". My boss , lets call her "Steph" got an infection of the breast, caused by a spider bite. So she ended up not coming to work. Instead this douchebag we will call "Taylor" (who btw is approximately 100 pounds overweight and says "I like the way I look, it intimidates guys" LOL) who is normally a driver, ended up having to cover her shift. You see he isn't just any pizza delivery guy, he is what we call a "MIT" or basicly a guy who can do the job of the manager during a pinch. The only problem is that "taylor" always wants to leave early so we end up being short a driver and people start getting pissed when thier pizza is you know like 40 minutes late. Well , since we were short an employee , we had to be busy as hell (rain+football=lots of pizza orders) and "Taylor" just bitched and moaned about "I'm not getting tips" and "I don't want to be here all day" so before 3PM , when we had delivery times over 100 minutes he called in another employee and just left.
At 4PM when the main manager arrived (We will call him "Rudebega") he saw what a reck the store was, and how many pizzas we had given away for free and he flipped out. He got pissed and lost his composure. He ended up pushing over a bunch of dough trays that HE had put in front of his office door. They say you see what people are made of when they are under pressure, and "Taylor" and "Rudebegga" both fail. "Taylor" for bitching out of his work duties like usual and "Rudebegga" for not focusing his anger on "taylor" and firing his punk ass.
July 23 Upcoming terrorist attacks Its impossible not to hear about it. Increased threat levels, homeland security talking about al queda being back at their former strength before 9/11. Alot of people are saying the government is grooming us for another terrorist attack. I disagree.
I believe the current administration (thats Bush and his good old boys) are going to stage a event to rally the US public behind yet another war, this time with Iran. I know this isn't new information to anybody, but I'm going to do something I haven't seen anybody else try yet. I"m going to try and call it. Its hard to see the future, but I believe that its a simple puzzle, and I'm going to base it off what I consider W's current situation. Obviously W is not popular with most american citizens. He has the worst approval rating of any president in history (ouch!). He has more or less assured that his party will not be in control of the executive branch following his term, if their is another election held. So what can he do about it?
It would certainly help his party if their was another terrorist attack, especially a large scale devistating attack. People are easier to control if they are afraid. I believe to get the people behind a war with Iran it needs to be nuclear. I also believe the attack will take place on the west coast of the USA, since California, Oregon and Washington states typically vote democratic in presidential elections. Why nuke your own supporters? People on the east coast already had local attacks, on 9/11. A nuclear attack on the west coast would effect many, many people. I believe that northwest Washington state, probably Seattle will be the chosen "sacrificial lamb". Its a popular town, filled with lots of liberally minded people. I don't believe the current administration would miss them. The fallout will be carried by winds from the pacific ocean over WA state, accross the Idaho panhandle and spread over Montana. More people will probably die due to fallout than from the initial blast, depending on weather conditions at the time. Its possible that the nuclear device is already in Seattle, possibly on a freight tanker, and that the administration is simply waiting for the correct weather patterns to attempt to control or localize the fallout.
I pray to God that I am wrong, my whole family lives in WA state. I don't want my children to suffer the horrible death of radiation poisoning. I unfortunately think this is totally within the capacity of our government to do. The only real thing that makes me think I might be wrong is that Fairchild airforce base is in a bad position to recieve alot of fallout. The base is very strategicly important because it houses the KC-135 refuling planes that help keep our war machine limber. If it was taken out by fallout it would really slow down any planned invasion of Iran.
Some people might read this and say its treason or dissent, but I promise you I love our country. I believe the majority of american citizens are good people and that we value our freedom. I suppose that thanks to Bush's new executive order, stating that the government can seize property of people who attempt to hinder the war in Iraq I could be prosecutable under that law. I have nothing against the US soldiers fighting in Iraq, they are my american brothers and sisters after all. I am simply exercising my right to free speech. The right to speak out negatively against our government is after all , what makes our country the greatest in the world.
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