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12月22日 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! 12月3日 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. 11月29日 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!!" 10月1日 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.
7月23日 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. Trapped in a future I never made So I was listening to some of Chris Cornell's solo music and decided to see what he is up to these days. He lives in Paris now and his new solo albumn (at least what I have heard of it) is not what he once was when he was back in the old days. I don't know if its just that his "sound" isn't as fresh as when I first heard him back when I was in the racous grasp of puberty , or if I have simply (or complicatedly?) become old and jaded and now need something more to inspire me. Their was a video on youtube titled something like "Chris Cornell interview, including the nagging possibility of reforming Soundgarden", "wouldn't that be cool?" I thought. But their was a reason that they split up when they did. Things got stale, things got sour between the taltened artists, and another of my favorite bands evaporated into history.
I started losing hope in the future of music when Kurt shot himself, or at rather when I heard about it. I remember thinking, "who will push the boundries? Who will save us from corporate rock bands, who are more about a look than their own sound?" and unfortunately nobody did. I remember when the future held some promise, or at least it was unknown. I remember long talks in coffee shops with close friends about the possibilities of the future. We knew we were in for trouble, climate change, the enivitability of warmongers getting their way with the government, etc. But it was all so abstract back then. Back then we didn't know how close the future was. Back then I didn't have 3 kids to worry about . Its alot different to speculate about the future when its something we might never see, but when you are thinking about what the world will be like for your grandchildren things get scary. Here we are in what was once considered the future and what do we have? Dead heroes and uncertain futures.
In the near term I wonder if music will ever have a honest revival along the lines of what I saw when I was a kid (grunge music refreshing the hairband sound of the 80's), in the long term I wonder if their will be a habitable enviroment for my children to live in. I guess I'm pretty selfish when it comes down to it.
So many distractions in our modern world. "Should I buy the new Iphone?" "Would gold bars or shotgun shells make a better long term investment , if the government were to collapse?" To much else to do to deal with a corrupt government or buckling enviroment. Whats a guy to do? I think we need a charismatic leader to step up and organize us into doing something. Damnit I'm rambling and nobody is reading this anyways.
Basicly I'm bummed out that I'm trapped in a future I never made (its a howard the duck paraphrase) and I wish things were different. But I feel impotent to change them. Its more than the crappy state of new music, or the hopeless situation of our countries politics. Its like the zietghiest of our times is hopeless. Would someone please write a song, an anthem that sets us all in motion? Chris are you listening?
5月3日 Go buy Full Auto for 16.99 at circuit city!Go buy it now! It was crap at 60$, but is a much better value at only 16.99! Damnit , wtf are you doing? Someone else will get their first and steal your copy from you before you own it! For the love of cheap videogames that are only passable if under 20$ buy this game!
That is all. 11月3日 Meltdown at workSo last wensday I was at work and my co-worker Anthony took a run (basicly a run is a collection of "stops" or deliveries) that totally didn't go together, and then left me with a small order that was geographicly right in the middle. I was quietly debating internally whether to call him on his bullshit or not , when he decided to bring it up. I basicly lost my temper and told him how I felt. It was something along the lines of "You are a greedy run-hogging fucking bitch!". He tried to diffuse the hostility of the situation by trying to give me a hug, which was a bad idea, I almost punched him.
I work with him basicly 3 out of 4 days a week, and he has been getting on everybodys nerves for the last year. The other drivers are content to just run fuck him right back, but I'm not like that. Run fucking is indescriminate and hurts everybody, so I just told him how I felt. I also told him I won't beat his ass unless he continues to run fuck me. He still thinks somehow that he didn't do anything wrong, and that I am mistakenly angry with him. Fucking dipshit.
Oh well. I had a great halloween with my babies, my son dressed up as an alien, my oldest daughter a princess and my little beanie butt was a baby gorilla. My wife even dressed up as a cow at work, and stimulated her boss into handing out halloween bonuses, in the amount of 100$. Yeehaw, she paid off my GOW pre-order! Hah! And you thought I'd never talk about videogames! 10月17日 Somebody noticed?So I was working the other night (don't all my posts start with this?) when my old boss "Ian" or "easy" as my coworkers call him comes up to me and says "So I found your livespace". Immediately I was struck with conflicting emotions. On one hand I thought , "wow thats cool, somebody noticed?" but on the other hand I was like "Uh oh, maybe my boss isn't the person I want noticing?" He told me it was "interesting" and apperantly had found it by simply msn searching pizza pipeline or something. Shocking to say the least. I guess I've been writing these for me, or maybe for my friend Pete (hi pete!) , but I honestly never thought somebody from work might actually read them. But since they do anyways, why not talk to them here.
Anthony: Quit fucking talking and get the fuck to work! Quit pretending that you can talk about cars ("No man you don't want the T34 turbo, you need the T64, Honda Honda , Blah Blah Blah")and still be working. You are a pizza delivery driver, you can smoke while driving from the store to the customer, you don't need to take a extra half an hour after we close to smoke, when you could be ACTUALLY CLOSING THE STORE!
John: Dude, wtf can I say? Maybe you should get a second 125$ car which also runs so you can drive it when your other 125$ car craps out? And maybe you should get a can of mace to chase off the underage insides..
Crackey: Don't clock me off 15 minutes before I'm done working , because you want to trim your labor costs. Your to small to try and take money from me. :)
Gene: Why don't you buy some new pants?
Jared: Am I really tired looking , all the time?
Tim: Keep up the pizza guy gig, its a great cover for your real job, russian mafia dude.
Rob: Your no fun anymore Rob, you are so damn fast making pies you don't get a chance to start flipping out and beat up the countertops anymore. Those were the good old days. Being a dad must have done something positive to you. I haven't heard you spout any unbelievable crap like "My dad was a chinese gunslinger in the old west" since you've been back.
Thats enough for now, maybe next time I'll tell you about how I scared the silly dogshit out of a gay dude when I knocked on his door last night. He screamed like one of those chicks about to get murdered in a 80s horror movie. "I thought you were my stalker" riiiigght. How about next time try and remember that the pizza guy is coming, you almost gave me a heart attack. 7月28日 So my xbox 360 finnaly bit the bulletSo after many times of it not reading discs that were just barely scratched, my 60 finnaly pooped out about a week ago. I had purchased the best buy product replacement plan, so I figured I was good to go and went in and returned that badboy. Sadly the original Best Buy employee had lied to me about what the product replacement plan was actually all about, and its for one exchange once, over 2 years. She had told me that I was covered over 2 years from the purchase date, and that I could exchange the unit however many times i need to over that timeframe.
Needless to say I was not pleased when I learned the awefull truth about it , and even less pleased by the snotty valley-girl-with-a-stick-in-her-butt manager that just said "Look sir , I can't think of any other way to explain it" in her snottyest voice possible. Nobody cared that I was lied to at another Best Buy, they just kinda acted like they didn't care. At my work , we have refunded people's money over a lack of a side item on a 20$ order, much less a 400$ purchase. I guess Pizza Pipeline is just better than Best Buy as far as customer service goes, oh well.
So thats not the end of the disasterbacle though, I get the new system home, crack it open, hook it up and the power button is sticky, and won't depress properly. I take the faceplate off, and realize it is a refurb! The little holographic sticker on the case that keeps you from opening it and returning it had been obviously removed , and a new one stuck off to the side of were the orignal was. Not to mention that its pretty white case was dingy and had dirt in the vent holes, etc. So I call Best Buy back , and they tell me that because I didn't spend another 50$ on another product replacement plan that I'm screwed. I ask for the manager, who is of course the snotty valleygirl with an attitude, who re-iterates the company line of "Well sir you should have bought the prp again!" So of course by now I'm pissed and somehow through my anger I wrangle controll enough to calmly state "Look , the prp was a contract that stated I pay 50$ , I get a replacement NEW xbox 360, you have failed to live up to your end of the agreement, so give me my 50$ back or give me a NEW system" To which she finnaly agreed, only if I came in that day , before 4PM.
So , now I finnaly have a working 360 again, this one has a different dvd-rom , and actually seems to load games faster than my old system. Which makes me wonder if my old system had been broken , all along? 5月18日 Why do I always talk about work?So last night I was supposed to close, but it was slow so I only worked around 5 hours. I was still doing the pushup thing, boy is my chest sore. I had to deliver to Andrea last night, who lives on E South Riverton (2712 E apartment 5 :) ) and once again the fat sow was only in her underwear. Why can't beutifull women answer the door in their undies once in ahwile? Well sometimes they do, but not as often as Andrea.. Its even creepier because her big fat mom is always standing off to the side in the shadows, as if she is watching for a sign that the pizza guy wants to hump her daughter.. How horrifiyingly disgusting!
I got home around 12ish, and put the wife to bed before I got online and wasted more time arguing with the a-holes on the ign.com message boards. Most of the time they ignore my posts unless they are going to diss on me.. I think alot of them have issues, going far beyond wasting time on message boards. But why do I keep going back? I don't know.. Sometimes their is some pretty compelling stuff going on in there, but I think I'm becoming addicted to it or something. After wasting time on the boards I tried to sleep, but I was still caffinated from the Sobe energy drink I had at work , before I knew I was going home. So I am tired! 5月16日 last night at work, part deuxLast night at work everybody was doing pushiups after each run, I joined in because i wanted to be part of the group. I'm such a lemming. After work my chest was very sore, but my boss wanted to arm wrestle, something the other employees had been doing but didn't invite me in on. So we arm wrestled and I crushed him like the worm he is! It was viscous, match lasted about seconds, and ended with me slamming his arm down onto the metal picnic table with a sound THUMP! It felt real good. 4月25日 Last night at work.... Last night was monday , and i closed at the downtown spokane pizza pipeline ( www.pizzapipeline.com ) and it was pretty ordinary. A couple of hardass gangstas told me they were in town hunting fitty cent , and that one of them had pending assault charges against him. Yeah right. I delivered many pizzas to many folks and sadly we didn't get out in time to get our evening fight night round 3 gameplay in.
I saw a good friend of mine named Sid who I haven't seen for a year or two and it was very sad. He looks as though he is homeless and addicted to meth or heroin or something debilitating like that. He looked like he got beat up and I'm not sure if he actually recognized me even. I asked how his son was doing and he perked up for a second , and told me his boy was 3. I didn't ask him when the last time was that he had seen him. It breaks my heart because Sid was a talented artist and at one time had been my roomate. I knew he was into drugs (harder than marijuana) but I didn't think he was that far gone. He tried to get one of my coworkers to give him his cellphone (??) and had tried to lure me outside, but I was working. I wonder if he would have mugged me? I was armed and I would hate to think that maybe I might have killed my old freind last night if things might have gone differently. Desperate people do desperate things. You just can't trust a junkie. |
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