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.......... This is the part where I pretend that you are in the room with me and I'm just talking out loud. Free flow thought. Rambling. Ranting. Tangenting on my own tangents. Y'know, stuff. I may update this page as seldom as several days at a time, or twenty times a night depending on how wired or bored I am at work. You get the really good quality tangents when I'm hyped up on supercaff. In fact, I think I'll go get some right now. That'll force the creative juices for sure!
.......... Beware! The author of this page does not condone the use of conservative thought, antidisestablishmentarian ideals, Marxist economics, or anything Ford makes. Read the following drivel at your own risk of understanding me.

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5:56EST-SAT-5/31/2003
OMFG! Yes, I know... What else should I expect from Something Awful? Bleargh! Actually, if you go back a page on the first link you'll see some versions of Reeses that cracked me up.

5:05EST-SAT-5/31/2003
Damn the man! I got pulled over and harassed by the pigs again tonight. I hadn't realized that my car's tags expired in January. Oops! This led to my discovery that my insurance had also expired last month. They also picked on me because my front tires are bald and apparently the liscense plate light is no longer working. Probably from years of subwoofer luv. Luckily, Adrienne was in the car with me with a very nice low cut shirt so they were very kind and didn't throw me in jail and tow my car. I do, however, have to get everything fixed and updated before I go to court in the weeeeee hours of the morning. I hate court. Oh hey, new poll!

4:07EST-SAT-5/31/2003
I want a picture of my dog. I can't believe I've had him for almost a year now and I don't have a single fargin' picture of him. Of course, I don't currently have him in my posession per se. My mother decided one day that she wanted some wolves so she got a couple. Hybrids, of course, but they were still 97% wolf, 3% siberian husky or somesuch. One of them died recently under very mysterious circumstances and since they are very much pack animals, the one that was left was very lonely. She would mope around and do almost nothing. I mentioned that my poor little lab mix (looks like a rotweiler with a tail) was in a similar state since he wasn't living with me and the gang down in OZ weren't paying him any real attention. We decided to see if he and the wolf would get along. She (Sonrise) was very interested in Chompy (formerly known as P5, Dadundada, and DamnedMutt) but he was more interested in sniffing around the fenced in yard. A new experience for him since until recently he had only been on a chain or indoors. I wondered why he didn't pay any attention to Sonrise at all. Sure, she's massive compared to him, but a dog typically emulates his owner, right? I've been told that he acts like me and more than once I've been said to make an expression that Chompy does. I didn't know what to think when Adrienne said he also has an "Old Man" face that he likes to make. If he's so much like me, how come he didn't give Sonrise a second glance? Oh yeah... He's had his balls snipped. I guess I'd be the same way. Drama...

2:07EST-SAT-5/31/2003
I had a damned fine day today. Life is good. The Naked Chef cooked me some Hamburger Helper, Adrienne played with me for hours, I got to frolic outside for a long time, and I got my haircut. Damn, I look sexy again. =) Shorter than it was here.

2:04EST-SAT-5/31/2003
I'm poor again! That's right, the beauty of E-commerce is that I got paid via direct deposit while I was sitting at work and after logging into a few web sites, I managed to pay several of my bills online. E-commerce is a wonderful thing, in a way. It certainly saves me the cost of gas, stamps, and envelopes. Within 30 minutes of getting paid, I was broke again. Oh well. Two more weeks and it'll start all over again. I'm convinced the E in E-commerce means that my bank account will remain Empty.

4:03EST-FRI-5/30/2003
I'm rich again!!! Payday and direct deposit rule. =D I think I'll go pay on some of my damned credit cards now. They've been calling me at the most obscene hours of the day waking my happy ass up and everything. I should have never given them my cell-phone number. Groan...

23:16EST-THU-5/29/2003
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5:24EST-WED-5/28/2003
I hope this works... Hi! Check out my latest poll on SmarterChild by clicking here. Just click the link, hit enter, and provide your answer. Note: this only works with AIM. Unfortunately, most of the people I know use Trillian.

4:52EST-WED-5/28/2003
Re-open for the holidays. =) I think I finally came up with an idea for a new poll. Too bad the site I use to host/create the polls is down for a bit. Grrr... I hope they are back up quicker than it seems to be taking Entropia. I will not reveal the details of the poll prematurely (pun ahead) but it was inspired by the very funny new word I learned. Bukkake.

3:40EST-WED-5/28/2003
Closed.

1:50EST-WED-5/28/2003
My precious... Currently 49.1 GB. 32,750 files in 984 folders. Hey, don't look at me, I'm only responsible for 1 of them. Lucas was quite busy. In case you don't know the whole story of why we would ever want to download any porn (particularly this much) it's all because of Detonate.net's incredible Hackers bastardization! WARNING: High geek content.

1:50EST-WED-5/28/2003
I feel like making a new poll. Now I just have to think of a question and answers. Any ideas?

1:08EST-WED-5/28/2003
Drama. At least I'm not the only one with drama in my life right now. Come to think of it, I don't really have much drama in my life anymore it's just that I'm not very good at the drama I DO have. I'm not used to being so emotional. I feel like I'm standing on the edge of a cliff and I don't know which way I'm going to be pulled or pushed. I -hate- uncertainty. Especially prolonged uncertainty. Most of the time I realize that it really is no big deal and that my worrying about it will just make it worse, but who out there isn't self destructive? Hell, we're human aren't we? Why else would we systematically spiral towards mass genocide every few years? It's all a preprogrammed genetic reaction to population control, I'm convinced. Misery means good TV ratings. I'm glad someone's making a buck off of it. In the mean time I just have to grit my teeth and try not to drive myself mad and take anyone with me. You should have seen how bad off I was last Friday. It seems that with each paycheck I feel a lot better about everything. Speaking of which, I get paid in two days and it's pretty much all spent already. Don't tell my credit card companies, but I don't intend to give it all to them. =) I think I'll save enough to dine out a few times and get a haircut. Yeeeeessss... I've been needing a haircut for some time now and every time I look in a mirror (previously a favorite pass-time) I see how nasty my hair has become. I think it really is green like everyone else says. Mental note... You cannot cover bright bright blue with a single coat of brown and expect it to last. I think once I get my hair cut I'll bleach it again and go back to a nice burgundy. That was a favorite, and very easy to go to a deep violet when the burgundy fades. At last, my arm is complete again! (Sweeney Todd) Ok, at last my HAIR is complete again would be more appropriate. I'll have a complete arm again when I can get in some more trigger time. Soon, I am told. Soon.

17:07EST-TUE-5/27/2003
No movie has effected my life anywhere as much as High Fidelity has. Most guys will probably agree. Patrick and I have long considered it to be a chick flick for guys.

3:33EST-TUE-5/27/2003
http://www.superhappyfun.com/ looks fun without sound. I wonder what he's saying? http://www.christmobile.com/ That needs no explanation. Just be scared. Very. Oh, it gets worse. Yep. I've been sitting here drinking enough Dr. Pepper to float a boat in and eating a metric ton of Cooler Ranch Doritos. It's tastey though. =)

2:25EST-TUE-5/27/2003
Yes, I'm still at work. It's not too bad though. I've been given a chance to write, and a chance to sit back and read all that I can think of checking on the web. The good news is that I've finally decided what scope to put on my .300 Win Mag so as soon as I get $900 to spare, I'll finally have a complete L96a1 varient. Oh, and while I'm at it... AK-47 Magazine MP3 player. What a country!

0:31EST-TUE-5/27/2003
I was just reading my polls again and noticed that there is an obscene number of people who claim to be stalking me. If they're so busy stalking me, why don't I ever hear from them? Oh, while I'm off the subject... THIS IS IMPORTANT!

0:31EST-TUE-5/27/2003
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!! Mommy... save me...

22:28EST-MON-5/26/2003
I need to get some more Tom Clancy books. They're great! Too bad the best book I've ever read by him (Sum of All Fears) sucked all ass and horribly butchered the book when it hit the box office.

20:53EST-MON-5/26/2003
I wanna watch some Muppet movies. All of them in a row, preferably.

17:46EST-MON-5/26/2003
I realized today that I am feeling a LOT better than I have been in the past. My rebuild is almost complete. I feel almost like I did back in January. This realization came after a full afternoon of watching the OZ monkeys tear up the old house and try to whiddle some new carpet, followed by four hours of watching various specials of the Russian military on the History Channel. My breakfast consisted of an entire bag of powdered donuts, a can of beef stew, and a #6 combo meal from Wendys (which I am still nibbling on). Now if I can just resist the urge to smoke for the rest of the day and pleasure myself before bed time, I will consider this a good day. Oh yeah, that and I have to work from 6pm to 4:30am today. Money is good. 10% shift differential bonus is good too.

17:29EST-MON-5/26/2003
Naked. Yep. That's the best way to sleep. It's just so much more relaxing when you can just sprawl out with your bits free of any restriction. I almost always sleep in the nude. I know, some of you really don't want that piece of information but you're still reading this so you must be curious why I brought it up. It's fun! Unfortunately, I have not been able to sleep in the buff ever since I became a nomad again. I wouldn't feel right sleeping naked on someone else's couch and I'm sure they appreciate my restraint. I haven't even really begun to think of where I'm going to live next since I need to resolve some major cash concerns first, and then find a room mate. I've lived alone before, and I'll never do it again. I go insane without people to be around. Not to mention the obvious benefits of saving money by splitting bills and getting a larger place. Plus, there's always the temptation to take this opportunity to move back to Atlanta. I have had some good job offers down there and I could probably dig them back up with a little bit of effort. Unfortunately, I'd be leaving most of my friends again and the most important person in my life right now. That was the biggest bummer of living down there the last time. Oddly enough, since I became homeless I've had the keys to three separate places. That was fun for a while but I don't have a key to the place I crash the most and no longer have a key to the place I enjoyed crashing the best. Oh well. I'm just waiting to see the turns these stories will take. Hopefully I'll get some nice shining armor and a princess. That would be nice. =)

23:52EST-SUN-5/25/2003
Wow, the longer I hang out here at work, the more shirts I get. I've gotten something like 5 shirts in the past couple of days. All from the same guy. You don't think he's flirting with me, do ya?

19:17EST-SUN-5/25/2003
Damn that was a depressing post! I obviously need to drink some coffee and get to the gun range as soon as possible.

18:03EST-SUN-5/25/2003
Time is my worst enemy right now. Not in the usual respect in that I don't have enough of it (unless you count the perpetual march towards the time we die) but in that I have too much of it and very little to fill that time. Otherwise, I sit around and worry about all the things that have been bugging me for the past few months. Most all of which is financially related. At least I've got a decent job again and I am finally able to start bringing in a fair amount of money. That should take care of all my financial worries but that's why I feel like I'm just trying to kill time. I'm climbing out of my hole two weeks at a time. I owe Patrick almost three hundred dollars. All three of my credit cards are at least two hundred dollars overdrawn what with late fees and stuff. My car needs new tires (badly) along with a new header and crank pulley to keep it from sounding awful. She still needs a new paint job too. Oh yeah, some insurance would be nice too. =) Apparently my tags expired back in January and I didn't notice it either. All these things will be fixed with time. I just have to let it pass and keep from going bonkers in the mean time. The one thing that I was really proud of and happy about has left me for an indeterminate amount of time and I'm scared to death that it'll be for good. I'm pissed at myself for allowing myself to become bonded to her so much, and I'm pissed off at myself even more because I know that even my worrying about it is driving her away from me even more. If it didn't bother me so much, it probably wouldn't bother her so much but I would be lying if I said it didn't matter to me. I'm slowly rebuilding myself and rediscovering the emotional armor I cast asside so long ago. At least my fish tank is doing pretty well. The invertibrates are doing marvelously and the fish that I have are doing MUCH better now that Bobby is dead. I need to quit smoking again. I had two cloves yesterday and have felt like ass ever since. At least I'm damned good at my job. =)

18:38EST-FRI-5/23/2003
I finally got to see The Matrix Reloaded. That was a plus. Spent three days downloading it. It's a cam rip, but at least I got to see it, no? =)

18:22EST-THU-5/22/2003
No sooner did I update my page to allow people to check up on the status of Team Catbox on the web, then Entropia decided to renew their software and crash their own servers. Figures... Now I can't re-register and get started on phase 2. On a lighter note, I figured that since I need a second job I would apply at The Aquarium. If you don't know, it's a fish store in Knoxville. Always one of my favorite hobbies. Maybe I can make some money to play with their fish. Wish me luck. On an unrelated note, I was leafing through some magazine that Patrick gets (Maxim?) and was mad at a derisive article written about Charlton Heston. Bastards. Then, I find an article talking about wondersex. Imagine that. What's their secret? Guess.

16:46EST-TUE-5/20/2003
It's peanut butter jelly time! Put a little boogie into your heart.

15:52EST-TUE-5/20/2003
I hate being single. Good thing this is only temporary. A minor setback. I am -not- on the market. =)

2:16EST-TUE-5/20/2003
I updated my guns page just a little bit. Nothing too exciting. Just some project updates. There's a lot more to do, I'm sure, but I'm just waaaay too tired to deal with it right now. I think I'll go watch Hunt for the Red October and pass out. G'night.

2:12EST-TUE-5/20/2003
One of my fish died. The bully Domino Damsel that I had nicknamed Bobby since he always swam around trying to get into everyone's business. He reminded me a lot of John Cleese when he acted like a British policeman (a bobby) who ran around saying "What's all this then?". Poor dumb fish. That bastard has been the death of hundreds of dollars worth of more attractive fish purely because he was such a bastard. In fact, even Pepe the King Prawn went missing several weeks ago. Farewell, Bobby. You sucked.

14:40EST-THU-5/15/2003
Yes, yes... I know perfectly well what last night was. I know all too well. It seems that everyone has gone to see it -except- for me. Why? I don't get paid until tomorrow and I work from 6pm-midnight all week. The schedule is merely annoying, but the cash is the ultimate factor. Nobody likes to hear someone talking about a movie they have not seen yet and have been looking forward to. This doesn't keep people who have just seen the movie and are all excited about it from running up to you and wanting to tell you ALL ABOUT IT. Why? Are they bragging that they have done something you haven't and wanting to rub it in your face? Bastards! Is it just that they are too excited about it and want to relive the experience over and over again by talking about it at length to you? OOH IT WAS SOOOO COOL!!! Bastards. Could it be that they just do it to see the tortured pain on your face as they reveal the entire plot to you and spoil every surprise you would have enjoyed if you had managed to see it before they fucked it up for you? Bastards. It's impossible for them to resist. That's why I've had my favorite knife in my pocket close at hand since yesterday. I get all twitchy when someone runs up to me waving their arms with that wild "Oh, you've gotta hear this!" look in their eyes. I've tried just closing my eyes, plugging my ears, and saying NYANYANYANYANYANYANYANYA to try to block out the evil words of corruption. That still doesn't work. It just eggs them on. They bounce along after you giggling while you run away screaming and try to sneak in the words when they see you let your guard down. Bastards. I still hate Tommy McManamy for telling me that the Terminator dies in the end of T2. Bastard. That's why I have the knife at hand and am lucky I've spent so much time getting good at drawing it quickly. What guy wouldn't? That way, when I see some bastards running up to me with that look in their eyes I can be ready to gig them in the neck as soon as I hear them start. "Dude! We just got back from seeing the Matr"GIG!!! I'm sure they'd understand. What's a little blood among friends?

18:02EST-FRI-5/9/2003
Oh! Something I meant to show you all last night... Remember THESE???? If so (I'm sorry) you can read all your old favorites online. I never figured that of all the porn sites out there, this URL wasn't one too. =) PLUS, I remembered another page of a similar but different path. Villain Supply.

23:00EST-THU-5/8/2003
I'm now working at Clientlogic again. I'm both happily surprised and dismayed at some of the faces I see that still work here. It's almost like I went on vacation and they're all happy to see me back again. Mysery loves company, right? Still, I can't help but feel happy to be back again. I'm surrounded by my element. I'm surrounded by cynical geeks who love Dilbert and User Friendly cartoons too much. I get a charge out of someone calling me to ask for technical support and my knowing exactly how to help. Everyone enjoys feeling like they know what they're doing. I found out yesterday that as soon as I quit here last time, the company sent out an email amending the dress code policy stating that they didn't allow unnatural hair colors. Gee... Imagine that. Today, however, I ran into one of the high ranking management team members (who used to party with us back in the day before they stated that management couldn't party with agents) and she said that she didn't care what color my hair was. Especially if I waited until I was out of training. Yay! I told her that my hair would be either burgundy or deep violet once I graduate again. =) People keep asking me if I'm going to be a product specialist again. I keep telling them that I certainly will not. They look at me funny, but my reasons are sound. They do not understand, but the other product specialists do. On another positive note, I may have found some more airsoft players. =D

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