Posts Tagged ‘Administration’

Lazy From The Heat

August 2, 2007

I don’t like the heat of summer. This is nothing new. Ask people who know me and they’ll tell you tales of me collapsing due to heat-stroke. So today, I’ve spent as much time inside as possible. Go to a jobsite, not today folks.

So, I guess because I’m not actually working hard today, (like I ever,) I’m spending more time fooling around at work. Lays potato chips, you really can’t eat just one.

I’ve taken a look at some old posts for my blog that I started to right but never finished and posted. Wowee! So many offensive things I wrote. In a post about going to a buffet, I referred to a fat couple as whales and that they’re raising a child with man bosoms.

In another post, I explained how I hate charitable organizations. That’s pretty low. I starting calling charity groups a bunch fear-mongering, guilt-laying placebo-sellers. That’s really low.

A couple weeks back I wrote some sort of blackmailing post. I can’t believe I actually posted that crap. It was supposed to be an introduction into a bunch of little fictional tales I wrote about some of my readers. Really stupid stuff.

Insulting my blogosphere pals, no I didn’t stop there. I even took a turn at myself. I guess I was feeling really honest one day and I started to list a bunch of embarrassing things about myself. Not fake things, real things, real embarrassing things. Boy am I glad I wised up in time not to post that stuff.

Oh well, I guess not of that stuff will ever see the light of day.

On to some stuff of somewhat interest, its a long weekend this coming weekend in Ontario. I as usual have no plans. I will probably spend the extra day working in my Dad’s yard and doing a little barbecue with the family. Unless somebody calls and which case, BOOM, I’m a dot, I’m outta there. I don’t wanna spend another long weekend with my Father.

I tell you, this guy, he changes the landscaping in the yard so frequently, he never actually has it in a state of completion. Here’s the current project. There is this existing interlocking stone path that leads from the sliding doors to the gazebo. He is currently planting trees on both sides of the path in hopes that they will eventually grow into a wooded archway over the path. Yes, I’m sure that could look great if he actually lets the trees grow. 10 bucks says, he’ll change his mind about that before the end of the summer and we’ll have to move those trees.

If you don’t believe me, I’ll say this about my father and his landscaping ideas. Current home, been there since January ‘99. How many ponds do you think we had to dig in that backyard since 1999 (8 summers). If you’re answer is less than three, you don’t know my Father.

Oh, here’s an idea, Maybe I’ll take a drive out to some other place. A little one day road trip.

Oh, here’s something I gotta do. I still gotta see The Simpsons Movie. Wow, exciting way to spend a weekend.

Happy Civic Holiday everybody. Yes folks who don’t know. That’s the holiday. Its called Civic Holiday. It is just an excuse to have a long weekend in August. There is no significance to the holiday what-so-ever. Its just a government mandated day-off.

Recommended Listening: Just a Gigolo/Ain’t Go Nobody by David Lee Roth, hummilly-boomilly-zimmilly-boomilly-BOP!

The Secret World of You

July 18, 2007

Through my daily snooping, stalking and rummaging through other people’s garbage, I’ve discovered some interesting facts about YOU! Yes you, the select few people who read this little blog. I know all your secrets. I know about Miss Ash’s brief stint in show business. I know about the big decision Big Ben had to make. I know about Bob’s embarrassing meeting with Mr. T. I’ve got some stuff on Wiwille and Woozie too.

And I will release each of these secrets one by one. I, of course, can be silenced, for the right price. I am partial to Panerai watches. If you feel the need to buy my silence, well, you haven’t got much time.

Weekend Recap: Licorice Pizza

February 19, 2007

Friday

I’m a pig. I ordered a pizza and ate the whole thing in two sittings. My only excuse is that the pizza was really, really good.

Juice sent me over this awesome new banner for my blog. It’s just Roger Dean’s Asia Dragon, but Juice added the very Asia-like “WIGSF 2.0″ to the right of the image. No more of that bland WordPress font.

Saturday

Juice and I drove down to Sonic Temple to check out some vinyls. Since he got a record player for Christmas, the guy has been possessed. Why he hadn’t checked out Sonic Temple yet was beyond me. We found some great stuff there. I picked up:

  • True Colours by The Split Enz
  • Layla & Other Assorted Love Songs by Derek & The Dominos
  • Homosapien (12″ Single) by Pete Shelley
  • The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway by Genesis
  • Allied Forces by Triumph
  • Colin James by Colin James
  • Tumbleweed Connection by Elton John
  • Frantic City by Teenage Head
  • A Trick of the Tail by Genesis
  • Head Games by Foreigner

Juice picked up some cool stuff too. Fortunetly, we didn’t fight too much over the records. I guess I’ll let him take Foxtrot. Besides, I gave him my copy of Selling England anyways. I’ll let him complete the set and then just borrow them piece by piece.

In most cases, the sleeves a beat up but the discs are in very good condition. The disc in the worst visible condition is the Tumbleweed but it sounds pretty good. There’s a bit of snaps on the record, but no skips. But by listening to that record, I can no longer listen to the CD. The flange effect on the guitar is audible, as well a similar effect on the lead vocals. I had never heard those effects before in all the times I listened to the CD. And that’s on top of the warmer piano sound that runs throughout the album. When I put the record on, my jaw dropped and Juice just looked at me like I was crazy. I was as if I was hearing music for the first time. Tumbleweed is a great CD but an infinitely better LP.

Listened to Fight the Good Fight from the Triumph album. I think Rik Emmett’s vocals are actually higher in pitch on the album.

As I checked out True Colours, I saw something in the record I had never seen before. The disc itself has a sort of holographic design. I am now afraid to actually play the record in case the hologram can be worn out by the needle. I tried taking photos of this record. The holographic design does not show well in a photograph.

truecolurs

Sunday

I just sat around and listened to some great music the way it was meant to be heard.

Recommended Listening: Brian Wilson by The Barenaked Ladies, Heat of the Moment by Asia, Dinner Music for a Pack of Hungry Cannibals by The Raymond Scott Quintette.

New Custom Banner

January 8, 2007

I had a new custom banner made up this weekend. Sorry to the dial-up users, it may take a couple extra seconds to download.

Apparently, the face is actually mine taken years ago at some Christmas dinner but some tweaking was done as only the right side of that image is me and definetely the left eye is not mine.

I did not make the banner myself. I gotta give it up to Juice for the all the hard work he must have done to stick my face in Optimus Prime’s head.

EDIT: This post is pretty much obsolete as I am always trying to change the banner.

The New Blog

December 19, 2006

Upon the whole Blogger Beta bullshit and what not and reading what Slopmaster has written about this WordPress thing, I have decided to give it a try.

More Tales

August 18, 2006

There’s a new post in the Tales blog. Check it out.

The Building of a Podcast: Topics

August 4, 2006

Quote of the Day

You’re not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on. - Dean Martin

I have started planning topics for me to bitch, moan and complain about on my podcast. Here’s a little brainstorming session and you the audience, get a sneak peak. If you think there’s something better for me to discuss, please leave a comment and I’ll give it the consideration it deserves.

  • Push presents are the ultimate sign of men’s subserviance to women.
  • Fat women who dress like thin women and other walking eye-sores; cover the bleep up!
  • Nickelback sucks.
  • The pointlessness of awards shows.
  • Why I am the best and worst driver on the road today.
  • What to do with the Maritime provinces.
  • War! What is it good for? Absolutely something!
  • What ever happened to good beer commercials?
  • Steroids versus hemorroids: the real “Ragin’ ‘roids.”
  • I can’t believe you’re still talking: confesstions of a part-time retail sales person.