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[06 Sep 2008|02:31pm] |
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OF COURSE IT IS RAINING
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[06 Sep 2008|01:45pm] |
Last night I went with MJ to a park in Stow where they have a big lake exclusively for dogs that want to swim. They call it a 'dog park' and they don't permit human swimming, just dog swimming. I bet all of those dogs are out there, swimming, and wondering why the people on the shore are missing out.
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I want to get a new cell phone, and I was hoping to spend about $30/month, but it turns out you can't get much for $30/month. Verizon's cheapest plan is $40/month, and then they charge 20 cents per text message. Their cheapest plan with unlimited texting is $60/month.
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Wednesday is the test run of the Large Hadron Particle Collider, which is a CERN project to study the current theory behind particle physics. Some have suggested that LHPC will produce miniature black holes that will destroy the Earth, although this is improbable. I wanted to have something like a LHPC party. Unfortunately, I live with the parents who would not support getting drunk in the name of particle physics. I'm considering baking LPHC cookies and taking them in to work instead.
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I finally made it to Dave's Cosmic Subs in Hudson, after wanting to go there for several years, and I'm not really sure what my verdict is. The store itself is interesting, and I feel like I want to support their business. But the sub was about $6 and the bread was pretty hard. I think I would go back, but I would not be in a hurry to go back.
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| You Too Can Be A Winner...in YOUNGSTOWN!!!! |
[06 Sep 2008|01:10pm] |
Stacy Williams owns a three-bedroom house with a full basement and central air-conditioning in a quiet neighborhood on the upper west side of Youngstown, Ohio.
Williams, now 33, was earning $8.05 an hour as a manager at McDonald's when she moved into the house with her husband, a laborer at a construction equipment manufacturer, and son back in 2004. The couple's combined annual salary was $33,000. But the purchase didn't require much of a financial stretch: The house cost $48,000. "If you have the credit score to do it, there's nothing that can stop you from buying a home in Youngstown," said Williams, whose plans for the house include a second bathroom.
*dies laughing*
Ah, the American Dream! I knew there was some reason I was bothering to keep my credit score up. (Actually to be honest I don't look at my credit score because I don't want any more credit and I don't give a rats' urethra, but I happened to peep it the other day due to Amex handing out free looksees and it was a gas. I guess that's wot happens when you actually Bother to pay your bills, and stuff.) Hats off to that lady for buying something that's actually in her price range, but as someone who grew up killing myself NOT to be stuck in a place like Youngstown, "I don't see no dharma," as Cassady's gf sed.
Plus, the idea of actually needing good credit to buy in a place like that when most people buying houses traditionally have utterly shite credit and are buying partly in hopes of improving their scores makes me chortle a bit, sort of like that thirtysomething episode where uberneurotic Ellen (the character I hated the most out of them all, and that's really sayin' something as I only liked the ex-CIA boss and could marginally put up with the artsy chick in the numbers coat - I hated everybody else on that show and blamed people like them for ruining America for a few years, not kidding) fretted abt getting a house mortgage on her own because she had one bad mark on her credit report from buying a pair of shoes and returning them late and the store not taking them off the bill or something idiotic like that, and she was sitting there explaining all this to a bank manager and sweating bullets. I can't imagine having a discussion like that with a bank manager. I don't have time. They don't have time. Just give me the loan or don't, dawg. If you don't somebody else prolly will. Or I'll get by without it.
Considerably more interesting is this article about indie publishers stepping in to fill the gangsta lit gap. I want to read "Larceny" and "A Hustler's Son" now.
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| At the Dog Park... |
[06 Sep 2008|01:06pm] |
At the dog park… yes, this must be sung to that Rose Royce song, “At the Car Wash.” We have been spending enormous amounts of time at our local dog park. It’s a really cool place and, as most dog owners can attest, it’s nice to let them run off-leash and to play with other dogs. http://www.cityofsoutheuclid.com/dog_park.htm
( Read more... )Really, it’s about giving our pups a safe and fun place to play. The only bitching should be limited to the female dogs and whining to the puppies.
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[06 Sep 2008|11:40am] |
spending all morning trying to get a #@%$#@ trojan/rootkit off my computer is not my idea of a good time.
worst part is that I got it on a big, popular gaming site. I think they are clean, but obviously one of their advertisers is not.
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| Friends Only |
[06 Sep 2008|09:54am] |
Because of last night, all new posts will be Friends-Only.
Chopped some people off the friends list that I dont really know.
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[06 Sep 2008|09:12am] |
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[06 Sep 2008|08:15am] |
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it is way too goddamn early.
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[06 Sep 2008|04:02am] |
Snapshots from the Lion's Den ....
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| jimminy.... |
[06 Sep 2008|01:55am] |
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damnit, aari, gotta chew everydamnthing...she got into a bottle of gorilla glue. poison control for dogs says this is extremely dangerous, even in small amounts. i dont know that she got more than a few licks, and i found her just as she chewed the top off, but there was definitely some product on the lid. damnit damnit damnit. so instructions are to watch her vigilantly for the next 12-24 hours, give her some bread tonite, plenty of canned pumpkin in her food, and no toys or chewies for a good week. gorilla glue expands as it dries, and will expand in the stomach and possibly cause an obstruction. adverse signs are vomiting, drooling, not wanting to eat, constipation or watery diarrhea. an obstruction means possible surgery. fuck. another thing to worry my little head over. i wish i didnt have to work the next two days.....and. i was totally making fun of a momentum church flier we got in the mail advertising *church in 3-d* while all this was going down. i hope im not being punished... :(
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| I'm Savin' All My Bitch 4 Yooooou. |
[06 Sep 2008|12:53am] |
The viewing audience will be Glad to know I don't have it in me to complain abt anybody tonite cuz I used up all my bitchery today on opposing counsel. They started it. Srsly I don't know why attorneys bother writing cutesy snarky letters. One might say it is so I, or someone else, will have to waste good billable time answering them, but the same would be true of an intelligent grumpy letter or an in-yo-face-with-all-due-respect direct "you're a jerk" letter. When I see some lawyer, esp a younger/newer one, attempting to make with thee subtle insinuations I wonder why they bother. Most of 'em aren't very good at it - they think they're being all subtle and crafty and lawyerly and it comes off more like a poop on top of a bowl of salad trying to look like guacamole. I know this because (1) I spend half my nonexistent spare time on the 'net, and if there were ever inheritors of the Dorothy Parker Awesome Snark-mantle, they're found on here, prolly lurking about on LOLcats fora or some fandom wank board, and (2) before they invented the I-net, I was a rockwrita and highly amused by the fine art of skewering some act so masterfully that it wasn't obvious and you could easily argue Klink-stylee you meant nothing, Nothing. That was fun for about a year but after that I grew bored wit' it cuz it was too dern Easy and not that Amuzing and to this day I read very little rockwrite cuz whole sections of Bitchdork come off just like that, just like I used to be, and I associate that with juvenile cynicism and college hyoomor that I left behind like various uncomfortable pairs of cheap shoes and poofy haircuts. I guess wot I'm getting at is, I like when t'other lawyer actually impresses me or does something intelligent and I see so little of that I would wonder how they stayed in bizness except I've also seen the courts and the music bizness and then we have Nashunal Polly-ticks and...need I go on?
Despite all that plus the fact that I pulled two near-all-nighters this week (sometimes it's good for partners to see you scampering to the printer at 4 am, ya dig?) I'm not in a bad mood, not at all. It's raining out which always helps, and 88.1 had a big band show on, with Sinatra singing. I can't believe that man ever had career slumps, he's a classic, and I'm so thrilled I got to see him perform before he died even if we were a bazillion miles away on the Merriweather lawn and he missed one high note on sumthin' - can't remember what it was - but I remember how fast the limos whisked him out of there at the end. He was gone before we were done applauding the last song, it was very impressive. I like big band music in general and always remember my dad playing tons of it while I was growing up, and the winter Dead Guy drove me through the barrens of Downtown with the snow falling and the AM 1940s station on, playing "And he wears a pair of sil-ver wings." I was so in love with him and the city and Days Gone By and it was all Dreadfully hopeless and rather painful, and I'm glad that's over and I can listen to Sinatra in the rain now and just feel happy about it, but if I had to pick Moments to relive, I'd prolly at least think abt putting That one down on thee list. And with that, I shall leave youse, as I have wandered farther afield than planned here and I have to get some sleep naow and Think abt life shite (I do my best thinking asleep) and then get up real early and snipe some Japanese auctions and refinish the furniture.
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[05 Sep 2008|09:57pm] |
Are you kidding me? Like seriously:
New message:
1+216-xxx-xxxx
Just thought I would say hello. hope it's not too late. We all miss you. I hope everything is going good with you. I would love to talk to you again. Elizabeth
New message:
1+216-xxx-xxxx
I understand if u dont reply but i did want to let you know my grandpa mulloy passed away a couple of months ago. Regardless i hope all is okay with you.
BITCH!
EX-BESTFRIENDS! I haven't talked to you since 2005 - since the time you called me said you had no food for your baby... I wired you money I DIDN'T fucking have... only to find out you were fucking your baby's dad's best friend and shoving coke up your nose. Then I find out you got knocked up again - broke into your dad's house stole a bunch of shit so you could have an abortion because Del knocked you up ...... only to decide to go on a coke binge to miscarry .... thank god Jacob was born perfectly healthy.
http://www.cleveland.com/obituary/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/news-1/1215073977137450.xml&coll=2&thispage=1
So let me get right on calling you back.
Ironically today is her birthday.
I did send a reply:
Me: Let me guess you want to tell me you have no money for your kid only to blow the money i sent you by shoving powder up your nose? Go to hell and get lost.
Her: No but cant say I dont deserve it! My kids are good and I know a whole lot better. I cant change those decisions though. As dumb as it was i hate to think back.
Me You made your decisions a long time ago. You and I will never be friends again for the simple fact that you disgust me. Goodbye.
* at this point I stopped responding and have had 15 ' unknown' # phone calls - at 10pm @ night?!!!! uhm no.
Her: I really didnt even expect you to respond at least you will talk to me now all i can say is im sorry even if it doesnt mean shit. I was dumb. I have regrets.
Her: It's cool I really do understand. Like I said it was just hello and hope all is well.
Her: Just to let you know I never did that shit like that. My daughters first day of school was this week. Time flies. I have hope that we were close enough.
Her: My kids are my world now. I know u were never a kid person. But I didn't act like I was 5 forever. Del was the biggest mistake of my life. And I get it now.
Her: Are you really gonna hold it against me.
Bitch YOU threw away 12 years of friendship..... not me.
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[06 Sep 2008|01:00am] |
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MOAR HAGIS
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[06 Sep 2008|12:58am] |
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mounds of meat pies
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