Update: The BIG Big Bigfoot Bash ‘06
Well, another work week has ended for me and I’m tired. I don’t really know why that is, either, because out of all my weeks, this one was neither particularly stressful or busy. Whatever. With all the plague going around, I’m sure my body is just worn out from fighting this or that germ at every social interaction.
On Tuesday I got to spend the entire workday with Hannah. How novel! We accomplished real tasks here and there, had lunch from Panera and found her the perfect Touareg in Harrisburg. And then we drove to Harrisburg. And then she bought it. So, after 4 hours at the skeeziest Cadillac dealer this side of Newark, I give you Hannah’s new boyfriend, Geoffrey:
If I drove an SUV, this would be the one. He’s like a giant Klaus…with heated leather seats and more wood grain trim and chrome than some Hyundai lots have in total.
In other news, I’m going to Gettysburg tomorrow to visit Hannah’s mom, Marie. This started out as a phone call by Hannah to let her know that there was a new car. It quickly turned into a visit and then more quickly turned into a roadtrip. So, I’ve been warned that I’ll be forced to have my photo taken on a cannon at least once. But, on the upside of going to the battlefield, I think we are taking a ghost tour. By lantern, even!
And now, I wait for Sonya or Maggie to get online and keep me entertained. Because they are both fantastically good at it. 🙂
P.S. It may seem silly that we have a cars category…but, oh how it isn’t.
After watching the documentary The Times of Harvey Milk for the second time I’ve come to the realization that humanity’s primary goal is to turn everything beautiful, hopeful or true to complete and utter shit.
We suck.
Normally I find this ad campaign nonsense entirely creepy – he fucking freaks me out – however, this is pure, unadulterated genius. Gawker’s title “The closest Kate’s ever come to a Burger” makes it wondrous.
Gawker via Media Orchard
The new Apple ad that touts the birth of the Intel Mac – and makes Angela and I weep with joyous visions of life in a robotic clean room – is directed by the same wonderful people who brought us “Such Great Heights.” Thank you, Josh Melnick and Xander Charity.
And thank you, Cult of Mac Blog, for the wonderful trivia!
Decide what I should do with my life from here on out for me, please. I’ll pay you a competitive rate, I swear.
*tired*
…to Verizon Wireless, that is. And you know, for a company with a corporate logo like the horns of Satan, they are actually really nice. I spoke with five reps tonight about various things and every single one of them was polite beyond reason. And they knew their shit, as opposed to the “Uh, well…I don’t know…let me check…and transfer you…to someone else.” that I got with Cingular. While my new phone isn’t as sexy as the Nokia 7610 I had with Cingular, I am very happy with just how competent this Motorola E815 seems. Plus, now I have a GSM phone for trips to Europe and a really solid US phone for home. The best of both worlds, I’d say.
I laughed so hard when I saw this on television while watching Will & Grace. Ready?
Children!
Run over…by their own parents!
The danger of backing out of your own driveway on Fact Finders, tonight.
Yeah, I’m seriously waiting on the edge of my seat for an exposé on the perils of putting my car in reverse. Maybe if we got little Felicity or Tucker out of the fucking driveway and paid like, oh, four seconds-worth of attention to what’s going on, this wouldn’t be a problem.
People are idiots.
Another shining example is this wonderful new trend of getting charged for things I don’t owe money for and then being told I have to wait to be credited for 7-10 business days. Clearly, I should be punished by having money I didn’t want to spend and need taken from me when a company makes a mistake. It’s total bullshit how these assholes charge first and then figure out if they were supposed to or not later. You know they only do it because there is a large enough proportion of society that doesn’t even bother to contest it. Just like how a lot of corporations give out rebates because they know people will buy things they don’t need and never get around to filling out the form. Jerks.
That’s all. Three days until Philly.
