a la The Onion
Virgo August 23 – September 22
You know it’s not truly over until the fat lady sings, but my God, the enormous bitch is taking forever.
From days past…
September 14, 2005
Issue 41-37
Virgo You’re a proud individual, and there are just some things that you’ve never been able to bring yourself to say, but “Give me some more goddamned fried chicken with mashed potatoes and gravy right fucking now” isn’t one of them.
I came home last night to find a note on my door from the apartment complex … they’ve been doing refurbishing for months now and apparently it’s finally time to work on my building. The problem is, they want to enlarge the window in my office today so they gave me approximately twelve hours to have the entire room vacant “to protect my belongings from the construction dust.”
Who in God’s name is going to have time to clear out an entire room of their home in a single night’s notice?! Needless to say, everything is still here and I’m going to have words with some people once the office opens in another hour! Apparently I get to start moving a week early… 🙁
Countdown to Moving Day: 11 days
New comic is finally up, only eighteen hours late… 😛
1000 pound butter sculpture of Vader and Yoda at the Tulsa State Fair
http://www.livejournal.com/users/lordfunkenstein/99028.html
Albeit, I don’t really instant message all that much, but damn – I just cleaned out my contact list in Trillian and I have 3 names left…
…and two of them are my sister’s IDs…
…so, so lonely!
The Adventures of Pete & Pete – Season 1 (1993)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0007Y08LA/qid=1119943499/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-2134682-4495864?v=glance&s=dvd
The Adventures of Pete & Pete – Season 2 (1993)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000AOEN18/ref=amb_cob__106726401/103-2134682-4495864
Clarissa Explains It All – Season One (1991)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0007Y08LK/ref=pd_bxgy_text_1/103-2134682-4495864?v=glance&s=dvd&st=*
So today was the big day … signed the paperwork and handed over a fat check this morning, and the condo is officially mine!
Well, technically its mine on November 7th after I write another check for the first month’s rent, but the worries of somebody else swiping it out from under me are now gone…which is good because when I showed up this morning, they said that they’d been getting calls like crazy because the owner put an ad in the paper yesterday! Oh well – too late – it’s mine now. 🙂
Two and a half weeks left until I can start moving stuff, but I’ll probably begin the tiddying up and whatnot this weekend so I’m not freaking out at the last minute. Other than the dent in the wall downstairs from when I first moved my TV in, I think I’m just going to have a bunch of nail holes to fill, which should be easy enough. The rest of the cleaning will almost have to wait until I’m not using each room anymore so I don’t have to redo it … I’ve got a feeling it’s going to be a very antsy couple of weeks!
Call me a geek, but it always puts a smile on my face when my bittorrent speeds break 500 KB/s for a single file… 😉
In balancing my checkbook this evening, I find that my checks are out of sequence because a check I wrote from a month and a half ago still hasn’t been cashed. This irritates me for two distinct reasons:
1. Now I have to keep a mental tab of this check’s value until I see it go through so I don’t bounce anything else instead of simply working off the numbers I see online.
2. And even moreso annoying, the check that hasn’t been cashed is the donation that I made to the Red freakin’ Cross for hurricane relief! So much for them needing anything that we’re able to spare for our fellow man if they couldn’t even get around to taking my offering to the bank – it’s reasons like this that make me wonder if some of the stories about these guys abusing “administrative funding” isn’t true as well…