random daily musings - named after the greatest band that never was
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Monday, August 30, 2004 ha! i beat cingular down. those fuckers basically tried to steal almost $50 from me, but i complained enough that they gave me $64 back. plus all the time i wasted (though did i waste it now? i got what i wanted - maybe it wasn't a waste) i spent a work getting paid anyways. i took the man down. now i need to tackle the billing department at the washington post. i'm still looking for people to join my fantasy football league - if you're interested, let me know and i'll send you the link. the reason i meant to blog in the first place was my weekend, specifically yesterday. i moved my leather sleep sofa into parkview in the morning. officially the heaviest seating apparatus in recorded history, i've moved it four times in the last 6 months. now she'll (should i name her, like all of my other beloved items like cecilia and maria?) stay put for at least 11 months and will get extensive use - particularly during this upcoming football season. next, i happened upon a beautiful 27" sony trinitron that was priced at a ridiculously low $70. anyone who knows me knows that i would never pass up a deal like that, so i bought it - not that i need a third tv or anything. i figured i could always turn around and sell it for twice the price, but once i put it in my room, i shockingly decided against letting it leave my possesion. finally, after picking up the tv, i got a call from my mom, who surprised me with the news that i'm buying a car for $300. now, this is no fancy car for sure, but you know what maria looks like. the new one is a 1987 honda accord with 180,000 miles - i checked out blue book and she's worth around $1000 or more. so now my task is to pick it up, test it out, and decide which of my two b-u-s-t-e-d vehicles i want to keep, and which i want to sell on CL with the funniest ad ever. hilarious. posted by johnny | 8/30/2004 11:16:00 AM Wednesday, August 25, 2004 single game tickets to homecoming (nc state) are sold out. does anyone already have tickets? am i going to have to buy scalper seats? are we just going to keep tailgating (with frankenstein) throughout the game? damn that fridge for building a successful football program. on a football related note, i started a free fun fantasy football league on yahoo. it only takes a couple minutes a week to stay active, so if you want to join, let me know and i'll email you a link and a password. hopefully the automatic draft will run a couple days before the season openers if we get enough people. posted by johnny | 8/25/2004 10:20:00 AM Friday, August 20, 2004 worst job, ever. Professional Pooper Scooper and who the hell would pay for this? posted by johnny | 8/20/2004 11:00:00 AM Thursday, August 19, 2004 greatest story, ever. Bear drinks 36 beers and passes out posted by johnny | 8/19/2004 01:34:00 PM ha! i knew the free ipods thing wasn't a scam. check this article out from wired news: http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,64614,00.html and if you're interested, i only need two more people to sign up under me before i get my free money ipod! use this link: http://www.freeiPods.com/default.aspx?referer=6730027 if i get a free one, you know you all will want to do it too! posted by johnny | 8/19/2004 12:50:00 PM Wednesday, August 18, 2004 so...funny story. i was mowing my mom's lawn yesterday, quietly tending to my own business, when i was attacked. by scores of bees. not your average gentle honeybee, mind you, but angry, vicious (and likely africanized - you know, the ones from brazil) stinging bees. they stung me three or four times before i knew what was happening, and before i could ridiculously jump around and dash into the house to "safety". where i was promptly stung several more times, owing to the fact that those little fuckers stowed away in my clothes, waiting until i let my guard down. i ran around like an idiot in my house for several more minutes, until i had either killed or trapped the remaining insects. whereupon i realized, in my previous insanity, that i had left the gate open and allowed zoey to escape. which forced me back outside into danger (i wasn't stung again) to search for her. ten minutes later, she pops up across the street and i coerce her inside. finally i have time to inspect my wounds. one to the back of my left knee. three to my left thigh. one (and maybe more - the swelling is big) to my right hip. one to my left hand below my thumb. and one last one, the worst one, to my right ring finger. good thing i'm not allergic - i don't think i would have made it to an epipen. twenty hours later, i am just itchy, and being itchy at work sucks even more. most of the swelling has gone down, except for the finger, which appears to reacting most poorly to the venom and is still swollen and supremely itchy. home depot better get ready, because i'm gonna buy the mostly deadly bee killer available on the market and destroy those fuckers. posted by johnny | 8/18/2004 02:18:00 PM Monday, August 09, 2004 remember the part in office space where peter tentatively touches the door handle, expecting and receiving a static shock? i didn't really understand that feeling until now. every time i leave my office (bathroom, food, boredom, etc.) i get shocked by the door knob on the way back in. every time. it's like water torture. plus i don't have michael bolton and samir to commiserate with. i honestly have nothing to do at work. who would have thought that i could get bored with surfing the internet? there's really only so many times i can look at craigslist in one hour. i think it's four. also, who knew the washington post editorials were so massively terrible? half of them i wouldn't run in the rockville gazette, much less the post. yes, yes, i could be spending this time searching for jobs, but even that task is inhibited by the fact that this windows 98 machine and outdated browser aren't compatible with gmail - where all my job emails get sent to. i try usajobs, but that site really breaks your spirit after 20 minutes or so. oh! i forgot to mention the reason why i meant to blog in the first place. i moved this weekend, from one basement room to another. the new one is much better, however, as it comes complete with new carpet, walls on all sides, and infinitely better roommates. good thing my mom doesn't read this blog. my new address is: Johnny Kaneshige 7208 Parkview Ave Falls Church, VA 22042 nova, i know. i'd like to make a confession for all of you lifetime marylanders out there who think nova is hell on earth. it's not that bad. in fact, it's kind of awesome - if you live inside the beltway. everything is close, traffic is not as bad as reported, and sprawl is not really so rampant. our (myself, sydney, justin, molly, and phoebe) new house is nice and roomy, with three levels, a walkout basement, and a nice yard. we did some cleaning and painting this past weekend, and hopefully will be pseudo-setup by the end of the week. anyone and everyone is welcome to come visit, as we will eventually have a guest room (i know) as well as my money pullout sofa in the basement rec room. i'll post some pics as soon as we take some. so...yeah. writing this blog didn't kill as much time as i had hoped, but i'm gonna give up on it anyways. maybe this will sate your reading appetites, you vultures. posted by johnny | 8/09/2004 01:23:00 PM Monday, August 02, 2004 so i'm sitting here at my desk at westat, on the first monday of my new job, and i have nothing to do. seriously. last week i got trained on how to do these two things, and evidently i'm too fast, because i now have nothing to do. as in, the woman training me didn't realize i wasn't useless, and set up too little work for me to do in my intial training slash introductory period, and now is too busy to train me to do something more "complicated". so here i sit. posted by johnny | 8/02/2004 12:57:00 PM |
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