Toys R Us is fun!

Stoopid world.

Man, this world we live in kindda sucks.

For every good/cool news, there's a crappy one.

I must get out

Man, I really need to get out of here. I may end up:

- Jobless
- Become a victim of a violent crime
- Fat

Sad.

Chuck Norris & Mike Huckabee

Oh noes. Chuck Norris is a Republican. Endorsing Mike Huckabee...

My Education Pays Off

Thanks mom & dad! For sending me to school. Paying for my education all the way through my master's degree. It finally paid off today.

So a little known secret. I have a master's degree in electrical engineering. I concentrated mostly in digital signal processing and imaging science but forget about that for now.

I'm also somewhat of a klutz given a sharp object in my hands. Such as scissors...

Today I decided to finally connect the rear 2 speakers. I've been too lazy to do so for the past 3 months. When I moved, I wrapped the wires to the speaker stand with those saran wrap things. While I was cutting that off, I accidentally cut through the speaker wire... Argh. Annoying.

So I'm looking a this wire. Thankfully, it was cut diagonally so I could keep the polarity straight. I have a wire cutter because I bead. I went back to 199X in my brain and remembered how to strip wires and reconnect. I didn't have anything fancy so I just twisted them together and held them together with packing tape.

Since I don't have a really good sound system, and my ears aren't that sensitive, I'm perfectly happy with my ghetto fix. All I know is there's sound coming out of that speaker!!! There's something satisfying about watching Forensic Files with surround sound.

Red Fox

Here's proof that I really did see a red fox a few weeks ago! It was pretty far away so picture quality is pretty crappy but you can still see. :)

Creepy Dream

This is a new one.

I had a vivid dream last night. I got my heart ripped out with bare hands while it was still beating. Blood everywhere!

I suppose that's what happens when you fall asleep to Court TV after watching 2 hours of medical drama.

I woke up because a delayed text message came in at 4:10 AM.

Bizzzzzzaaaarrrooooo.

Correction: Thank you, Borders!

Thank you, Borders!

I wtach too much TV

I guess it's not just CourtTV that I watch too much of. I think I've been watching too much TV in general.

I had 2 dreams between 7:00 and 7:15 AM this morning while I was snoozing. Both were scenes from TV shows. One was Grey's Anatomy and the other ER (yeah, both are on tonight...)

What was messed up is that I think they were acting out issues that I'm having right now. It appeared like I was just watching TV. But both issues had nothing to do with the currently storyline of either shows. Meredith was bitching about dude issues (but nothing like what's happening in the show....) And Abby was bitching about friendship issues (again, not related to what's going on in the show.)

I thought it was funny. And I slept well last night so I'm happy about that!

Hmm...

Moar wilderness, or not...

So of course after seeing a fox yesterday, I am looking for it. I'm looking around barely paying attention to the road on my way to work this morning. (BTW, it was friggin cold! People were scraping their windshield!) Anyway, so I thought I saw one. I'm staring at this red beast, going "aww" then realized that it was just a dog. As soon as that thought ran through my head, I felt guilty. Not just a dog. Dogs are my favorite.

Ann Arbor Wilderness

Today, I saw a glimpse of a red fox from my co-workers window! It was just wandering around between parking lots on the grass. I almost died of cuteness overload. I think this was the first time I've seen a fox here in Ann Arbor. For those of you who can picture this, yes, I did squeal, giggle, and jump up and down. (Lots of awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww's)

So I'm all happy google image searching "red fox". It was all good and cute for a while. But I'm stupid. And it's after 4:30 PM on a Monday and I didn't feel like working any more. So I kept looking...

WHY DO PEOPLE HAVE TO HUNT CUTE FURRY ANIMALS??????

All My Doggies

Some of you are intimately familiar with my doggies... So you'll understand.

One morning, I woke up and my doggies were in this formation. I swear I didn't do it. Not on purpose anyway...

Stench is gone

This morning when I left my apartment, the stench was gone.

So maybe my neighbor is not only a serial killer, but maybe he's also a spy. And he hears everything. So he heard me tell my friends over the phone that I suspect that he's a serial killer because of the smell of rotten flesh. And that's why he disposed of all the decomposing body parts... Maybe with acid in the bathtub?????

I <3 CourtTV.

I'm a Court TV Addict

Moment that made me think perhaps I watch too much Court TV...

I walked into my apartment building today and it stunk like rotting garbage (or flesh). I checked all the doors and there were no trash bags. The stench seemed to be emanating from my neighbor right across from me. OMG, my neighbor is a serial killer!!!

Old habits die hard...

I figured I'd kick back and chill tonight. I thought to myself, oh, I should make some tea and relax. I got up to boil some water and next thing I know, I was on the futon with a bottle of Guinness in my hand...

Horoscope Blog - NOT happening

Over the weekend, I was considering starting another blog. It would have been all about how I would live my life according to my Google horoscope (actually, it's tarot.com written by Rick). It seemed like a good idea at the time because I could have interpreted the horoscope to say "go masturbate all day" or "go drink instead of thinking about life". It was going to be accompanied by photos and everything.

So today when I didn't feel like working, I looked up my horoscope.

Your daily routine may be disturbed today by an unavoidable emotional drama. You are pulled one way then another and it's hard to tell what's really happening. Forget about attempting to use your common sense, for this is an irrational time and can be quite exciting if you don't get too stuck on being so serious.

Shit. Take common sense away from me and you just have a crazy person. This doesn't sound fun to act out and blog about at all. I decided this ain't gonna work out. So no horoscope blog for me. Unless someone can interpret this to say something fun???

My camera tracks Jesus' face

I call this "Self-Sufficient"

Stupid Insomnia

For some reason, I've been waking up really early lately. Not by choice. I just wake up. I don't really have to wake up until 7:30 AM to make it to work on time but I've been getting out of bed around 6:15 AM (after several failed attempts at going back to sleep.)

So I've been coming to work extra early. Like yesterday, I was here before 8 AM! I beat the old folks in! I had to unlock the doors and turn the lights on. I decided that's stupid. This morning I woke up at 4:30 AM. That was friggin ridiculous. I remember being really irritated for what felt like a long period of time but managed to fall back asleep. But I was still all ready to go by 7:30 AM. It only takes me 4 minutes to get to work...

I decided to do the dishes and take out the trash. Then brilliant!!! I decided to go grocery shopping. I felt so old. I feel like I official joined the AARP crowd today. I am a senior citizen. I still made it into work before 8:30 AM. But you know what's funny? It's 9:00 AM and I still haven't done a lick of work! :P

Yay!

Congratulations, DHL!

Hats off to DHL for making #1 on my "IF I DECIDE TO KILL MYSELF I'LL TAKE YOU DOWN WITH ME" list!


Seriously. They had tough competition like UPS and Comcast. But DHL just blew them all away this week!

So I ordered this camera from Sixth Avenue Electronics via Amazon. I ordered it Wednesday night (Thursday) around 1 AM. So I was pretty excited to find out that they had already shipped it on Thursday around 5 PM. I was looking forward to Monday when the camera was supposed to be delivered and whatnot. I live in an apartment community so DHL/UPS/FedEx/USPS delivery people know to drop off the package at the club house when we're not home. They can sign on our behalf and we can pick up the packages at the club house. I'm anal so of course I was tracking the package the entire time and set up e-mail notifications for exceptions and delivery notifications.

Monday at 1:52 PM, I received this message from DHL: October 8 2007 1:28 PM - Consignee premises closed. Will attempt again next business day. - Romulus,United States Of America

WTF. I get home, nothing at the club house, and not tags/notices at my apartment. Hmm... Ok... I was pissed, but I let it go because I was preoccupied with something else (probably drinking beer).

Tuesday, 3:51 PM: October 9 2007 3:25 PM - Delivery attempted. Recipient not home - Romulus,United States Of America

WHAT? Again, I go home, nothing at the club house and no tags or nothin' at my apartment!!! So I called them up. They transfer me to the local field station or whatever. Ring, ring, ring, ring.... NO ANSWER. I mean I let that sucker ring for a long ass time too. So I call their general customer support. I bitched and bitched about how for TWO days they haven't taken the package to the club house and they didn't even leave a single missed delivery tag. I mean if I wasn't anal and wasn't tracking this stuff online, I would have just waited for the fucking thing to arrive and they would have just returned the shipment to the seller. I bitched so much that they actually filed an official complaint for me, and I apologized to the person on the phone and told him that I know it's not his fault and I was sorry for yelling at him, but I'm just frustrated. "Of course, ma'am".

That's not it. So he said if I'm not going to be home to receive the package, I have to have the sender give an authorization to re-deliver the package to a different address because the club house has a different address from my apartment!!! Duuuude. I never had to do that before! So I contacted 6Ave.com and they told me that Amazon has to change it because they technically received the order from Amazon. So I contacted Amazon and they told me they can't do anything because they didn't sell/ship me anything so I have to contact 6Ave.com. I contacted 6Ave.com AGAIN and told them the situation. No response...

Wednesday, 11:47 AM: October 10 2007 11:23 AM - Consignee premises closed. Will attempt again next business day. - Romulus,United States Of America

At this point, I'm fearing for the life of the next DHL person I see. I was already having a frickin' bad day at work. But before I go home, I decided to check the tracking information on the web. This is what I saw!

Delivered? Really? Where's my delivery confirmation e-mail? I went home and went straight to the club house. Apparently the people at the club house told the DHL delivery person that I've been waiting for this package for a long time. His excuse was that something about how he didn't have time to stop by this area so he gave it to someone else to deliver here and that person must have been new.... That doesn't even make sense. Aren't you like assigned delivery areas? WTF.

So that was my frustration experience with DHL. You bet the seller is not going to get a very good rating from me on Amazon. You already lose 1 star for using DHL. I've had issues with DHL before. (Just not this bad.) And another star or two for not knowing what they're doing, and another for not responding to my last attempt to contact them.

Another thing that bugs me about their tracking site is that fact that it has "Why is this?" by the Shipment delivered action. I'm not going to question WHY it was delivered. That's their fucking job. I EXPECT them to deliver. What I want to know is why are they inept at their job??? Turds.

The Verdict

I set three traps to rid my apartment of these annoying fruit flies last night.

1. Banana pieces in a glass sealed with saran wrap. A tiny hole at the top.
2. Top of the 1L bottle was cut and placed upside down (like a funnel). Apple cider inside the bottle.
3. A glass of wine. I touched the surface of the wine with soapy (dish detergent) finger.

The wine got 4. Apple cider current has 1, and 2 hanging around on the top. But the obvious winner was the banana trap!!! There's gotta be at least a dozen of them in there. I only noticed 1 flying around today. Here's a picture of the best trap.


Pretty sweet!!! The only thing is that I don't know what to do with it now. I guess I'll take it outside to the dumpster and throw out the bananas. The fruit flies can go. I feel kind of bad for them now that they're not flying around and bothering me. So I don't want to kill them if I don't have to. :)

Fruit Flies... I kill you!

I HATE FRUIT FLIES. That's right I said it. I hate Drosophila melanogaster!!! (I'm sure all my genetics friends are all muttering reasons why Drosophila are scientifically beautiful specimens and I shouldn't hate them so much.)

Partly because I like fresh air, and do care a little about the environment; but mostly because I'm cheap, I've been living without AC for most of the summer. Therefore my windows are open most of the time when I'm home. I leave the balcony door cracked open at night too. (I do use a stick to keep it from opening too much. But now that I look at it, I can probably get through... Shh, nobody has to know.)

Anyway, I do have a screen and everything but these damn little creatures still get in. I wouldn't say my apartment is infested but when I'm drinking beer, the little fuckers drive me nuts. It's really annoying because I don't have fruits sitting out, and I take the trash out every morning. And I rinse all my bottles before I put them in the recycling bin. And my sinks are clean... WTF!

So I had to go to the tubes for a solution. I ran into this article on wikiHow. I decided to go with method # 5: the wine trap. They said to use sweet wine but I don't have sweet wine. So I used wine that went bad. Probably tastes like vinegar by now. But it's working!!! 3 down. I have no idea how many more to go. I think they keep coming in from outside so probably infinite. I should probably just set the trap on the balcony...

So here's my plan. Such a sad Friday night. But whatever. I'm going to set TWO more traps (different methods) and see what works best. :) hehe. This is going to be fun. Scientific experiment all on my own. Maybe it's the 5 beers I had that makes this so much fun.

To be continued...

No prize for me.

I went to this Oktoberfest event with a few people from work yesterday. It was held at the "Holiday Inn Near the University of Michigan", which happens to be behind the building I work. I guess it was some sort of a customer appreciation thing. We were invited because we refer a lot of our visitors to that hotel. (BTW, I think I'm supposed to say Friendliest Hotel in Ann Arbor.)

I didn't really know what was going on, but I decided to go. And it's a good thing I did! FREE FOOD AND BOOZE. All you can eat and all you can drink. For food, they had bratwursts, käsespätzle, sauerkraut, German red cabbage, German warm potato salad, pretzels, and 3 kinds of mustards. They had apple strudel and doughnuts. They had two types of beer: Warsteiner (I think pilsner type of beer) and some sort of Oktoberfest ale. They had hard liquor but I decided to stick with beer.

When we got there, we each got a ticket. It was like a raffle, except I didn't have to buy the ticket! It was free! There were several gifts that were given out. Our group had 2 winners! VN won a $50 gift certificate to Metzger's and AB won a 2 nights stay at the Holiday Inn Cambridge, ON! Me? Nothing. I was 4 numbers away from the grand prize: Lufthansa round trip ticket to Germany! But instead, Kenneth Gunther is going to Germany. I don't even know him. I just thought he has an awesome last name.

But that's okay. One of the prizes was a 1 hour hot tub gift certificate from Oasis. And I definitely don't want that!!!

Here's the good news. I got lots of good food & beer all for free!!! I had 2 dinner plates, a plate of desserts, and 5 beers in the course of about an hour and a half. But the beer glasses must have only been like 8 oz. (It's like drinking a 40!) The bartender guy was pretty close to giving me a pitcher of beer but he didn't because he didn't want other people ask him to do the same. So I just double fisted. Good times.

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There's nothing like burnt frozen meal from Lean Cuisine. Mmmm.

Creepy Amazon Find!

I didn't have anything to blog about until I went to Amazon.com to look at the Camera I want to purchase. This is one of the search result items!!!

Obviously you have to click and see the larger view... But WTF!!

I don't know. I thought I would share my disturbing find. This is how I lose sleep. Just when I think I've reach the end of the intertubes (I really do feel that way sometimes when I REALLY don't want to do anything (at work) ), I find crap like this that pulls me back to the dark side.

BTW, I'm like a polygon. I have many sides. (I had to throw something random in there.)


You can only read ahead if you looked at the picture.
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Another random note, I've been spelling highlight "hilight" (not hi-light either) to see how long it takes certain someone to correct me. So yes, certain someone, I'll be disappointed if you STILL haven't noticed. I'm just keeping you on your toes. Or am I just that retarded? To another certain someone, I guess you'll never know because I have many sides. To the rest of you who are reading this: yes, I only have TWO friends.

Random... Boring... Thought...

I don't have anything interesting to write about. I guess that's good. There's been a lot of drama lately that I don't care to discuss (ZOMG, you really don't want to know anyway). Today's been pretty drama-free, I must say.

You know it's a nice, short commute when you don't even have to get out of second gear for most of the time! (Unless you're stuck in traffic then that SUCKS, dude.) My commute takes about 5 minutes door-to-door. Turn right out of my complex, the street will bend left, make a right at the stop, pass park, take left at the end of the street, take another left and go to the end of the street, make a right. Then you turn right into the office park where my work is located. I usually only get to hear 1.5 songs on the radio.

So yeah. That's about all I have to say. I will leave you to this song. (Only 2 of you know why I put this up here today. Sorry, everyone else.)

News

There are a lot of worthless "news" out there. Buried in stupid articles about Halo 3 and iPhones, were these two stories that made me sad. It's difficult have faith in a world filled with so many evil and heartless people.

More Deaths in Myanmar, and Defiance (NY Times - 9/28/2007)
There is a picture of a Japanese journalist down on the ground; photo taken immediately after he was shot through the heart by a soldier. It was originally reported as an accidental shooting but there was a video that proved otherwise. He was quite a famous journalist in Japan.

Mistake costs dishwasher $59,000 (CNN.com - 9/28/2007)
An illegal immigrant from Guatemala worked for 11 years as a dishwasher in the US only to have his life savings taken at a way at the airport because he didn't know that he had to declare the cash to customs...

I'm sure people have opinions about these two stories. But guess what, I don't care to hear them so I'm turning off the comment option for this post! My only point is that the frickin' articles made me sad. You can't argue with that.

PBR Nutritional Facts

Quite a few number of people seem to stumble across my blog by doing a Google search for "PBR nutritional facts". So, I feel like I should post the information here.

PBR has 5.0% alcohol, 153 calories, and 12.01 grams of carbs.

There you have it.

Amazon - Book Recommendation

I wonder what I've purchased in the past to get this recommendation!

Now available: "Modern Canonical Quantum General Relativity (Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics)" by Thomas Thiemann on Amazon.com

$140. Pretty hardcore!

My Own Heartbeat

So this is a bit depressing, but oh well. I'll make fun of myself later.

I feel most forlorn in the morning and at night, when I hear my own heartbeat. I hear my neighbors, I hear birds, I hear squirrels, I hear cars. But the sound of my own heartbeat reminds me that I'm all alone.

My Strengths?

I read this book (well, only the required 3 chapters...) titled "Now, Discover Your Strengths" because my boss decided we should read it and talk about it. Basically, it tells you that everyone's got "talent" and you're better off working your "talent" into "strength" rather than improving your weaknesses. It's an interesting idea, and it gave me new ways to look at certain things but I can't say that I bought into the sales pitch.

You take this test called StrengthsFinder after reading the first 3 chapters. They give you a series of paired statements and you have 20 seconds to pick the statement that describe you more accurately. (They want your initial reaction or whatever and don't want to give you time to think.) I had to choose between the two statements, indicating that one or the other ''strongly'' or ''moderately'' describes me. Or I could choose a ''neutral''.

Some sample statements:

• ''Starting conversations is an effort for me'' or ''I get a rush from striking up a conversation with a stranger''
• ''I prefer intellectual discussions'' or ''I prefer to talk about sports''
• "I am a very private person'' or ''My life is an open book''
• ''I push others to succeed'' or ''I make other people happy''

I felt like there were more bizzaro ones in there but I can't remember.

After you go through ass load of these, they spit up my top 5 "themes of talent". (There are 34 of them, BTW). Here are my top five:

1. Analytical (People strong in the Analytical theme search for reasons and causes. They have the ability to think about all the factors that might affect a situation.)
2. Arranger (People strong in the Arranger theme can organize, but they also have a flexibility that complements this ability. They like to figure out how all of the pieces and resources can be arranged for maximum productivity.)
3. Achiever (People strong in the Achiever theme have a great deal of stamina and work hard. They take great satisfaction from being busy and productive)
4. Learner (People strong in the Learner theme have a great desire to learn and want to continuously improve. In particular, the process of learning, rather than the outcome, excites them.)
5. Developer (People strong in the Developer theme recognize and cultivate the potential in others. They spot the signs of each small improvement and derive satisfaction from these improvements.)

Basically, I am a cold hearted bitch. And I tend to over think things. And a workaholic.

I still think I would make a great prostitute with these traits.

Egg Donation

I've decided to give up on having any sort of meaningful relationship with anyone. I figured NSA fling here and there is probably the best thing for me. Then I was thinking to myself shit, that means I won't have kids. But I want to do something about not letting trash take over the world...
Then I thought to myself, I should donate my egg. Brilliant. Couple of G's in cash won't hurt either.

But dang, apparently I am too old for that already.

So much for that idea. Back to thinking how else I can contribute to this world...

My Friends are Funny

2 Friends.
2 Funny conversations.
1 Night.

-> Dead cell phone battery
-> 2 more lines on my cell phone bill (same 2 numbers on the rest of the bill...)
-> Little closer to hearing loss (thanks NK for the article)
-> 1 blog post

I'll briefly bitch about the first one and I'll write about the fourth item in a bit. Please be patient, or skip the next paragraph if you don't want to hear me whine (again).

My cell phone only gives me like a 5 second (no joke) warning before the battery dies. I was lazily lying around on my futon when I heard the beep (really quietly too) and by the time I ran (without bruising myself along the way) to the charger in the bedroom, the call had dropped and the stupid phone was dead. I live in an 800 sqft apartment. The distance is pretty short. But as I whine about this minor incident, I'm thinking to myself, DUDE, maybe I should look to see if there is a setting for this? Hmm. I should look. But my phone is in the bedroom and I'm in the living room. I'll forget by the time I get there. Oooh. I just got a text. It'll have to wait.

OK, so this is what I wanted to write about! Because I think they're funny.

Quote from friend 1:
As he was trying to remember what experiment he was going to conduct (on himself):

"Man, it was going to be such a cool experiment too! I was even going to test something."

I've always thought words "experiment" and "test" are synonyms and they kindda mean the same thing in this context... Like don't you test something in any experiment? Why did he think it was so cool that this "experiment" came with a test? Or am I the stupid one here? Anyone? Something = hypothesis???

And my friend 2 told me that he sometimes cries when he watches cheesy STOOPID romantic comedy movies but he wouldn't cry if I died of cancer. But maybe if I was murdered. I was going to ask what if it was suicide but I figured he would just tell me that he'd be pissed so I didn't ask. So what if it was an accident? Like if I get hit by a car or something?

Note to self: Next time, hit "PUBLISH POST" when you're done writing...

New High/Low

I discovered something cool today. Thanks to someone who searched for certain terms on blogsearch, and my awesome post from yesterday.

Search Engine		blogsearch.google.com
Search Words		blogspot masturbation or masturbate -mental -intellec

=> My Hello Kitty post from yesterday!!!

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I discovered just TODAY that my blog name's misspelled the entire time! Turdette is back.

My fingers hurt from too much typing (I think).

The world is a FUCKED UP place so many unknowns.

Dear Hello Kitty Lovers

If you are not comfortable with words like MASTURBATION, (or if you're related to me...) please stop reading, mao.

Best thing ever. If you like Hello Kitty. And if you like to masturbate and/or those of you who are fortunate enough to be having sex if you enjoy bringing toys into the bedroom. Or wherever you decide to do it. (Side note: only use REAL waterproof ones in the shower).

Go read this from GIZMODO. You have to read the link to the fleshbot site too. Can I just say that I can be that "friend from Japan"???

My people come up with awesome things sometimes.

My New Obsession

Goodbye, craigslist missed connections, hello PostSecret!




I'm so going to submit something...

Horoscopes & Legal Disclaimers

Once again, I'm procrastinating. So I started perusing around Tarot.com (source of my frickin' Google horoscopes that I read everyday). Man. They have a lot of shit services!!! I mean I guess I'm not surprised, but they charge an arm and a leg to feed you bull shit.

I started to wonder what type of disclaimer they have on their website to protect themselves from frivolous law suits.

General Disclaimer:

Even though observing your personal cycles can help you see patterns, stimulate your intuition and make better decisions, information delivered by Tarot.com's products and features should be used with common sense. Tarot.com is not responsible for how you interpret or apply astrological or divinatory information.

Be advised that the accuracy of an astrology or numerology report is dependent on the accuracy of the birth data going in. Tarot.com is not responsible for the accuracy of birth-times as they have been recorded by governments, agencies or ephemerides. On Tarot.com we used the most widely-used interactive resource for determining true GMT -- the Astro Communications Services (ACS) Atlas -- which adjusts entered birth-times and places for time zones, daylight savings time, etc. We do not warranty the absolute accuracy of the ACS Atlas itself, even though it serves as the trusted resource for most computer-generated astrology charts and reports.

Classic!!! Sooooo, if they end up giving you a reading that's totally wrong, it's probably your mistake. Or the government's. Or the hospital.

I just thought it was funny. And deserved a post. Aaaand I really don't want to go back to writing that abstract...

This one is for you, RL

I loves me pandas

So the last post was too serious so I have to link to this video.

Life & Procrastination

Life of a Procrastinator.
Life as a Procrastinator.
Lifelong Procrastinator.
Lifetime of Procrastination.
Procrastinating Life.

I'm trying to remember if I've always been a procrastinator. Thinking back to my childhood, the earliest memory of my partaking in procrastination goes back to elementary school. Growing up in Japan, we had homework over our 6 week summer vacation. Stuff like keeping a diary everyday, learning kanji characters by writing them over and over and over millions of times (must submit this notebook as proof!), math problems, art projects...

I think I was pretty good about getting the mechanical projects out of the way. Mechanical meaning I would just chuck away at writing same characters over and over and doing similar math problems over and over. I think I even put together a half-assed art project. The problems I had were with projects that I had to think about... Like thinking about what to write about in today's diary entry. I mean we had to even write down the weather for that day and each entry had to be accompanied by a colored drawing. Ummm. Yeah. So I procrastinated. Resulting in my mother going through old newspapers to look up weather information from weeks ago (days before the intertubes!) and me writing entries like "tomorrow is my friend's birthday", "today was my friend's birthday", and finally "yesterday was my friend's birthday". And later years in my elementary school, I remember I had issues with research projects. It could be about anything. I procrastinated because I couldn't decide what I wanted to research.

Middle school and high school pretty much went the same way... I excelled at math or physics or something like that, but sucked at subjects like history or English where I had to think more and interpret, blah blah blah. I liked having right/wrong answers.

So naturally (?) I pursued engineering in college. It went pretty smooth I must say... I'm a procrastinator, but I'm also a hard worker, I guess. I was good at performing mindless tasks. Endless math problems where as long as you had the patience to work through the 1000 iteration you eventually came to a correct answer was something I had no problems doing.

I kind of went to grad school and got a master's degree because I couldn't decide what kind of work I wanted to do and at the time pursuing a master's degree kind of was like an extension of my undergrad.

Then I decided to move to Michigan because there was a job lined up for me and I had a happy life with someone who was moving to Michigan.

But the job was not fulfilling. It was not a good fit. It didn't match my skill sets at all... I was ineffective, and bored. I think this is when I started procrastinating the most. Except it was about important things. Like what do I want to do to earn my living?

Procrastination kind of paid off in that respect... I went with the flow of things and ended up switching jobs, making more money, entered into a brand new field of work (not necessarily a good "career" move but when you don't know where you want your career to go, more money is always a good reason to switch jobs).

Years went by. Got married. Got divorced.

Then, mother of all procrastination. WHAT THE FUCK TO DO WITH MY LIFE??????

So yeah. Currently procrastinating.... life, I guess???

Stupid People

Today, I write about stupid people. Not that I'm smart, but man. Some people are just stooooopid.

This morning, I receive an e-mail at 9:38 AM saying "get me off this list. Your unsubscribe produces and endless loop." I guess it was in response to some sort of spam that this person received . It contained 2 e-mail addresses. I guess I subscribed to one of them. (More accurately, I was a member of some sort of e-mail list that was created that I was not aware that I was a member of...) I ended up receiving 43 messages regarding this spam until it finally ended at 10:33 AM. I guess the administrator of the e-mail group that I was on finally disabled the list.

PEOPLE, why are you so stupid? Half the messages were "please take me off this list" and the other half were "don't reply all". Either way. STOOOPID. I even got one that said "test". WTF? What the hell are you testing? It was like road rage. I could hardly contain myself. I just wanted to write something like "if you reply all to this message, I will find you and hurt you".

I have something else to complain about. It's about this blog post on SciAm. Basically, she got bit by a mosquito where she had a bruise, and the bruise disappeared along with the mosquito bite. But here's the quote that I was annoyed by: "Did the mosquito actually suck the blood out of my bruise? In fact, could it have bitten me there ON PURPOSE?" I say we conduct a study. We'll beat her until she's all bruised up and throw her in a room full of mosquitoes. BTW, the comments were just as retarded. But I still love SciAM.

Damn I'm whiny. And violent.

Typhoon #9

I've been at home (Tokyo) on vacation for about a week and a half now. It's nice to be home. The only thing is that the weather's been miserable... So friggin' hot and humid!

BUT, here comes typhoon #9!!! It's going to be pretty sweet. It is supposed to hit the Tokyo area sometime in the early morning. Here's a satellite image.

Pretty sweet! You can download KML files (Google Earth) from the NII page.

Hopefully we won't lose power though...

I <3 Chuck Norris

A video clip that is actually older than me! Chuck @ his best.

I <3 Gunther

This isn't new. But I have to share.

Art of Flight Tracking

First of all, apologies for not posting lately (except for lame attempt at moblogging). But I have a good excuse. I moved! Let me tell you, I hate moving. With a passion. I only moved to the other side of town but it was still a pain in the ass. My mom is right. I have too much shit. Except she doesn't use that word. Because she talks to me in Japanese.

Anyway, that's not what this post is about!!!

My best friend from NJ was in town this past weekend, and he unfortunately had to go home today. (;_;) I don't suffer from fear of flying myself, but I have weird anxiety about other people flying. And it's all rain and stormy today so that added to the worriment. So, I've been obsessively tracking his flight.

First, I went to FlyteComm. I don't know why the flight took the path it did, but it went east, as you would expect, but then turned sharply and went northwest for a bit and pretty much turned around. Weird...

Then I decided to go to USATODAY.com to see what they had to say. Then finally to the NWA website.

FlyteComm

USATODAY.com

NWA

I'm confused... Where are they getting the estimated arrival time data from??? And why does NWA's actual departure time different from the other two sites? I mean this is ACTUAL departure time... You would think they would all have the same time for that. My guess is that Northwest does arrival/departure to/from the gate.

I just got a text message confirming that he got in safe! Yay!

So, final results:

FlyteComm => "Arrived" 9:19 PM
USATODAY.com => "Landed" 9:18 PM
NWA => "Arrived" 9:28 PM (earlier it said "Landed" at 9:17 PM)

Wow. I just wasted so much time tracking this flight using 3 websites... (And analyzing.) It's almost like I was on the plane myself. Hahaha. Except I kind of had fun. And I wasn't cramped between two gravitationally challenged people who smell.

Now that I'm done moving, look forward to moar worthless posts coming soon!

Ohhh Boy!

Dangerous Parking Job

Mmm. Hot dogs.

Penis Fried Chicken

Dog Days of Summer

It is friggin' hot. Hot, hot, hot. The forecast for this week is not looking so good either.

Ok, so maybe it doesn't look so bad if you live down South or something but this is Ann Arbor. Michigan. I thought summers are supposed to be comfortable here. I mean I tolerate the frigid temperatures in the winter so I can enjoy a nice cool dry summer. We might beat/tie the record high today which was set LAST YEAR. Global warming? We need more pirates. (Only a few of you will get that...)

Anyway, so I'm doing my part to be all Green and stuff. I HAVE NOT USED MY AC ALL SUMMER. Well, to be honest, I'm just being cheap. And testing myself to see how much I can tolerate the heat. I'm only home in the evenings, so I just keep all the windows and blinds shut all day. Then when it's cooler outside than it is inside, I open up all the windows and blast my fans. It's been working so far. But we'll see about tonight... It's supposed to be all gross. Oh, and my plant died because it got too hot inside for it. :( Sad.

But I cheat because I use the AC in my car sometimes. And my office is nice and cool. But I don't have control over that.

He never learns...

Mugs at Work

How often do you wash your mug at work?

And when you wash it, do you use soap?

I've been making observations, and I am disturbed. Most people that I know just throw away their leftover coffee or tea from the previous day, maybe rinse the mug with water and refills. So if their mugs are white or light colored, you can see the stains that have settled in. Gross.

I on the other hand, wash my mug everyday. I try to do it before I leave work. If I leave in a hurry, I wash it the next morning. My mug is white and pristine. No rings of stains here. Not only do I wash it everyday, I wash it with dish soap. And I don't like to use the communal sponge so I use a tiny piece of paper towel instead. (I know, I'm killing trees, but it's for a good cause. My mental sanity.)

So am I like OCD crazy? Or are people I am surrounded by dirty people?

PS - Do you wash your underwear before you wear it for the first time? I thought everyone did, but apparently some people do not...

Hot

There is hope for you.

Crazy?

I just realized this morning that I talk to animals a lot. Some people talk to themselves, some to computers, and I think most "normal" people just talk to other humans. I talk to animals. I guess I talk to myself about animals too... Like "aww, birdie!"

I have not talked to a single human being in person yet this morning, but have spoken to 2 animals already. The little chipmunk that decided to run across the alley in front of my car got "go, go, go, go.... no, stay, don't come back!". The bunny right outside my work and I had a full blown conversation (sort of).

Bunny: "..."
Me: "Aww, bunny."
Bunny: "..." (very tense looking)
Me: "Don't be scared. It's ok. I won't hurt you."
Bunny: "..." (fixing to run like hell)
Me: "You don't have to move. I won't catch you."
Bunny: "..." (hopping away)
Me: "You don't have to go so far..."

So who thinks this is a crazy person's behavior?

Guinness only has 125 calories!

Could have been DOOM day

Yesterday, I called Bellanina Day Spa hoping to get an appointment for a bikini wax sometime next week or the week after that. To my HORROR, I found out that my esthetician lady's last day is this Saturday!!! You don't understand. I love this lady. I mean she pretties up my coochie.

So I squeezed in an appointment today during lunch. I was going to ask her to recommend someone for me. But then she told me that she can still perform the same services (twss), but she'll be working at Middlebelt Laser, which I guess is in Livonia. Shit. I'll go to Livonia for that.

Ok, so I imagine most of you who are reading this pretty much has a "wtf" look to your face right now and thinking just that. Sorry!

ZOMG UPS SUCKS ASS

ARRRRGGGGGHHHHH.

UPS SUCKS. Here's my work of art illustrating how frustrated I am at them. Beautifully done, I must add. I'll give you a nickel (that I found the other day) to the first person who can figure out what tool I used to create my fabulous artwork.


Ok. So, let, me, tell, you.

I don't know what's wrong with the friggin' driver that delivers to my building. I've had problems with this individual before. Not leaving me InfoNotices, then leaving one with no name or apartment number, and finally trying to combine 2 packages into 1 InfoNotice which confused the shit out the other employees. This time I'm really pissed because I now have to make an extra trip out to Ypsi-tucky.

Yesterday, I come home to find yet another InfoNotice carelessly stuck on top of another which was for my neighbor. So I looked at both of them. Although there is a space where this person could have put the name of the intended recipient, this fucker is way too lazy for that. At least this time the apartment numbers were scribbled on them. Naturally, I take the one that says "2" which is my apartment number and left the one that says "7" on the door.

So I went online and chose "Will Call". Which meant I can go to the shitty shack between 10 AM - 6 PM to pick up my package. So I go there during my lunch hour with my InfoNotice and a print out of my Will Call Confirmation. The dude checks my ID and everything and what do I get? My frickin' neighbor's package. Fanta-fucking-tastic. After finagling around on the computer, the dude tells me that MY package is "out for delivery". So what's his solution; "come back between 8-8:30 PM and we'll have the package for you here". As if he's doing me a favor.

I'm just looking forward to this one... They didn't give me a new tracking number or anything. I didn't receive a single apology from these losers. I would actually be SHOCKED if they have my package there and they'll actually let me take it home with me.

Moral of the story? FUCK UPS.

The end. (For now.)

Meijer has everything

Ugly

Captain in a Sangria!

Everything else is lightweight

Huge hole

TWSS. I'll probably drive into it soon.

I'm about to pocket this money

Sorry to the person who dropped it.

Moar Bruises

So I haven't done a real blog post in a while. I've been lazy and was letting my fascinating photos do all the talking. Not that this post is going to be all that interesting, but I'm putting some effort into it. I mean I'm typing on a compuder here, not on my cell phone!!!

This past weekend, our lovely friend HG invited a few of us to her family's lake house. Good times. Summary of the weekend: drinking + pontooning. The combination resulted in some debaucherous activities and injuries. Let's just say you had to be there to fully enjoy the activities. I will talk about the injuries.

Our friend SS had all kinds of gashes on his arms and he burned his finger. Oh yeah, we had fire. On an island where we were stranded for what felt like hours but it was only an hour. It was just like LOST, as HG would say...

Anyway, I just want to brag about my bruises. I found out recently that I bruise easily. Or I have a super high threshold for pain because I never know how I get these bruises. Or I just do too many activities drunk. Who knows. But our wise friend AS once said "bitches bruise to easily".


Check them out! They're on my right outer thigh and on my right knee. One of my friends told me that I've outdone myself. Oh, the cell phone is for scale. I want you to get a good idea of how battered I look. I got them while I was trying to get back on the pontoon without using the ladder. Needless to say, I had a few drinks.

I rock at bruises.

Hot!

NYC - Circle Line Cruise

NYC - Circle Line Cruise
Originally uploaded by retardita

I'm just testing this new TECHNOLOGIEZ here. I can Photoblog straight from my flickr photo stream? Really? That's pretty frickin' awesome.

Mmm.

Multimedia message

Mmm. Looks delicious.

Road Trip!

Whoopie Pie. Mmm.

Our gym is hardcore.

Mile 020202

What can I say, little shit like this makes me happy sometimes...

Mmm. Mojitos.

I shall call this: "Blue Turd"

Gross...

This is for V

For all your Asian problems...

Adult ACTION Movies!