Rant: Had my yellow belt test for karate yesterday and messed some things up. I will have to fix some of my techniques in the next few weeks before I can get my belt. Rant: Did some sparring today and I think that I broke my second smallest toe when I failed to pull my toes back when I threw a front kick. I am an idiot. Rave: I've recently had two dates with this girl, and I think that it's going well. Our first date was great, and it ended with us making out in my car at the end of it. Last Saturday I had my second date with her, and it was the best day that I had in I can't remember when. We had an awesome dinner, walked around downtown some, had coffee, then went back to her place, where we hung out and watched TV, listened to music, and possibly indulged in some junk food. Part of me still thinks that she is just looking for a sugar daddy, but given how hard a time I have getting dates I think that I am going to roll with it.
Rant/rave: Damn diamonds are expensive! Rave: New computer for home arrives tomorrow and my boss just informed me I'm getting a new work laptop next week. Good timing since my old laptop is literally falling apart. Rant: Girlfriend had the oil in her car changed last week and was complaining about an oil smell in the car afterwards. I popped the hood this weekend and it didn't take long to figure out the issue: Spoiler: photo I know we're all human and everything, but man you have to be a real fuckhead of a mechanic to forget screwing the oil filler cap back on. Feeling lucky it didn't lose too much oil and looks and smells worse than I thought it was. Regardless, this is especially disappointing because the shop is basically across the street and convenient to get to.
Ravt: I just binge watched the BBC series "The Fall," Season 1 & 2. A rave, because it's quite possibly one of the best shows I've ever seen. Such a compelling story and the performances are out of this world. Does anyone else watch it? A rant, because the stupid cliffhanger. Also, WTF Jamie Dornan? The 50 Shades movie was a wooden, blah performance that made me think he was entirely mis-cast. Then THIS show comes out, and he oozes sexual predator eroticism just by standing still on screen. It's like Keanu Reeves....he looks stoned in every movie he's ever shot, but in an interview he's the most dynamic, well-rounded person around. Such are the mysteries of life.
Rave: My boy gets to play a mini game in the first intermission of a Habs vs Sens game at the Canadian Tire Centre.
Rant Not sure who the marketing people are at pampered chef but thanks for hooking my wife with your shit, really an online pampered chef party where the host gets "free" stuff. Nothing like selling cooking shit to a woman who does not cook because look how cool all this stuff is, you guys clipped me for $250 for the first and last time, if I ever see the FedEx guy with your boxes there will be gun fire and a divorce. ps. Thanks for the pizza stone assholes
RANT: You want to know what really pisses me off? People who mispronounce the word "poinsettia." They pronounce it "poin-set-uh" instead of how it is spelled. What the fuck is wrong with those people? Do they not know how to read? I know what you're thinking: "But Bandit, everyone says it that way!" 1) Not everyone says it that way; only dipshits do, and 2) If everyone was sticking lit firecrackers in their dick-hole, would you do it to? (By the way, if you still insist on mispronouncing poinsettia, you should stick a lit firecracker in your urethra. I hear it feels rad.)
Rave: Annual review today. Best one I've received in the 11+ years I've been doing this. Nice little raise and bonus to go with it, but the real topper was that I'm getting a company truck. The money basically allows my wife, son and I to be financially stable for the foreseeable future. Rant: I have a LOT on my plate now. And a lot of pressure. Since others have failed at doing what I've now been assigned, I'm basically under a microscope. Rave: Everything I've been asked to do is all very interesting and fun to me. It combines my work interests with my personal interests and expertise, so in that regard it doesn't really feel like a "job." Plus this microscope thing isn't new to me; I've earned my wings so to speak as the clean up crew for others' mistakes.
Rant: finals. Especially grading finals of students who swear they deserve an A in an AP class when they also think Jefferson wrote the constitution or that Andrew Jackson was a general in the Civil War. Of 50 AP students, 25 shouldn't be in the class, and only 10 will maybe pass the AP exam. But god forbid they don't all get their A. Rant: the other AP teachers literally give out A's to everyone. One AP class has 26 students, all with A's. Bullshit.
Rave: The g/f and I are planning a trip to the UK around August next year. This will be my first time out of the country, well, ever. Suffice to say, extremely excited about it. The plan is to start in London, move up to Scotland for a bit (Edinburgh and Glasgow specifically), then Ireland (Belfast and Dublin), ferry over to Wales (Cardiff mostly) and then back to London. We'll be getting all over nerdiness in and then some (Game of Thrones, Harry Potter and Doctor Who among them). Now just to save up. My g/f was done plenty of international travel and has therefore devised a general hostel/air bnb plan to keep costs low. I will likely have to hit up the World Travel thread for some good advice from you folks.
RAVE: I opened a seldom used drawer today, and there was $40 and some of my missing stuff in it! In addition to the money, I found my autographed copy of "Jim Goad's Gigantic Book of Sex," a USB stick with some important documents and 3 albums on it (Prison Bound - Social Distortion, Sumthin' Sleazy - THe 440s and the Chickenhawks, and Chinese Democracy - Guns 'n Roses), an XM radio receiver, and an external DVD drive. Now if only I could find the rest of my stuff that my brother stole while I was "on vacation."
Rave: last Friday my wife gave birth to a beautiful baby girl. Rant: That's a whole different set of worries than my son. Rave: Those worries are still a few years away at least.
Rant: When a gigantic painful zit appears in your ear canal. I clean them religiously. Why me?? Rave?: When your girlfriend is not just willing but eager to attack it.
Rave: Christmas break, holy shit did I need it: Rant: No shit, had a parent email me at 1 am Saturday morning, the first day of Christmas break, because she wanted to know her kid's final exam score and her kid changed the password so she couldn't look it up. Clearly your kid doesn't want you to know what it is because they wouldn't have changed the password if they did. Rave: I fully intend to ignore that email until Christmas Eve at which point I will email mom to inform her that her kid got a D in my class. She will not be pleased with said grade. Merry Christmas!
Rant: as a follow up, I checked my email today. She has emailed me so many times it is getting caught in the spam filter now. Jesus titty fucking Christ, lady, calm the fuck down. Rave: I'm not checking my work email again over the break. Fuck that.
Rant: This cat is such an asshole. I have scratches all over my arm. That wouldn't normally be a problem, but I'm spending quite a bit of time lately with my buddy who has AIDS. Yes, that's right. AIDS. Not HIV. Full blown AIDS. Grrrrrrrrr.
Rant: Cargurus is trolling me now. I saw an S7(!) for sale a few weeks ago that I could theoretically afford, but felt I just couldn't justify dropping that kind of coin on a car. I pushed that thought out of my head and moved on but stupidly looked again on cargurus today and see the asking price has dropped by 3 grand. Goddammit. I want this car, I don't need this much car, it's not an intelligent purchase, but goddammit it's such a sweet ride.
Rant: Had to put my long time pal Seymour to sleep last night. That cat was dropped on my back porch a month after I graduated law school. He will be missed.
Rave: Finally reached that stage in life where I don't give a fuck if I don't end up on the first page of a google search, I'm happy with the length of my penis and have no complaints about how often it seeks the skies...... Nor am I dependent upon receiving vast amounts of $'s direct into my bank account from a friendly Microsoft employee who resides in Africa...... Rant: Fukin sick of junk email