Tuesday, July 15, 2003
Thursday, July 03, 2003
Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you "Octopus Giganteus." Be careful where you beach this summer...
Tuesday, July 01, 2003
Have not posted for awhile, I have been very busy at work and all of my spare time has been taken up by the Acme Correspondence School of Boxing. Also, the Time Space Gun I purchased from Acme has given me soon problems, having me to call in sick from work for a few days, but everything is alright now, I just need to wear long sleeve shirts and gloves from now on. I've been seeing way to many Ohio license plates around lately, I realize that they are the next state over but this is ridiculous, the plates seem to be new and mark the 200th anniversary of statehood of Ohio...okokok..that's nice just move on, make room for some other states..just kidding..ha..did escape last weekend to Columbus for a special mission and met some very nice people who didn't ask me too many questions about my full sleeves and gloves, I was hoping to get a chance to use my new boxing skills but no Ohio ruffians accosted me. Columbus is nice, I plan to go back.
Monday, June 02, 2003
Ahhhh..i guess i should eat somthin for dinner.. walk into favorite Mexican hangout, the staff is glued to racy Univision soap opera, villain is choking a hot Latin woman, then throws her aside and pulled out a pistol for extra south of the border tension. One staff member happily breaks contact and takes my order of grande chicken quesadilla and cranberry juice, I skip the supersweet Mexican soda I usually get....food comes quick and I am also watching the drama even though I have no idea what they're saying...very good quesadilla...walk back home to pay bills, take out the trash and try to call home(busy..twice.)
Monday, May 26, 2003
Woke up this morning feeling like I've been worked over by a baby gorilla, the results of yesterday's gym visit. Had steak and eggs on my mind for breakfast only to find out restaurant is closed for the holiday, settle for chain bagel place, have plain bagel/bacon-scallion, grape juice, coffee. Hep college guys are having bible study in front, all bibles are turned to the Book of James but now they are all outside socializing with hep college gals leaving James behind for now. Baby gorilla cuddles are fading away, glad mama didn't get ahold of me. Plan to hopefully clean some today, work on postal project and maybe see a movie.
Monday, May 12, 2003
Monday, May 05, 2003
Visit Summary for MR#z75837112
Severe attack of stomach pains caused me to leave work early to rest and maybe see a doctor. This is a continuation of yesterday's Greek poisoning, Dale kept yelling at me for eating Greek, I probably won't for a while. Back home I make an appointment for late afternoon. Rest a bit, feel a lot better but still walk over to the hospital for the visit. After prodding, blood pressure and urinalysis the good doc finds nothing wrong and sends me off to return for a general visit in about a month. Dinner of large hot tea, pineapple guava juice and a smart looking macaroon. Back home for more rest.
Severe attack of stomach pains caused me to leave work early to rest and maybe see a doctor. This is a continuation of yesterday's Greek poisoning, Dale kept yelling at me for eating Greek, I probably won't for a while. Back home I make an appointment for late afternoon. Rest a bit, feel a lot better but still walk over to the hospital for the visit. After prodding, blood pressure and urinalysis the good doc finds nothing wrong and sends me off to return for a general visit in about a month. Dinner of large hot tea, pineapple guava juice and a smart looking macaroon. Back home for more rest.
Sunday, May 04, 2003
Last Opera
Left work early to attend the final opera performance of the season, La Boheme. First time I have seen this supposedly most beloved of operas. Nice composition and voices, but I found myself nodding off and generally uninterested, maybe I need to sit through this one again in the future. Not nearly as well done as the Cinderella production earlier in the season. Decide to attend opening day of local Greek food festival, wait in line about forty minutes of so, tanned senior citizen couple in front of me kept doting over the several small children young family behind me, the small children kept poking me in the back despite their Mother's warnings. When I finally get to the food counter I load up with Greek chicken and rice, green beans and feta salad. Easily find an empty table where I can inhale in peace. When finished with the main event, I approach the desert line to get fine Greek pastries to go, most are unpronounceable but look yummy. Boxed up and paid, I run off to local coffee shack to continue the eatathon. Nice boy at counter automatically biggie sizes my coffee and I hole up in empty table to sip and eat Grecian baked beauties. Burrrpp, done I find myself with a abrupt tummy ache. Why am I surprised? I ate a whole bunch, maybe its Byzantine food poisoning, repayment for my past alliances with the Turks. Perhaps I'll self-combust in a ball of Greek Fire. After a little horizontal rest I feel better...I don't think my cast iron stomach is as cast iron as it was before.
Left work early to attend the final opera performance of the season, La Boheme. First time I have seen this supposedly most beloved of operas. Nice composition and voices, but I found myself nodding off and generally uninterested, maybe I need to sit through this one again in the future. Not nearly as well done as the Cinderella production earlier in the season. Decide to attend opening day of local Greek food festival, wait in line about forty minutes of so, tanned senior citizen couple in front of me kept doting over the several small children young family behind me, the small children kept poking me in the back despite their Mother's warnings. When I finally get to the food counter I load up with Greek chicken and rice, green beans and feta salad. Easily find an empty table where I can inhale in peace. When finished with the main event, I approach the desert line to get fine Greek pastries to go, most are unpronounceable but look yummy. Boxed up and paid, I run off to local coffee shack to continue the eatathon. Nice boy at counter automatically biggie sizes my coffee and I hole up in empty table to sip and eat Grecian baked beauties. Burrrpp, done I find myself with a abrupt tummy ache. Why am I surprised? I ate a whole bunch, maybe its Byzantine food poisoning, repayment for my past alliances with the Turks. Perhaps I'll self-combust in a ball of Greek Fire. After a little horizontal rest I feel better...I don't think my cast iron stomach is as cast iron as it was before.
Thursday, May 01, 2003
Wednesday, April 23, 2003
PBEgg
After a day at work I spent some time with co-workers at Home Despot buying things for work and then a bad late night dinner at a high expectations Mexican restaurant. We spent some time talking about it and decided that I am much more White Trash than I realized. After our meal James and I split a Hershey's peanut butter egg he had left over from Easter.
Tuesday, April 08, 2003
Symphony No. 9 in D minor Op.125 "Choral"
It is such a great thing that the final manuscript of the 9th Symphony still exists. I hope it finds a good home.
It is such a great thing that the final manuscript of the 9th Symphony still exists. I hope it finds a good home.
Chinese Fast Food Take Out & Eat In
The sun bleached photographs of various selections drew me in along with the other bold signs. A few people eating in mostly Asians, an Asian girl in fount of me gives her order to the bright eyed counter guy, he then finds it on the paper menu and rattles it off on the microphone to the chef. After she's done she whips out her phone and talks super fast Chinese to somebody. I'm up next, Orange flavored chicken and Wonton soup, bright eyes looks at menu and fires off order over the man in the back, man in back gives me a look at then gets back to the job at hand. Soon the meal is up served in white Styrofoam finery. Find a place to sit, place is sorta a wreck, sit near snoopy "i ok your ok" banner. Food's good, rice a little lumpy, frumpy American women behind me is complaining about how the Styrofoam dinnerware is environmentally unkind, yeah, yeah, i guess your right, give it a rest, blah, blah blah now she's fixated on the correct pronunciation of "Lo Mein." Environmentally unkindness pushed into trash, plastic tray put on top, out i go. On way back notice once graffiti laced alley now a wild west gunslinger scene, i spend some time but leave before i have to defend myself and "draw".
The sun bleached photographs of various selections drew me in along with the other bold signs. A few people eating in mostly Asians, an Asian girl in fount of me gives her order to the bright eyed counter guy, he then finds it on the paper menu and rattles it off on the microphone to the chef. After she's done she whips out her phone and talks super fast Chinese to somebody. I'm up next, Orange flavored chicken and Wonton soup, bright eyes looks at menu and fires off order over the man in the back, man in back gives me a look at then gets back to the job at hand. Soon the meal is up served in white Styrofoam finery. Find a place to sit, place is sorta a wreck, sit near snoopy "i ok your ok" banner. Food's good, rice a little lumpy, frumpy American women behind me is complaining about how the Styrofoam dinnerware is environmentally unkind, yeah, yeah, i guess your right, give it a rest, blah, blah blah now she's fixated on the correct pronunciation of "Lo Mein." Environmentally unkindness pushed into trash, plastic tray put on top, out i go. On way back notice once graffiti laced alley now a wild west gunslinger scene, i spend some time but leave before i have to defend myself and "draw".
Sunday, April 06, 2003
The tendencies of his culture
Today i escaped work to have brunch with the Turk. I had a reconstituting steak and eggs breakfast and he had a Feta omelette. We talked about the war and the tendencies of his culture to treat women prisoners badly. After work I ran off to do laundry, whites and some colors. I thought Sunday night would have been slow but it was packed with everybody. Somehow i didn't bring the copy of Fahrenheit 451 i bought today with me, so i sat and watched some sappy women's movie on the Lifetime channel. On the walk back i noticed in the distance the bright flickering of the carousel being tested for next weeks carnival.
Today i escaped work to have brunch with the Turk. I had a reconstituting steak and eggs breakfast and he had a Feta omelette. We talked about the war and the tendencies of his culture to treat women prisoners badly. After work I ran off to do laundry, whites and some colors. I thought Sunday night would have been slow but it was packed with everybody. Somehow i didn't bring the copy of Fahrenheit 451 i bought today with me, so i sat and watched some sappy women's movie on the Lifetime channel. On the walk back i noticed in the distance the bright flickering of the carousel being tested for next weeks carnival.
Friday, March 21, 2003
Crazy Woman with Axe
Morning coffee and cherry/almond muffin, joined again by the T-man, i grab quick glances of my favorite coffee people. We had to remove three doors to get that new fixture in for rearrangement number fourtyseven, it was a big rack to hold overflowing inventory. Only listened to wartime am radio for a bit, turned it off to pay attention to switching up our items for a new look, doubles and do nothings will go in the basement after i get lunch. Lunch is cranberry juice and a mozzerella sandwich, wolfboy sighting and encounter. Pushy and cute phone sales gal cuts through our barbwire and gets us to switch, the staff is so easily swayed by a smile, i guess we saved some money. Leave work a little early to don ape suite because it's an opera night. Don't shave and i take about fifteen minutes to get my red tie just right or right enough for me. Ride cuts it close time wise but after having to deal with a parking thug we make it as the curtain rips apart at the start of Richard Strauss' Elektra. Despite a valiant effort we started this one without our customary boxes of Dotts gum drops. Greek tragedy with a nice set, good voices and and a great score, no intermission so it was done in under two hours, good opera.
Morning coffee and cherry/almond muffin, joined again by the T-man, i grab quick glances of my favorite coffee people. We had to remove three doors to get that new fixture in for rearrangement number fourtyseven, it was a big rack to hold overflowing inventory. Only listened to wartime am radio for a bit, turned it off to pay attention to switching up our items for a new look, doubles and do nothings will go in the basement after i get lunch. Lunch is cranberry juice and a mozzerella sandwich, wolfboy sighting and encounter. Pushy and cute phone sales gal cuts through our barbwire and gets us to switch, the staff is so easily swayed by a smile, i guess we saved some money. Leave work a little early to don ape suite because it's an opera night. Don't shave and i take about fifteen minutes to get my red tie just right or right enough for me. Ride cuts it close time wise but after having to deal with a parking thug we make it as the curtain rips apart at the start of Richard Strauss' Elektra. Despite a valiant effort we started this one without our customary boxes of Dotts gum drops. Greek tragedy with a nice set, good voices and and a great score, no intermission so it was done in under two hours, good opera.
Thursday, March 20, 2003
Why was he wearing three purple hearts on his army jacket, I not so sure about that. Hey, didn't he justrub my belly..what's that all about. Listen to am radio coverage of the Iraqi invasion all day at work, not a good day to be a Jordanian taxi driver in Bagdad. Marines and Army seem to be poised to strike hard unless the the Iraqi military throws the white flag. It seems the the most destructive military force on the planet, the United States Air Force hasn't really yet started for the same reasons. The next few days should be interesting and tense. Anti-war rally started downtown late afternoon and ended in mass arrests by eight or so, we will be seeing more of this I'm sure, especially here on campus. When giving weather reports the radio news have added Bagdad and Kuwait City to the list, it has become an immediate matter. Chicken Lo Mein and green tea for dinner.
Trying to get work done at coffee shop when T asks if he can sit at my table, of course I say yes. I put away my papers and pen and listen to T talk about war and what could happen in the next few days. I listen, he paints some horrifing pictures for here and abroad. Professional woman sitting next to us who is obviously listening is visibly uncomfortable with T's outlook. I listen, look at some of my favorite coffee shop folk and take it in. I soon leave to finish my immediate work and continue a normal day while thinking how frantic things are on the other side of the world.
Wednesday, March 19, 2003
Just spent some time with Colonel Dax and the spent men of the 701st regiment as they were ordered to take "The Anthill." Saw Paths of Glory for the first time, poignant anti-war film. Effective photography and Kirk Douglas was outstanding.