wednesday.

The girl I work with went crazy with some Lysol. She then went to eat her oatmeal and found that she had sprayed it as well. I laughed at her.

commercial

I'm a little bugged by a commercial I keep seeing on various channels throughout the day. 

It isn't the True North Nut commercial that changed it's dialog from "Nut Snack" to just "Snack". Evidently people thought (myself included) that at the end of the commercial it said "nut sack". But they changed it so its ok. 

I'm talking about the commericals from the Corn Refiners Association that ususally show some ignorant teen chowing down on some food and then his know-it-all friend is like, "Huh.. dude... uh.. you know that food is full of that... you know... bad stuff." Before he can finish, the ignorant one interrupts him with "DUDE. Shut your ugly mouth. High Fructose Corn Syrup is just as safe as sugar and is perfectly fine in moderation... #$&@$ idiot." By then his friend feels dumb and either wets his pants and walks away, or something else I don't remember. *

Come on. Really? Go in your cupboard, look at the ingredients of whatever you are eating or drinking and you will see that high fructose corn syrup is probably in there somewhere. What the Corn Refiners Association isn't telling you that everything you eat is derived from Corn. The meat, the dairy, the candy, the soda... You can't get away from it. There is no possible way to escape high fructose corn syrup, unless you are a hermit,  lack a mouth or stomach, or eat dirt like garit. 

I'm not against high fructose corn syrup, I actually embrace the stuff (remember that 6lb. bag of gummi bears I got for my birthday? Oh yes, that was awesome) . I just think its pretty lame of the Corn Refiners Association to tell everyone that they'll honestly be able to eat any amount of high fructose corn syrup in moderation. That's a joke. 

*Note: I'm like really exaggerating here. For reals.

quick post

I was thinking of this when I drove to work this morning. I had to get gas and I had to keep checking my mirrors for something. Some of my worst fears:

1. Driving away from the gas station with the hose or nozzle still attached and/or the gas tank door open. I can never remember if I actually put the cap on and shut the tank door properly. I've gone so far as to get out and check. I even think that I sometimes still have the hose connected, and that gas is probably spraying all over the Chevron.

2. Dropping my keys down a storm drain. I instinctively reach into my pockets to protect my keys every time I walk around or over a storm drain. What would I do if it actually happened?! Would I have to jump down in the muck and find them myself? That would be a nightmare.

3. Being accused of Shoplifting*. I always get nervous looking at those small black security cameras at Walmart or any store and I keep thinking, "They're watching me... They're watching me..." When I leave a store I always picture the alarms going off, and a sweaty bald man grabbing my arm telling me that he knows what I did. For some odd reason I get the same feeling from Librarians.



*Note: I don't steal.

flyer

september

The internets have abandoned me, but I have returned.

Some updates:

Took my old computer apart, and inherited another. I use a laptop running Win98SE for school. People give me weird looks behind their chrome Macbook Pros, and wonder "What is that?!" I'm sure when Win98 was new that they were probably just leaving the 6th grade. I'm collecting old DOS games to ease the tension. Play Nethack. Google it. My telepathic caveman died on the 7th level.

I'm becoming more irrelevant everyday. No one understands my jokes at work, and they probably see me as a modern version of a village idiot. I'm waiting for the deus ex machina to come down from the ceiling to fix the situation, and save me from ending my own life.

School is going along. This semester isn't as hard as the last few I've had. I should probably be reading a book right now. I've got like 12 I should be reading. I read during my lunch breaks, and when I'm zoning out in class.

Autopilot: When everything is replaced in a blur and loss of any recollection of time and space occurs. It happens when I'm driving... I come home or arrive at school and don't remember how I got there. Autopilot hits when I'm sitting in class, staring at something and realize that class is already over, and I don't remember anything.

I've picked a topic for my thesis. I'm going to study the southwestern expedition of Francisco Vasquez de Coronado. When I told Nat she told me that I was boring. Come on! They made it to freaking KANSAS! Nat rolled her eyes. Right now I'm trying to find some sources to help me research the topic, and form a thesis that I will work on for the next year or so.

There's a new sandwich place a block away from our condo. They opened up about a week ago, and the buzz was that they were pretty good. I demand quality from any sandwich so we had to go down and try it out. I ate a prosciutto and provolone on ciabatta bread. It was great. We walked to reduce our carbon footprint. Somewhere across the infinite expanse of space I thought I could hear a polar bear laughing at us.

We're planning a trip to the Dugway geode beds. In a couple of weeks we are going to the middle of nowhere to dig up geodes and crack 'em open. I'm sure garit knows how geodes are made: there's a little button on the side of his hover_science_jector that creates them. When pressed it ejects a perfect HD geode by the power of science. They melt in your mouth, not it your hands.

Am I taking crazy pills?! Am I the only one that sees the word GIMMICK stamped across Sarah Palin's forehead? Its like a bad movie and Macaulay Culkin is there, and you know that all logic left the room, and you leave the theater thinking, "I paid $8.50 for that?!". Yes! You did!

People talk too loud.

yesterday

I went riding last night on the bike looking for some geocaches around my house. I suck at geocaching. I'll either find them or look like an idiot for ten minutes circling around looking for nothing. I found one last night, and I rode past a couple of others but there were too many people around that would see what I was doing. You have to be sneaky about it.

So yeah, I climbed two or three hills (they were real hills this time) and came to the top of one and puked. It was awesome. After a short recovery I rode back down by nat's school in search of another geocache. That didn't work out so well either: according to the GPS the cache was way out in the middle of a field... and crashing through chest high brush and sticker bushes wasn't in the plans so I gave up on that one. I came home tired, yet strangely satisfied.

Going out again tonight to find some others that have been too risky to find.

alarm clock radio

Wake up to the smell and sound of bacon cooking.... yum!

stuff

Came home last night from work... played some ukulele (to my wife's annoyance- she was watching a stupid dancing show) and then went for a bike ride. I've given up trying to remove the stem myself... I'll eventually have to take it to a professional who has some real tools and can just do the job correctly (saw off the stem and remove/replace the whole thing). No big deal.

So I went up the road into Dan's old neighborhood. I went up a good hill... it nearly killed me. Once I got to the top I realized that the hill was more of a weak incline... Geez I'm out of shape. I rode a bike in Puerto Rico pretty much most the time, and while I was in Salinas I rode more than 20 miles a day. Good times. But these days just getting back to the biking mode will take some time.

I was chased by a big rottweiler dog, but its owner was able to call it back before it was able to get to top speed. After going there and back I came home.

Wii boxing is kicking my butt. I'm friggin sore from all the activity, which is contrary to my non-activity lifestyle.