My latest website gig: Eden’s Harvest Birth & Well Woman Center’s new website is up and runnng!
Joe: Daphne told me Adie’s blog is a fuckin’ riot but I haven’t been reading blogs lately.
Me: Yeah, basically it’s all yer ex-bitches. Dude, I really like most of your exes, on the Internet anyway!
Joe: It’s embarrasing. At least there isn’t a board—
Me: I’ll make one! I’ll add a “JOE’S EX-BITCHES” section to Rants—
Joe: —no, no, no! I’ll die!
Me: —and we can all hang out there and NOT TALK ABOUT YOU! *laugh*
Joe: *groan* Don’t you dare.
Me: We’ll have to find more girls though—
Joe: —maybe I can find some new ones. *pause* Yeah right.
Me: As long as they’re board-worthy—
When we got home last night, there wasn’t any power. No lights, no heat, nothing. We went out with the dogs and a flashlight and checked our wires; we own all the wiring on our property and are responsible for all of it. The power company will only work on it up to the transformer and after that, it’s our problem. (Oh, the joys of home ownership.)
When Brett had determined that all our lines were up, we went inside and I lit some candles and called Access Energy.
Amazingly, a woman answered the main number at eight o’clock at night. She said she knew there was some problem in Batavia, and that crews were working on it.
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My coworker Buzz and I are in the office at the same time for the first time since I got my iPod mini. So I said, “Do you wanna see my Christmas present already?” And the poor bastard said, “Yes.”
…and ten minutes later, head shaking slowly back and forth, he intoned, “You shouldn’t have shown this to me,” and he’s surfing for 30Gb iPods now. LOL!
I thought it was just roos, but apparently it’s all pseudo-conscious hippie freaks everywhere!
“There are so many ‘aware’ consumers carefully reading labels and making proclaimations about the product in their hands–to the air, if they’re alone. They won’t get out of your way if you just need that one carton of chicken stock behind them, they just stand there all doped up on anti-depressants and Valerian and wrapped in fleece and natural fibers and stare at you like you requested a kidney if you ask them to please step aside.”
Read the most wonderful rant ever, Why I Hate Whole Foods, from Rants & Raves on craigslist.org.
I hitched a ride to town this morning with Mr. Brett, because it’s icy and snowy and shitty out and planning to get worse, and as he surfed his giant V10 Dodge Ram down the various blacktop, we listened to comedy on his XM radio.
Robin Williams! Bernie Mac! Dave Attel! Red Foxx! Right there inside the radio!
Comedy is fun. Laughing your ass of two or three times during your morning commute is good.
I think I approve of the satellite radio, and I definitely approve of my redneck beloved jealously carrying around little bits of geekdom!
If you, like me, can’t run iTunes on, say, your WORK COMPUTER, but you need to get to yer tunes, then check it: iPod Music Liberator 2.7 byZelek Software. Meep!
… WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT TONIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT…
FREEZING RAIN AND SLEET WILL OVERSPREAD THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON… AND CONTINUE THROUGH WEDNESDAY BEFORE CHANGING TO SNOW WEDNESDAY NIGHT. SIGNIFICANT ICE ACCUMULATIONS OF ONE QUARTER TO ONE HALF INCH ARE EXPECTED… ALONG WITH SNOW ACCUMULATIONS OF 1 TO 4 INCHES. IN ADDITION… NORTHEAST WINDS OF 15 TO 25 MPH… COMBINED WITH THE SIGNIFICANT ICE ACCUMULATION ON TREES AND POWER LINES… COULD RESULT IN CONSIDERABLE TREE DAMAGE AND POWER OUTAGES.
Friday, the biggest party night of the year, we did nothing.
Brett fell asleep on the couch ’round eight; I read and listened to my iPod and wandered around the house amusing myself and probably fell asleep sometime after midnight. I really don’t recall.
Saturday, with the PlayStation on the fritz and his paycheck burning a hole in his pocket, Brett talked me into going to Walmart to pick up a replacement PS2. There wasn’t one, of course – the entire nation is out of PS2s this soon after Christmas. But somehow we decided to go to Iowa City, to Best Buy, where Brett became the proud daddy of a Delphi XM SKYFi2, a stereo connetion kit for the Hillbilly Boom Box, and a lovely quarterly subscription to satellite radio. He installed it in the parking lot outside Best Buy, where it was getting dark and raining heavily.
He loves it. HE LOVES IT. The man spent two hours Sunday morning sitting in his truck playing with his SKYFi.
I got a cigarette lighter power cord for the iPod, and a CD – Todd Rundgren’s Liars, his first all-new album in over ten years. (I went home and immediately fed it to the iPod.) I love Todd. Todd is Godd. The track “Soul Brother” is fucking PRICELESS.
On the drive to Iowa City, I knitted my iPod a cozy. Yes, I know this is totally gay but I don’t care. (And neither do these people.)
All in all, a furiously fun day, and a good augury for the year to come.
Sunday we went and bought groceries at (ahem) the Super Walmart in ScrOttumwa. Now, I realize Walmart’s disgusting and that I shouldn’t give them my money. But. I got a cart so full of groceries it was difficult to steer around corners and it only cost me $125.00. There’s no way in HELL all that stuff could have been produced for $125.00… the cardboard, plastic, shrink wrap, ink, printing, die cutting, transportation… not even counting the actual FOOD ITSELF. How the hell will the economy survive if goods sell for less than it costs to produce them?
Or does this price trough exist only to kill the competition? Will prices go back up as soon as there’s nowhere else to shop?
Either way, the old kitchen is stocked with yummy foodies. I don’t know if I should feel elated or shitty. *shrug*
Monday I cleaned, listed a tool to sell (on eBay) for Brett, chatted heavily with Keef over IM, got wood (and kept the stove nearly closed down to conserve it since we’ve only a few days left) [CALL ME IF YOU KNOW WHERE TO GET A LOAD OF SPLIT WOOD, WE’RE SO ALMOST OUT IT’S NOT FUNNY.], made tea in my new Nissan thermos and drank it, and made a killer meal for my beloved: Italian sausage, pesto, and a killer baby spinach-onion-carrot salad with lemon vinagrette and bleu cheese.
Ah shit, I need to fix a customer’s web site. (Yeah, I’m at work.) Ciao!
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Song: Soul Brother
Album: Liars
Artist: Todd Rundgren
…DES MOINES IA-HENDERSON IL-HENRY IA-JEFFERSON IA-VAN BUREN IA- WARREN IL- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF… BURLINGTON… FAIRFIELD… KEOSAUQUA… MONMOUTH… MOUNT PLEASANT… OQUAWKA
… WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT TONIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT…
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DAVENPORT HAS ISSUED A WINTER STORM WARNING.
FREEZING RAIN AND SLEET WILL OVERSPREAD THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON… AND CONTINUE THROUGH WEDNESDAY BEFORE CHANGING TO SNOW WEDNESDAY NIGHT. SIGNIFICANT ICE ACCUMULATIONS OF ONE QUARTER TO ONE HALF INCH WILL BE POSSIBLE… ALONG WITH SNOW ACCUMULATIONS OF 1 TO 4 INCHES.
IN ADDITION… NORTHEAST WINDS OF 10 TO 20 MPH… COMBINED WITH THE SIGNIFICANT ICE ACCUMULATION ON TREES AND POWER LINES… COULD RESULT IN CONSIDERABLE TREE DAMAGE AND POWER OUTAGES.
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