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Got hired today for the DotCom dept at work - so along with selling panties and frilly bras and oogling swimsuit models all day long , I will be providing some type of internet support for those women whose computers just do not want to order the spandex ass support slimming panty in 28ww. I can help them with that! woohhoo!

Went out and had two or three mugs of draught last night, then two beer at home and one at the girlfriends and woke up today with a headache fit for I don't even know what. And I don't know why, I never used to get hungover or head aches or sick and I was told after you quit smoking you never would get a morning after headache again, but it seems like everytime I have a beer or two I need the Advil. It's not fair.

Been looking at buying a house lately as well, but don't know where, or what - small starter home, larger fixer upper, country, city, rental property - my head is spinning. Got writers cramp trying to write down all the attractive places on the "real estate channel". $12,000 for half a companyhouse with a garage and decent sized front and back yard. Want's the catch? Are the neighbours psychos or what? And if so, why not buy it and rent it out? Too many of those situations on that channel - why are they so cheap? Then there's the $100,000 homes in the dumpy neighbourhoods, as if there was gold or oil in the ground. Anyway - I won't be having much of a say in where we go, neither will she if thats what your thinking, the bank is going to have the most control over that. Hmmmm, maybe it'll be the Credit Union. We'll see.

Gotta go
Stay Skinny

Is it just me or.......no, I think it's just me. I work in a call center where the management turnover surpasses the employee turnover - somethings wrong there - just not sure what yet, but it opens up all sorts of new job opertunities for the little guy (and gal) in there. But they take one llok at the speling mastakes in my rusume and I'm knot in a chance there.

Been six weeks off the butts now, and just starting to cough up brown stuff. Like WOW eh? That long. But there's money in my account and I'm feeling healthier, and there dosent appear to be a problem being around smokers while drinking either so I think this one will stick! yaeh!!

Theres quite the snow pile out in the yard right now, and plenty more coming down with some high winds so it looks like I'll be out shovelling tommorrow sometime, for a little bit anyway. I just love going to bed knowing what tommorrow holds in store. Feeling like a precog, back is burning already.

Time to hit the fartsack.
Skinnylickingood

nother new

Well, I 'm trying this google Adsense program on for size and it really dosent look to intrussive up there does it. Color matches and it stays up there out of the way. I kinda like it - almost makes the page look a little more professional, and it really does need that, indeed it does. But it means I actually have to do updates a bit more often.



<>-- things I've learned in Customer Service (part 1) --<>
I know it's your $1.95 and if I was you I would want it credited back to my account too, but not if I have to wait 25 minutes in a queue, listening to hold music for it. My time is worth more than that. Some people apparently will do this for one single solitary shiny nickle to be placed back on thier credit card. A NICKLE!!! Hey it's thier time and money though it is my nerves. Don't know how long I can do this for.

The Oscars seemed to be a bit contrived I thought. Everything nominated won something sometime during the evening I think. The age of the runaway blockbuster has come to a close. Pete Jackson, please hurry with King Kong. We need you for next years show.

Hair dryer anyone?

Looks like there's as many friggin hair dryers as there is toothbrushes out there on the market. Well so I've been told. Porcelin elements, ionizing properties, super blow(? sounds good, but it's not like that really), cold wind, 6 speeds...yada, yada, yada. Well, she went on and on about them, but at least I wasn't there to experience it first hand, and it should last a lot longer than an oral b, so I shouldn't have to hear about it again for a long time. She could possibly be dead before she needs another hair dryer, right? Right!??!!

Some change in the weather since last post. God almighty, what a snow storm. What a rain storm after it. What a snow storm to follow the rain storm. Seems there are no seasons anymore.

Even with only one third of the staff at work today we were slow, slow, slow. Must be due to the holiday in the U.S. , though in my experience that usually drives call volume. Oh well, more time to look at the screen and say, "damn I wish I could get access to the web."

Was so blitzed Saturday night, they painted me up with mascara and other pretty things. Man, I was cute. Got it all off for work the next day but about half-way through the day the hangover started kicking in and man I thought my head was gonna explode. They say live and learn but for some reason I never seem to get it. Twelve beer in two hours makes Skinny a funny guy.

Happy Martin Luther King Day! See ya in Selma.

Can you believe the weather? Horray for global warming!!
Jan.14th and +11C outside. Awsome! I ate lunch outside on Xmas eve in the 10 degree weather and now the snow is meltin and the warm winds of a messed up global environment are blowing on through. Two years ago I had frost-bite at this time of the year in the -50C with the windchill, this is just an incredibly unexpected turn of events. If the sun had come out today it probably would have hit 20C. Beach weather!!

Work is busier than it has ever been, where do Americans get that kinda money after Xmas, $1800 worth the clothes? Maybe send some to the Tsunami relief fund and go without that sequined chiffon blouse for another coupla weeks darlin.

What did microsoft do to IE this time? Friggin thing freezes cold like the girlfriends heart when I try to go to hotmail. Seems they want MSN Messenger open at the time and I don't want that to happen. Moved on to firefox because of it. Much easier to deal with, over 17 million downloads since nov. 9th, takes some tweakin and some add-on installation but than it works like a charm. Check it out here -

Anyway got to go be skinny for a while before the girlfriend gets off work and I'm back on the clock!
Viva la Global Warming!!
Skinnylickingood

Breathe skinnyman, breathe.
She says she wants to discuss the movie, mainly it's flaws I think to myself and I am right as rain.
I enjoyed it, says I. Why tear down this evenings outing in some pale attempt at one upping a Hollywood director? Which I didn't say.
Why can't we look for holes in the plot and character and logic misappropriations, says she.
Cause you just want someone to agree with what you are thinking is all, and apparently thats what her sister is for.
We haven't argued about a movie in so long says she, why not tonight.
Hmmmm, because the last time we discussed a cinematic encounter, starting said conversation before stepping off the curb into the parking lot of the theatre, we ended up in a shouting match 45 minutes later cumulating in my storming out of your house and going home without watching CSi, I think.
Cause I just want to enjoy the movie going experience and watch some T.V tonight, I say.
Not good enough though.
Every comment I make during the evenings television viewing - even as minor as "look at that painting on the wall behind her"- results in epitaths such as "don't rip it apart" and "why over- analys it?"
So I didn't get to relax and watch CSi after all. But I did finally get to watch it. She swears she won't go to the theatre with me any more. And thats just fine. There's a new Matthew Maconnegh (spelling??) movie coming out soon and she can wait for the friggen DVD.

Why are there so many choices of tooth brush out there? Ok, different colors and sizes sure, but can't the ADA just choose a design that is actually THE best? The only toothbrush the human race will ever need? Why must my girlfriend be forced to spend 45 minutes in the toothbrush aisle at Walmart to chose between so many of nearly the same product? Figure out which bristle array and head shape combination is the best and be done with it. Please!

merry boxing day

Time for another kick at the blogger cat. Merry Christmas to all, though I really think Sheldon's the only person who reads this thing on any regular basis - so Merry Christmas Sheldon! LOL Learn that song - it's easy once ya get the wrist thing going properly.
Had a ball at Shawn and Trina's Christmas day bash, brought the guitars and harmonicas and got right loaded up, didn't get home until like 5 am, and had work at 11:30 - bummer - but got there OK. Sat through a coupla hours of waiting 25 minutes for a 2 minute phone call - cause OPS is in another country and they wouldn't send us home but what the hell. Frees up more time this week for leaving early I guess. Worked Xmas eve right til the end of the shift, turns out the operation in Manilla is 12 hours ahead of us and was closed for Xmas so we got all the calls from the people who wanted to order underwear on Xmas eve, yes underwear on Xmas eve. Or "where's the credit for my return?" Some people need to get a life I think. At least with tech support people got away from their puters for the most part on special holidays and gave most people a break when they were stuck at work.
Thats my boring life, in a nutshell - for now - til I hit the super 7 jackpot anyway

Talking to Americans on the phone, the racism against the middle eastern peoples is rampant - one women said "our building is full of THEM" - and I guess if they are uneducated or brainwashed to the point of inability to make a sane decision on thier own, then it would be understandable. But most of the people I talk to are quite articulate and some even speak as if they come from breeding families. I don't understand how they can be so blind, hurt I can see, but blind is another story altogether.
1182 is the body count for dead americans in Iraq since George W declared "mission accomplished".
1319 is the total in Iraq since Mar.19 / 03. Do the math. Six times the causulties after the war.

Try the Dooley's yet? Get yourself to the LC and grab some of that for the holiday cheer. A carmel/toffee liquer made specifically for shooting or sipping out of a coffee mug or mixing into your morning coffee or licking it off a loved ones inner thigh. But not for lighting on fire (no flaming dooley's) and not for mixing with anything (it might just make a nice paralyzer or white russian but....naaaa) Drink this sucker straight outta the jar or shot glasses - which provided in the gift set by the way are ROUND bottomed - intensifying the whole experience as the shot glasses resemble a weeble, and rocks back and forth when they are inevitably dropped to the table at some point during the evening (or morning - whatever) festivities. Good stuff, drink lots. And I don't own a single share in the company.

20/20

got contacts, no glasses no more. Takes some gettin used to though. Crying like a little girl when i put them in, but it's better/wierder/clearer than before. gotta remember to wash my hands before puttin them in, especially as a smoker - got that nicotene going in the eye ball and it hurts like hell, thus the aforementioned crying like a little girl. Gotta quit smoking, really though, if thats what happens from just a finger tip of the chems, what is it doing to everything else inside, well at least I won't leave a four-eyed corpse!

skinny - lickin - 20/20

Hey, leave a message. What do you think? What bothers you?
Is it me? I really didn't do anything. Well then fine if thats the
way you feel about it then go, just go.

Work, work, work, work. Got a nice bonous of two unemployment checks in the mail yesterday, $852.00 for christmas. That'll make the holidays a little more festive. Add that tp the $320.00 wal mart gift card I won at work, and the 96 hour pay checks I'm getting and all of a sudden, things aren't so bleak. Still all messed up over buying gifts for christmas though. Just what to buy is the problem now, instead of how to buy. Guess things could be worse. I could still be at Stream! ha ha lol

You Want Bras With That?

So selling womens clothes over the phone turns out to not be as hard as one might think. They phone, they want clothes, you order it for them. Much easier than tech support for morons. When someone starts hymmin and hawwin at the start of a call, I know they'll be off my phone in under 5 minutes. Yes. Five (5) minutes. Where as with level 2 tech support for pissed off morons, as soon as I would hear the moaning on the other end, my stomach and bowels would freeze nearly solid, knowing I would be on the phone anywhere from 45 minutes to an hour with the whinning "whats a double click" person. So far I've had no problems with the transition, although the lack of stress at work is a very differnet situation from what I've been used to. And it's 95% women there. Heee Heee. Niiiice place to work.

Skinnylickingood

Where no man has gone before

I don't believe the human race will ever reach the summit on thier uphill climb and finally achieve the dream Gene Rodenberry had of life in the future. Imagine it for a moment. No war on planet Earth, friends with E.T's who are of different shape, color and language. Everybody pulling together for the good of the species and not for personal monetary gain. No nationalism, no more flag waving countries, no more dictators and fanatics.
Six hundred years from now, who the hell knows what could be happening to the human race. Technological advances in the last hundred years were so far reaching we can only expect there to be an exponential increase in discoverys in science and technology. Already we have some of the worlds richest men getting together to put privatized space craft into orbit (for commercial use, of course!) But when these guys decide there has to be a better way to do things like this, a cheaper way that is, technology will advance to supply it. Of course we would have deep space flights already if someone told the U.S government they had discovered an oil planet. There would be tankers and warships headed for the planet of black gold pretty damnquick.
But what is really standing in the way of any real sense of oneness in the human race is religion. "My religion is the one religion. I'm right and you're wrong, and if you disagree with me anymore, I will find you and kill you and all of your kind."
Religion. It belongs in peoples hearts and minds, not in our governments and schools. There are far too many differing races and religions in the public schools to satisfy everybodys rules and holidays. So what do we do, we take the catholic approach and the very same people who came to this country and stole it from the native inhabitants, escaping religious persecution in thier homelands, enforce thier own rules and regulations on the diverse masses in the new lands. In my hometown this year, Halloween was pushed ahead a day to Oct. 30, because it wouldn't be appropriate to celebrate it on a Sunday. But isn't the Jewish sabbath on Saturday? You cannot satisfy anybody without offending somebody else.
Anyway, the point is, we are not going to get any closer to the ideal future that awaits us ala "Star Trek" until we can all get together as one, either one religion or no religion, and without personal profit being the motivating factor in getting anything good acomplished on this little blue planet.
By the way, I'm not a star trek fan. I always though Star Wars was a more realistic fantasy world. Realistic fantasy world is a great oxymoron. Use it somewhere if you can. Watch this space for future ammendments.

In case you tried the link below for the travel web site and were as disapointed as I was (if possible) to find out that it dosent work, I've since upgraded the link so it should work now, without prompting for a username and password.
Or click here if you don't want to scroll down.
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questions

Who is the Nivea Soft girl? Why is that the only commercial I've ever seen her in?
Does the T.V season start later each year and finish sooner, or is it just me?
Why does a Baseball game, covered on only one major network, even a record setting come from behind win by the Sox, pre-empt programming on ALL other stations?
Only 60-some days left till Christmas - bet ya'll love to hear that!
Why is the cigarette habit the only thing I have a real problem dropping? No other booze or drugs have ever had this tight a grip on me, or done so much damage to both body and mind alike.
Why do I blog at 3:30 am when I should have been asleep long ago?
Is it too late to be asking such stupid questions?

- Sleepless in cyberspace -

the hotmail post - 250Mbs

So my hotmail account just leaped up to 250Mbs thats impressive, just when I was starting to hate the whole Microsoft corporation, they turn around and do this for me. aaaaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww! I think they should send me a couple hundred dollars for mental anguish before they think for a second that we are anywhere close to even. Then they can might get me to try SP2, again. Puter wouldn't even boot properly after puttin that "update" on. Maybe I should try again, they might have gotten another patch fixed up for it. uuungh I still don't wanna do that again, though that couple hundred dollars would be a big glob of grease for the wheels.

So, everything still sucks

Here I am, it's after midnight, pissing down rain outside, and "the Chris Rock" HBO special is paused on the DVD player. It's halarious. Rent it, buy it, borrow it, what ever you have to do, if you don't mind lots of "F" words and even more "N" words it's well worth the hour and a half you'll spend in front of the T.V that night. Just put the kids to bed first!

Gonna get $400 to create, build and implement a web site for the mother in laws travel agency and I can't seem to get my ass in gear to finish the friggen thing! I need the cash like yesterday, bills are just-a-piling up now, but I have no direction to go with it. Got the obligatory cool flash intro built and hosted all ready at a free hosting site though - click here if your curious to see it
Travel Universal Flash intro
But that's about all I've really got. Trying to get some cool CSS effects down before I launch into something for the world to see and hopefully open up some more bussiness for the agency.
I have free reign on this project and I'm starting to think I may work better when there's a specific agenda to follow, something that I need to produce to / for someone's exacting standards. I wrote 2200 words the last two days for part 1 of a short story (which isn't looking too short right now, by the way), which has as much likelyhood of getting published or even placing in a literary contest as I do winning the lottery, but can't get a simple web design project up and running for cold hard cash. I looked at templates on the web and the free ones for the most part suck, but I wasn't enamored with the ones that cost money either. They looked atrocious and I couldn't see myself nabbing one (or paying for it) and passing it off as my own, even after I changed everything around and put my own pictures and modified the layout, it would still suck.
So I need a kick in the ass to get my creative juices (a little html and css juices wouldn't hurt either) flowing and soon. Anybody got any ideas on how to get this kinda project up and running, dropping a line or a reply would be great.
Till next time -

- Stuck between a Web and a hard place

Me.....a star?

Me....A Star!!

Well I could be! I think. I could do any one of those reality shows, really, how hard is it to pick up pigs hearts covered in blood with your teeth? Thats about the hardest thing I've seen on any of these shows yet. Or jump on a plane and "race" around the world? That survivor shit is the rough stuff though, not that I'm an asshole or anything like that, but I can't kiss ass enough (and I'm not pretty enough) to win a popularity contest like that. That bachelor sure has the easy ride though, dating and makin out with like 14 women, chosing which one he thinks will be the best in bed. And thats ONLY if he dosent get to test drive them before-hand. That would certainly make the decision easier, and a much more worthwhile study. I could do that job. Yeah, I could be star.