did you just say "no" to ME?

I stopped off at one of my roommate's workplaces last weekend and was introduced to the new coffee-love of my life.  The starbucks on-demand coffee machine.

it grinds, it brews, it does everything in like 20 seconds.  it's amazing.

so i showed this picture to my CEO and said "I want it." and he said "How much?"  so I checked into it.

First I called starbucks.  They didn't actually sell them, outside distributors did, they just advertise them.   So I found the distributor that my roommate's workplace uses and called them.  Turns out you lease them as part of a coffee service, which is cool, but they wouldn't tell me how much or even think of leasing me one because my company is less than 100 people.

What the heck does that matter?  I still have to pay the price, don't I?

Screw you, distributor!  SCREW YOU.

How dare you stand in the way of me and my fresh brewed coffee.

h8.

pizza binge

Today I grabbed a can of Campbell's tomato soup (with little fish shaped noodles!) for lunch.  When I got to work there was a pizza party going on.  I guess it's the new secretary's birthday and the company decided to buy lunch, balloons and a cake.

Now, I could totally mention how my birthday a few weeks ago was totally overlooked and didn't even get the standard company card, but I won't.... even though I've been here for years and she's only been here a few weeks.   I could totally mention that, but I won't. 

So I totally binged on 4 huge slices of greasy pizza.  There went the weight I lost this week :P  Someday I'll learn some control,... someday.

just cuz i love this bum

crack open another

I have now finished off an entire box of tissues and just cracked open another.  it just won't stop!!   and these aren't little dainty blows... these are fill-the-tissue-oops-maybe-i-shoulda-used-3-at-once blows.

i'm so gross.  heh.

sick sick sick again

I woke up in the middle of the night with a sneezing fit. 

I've got a cold... AGAIN.

I blame it on the VP who said he was sick all last week after I said I had a cold.

DAMN YOU, STEVEN!

hate

Did you know that you can upgrade to vista if your using xp pro? Yeah I didn't know that either. You can only upgrade if your using xp home, media center or tablet edition.

I just wiped my computer last week and reinstalled everything. And today I'm being told everyone has to upgrade to vista in the office. Now I have to redo all that mess again.

I hate you microsoft, I really do.

Edit: Their website says yes, the dvd box set says no.

it made me laugh

Carolyn felt like she never quite fit in amongst the goth crowd.

nerdy goodness

Smitty came in asking what came after a terabyte. I was ready to say 2 terabytes, but kept it to myself. We just bought a new storage server and were taking guesses how much it could hold.

I didn't know the answer to his question. Crunchy knew the next two steps up, but we no idea what came after an exabyte. Here's just an interesting factoid for you nerdy size queens.

• 1000 Bytes = 1 Kilobyte


• 1000 Kilobytes = 1 Megabyte


• 1000 Megabytes = 1 Gigabyte


• 1000 Gigabytes = 1 Terabyte


• 1000 Terabytes = 1 Petabyte


• 1000 Petabytes = 1 Exabyte


• 1000 Exabytes = 1 Zettabyte


• 1000 Zettabyte = 1 Zottabyte


• 1000 Zottabyte = 1 Brontobyte (that's 1 followed by 27 zeroes)

sometimes you need a little more caffeine

It's been another one of THOSE days.

spongey goodness

So I stayed till way after midnight last night working on an issue on Crunchy's project. Nothing like another 13 hour day.

This morning he walks into the office and says, "Your probably grumpy and tired, right?"
I just grumbled back at him as I was too tired to form actual words.

So he surprised me with spongebob playing cards! WHEE!
The only bad thing is you have to decapitate him anytime you want to play cards, hehe.

A good one

STILL at work. Took a break to go through my email and saw this joke from a friend, couldn't help but post it. enjoy!

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George W Bush has a heart attack and dies. He immediately goes to hell, where the devil is waiting for him.

'I don't know what to do here' says the Devil. 'You are on my list, but I have no room for you. You definitely have to stay here, so I'll tell you what I'm going to do. I've got a couple of folks here who weren't quite as bad as you. I'll let one of them go, but you have to take their place. I'll even let YOU decide who leaves.'

George W thought that sounded pretty good, so the Devil opened the door to the first room. In it were Ted Kennedy and a large pool of water. He kept diving in, and surfacing, empty handed. Over, and over, and over he dived in and surfaced with nothing. Such was his fate in hell.

'No' George W said. 'I don't think so. I'm not a good swimmer, and I don't think I could do that forever.' The devil led him to the door of the next room. In it was Al Gore with a sledgehammer and a room full of rocks All he did was swing that hammer, time after time after time.

'No, I've got this problem with my shoulder. I would be in constant agony if all I could do was break rocks all day,' commented George W. The devil opened a third door. Through it, George W saw Bill Clinton, lying on the floor with his arms tied over his head, and his legs restrained in a spread-eagle pose. Bent over him was Monica Lewinsky, doing what she does best.

George W looked at this in shocked disbelief, and finally said 'Yeah, I can handle this.' The devil smiled and said . .
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'OK, Monica, you're free to go.'

i'm sooo hot

Normally when people pay me a compliment, I just agree with them. You know, in that fun joking way.

Someone: "Daniel, you look so sexy today!"
Me: "OMG, I know!"

You know, like that.

I went to lunch today with Malcolm to meet up with his Mom. I had excused myself from the table when a certain conversation took place. On the way home, Malcolm was telling me when I left his mom went on about how gorgeous my eyes were and how I have a nice face, stuff like that.

Malcolm: "You cannot tell him that when he get's back, He already thinks he's too pretty."

OMG, I AM pretty, lol.

I just think it's funny.

the blah blahs

I'm in a mood today.

I had to be at work early, which meant no work out. I got to bed late, which meant I didn't sleep much. There is a whole pile of work on my desk I don't want to deal with. I have a stack of bills at home I don't have the money to pay. And lastly my work computer is full of virii which nothing seems to be able to remove and it's making my computer uber slow.

I'm too tired to look on the bright side, if there is one. Blah blah blah.

new car

So my chrysler sebring broke one last time and something inside me snapped. I had enough!

I waited for Randy to come into town before going shopping since he was a lot Lot LOT more knowledgable on cars. I pretty much already knew what I wanted but I wanted opinions too. Besides, there was a lot of financials happening and it was nice to talk it through with someone to make sure I was making the right choice.

I bought a new 2008 Scion XB. I'll have to post better pics later, it's still just a stock car and I get all my addons later this week.

Before we left I packed all my old stuff from my other car, put it in the cargo area of the new one and closed things up. I took one last look at my old car. Randy walked up from behind and asked, "You going to miss it?" I looked at it... got angry, and kicked it with all my might. "I @%&*#@$% HATE YOU!!!" I screamed. *kick kick kick*

Everyone turned and stared.

I looked at Randy, smiled, let out a happy sigh, and got in my new car and drove off.

me working late again

Crunchy says I'm the only man he knows who can pull off Pink and Orange

happy victoria day

US-Canada Peace Arch (5/11/07)

Happy Victoria Day to all my Canadian homeys. Wish I could watch the fireworks (or whatever it is you do) with you guys.

Spent another glorious weekend in Vancouver bumming around and relaxing. And now, while I'm sitting at work with 6 people hounding me for things, I'm finding myself completely jealous that they all have an extra day off. At least we Americans have a day off soon as well and then I can rub it in all their faces, heh.

Today has been nice and lazy so far. Got up to go to the gym and spent a half hour trying to track down my gym clothes since my room is a giant disaster area at the moment. After getting changed I realized there was lease and background check papers waiting for me to fill out and pay by the new landlord. After a brief stop to the bathroom I saw I lost 4 lbs over the weekend so I wasn't feeling to bad about missing a morning at the gym. I filled out my papers, left them stuck to the door, and watched the original Friday 13th with seattleducky who was sick on the couch. When Friday 13th #2 was starting I had to take off for work. Another day of laying around watching movies sounds nice. When I got to work and saw all hell broke loose I was kicking myself for not calling in sick.

Okay, back to work. Gotta live the dream.

i hate kids

I never really cared for kids, they get on my nerves and they're generally afraid of me, so it's always worked out well. This morning I woke up late, having slept through my alarm AGAIN, and stepped out onto the back deck on the way to my car. I took a nice big stretch and tried to shake off the sleepies. I looked to my left only to find a huge spot in the back hard that was still smoldering. Looking over the situation it was pretty apparent that some vandal thought it would be fun to take lighter fluid from the barbeque and torch the ground.

I tried stomping it out and covering it with dirt, but the ground was saturated with fluid and wouldn't go out. Looking around I found a bucket and filled it with water from the spigot on the side of the house. 30-60 minutes and bucket after bucket and it finally went out.

I put all the bbq flamibles inside since we obviously can't have it out on the deck next to the grill like normal people.

I'm pretty sure it's those hooligan kids that run free and think they own every yard along the alley. Next time I'm reporting it. It put me in a horrid mood all day.

heading north

It's Friday and everyone is already into the weekend here at work. The execs all left to go golfing, there is a potluck going on in the kitchen, and Crunchy and I "want the fuck out of here" (as he says). I have no sense of urgency at all today and so far have accomplished near to nothing.

I'm heading North to Vancouver for the weekend, hence the crappy watercolor. People keep walking in the office while i'm slopping down some watercolor and say "oh geez, Bob Ross is at it again!" At least I don't take the time to actually try and do something nice... I could definately waste more than my 5 or 10 minutes! ... and then they would be sorry, MWHAHAHA!

Happy Friday, everyone.

nathans shirt of unknown meaning

My evil little minion, "Crunchy", wears this shirt now and then. Everyone is always asking him what it means. He says that it's supposed to mean something like "stupid." But then he gets very strange looks from any person of asian descent, so he's assuming it means something more like "Stupid Fuck."

Can anyone help him find the meaning?

the shroomy shart

I came home the other night and was standing out on the deck with two of the roommates.They were munching their dinner and we were just hanging out for a minute. When out pops the third of the four roommates from the back door of the house onto the deck. He wanted to tell me a story.

Earlier in the day he was gassy, and was letting one rip... when he sharted! Feeling not-so fresh, he went into the restroom to clean up. Upon wiping his bottom he discovered he was clean, but had sharted a mushroom from dinner the night before.

Why did he tell me? I don't know! But I totally loved it. I've told a few people at work and I've cried so many times today and my tummy hurts from laughing to much.

I live with a shroom sharter. I just thought I'd share.