Uhg
trouble in paradise….

Meagans bay
nice place…

Ahhhh
my cuurent location:

little cloudy right now, but the snorkeling is nice.

Snarfy
I dunno….

Have some entertainment at the “… send me money so you can get your share of blah-blah millions of dollars.” – Brilliant!

Look through the trophy room….

Back-firing political ads
Crack me up – I think Bush is convincing me to vote for Kerry…
“Kerry wanted to increase the gas tax because he thought it’d make people drive less”
Ok, well regardless of his reasons, I think that’s a great idea. Increase the gas tax – make people seriously think twice about buying that gas-guzzling SUV. You drive me, you use more gas, you help destroy the environment more than I do, you should pay more in taxes than I do. And how many commercials have I seen with “… he supported increasing 182 times!” They did the same thing with something about how he voted against military spending a billion times. That doesn’t really tell me anything – So maybe it was something he felt strongly about, and it got shot down 181 times, so he supported it until he got it done.

Some random thoughts about taxes and money – poor people actually need finacial advice, but they’re the ones that can’t afford it. Same with taxes – they get sucked into the ‘refund anticipation loan’ scam. And they get stuck in the payday loan cycle too. Maybe we need to have some basic accounting classes in high school.

About 5 weeks from now, I’ll be sitting on a beach with a fruity drink. 5 weeks – entirely too long to wait.

From the inbox (with relevant header information included)
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Received: from 89.164.195.48 by 218.65.79.131; Wed, 07 Apr 2004 12:40:01 -0300
Message-ID:
From: “Tiffany Emerson”
Reply-To: “Tiffany Emerson”

Dont be fooled all pain,suffering,sickness,greed,

meaness comes from saten.

Accept God today.

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Ok, so this didn’t come from someone at “dsl-only.net” – that seems to be based in Portland, OR. The first traceable IP address is registered to China Telecom. So I’m getting spam full of typos (saten??) from China?! WTF-O?
It came in plain text, and with no read-receipt requested. So here’s my guess – it’s either trying to validate email addresses by removing ‘bounces’ from the list; there is a dim, misguided soul in China trying to save me from saten, and the eval version of the spam software puts ‘junk’ at the bottom hoping to make you pay for it; or it’s actually Al-Queda trying to overload Carnivore with keywords.

What do you think?

“Your order from Papa John’s pizza will be delivered to your door in approximately 55 minutes.”

Yes, the less I have to actually talk to an actual human this week, the better. I’ll probably just let out a few grunts when I answer the door.

Well, since Jess broke Talkback – I guess I’ll just vent here!

Cell Phones
Cell phones don’t bother me – I like cell phones. Using your cell phone while driving does concern me. What really bothers me, is this disturbing trend of people using cell phones in public restrooms! If you want to use your phone in your own restroom, that’s fine. Just a polite cough to cover up the plops, and I’m happy. But seriously, why are you on your phone in a public restroom!? Cell phones are already intrusive – I’ve had to fight back the urge to sling insults at someone when their phone went off in a movie theater or restaurant. The other day at a bookstore cafe some guy was talking way too loud into his phone, that just seems rude. But the last thing I want while standing at the urinal is some guy talking on his cell phone next to me. And would you really want to be the person on the other end of the phone? I wish people would realize that while they’re on their cell phone in a public place, people nearby can hear half the conversation. And if you’re going to use a phone with a hands-free set – please make it obvious. I have a hard time differentiating between you and the crazy guy that just laughs for no reason every 15 seconds as he’s walking through my building.
Next time some guy is on his phone next to me in the restroom, I’m going to ask him to say hi for me. Or better yet, if it sounds like his wife on the phone, I’ll ask loudly who the hot girl (or maybe guy) he’s with is, and if they’re available.

Religious Spam
Another disturbing trend. I’m actually get email from people who want me to accept Christ as my savior. I already gets tons of spam (the spam-catching service I use has caught almost 3700 junk email messages in the last two weeks. That’s not counting the handful that still get through) I really don’t need more. As far as I can tell, they aren’t trying to ‘validate’ email addresses either – it was plain text, with no read reciept requested. As if this isn’t bad enough – the other day I head out to my car after work and find a 15 page religious color newspaper under my wiper. And they hit every car in the 8-story parking garage. Seriously – do you think some office worker is going to get to his car at 6:00 on a Monday evening, find crap on his windshield and littered all over the garage, and suddenly find God?! I doubt it. But hey, if annoying people and littering up God’s beautiful planet makes you feel better and counts as “Doing God’s Work” – who am I to judge? The back page listed Alamo Ministries as the culprit. Look on their site – they even have a page devoted to legal issues from spamming/littering parking lots. These people are seriously nuts.

Speaking of Spam – someone sent me a link to this guy’s page where he actually ordered Viagra from one of those online places. It was hilarious, but I can’t find the link now. Anyone have it?

White Crosses
All the white crosses scattered around the highways. I’ve noticed these more and more over the last two years. I realize why they’re there… but why are they there? So someone died in a car accident there – do we really need to memorialize that spot? Should we put up white crosses everywhere someone dies? In 2001 almost 43,000 people died in car accidents – do we need a road-side memorial for all of them? What about the people that die of a heart attack – are they less memorable? Let’s put crosses where they died too. Maybe I’m a cold-hearted bastard, but I thought that’s what graves were for.
Do me a favor – don’t put a white cross where I end up dying. Unless it’s someplace cool like Mt Everest or the North Pole…. or in the middle of the produce department at Kroger’s.

Support “Carb Appreciation Week” this week. Show all those great carbohydrates how much you appreciate them by scarfing down an extra bowl of oatmeal for breakfast or a nice big potato at lunch! Trying making a sandwich with bread for dinner. Deface any sign you see proclaiming “Atkins friendly!” (Disclaimer: I’m not responsible if you go to jail. Don’t call me)

I think I actually had a reason to put something in here… and now it escapes me. Huh. Well, when in doubt: “Jess sucks”

Sometimes I stay at hotels just because they have a seemingly endless supply of hot water.

Everyone wish my mother a happy birthday!

Have you seen this ‘retrosexual’ rant? Morons.

Ok, that’s it for today, short and sweet. Oh, I have a new phone, it takes pictures (no, that’s not why I bought it)
Maybe I’ll see if I can figure out how to take pictures and put them up here. I know that would thrill you all.