yeah....we're getting a 8 to 12 inch forecast

better stock up for the weekend

Luckily, I have plenty of booze. And food. Hmm, I should get food for the cats.

Holy shit work sure does drag on after a few days off doesn't it?

I only had one day off

My usual weekend tied in with both Xmas and new years so I had a couple of long weekends in a row which was good.

Shit shit shit

Just got off the phone with my doctor, who called with the results of my blood test. Potassium was too low (3.2), need to make a change in the blood pressure medicine. Blood sugar was too high (217). FUCCCKKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That sucks. Would potassium pills help?

Maybe a banana? ::wink::

Well, it is the week after the holidays. ::wink::

You know doctors don't know anything. Have a salad everyday, exercise 20 mins everyday, never eat candy, cake or drink pop, and you won't have to take blood pressure medicine in 6 months. Makes sense to me. ::wink::

Thanks for the advice, guys. They're re-doing the blood test on Monday.

Now I have another dilemma. The boss is in Ohio and I have a person here that's drunk off his ass. I don't know what to do!

in the morning at work?

what the hell?

Still drunk from last night, I'm assuming.

suggest that he goes home 'sick' before he loses his job

He just left. I hope to god he makes it home without killing himself or someone else.

oh - he's driving - that's excellent

didn't get too much snow...about 6 to 7 inches...but DAMN it's cold & windy. 3 degrees this morning with the wind making it feel like -15

really cold here too - hurts to breathe.
From the sounds the idiot dog was making when i was foolish enough to walk him last night - his tongue was freezing to his mouth

I'm not trying to sound like an angry old fuck but the older I get the less I like the cold

absolutely the same here

I'm seriously considering moving in with my Mother. She lives in Florida.

I was considering moving in with your mother - but from what I've heard - she's way too kinky for me ..

Haha, you have NO idea! ::big grin::

These - are awesome!

crazy weather continues

freezing most of the weekend....60s today....10 degrees tonight...WTF

Yep, same here. It was 55 when I got up, it's now 39 and snowing lightly. Tonight is supposed to get down to 9, and tomorrow's high is supposed to be 15. And then 31 on Wednesday, 39 on Thursday, 42 on Friday, 51 on Saturday, 51 on Sunday.

it's like the arctic up here - but at least I have my fish snacks

I'm sorry, that just sounds SO disgusting!

no no no no no

it sounds yummy

If you say so..... ::smile::

I'll join you! It's warm today but I'm tired of shoveling...

Just wait til the deep freeze gets here. I'm sure MA is getting it, too.

I want to explore this more fully at some point - but in short - I hate what social media is doing to people. Due to the nature of 'friending' and 'liking' and 're-tweeting' it's turning many many people into wannabe rock stars.

There's a lot I want to say about that on a lot of levels but the one thing I want to mention specifically is the effect it's had on movies.

People have forgotten how to enjoy movies.

Because unfortunately everyone now has a voice - a lot of folks are far more concerned with appearing to be smarter than the filmmakers than they are about sitting back and being entertained. It's far cooler not to like something ... ask any high school kid.
Negativity is cool - kindness and positivity is often seen as a weakness.

Social networking has made a lot of people regress back to their teens where they participated in their popularity contests by acting like smug superior little snots to impress their little sycophant sheep-friends by putting down what other people liked - usually to the point of ridiculing them. Their sheeple friends wouldn't want to appear uncool so they'd bleat their support for these miscreants, and the rest of us would have to patiently wait for this bunch of idiots to mature.

So now we have mama's basement bloggers and social networking heroes crapping all over anything they can to look smarter and superior to the people out there actually CREATING, while sitting on their Cheeto stained couches in their rusty trailers.

It's one of the myriad reasons I bailed on facebook .. I got so sick of morons trying to convince people that they know better then the guy with the 100 million $$$ budget.

I know there are some utter crap films out there, and I know we all have a right to an opinion - but the problem is where these goofs try to tell someone else their opinion is wrong about what they like.

(which is why I always use 'personally' and /or 'to me' when talking about something I don't like. If I don't like something and you do - fill your boots - i'm not judging ... different strokes and all that.

When I was a kid - I used to love any movie that had one thing I liked about it - effects, music, it made me laugh ....and for a while I almost forgot about that and started to fall into that trap..

Then I got a little older and started seeing things in a more relaxed fashion.
I don't see a movie for the purpose of having my life changed. Great if that happens - but basically I want to be entertained. It takes something spectacularly atrocious for me not to like a film - and that will be based on something very specific and personal to me .. I don't care if other people liked it... they aren't me... but for the most point - if I throw my money down on the counter - i'd rather not waste it. Or my time. I'll try to change my perspective, find something to like about it ... or if all else fails - try to figure out how and why they did stuff.

'Critics' scorn and would label me as 'easy to please' Well, I can think of worse ways to be than always enjoying myself. Consider the alternative.

Who's smarter now ?

I just spent over an hour digging mg Escort out of the driveway because something's wrong with my Jeep. I love the snow, and don't mind the cold (-18℉ before wind chill), but dealing with a car that's acting up in this weather is frustrating the piss out of me.

I hate when people treat their opinion like it's gospel. I strike it more with music and in my younger years was definitely guilty of it myself. These days I'm more open minded and appreciative of music as a whole and I'm through with even remotely giving as shit of what other people think. I'm heading into my mid thirties so there's no sense pretending to be "cool" anymore or even pretending I know what it even means ::big grin::

I love how a lot of online opinions verge on plagiarism and basically regurgitate one person's idea usually throwing in some cut n' paste wikipedia terminology to make themselves sound articulate. A lot of bitterness out there and I'm sure these people wouldn't be able to create something remotely as good as what they're ragging on.

it's a terribly sad way to gain credibility in 'the community' - when the only perceived ability you have is to shit on the people out there actually making the art.

Social media is the biggest enabler of this behaviour...

Along with bigotry, ignorance and mob mentality. Now that a good deal of the population are online social media is a snapshot of just how fucked up and backward the world really is.

there was a time when the village idiots were isolated ..
Now they can go online and find each other - and validate each other ..

It leaves me feeling quite misanthropic.

yeah - facebook was doing that to me too ..
once I jumped off it felt like a 1000 pound weight was lifted off of my shoulders.

I know the idiots are out there - I just don't want to invite them into my home ...VIA the computer or any other way