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Aug 31, 2007
epiphany I think I have pinpointed one of the reasons I have trouble meeting women. I think all of the women who like the shaved head/goatee look are already taken. I think this because, about once a month, a random woman will stop me and say, "You look just like my husband," and then go on to describe him as having a shaved head and goatee. posted
by Unknown @ 11:25:00 AM Aug 30, 2007 bad marketing I saw and infomertial last night about this music compilation. I really liked it, and thought about buying it. But, then they showed the name of the compilation, and I couldn't buy it. Such is life! posted
by Unknown @ 4:27:00 PM Aug 25, 2007 leaving Iowa I have the worst luck traveling out of Iowa. To date, I have made 3 trips from Cincinnati to Iowa, and all three of them have gone off without any problems. This weekend, I have attempted to make my 3rd trip from Iowa to Cincinnati or Kentucky. And, I have now had some type of trouble on all three attempts. When I flew home from my interview, my plane out of Des Moines was delayed. That caused me to miss my connection in Minneapolis, causing me to miss a connection to Chicago. They rerouted me through Atlanta and I ended up only being about an hour later than I would have been. When I went back to get my stuff a month ago, I took a bus. The bus I was connecting with in Indianapolis was overbooked by 30 people, so I ended up having to wait an additional 2 1/2 hours for the next one. And now, I am trying to get to Tommy's wedding. I was supposed to go yesterday, but 90 miles into the trip, my alternator on my car messes up. So, I have to turn back to Ames. I booked a plane ticket, and now, once again, my flight is delayed, which will make me miss my connection out of Chicago. Arrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggghhhhhh!!!!! posted
by Unknown @ 5:40:00 PM Aug 23, 2007 it's all about me posted
by Unknown @ 10:35:00 PM Aug 22, 2007 links and such This dude is my hero!!! While I don't agree with everything she says, this article makes a lot of good points. I know I've written about this before, but church people are even more afraid of single people, especially a single pastor. Seriosuly, NAACP, it's stuff like this that keeps the public from taking you seriously. This is neither a civil rights nor a racial issue. posted
by Unknown @ 6:34:00 PM Aug 20, 2007 random I wonder if there is an alternate universe out there where Creed really rocks and the Rolling Stones are terrible, where Keanu Reeves is a great actor and Morgan Freeman speaks in monotone and only has one facial expression, and where Gilbert Godfried has an amazing voice and James Earl Jones has an annoying one. If so, I'm probablly a ladies man in that universe. posted
by Unknown @ 12:23:00 PM Aug 18, 2007 gullible's not in the dictionary I was browsing through facebook this morning, and I came across a group that was titled something to the effect of "They are trying to shut down facebook! Stop them." I remember years ago, as the internet was first getting started, we would periodically get emails saying "they are trying to shut down facebook" or "they are trying to shut down AIM" or "They are trying to shut down hotmail." Always, these are hoaxes that gullible people then spread like wildfire. I looked inside the message board in the they are trying to shut down facebook group, and found that the first thread was titled "Harry Potter is real." Understanding the sarcasm, I began to laugh and clicked on the link. Apparently, I'm the only one who got the joke. Tons of people began to argue, and some were so mad that they were using profanity and everything. posted
by Unknown @ 10:13:00 AM Aug 13, 2007 supermarket sweep On Saturday, I almost won a shopping spree at the local grocery strore. I was very, very close, if my step had only been timed just a little bit better. See, I was walking down the aisle, and all of the sudden, my right foot almost stumbled. It was one of those things where it was just a little off, not even enough where anyone would have noticed that I stumbled. Then, in corner of my left eye, I noticed a chunk of ice sailing across the floor and under the freezer to my left. A few feet away, two store employees were stocking bags of ice. If I actually had fallen, I would have gotten free groceries. Maybe next time. As I was standing in line, I began to think about how crazy people get at grocery stores. We have this tendancy to think that everything we want should be there and that we should get in and out without having to wait for anything. Reading other websites and blogs, I have actually found people who have complained about each method of payment. Some complain about being behind people paying with cash, since it takes so long to actually count it all out. Others complain about check writers, since writing a check takes almost a full minute. Others complain about those using credit cards, since you have to wait for approval and then the signature. And then people complain about how long it takes to enter one's pin number when paying by debit card. We complain about long lines. We complain about the store being out of something. The reality is that a supermarket is an amazingly efficent thing that we totally take for granted. Just the sheer magnitude of varitety that we have in our stores is incredible. In some parts of the world, to get the varitey of things we can get in a trip to the store would take all day, where you would have to go to several specialty shops. In other parts of the world, the varitey of food that we have available simply doesn't exist. You may have one or two choices at most as to what you would eat on a day to day basis. We have all of this available to us, and yet we complain. We go in one day and they ran out of one of the items we want, when in reality we would have two or three options almost identical to it. We complain about our trip taking 20 minutes instead of 15. It seems kind of silly, sometimes. posted
by Unknown @ 1:51:00 PM Aug 3, 2007 moving daze I know, I used a pun as the title of this post. I appologize. Anyway, earlier this week, I returned to Cincinnati, rented a truck, and drove all of my stuff back to Iowa. First off, thanks to the seven people who helped me load the truck. It didn't even feel like a move at all it went so quickly and easily. As I was picking up the truck, the lady at the counter asked if I wanted to purchase the insurance. I thought that maybe it was a good idea, so I asked her how much. Instead of saying something like "50 dollars" she went into this long explaination of 3 different plans they had, and gave dollar amounts to them. It was something that was too complex to agree to on the spot like that, so I declined. What could go wrong. Luckily, nothing did go wrong in my case. But, Wednesday was the big moving day here in Ames, since leases here run from August to July. The neighborhood I live in is called "Campustown," which I am sure you can piece together why. Needless to say, there are a lot of student apartments in this part of town, and Wednesday there was an army of trucks pulling trailers and Uhauls. During the evening, as I was walking back to the office after picking up the mail, I heard a loud bang. I look over at the pizza place next door, and I see a 24 foot Uhal that was attempting to drive through the parking lot on the other side. They backed up and I could see the top of the truck peeled back a few feet. It looked like someone had started peeling back the lid of a sardine can. On each side, the roof of the pizza place juts out a few feet, and she had caught one of the corners of the roof. It made me wish I had bought the insurance on the truck. If this girl hadn't, between the damage to the truck and the store, I wouldn't be suprised if she was on the hook for at leas $20,000. posted
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