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I'm sitting at work right now, we have a full house, but I'm still waiting for a reservation to come in, otherwise I'd have done the audit already, but hey, no biggie. Just gotta remember NOT to run the audit without checking the person in first (in case he doesn't show up.) I've made that mistake once or twice.
This weekend (well, I should say "My weekend" as I had Thursday and Friday night off), I spent most of the Thursday just resting and playing around on the computer (when you work my shift, you need a day to orient yourself to normality) and then Friday I spent most of the afternoon and evening with my buddy John. He'd wanted to "repay" me for all the various times I'd taken him out to eat, so we went by Kroger and he bought two Digiorno five cheese pizza, some chips, and a few side toppings to go with them. John put Canadian bacon and pineapple chunks on his, while I opted for pepperoni on mine. Plus, we put some extra shredded sharp cheddar which I had left over from last week's Taco Salad night.
I have to say, to me pineapple on pizza is just bizarre. I mean, I don't know, I know it's a standard topping for Hawaii and whatnot, but I'm not into mixing fruit into my bread products. To me, it'd be kind of like putting sliced apples in spaghetti.
Wait, please don't tell me someone actually does that. Shudders.
We each showed one another cool clips we knew about on Youtube while the pizzas cooked, then we watched Zombieland. That is an awesome film, BTW. It's got everything, horror, comedy, action, even a bit of romance.
Then we got a bit sidetracked into a political discussion I can't remember... oh, wait, I remember now, John was wanting to stop by a video place and rent a new release (despite the awesome DVD collection I had at my house). So, I'm like, "Okay, what film do you have in mind?" And, to my surprise, instead of saying 2012 (which he kept talking about earlier) he mentions, Bush's Brain, a political documentary about how Karl Rove supposedly had an undue influence in Bush's decisions and the Iraq War, etc, etc.
Well, here's the thing, politics aside, I'm just do NOT want to watch a freaking political documentary on a FRIDAY night that I have off from work. I admit, I don't have much of a life, but I can think of things way more enjoyable to do than that. And as morbidly fascinating as political stuff can be at times (I liken it to looking at a train wreck, except in this case it's the train you're on), I just didn't feel like watching something like that.
So, yeah, that lead to us debating back and forth a bit. I wouldn't call it argument, but it was just more like sparring I guess. Debates with John are always interesting as he's not only very liberal but also a neo-Pagan (in fact, I'm not exactly sure what his religious beliefs entail, I think he actually believes in a pantheon), and he's big into just about every kooky conspiracy theory under the sun: from Tower 7 was an inside job, to aliens, to you name it. Complicating the problem is that more often than not, John tends to state said beliefs in a way where you never can tell if he's joking or not.
I remember one time I told him about this story I heard on late night talk radio (think it was Art Bell, not sure though) where some guy called in saying the proliferation of cell phones were killing ghosts. I chuckled a bit after I told him this and he says, "They are."
And then I paused, waiting for him to give some indication that he was joking, but nope, he seems to believe it.
Dunno, guess I'm getting more and more skeptical in my old age (BTW, got a bday coming up), but I'm at the point now where I have to actually experience something before I can believe it. And while I don't discount the possibility of ghosts, as someone said, "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof."
But still, cell phones, killing ghosts?!?
Anyway... eventually we decided to watch Kung Fu Hustle instead. Afterward, I loaned John my old computer monitor and one of my old keyboards, as he'd gotten a tower from his aunt (who he's currently living with) but didn't have the peripherals he needed. Come to think of it, I never did ask him if he had/needed a mouse.
So, that was my weekend. Not too bad, I suppose, just felt REALLY short.
I'm sitting at work right now, we have a full house, but I'm still waiting for a reservation to come in, otherwise I'd have done the audit already, but hey, no biggie. Just gotta remember NOT to run the audit without checking the person in first (in case he doesn't show up.) I've made that mistake once or twice.
This weekend (well, I should say "My weekend" as I had Thursday and Friday night off), I spent most of the Thursday just resting and playing around on the computer (when you work my shift, you need a day to orient yourself to normality) and then Friday I spent most of the afternoon and evening with my buddy John. He'd wanted to "repay" me for all the various times I'd taken him out to eat, so we went by Kroger and he bought two Digiorno five cheese pizza, some chips, and a few side toppings to go with them. John put Canadian bacon and pineapple chunks on his, while I opted for pepperoni on mine. Plus, we put some extra shredded sharp cheddar which I had left over from last week's Taco Salad night.
I have to say, to me pineapple on pizza is just bizarre. I mean, I don't know, I know it's a standard topping for Hawaii and whatnot, but I'm not into mixing fruit into my bread products. To me, it'd be kind of like putting sliced apples in spaghetti.
Wait, please don't tell me someone actually does that. Shudders.
We each showed one another cool clips we knew about on Youtube while the pizzas cooked, then we watched Zombieland. That is an awesome film, BTW. It's got everything, horror, comedy, action, even a bit of romance.
Then we got a bit sidetracked into a political discussion I can't remember... oh, wait, I remember now, John was wanting to stop by a video place and rent a new release (despite the awesome DVD collection I had at my house). So, I'm like, "Okay, what film do you have in mind?" And, to my surprise, instead of saying 2012 (which he kept talking about earlier) he mentions, Bush's Brain, a political documentary about how Karl Rove supposedly had an undue influence in Bush's decisions and the Iraq War, etc, etc.
Well, here's the thing, politics aside, I'm just do NOT want to watch a freaking political documentary on a FRIDAY night that I have off from work. I admit, I don't have much of a life, but I can think of things way more enjoyable to do than that. And as morbidly fascinating as political stuff can be at times (I liken it to looking at a train wreck, except in this case it's the train you're on), I just didn't feel like watching something like that.
So, yeah, that lead to us debating back and forth a bit. I wouldn't call it argument, but it was just more like sparring I guess. Debates with John are always interesting as he's not only very liberal but also a neo-Pagan (in fact, I'm not exactly sure what his religious beliefs entail, I think he actually believes in a pantheon), and he's big into just about every kooky conspiracy theory under the sun: from Tower 7 was an inside job, to aliens, to you name it. Complicating the problem is that more often than not, John tends to state said beliefs in a way where you never can tell if he's joking or not.
I remember one time I told him about this story I heard on late night talk radio (think it was Art Bell, not sure though) where some guy called in saying the proliferation of cell phones were killing ghosts. I chuckled a bit after I told him this and he says, "They are."
And then I paused, waiting for him to give some indication that he was joking, but nope, he seems to believe it.
Dunno, guess I'm getting more and more skeptical in my old age (BTW, got a bday coming up), but I'm at the point now where I have to actually experience something before I can believe it. And while I don't discount the possibility of ghosts, as someone said, "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof."
But still, cell phones, killing ghosts?!?
Anyway... eventually we decided to watch Kung Fu Hustle instead. Afterward, I loaned John my old computer monitor and one of my old keyboards, as he'd gotten a tower from his aunt (who he's currently living with) but didn't have the peripherals he needed. Come to think of it, I never did ask him if he had/needed a mouse.
So, that was my weekend. Not too bad, I suppose, just felt REALLY short.