apple products piss me off.  especially the ones i own.

last night i was getting ready to go to bed, and i remembered a certain album i really wanted to buy...so i dropped everything and went over to itunes with intentions to buy this album, put it on my ipod and drift off to sleep while listening to it.  estimated time of operation: 7 minutes.

i ( Read more... )

i just got home from work and right now i'm sitting in the apartment having a beer and listening to rani's band practice.  we set up a jam space in here with the drums, amp stacks, mics, everything...the real deal holyfield.  if anything, it's definitely constructive use of floor space, since we have so fucking much of that....but what i'm getting ( Read more... )

this is probably going to turn into another series of lame LJ installments in conjunction with "tales from the cubicle" and "crack dreams"...but i have a lot of down time during this shift.  which by the way kicks ass.

i thought it was going to be totally lame working from 4am-12:30 but it turns out the worst parts are waking up at 3:30 and going ( Read more... )

quick update for people who hate not-so-quick updates ( Read more... )

if you pretend to be compassionate over a given issue, and people are watching, they will think you're the real deal.  guaranteed ( Read more... )

 if someone you knew your whole life but never really cared for dies, should you feel guilty for not feeling sad?

a guy i graduated from high school with died in a car accident last night.  i'd known him since the 3rd grade and i always thought he was a dick. when i heard the news, the first thing i thought was "well, what goes around comes around ( Read more... )

and disturbingly morbid ones at that...

i was at my grandma's funeral....my dad's mom, who died when i was in high school.  i walked into the room and looked into the coffin, and her face was all contorted, like someone had been pulling her jaw open.  and she was rotting.  there were little patches of decomposing flesh all over her.  whoever was in ( Read more... )

WANTED: TRAVEL BUDDIES. GOOD ONES.

i love going to obscure places.  apparently i'm the only one.  my new tradition of taking a week off every winter and going somewhere absurd kicks ass, and i want to keep it going.  so far it's only been japan and south korea, and so far it's only been runfromthepack  and i. bockenhauer doesn't count....because, as we ( Read more... )

 13 years ago today my grandpa died, but since it was on April fools day everyone thought it was some kind of morbid prank when we broke the news.

"yeah, Al died....today....we're all very sad."
"bullshit! hahahahah!"

in retrospect, it was pretty funny....you had to know my grandpa.  he'd think it was funny too.

we put up fake schedules at work for ( Read more... )

THAT-JUST-HAPPENED! moments melt my face.  nothing beats them.  nothing.

i was just out to eat with raji, rani and lindsay...and as the waitress is splitting up our check, some little kid comes walking past our table from the buffet with a plate full of food.  he couldn't have been any older than like 5 or 6...and as soon as he walks behind the ( Read more... )