White Woman Black Dog

I’ve lived in Spokane, a two mule olive pit of a town, for 21 years now. Today, for the first time ever, I recieved a summons to report for jury duty.

I’ve often said that I ‘d like to do this, and now I finally get a chance. Knowing Spokane, it’s probobly got something to do with a meth arrest, but it should be interesting just the same.

I’ve been ordered to report on May 2nd at 8am.

I doubt that I’ll make it past the first cut of jury selection, but it should be interesting anyway.

Well, that was fun! Digging up the past, dusting it off, and presenting it as new.

It’s a pity that I didn’t think to archive the old sites until 2001. Prior to that, I’d simply delete an old post when I added a new one, keeping only the previous 5 entries (this was before blogging software was born and I did everything in html with notepad).

Such is life.

On to modern times:
Yesterday was my eldest son’s 16th birthday. As I’m home on disability, I decided to bake and decorate the cake myself (something that I hadn’t done since I was a college student and they were very young). Since his birthday wishes had a heavy computer theme, he got a computer themed cake:

He had a good haul… Asus Motherboard, AMD XP 3200+ (400mHz FSB, Barton Core), 1 GB PC-3200 (DDR400), a Pantera, Katana, and a new optical mouse. He’s one damn happy (if not totally spoiled) kid.

Other news:
I called my neurosurgeon and they’re releasing me back to work on Monday. While being at home all day can be relaxing, it’s boring as hell and I’m looking forward to going back to work. The nurse said they’d only release me because I work in computers (read: I’m a soft cubicle geek who doesn’t do anything physical at work). I can live with that. They are throwing a weight restriction on me so that my boss can’t order me to pick up a server and possibly tear my sutures out. Good times!

Here are a few links into ye olden archives of crap: (all links open in a new window)

State of the Ashtray

Safety First

What I did on my Spring Vacation

WWBD Quality Beverages

A quick note on the gravy soda. Three years after I came up with the idea, Jones Soda went into production with a Turkey Gravy soda. My first thought was “Damn you… you stole my idea, you fuckers! I should sue!!”, but then I noticed that all the money went to Toys for Tots. Um.. crap. I guess it’s ok if you steal my idea, but ONLY if you give the money away to charity.

Another item that was taken from my site was the old bioland logo. If you look at the Benjamin Gate’s website… it’s all over the damn place. Again… they’re a Christian band, so I’d feel guilty about suing them too.

Gather ’round, little childrens… because it’s…

True Story Time!

I work in a cubicle. It’s my fortress of solitude, my sacred place, the one location at work where I can be alone and do what needs to be done.

Yesterday, what I needed to do was release some flatulence.

So I did.

About 30 seconds later, some guy who I’ve only seen a few times in my last year and a half comes walking to my cube and says…

• “Man… do you smell that?”.
• “Um… no”, I reply.
• “Dude… I could smell it from down the hall.. it’s everywhere!”
• “Um… I don’t smell anything”
• “Are you sure? It smells good!”
• “Wha…?”
• “It smells like strawberries”
• “!”

It turns out that Robyn had some potpourri going about 4 cubes away (and yes, it was strawberry). Either it was pure coincidence, or her cube was downwind of me and she felt the need to “freshen up” the atmosphere.

It’s all about name recognition, baby!

I’ve been thinking… if I was going to form a band, I would need a really snappy name that people would remember. While a great number of very cool band names are still untaken (”schizophrenic shishkabob” is a great possible name!), why create a new name when you can leech off of what’s already out there.

Use other bands names, and use their name recognition! That’s my motto!

Thus comes the ultimate name for a band:
Rage Against the Nine Inch Korn Hole

Now that has selling power, baby!