Cheering Up

Bill always has the power to make me laugh.


Billybobthorntongue: So, at work the other day I was holding a rubber band like a gun on my finger
Billybobthorntongue: and I was pointing it at a girl that works there
Billybobthorntongue: and she kept moving and I'd follow her with my rubber band finger gun
Billybobthorntongue: and what I MEANT to say was "You cannot escape the finger gun!"
Billybobthorntongue: What came out was, YOU CANNOT ESCAPE THE FINGERBANG
Jamesthefarthuffer: ahahahahahhahahahahaha
Jamesthefarthuffer: NICE
Jamesthefarthuffer: is she hot? hahahaha
Billybobthorntongue: pretty good looking
Jamesthefarthuffer: ahahaha
Jamesthefarthuffer: did she laugh?
Billybobthorntongue: yeah
Billybobthorntongue: about died laughing at it

Singing Fighting

Tonight we went out to karaoke. Seemed to be a pretty normal night for the most part.

This wonderfully guy with a nice full beard and sandals kept getting up on stage when nobody else would and sang with a beautiful passion. He was there with a group of friends but ended up chatting with all the tables where people had sang from. He is a pretty cool guy.

When he was sitting with us drinking we talked about the new beers they had at the bar and some of the previous singers. He said he worked with children and put in over 100 hours a week on salary as a manager of some sort. It was pretty obvious when you average out how much he would make an hour he was right where the people working under him were.

I got up there and hammered out Closer. I have a voice I rarely use. It's fun seeing new friends surprised when they hear me cry out "you get me closer to god."

About an hour ago we were out in the parking lot for a smoke (yes, the bar we were in doesn't allow smoking. Genius. Can kill off your internal organs but not your lungs. Cool.) The bearded fellow was out there smoking too. He came over to us and started to talk. This car pulled up and a couple tan guys jumped out and spit on him. He just stood there and tried to ignore them. I noticed there was a woman with a headdress concealing her face in the back of the car they got out of. I thought it was a disguise at first.

Wasn't a disguise.

The shorter tan guy spit on his feet again and the bearded guy put out his cigarette. He turned to go inside. He got about 20 feet -- half way from where we were standing to the door to get into the bar and the guys jumped him.

It wasn't three seconds before people were flowing out of the bar to help the guy with a wonderful voice. He yelled for them to leave him be and don't get involved. Bill and I jumped in as the people were coming out to help. We were punching the taller guy and the bearded singer was dodging punches from the shorter one. The guys who came out first grabbed the smaller one and held him.

When they grabbed and held the smaller one is when the bearded guy started telling us that we better leave before more of them show up. Some of the guys who came out of the bar after the first few grabbed and held the guy we were hitting. Guess that's a good thing. But the guy in the beard kept insisting we get out of there. Some of us actually did. Beth, Alisha Bill and I left. Several cars were leaving as we were at the lights at the end of the block.

I thought this was just another bar brawl 'till a few minutes before I started posting this. There was a story on the news about a hate crime between some Iranians and a Jewish person. Then they showed some arrest photos of the 2 guys we took care of and the guy who got assaulted. Holy shit.

I should have known this stuff was going on -- in a hospital and all. I need to ask around and see if I'm just missing stuff on paperwork or if it just doesn't come to the hospital I work at or what. I know our specific hospital is pretty religious. But hell. Crazy world.

It's Cold Outside

I decided to come home a whole hour and a half early today. I got sick of being sick. Not like I ever stay at work 'till I'm scheduled off anyway.

It's 3.8.6 today. Yesterday was 2.8.6. Tomorrow is 4.8.6 And Saturday is the almighty 5.8.6.

Monday was nuts. I can't believe I haven't posted since then. First thing in the morning I get this report on my desk that I have to call in to three seperate insurance companies for one guy. Evidentally the guy wasn't paying attention and crashed straight into the side of a train. It was an empty flatbed train car. So I guess the bottom was just level with the start of his hood. So his car got trapped under it and he hurt himself somewhere between the accident and jumping out to run and tell the conductor to stop. I honestly had a hard time keeping my voice from cracking because of laughter seeping through. One of the people I spoke to acutally laughed when they heard the situation. I didn't feel so bad afterwards.

Monday night was typical. Beth and I curled up in bed and watched more of Season Two of Nip/Tuck. We love that show. Alisha was supposed to come over for a few hours before bed but never showed. It's kind of typical of her anymore unfortunately for us.

Tuesday was one of those mechanical days you will never remember because everything was carbon copied from previous days. Tuesday night I suppose wasn't so bad since I had the opportunity to lead a telemarketer on for over an hour before declining his offer. I am so rude.

There was a traffic jam on the way to work thismorning. I thought I was going to be late but after 5 minutes of crawling the whole thing just started moving like normal minus one lane. It's nice when the idiots get through the bottle neck and the rest of us resume business as usual.

Alisha might come over tonight around 6pm and Beth's already here taking a shower so I suppose I should go cook. Bill might stop by later too. He wants his shit.

Honesty

I wish we could ride a big cat. Just like in White Castle. The rest we have covered. But we do need a big cat. A nice asian party would be nice, too. Maybe we can set one of those up for next weekend. The amazing heat gives a wonderful reason for lots of liquid and ice, yes? 115 comfort index at points today. We had so many people come in because of heat stroke. A whole group who got sick playing football and had 911 called due to their passing out. A whole group. Nobody was smart enough to look around and say, hey, we should probably slow it down.

I love the midwest.

I'm taking my two eyes that can barely read to bed. A morning full of talking to people awaits.

White Castle

One of the doctors that works on the third floor looks exactly like Kumar from White Castle. We're going to watch that movie in a little while. Fifteen minutes of pretending to work to go before I drive all the way home to just west of mexico in south omaha.

Tonight we're going to drink. We're going to drink quite a bit. Luckily for us we all know our limits and stop at those limits. As opposed to old friends who drank, threw up, drank, threw up more, drank, got angry, passed out. Limits repeatedly passed. No fun.

Lewis Black

Some good videos I like of Lewis Black.

Features:
Black on Broadway.
The End.
Red White and Screwed -Part 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

Various:
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Video Nine


Back in Black:
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Video Twenty
Video Twenty-One

Shamalama Ding Dong Sucks

I just saw this poster at the theaters. Beth took me to a movie that I'm not going to talk about because it was undesirable.

Yesterday was outstanding. It started about 11am when Alisha and her two friends showed up to go out. We all had some errands to run and figured we could do them together and break the ice with Alisha's two friends.

We paid bills and picked up supplies for the day. Was a fairly uneventful series of errands other than the OPPD guy. He was pretty involved in a phone conversation and Ryan was trying to ask questions about his account. The man behind the counter was obviously speaking with a friend on the phone. Finally Ryan quietly asked him if he can get it up anymore. The guy paused in the middle of a sentence and gave him a dirty look. Then continued talking in an annoyed tone of voice. Ryan said thanks for the receipt and took the glass part out of the lava lamp on his desk and left with it. He didn't even notice. It happened right in front of his computer and since he was looking out the window with his arms crossed, he didn't even notice. There were plenty of sounds while he was taking the top off and shutting it off. But Ryan walked out with the essence of the lava lamp without the guy even noticing. Awesome.

Everything after that went exactly how Alisha, Beth and I hoped. I'm leaving it at that.

Alisha, Jessica and Ryan all left a couple hours ago. I'm pretty tired and I think we're going to go to bed here after I'm done cooking dinner.