Tony’s Journal

Wow. My printer actually just gave me the PC LOAD LETTER error.

The funny thing is, even though that’s a simple error, it was still aggravating because it only ran out of paper in the one tray. The other one had paper in it, I guess it didn’t feel like using that. So I took the paper out of the tray that it was ignoring, put it in the empty one, and still got PC LOAD LETTER. Then I put some in both trays, and now it’s happy.

I swear to God, one day I-I-I just kick this piece of **** out the window.

Tags: General Thoughts by Tony
Comments Off

This actually made me laugh out loud. Imagine Everyone’s Favorite Disinformation Minister, Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, as the coach of a very inept soccer team. A choice excerpt that had me rolling:

Late in the season, more bad news for Baghdad. They are accused by the Iraqi FA of concealing extra balls under their shirts and running into their opponent’s goal and dropping the balls there when nobody’s looking. They still manage to lose 4 nowt to Sporting Nasiriya.

AJ: How do you respond to allegations of cheating?

MSaS: Arses! It’s a bunch of arses!

AJ: The Nasiriya team claim they saw your players conceal balls under their shirts.

MSaS: See how the mendacious nancy boys slander the attractive well-rounded bellies of our victorious heroes! The truth, which everyone knows, is that our guts are engorged merely because of our feasting on the gizzards and shins of the criminal aggressors!

Okay, back to work.

Tags: General Thoughts by Tony
Comments Off

Recent updates, gossip column bold-printing style:

The Spring Football game was good. I don’t want to give too much away, but whoever your favorite team is, NCSU can make them cry like little girls.

I have had a headache for two days.

Last night: Hot wings at O’Malley’s. Mmm, mmm. I tried taping the Simpsons, which came on while I was there, but lame Fox 50 was screwed up.

Pollen is giving me issues again. Claritin to the rescue. The fauna can stay, but damn the flora.

---

Man, I love this song. If you know me, you know that. Picked up the record last week.

Now that you mentioned records. . . The fearsome foursome of Billy, Jim, Chris and I went to the flea market on Saturday after the Red & White game. For $2 apiece I got twenty records. This dude was just sitting in the grass with many boxes of only the finest records.

I got:

• Whitesnake
• Kiss – Alive II
• Lynyrd Skynyrd – Gold & Platinum
• Led Zeppelin – III
• Led Zeppelin – Houses of the Holy
• Led Zeppelin – The Song Remains the Same
• Madonna – Like a Virgin
• Madonna – (2 albums I can’t remember)
• Doors – Greatest Hits
• Michael Jackson – Off the Wall
• The Cars – Greatest Hits
• Aerosmith
• David Bowie – ChangesOneBowie
• Tom Petty – Damn the Torpedos
• . . . and 5 others I can’t remember right now

So it was quite a haul, especially since that is $300 worth of CDs. Jim picked up, among others, “The Great Muppet Caper,” and we passed up the utterly confusing “Have a Very Merry McBirthday” record with Ronald McDonald grinning on the cover. There was no record contained therein. We mentioned it, and the shopkeeper said “leave it out, somebody might want it anyway.” Who exactly would want that? I did not spy Mayor McCheese rolling up looking for recordless McRecord Covers.

We may have simply missed him, but as hard to miss as his giant cheeseburger head is, I doubt it.

Tags: General Thoughts by Tony
Comments Off

I was reading The Onion, and it occurs to me that this week’s issue absolutely disappoints. I seriously think that the normal writers were replaced with someone markedly less witty.

Sad.

Tags: General Thoughts by Tony
Comments Off

About my desk chair at home: I bought it roughly 3 1/2 years ago, right after we moved into the apartment. Got it at Wal*Mercado for about $75, IIRC. Made of the finest fake leather that Wal*Mart can offer, which is not saying a whole lot, but it filled my needs quite well. It held me up while I was in front of the computer. Lately it had been messing with me; the primitive recline-or-not-recline lever had been slipping while I sat in it, so many times I’d be sitting and then crack! it would pitch me backwards about 15°, and I’d panic and flail my limbs and try to grab on to something stationary.

Well, yesterday I was sitting in it as I am wont to do, and crack! it went again, except this time was different. It pitched me over about 10° to the right. My vessel is now listing to starboard, which would have been fine if I was some kind of scurvy scallywag, but I’m not.

So the experience of sitting in my chair is now like the part of the Sledgehammer video where Peter Gabriel is “on” the roller coaster, jerking this way and that.

I bought a new chair at OfficeMax (online) yesterday afternoon, and it should be delivered tomorrow. It was on sale for $49.98, so i’m not expecting highest quality, but if it lasts a couple years I’ll be happy. They have free shipping on orders over $50, so in order to save about $6, I added a cheap item and will be receiving a chair. . . with bonus pencil.

I forgot my Claritin this morning. Hope that does not come back to haunt me. At least it’s raining today, making sickly yellow pools of pollen water everywhere.

Tags: General Thoughts by Tony
Comments Off

Service Raleigh, which has been withstanding 30 MPH winds all morning, now is getting rained on. Thunder & lightning, too. The rain will wash the pollen off everything, and that’s all the servicing that Raleigh needs, in my book. But now, it’s a wet T-shirt contest for the volunteers. Have fun, guys.

Me, I’m just sitting here, listening to America in my dark room. I was going to go to Reader’s Corner, but the rain is gonna keep me from doing that. This line of rain should pass in maybe an hour or so, maybe I’ll go afterwards.

Holy crap, it is pouring now.

Take that, horny trees! Foiled by nature’s contraceptive!

Dayo should be here doing his laundry by now. I wonder where that fool is.

My life is very unremarkable. Not complaining, just stating. Any ideas to make it more interesting that don’t involve bodily harm to myself?

Tags: General Thoughts by Tony
Comments Off

Words of wisdom from some guy on the Wolf Web, upon hearing Phil Donahue will be this year’s graduation speaker:

“Go State.
NCSU is like the Waffle House. . .
So ghetto, you gotta love it.”

Tags: General Thoughts by Tony
Comments Off

It’s that time a year again. Spring is in the air. Birds chirp, the sun shines, and the trees’ thoughts turn to making sweet love to my immune system.

No, tree, I will not have your babies. Instead I will just get a runny nose and itchy eyes. Last night I couldn’t sleep. Today I found and took my Claritin that Cynthia bought me last weekend. Apparently it takes a little time to go through the immune system, but improvement is showing. I have been drowsy for two days now, and have tons of work to do. It’s being done at a good pace, and somehow I think I’m doing it well.

I just hurt.

However, that will not stop me from eating wings and going golfing with Jim. Jimberly loves these things. I would not be surprised if he were to elope with a bucket of wings and some golf clubs.

Tags: General Thoughts by Tony
Comments Off