Kudos!

Mika Brzezinski chose NOT to do the story on Paris Hilton which MSNBC's producer had as the lead. She took shit from her colleagues but I'm very proud of her for standing her ground on trying to relay real news. She tried to burn the story but was stopped. Later, she got up and shredded the story.

You go girl!

To see it on YouTube, click here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VdNcCcweL0

So tired........

Public Service Notice: Always check to see if your flight is on time or delayed.

My friends and I learned the hard way last night after we got to the airport. Our flight was delayed from a scheduled 1030PM until an actual 200AM. Had we known, we would have gone into San Francisco for additional eats instead of lounging on the gate's uncomfortable seats.

Coffee is not helping and I'm so ready to pass out. Tired enough to not even have dinner and just sleep.................

h3h, I wasn't able to take as many pictures as I would have liked because the batteries died. But I did get some. We'll talk about it when we get together.

For now, I'm out of this friggin office and go home to bed.

Prison Envy?

Lindsay Lohan crashes her car at 530AM and an usable amount of what appears to be cocaine is found. She isn't arrested as she is taken to the hospital to treat minor injuries. The authorities will be charging her with DUI with the arraignment date of August 24th. Think she's miffed or even jealous that former BFF Paris is going to joint and getting lots of attention?

Perhaps. Maybe she's just 20, stupid and the blond dye is affecting her neural connections. Then again, I'm older and know better, sometimes.

Satan made me do it

Eva Maudlin claims that Satan made her husband, Joshua, put their recently arrived two-month daughter in the microwave for 10 to 20 seconds. For reasons unknown but for the Maudlins, Satan did not like Joshua becoming a preacher. Seems the Horned One felt threatened.

How dare they blame their cowardly problems on a man-made fantasy that is Satan? If I were Satan, I'd probably whisper in God's ear: "Dude, that's fucked up. You gave him Free Will. I don't want him in Hell."

Horrible...

I'm reading "God Is Not Great" right now. The essential premise of the book is that God is man-made. Thus, religion was created in the heady days to conveniently serve those purveyors of the revelations while keeping the masses under control. As such, religion is a psychological poison.

This is so clearly demonstrated in the atrocity known as "honor killing" whereby a 17-year old Kurdish female was beaten, kicked and stoned to death while others (including the police) looked on because some relatives believed she shamed the family. You can read it on cnn.com's main page.

Such brutality based on outdated stupidity is still tolerated. I once read that a woman was ordered gang-raped by the village elders for a supposed shame by her brother. Just fucking gruesome!

Filthy pigs! Yes, it's a double-entendre on those fucks!

The Crazies

Coincidences are just coincidences, not the flicks of some deity's finger.

As I came to highly respect Gene Simmons for his monogamous devotion to the mother of his two children for 23+ years, the season finales of Scrubs and Grey's Anatomy dealt with the the crazies of relationships, marriage and parenthood. Surely, a coincidence.

This leads me to want to believe that if there was a God its greatest feature is humor regardless of the situation's severity.

Crazy huh?

Incredulous!

Paris' sentence was halved to 23 days because of good behavior, which was showing up at court on time. GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

One is supposed to be at court on time.

Newsworthy? Like, OMG!

The latest bullshit report from Hollywood is that Paris is emotionally distraught over her being sentenced to 45 days in jail. It seems that a psychiatrist has recommended that the judge be more lenient since Paris cannot fathom the "cruel and unwarranted" punishment of her violating her DUI probation. It's so bad that she cannot take the witness stand in a $10 million defamation lawsuit against her.

*cough*BULLSHIT*cough*

It would be great if Penn & Teller, who have a show on Showtime called "Bullshit!", would devote a show on her blatant stupidity and arrogance to be treated any more special than the regular Jane.

I can understand leniency if she had reported to the alcohol or consultation meeting(s) as required during her probation. But she didn't. Furthermore, she showed up late to her hearing; thus, costing the state time and money as if being fashionably late was a cool thing in court.

I think it's unfair that she will get special treatment in jail by being away from the general population. Unless, she is put in solitary confinement to work on her emotional duress and to put the little hamster between her ears to work. She's probably going to get her ass kicked but life is cruel.

Paris, grow up. Stop being a spoiled brat. Take these knocks as the nothing you bring to society. It's only 45 days.

Arnold, don't pardon her. Save it for someone who really deserves it.

On the way home...

Two young ladies were talking behind before they gradually passed me and I turned right into my building....

Girl 1: Yeah
Girl 2: Yeah, *giggles*
Girl 1: Okay
Girl 2: You know it gets better
Girl 1: Yeah?
(they're walking besides me now)
Girl 2 (short blond): Yeah, it gets interesting
Girl 1 (tall blond): How so?
Girl 2: *giggles*, he took my bra off with my shirt on while we were watching the movie
Girl 1: Really? In the theater?
Girl 2: Yeah. *giggles*
Girl 1: Sounds like you had fun.

Girl 2's date has skills.

Batting .500

My car is due for maintenance, especially the suspension, as it's been riding a bit rough and I've been uneasy. So I ordered the shocks and 2 tires last weekend and the presumption that my mechanic would be able to work on them during the week and next. But he has a 735i sitting in his driveway that's waiting a special part from Germany, which hasn't arrived as of this morning.

So I went to his place to get the 2 tires and then off to the guy who referred me to him to swap out the front tires and place the others on the rear and the spare. Turns out the two I'm changing were near toast. DOH! Now I have to order another 2 tires and go back to the guy. However, the ride home felt really nice and I'm regaining the confidence of my tank.

I needed to do laundry this weekend. I left the office early on Friday and was going to get it done that night but the DVR was threatening to delete recorded programs soon. I figured I had a few more days of backup and pushed it to Saturday.

Saturday came and went just like that! Poof! So I decided that I would wake up early Sunday, do laundry and then head to my mechanic's place.

HA! I was watching the Latin Divas of Comedy until 3AM. Here are some choice lines from the show:

1. When a woman is over 30, dating is really interviewing
2. Women should understand that men cannot be changed; men like to be petted and cuddled because they're babies
3. The stocky diva said losing 10 pounds means taking a really good shit
4. Mami, papi, I'm a lesbian, pass the salt
5. Ay, his body hair was so thick that when he took his shirt off, it was like velcro

Laundry is done but I haven't put them away yet. They're folded however. I'm listening to Tiesto's "In The Dark". Nice rock/trance tune. The singer has an Alyson Moyet-like voice but her name is Christian Burns. I'm going to buy the CD from Amazon.

Neato!

My friend gave me the link to her blog here and I'm blown away by it. It's wonderful to get a glimpse inside her head even though I've nary a clue about some of the subplots. Thanks h3h!

Holy Bananas!

First, we should mourn those unfortunates who were killed on the Virginia Tech campus yesterday.

Second, we need to alleviate grief and to soothe simmering anger, especially that which will be directed at the "Asian" folks.

Inevitably, there will be a big racial backlash from this tragic event. It should be clear that the shooter was a South Korean resident alien majoring in English at the school. He was probably depressed and homesick. I hope folks won't start looking at "Asians" with a particular opinion as it won't bode well for harmonic relations.

I'm betting that there's a high possibility that the killings weren't racially motivated. As such, people need to realize that each race has their bad apples who don't represent the population. Having said that, I hope everyone can chill and collect their thoughts.

Aging

I sense and feel a need to get at least three hours of sleep once I get home tonight as I'm sure I can't hack the party til dawn anymore. I was quite exhausted when I saw Above & Beyond last fall sans the chemical support.

I would certainly like to see Armin until he wraps up in the morning. Hopefully, Mother Nature will be kind and dump more than a forecasted 6 inches of powder. It would an awesome scene as I trek home in the morning.

Three Must-Sees

1. Can't Buy Me Love

2. Powder

3. The American President

If it's on, it getting watched until the credits come on. No. 3 was on the other night.

Just enough.

I think it's time to stop paying the mental tax at the prison-bank. Last October, the controller asked me to find and close $25 million so that the prison hits budget for the first time in three years. I struck the final deal on December 22nd and set in motion to close on December 29th. The genius that is the warden asks the controller to ask me to delay the close until the 2nd or 3rd of the year.

But why? Why not be above budget? Cuz they wanted to start 2007 with a bump. Okay, I push the close to the 3rd.

Guess what happened?

On the last business day of the year, a bunch of repayments come in after 3PM. I left the office at 245PM and return 830AM on the 2nd to find out that the portfolio started 2007 at $1.8 million below budget.

Fucking warden shoots himself and everyone in the foot with that genius move.

January was a rough month as I stopped smoking. Yes, I stopped but haven't quit as I know I will smoke a few here and there before I die. The prison job really tempted me to run out and buy packs of smokes just to deal with their stupidity. Now the warden is feeling the heat and making demands to meet half of 2007's budget by May.

Of course, there's no incentive other than the threat of being fired. Even that threat is toothless as I know they need me given the relationships I've built up over the years and my steady production. I keep telling myself that it's cushy as long as I continue to deliver. Just enough.

Just enough.

To get the warden and his mistress fired.

Just enough.

Out Goes One, Another Comes In

It's been 36 hours and I'm holding up fine, especially compared to last year. I'm quite sure I'm ready this time around. Already the skin tone change is noticeable, especially in the hands. Almost as if it were self-moisturizing.

During the break, I got hooked on the show "Beauty and the Geek". I just caught a preview of some of the contestants on tonight's season premiere. It doesn't look as good as the previous season's but I'm still going to watch.

Change is suppose to be good.....

Drew BLEW!

I don't know what Bill Parcels sees in this dolt called Drew Bledsoe. The SOB is a football idiot. If anyone saw the game, the Cowboys got lucky with a pass interference call that gave them 1st and Goal with 37 seconds left. On first down, he missed T.O. on the inside slant. On second down, the dumb fuck throws it to an Eagle who races 102 yards for a touchdown. Twice he underthrows T.O. which turned the ball over. The second one would have been a TD if the fuck had tossed it a little harder and into the corner.

Okay, there's got to be some mitigation. Dallas corners got burned a few times and the offensive line did not protect the dumb fuck. Still, the opportunities were wasted when Lady Luck took some pity on DumbFuck Drew.

Drew, if you ever read this (highly unlikely), you suck. Yes, I can't do what you do but you get paid the big fucking bucks and you fucked up. Yeah, I'm a very sore Cowboys fan. Maybe you might talk to Hall of Fame QB Troy Aikman who didn't have the mobility in the pocket and ask for some pointers.

Grrrrrr....

Still, it was a thrilling game.

31 Days

On 17 February, I was stupid and slightly egged on by my cousin. I punched the accelerator and shot up to 100mph for only two seconds when, around the turn, I saw Fuzzy. Knowing I was busted, I pulled over and got my ticket. Luckily, I had seen enough of those police chase to know better and cooperated. The officer was kind enough to not lock me up for the weekend.

On 23 June, I pled guilty to the charge to which I was fined and had my license suspended for 31 days. Today, I went to DMV to settle the matter. Though they didn't take my license, I am not allowed to drive until 26 August. That's okay with me since I'll be coming back from my Mexican vacation that night.

The lessons learned here are: (1) there's no need to speed; (2) always cooperate and (3) it's gonna cost you over the medium term. Besides, noone can outrun a bullet or the transmission from the police's radio.

Drive safely y'all!

Into the Looking Glass

Oh My God! High Definition television is amazing! Last night, I enjoyed my first sporting event in full as the Miami Heat beat the Dallas Mavericks for its first franchise championship. My friend, PastryDad, is probably right that HDTV was made for football. Can't wait.

In the meantime, I'll just blind myself playing Dynasty Warriors on the PS2 connected via component cables. Additionally, I may watch my entire DVD collection again. Note: there is a noticeable distinction between S-video and MONSTER component.

If the price is right, go for your own plasma. Also, I recommend picking up a Terk HDTVa antenna if you live within 20 miles of the broadcast tower. There is no need to pay monthly fees of $60 or more when a $40 antenna will get you over-the-air HD signals. I can understand when the damn cable companies transmit everything in HD.

For now, WOW!

Oxy- and Regular Morons

The bank I work for is falling apart and management is still reluctant to acknowledge the fat lady is warming her throat. Their strategy is to avoid risk as opposed to managing it. It is understandable that the banking environment in Asia is quite different from ours but the bigwigs presume that the U.S. should follow their model. Psssh......unleash 1.3 billion people to capitalist forces and lenders can demand whatever collateral and conditions they want. But not here!

Nevertheless, they have big eyes for the U.S. operations because of how well China is performing as the RMB keeps a-rolling. And cuz they're kind of a big schizz-nizz yonder. But not here!

The GM, who I once respected, is no more than a punk who is so scared of HK that he doesn't have any balls to do anything other than bust chops. I figure his strategy is to push as many people in front of the bus before it's his turn. He talks all beaucoup shit about how the boat is sinking but he won't give us the tools to plug the holes. Frankly, it's like he hands out plastic knifes or wooden chopsticks and sends us off to a gunfight with our competitors. He is afraid to make simple business decisions and defers to HK, which requires a near full-blown write-up.

HK takes it sweet-ass time and asks ten thousand inane questions which then makes us look like fools, half-baked and impotent. I worry that my association with the bank is hindering my jobhunt because the word is out that the bank is a tease, a pump-faker, a charlatan or a MORON.

So I am a moron.