Well my seemingly endless days of copy & paste are finally behind me. I’ve completed work and have moved on to a new project. Hazaa!Well yesterday was a pretty full day. I got to wake up early so that I could attend my final 2 house appointments, one at lunch and one at 4. Isn’t it great how I’m spending a quarter of a million dollars to hire people to build me a house and they aren’t willing to meet when I’m not working? Imagine the rest of the world worked like this, it would be chaos. No other service industry would dare to be so bold as to tell their clients “screw you, you’ll come to us when we tell you to and you’ll like it”. Wait a minute, banks do that too. Too bad I only get one smack a day on my card, because there are some contractors and bank officials that really have it coming to them.
So I get to skip my lunch break, chow hog on some leftover pizza, and learn all about furnaces. The guy telling us all about furnaces is seemingly unaware of how boring I find his job to be so he goes into great detail for many of the features this furnace offers. What’s more, he’s a slow talker. “Well, ummm uuh, iiiii …. think, that umm uhhh….” grr argh.
So after we blow $5000 there (strange that we have the uncanny knack for doing that) it’s back to work! Who needs a rest when you’re manually completing a boring and repetitious task. Not me, that’s for sure!At the sweet release of 4 its off to yet another appointment, this time with draperies. Or blinds. I don’t know the difference. Meh. Now I thought that furnace guy was a little dry. He was a flaming ninja monkey making me breakfast compared to the blinds lady. I swear to God in heaven it was all I could do not to smack her. Honestly they had like 20 different types of blinds up in the windows and for each set she went into the same spiel, “pull this string and the blind opens, pull it again and they close. Pull this string and you can open them from the top, pull it again and they close…. from the top”.
Really? You just pull a string? I didn’t know that because I’ve been living in a cave on the friggin’ moon for the past 40 years! Man, how the world has changed, it’s a beautiful thing. Hail to the future! Three cheers for stating the stunningly obvious!
At least it only took TWO HOURS to learn how blinds work and choose nothing. Time well spent. Where’s my slap card, I’ve just found my new candidate.
After that I had a good night though. Hung out with the Missus and played a tad of Halo. Watched the movie ‘Ray’ which I don’t personally recommend. It’s like 3 hours long and nothing happens. Seriously, I could have told that tale in 15 minutes.
Ray grows up.
Ray learns piano.
Ray goes to seattle, gets hooked on drugs and signed to a record label.
Hits and touring. He screws it if it moves and starts a powerful smack addiction.
He acts like an ass and alienates everyone who ever loved or helped him.
He kicks heroin, briefly fights for black rights, and is praised as a hero despite the fact that he’s a total loser who never did anything for anybody but himself.
If anyone needed some comupins’ it was Ray Charles, based on the movie anyways. No kidding though, they forewent such movie trivialities as character development, story, and plot in order to show more footage of Jamie Foxx pretending to sing infront of people pretending to care.
Oh yeah, I think there was a happy ending because in a drug induced stupor Ray forgave himself for all the crappy things he’s done to people. Heartwarming. They totally skipped the parts where he was a soda pop spokesman, which is how I knew him. Diet Coke? I can’t remember.
Well, that’s a Thursday for ya.
