irishblood

There is, apparently, no limit on "our" intellectually-challenged President's ability to fuck up. Seemingly minutes after the plan to place the security of our nation's ports into the hands of a foreign country (never mind that it's a Middle Eastern nation - it could be Canada, it would not matter, you just don't give national security secrets to foreign nations) comes the news, and accompanying...
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Don Knotts died. Man, that sucks.

Why do I write this?

First off, it's hotter than Hell, literally. It's the last day of September and it was 103 degrees at 6 PM. Goddamn. I rode to work a couple days ago and by the time I got there, I was SOAKED in sweat. I froze my water bottle the day before and not only had it melted, but it was drained and into my gut by...
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Hurricane Rita is expected to dump a few inches of rain on us over the weekend along with kicking the winds up to 40 mph or so. A real storm. I'd be excited except that it's going to destroy the Texas coast before it gets to us. Some fat fucker from the Heritage Foundation or National Coalition of Scientists Paid off by Oil Conglomerates was...
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9/11 Bike Ride

Remember when Bush tried to explain why were attacked on 9/11 four years ago? "They hate our freedom" is what he told us. On today's anniversary CNN reported that discussions regarding the building of a monument to be built at the WTC site were underway. The monument would be something called the "Freedom Museum". Meanwhile, some Pentagon knuckleheads took a break from...
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Over the last 2 weeks my world has changed in so many ways. It's surreal at times and just irritating at others. I plan on writing up a little blurb about my trip out to Texas sometime tomorrow (if internet access is finally installed in my apartment). I'll be writing about my new job and location and some of the more entertaining experiences I have...
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"Blowout" is on TV. Man it's bad.

First random bike conversation:

I get to the bottom of Pershing Road, this big hill I have to ride down each day to get to work. I am at a stop light on the right in the bike lane. To my left are a lot of cars waiting for the light to change. A guy on a motorcycle...
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Yesterday, City Councilwoman Donna Frye won the most mayoral votes here in San Diego for the second time. This means that she has to run again, for a third time. One would think she would be our mayor at this point, and in most cities she might be, but a little known and rarely invoked rule specific to San Diego prevents that from happening. It's...
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Someone last night commented on a friend's shirt, a brown number that reads "don't eat the birds" and has a couple drawing of some flying sparrows on it. This person decided to drop a little scientific knowledge on our dopey asses that went something like this: If you've ever worked around chickens or turkeys, you'd understand how stupid they really are and you wouldn't be...
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Went out to Texas on a company sponsored trip. Since they are shutting us down and offering us transfers to Dallas, they flew a bunch of us out to see it. .....and so Texas wasn't bad. In fact, it wasn't just not bad, it was cool and I liked it. Yes, it was hot, but fuck it, it's hot everywhere in the summer except in...
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War of the Worlds. Not Senor Spielbero's finest moment. Good special effects, I will grant you that, but endless destruction has been done to death. Honestly, it's a little old watching building and bridges get blown to shit over and over again. Independence Day, Armegeddon, Deep Impact, Mars Attacks, etc etc ad nauseum.

Tom Cruise, aside from being a crazy and way too cocky jackass...
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