irishblood

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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I watched 60 Minutes last night because they were doing a story on Lance Armstrong (that was OK, but could have been better). The first story they did, however, revolved around following a regiment of soliders in Iraq, specifically around an area where a lot of guys have been blown to shit from roadside bombs. They spoke to one of the guys in charge and...
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Saw "Infection" tonight - good Japanese horror, though not as scary as Ju-On . It made a little more sense, but I still don't get it. Has anyone out there seen it? What was the deal...?

Fill in the blank - Mildly amusing....

1) My uncle once: owned a silver 280Z that I thought was the coolest car in the world

2) Never in my life: did I think I would work as a manager for a multi-national corporation

3) When I was five: my friends and I were playing Star Trek and I stuck a small rock in my ear...
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Typos bother me to no end. In fact, I am thinking about carrying my camera with me and starting a photographic record of typos that I find around me - menus, billboards, flyers, signs, webpages, product packaging. How much does it cost to hire a fucking proofreader? I'll keep you updated. I'm sure you can't wait.

So the woman that sits in the cubicle across from me at work was having this conversation on the phone as I came in to work today:

"Oh! I LOVE ketchup and mustard!!.....I used to eat frogs legs all the time but ever since my grandfather died I don't want to...Uh huh....I don't know, I'm just scared."

I did NOTHING today at work. I literally...
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These days my favorite phrase is "colder than a witch's titty" if for no other reason than it makes me think of Burt Reynolds.

The company I work for is closing down our site here in San Diego. I was planning on moving to Seattle in three weeks, but this is now on hold for a few reasons - Seattle is much more expensive that...
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