Rest stop

I have this good friend of mine that I have been acquainted with since high school, and for the sake of a false sense on anonymity, let's call him Ginger Jew-beard, or GJ for short (and yes, he's Jewish).  Now, we've had this unofficial tradition that just about every time we see each other, we have to go to some new restaurant or cafe that we've never been to before.

So on Saturday I went to see GJ and naturally, we went to another new cafe that he'd read about earlier and had been wanted to sample.  Once we'd arrived at the establishment and got ourselves a seat, I couldn't help but notice the composition of the clientele was predominantly a single type; which I had to bring up with him.
"Every.  Single.  Time.  How is it that you always seem to find places to eat that are chock full of nothing but lesbians?"
"I don't know, but my mom asked me the exact same question when I took her to lunch last week."
"Yeah, I'm beginning to wonder you have something shady afoot going on here."

After getting all the laughs out, I was left with a bit of frustration because I already ate earlier, and the menu was sounding quite divine   Being the fat guy that I am, it wasn't long before I totally caved in and insisted on at least trying out a pastry.  I ordered what I thought was a lemon bar, which actually turned out to be a tangerine bar.  Verdict?  Most impressive.  Go check 'em out.

Just gotta calm the nerves

with a little music.  I really wish I could have done nothing this weekend, but I for some inexplicable reason, I seem to be enticed by enough friends, that I spent that entire time running all over the valley with 'em.  So, how bout a tune that's relaxing?

Inxs - Never tear us apart

Yeah, People are constantly telling me that I live in the 80s...and the 60s, the 50s, the 40s.  Being that I look a lot older than I am, it's kinda funny to see the look they give me when I remind them that I'm a child of the 90s.

Maybe I'm just retarded

Reason I am single #207:

So, I'm constantly complaining about being single, but at the same time I'm constantly screwing over my chances at changing that.  For example, not too long ago, a very (okay, let's say extremely) beautiful woman I know was with me and she conspicuously let slip the the infamous phrase, "So, I broke up with my boyfriend."
But, for some odd reason, the best thing I could think of to say at the time was, "Sorry to hear that."
Now, not only is she beautiful, but she's intuitive enough to know that it probably wasn't a very well thought out answer on my part and decided to follow up with, "Oh no biggie, he was a jerk, so I'm over it.  But, I don't have any plans this weekend..."
At this point, some semblance of logic began to rise in my brain, and I realized what was being said.  Yet, all I could bring myself to say was, "That's nice."
So, that conversation quickly crashed and burned.

Sometime later, upon reflection, I wondered why I acted like such a moron, because I realized that it would have been a really awesome idea, and such an opportunity with her will not be coming my way again.

Yup, this one is dying alone.

I just feel brain dead

because nothing is coming to mind for a good post.  I suppose you can stay tuned, as something should come up eventually.  I hope.

A little update of sorts

So, because I hate skipping a day, and it's been a while since I said how I'm doing, I think I make a post about just that.

Today is one of those days where it looked like it might end up being kinda dumb, because of a bunch of tedious projects I have to get done, but then I found one of these waiting for me on my desk.  Those wonderful coworkers of mine...

Speaking of things littering my desk, I also treated myself to a couple articles of Aperture Laboratories swag from Think Geek.  I swear, between the sales these guys have, and my new Amazon Prime account, I doubt I'll ever have money again.  Never mind the fact that I only buy stuff that's on sale, there's just enough of it that I can still spend all my cash away.

Oh, and remember how I was reading the NATOPS F-14 flight manual to get better at landing?  Yeah, it's working out.

Okay, so it wasn't really a botched landing, I suffered a bit of cannon damage while on the hop, which took one of my main landing gears with it.  All in all, I am utterly amazed I managed to land the plane at all in the condition it was, without it turning into a fiery mass of death.  Still, it was pretty embarrassing to be the only one in my flight to receive any damage at all.

What the flying fudgesicle?

So I generally don't post news items just because there's plenty of other people that do it far better than I.  But in this case, I can't help but comment on the recent announcement on The Firearm Blog about Steven Segal lobbying for Russian Gun makers.

Okay, I'll go ahead and assume that since the Russians don't really have the same gun culture that we do here in America, perhaps they are just woefully ignorant of the the rep that he has attained here.  Unless you are in the UFC, Mr. Segal is the absolute LAST person you would want representing anything for you.  He's a prime example of someone you don't want on your side, as he constantly bludgeons everyone over the head with his ignorance every time he tries to help.

Just try and tell me you can't picture Steve over there going to a range with the lowest of all drop leg holsters, all while wearing some feeble second hand body armor.

Then again, maybe I have it all wrong.  This is the same country that insists it's special forces be able to perform a mid-air backflip upside-down hatchet attack, so maybe they really do want the King of all Mall Ninjas as their PR.  I wonder he'll be using a special golf cart with modified shrike missiles.

Join the elite cadre of Mall Ninjas!

The Blizzard Experience

Ugh.  I like playing games with my friends, but in this case I'm doing it a bit begrudgingly.  Not because of my friends, mind you (I aint that evil), but because of the game.  More specifically, the game's issues.  I like Starcraft, always have, but for heavens sake, I have never had to deal with so much bull crap from a publisher before.  There have been bad ones in the past, but Blizzard takes the crap-covered cake.  I have to deal with this nonsense of their downloaded going slower than molasses, and being completely unable to play the game unless I do an "illegal work around" to fix it.  May the fleas of a thousand camels infest their pubes.

I'm sure once I get to actually playing the game, I'll be having a good time, but getting there will possibly be the death of me.

Better than blah

I may have posted her before, but I can't help it.  Good stuff.

Taylor Davis

unnecessary research

A while back I actually went through the trouble of downloading a pdf of the NATOPS F-14D flight manual just because I thought it was kinda cool.

Good kill on a Foxhound in a right hand turn.

As it turns out, I've actually ended up reading a good portion of it now.  I started to read it just so I can get better at landing the F-14B in Strike fighters 2; now, I'm pouring over every page so I can be as knowledgeable as possible on the flight envelope of the plane.  Heck, even reading about aircraft taxiing procedures are starting to become invaluable.  Of particular interest to me would be finding out more about ECM procedures, because I have been shot down way too many times by those dang R-77s.

The hated enemy: Vympel R-77

In other news, I forgot to mention last week that my friend had one of those horrible moments in which a capacitor on his big-screen popped, totaling the TV.  I asked what happened, and he said he heard the popping noise that ended it's effective service life, right when an episode of spongebob came on.  I told him, "Huh.  Must have been one of the later episodes."

Cheap, vapid post

Saw this on 9gag, and I nearly coated my monitor with my drink.