Musing

Irritations A short note on where I've been #2: Working 40+ hour weeks is a really good way to force yourself into an early grave, especially when said hours don't really net you the funds you would expect/hope to earn. I worked 9AM - 8PM yesterday, then came home and fell asleep literally as soon as I laid down. The Bright Side NOT what you were expecting to follow the previous comment This is going to be a little paragraph on the pride I take in my job, so if you don't feel like hearing it, you've been warned. Okay, so you're still with me. Good. 11 hours nonstop is not only illegal, but it's also just plain damn hard work. Especially when there is no one else there to help you with your job. Joe, my boss, left as soon as I got there and only appeared during the afternoon for about an hour to pick up a few things off of his desk and check on the store. My quick math tells me that that's ten hours that I owned that store. When...

Irritations #1 (many more coming soon) #1: People who stand in front of the milk cooler and ask where they can find the milk in this damn store, because God knows they've looked everywhere.

Ten Rock Albums That You Shouldn't Be Able To Live Without (a rather subjective listing of the greatest music ever in no particular order) [I] - Led Zeppelin This is the absolute pinnacle of bluesy rock - and it was only their beginning. This is a CD that you really would screw up by burning it, because a lot of the songs go right from one to the next without a pause. Don't be a fool. Buy it. Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd I just realized how pathetic you have to be if you don't know who created each of these albums. I'll keep doing it, though, to benefit all of you clueless losers. This is another album you really shouldn't burn. There are lots of different rereleased versions of the original album out there, some supposedly better than others. Google it before you go out and buy your own copy. Back in Black - AC/DC Need I say more? Almost 50% of this album later became singles material, so you know I'm not the only one who l...

Two Earthshaking Articles or Whoa Ever wonder what happened to Creed, like me? Wonder no more. I'm probably one of very few who read this that care, but I couldn't call myself a fan if I didn't make note of such a monumental occurance here.

Update on the Cheese Curds I'm sure you were all dying to hear a follow-up Now, from the same people that brought you Cheese Curds comes: Amish Cheese! I assume that this is just American cheese made by Amish cows.

The Rant of an Angry Country Person Disclaimer: I am in a very foul mood, so this may just ramble. Subdivisions - they're everywhere. As I was cutting the lawn today, I was looking at all of the fields and trees around me and wondering how long it would be before they were all leveled and turned into more houses. Just look at New Prairie Knolls down the street. What I wouldn't give to see the Black Plague confine itself to the streets of that place, or to make the whole place so radioactive that it can't be touched for 1000 Julys (of course, the radioactivity would have to strictly confine itself to the boundries of the subdivision; there are several houses around it that were already there long before it was built). A couple of years ago, there was talk of a subdivision going in right across the street from me. Luckily, the cell tower people apparently offered more for that smaller piece of land or the idea just plain tanked. That's the beauty of the Wes...