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So Thursday was a surprise bridal party for one of my co-workers. We chipped in a few bucks, and had ourselves a BBQ. Since it was crappy outside, we ate inside. But it marks another milestone in my life – the first time I’ve had a beer at work during office hours. Seriously, Nozer brought some Coors and I popped a top while munching on some dogs. Very cool. Even better yet, there were some leftovers on Friday, so Stan (the maintenance guy) dragged the grill out again and we had ourselves a picnic in the back of the warehouse area. I think I like it here.

On a sillier note, I actually drove up to our production facility to troubleshoot why some computers weren’t working properly after a power failure. The main problem turned out to be that we never actually got to the “after a power failure” stage. When nobody understands what is actually on battery backup, it makes it very difficult to figure out what’s going wrong :).

I’ve been getting into this intriguing web comic called Buttercup Festival. I was directed to it by a voice from the darkness. Actually it was a complete stranger. But I thought I knew who it was. I started getting IM’s from someone named “seths appeal”. I assumed it was my friend Seth’s new nick. I was wrong. I have no clue who this stranger on the Internet it, but he/she gave me a cool link, so I’ll keep talking 🙂

Anywho, I think one of the older strips has a great commentary on the individuality of man and the monsterous war machine. It’s cute and funny. I’ll be ordering one of the t-shirts based on the strip about his indie band. 🙂

So, hopefully I won’t come home today with a warrant out for my arrest. For those of you not in the know, last October I was in a car accident. Most of it took place without any effort from me, the cop did all the work. Yeah, that’s right, a cop. He ran a stop sign without his sirens on and trashed my beautiful Deanna (my black metallic 1996 Geo Prism LSi – God I loved that car). I spun around and threatened to hit him right back before cooler heads prevailed. He went to the hospital and I got to watch another officer kick the remains of my bumper off the back. A few days later I got a ticket in the mail. Ain’t police officers just grand?!?!
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Before I forget anything else, Sandy had her baby! From her hubby Steve’s e-mail:

Announcing the birth of Caitlin Abigail Kosciolek.

Born at: 8:19 AM July 4
Weight: 7 lb 12 oz
Size: 21.5 inches

Mother and baby are both in good health. Pictures to come later.

Pictures are available at Caitlin’s first web page.

So my friend Gerry came into town and a bunch of us got together at one of our usual haunts, Louise and Jerry’s. It was a solid night of drinking, discussing music, mulling over our latest stupidities, and avoiding skanky Jenny. It’s pretty much summed up by this picture that Gil just sent me. And then there’s the 4th of July at Dom’s tonight. Oh yeah, and HSC and Eugene down at JR’s tomorrow night. And let’s not forget Pearl Jam at the Tweeter Center on Sunday. This will be one long weekend.

Great review of the new Ann Coulter book “Treason”. Richard Cohen pretty much covers my thoughts on Ms. Coulter. She’s absolutely hilarious to listen to because she is simply that clueless. When it comes down to it, I can disagree with someone and still have respect for them, but some of these conservatives are just embarassing. Just watch Dennis Miller’s latest rhetoric since he switched sides. He was already getting on my nerves as a left-leaning moderate, now that he’s a full-fledged Bush supporter I can’t stand him on the TV for more than 20 seconds.

So a bunch of us helped my friends Ivy and Maricio move into their new house in Montclair on Saturday. It wasn’t that bad – a very nice day outside. We even got to see this rare sun thing (I don’t know the proper term) that’s like a rainbow reflected off of clouds. You see 2 rainbow-like bands (one big and one small) that color different clouds (normally you’ll only actually see one of them). It only took us three trips with the U-Haul to get pretty much everything moved. I missed the first trip, but made up for that with my participation in the last load involving a refrigerator, ATV, motorcycle, and the motorcycle’s engine!

Just when everything seemed cool and Ivy was finally beginning to relax she got a serious jolt back to the crappy nature of reality. Her car was stolen the very first night. Right in front of their house. That sucks. I can only offer my condolensces and wish her the best. I’m sure she’ll get thru this, but it’s just something so… outrageous. I really am such the wordsmith. Next time I’ll just make up a word.

I really hate Macs. Even as they make advances on some of their technology and put out some decent software (i.e. Mac OS X) I really can’t stand the attitude of the company or it’s supporters. They tend to be very snobbish and buy into this whole elitist “we’re artists not computer geeks” crap when the only real difference between them and Microsoft is that MICROSOFT WON! Sorry, I like healthy competition, but that’s why this machine actually runs something different. Apple’s ads tend to be incredibly pompous and without any wit as they flaunt the ignorance of their users.
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I forgot to post this link last week courtesy of my friend Jeff. It’s an amazing rube goldberg that was used in a 2 minute Honda ad. This is an offsite page that someone created because the Honda page was too slow. Warning – there is some sound and it continually loops.

Ah, finally back and getting ready for my final night’s sleep as a free man. Niagara Falls was great. Too much to say right now as I really need to sleep. I’ll write all about it tomorrow. It really is a beautiful area, I’m just glad that they let me back in the USA. After all, that’s where I keep all my stuff.