Z.Monkey’s Blog

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You are a hairy bastard.

Z.Monkey

‘It is bad nap time’. Ah, jetlag. Yesterday I left work around 10:45 so that I could go to adult stick practice. It was fun and probably did me a lot of good (hockey-wise). After stick practice I did not go back to work but instead I went home, showered, ate, left, got my license renewed, went home again and spent the afternoon writing reports and emails (and playing disc golf). It was nice though I did feel a little guilty not coming back to work, which is strange since I did do work at home. I could even say that I did work more efficient at home than I do at work, but an underlying feeling of guilt and shame, instilled in me during my youth, kept creeping up on me. Sigh.

It did not help that a company called and demanded a conference call right away, and that someone else had to do it for me… perhaps that is where the guilt comes in. I just do not know. For those of you who care: Sox v. Yankees this Sunday. Woo? As the crimson jihad said, “It’s hard to get excited for baseball without hockey playoffs.” (Probably a misquote) Sigh.

Z.Monkey

Today I will attempt to write something a little bit longer than my last two posts, which, by all accounts, were quite brief. Randomly posting a comment is fine and good but it does not allow one to fully express anything.

Once again, the new place is really nice. We are looking into buying a new TV as the old TV is too deep for our new entertainment center thingy. This way we may also be able to get one with all sorts of neat stuff! We’ll see… I have been having trouble concentrating on work. All I want to do is go home and read or hang out… hell I’d even to work so long as it was at home! This I may end up doing for a portion of tomorrow, along with going to stick practice and renewing my license. Fun Fun.

I also want to comment on how the continued stubborness of one of my co-workers is hurting my brain. This co-worker wrote a macro for Excel that generate histograms and does some chi square tests to determine randomness in the TBEBO data (really crappy link). As I did not feel like redoing his work I decided to use his macro, which means I have to generate several files and save the captured data in a specific format. This would be fine and dandy but for the fact that this process has not been updated since the mid to late 90’s (command line anyone?). This co-worker even runs his code on 95/98 machines because he does not want to recompile the code! Grrr… just because something works does not mean you should continue to use it forever… for God sake (stop using Bible?) the hardware is an ISA card. You can only buy PIII computers with ISA slots and those (look at the cost of just a proc) end up being as expensive as a PIV. Poo.

Z. Monkey

The move went incredibly well. The new place is much better than the old in almost every way, and, as Udy would say, “everything good!” That is all. I have to do some work sometime today.

Z. Monkey

Oh, and you may have noticed the image above. You can refresh (F5) for a new and equally crappy image.

Where was this webpage when I was working on my tremendously long paper on the 1665 plague epidemic of London. Particularly when I was trying to decipher the Bills of Morality Mortality. Consumption is Tuberculosis!

Fuck you! I think that the dictionary has taken creativity out of spelling! Why can’t our dictionaries be ‘Incomplete and deficient’?

On a whim I have decided to make this weblog all shades of grey (fo!). I have not completed the effort because I figure I should do some work today. I will remove all crappy colors in the near future (after I move, after I work, and probably after some drinky drink) and tweak the greys so that they are easier on the eyes.

Also, has anyone every been completely clobbered by stubborness before? It like a child saying ‘Poop’ over and over again to whatever you say. It is rather disorientating and it leaves your mind in shambles. Imagine, if you will, if your mind were stuck in the oven then raped by the 1000 pound bastard child of an elephant and a gorilla.

Poop

So I can be like everyone else. Apparently I live in a very small world. I will probably attempt this silly quiz again when my head stops pulsating. B!

Are my prose so inconsequental that they do not cause any response? Should I start writing poetry? This I will attempt:

I sit here at work
I feel like a jerk
for I am as sick as an leper
who has a fucking goober
stuck in his throat.

Perhaps very soon
It will soon be noon
when I can take a nap
and pull my BoSox cap
down before my eyes.

The pain in my head is great,
It sucks a lot.
Every noise is starting to grate,
It hurts a lot.

Fuck.

Perhaps the shittiness of the poem is an indication of its sincerity. If it were good it could be construed as an attempt to flaunt my cleverness. I got that idea from here because I cannot come up with anything new. If you are bored: http://www.metaweb.com/QSMW. It’s probably a waste of time.

Z. Monkey

I am staying home sick today because I feel like crap. Currently I am (was/will be? I obviously am not right now) doing work and watching my wife play with a gigantic purple ball.

The question I have is, if I stay home sick and do work at home do I take a sick day or just say I was working at home? I could always take a sick day and subtract the hours I work today at home from Friday. This would be convenient as I have to take some time off to sign the lease for the new place anyways. Less than a fucking week til we move!

Update: Woo… its 11am time for The Price Is Right!

I have been receiving emails from such groups as moveon.org and a common strategy they employ is that of the reformed sinner (Amen!?). For example:

‘So, we’re inviting you to share your story and help us find Republicans and former Bush supporters against privatization. Please just take a couple of minutes today to click on the link below and write a testimonial about Social Security or forward this e-mail to Republicans or former Bush supporters you know.

http://www.moveonpac.org/socialsecurity/mystory/’

While I do not really think of this as subversive, I think it is a stupid tactic. Of course every republican is not going to agree with everything Bush does, just like every Democrat did not want Dean as the DNC Chair. Pointing out what is wrong with the current Republican government does nothing, because a large number of people do not see the Democratic Party as an alternative, but maybe that’s because everyone is a fucking moron and thinks God ordains everything. Everyone please take responsibility for your own actions, it gives you an excuse to think (that includes those who voted for Gore/Kerry).