a collection of dimes in front of the dryer

there is a quite curious collection of dimes in front of our dryer in orangewood. Why dimes and not quarters, nickels or pennies? Is it because dimes are less valuable than other denominations and therefore haven't been picked up? Or is it because secret laundry gnomes, similar to underpants gnomes, are taking out quarters, nickels and dimes to fund their secret enterprises? I bet thats it.

Moving on... Life has been on the up-swing recently, mainly due to me finally taking charge of things. To fill everyone in, I got a job as a Sys Admin with Biomedical Engineering Department in the beginning of summer and have been working tirelessly to administrate their 20 lab machines, (2) 1 TB fileservers and their 20 node cluster. The job is mainly okay--the people are nice, the environment is friendly, but the work really requires more hours than I can afford to put in (An aside: I only get paid for 10 hrs in a week, yet I put in 20-30 and that is not enough anymore).

Instead of just taking it in the ass, I decided to go to my boss and tell him that I was fed up with the hours and that I was going to quit. So, when I went in to see him, I begun reciting the speech which I had gone over in my head in the shower, on the ride to school and in the minutes walking to his office. He stopped me mid-sentence and told me that he understood and that he himself was worried about the amount of hours that I was putting in. SCORE. He continued by telling me that he would talk to the department chair and see about employing another person to administrate the lab. This was a huge deal for me because I have been complaining endlessly about how many hours I put in to the job with friends and never done anything about it until now. So, if you live in the Irvine area and need a job, throw me an email.

In other news, Hina and I broke it off. After 1 1/2 dates, I couldn't see the relationship going anywhere--I had no interest in her emotionally and in general, I wasn't ready for a relationship. Its funny how these things work... when you least expect it (and are least ready for it) something springs up that catches you by surprise and as soon as it came, its gone. I must say, however, that going on a "date" was fun after such a long time.

Riding the disjointed tangent that my brain seems to be on right now, I recieved two packages from the UPS guy recently... I ordered a new wardrobe for myself over the INTERNETS (b² readers ignore) at HomeStarRunner.Com and JINX.com.com.net. I will be wearing my Linus is My Homeboy tomorrow at the UCF meeting and soon, I will don my Trogodor (sans majesty) and Cheat Commandos tees as well. In fact, if I was a betting man, I would venture to guess that I might wear them all----at. the. same. time!

Another tangent, with moneys pilfered over my most promiscious summer, I purchased a platinum Apple G5! Yes, I know, I'm a Linux dude and not a mac guy, but for graphics, not having to reboot into Windows will save me 911 times 2,000 hours! Now, its only a Dual 1.8 GHz beauty, but its the first 64 Bit SMP system I've ever owned... and boy does it scream.

And now, for your moment of zen:

"Jesus, this is a nice limo."
"Yes, it is. Now suck my cock! Just kidding."

"We're dicks! We're reckless, arrogant, stupid dicks. And the Film Actors Guild are pussies. And Kim Jong Il is an asshole. Pussies don't like dicks because pussies get fucked by dicks. But dicks also fuck assholes. Assholes that just want to shit on everything. Pussies may think they can deal with assholes their way. But the only thing that can fuck a asshole is a dick, with some balls. The problem with dicks is they fuck too much or fuck when it isn't appropriate. And it takes a pussy to show them that. But sometimes pussies can be so full of shit that they become assholes themselves. Because pussies are a inch and half away from assholes. I don't know much about this crazy crazy world, but I do know this. If you don't let us fuck this asshole we're going to have our dicks and pussies all covered in shit. "

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