Numbero Uno: (When 'Blog-surfing') The pink and urine-yellow happy-go-lucky blogspot that does not have a 'next blog' button... seemingly because their creator thinks it must be the end-all, be-all of positive-attitude self-help; the cure-all that will make the world a better place {and be it forbiden to continue on to the next blog in league with Satan himself and those Devilish Imps}.
Number2: Dental Hygienists (link)
Number Three: Butt Zits (ooze)
# Four: Bad pistachio nuts that you don't notice are bad until you pop 'em in your mouth...
Number 5: The mystery smell in my apartment.
{Number 5 is cancelled. Both the mystery and the smell are no-more.}
#6: Calling customer service with an automated voice that asks for all your passwords and vital statistics for the last five years, then being put on hold for 20 minutes until an actual operator takes the call and makes you repeat everything you just told the automated voice!
Seven: My employer requiring me to wear a tie to work.
Eight: My employer abolishing ties in favor of uniforms... with a tie I at least had individuality.
Niner: Soggy pasta.
X: People who complain incessantly (Uhmmm... complain out-loud).
Ten plus One: Global Warming... This is the first ski season I ever splurged enough to purchase a season pass and I ended up using it a total of ZERO times. Whenever I could go they were closed, and whenever they were open I had to do other things - which brings me to
12: Responsibility.
13: Superstition (Actually, I like superstition... I hate superstition extremists)
4teen: internet explorer.
In fact, make that computers in general.I have to send this in chunks in case my Chinese formatted version of Windows decides to freeze... which is at least better than the English formatted version on this computer which chooses to deny internet access altogether... And of course there is the internet explorer on both versions which was developed in a partnership between Bill Gates and Satan. So yeah add iexplorer to my hate list.
fiveteen: Chinese National Day (if you read my last China post you know why).
sixplusten: Really lazy people. (not generally lazy people... i like generally lazy people)
17: Extremely unsanitary restuarant toilets.
Twenty-Two (in base 8): NASCAR... its just stupid.
lastteen: ingrown toenails
2ZERO: When I pick my nose and try to flick the bogger, but the bugger won't flick... and then I flick it repeatedly until it boomerangs back onto my clothing (or hair) somewhere.
US Legal Drinking Age: How come the age of consent is 18 but you can't get them drunk so they think you look good until 21?
Twenty-Two (in base 10): Math.
5.744562647^2: MATH! (Specifically Calculus)
four and twenty: Money (only because I have none).
The age I will forever claim to be: My actual age.
2wenty6: When you are able to make it through a traffic light that is turning yellow but the car in front brakes hard, then gases it through leaving you stopped 15feet from the light. (California yellow lights are longer than in most states, except where there is photo-enforcement and then the timing is exceptionally short).
XXVII: photo-enforced traffic laws (unless I have the dealer license-plate, then I roll through with my finger up).
28: You. The world would be better off without you. Oh-shit, if you kill yourself it will be my fault. Criminal charges? Are you f*ckin kinding me?!
29: When I wait in the postal line for 15 minutes and when I finally get to the counter to mail my lousy four letters the guy smells like he's been living in the shipping boxes out back. But I don't say anything because he has a crazy look in his eye and, also, there is a reason it's called 'going postal'. The world would definitely be better off without that guy.
30: 'Green Washing'... Thats what its called when a company tries to alter its image to appear more environmentally friendly. The adverts for 'fuel efficient' SUV's and less poluting gasoline... the best was an ad i recently saw for WM (waste management). It had a picture of a garbage truck gently rolling down a hilly, country road... and it read "Our landfills provide over 17000 acres of wildlife habitat". I am speechless.
31: BAD CRM. A contact list of companys that call/mail/contact me for things that i don't want, don't need, and am not interested in learning about. I tell them 'not interested' and let the first time go, but when they persist they show a lack of knowledge about me and that they don't listen.
32: BAD BUSINESS.
SEARS GOLD MASTERCARD
Applied for a Sears card to recieve the 'X% off purchase' deal. Never used the card, 4 months later I was sent "Shop at Home" merchandise. It was the kind that was sent automatically and if you did not 'return to sender' you were charged. I had moved out of state and never even got a chance to return the stuff... should of been returned aotomatically...but in either case it turned up as multiple charges on my statement. There was also a charge for 'account care'. So I try to cancel the card and I spend a couple hours calling multiple numbers... one number for the agency that sends the merchadise, one for accountcare, and one for "Shop at Home" customer service... Got a cancellation number and everything. But next statement I recieved some more charges and a late fee. Did it all over again and cancelled, this time I had to deal with a seperate dept. for the late fee. Again had a cancellation number but didn't put much faith in it since it was useless last time. AGAIN got a statement with multiple charges and this time when I called with the other cancellation that had been registered they said "can't figure out why you keep getting charged..." Finally, they came to the conclusion that because the credit card remains active for 30 days after cancellation and the mail-order company that sends the crap, {without any kind of actual order} was still sending crap... well, sh*t, my card just kept getting re-activated. I finally got so angry that they feared for their lives and cancelled all the fees. The customer service rep. even dialed up the mail-order company directly and told them to stop sending me stuff {Obviously the customer telling them to stop sending stuff wasn't good enough}. Since then I have not recieved any more statements but I am not forgiving Sears or Mastercard just yet...
STEVENS PASS SKI AREA (Washington)
Simply put: They were closed, due to lack of snow, for more than 2/3 of the season. Pass holders were compensated with a food voucher of $35... IF they purchased another Season Pass for next year. (Read Ten plus One)
S.O.S. Property Management (San Diego)
Summary: Sunday, Jan. 29th; Brother fell backwards through sheet glass front door.--Called at 1:30 to the repair number provided by SOS property mngmt. Left message.--Called again 4:00... talked with Thomas. He came over and hastily put plywood on the door. We taped cardboard over the gaps and holes.Thursday, Feb. 2nd;--Called & emailed to see when door would be properly repaired/replaced. No response...Feb. 15th (est.);--Alberto called and said the door would be replaced... sometime...Next Couple Weeks;--Called S.O.S. several times, left messages. No response...Sunday; Notice given by letter that door to be repaired Monday.--Emailed & called again... No response...Monday, March 6th; Door replaced.--Sent another email. Tuesday, March 7th; Door now has 1/4 inch gaps on sides of door, barely clicks shut, and has a 1/2 inch gap at the bottom where wind blows in.--Sent Another email. No response as usual. Thursday, April 27th; Called again and finally spoke with Karen. They were charging me 4 times the quoted cost. Sent a letter to Robert Shapiro (Head Honcho)... gave ultimatum that unless something was done I would withhold rent. All I wanted was a f-in' phone call... SoS called my bluff. I am still paying rent, but I will be moving out of my apartment as soon as the lease term ends.
Well, its been a couple years and still here. So, I am moving out when I graduate. God help me if i don't.
33: When I say I am going to move out and then I don't... End of this year...
34: SOB. Been graduated for almost 9 months... I will never move. I hate reality.
Fuck it... what the hell am I doing? Who can really complain about anything?? We've got Child Slave Labor & Homelessness, Starvation, Inflation, Privatization & Globalization... Genocide, Homocide, Suicide. We've got Air Pollution, Water Pollution, Revolution, Extinction, Ozone Depletion, Nuclear Weapons, Chemical Weapons, Biological Weapons, Secret Weapons, Space Weapons & Spy Satelites... Corporate Rights, Copy Rights, Rights Reserved. We've got Herpes, Hepititas, AIDS and STD's, Mad Cow Disease, SARS & Avian Flu... Religious Fanatics, Regular Fanatics, Govermental Fanatics, Leftists, Rightists, Anarchists... Imperialism, Fascism, Materialism, National Debt, Foreign Debt & Credit Card Debt... We've got the Oil Crisis & Energy Crisis; not to mention the 'possibility' of the Global Warming Crisis...We are the corn in the crapper and its all gettin' flushed (poetic, I know)... The way I figure it we're already dead... it'll all be over by 2050, so go ahead and sell your cars & buy your cars & drive your cars... Then you can get drunk & fucking wreck your cars. Cause we've got Driving Records, Juvenile Records, Criminal Records & Permenant Records... Litigation, Incarceration & Probation... And if you can't afford an attorney, and if Human Rights, Civil Rights, or the Bill of Rights won't help you out... We've got the Death Penalty.
So, just enjoy the time you've got and fight the fight as best you can.
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