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Which Dysfunctional Care Bear Are You?
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June 27, 2003
June 26, 2003
Poor LaSabre
Katie came by work today. We decided on a set of tires and I got her a really good deal. But when the tech tried to start the car, it moved for a second and then cut off. When we tried it again, it wouldn't kick over. So the poor thing has to spend the night outside blocking three parking spaces. I am sure I will hear something from other customers about it in the morning. This goes for the rest of you that come to me for deals at work. If your busted ass car breaks down, I will post your crappy CS website from freshman year!
June 24, 2003
Just a test
Please ignore, this is just a test to see if the upgrade of Movabletype went well...
BACK TO MASSACHUSETTS!!!
The new Guster CD, Keep It Together, came out the other day. Got mine in the mail with a signed insert to boot. I haven't stop listening to it either. Already ripped it and listening to the mp3s on my computer. It is locked down in my X's CD player. It is a great album and if you haven't ever heard of Guster before, you should definitely check them out. You can hear some of the album here!
Stupid Email Test
There are 29 questions about things we see every day or have known
about all our lives. How many can you get right?
These little simple questions are harder than you think--it just shows
you how little we pay attention to the common place things of life. Put
your thinking caps on.
Mind teasers of COMMON KNOWLEDGE. No cheating! No looking around! No
using anything on or in your desk or computer!
Can you beat 18?? (The average is 7) Write down your answers and check
answers (just click here) AFTER completing all the questions. REMEMBER -
NO CHEATING!!! LET'S JUST SEE HOW OBSERVANT YOU REALLY ARE.
1. On a standard traffic light, is the green on the top or bottom?
2. How many states are there? (Don't laugh, some people don't know)
3. In which hand is the Statue of Liberty's torch?
4. What six colors are on the classic Campbell's soup label?
5. What two letters don't appear on the telephone dial? (No cheating!)
6. What two numbers on the telephone dial don't have letters by them?
7. When you walk does your left arm swing w/your right or left leg?
8. How many matches are in a standard pack?
9. On the United States flag is the top stripe red or white?
10. What is the lowest number on the FM dial?
11. Which way does water go down the drain, counter or clockwise?
12. Which way does a "no smoking" sign's slash run?
13. How many channels on a VHF TV dial?
14. Which side of a women's blouse are the buttons on?
15. On a NY license plate, is New York on the top or bottom?
16. Which way do fans rotate?
17. Whose face is on a dime?
18. How many sides does a stop sign have?
19. Do books have even-numbered pages on the right or left side?
20. How many lug nuts are on a standard car wheel?
21. How many sides are there on a standard pencil?
22. Sleepy, Happy, Sneezy, Grumpy, Dopey, Doc. Who's missing?
23. How many hot dog buns are in a standard package?
24. On which playing card is the card maker's trademark?
25. On which side of a Venetian blind is the cord that adjusts the
opening between the slats?
26. On the back of a $1 bill, what is in the center?
27. There are 12 buttons on a touch tone phone. What 2 symbols bear no
digits?
28. How many curves are there in the standard paper clip?
29. Does a merry-go-round turn counter or clockwise?
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Don't look at answers below until you complete all the questions:
1. Bottom
2. 50 (please tell me you got this one!)
3. Right
4. Blue, red, white, yellow, black, &gold
5. Q, Z
6. 1, 0
7. Right
8. 20
9. Red
10. 88
11. Counter (north of the equator)
12. Towards bottom right
13. 12 (no #1)
14. Left
15. Top
16. Clockwise as you look at it
17. Roosevelt
18. 8
19. Left
20. 5
21. 6
22. Bashful
23. 8
24. Ace of spades
25. Left
26. ONE
27. *, #
28. 3
29. Counter
June 20, 2003
Life sucks, just like work!
So I bought my tickets online and was ready to see The Hulk tonight with Hakaber and Phat. I had just already started liking my position as assistant manager too (especially after seeing my direct deposit paycheck this morning). So I am ready to get out of the store and we had one customer left in the store. Then a customer from this morning comes in saying that he had just got some work done on his brakes and they were still vibrating. He had come in previously for the same problem but I thought the guy who had worked on his car had fixed the problem. Turns out I was wrong, WAY WRONG! I ended up spending most of the evening with another tech to correct the problem. Basically the car needed to have all his drums and rotors resurfaced. Something that should have been taken car of in the first place. Needless to say right now I am both pissed and tired from having to spend 14 hours at work and dealing with all the problems late in the day.
The Hulk comes out today!
June 19, 2003
LED Crazy!!!
For real, I have a great website for ordering LEDs for my truck. I just got done placing my first order. Hopefully if they are quick and what I get is what I want I will probably keep ordering from them. In case you are wondering the website it is called Superlumination. I found it after looking for some other LEDs on eBay.
The reason I am changing all my Halogens over to LEDs? After this I won't have to worry about changing my blubs for like a good couple years. As for my problem with my flasher....looks like they don't make a variable load flasher for my vehicle. That means I would have to put load equalizers on each place I have LEDs so that it doesn't set off the "burnt out light signal" on my truck dash and flash twice as fast. THen I guess it hit me that if I change all the blubs to LEDs, I might not have this problem. We will find out when all of them are changed I guess.
June 18, 2003
LED problems
So I am in the process of converting most of my lights in my truck into LEDs and I have ran into a small problem. I put some amber LED turn signals and check to make sure they worked when I put the hazards on, and they did. I take the truck to work the next day and when I switch lanes I notice that the flasher is going like twice as fast as it should. Then it hit me...LEDs produce less load on the electrical system so the system thinks that the lights are out. So now I am in search of a variable load flasher for my truck or load equalizers for all the leds on my truck. Anyone know where I can get a 3 pronged variable load flasher for a GM truck? Seems they don't make them or something. I just don't want to spend like $7 per LED on my truck. Yeah, I am cheap.
June 13, 2003
Why isn't today payday?
Cause I really need the money. Oh well, time for another Friday Five.
1. What's one thing you've always wanted to do, but never have?
Participate in a Roman-style orgy. Of course it would be nice if it could be during that time as well. That way I could worry about less STDs.
2. When someone asks your opinion about a new haircut/outfit/etc, are you always honest?
Most of the time I am, but since I really don't have too much fashion sense, my words don't carry much weight.
3. Have you ever found out something about a friend and then wished you hadn't? What happened?
Of course. I think everyone has though. However, I don't feel comfortable disclosing such information about my friends.
4. If you could live in any fictional world (from a book/movie/game/etc.) which would it be and why?
Pre-World War II working along side Indiana Jones. I think it would be cool fighting the evil Nazis. Especially if I did it with Harrison Ford with the occassional cameo from Sean Connery.
5. What's one talent/skill you don't have but always wanted?
The ability to make women organsm at the single touch of my hand. Of course I would also like to have the ability to turn it off when I wanted so that every woman I touched would fall to the floor in pleasure.
June 10, 2003
Scroll buttons, oh yeah like that, heart attack!
Just receieved a call today from my boss letting me know that I am the new assistant manager of the store. Welcome to the big time Mr. P'body. 
June 8, 2003
The gods must be crazy...
So last week I mentioned to my manager that I might be interested in becoming the assistant manager of the store. I had really grown tired of working solely on comission and having to bust my ass in order to get a good paycheck. In one months time I had probably somewhere around $45,000 in sales. At least a salesman can do is $7,000 a week, that is company standard. As you can see I went above and beyond. But really I had grown tired of pushing sales. Then the idea came into my head that I could get paid more (aka be on salary instead of hourly wages) and do less sales. The thing was that I always liked talking to the people who came in and wanted to help them, but when you are a salesmen you kinda have to kick them out the door once you are done with them. It wasn't really the experience I wanted people to have when they came into the store. I would rather relax on sales and do more customer relations. Screw all that....I really want the pay increase! So the District Manager is suppose to meet with me tomorrow, fun stuff let me tell ya.
Car 54?
I have been going eBay crazy the past couple of days. And of course the only thing I buy on eBay nowadays is parts for my truck. Right now I am in the process of changing all my external lights on my truck into LEDs instead of Halogen. Are the old bulbs still working? Of course. I just sometimes get a bug like that. This of course begins to hurt my pocket. I have spent over $100 in the past thirty days. I think I need to take a break and wait for my auctions to complete so I might have a little more money. It is funny how my mind works sometimes though. I get on there and search for one thing and then I think of something else to bid on and by the time I am finished I have like bidded on 5 items in less than 10 minutes. It is like crack for me sometimes. I think I need to spend some time balancing the checkbook....I hope I still have some money from my paycheck left.
June 2, 2003
Whacha need yo?!
I am selling some items on eBay, please check them out.
Kenwood Amp KAC 626 100W x 2, 300W x1
Kenwood Amp KAC 646X 50W X 4
Hewlett Packard CD-RW External Drive 7200