sucky bastards!

Poor Susie has been in an accident that was completely not her fault. She was minding her own business, driving merrily along I-93, when some a-hole who was speeding by cut her off in a pretty dramatic fashion. She had to slam on the brakes and swerve to avoid the collision, which caused her car to veer across three lanes of traffic. Scary stuff. Her trusty Accord glanced off of a car traveling in the left-most lane and landed in the guardrail.

Thankfully, Sue is OK, just has whiplash. The Accord did its job, and is now missing a bumper – I actually haven’t seen it yet… we’ll see what the insurance company decides to do with it.

Best part – the a-hole just drove off, and nobody noticed his license plate number. Too bad I wasn’t around to enforce the Law of the Prelude!

halloween

Pisit was the host of the weekend, and what a weekend it was! Halloween is definitely one of my favorite holidays for a reason: people get to dress like this:

... and like this:

Hakeemy may have taken the prize for the best costume, but I believe we held up our end of the deal:

For the record, Susan is a first runner-up in a beauty contest; Hakeem is the dude from "Coming to America"; Daisk is a hippy priest; Pisit is pretty much himself at this point, and I, of course, am Ali G. Repsecte!

the boys are coming!

Fraser and Kenny finally got the courage to come back to their old stomping grounds! Looks like Matt and Johnny will be MIA, but I guess we'll just have to party extra hard next weekend for our homies.

money-making idea

A Walgreens catalog was advertising protective underwear, which gave me the following idea - I should buy a pair, put them on, get some poor soul to shoot me in the crotch area, and then sue the store, Brilliant.

jumping ship

So my officemate dropped a bombshell on us and gave her two-week notice. She's going to the greener pastures of Nokia... which means that I'll have the office all to myself in the near future ;p

Funny sidenote - I happened to dress up today (relative to my usual *very relaxed* attire), so my boss, still shell-shocked, was asking me if I had a "surprise" in store as well. Maybe I can dress up in my interview suit on Monday to totally freak her out?

new york: still trashy

Another weekend, another trip to NYC. This time, I delivered some humanitarian supplies to Eugene, and Susan and I spent some quality time with Chris and Anne, these recent defectors:

We were walking around Midtown, and we see a group of big dudes running towards us. I didn't pay much attention - lots of crazies in that city - but after they passed, Stevens turns around and says, "That was Will Smith on the left!" Sure enough, Fresh Prince is shooting a movie called "I Am Legend", and we walked right in the middle of the set. All along Fifth Ave, they had buses and taxicabs that looked like they were covered in soot, and weird-looking fake plants. I'll keep an eye out for that movie.

Anyhoo, after every visit, Susan asks me, "So, do you like NYC a little better?", and I always respond, "Nope, the same ol' trash heap..."

vrrrroooom

So here's a picture (FINALLY) that you've all been waiting for: Todd in beer goggles!

Now, how did we get to this point?

At last, we got around to taking motorcycle classes! The affair took up the whole weekend... 3 hours of class on Friday, all day Saturday, and much of Sunday. The classroom part was a snoozer, but we did cover a lot of ground (but not as much as we covered on the bikes!!! but I'm getting ahead of myself). I figured that on Saturday we might actually touch a motorcycle if we're lucky, but instead we pretty much spent the whole day in the saddle. They had us riding around, slowly at first, but at the end of the day we were going around curves, braking hardcore, and shifting gears like nobody's business.

On Sunday, we did some more riding, and then it was time for the license test. The hardest part was the freakin' U-turn box, where you had to ride at a crawling speed, going around inside the imaginary box the size of a toaster. I did that thing flawlessly a million times before, but during the test I had to take my foot off the peg for a second. Damn.

Unlike the normal driving test, a big part of the test was the ability to accelerate to a certain speed. A lot of people struggled with it, but apparently I didn't - in the curve, I was going a bit too fast, and had to lay off the throttle. Some more points off. Bummer.

After all the trials, Todd and I did pass. So why no pictures? Because we were riding pathetic-looking 125cc bikes (think Ho Chi Minh Trail).

And where did the goggles come from? The instructor gave them to us to illustrate what having BAC of 0.10 feels like. Eh, been there, done that...

cat cornered by a mouse

There's definitely some sh#t going down in the UN and elsewhere, with regards to the North Korean nuclear test. John Bolton is making one blunder after another, but then again, what else can you expect from a man who doesn't believe in the UN in the first place.

Bush is playing tough and placing his bushy eyebrows on a collision course in the middle of his forehead, but the simple fact of the matter is that there's absolutely nothing he can do. Any sort of a military response is out of the question, and a strong UN reaction cannot materialize because Mr. President has completely disregarded the Security Council in the past, even before he assigned Mr. Douche to be the ambassador.

Why are we here now? Because the US has misplaced its balls back in 2002. As you recall, Bush found out that North Korea has been cheating the 1994 Agreed Framework (the no nukes, we give you food deal). His response? A mild “heeeeeyyyy…”

daym

Blogger is refusing to upload my pictures. Without such pictures, I really can't tell the stories that I want to tell... the motorcycle lessons... the carbon fiber roof install... Todd in beer googles... damn you, you free service that I can't complain about!

change of seasons

As Susan has patiently explained to me, this is part of a normal process of changing clothes from one season to another:

All I want is a little room in the bedroom :(

Mitt, you whore

Gotta love politics... and you especially gotta love politics in Massachusetts. First, Gov. Mitt Romney vetoes the Universal Healthcare reform, trying to protect his base - the business owners. Now, after the veto has been overridden and things seem to be going well, his crony Healy is running ads to the tune of "re-elect the Republicans: we passed the healthcare reform". Total BS.

that'll teach them

So it sounds like a couple of Muslims hijacked an airplane to deliver a message to the Pope. This, on top of bombings and murders, sounds to me like a perfect response to Pope's allegations that Islam is violent. Yuppp... that would be like the French refusing to shower in response to somebody alleging that they smell. Oh wait, that's not an allegation, that's a fact.

P.S. Hopefully, the message to the Pope included something to the tune of "let people use condoms, you douche".

material enhancers

This guy, Demitri Martin, is pretty funny!

sinking feeling

OK, what's wrong with this picture of an Irish sink?

Think about it. Visualize trying to use it.

Yes, the hot water is on the wrong side, OK. But how in the heck do you get WARM water? WTF. Susan and I could not figure it out, but our Irish friend had no problem with it - in fact, he claimed that these sinks save water.