Off the Beeten Path, aka Buzz Off

Tuesday, June 5th, 2007 | Life | No Comments

Ok, so today I went rock climbing with one of my friends. Got up without a problem but since I wasn’t paying any attention with my friend there, I took a wrong turn at the top. We had 3 choices.

-Go straight down from where we were.
-Turn back and walk down and back up a couple mountains
-Walk all the way till this mountain got done and take trail back.

For time, we decided to walk straight down. On the descent I was already tired and was having a shitty time getting down rocks. When I’m tired my coordination sucks ass. So during this time I managed to bang up my left knee pretty good, and drop a rock on my foot. Earlier I had scraped my leg pretty good on a rock. The blood on that didn’t spurt out or anything, but I figured it worth mentioning since it will add to the the list.

At the bottom we jumped across some rocks and it seems we REALLY pissed off some bees. Note, I used to be alergic to bees. I was ok the last time I got stung by just popping a benadryl, but ya never know right.

These were some angry bees. We ran like the wind for quite a long distance. Those bastards were persistent and would not leave us alone until they all stung us. I got stung twice. Once on the neck, and once on the ear. Yes, the ear one really sucks. So far I have not had a “field reaction” to the stings, and I believe I really did grow out of it. That doesn’t mean that they aren’t a pain in the ass though.

I got home and put some benedryl stick shit on, but decided that wasn’t enough so I went to buy a burrito (and some actual benadryl pills) to help the healing process.

The “arizona burrito” was very good, but I went straight for a couple benadryl pills and am now totally tired. I don’t know if was drowsy but as soon as I finish writing this I will go to bed. It’s too bad because I have things I wanted to get done tonight, but I can’t make it much longer. It’s not even 9pm yet grr.

So the moral of the story is, stick with the normal trails, at least when going down.

P.S. I will not be answering any ask-a-smartass questions tonight, however I added an optional email field so that people can be notified when I answer or abandon their question.

Lying for a Good Cause

Saturday, June 2nd, 2007 | Life | No Comments

Ok, so I told you all how my iPod Video got stolen… grr… Well anyways I have been going back to that car wash every single day and bothering the manager. I had no expectations to get my iPod back, but I was damn sure going to keep annoying the manager until he gave me the money to buy a new one.

Well on Thursday I decided I would pressure the manager into bothering all of his employees with some misinformation and if that didn’t work I would pressure the manager into bothering corporate to “pay me off” so I don’t put out a full page newspaper ad alerting people to how bad this carwash is.

So I told him to say:
1) That the owner of the iPod is going to report the serial # stolen and that when they connect it to itunes that it will alert them that it’s stolen and then will be traceable back to them, and if they tried to sell it to somebody and it came up stolen surely that person would also report the person who sold it to them.
2) Once it’s discovered who took it the INS will be involved and they will get deported.
3) Make everybody sign new employment agreement paying them less in order to pay for my iPod and other stolen goods.
4) Threaten to fire anybody who isn’t being honest.
5) Offer a reward or something for information on it, tell them it will be anonymous, and also offer the person who took it a drop box to put it in so that nobody sees them return it.

He agreed to hold a meeting and do all of this. That same night he held a meeting and I guess he even went so far as to defend the statement about immigration getting involved stating that the “laws have changed”.

The next morning at 8am he called me and I went in and picked up my iPod!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I mean I could of reported the iPod’s serial number stolen and it would of rendered not working once they tried to sign up for itunes, but even if it logged their ip address it would of taken a subpoena to both Apple and the customer’s ISP etc.. just to get that. Also the INS wouldn’t give a flying fuck about it. The manager would not have been able to dock their pay. Also the place he setup for them to return the iPod had a camera on it.

See, now whoever said lying never did any good was full of crap. This proves it.