Fried food is disgusting

I hate fried food. I despise everything about it. Nothing healthy is ever fried, unless you think that catfish and chicken are healthy to begin with. But, I guess some healthy things can be deep-fried, but then suddenly they become instruments of obesity. For dinner tonight, I was forced to choke down fried catfish and chicken. Now, I normally wouldn't have eaten such terrible things, but those are the only options that I have sometimes. Larry goes out, and buys fried food. Dave needs to eat, so he eats it. Sometimes I curse my body.. having to constantly devour food to stay active. I guess it could be worse. I could be overweight and disgusting. Oh man that would suck.

Luckily it is the off season and I don't really need to worry about what I eat. Not that I normally do, but I'd like to think that I eat reasonably healthy. I stay away from fast-food as much as I can, though I occasionaly love having a nice sandwich from subway. I mean, one needs to indulge one's self every now and again. I guess if I really wanted to be in peak fitness that I should probably eat better, but I just like food way too much and use way too much energy to try to survive off completely health foods. I guess I eat a lot of fruits and veggies.. but I do indulge in candy and sweets all the time. I realize that high fructose corn syrup is the devil.. but man, skittles taste so freaking good sometimes. But yeah, I guess I'll never be 100% due to my diet.. but at the current moment, I'm not going to be running in the olympics, and I mean.. triathlons are sort of a hobby, not my life. Maybe when I start being able to live off racing (doubt it'll ever happen) but at that point I'll start eating correctly. At the moment.. I just eat what I want and enjoy it. Never really been able to gain weight.. though i bet that'll change one day too.

But yeah.. off-season time. I want to get in great shape in the next 5 months or so. Run some 5k and 10k races, swim a lot, hit the gym like I'm some sort of maniac, and really just whip myself into a good racing shape for next season. I'll probably hit it really hard come March.. bump up the training and get ready for Memphis in May.. I think that'll probably be the first race this season. I also want to see if I can get out West and visit the family as well as run some races out there. I've always wanted to do the Death Ride, or Escape from Alcatraz.. though maybe I should train more before doing any big races like that. Maybe 2006.. who knows. But yeah, I want to get stronger legs.. never been completely happy with my bike splits. I feel they could be much much better.. I just haven't been riding long enough. I think with a good few months of training I could really knock off the minutes. Erik says it is just all about experience.. so maybe I just have to be patient and continue training. With the new bike.. I feel I need to work harder so as I feel that I deserve it. Ahh.. I'm looking forward to the winter. Now without school, though work might mess it all up, I'll be able to train. I don't know.. we'll see how it works out.

Oh yeah.. Yankees suck.. stupid Yankees. I bet I could have a really good ball club if I had hundreds of millions of dollars. Of course, then I bet everyone would hate my team too.

This post has gone on way too long. I should probably run. Enough rambling for one night.

Later

Hockey Fan Fiction

Thanks go to Joey for showing me this.. uhh.. interesting link. Beware, not for the weak at heart. Joey and I had fun mocking the individual who wrote it, then I began to think a little deeper. What causes a woman to write slash? I mean, I guess guys could write slash too, but I don't imagine it happens nearly as much as women do. I don't understand why some of my friends even, who shall remain nameless, enjoy such slash as that from LOTR and Harry Potter. I don't understand why anyone would want to read about guy on guy action, espically that of 14 year olds. Just seems sort of odd. One girl told me once that women want to see certian male individuals in a sexual situation, but can't imagine them with a woman, so they just throw in another male character and viola, crappy, disturbing, homoerotic action. No offense, but that is just freaking crazy to me. I think portal of evil has lots of good sites, or eventually. They find all sort of wierd things. You can find them here, they are a really good site for entertaining oneself while not at work.

Let's see, it has been raining like crazy here. Very annoying for those that had to go out in it. One of which wasn't me. I took it upon myself to rise above actually doing much real work tonight and delegated completely to the damn co-worker who I don't like at all. He had to walk through so much rain today, ahh it made me feel good knowing that he was going to have to suffer. I was tempted to make him randomly go out into the rain, just to do stupid shit.. but I thought that would be almost too evil. Plus, I was busy surfing the web, and chatting with friends.

Talked with Pip a lot tonight.. I really miss hanging out with him. So many good memories, at the gym, playing video games, getting kicked out of the Hilton. Man, those were the days. Hoping all the advice he gave me works.. if anyone knows about that sort of thing, it is Pip.

Joey almost had another "bottle of wine night" but he never picked up a bottle of wine. Which is probably for the best since there were times during the last "bottle of wine night" I had trouble understanding what he was trying to say. So it was freaking fun. I talked with amanda tonight, and she said Joey and her were going to be getting drunk together sometime in the next few months, should joey ever come and visit. I'm definitely going to have to try to be there when that happens. I imagine the absolute craziness of drunk joey, and well.. amanda is crazy enough as it is... so I'm curious to see what happens when both drunken individuals get together. Absolute craziness.

Three more nights and counting. I'm really ready to be out of here. They should start off-loading the tanks next week, but honestly I don't care since I'm not going to be here. It is time for this damn project to be over. Naw, it has been fun.. I've been getting paid to sit around, read, watch movies, listen to music, catch up with old friends. It has been lots of fun. But, 13 hour days, everyday, without a break, and without any friends out here is starting to wear thin. Soon, I'll be back in Little Rock and I can start looking for an apartment.. somewhere to live.

Ahh, I think I need to start making my reports.. well, not right now, but I'm going to start printing off the maps.. then I'll start making the reports at 6:30. So stupid.. nothing happened tonight, no hits.. just.. crappy.

I'm off.. take care all.. don't read any fan fiction.. it is bad.. espically when it involves furries.

Later

Holy Crap

I would have to say that tonight has been one of the worst nights working here. It has been a compliation of being tired, having to work with assholes, and just plain being bored with everything that I've been doing here. I love the internet and all, and not in a sick, wierd way, but more in the way that I love riding my bike.. only not nearly that intense. But I've usually enjoyed the internet in small doses. Like, catching up with e-mails, looking at some news, humour, reveiw sites.. etc. But I've sort of gotten tired of staring at the screen, and playing stupid games, and writing e-mails to people who I know will never respond. It is wierd. I've sort of become burned out on it I guess. I need to get out of this room, I need to run, swim, bike.. something. I've determined I need to purchase a set of stretch cords or something, something so I can swim in the tiny ass pool they have at my hotel.. and I need to remember to always pack a pair of running shorts and some running shoes. Very important. But, there are all things that I've learned and hopefully my next 2 week trip somewhere will be slightly more productive.

Tonight also sucked since around 12:34 pm (yeah, that is the middle of my "night" in case you were curious) my boss called. I don't know why he called.. since I was sort of asleep when i answered the phone.. but I know that a few minutes later he was asking if I was willing to stay in Texas a little while longer. I'm pretty sure I said no... I hope I didn't say "NO FREAKING WAY"... yeah, so that was that. I'm actually sort of pissed about it. I know he knows that I'm working nights, so that means he knew that I was sleeping, but he called anyways. I don't know. Sort of ticked off about that. So that woke me up, and then I had an even harder time getting back to sleep.

I also had an odd urge to talk to people tonight. I tried calling just about everyone I knew to talk to them. I ended up talking to three different people tonight, and even leaving wierd messages on some phones. I was surprised, but some people mailboxes were full.. I didn't know this could happen. But now that I know.. I think I'm going to start calling people in the middle of the night and leaving long rambling e-mails.. maybe I'll find a random manual for one of our monitors lying around around I'll just start reading out of it. I'm sure everyone is curious how an AreaRAE works.. I know I am. Or how one changes out the sensors on a multiRAE.. ahh fun times indeed.

Joey won an iPod tonight.. all since he knew who Steve Jobs was.. lucky bastard. I totally would have won it had I been there, but no.. basically this job stole an iPod from me. DAMN! Feel free to check out joey's sight and watch him gloat all about his brand new apple toy. Lucky lucky punk.

Hmm, what else is going on. Oh yeah, the blast wall. For some reason, in the area of the plant that I am in, there is a huge 20 foot high, 3 foot thick wall encircling most of the area. There are also huge doors that look like they could be swung shut. Now, I don't know if I should be scared that they think they might need this huge doors, or happy that if a zombie revolt comes while I'm working here I'll be extra safe. I mean, I have huge ships docked to my rear (the ships are those scary kind that are really big. Like a floating city, but no that scary scienctologist one) and pratically invulnerable walls for safety. I'd be a little worried about food supplies.. but we have rail access... and I think a train engine could make quick work of many zombie hordes. So, two possible escape routes, saftey, and lots of chemicals that we could use to burn the zombies should the need arise. I think there is some nasty acid in some of these tanks, and I've always been curious if 800,000 gallons of acid would kill a throng of zombies, or merely melt off their flesh and make them scary skeletons. Yeah, can you tell that it is 5:30 in the morning and I'm tired as all get out. Damn needing sleep.

Coworker has been decent today.. and I mean he has only tried to start talking with me a few times. Conversation topics of this evening: Hooters, Strip Clubs, and why Windows 98 is better than XP. I understand the first two, but why the need to talk about them eludes me, but the last one. There is the wrench, it is big, and I think it is going to be going on a magical journey to this idiot's knees. Then we'll see what is up.. HAHAHA

Ok, I should go. Maybe I'll play some annoying music and see if I can't get him to leave the room. I can't wait to get the hell out of here.. so much that needs to be taken care of in Little Rock. So much that I've missed out on, and so much more that I'm missing out on as I type this. Curses.

later

Chocolate Love Bunnies

Tonight was just another night. Nothing really exciting happened, 'cept for all the monitors going down simultaneously, and then not wanting to work the rest of the evening. That was sort of hectic. Talked with Jessica until my cell phones battery almost went dead. That was a lot of fun, catching up with friends who you've lost touch with seems to be a very rewarding experience. Though I have a feeling that if some people I remember from high school randomly called me and wanted to "catch up," Well I'd probably set a world record for how far I could throw my cell phone. Hopefully no random individual who used to know me is going to stumble across this website. That would really be wierd. Also chatted with Pip for a bit, before dumbass coworker took my internet. Gotta get back in touch with with good friends from back home. Also gotta make it out there for a vacation sometime soon.. too many peeps there that I need to hang out with again, and hit the gym with again. Ahh man Pip, so many good times hanging at the Y.. those were the days. Easy ass school in the day, and the gym all afternoon.

So what else is going on, not much. Once again I must state that American Express sucks.. I know I don't have credit.. but I need a larger limit. I don't understand what the problem is, I guess I'm probably just a risk for them. But I'm not.. maybe someone at American Express will read this and approve me for unlimited credit. One can only hope.

Joey's plan to mess with random camgirls isn't coming along as well as I hoped. I believe tomorrow night I'll have to place another comment on her page.. and I think Joey had some good suggestions, over-the-top is far superior to sane comments. I mean, we are messing with them and not trying to get to know them. Sometimes I wonder if messing with people is wrong, since i know I'd hate it if someone did it to me.. but then I realize I don't care about crazy people who post crazy things on Joey's webcam page... man joey.. how do you attract those crazy bitches. Like, are you wearing crazy bitch attracting cologne or something? Is it called Aqua Bitchla or something? Just wondering.

Alright, time to copy and paste some data, mess around in SigmaPlot (which is like Excel on steriods with as many arms as a hindu god, all constantly doing scary shit with graphs) use up all the ink in some ink cartridges, and then hit the hotel for hopefully waffles... oh I forgot to mention, I've been eating waffles every morning. The hotel has this really badass waffle maker, one downside is that it makes the waffles in the shape of texas, but the waffles are really good. The last two mornings, the waffle maker has been GONE! The BASTARDS. Apparently some idiot broke it, and now I'm forced to eat healthy stuff for breakfast.. WTF? Oh well. Oh yeah.. I found this cool site with some funny flash shit. Check it out if you are bored, like I always am. They also have some cool movies of a guy playing mario music. I'm sure I got the link from another site, like Anticlown or something, but whatever.

I'm outta here..
later

Messing with Co-worker

Ahh, this morning was excellent. Larry (good co-worker, not the idiot) and I were concerned that idiot co-worker was going to fall asleep out where he was watching a crew do work. So we called him up on the radio and asked that he go check out one of our monitors and make sure it was working. Well he goes and is looking at it, but on my computer it shows that it just went offline. So Larry and I are racking our brains trying to figure out what the hell he did. I get on the radio and ask some questions, like, what are the lights doing, what switches are where.. etc. So we figure out he did, but we wanted to mess with him a little more. On our tranmitter, there are little lights that flicker every time they upkeep the connection with the host here in the office. So they are flickering pretty fast. So I ask him to count how many times it flashes in a minute. Larry immediately starts cracking up. There would be absoluetly no reason for needing to know the number of flashes, just that it was flashing, but the guy is an idiot so I didn't care. And he doesn't wear a watch, which made it even more fun. So, every 10 seconds or so I'd radio him again asking for the current number, knowing that would mess with his count.. oh yeah, by this time the monitor was back online. So finally he got a count of 42 or something.. not really important. And I'm all, "good, since if we don't get 39-51 flickers per minute the machine gets overloaded and stops working. Larry all the while is practicly on the floor he is laughing so hard. Now Larry is asking him to walk around and check to see if the units are transmitting the proper numbers back here. Oh man, just a bit of advice for all of you.. don't ever be an idiot at work, it'll just lead to trouble.

Anyways, I'm out, gotta go start making some reports. Take it easy everyone. And feel free to argue all you want. I'm mainly saying this to allow Joey and Amanda to continue posting wierd messages all over the place.

Later