Saturday, December 20, 2008

Something more to waste your time


You are The Magician


Skill, wisdom, adaptation. Craft, cunning, depending on dignity.


Eleoquent and charismatic both verbally and in writing,
you are clever, witty, inventive and persuasive.


The Magician is the male power of creation, creation by willpower and desire. In that ancient sense, it is the ability to make things so just by speaking them aloud. Reflecting this is the fact that the Magician is represented by Mercury. He represents the gift of tongues, a smooth talker, a salesman. Also clever with the slight of hand and a medicine man - either a real doctor or someone trying to sell you snake oil.


What Tarot Card are You?
Take the Test to Find Out.

Brian goes to S-Mart

The forces of Wal-Marx have done it again. I went to the store, not one of my prouder moments anticipating the purchase of a Zune music player. I've been after this device for a few years, now the ducks are in a row, I've been a good boy for Santa, and the stars have aligned.

The Wal-Marx site had the Zune 120GB player $25.00 cheaper than at the store. I've been told by those who are in the Wal-Marx know to bring proof of pricing from the Internet and they will give you the Internet price.

Well, Mr. can't grow a beard but decided to take his lipstud out for work to leave the open gooey hole told me that and I quote (notice the little marks)
"I'm sorry sir, we can not honor the online pricing in our stores."

This brought me to my first "huh?"

"But if you want it shipped here you can buy it for that price and it should be here for Christmas."

"So in other words, I could send it here online, come back, and get the same damn piece of merchandise here for the cheaper price . . . three days later vs. doing this now?"

The next part of the conversation has been tastefully deleted.

Listen folks. This is what cause the mess during Katrina, this is what's going on in the corporate world getting ready to crumble the economy, this is naked politics.
For some reason people have lost the ability to go from Point A to Point B and I'm about ready to start the bloody revolution over on aisle three.

Billy Lip Stud . . . bring a mop, because there will be the need for clean up.

Needless to say, If I wouldn't have stepped in there, walked across a frigid parking lot. etc, I still could have ordered the damn thing online and had it shipped to the house for less than what I still could have bought it there.

Rant over. . . getting too close to X-mas.


Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Saturday, December 13, 2008

I told you


I told you bad things happen when they sale Christmas stuff during Halloween.


Sunday, December 7, 2008

Today . . . it's my birthday

I got up this morning, went outside, and watched the sun rise.

Today is a day of new beginnings that I witness and I let myself know that anything is possible.

I’m happy to know that on that day I lived to be another year older.

Then whenI see my shadow, I go inside and cower because that means it will be another crappy year.

Happy Sasquatch Shadow day

Monday, December 1, 2008

Yup, Nano ruined me.

12,326.

Ouch. November was not kind. I guess I could make a thousand different reasons for not crossing the 50,000 mark, and I will . . . later . . . because I'm lazy.

What Nano taught me.

  • I don't have the free time I once did.
  • My mind is like a rock on an incline, takes a little pressure to get going but then all hell breaks loose.
  • I should not write my train of thought.
  • When you talk to people and tell them your a writer searching for ideas, 1 out of every 15, 428 will be an absolute gem. I heard an idea and got shivers. Story that someone heard from someone else. It may be my next book.

Or my lazy butt will set here and continue to shop online to practice Christmas avoidance like I have done the last few years. Yeah, Lowes and Target . . . your on the list . . . Christmas out before Halloween . . . there is a special place in Hell for your promotions management that decided that.

Anyhow, a new little thing that might help me write:
http://lab.drwicked.com/writeordie.html
It's like Annie Wilkes and the hounds from Hell pushing me to write.

You've been warned.