Incoherent Thoughts

So I was tagged by Sparks a while back, and Hot recently. Here are the fours and fives:

Four things:

Four jobs I’ve had:

1) Cleaning cabins of a campground for mentally challenged folks (not fun, but it bought me a Mongoose when I was 14 or so).
2) Warehouse manager (most fun job I’ve ever had).
3) Retail sales manager (worst job I’ve ever had).
4) IT guy (while technically we may be low on the totem, we have the most power).

Four places I’ve lived:

1) My folks place.
2) A two bedroom apartment that sucked (because it was ghetto)
3) A three bedroom duplex that rocked (because I had some of my best times with the roommates there).
4) Where I live now.

Four people I want to bitch-slap right into the middle of next week:

1) Emo kids
2) Dubya
3) Smoke Nazis
4) Hillary (GET THE FUCK OUT ALREADY!)

Four people who e-mail me regularly:

1) No one really. Note, I’m not complaining about that.

Four TV shows I watch:

1) The Office
2) My Name is Earl (Oh how Joy makes me laugh)
3) Supernatural
4) Ghost Hunters

Four places I’ve visited:

1) Russia
2) Germany
3) France
4) Jamaica

Four favourite foods:

1) Peanut Butter & Jelly sandwich on bread that’s so fresh that it almost rips apart when you make the sandwich
2) Totino’s Supreme pizza
3) Domino’s thin crust pizza
4) Pho Bo Vein

Four places I’d like to be right now:

1) On a road trip. That’s all four.

Four things I’m looking forward to this year:

1) HorrorFind Weekend
2) Horror Hound Weekend
3) Christmas
4) Thanksgiving

Five Things:

Five things in my bag:

(disclaimer, I don’t carry a purse, so I’ll go with my backpack that I always carry)

1. My laptop
2. My glasses (both sun and regular)
3. Notebook
4. Pens
5. Zune sync cable.

5 favorite things in my room:

(I’ll go with my home office on this one)

1. The bookshelves Freak left behind that my toys and LE books rest on.
2. This big ass thing that is basically an elephant head on a human body. It’s creepy and cool.
3. My dual monitors.
4. My mini-fridge.
5. My posters that will (eventually) wrap the room.

5 things I have always wanted to do:

1. Hit the rest of the continents.
2. Do a road trip from the east to west coast.
3. Move to the southwest.
4. Stop time.
5. Some sexual things I won’t mention.

5 things I’m currently into:

1. My Zune (I love tweaking it).
2. My 360 (brand new, good times).
3. Bones (the TV show). My buddy told me to watch it, I downloaded all the episodes. It’s fantastic.
4. Movies (I’m always into these).
5. Pulp fiction (the books, not the movie). Ever since I joined up with Hard Case Crime, I look forward to the books I get in the mail every month.

There you have it.

I tag everyone who hasn’t done these yet.

I’m sitting here at Midas waiting for my brakes to be installed, and I’m saddened by the fact that I drank my last Mello Yello the other night.

One thing I love doing when traveling to different places is checking out the local beverages. When I went to Tennessee, I knew there were some drinks I definitely wanted to look for, like Mello Yello and anything I have not tried.

On the drive out to Texas, we stopped at a gas station to fill up, and, while perusing the many choices of juices and sodas, I found one I had to buy:

In case you can’t read it, that, ladies and gentlemen, is a Strawberry Manilow. Honestly, when you see a juice called that, how could you pass it up?  Especially when it’s put out by Jones fucking Soda (who, by the way, makes the Best Cream Soda Ever).

Of course, once Zig and David saw the drink I had purchased, they had their fun.

“You like your lips around that Strawberry Manilow?”

“You gonna swallow all that Manilow has to offer?”

“So tell us, Stewie, how does Manilow taste? Salty? Sweet?”

It was actually a little too sweet, but filling and an overall a pleasant experience (not unlike Mandy, who gave and gave without taking).

Now, getting all the way back to the Mello Yello, one thing I regret is I neglected to buy more than one 12 pack of Mello Yello while I was down there. For those who don’t know, Mello Yello was Coke’s attempt to compete with Mountain Dew, but it never fully took off — except in the Southern regions. Which kind of sucks, too. While I prefer the Dew over Mello Yello (that’s right, kid), I still wish I had the option to mix it up some. Especially since I found out Mello Yello had a cherry flavor that I never (and probably will never) got a chance to try.

Such is life. I guess it will be one of those things that Mello Yello will taste that much better when I am given the opportunity to have it. (On a complete side note, I seriously miss the fact that every restaurant in Tennessee seemingly has sweet tea. Not so much in Maryland. I drank the shit out of sweet tea while I was down there, and my kidneys hated me for it.)

One last thing, one place I have to have to have to go next time I’m in Tennessee is Bar-B-Cutie. I’m a sucker for advertising, and I loved hers.

I actually went into the restaurant to buy a coffee mug, but they only sold shirts. And, much to my dismay, they didn’t have any fat boy sizes in stock.

There’s always next time, though.

Ug.

Well, this is the first day in about a week that I this site loads in a relatively quick time.  I’ve been begging GoDaddy for over a month now to fix the problem, and every time I get the same, canned, reply:

“We don’t notice any problems.”

I’ve sent them ping tests, trace routes and speed tests all saying the same thing — my site is too fucking slow.  And each time I hear things like:

“It might be the pictures on your blog.”   No, it’s not.  There is less than one meg of pics on any given page.  That should not make take two minutes two load.

“We can’t move you to a different server, but you may want to consider upgrading or downgrading your hosting account.”  Why, exactly, would I do that?  I want to give a company more money, when they can’t even acknowledge there’s a problem?  No sir.

I’m going to see if this speed takes for a while.  If it doesn’t, I’ve already checked out DreamHost.  They are wordpress friendly (which means they update the software when it needs to be upgraded, and I don’t have to do it myself) and they get good reviews.

It’s sad, really.  I’ve been with GoDaddy for a couple years, and I would hate to leave them, as I’ve had no problems with them up until this past March.  But I can’t possibly stay with them if they can’t acknowledge the problem.  And, at this point, I really do believe they are ignoring the problem.  A google search shows that I am far from the only person dealing with this.

We’ll see.

On another quick note, I was at the gas station donating blood the other day and I found this awesome little business card.

Smart business woman there, that Cathy.

She knows what time it is.

I’ll get a much better update soon, but someone posted this cake on a forum I frequent and I wanted to throw it out there:

That has got to be the best damn cake I’ve ever seen. It makes me cry in its beauty, and the fact that it will be eaten or it will go bad.

*sniff*