Mojo developed SARS over the weekend but after a trip to the shop he was feeling much better.

Then off to the Apothecary for laudanum lozenges

Now that I have a bit of cash flow again, my old 28 spoke front wheel is being rebuilt with a new hub. I'm sentimentally attached to it. It's been through the getting hit by car/Dukes of Hazard slide over the hood accident and the over the handlebars hit me in the back of the head accident. Both times never coming out of true.

Hey, office Exchange Server down again. What a suprise.

monkey withdrawal

Ideas for new Spin & Marty Episodes

Spin & Marty In All About Open Sores
Spin & Marty And Billy Zane
Spin & Marty Try Hamsters
Spin & Marty And The Sixth Toe
Spin & Marty Make Perfumed Soap
Spin & Marty And The Botched Vasectomy
Spin & Marty Get Yogurt
Spin & Marty And The Case Of Greek Wrestling
Spin & Marty Sell Ants
Spin & Marty Double Date Mariah Carey
Spin & Marty And The Oily Discharge
Spin & Marty Meet The Hermaphrodite Gang
Spin & Marty Talk To Tree Weasels
Spin & Marty Get A Nervous Twitch
Spin & Marty Track Down Odd Smells
Spin & Marty In Pitchin' And Catchin'

Now this really pisses me off to no end.

In honour of the new bike season, I thought I'd start making an icon set of cyclists that would kick Lance Armstrong's ass. First up Bernard Hinault. You get your choice of the floating head or with yellow jersey.
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France Foo Fat says I look like a young Peter O'Toole

Managed to slash the tendon behind my knee shaving again. Damn.

bask (bask) v.i. to sun oneself; to lie in the warmth of sunshine [Scand.]

Bike ride, Dr. Pepper Slurpee, AND the accountant left a message on my machine saying I'm getting money back. I'd say that's a pretty good run today. I haven't got money back since 1997. Maybe she's pulling some cruel joke on me. Or maybe she did the taxes right and the Feds will come pounding on my door claiming they have some new calculation requiring me to pay $5000 like they pulled last year. Either way, I'm going to enjoy this while I can.

I'll have to go over the Motor Vehicle Act again. I'm looking for the regulation that says "If you are an asshole driving recklessly in a BMW, you have the right to cut other drivers off and yell at them as well for not getting out of your way quick enough. Because as a driver of a BMW, you are obviously more important than anybody else on the road."

Burninate the countryside.

Anybody need bad coaching advice? Just finished the technical portion of the level one NCCP cycling coach certification. It was a good reintroduction to the competitve side of the sport after being away from it for so long. Managed to say tons of stupid things (which is normal for me). Felt completely out of place (which is normal for me). Remembered all the reasons why I haven't raced in so long (which is normal for me). But all in all it was good.

And you know what else?

Mugatu's a Dick!

I think I've taken crazy pills.

Did I happen to mention that my accountant looks like Betty White?

de l'essence aux balles de golf

Got that worrying feeling that everything seems to be going too smoothly this week. Something big and bad must be coming.

What to decorate the new office space with...Shawn Cassidy poster? Monkey paintings? Franklin Mint Love Boat collector plates?

Spend $50 and you'll get a free Trogdor tattoo.

Trying to get OS X onto this used Titanium only it's not having anything to do with it but the grey screen of death. Completely zeroed the data and it still gives me the finger. Checked the hardware.Checked the software. Checked the CDs. Checked the forums. No satisfactory answers to be found.

How hard is it for a company as large as Safeway to keep basic things like large size cupcake liners or bags of white sugar in stock? I only ask because whenever I need something, they never have it.

Crapulous

"Crapulous" may sound like a word that you shouldn't use in polite company, but it actually has a long and perfectly respectable history (although it's not a particularly kind way to describe someone). It is derived from the Late Latin adjective "crapulosus," which in turn traces back to the Latin word "crapula," meaning "intoxication." "Crapula" itself comes from a much older Greek word for the headache one gets from drinking. "Crapulous" first appeared in print in 1536. Approximately 200 years later, its close cousin "crapulence" arrived on the scene as a word for sickness caused by drinking. "Crapulence" later acquired the meaning "great intemperance especially in drinking," but it is not an especially common word.
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Things I now remember vividly: how much I hate MS Outlook fucking piece of shit and its associated Exchange server.

Pleated pants. With the added room I could hide things like Depends Undergarments and never have to leave my desk for a bathroom break. Don't get me wrong, my slovenly day to day attire may fool you but I actually love clothes. If I won the lotto I'd be off buying a truck load of Dolce Gabana. But to actually spend an entire day working, the clothes generally associated with an office dress code make me incredibly uncomfortable and thus less efficient. Why not accept that forcing people to dress up does not make them any better workers and just let them come as they are.

So how does this regular work thing go again? Can't even begin to describe how out of place I feel.

Today's secret word will be GAHHHHHH.

Memories from a life without cable. Lance et Compte/He Shoots, He Scores.

Check that last post. More like this with the two gravity defying strands.
Illustration by Tracie Mauk

Maybe I'll do my hair like this.

More Reminders of a Library Past

It's the QA section. Years ago, before the internet had hit the general public, the computer Spankies would decimate this section every 5 minutes or so leaving books falling off the shelves, on the floor, or anywhere their poorly hygienic hands could drop them. Leaving the impossible task of straightening out the mess before they could ransack it again or literally snatch books ungratefully from your hand. "You've got QA76.4 A1 Mathematics and computers in simulation!" One day I was so stunned by the mess they made in here, I took all the books I had and pitched them down the middle of the aisle. The unfortunate fact was it didn't look any different and just added more work. But it felt soooooo good.