roses are red, violets are blue

2-week notice as of today. When I told Nate he spazzed a little and asked me to not come to any decisions yet; to talk to him Friday and he'd have a reason/incentive for me to stay by then... hehe. Of course, he didn't tell anyone else, 'cause it came as a surprise to Lindsay and Sarah (our new manager). Lindsay told me to not be too hasty (in not so many words) and that she'd talk to Trapper and figure something out. Me thinks to meself, "It's not going to happen," but I shall see. All else fails, 2 weeks from now I'm done with McAlister's. And if I don't get hired at Terranova's I'll have a few weeks to play WoW and find a new job.
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Here's some memorable lines from Red vs Blue that popped in my head today at work:
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"I like thinking inside the box. I feel safe there." ~Tucker
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"Ahh ha! You foolish fools!!" ~Doc/O'mally
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"I like me." ~Caboose
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"Yeah, a Chupathingy. How 'bout one a them?" ~Sarge
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"You didn't happen to hear our secret plan to tell the Reds..." ~Caboose
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"I'd just like everyone to know that I'm a girl. And I like ribbons in my hair. And I want to kiss all the boys..." ~Griff
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Griff: "Did you hear that? Bats!"
Simmons: "That's water. Bats don't drip."
Griff: "Bat-water!"
[unwritten talking about going next to the light and a no-moving policy]
Griff: "You know what else lives in caves? Snakes."
Simmons: "You're a [edit] Griff, why'd you have to bring up snakes!?"
Griff: "Just 'cause we're in a cave, and snakes like to live in caves, and snakes like to crawl up next to people in caves..."
Simmons: "Screw it, I'm standing next to the light."
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"Once when I was younger, this guy claiming to be my uncle did this thing with a water hose that haunts me to this day..." ~Sarge
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"You wanna talk about it?" ~Simmons
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"That's right, Caboose. I'm a gay robot." ~Church
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"I switched the hamburger for a grenade! ... I don't think I should've done that..." ~Caboose
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Church: "You can reboot anything. We robooted the refrigerater, we rebooted the toaster. Heck, we even rebooted Caboose's armor... although that took longer to come back online than expected"
Caboose: "It was dark and I got to hold my breath! I'm sure there were no side effects."
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"I can't feel my torso." ~Caboose
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[[note: these were written from memory and might be quoted slightly different than actually said by the character. also, each quote is color coordinated to the charater saying it except Tucker for which there wasn't teal in the color selection so I just popped in a color relative, but not really, close]]
There are many many many many more, but to try to remember/write them all down in one sitting would take much of a long time. So I will Stick with what I've got written down for now, and add more as they come to me. Just pop 'em onto the bottom of a post or something.
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"My body is trying to die..." ~Caboose

sardines

So there's a bunch of stuff I'm about to cram into this post. Let us start with the more humorouser of the topics: Munchkin cats.
These cute little critters actually exsist. By some they were reffered to as "freaky weiner cats." But really, how can you resist such a cute little short-legged kitty cat such as this? So cute, so loveable... so fuzzily cuddly.





Well, In other news: I applied for Terranova's today. Hopefully I'll be able to get the job. I'm putting in my two-week at McAlister's tomorrow. The whole place is starting to really annoy evryone there... actually it's primarily annoying the people who have worked there a long time and/or are good workers. I mean, you don't tell the shift leader who keeps lazy highschoolers (not steriotyping, just that the primary laziness comes from highschoolers at McAlisters) doing their jobs that he's "the same quality employee as evryone else." Not Cool. At all. And you don't tell someone that they are entitled to a dollar raise for the new position you're putting them at then tell them you have to ask to see if you can give it to them, then make them wait a week and a half just to tell them that they might get half. Also Not Cool.


That said, here's an excerpt from a song that caught my attention the other day. I'd heard the song over and over but never really paid too close attention to the words. The person whom it concerns should know why this particular line popped out at me.
The song it Hate Me, by Blue October:
the line:

And with a sad heart I say [said] bye to you and wave[d]
Kicking shadows on the street for every mistake that [they said] I had made
And like a baby boy I never was a man 
Until I saw your blue eyes cry and I held your face in my hand 
And then fell down yelling “make it go away!” 
Just make her smile come back and shine just like it used to be 
And then she whispered “how can you do this to me?”

please note the [*] was added for context only and isn't in the song.


On a final note, A look into Donnie's mind: I am hungry. I like swiss cake rolls. Poetry is hard to figure out; I think it's overrated. Butane burns hotly. Sleeping to 1:00 in the afternoon is a nice to do evry once and a while.

"Everyone is looking at me... I love it when they do that. Hi everybody!" ~Caboose RVB.

(un)interested?

Some small Blog Stats of Wheels of the World (WotW)

• WotW will be 3 years old this July.
• The only year with posts evry month is '06.
• The most posts in a single year is 284 (2005).
• Most in a month: 49 (August '05).
• Most in a day? Not that bored as to look through evry month to find out.
  

dr. pepper and jelly beans

This is a diagram of some "work" I did to one of the airsoft guns I have. It's cool.
((click image to enlarge... I think))
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Anyway, yesterday at work we came up with a new product... Dangerously Clean!. We did this by combining Heavy Duty "purple stuff" Degreaser, Glass Cleaner, bleach, Gojo, and Dawn Dish Detergent. Come to think of it, we should've added the Floor Cleaner to Dangerously Clean! too... hmm. Oh well, maybe next time. In any case, we decided to test the ph of the water the Dangerously Clean! was in. Well, Dangerously Clean! was so acidic (or basic? can't remember) that it turned the test strip a beautiful deep blue... just before desolving the test substance off the paper. It turned the steamer almost white (removing the stains that made it dark grey). So clean, so grime (or hand!) can stand up to it!

This has been a public service announcement. Make Dangerously Clean! yourself by adding any and/or all the cleaners in your house together. Please wear gloves and use with caution. Also watch for not-so-savory mixers that might make mustard gas, or even explode.
Thank you for your time and patience.

Note: no animals were harmed during the making and testing of Dangerously Clean!. Please also know that we washed them (again) before use.

leepsay is icenay

Owls are cool. And little fluffy brown ones that stare at you with those big green eyes, laying helplessly in hands,... the little guy was cute, but I don't think the vet person saved it. Rest in peace little buddy. You were cute and cuddle-worthy. Let us take a moment to remember the little guy...
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Ok, on other news: Lighters are cool, butane torches are fun, and javelins are hard to throw. Thank you, this has been a WotW update.

"...sometimes you're flung to the edge..."

Grr. Madness. Anger. Perturbedness. Basically, almost ("almost" being a very generous term) evrything is not going right. Let's just look at one not-so-controversial facet of my life (although "not controversial," please note that the following situation(s) is nonetheless annoying):
I shall start from the beginning of this mad epic:

• Initial minor breaks/damage to vehicle: inside door handle, rotating window latch, interior light cover, driver's side parking light fixture, driver's side tail light cover. [none replaced]
  
• Power steering problems arise, necessitating the replacement of power steering pump and high pressure hose. [~$150]
  
• Necessary replacement of power steering belt tensioner pulley. [~$20]
  
• Truck starts bleeding to death a little over 2 months ago (bad oil loss). [~$20]
  
• Easy replacement of problem gasket... only to have the truck not starting. [~$13]
  
• Use of parents truck for 2 months or so. [~$20-$60/week more on gas]
  
• Recent discovery that my truck can start (with much patience and many tries). [~$4]
  
• Flat tire on the way to/at Heather's replaced (not without complications) 3 days ago or so.
• Tonight: drift asleep slighty and hit a curb damaging front passenger wheel and causing another unreplaceable [see above] flat. [estimated over $300]
  
• Have to bum a ride to work tomorrow or try to get work off so I can replace the tires and wheel. [free]
  
• This is not to mention the apparent breaking of some clips in the steering column of my parents truck during my use of the vehicle. [ $?]
• [almost $700 total]
  

In short: vehicles+me="AHHHHH! We're all gonna die!!" (or at least you better not want the vehicle in one piece. One way or another that things falling apart, whether it be by accident, system failure, or aliens, something is going to break on it.) It's all just very annoyingly stressful... I hope beyond hope that they can cover my shift for tomorrow so I can get my truck fixed. It needs a name like Grimlin, or Legion, 'cause there's something about that thing that doesn't like me.

i heart skittles

I think I'm going to try to type stuff up on this thing more oftener. When I'm even at home and on the compy, I'm playing WoW 95.6% of the time.

About to send off the second part of application to Auburn. I hope that I can get in and all, although I'm relatively sure I am. I also hope that I can get some sort of grant, not just loans. Actually, I hope that I can get loans too, 'cause if KP isn't able to go down this fall, I'll be hard pressed to come up with the money to pay for college and living expenses. We shall see. Maybe if he isn't going to be able to, I'll get lucky and someone else I know will be going down there.

School time; get to disect the wonderous glory of an earthworm... if you can call that disection...

when you're bored...

Calhoun is definately not a good place to be if you want entertainmet. I've got 1 and a half hours til my next class. I finished the book(s) I had been reading, so now, I don't really have too much to keep me busy while at school. I just use up my lead and paper drawing or doodling... or drawdling...?

Stephen: you need to get real-WoW. Once you do, create a character on the realm Rexxar and give me your character's name. That way I can talk to you when you're on and give you the hook-ups.

Austin: you should at least try one of the free ten-day trials of WoW to see if you'd like it. If you don't, that's ok, some people just aren't as cool as others. Just kidding,... but really :P. You might like it, and you don't have to be worried about getting addicted, you can just go and play evry now and again (provided you like it) and pet it... like you would a little kitten.

Some think I'm addicted to World of Warcraft; I'm not addicted, I'm highly involved. I actually spend the least time on it in my whole family (minus Adam & Sarah who don't play/have it). It's really a fun game, 'cause it's kindof like AIM, email, a fantasy quest game all wrapped up in one. It's one of those, don't dis it til you try it type deals.

I would keep typing, but I have things to do.

by the way

the bunny of doom attacked...

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yeah... I'm at school, on a computer that don't have WoW, and bored... I wish it was still snowing so that school would be cancelled...

linkin park's Hit the Floor

There were just too many
Times people have tried to look inside of me
Wondering what I think of you
And I protect you out of courtesy
Too many times that I've held on
When I needed to push away
Afraid to say what was on my mind
Afraid to say what I need to say
Too many things that you say about me when I’m not around
You think having the upper hand
Means you gotta keep putting me down
But I've had too many stand-offs with you
It's about as much as I can stand
So I’ll wait until the upper hand is mine

One minute your on top
The next your not, watch it drop
Making your heart stop
Just before you hit the floor
One minute your on top
The next your not, missed your shot
Making your heart stop
You think you've won
And then it's all gone

So many people like me that put so much trust in all your lies
So concerned of what you think
To just say what we feel inside
So many people like me walk on eggshells all day long
All I know is that all I want is to feel like I'm not stepped on
There are so many things you say that make me feel
You've cross the line
What goes up will surely fall, and I'm counting down the time
Cause I've had so many stand-offs with you
Its about as much as I can stand
So I'm waiting until the upper hand is mine

One minute your on top
The next your not, watch it drop
Making your heart stop
Just before you hit the floor
One minute your on top
The next your not, missed your shot
Making your heart stop
You think you've won

And then it's all gone
And then it’s all gone
And then it’s all gone
And then it’s all gone
Now it’s all gone

I know I'll never trust a single thing you say
You knew your lies would divide us but you lied anyway
And all the lies have got you floating up above us all
But what goes up is got to fall

One minute your on top
The next your not, watch it drop
Making your heart stop
Just before you hit the floor
One minute your on top
The next your not, missed your shot
Making your heart stop
You think you've won
And then it's all gone

And then it’s all gone
And then it’s all gone
And then it’s all gone
Now it’s all gone