Being a geek is hard. I have TWO ideas for blog posts tonight, but I dare not put them both here due to the fact this one, though entertaining, is very long. So the OTHER post I had in mind is on my other blog here. So if you're not comatose after this one, go to my profile and click on my other blog! (Insert shamelss advert for other blog here)


I decided it'd be fun to take a look into the future and see how those on my 'Blogs I Like' list turn out:


The year is 2030. Things in the United States have made a dramatic turn around since the days when President McCain was elected and his first act as President was to throw his predecessor & his cohorts into prison for price gouging the American people at the gas pump for eight years. All Americans breathed a sigh of relief when the mega billion dollar profits from the oil companies were siezed and distributed to Americans. Our 51st state, Iraq, was finally admitted into the union in 2010.

Here at Blogstream, we've all enjoyed a peaceful and psycho-free environment since BELLA took over as 'Supreme Blogstress' in 2015. It's a little odd to have to log in to the site by clicking on a picture of Bella's bright red ruby brasierre...but eh..what can you do?

Of course the success of Blogstream pales in comparison to what happened to our own BUFFY---she invented a cat food that doubles as a source of electricity. Needless to say, she made a qaudrillion bucks.....a good portion of which she used to build a 300 acre sanctuary for cats, where they enjoy the good life: plenty of catnip, stuffed mice, gourmet meals, and days at the kitty spa!

The spa is a favorite place for our own celebrity superstar MISS LOU to take her cat---naturally everyone will remember how our Lou won a special Pulitzer Peace Prize for the ability to brighten everyone's day with her graphics in everyone's comment section here on the 'stream. It was an award well deserved. I was a bit disappointed when her television series "Loupy Lou" ended after only 13 episodes....perhaps she shouldn't have tried that whole 'jumping off the Empire State building with no parachute' thing back in 2011!

For those of you who don't clearly remember the Miss Lou stunt, maybe your memory will be jogged when I remind you that sweet N.LYNN was there on the street to break Lou's fall. All worked out well in the end though.....the camera crew filming the incident 'discovered' lynn and made her the world's most famous accident victim.....every week she's thrown into a pool by random passers-by on the street!

I'm sure EVERYONE is asking, "whatever happened to KKTAYLORCC??" After retiring from blogging in 2022, our taylor found herself in a completely new career....cruise director for Princess Cruise Lines....aka "The Love Boat"......although passengers do have to sometimes fish her out of the wading pool after one too many 'fruity drinks with little umbrellas' !

We get our updates about taylor from AZRON, who's a frequent passenger on the cruise line. He tells us that he speaks with her on the rare occasion that he isn't enjoying beautiful sunsets and amazing sunrises with his lovely wife (whom he used to pay tribute to on a regular basis during his blogging days!) .....they have lots of time to spend together since our friend founded what was to become the world's largest organization for the promotion of peace around the globe. It's been wildly successful in helping those who others thought astray find their way to a productive life!

Speaking of couples......there are surely those who will remember SECRET: VICTORIA'S FIRST and RANDY. Oh what a ride those two have had! First they married. Then along came the qaudruplets. Then the twins. Then the triplets! Now don't anyone feel sorry for them because once was all said and done, they had enough children to form a complete pro football team AND a fully staffed cheerleading squad! Of course like every family, there is the black sheep child, who I'm sure they will recruit to hunt me down and kill me for giving them a future with all those kids!!

Not one to allow anyone to be in danger, there's always refuge at GLORIA'S place. You all will remember her as gjwlegs at Blogstream. Things were touch and go for awhile, but it turns out that our lovely Gloria had a talent that no one (including herself) never knew about: GO-GO DANCING!! Yes, our dear Gloria made it fashionable again to wear white leather knee high boots and dance in a cage at night clubs! She's a total class act though---which is one of the reasons why she's now one of the RICHEST women in the Western Hemisphere! She never did learn how to get that darned console back into her SUV though!

Were you devastated when "Dear Abby" died and her advice column just went to pot after that snippy litte tart replaced her? Well you need to pick up any local newspaperDVD and read "BELLE's LITTLE BALLS OF WISDOM"....why, she's become to most famous advice columnist in the galaxy! Last year alone, she managed to teach women how to get complete control of the tv remote from their husbands!!!!

Belle's only competition in the advice field is our own CHRISTINE. After winning a CD on the radio back in 2008, a lone producer heard her exclaim, "good Lord, I just hope that one day this Slim Whitman CD will bring peace and joy into my home....." and found it so inspirational that he immediately signed her to a lifetime contract of giving advice to homeless sexy people via the radio. Now THAT'S a success story!!

BOHEMIAN, another of our success stories has also made a mega fortune off of peddling her 'Fountain of Youth' cosmetics. As it turns out, this stuff will actually STOP you from aging!! One look at the picture of her mom will convince anyone----she's 107 years old now (remember it's the year 2030!) and STILL looks great!!

Alas, not everyone from the 'stream fared so well. Poor NIGHTBUG. Oh, do I dare even mention her name after what happened? *sigh The poor thing.....how horrifying it was to see the deranged ninja squirrels beam down from their 'mega awesome' space ship and demand to see her leader. The carnage that resulted when she refused was just awful. It was brave of our friend to sacrifice herself for the greater good though.....everytime that I see little furry people with hats made of M & M candies I think of her and wonder how she's making out on that dreaded 3rd ring of Saturn.

And poor HEATHERSCOT. I openly weep when I think about her fate. Twenty two years of house hunting and NOTHING. She's looked at every house in the world. Yes, even those that are NOT for sale. She can be heard bickering with the owners about 'sanctuaries for her squirrel Scrawny', and a proper place for her children to frolic----even though her children are now grown with families of their own. I remember how she criticized when in 2023 she arrived on my doorstep, offered me $80 for my house and then wandered into the back yard muttering something about 'hot tubs on blocks'. As for her husband? Well, the last anyone heard of him, Heather had him negotiating with a Bulgarian family for their 4 bedroom ranch in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.

And now.....I've saved the BEST for last.....(isn't that how nice guys are supposed to finish?)......

BRY-M: Here's how things played out.......after FINALLY making page 3 of 'most popular blogs' on the Blogstream site in 2011, I was noticed by Random House Publishing and was offered an exlcusive contract to sit home all day and write blog posts. I'm paid to write about anyone and anything....but of course I don't really NEED the job because in 2009 I won the lottery----600 KATRILLION bucks!! 

I have foreseen my own future:

When (IF!) I reach my twilight years (in other words OLD AGE!) I'm going to be one of those crotchety old men who's never satisified with anything or anyone. 
 I say that because when I have something that doesn't work correctly, I will bitch and moan endlessly until SOMEONE fixes the problem or I fix it myself after many tedious hours of figuring out just HOW to fix the problem!

Case in point: I've had XM satellite radio for a few years now---I absolutely LOVE this thing, and I've never had a bit of problem with either the equipment or the service.

The problem that I *have* had with this XM radio thing is their website---there's a section where paying customers can go to listen to the programs online. The site uses Windows Media player, which sucks to begin with. I didn't have any problems to begin with, but for the last several months I haven't been able to get the site's player to work for me. I emailed XM several times but got no response about the problem, so I started investigating it myself---to no avail. So a week ago I *finally* get a response which tells me to change my firewall settings. Well DUH. I'd already TRIED that--a fact that I'd included in my email to them! 

 I was frustrated, so I wrote back and explained (again) all the things I'd done technically to correct the problem--the response was more firewall instructions! GAAAAHHHH!! Don't these people READ??

Well last night I'd had enough......so I turned the firewall completely OFF and the player was fine. Of course no firewall means someone can hijack my 'puter which really WOULD send me over the edge. So I looked on filehippo and downloaded a completely new firewall program and guess what: the player now works FINE!! You'd have THOUGHT that maybe someone THERE might have suggested a whole new firewall program!!

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The great job search has officially begun. I've got quite a few resumes submitted so far. I'm still hoping though that by some miracle things will get better at work and I won't HAVE to find something else, but the pesimist (sp?) in me doesn't hold out much hope for that happening! 
  Who knows? Maybe I'll stumble onto a place that pays more or has better benefits?

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I'm sorry to announce that my rosebush Kathy has lost her blooms! Rosebush Nannie has done quite well though....three HUGE flowers now!! I'm as happy as a pig in shit that my first attempt at growing these things has worked out so well!!

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I chose to ignore a comment that I saw on a fellow blogger's page this evening, but I've just GOT to ask---what in the hell would posess a person to go onto someone's blog and call them a bitch? That's just juvenile--not to mention STUPID! It just burns me up when I see things like that!


That's it for now! Hope everyone has a good week ahead! Only three weeks & 3 days before my vacation!

Yeah, it's been another one of "those" weeks......

I've always bragged about how no matter what happens at the office, I always blow my stack about it here and then it's over with and life goes on. I "bring it home" with me long enough to pound out an entry here...which really IS a good form of therapy I suppose.

    Here's the thing though.....it's gotten to the point that I seem to be repeating myself A LOT lately about the things going on at work. The situations vary only slightly, but they're all basically the same shit on a different day. The final straw for me was yesterday.....I had one of the field guys announce that he wasn't going to do a job that is critical.....so critical that if it ISN'T done, the company I work for can and WILL be sued for breach of contract. The situation stems from an event a couple of months ago that this same bonehead field guy had caused in the first place. So I have a conversation with the guy's manager and get this...even though I proved beyond the shadow of a doubt that the field guy was at fault, guess who the manager blamed for the situation? Yup. ME.
No, I'm not going to go to MY boss about it. No, I'm not going to raise a bunch of hell about the situation. Why? Because we ALL know that it hasn't worked in the past and it's not going to work now....besides, I'm just tired of having to do the same shit week after week after week.
   So yeah, I've had to make the decision that it's time to seriously start looking for another job. Y'all just don't know how hard it's been for me to make this decision because the company itself isn't all that bad.....it's just this particular division of the company that sucks really bad. Worse yet, I can't even transfer out of the role that I'm in until I've been WITH THE COMPANY for a full year. Now if you remember, I got the job last June....HOWEVER....it wasn't until SEPTEMBER that I was officially an employee of the company. Sure, it's only four months away, but check this out: there have been 5 people in my office (same function as me) that have been with the company for YEARS that have recently applied for other positions....in the same division of the company but in different functions....they all have had perfect records (attendance, performance, etc) but not ONE of them has gotten it. Why? Well it seems that there are more folks wanting OUT of what I do than wanting IN, so the powers that be are effectively 'blocking' any transfers. Exactly HOW they are doing it, no one is sure of at this point, but the theory seems to be that the managers are sending negative evaluations 'under the table' about the employees trying to bid out. Sort of a 'good ol boy network' thing.

Stay tuned.....

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On a more positive note......

Now that Christine the Truck has once again cost me money that I really do NOT have, I decided to bite the bullet and do something that I haven't done in the almost 2 years that I've had her....I washed her!!! With actual soap & water even!                                                                                                                                Now here's the strange thing......I've posted pictures of my truck on here before, so you all know that it's a burgundy color. Well guess what......Christine isn't burgundy at all-------after all of the dirt, grime, and various bug guts were washed away, I found out that Christine is actually BLUE!!! Ok, I'm just kidding you about that part....she's really burgundy. But I hadn't realized that she has chrome bumpers! And did you know that the background of a North Carolina license plate isn't black.......?? It's white!!

IN ADDITION to washing the outside of my truck, I *also* completely cleaned out the INSIDE as well! I found all sorts of treasures during that task: a Reader's Digest from May 1988, 2 radio speaker covers that I'd often wondered the whereabouts of, almost $8 in coins which is almost a gallon of gas, and Marilyn Monroe--alive and well---albeit a bit confused.                                                                                              

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One more thing------
Y'all know I've tried a few times to build a website to go along with my blog. Unfortunately I always end up getting pissed off because I end up on these shit for server places that leave me with a crappy looking site. Well I'm trying out this new one that is all flash based and has everything that I've been wanting in a website (features, etc)....but I'm waiting to see if it's going to be something even worth keeping up before I put it out. I know you're all just on pins and needles....heheheheheeh

That's it for now....I'll be lurking around tonite, so y'all better keep those blinds open so I can peep!                                          





                                                        





                                                                                                                                                      

First up, here's something I meant to show you all a couple of weekends ago:

  I saw this a couple of weekends ago at my local WallyWorld....folks, either the people who drive this car are DIEHARD fans of The Dukes of Hazzard or they're the world's biggest rednecks. Maybe BOTH. Whatever the case, everytime they drive this car, they set Southerners back at least 40 years!!

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Christine the Truck is officially back on the road as of today, so it looks like we will be together at least a little while longer. We have this whole love/hate thing going on between us.....which leads me to the conclusion that I don't need a wife....I've got a TRUCK!   The roomie's dad and brother put on a new alternator & a new battery today while I was at work...they even flushed out the radiator for me! Yet one of the times that I'm GLAD I work Monday thru Friday because I *HATE* working on vehicles!

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Speaking of work....
Ugh. I'd rather not. It wasn't horrible, but it wasn't great. It was work.

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So that's it for now....thank GOD tomorrow is FINALLY FRIDAY!!

First, the good news:
Christine LIVES!! Sort of.....
According to the roomie's dad, the alternator died which caused the battery to follow suit and keel over...which caused ME to end up on the side of the road yesterday on the way home from work.   
  Christine's survival is a mixed bag though....on the one hand I'm glad that I don't have to take on the daunting task of getting another vehicle (not to mention the fact that I don't have the MONEY to buy another vehicle!), but on the other hand I sort of wish it HAD been Christine's swan song because I'm so SICK of driving this thing!

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Work was ALSO a mixed bag. I had all of my "required" numbers by 9am, so the rest of the day was devoted to getting some other things taken care of that I've neglected this AND last week! It's truly a nice feeling when I can look at the inbox on my email and see 5 new messages rather than FIFTY!!
   There were some irritating things to contend with though....such as when the VP of my group tells us that we're not performing to HIS standards. I could have slapped the shit out of him when he said that! Remember, this is a guy who has NEVER done any part of my job. I played it cool though and just told myself that I'll keep trucking along as usual.

A few minutes before it was time to leave, my supervisor comes over and tells me that he wants to talk to me...so we went into the 'woodshed' as I call it and had quite a lively 'exchange of ideas'.....it all ended up ok though, so I feel pretty good about the talk. He got some things out in the open and so did I and we came to an understanding about some things. I'm still not 100% satisfied, but it'll do for now.

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So that's about all for now. Time to go blogstalking!