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Get Friendly With Your Follicles
June 25, 2002
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It's funny how once you get started on a job how massive and *unwieldy* any system seems, especially when you're left alone for any amount of time. Once you know what you're about you're fine, but in training, look out. It was my first day of training at Blockbuster today, and oh boy, did I have the little lost puppy thingy going on when the manager vanished to do something else. Oh sure, I made myself useful, but it's tough to shake those Day One jitters. Doesn't help that you have to review about seven JILLION booklets and learn random crap about the DirecTV system, too. Yikes. But I know I'll get the hang of all this in no time. Hey, it beats being on the phones for umpteen hours at a time. And free videos, too ::big grin::
Oh, God. If you haven't seen it yet, I don't know WHAT is wrong with you that you somehow managed to miss it, but holy hell. This new show - "Monster Garage" - on the Discovery Channel is NOT to be missed. Seriously. The dude from West Coast Choppers (I think?), Jesse James - an awesome guy what knows his shit about motorcycles, cars and whatnot - essentially brings together the best of the best mechanics, welders, and whatever to perform some of the coolest car surgery I've ever seen (hell, some of the coolest shit I've ever seen PERIOD). Essentially, he makes one car into a multiple-operation machine: a 1990 Mustang convertible becomes a road monster that can MOW LAWNS at 70 mph; a 1998 new Volkswagen Beetle becomes a SWAMP CRUISER, for Christ's sake, and so on. And all these cars - as per the rules - STILL look stock. Sure, you're driving along the road in a middle 90's white Ford Explorer, and then holy shit - it pops open its roof and right door, extends a claw to pick up a trash can and dump the contents in its back (just like a normal garbage truck), and drops the can like a mofo. This shit is INCREDIBLE. Just watching this team of honest-to-God-experts (some funny people in that mix, might I add) hack the crap out of these vehicles and put them back together into some frickin' PRETTY machines what run just as good as they used to - just makes me smile. It's like, fuck, if cars could *multi-class* or something. Yow. It's one hell of a show. Sunday nights at 9, but hey, I just watched two new episodes tonight, so turn the Discovery channel on some random night this week around them and you'll likely get lucky too ::smile::
Got the "Hot Date" expansion set for The Sims yesterday, got it set up and everything, and holy jeez but that game makes Annie's brain confused. It's halfway between awesome and downright disturbing: I mean, it was fun to make everyone in the neighborhood fall for ONE SIM, but being able to choose between, like, FIVE different kinds of KISSES makes me feel a little weirded-out. And when two of my Sims stripped and dived into that heart-shaped bed, becoming pairs of giggling (and occasionally, help me Jeebus, *growling*) mounds underneath the covers, I have to say I got more than a LITTLE frightened. They're COMPUTER PEOPLE! Having SEX! And they're... BARKING! Not only are they horny little monkeys, they're kinky as fuck! ::shudder:: But yeah. The "downtown" idea - where Sims can call cabs and head to shop, stroll, and eat with lots of random other Sims (many of which are the computer's random generations) - is really interesting, but that you can literally *proposition* a Sim to "head back to my place" is another one of those "yikes" thingies. I mean, the game IS called "Hot Date" and rated Teen for a reason, but if I'm ever so desperate that I cull a great sense of satisfaction from watching two (or, God help me, MORE) of my Sims "do it like they do on the Discovery channel," I'm going to need a bat upside the head to snap me out of it. All that aside, though: it's a good game.
Damn. One day left for me to watch "Titus" (i.e. the recent, 2 & 1/2 hour long adaptation of Shakespeare's first - and bloodiest - play, "Titus Andronicus") before I've got to take it back to Blockbuster. You think I can bribe Web Guy Josiah into watching it with me? ::hopeful smile:: It's got Anthony Hopkins and everything! [I'll think about it - web guy Josiah]
Argh. ::big yawn:: That's my cue for sleepy-time. You all take care now.
Hoobily-HA,
Annie "Blue" VM
I'm still the king of me
- Sheryl Crow
"Soak Up the Sun"
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