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Funny Because It's True
August 6, 2002
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Woo. So back to the rant business. Let's get started.
Had a good break, and pleased to see there were no frightened e-mails in my Inbox at my return asking me was I dead or what or please not to let Web Guy Josiah rant anymore (likely because the latter would've resulted in a rather irate reply). My Josiah did a splendid job, looks like - although I'm sure I wasn't the only one a bit alarmed by his choice of song lyrics for last week's rantage - and I was VERY pleased by his coloring of my little bit of vacation scribblings. Shit, just *look* at it! If the strip wasn't usually in color I'd say I had some new work for him to do ::smile:: But yeah. Loverly indeed.
Ummmm... stuff.
The comment in today's comic was made, in fact, by me. Josiah didn't think it was very funny, but you have to admit, it SOUNDS right. And to me there's just something *fun* about needing a comic setup that sometimes never even comes. I never actually had any active use for what I thought was a killer comeback I made up: "Watch it, bitch, or I'll kick your ass the fuck off this island." A bit severe, so of course I could only deliver it to a friend, all in good fun, for some kind of slight that of course never occurred. In a way, it gets EXTRA funny to me, in my own little head, like the joke is a choice vintage stored away until at long last - when it's passed old and is into "retro" - it can be taken out, popped open, and savored. Or I could be full of crap. You decide.
Up to $30 in the continuing saga of selling DVD Freedom Passes to get that PS2: no sooner do I get back from break on Saturday night that I sell 2 auto-pay ones in four hours, Sunday night getting a little 30-day one, and last night another auto-pay. Whoo-hoo, 17 bucks plus the 16 from before. W00t. I'm getting there! I can taste it already, and it tastes... well... GOOD and stuff. Like tapioca or something, that stuff is *tasty*.
Quick bit about things: evidently Apple.com is now going to be charging for the use of their site space, which formerly was free: $50 a year for those who had a site previously, and $100 for other schmucks and the year after for everyone else. I think this is terribly shitty, no matter how "cool" the iTools are or whatever. I don't like the idea. Sure, the first one is always free, and when you don't know how to make a site without Apple's help they drop the bomb on you. $50 isn't terrible, but what I say is you pay your money for one year, learn how to use Netscape Composer (if not html) and give them the finger when the year is up, and stroll off to Netzero or Geocities or something. Sure, I can agree with my friend Diane (worker at the Apple Store in the Chandler Fashion Square) on a few nifty strengths of the area, but I've got to be a bitch about this. You may have won on some counts, Apple, but this new development hardly makes me smile. Hotmail may not let me check my POP mail anymore, but that's teeny beans next to this. I wouldn't spit in your mocha - I'm a bit too mature for that (if only a bit) - but I sure as fuck wouldn't tip your ass for the world.
Had a fun vacation. Got to see the folks, the family, give everyone the hugs and the kisses. Rode a go-kart like I was Mario-fricking-Andretti and roared around on a Sea Doo like I owned the entirety of Lake Michigan. Took in the sun and the water, both of which rocked. Got to schmooze with the peoples. Even got to talk gaming for a bit with a cousin of mine ::wink:: Yeah. Had a lot of fun. Missed my Web Guy buckets, but still had fun (and he'll be up there with me next year, mark this woman's words). Good to be back.
Must get to the "sleeping" thingy, but be well, take care, and stuff.
Dosvedanya (or the closest facsimile thereof),
Annie "Blue" VM
Been away so long I hardly knew the place
Gee it's good to be back home
- The Beatles
"Back in the USSR"
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