Yaaaaawn

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No, I'm not bored, but ya know how yawning is contagious?

Well, have you ever noticed that using a BlackBerry is contagious too!??!

Whenever I get on the elevator and I happen to be emailing or checking my messages, someone else on the elevator has to bust out their BlackBerry and check their messages too.

I think it may be some kind of ego thing....as if to say, "I'm as cool as you are".

I'm not saying I've never done it, but I think, now that it's something I notice, I'm trying to avoid the "contagiousness" of being a BlackBerry show off.

(I think the same holds true for cell phones, when people are texting or just checking their phone in the elevator.)

Crosswalks

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I'm standing here next to a twenty-something, who (NO LIE) has hit the crosswalk button 20 times....IN A ROW!!

Once the light changed I thanked her for making the light change.

(Not really but I wanted to say it)

Coffee and Coins Don't Mix

The wife and I went out to visit my grandparents last weekend. When we go to my grandparents we always take the toll roads. We stuck a $20 into the toll machine and we got dollar coins back.....no worries there, it's still money, right??

On the way home, the kids were asleep in the back of the car and we decided to stop off at Starbucks to get drinks.

I give her about 10 of our $1 coins and off she went into Starbucks. I stayed in the car with the kids.

When she came out, she had the funniest story.....the girl behind the counter looked at coins and then turned to another barista and said...."We take these, right?"

REALLY?? Is that even a valid question? It's U.S. tender....why wouldn't they take it?

Has our society become so dependant on plastic??

Craigslist

If you don't know this already, I'm an aspiring professional photographer....I've assisted a wedding photographer for about a year and a half. Then she decided to become a real estate agent, and I was out of an assisting gig.

Anyway, I check Craigslist daily for photography opportunities. If you don't know what Craigslist is, it's "basically" the Classifieds/PennySaver/AutoTrader all rolled into one and on the internet....check it out!

So I'm mostly looking to assist an already established pro shooter. I'm searching for people who are looking for an assistant and I'm also searching for people who are looking for good quality pictures, but aren't looking to pay a lot of money for them.

I've replied to SEVERAL ads on Craigslist, and have NEVER received a reply back!!!

What's up with these people??

I mean you post an ad and someone takes the time to reply and is interested in helping you out and you turn around and don't even reply?? WTF?

I would even be happy with some cheesy canned response. Any response.... anything at all. A simple "No Way Jose" would be better than nothing at all.

Instead, I'm left hanging....wondering what happened.

I completely understand that if you put an ad on Craigslist you could be bombarded with several hundred email responses....but shouldn't you know that going in? Be prepared people! At the VERY LEAST have a canned response ready that you can just copy and paste into the emails that you reject. That way the people that do take the time to reply to you aren't left wondering what the heck is going on!

It's just common courtesy.

German Research

Secure relationships = less sex in women

This article details how researchers from Germany found that four years into a relationship, less than half of 30-year-old women wanted regular sex.

What? NO WAY!!

It took actual research to figure this out?

Some other brilliant statistics from the article include, "They found 60% of 30-year-old women wanted sex "often" at the beginning of a relationship, but within four years of the relationship this figure fell to under 50%, and after 20 years it dropped to about 20%."

"In contrast, they found the proportion of men wanting regular remained at 60-80%, regardless of how long they had been in a relationship."

Again, it took RESEARCH to figure this out??

Britney's Such a Great Mommy!

In a recent interview with People magazine Britney Spears said that her current pregnancy was unplanned!

Nothing like telling the world that your unborn child was an accident!!

I don't think there's anything that says proud parent more than that!

YEEAAAAHHH!!! Way to go Britney!

Waiting in line....

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I absolutely LOOOOOVE waiting in line at the bank....

25 people in line...

3 tellers!!

SWEET!

ADDENDUM: How to get on an Elevator

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What's up with the button hogs?

You know who you are....you're the first one in the elevator and you just stand there right in front of the buttons! I don't need to reach in front of you to push the button, and if you're a dude, I don't need to be that close to your junk! Just move back.

Then there's the polite version of the button hog, the one who asks, "What floor?"

Dude, just move to the back and let me push my own button.

And stop entering the elevator diagonally and cutting me off in the process!

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How to get on an Elevator

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I have this pet peeve....I've had for quite a while now.

I've worked in law firms since 1992, a good 14 years now. I've always worked in tall buildings. Anywhere from 16 to 50 stories tall.

OK, now I know what you're thinking....and NO this isn't about elevator etiquette.

It is about elevators though....and about people getting into them.

Why does it seem like everyone who gets into an elevator (in front of me) has to walk into the elevator diagonally???

It's the 2000's folks....elevator's have buttons on both sides....and ya know what?? They work on both sides too!!

I just don't get it?

In the process of walking diagonally, they cut me off....COME ON!!! Watch where you're going.

I am very conscience of this myself and make sure that I don't do it. There's no need to do it.

Maybe I'm too logical....who knows.

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What is wrong with ABC?

What is wrong with my ABC affiliate?

I'm sitting here trying to watch the England v. Portugal World Cup match and every ½ hour my local ABC station is running a PROGRAM NOTE at the bottom of the screen telling kids that their normally scheduled Saturday morning programs aren't going to be on at the regularly scheduled times.

I don't have a problem with the program note, what I have a problem with is the SIZE of it and the regularity of when they run it.

They start showing the "program note" about 10 minutes before the scheduled program is to start. Then they show this message, what seems like,continuouslyy for about a minute or so! OVER and OVER and OVER!!

Now I have very little problem with the message itself...It's cute.

"Hey Kids! Catch {insert show name} later today at {insert show time} here on ABC 7."

But...The message is so !@#$% HUGE...It takes up so much of the screen that you can't see the bottom part of the field and if ABC shows any stats at the bottom of the screen, there's no chance that you're gonna see those stats!!

It was awful during the penalty shoot out....I wasn't sure who I was more upset with ABC 7 or England!!

Way to go ABC 7....THANKS! (jerks!)

More Random World Cup Thoughts

Why do the ABC/ESPN announcers have to repeat the same "facts" over and over and OVER??!!

1) I know that Croatian kid is the son of the coach
....I got it.

2) Ronaldo's allegedly fat....and the president of Brazil said he was fat
....I got it.

3) All the Brazil facts....only team in every World Cup....won more World Cups than any other county....all the players go by one name
....I got it.

(SIDE NOTE HERE....With all the great Brazilian one namers....how does FRED choose FRED? Come on....shouldn't there be a committee in Brazil that helps you pick your one name??)

4) Oh hey....did you know that German great Franz Beckenbauer said there's too many yellow cards in this World Cup?....Yeah, I knew and then you've told me at least once every time a freakin card is shown!! He said it more than a week ago
....I got it.

5) On any day that the US is playing, it's like a freakin national holiday on ABC/ESPN. It's drilled into my skull that the US has got to win their games, and now they have to win against Ghana and here's all the ways that they can still advance
....I got it.

OH NO! It's Raining!!

WARNING!

Rant ahead....

I've been living here (in California) for 30+ years and driving here for about ½ of that time. Can someone help me answer this pleeeaase....

Why can't Californians drive in the rain? I mean seriously!! WTF??

Today it was MISTING and everyone was all over their brakes....it's like they get all stupid or something!!

"Ahhhhhh....is that water on my windshield??" Yeah, it is! Calm down....make sure to breathe!! It's like they're gonna melt....(insert plastic surgery jokes here)....COME ON!!!

Just DRIVE!!!

It's not a freakin thunder storm, it's MISTING!!

I mean, it's like me hanging out of my car with a squirt gun and shooting at your car....it's not doing anything to you or to your car!!

Just DRIVE!!!

It's funny to drive by people on the freeway and see the look of utter TERROR on their faces....I mean is there a radio station that freaks people out as much as the local news does with STORM WATCH? (Don't get me started on Storm Watch)

Did I mention,

Just DRIVE!!!

McPheever!

This will probably be my last post whining about Katharine losing to Michael McDonald on American Idol....errrr Taylor Hicks, I meant Taylor....I swear.

I've got the McPheever, I know, but what can I do about it? No prescription drug can help.

I DEMAND A RE-COUNT!!

I mean come'on....Seriously!

America Voted....

America!
What the heck is your problem?? Is Simon Cowell your God?
He says Taylor Hicks and you just turn all zombie on us and do what he says??

When I look at Taylor Hicks, all I see is Michael McDonald....
Soul Patrol? WHATEVER!
I'm just not seeing an American Idol....Nope, can't see it.

This on the other hand....

Looks like an American Idol to me!

I honestly have no doubt that Ms. Katharine Mcphee
will be just fine....singing, acting....albums, radio, broadway....she'll be just fine!

Blackout 2006!

Last night about 7 pm our power went out. Not just our place, but about 80% of our condo complex. One of neighbors called the electric company and was told that it would take them 6 to 8 hours to fix the problem.

5 trucks show up at our complex. 2 were at the front and 3 were practically outside our condo!! Actually they were about 3 doors down but with all of our windows open, because we obviously couldn't use the air conditioner, it sounded like they were right outside!

Finally got to sleep, and everything was fixed when we woke up!