Logical Logbook

My thoughts are worth billions. My logic will end the world.

Wednesday, August 31, 2005

Ultimately, I really don't think I've ever done anything I didn't want to do. I don't think you have either.

Tuesday, August 30, 2005

You know what's kinda messed up? Every now and again I will check my blog to see if I've posted anything new.
While I wandered around during my lunch hour today, I saw a bum who was so messed up on whatever that rather than ask for change he just thanked everybody who walked by. I don't know what he was on if anything but I see a lot of people much less happy than him and he didn't even have shoes.
There's nobody here. I'm enjoying the quiet. However, I should be enjoying the quiet while getting work done and I'm not doing that.

Monday, August 29, 2005

Let's see if anyone can answer this question for me:

How hard is it to check to see if your computer's turned on before coming to me and telling me your monitor doesn't work?
So I did a bunch of stuff this weekend--not all of it good. However, for the most part I enjoyed myself and that's what counts.

Friday, August 26, 2005

Of course, I did exactly nine things this week. I will outline them in the Weekly Wrapup:

1. Watched one too many Iranian documentaries on leprosy.
2. Began upon a quest to watch fifteen hours of classic westerns.
3. Ate a lot of pickled vegetables.
4. Waited for my orders to arrive.
5. Reread two good books, at least.
6. six six
7. Went on a long walk by myself but didn't find pizza by the slice.
8. Drank way too much coffee.
9. Considered ordering a burrito.

So, as far as I can tell, I'm obsessed w/ food and movies. What are you obsessed w/?
For some reason, I put cream and sugar in my coffee. It's OK. I'm still gonna drink it black for the most part.

Thursday, August 25, 2005

There's certain fully formed adult humans that you meet sometimes that just make you wonder if evolution hasn't stopped dead in its tracks. Someone's been giving them computers.

Wednesday, August 24, 2005

I just saw some guy kick a pigeon. It wasn't in his way or anything. They guy took about three steps out of the way to kick it. He was about sixty or so and wearing a shirt an tie.

I've never been outspoken in the area of pigeons' rights but that just struck me as plain unnecessary.
Man. Slow day today. I got a bunch of work done and I'm close to caught up now. Or, close as I can be w/ the ridiculous amount of crap they want me to do. Basically, I got everything so it will be running smoothly. If they want more than that, they can hire me an assistant.

I got Pizza for lunch at a new place. It kinda sucked but I found a bunch of new places to try on my journey to find it. I'm still hungry. I'm gonna just take a half hour and find another morsel to tame my hunger.

Tuesday, August 23, 2005

My little counter thing has started working only very irregularly. This dissapoints me greatly as I now have no way to verify that nobody reads this thing.
If I made a big list of everything I did w/ the smartest things on the top, getting a bagel from Dunkin' Donuts would be near the bottom. I mean, seriously, what kind of a moron gets a bagel from Dunkin' Donuts? Aside from me that is...

Monday, August 22, 2005

After the weekend, I can't ever remember just what exactly I need to get done at work. As a rule, it takes me till Wednesday to figure everything out and by then I figure I've already wasted almost the whole week so I might as well roll w/ it.

Friday, August 19, 2005

Printers are the bane of my existence.
I left a lot of things out of the Weekly Wrapup this week. In fact, pretty much everything important is either missing completely or so deeply cyphered even those closest to me can only decrypt it w/ great difficulty and personal expenditure. This is the nature of the Weekly Wrapup. If you only do nine things, you have to forget a lot.
It is only for you, the reader, that I'm going through the necessary soulsearching to write this Weekly's Wrapup. Here's what I did.

1. Ate chicken.
2. Got an everything bagel w/ cream cheese.
3. Smiled.
4. Had strawberry shortcake for breakfast.
5. Had dessert.
6. six six
7. Got free lunch.
8. Thought a lot about food in general, I guess.
9. Considered something or other.

Some of this is cryptical. Figure it out.

Thursday, August 18, 2005


The small image sucks. Click to enlarge.
The coffee at work has improved greatly. Somebody else brews it now. Nice work, somebody else. The coffee tastes good now.

Wednesday, August 17, 2005

My favorite recurring conversation thus far this week:

"My sound doesn't work."
"Yes it does. You just don't have speakers."
"So can I get sound?"
"If you get speakers."
I'm going to eat chicken tonight. I haven't eaten meat in two or three months but tonight is a special occasion. Also on the table: mashed potatoes, corn and asparagus, homemade bread and strawberry shortcake.

Tuesday, August 16, 2005

Yep.

Monday, August 15, 2005

All I ate this weekend was white rice w/ onion and jalepenos. I had a burrito for lunch today--way better.

Friday, August 12, 2005

When I get to work, I get there by the slow clock. When I leave, it's by the fast clock. Can you think of a more reasonable way to go about things?
It's a little after one post meridiem and all of our temp workers and most of the rest of the office has already shuffled out. My internet is down at my house so I'm just sitting here trying to plan an evening which I was woefully unprepared for until an hour ago and am still considerably unprepared for now. My plan is to pretty much just roll the dice and see how things go. Fuck it. How bad could it possibly be?
I almost did more than nine things this week and that would have been totally stressful. However, I kept my activities to a minimum the last three days, sitting complacently and watching television, so that everything would fit neatly in the Weekly Wrapup:

1. Set a dime down and picked it up later.
2. Made all the email accounts work except one.
3. Total Detroit.
4. Made some plans, however halfcracked.
5. Duct taped a speaker.
6. six six
7. Ate more salads than you can shake a stick at.
8. Forgot a lot of stuff.
9. Considered just exactly how many ways things could go wrong.

Yep. I gotta admit I'll be glad when the week resets and I can go about doing stuff again.

Thursday, August 11, 2005

I tried a lowcarb tortilla chip just now. It wasn't bad though I'm still confused as to how they make something that's made from grain low in carbohydrates. I figure they must cut the cornmeal w/ sawdust or something. I will say though that, having had this lowcarb chip and given the proper amount of guacamole or avocado dip, I could go my whole life w/o missing fullcarb tortilla chips. That's something at least.

Don't think I'm going lowcarb though. I had fried rice for lunch and will have the same tomorrow.
"Is there a way I can..."
"No."
"So I can't just..."
"No."
"But in..."
"I know."
"You mean I can't just..."
"I mean no."
"...."
"Seriously. No."

I'm not trying to be mean. The reality of the situation can only be explained by saying "no" so that's what I do.
The only problem I have with the rain is that it tends to shorten the amount of time I spend outside at lunch. I'm a cavedweller, I need my vitamin D and vitamin D needs me. We are mutually dependant. Also: my work though less tedious this time of year is far more annoying when I have over twenty people who think that they're my boss rather than just five or ten.

Wednesday, August 10, 2005

I ate pizza for lunch today. It was good and crispy. I enjoyed eating it and I hope it enjoyed getting eaten. Pizza is one of my favorite things and I care about its feelings.

Tuesday, August 09, 2005

"That's ugly."
"That's my hamster."
"Oh."
"You leave and go think about what you said. I'm busy."
"How'd you lose so much weight?"
"I stopped eating meat."
"I can't do that."
"Yeah you can. That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard."
Oh boy. Work is getting to be pretty rough. Personally, I blame capitalism.

Friday, August 05, 2005

I just finished the ninth thing for this week. So here you go. The Weekly Wrapup:

1) Started using this thing to host my photos (if you haven't noticed).
2) Brought some friends around the office.
3) Spoke gently.
4) Drank goat milk.
5) Tapped the side of my computer to make it stop humming.
6) six six
7) Got much louder.
8) Made you look.
9) Considered not doing the 6) six six joke.

With that done with, I'm going to go hibernate for several months after gorging myself on berries and salmon.
If you can't acknowledge the sweetness of this image, you are most likely dead.
Gotcha.

Thursday, August 04, 2005

I don't really know or care what's going on today. I should know. I have the ability to know. I just don't really want to know because I don't care.

Wednesday, August 03, 2005

Remember yesterday when I didn't have a two by fifteen cabinet? That sucked. Today, however, is much better.
I traded my amp. I would be upset but the speaker cabinet I got is now part of this:



Which is now part of this:



Which is now part of this:

Tuesday, August 02, 2005

What were you all doing here on Wednesday, the twentyseventh of July? Seriously, I never get more than two visitors per day, normally not even one. But on Wednesday, the twentyseventh of July, twenty three of you crazy people dropped through here. That's over eleven times more than any other day. So what gives? Why were you all here? The people who check this regularly need not respond.
Dudes! This is totally good deal:

http://chicago.craigslist.org/msg/88446089.html

OK, so it's my amp and I'm selling it. It saddens me but I still will have my Sunn head, three four by twelve cabinets, a Marshall head (albeit a shitty one) and a Ampeg SVT Classic w/ matching two by fifteen cabinet. This in addition to an arsenal of effects boxes by the way. So there. Give me shit for selling my Sovtek. I dare you.

Monday, August 01, 2005

I thought all of our temporary workers that we get on loan from the government were coming in today and I was dreading it. Luckily, they have a full week of training to do before I have to smell 'em. Things are working out nicely so far. Hopefully, I will not see the return of last weeks giagantical clusterfuck of extraordinary misery.

OK. That's taking it a bit far. Last week sucked but I can't say I was miserable at all for more than a few hours at the very most.