Got this in my inbox this morning and had me in stitches
(Here’s the reply the teacher received the following day)
Dear Mrs. Jones,
I wish to clarify that I am not now, nor have I ever been, an exotic dancer.
I work at Home Depot and I told my daughter how hectic it was last week before the blizzard hit. I told her we sold out every single shovel we had, and then I found one more in the back room, and that several people were fighting over who would get it. Her picture doesn’t show me dancing around a pole. It’s supposed to depict me selling the last snow shovel we had at Home Depot.
From now on I will remember to check her homework more thoroughly before she turns it in.
So, Friday, last week, I got a mail summoning me and part of my team to our great German overlords (T-Systems) in Munich. We were all a bit skeptic and thought they were not so serious so we disregarded it. It turns out they were quite serious indeed!
Good part of the story: It’s Oktoberfest
Bad part of the story: I’ll be the only one there. My colleagues are all heading home the same day because of family or obligations or combination of both. Meh.
Oh well, I’ll be fine there, at least I made sure I have a hotel room with WiFi.
Yesterday we had our first ’song writing session’. It came down to extending the few chords we already have to something that sounds almost decent. And although we don’t have a full fledged song just quite yet, I think it was useful and incredibly fun, so we might do this more often.
And I can’t believe we actually did a SWOT analysis of the band
I’ve decided that I wanted to practice more on a real drum kit, so I’ve found myself a little jam place near where we live. This is just additional to my electronic kit and probably just temporary until we have our new house and I can play whenever I want. At the moment I have to start working very early to play maybe an hour in the afternoon.
Anyway, the jam place is tiny, they have about 2 practice spaces and it’s rather a big wooden shed, but it serves the purpose I guess. It has a drum kit but they don’t provide the cymbals, so I bought my own set, which is nice, I can use it to jam with the band as well
The guy who runs the place is an absolute weirdo. I think he’s about 45, long, very skinny, big smile. He talks 120km/h, was absolutely plastered and stoned. I ended up listening to him for about 40 minutes, since I really couldn’t get a word in between But he was happy and gave me a discount on the costs, so for 3 hours I payed 10 euros, which is fair.
It’s only after, I mean way after I had too many vodka that I remember how melancholic that stuff makes me.
Mind you, this is not a bad state at all. I can wallow in melancholy forever.
That’s right, piracy funds terrorism. I could rant about the fallacy of that statement or even about the fact whole countries are funding terrorism in a way when they see fit, but that’s not the point here. The point is: I see this on a DVD I PURCHASED!!! Yes that’s right, if I download my movies and series I won’t be bothered with all this stinking nonsense. I won’t be bothered by previews and by 20 different bullshit banners about copyright, in fact the user experience of ‘illegally’ downloading your stuff is in fact a lot better than when I pay for it. Talking about defeating the purpose.
Nice going, assholes.
Yesterday we had our bi-weekly jam in Amsterdam with the No Articles.
For a change we decided to do an early one from 6 until 9 and although it’s a bit of bitch with traffic for me (it’s rush hour round that time and I have to travel from The Hague to Amsterdam), I actually quite liked it.
The jam session was pretty awesome. It wasn’t perfect, but at least we had fun playing together and it appeared that everybody was happy to be playing together again after the summer break and we it went just pretty smooth. We played all songs we know up to now in under an hour, not flawlessly but with enthousiasm and fun.
After that we played them once again with a little more effort and tried to nail ‘em. For some parts that worked, others still need work.
Another great thing about jamming early is that you have the time afterwards for a couple of beers and some related and non-related chatter. It’s been a while since we all had a good long talk with beers.
Alright, I uploaded most pictures, filtered out the pure crap, but haven’t edited, sorted, tagged or captioned any of them. Both the London pics and the Euromeet pics are there, enjoy
Goddamn, I already regret buying this piece of shit XBox 360
Because we have about 4 different devices that require my TV as output and my TV can only host about 3 I have sometimes have to switch plugs, I was doing just that yesterday evening. Once it was all connected up I switched on my xbox to see if it was working and it was. So I grabbed my remote and slightly brushed against the xbox.
*Krrrrrr bam* Game fucked. Sorry? I brush against my xbox and that’s the end of my game? Bye bye 70 bucks? WTF! Sorry, I have about 6 different devices that can read cds or dvds and none of them fuck up my cds if I touch the device. I believe I even kicked my Playstation at a certain point out of frustration about some game and the thing would still play without damaging my fucking disk.
I’m so pissed off and calling the MS helpdesk today to see if I can get a refund.
@Katrinya I agree it's kind of annoying but then again: Isn't twitter just a big spam fest to begin with? @Everyoneelse use RSS for updates! 20 hours ago
