Miscellaneous Krap
One
Now this … is a good use of technology.
However, in the past, I’ve had my escape call placed the old-fashioned way …
By Shaft,
Plus, it didn’t cost me a thing,
And he was just as reliable.
I know, you’re surprised Mr. A.D.D. himself can remember to place an irradically scheduled emergency call that you tell him of several days in advance. But he honestly can, I still haven’t figured out how or why. Heck … he’ll go to the rest room three times in a row because he gets distracted on his way back to the office and forgets he’s already went … but when it comes to emergency calls … he’s dead-on reliable. I figure it’s just some Rainman-like fluky trait of his.
(For what it’s worth, Cingular’s rescue call seems way overpriced … seriously, $4.99/month ! Gimme a break. Virgin’s 25 cent/call seems much more reasonable. You’d need 20 first dates in a month for the Virgin plan to cost the same as the Cingular plan. And seriously, if you have 20 first dates in a month … you’re just not that picky to begin with and I can’t imagine you’d even want an emergency call.)
Two
I am totally into Howie Day. (Despite the fact that he shares the same first name as a guy Miss Daisy picked up and made out with in the parking lot one night at bowling. Wow … now that was a classic UnUsual Suspect night !) If you ever get a chance to see him live (I’m referring to Howie Day, but now that I mention it, if you ever get to see Miss Daisy live, you should take advantage of that too) … for the love of gawd … go !!!!! He’s great !!! So phreaking talented and way kute … kinda reminds me of the Cute Guy God character in JOA. He’s got a great stage presence and stunning voice. A lot of his songs have a pure accoustical flare … even when he’s strumming his guitar. His covers are fantastic and a blast … he always laughs when doing Toto’s Africa at the part … “As sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serangetti“, I mean, come on … that is a funny line !!! What was Toto thinking? His version of Slide is better than the Goo Goo Dolls version, my version, and even Hottie’s version (though for the record, I don’t like Howie’s version of Brown Eyed Girl, nobody does Brown Eyed Girl like Hottie !) But it’s not just his covers that are special … his own work is addictive. I’m currently overplaying Collide … give it a listen (Windows Media Player sample, Real Player sample). Seriously, if you get a chance to see him … GO !!! And if you have an extra ticket … let me know. 🙂
Three
I sign up on dating websites here and there, not to actually date anyone … but to see what it’s like in the on-line dating scene and what sort of people are there.
Actually hooking up with someone met on-line is something that really doesn’t work for me right now …
It’s just much easier for me to take batting practice with boys I meet in real life.
But still …
I do take the time to fill out these prolonged questionaires on most of these sites, answering all sorts of detailed and odd questions, checking off little boxes with assorted like/dislike promps,
And this is what I’ve learned:
A.) Even though there are a lot of guys out there on these sites, a couple of times I’ve been “matched” up with guys I actually know in real life who I probably wouldn’t even milk for a free Coors Light, let alone date. Makes me question the personality matching process.
B.) All sites seem to match me up with guys that have very similar personality profiles as me. I’m not sure that’s good. I think there needs to be a commonality in core personal values … things like family, integrity, loyalty … but I think personalities should differ some … otherwise isn’t it like just adding more of the same seasoning to the being? How do you grow as a person if you’re just adding more of the same thing? How I ask !! 🙂 Anyways, again, makes me question the personality matching process.
C.) If you ever check Skinny Dipping on the list of Likes … you’ll find yourself getting inundated with matches for overweight, out of shape, Asscar Nascar-loving buttheads. After the proposed match with a pig pharmer (honest to gawd, I didn’t even know there was a pig farm in a 20 mile radius of my zip code), I’m reluctant to even shower in the nude anymore, let alone Skinny Dip. Obviously, I no longer like Skinny Dipping. And once again, have questions with the personality matching process.
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Cell phones seem neat…and the more I’m around people who have them the more I see the potential–we just don’t get very good signals in a lot of places up here so I never bothered.
Howie is decent, I really like where he’s taken his sound. His version of Help! off the i am sam soundtrack stays in regular rotation in my playlists. I don’t really know him, but we shared the stage a few times back in the day and he seemed nice. Some of my friends say he’s gotten a seriously out-of-control ego the last few times he was home, but that’s prolly just sour grapes. 😉
E-dating. It can be fun, and I totally know how you like answering questions ;), but what about when people actually respond? I posted a little for fun last summer, but then I got replies and didn’t know what to do and didn’t write back. Kinda made me feel pretty guilty…Somehow I think you’d have a much better idea of what to say and are in a better place than I was then.
Personality matching is silly…but taste in literature, movies, and music can be very telling. 🙂
Ok, misheard song lyrics:
Most famous:
Excuse me, while I kiss this guy
While that may be the future fun of our lovely webhostess, it’s not the real wording to that song. Of course it’s:
Excuse me, while I kick this pie
…er, no, it’s:
Excuse me, why lie stick tis goi
No, no, that makes no sense!
Well, find out the real story here
That reminds me of the old story about the teacher who played a recording of “Silent Night” for the class and asked they to each draw the nativity scene. Looking over one example she asked the child, “Who’s the fat gentlemen behind the manger?” The child replied, “That’s Round John Virgin.”
LOL One summer during college I worked on an assembly line making hamburger and hot dog buns … I worked next to this HUGE guy who would sing the Human League song … Don’t You Want Me, but would say the common misunderstood lyric of Don’t You Worry, Baby … I never rolled my eyes or shook my head so much as that summer !!
Oh the other hand … the song … Undercover Angel, by Alan O’Day … there is a lyric that goes … Undercover Angel, Midnight Fantasy … I used to think it was … Undercover Angel, Midnight Tennessee.
i must be as dumb as i look–
i’d swear the line is
“rises like a leopress over the Serengeti”
you know–female leopard?
the shape, the colouration, yada yada yada…
anyway,
there really IS a bathroom on the right…
:p
Krap.
Yes,
I am.
uh…yea…Amy…its 10/1. You ARE talkin about our golf outing, right?
‘Kenna
Well Amy, As much as I hate to rub it in your face…Oh who am I kidding :-)….I had the distinct pleasure of seeing Howie Day live a couple of years ago when he opened for Tori Amos….Thankfully, I didn’t take him up on his reuqest that I join him in his tour bus, I’ve heard that could be a dangerous proposition…
Another miscellaneous note: I notice on your site that it is 30 days until Next Golf Outing….Is that our golf outing??? If it is, it;s not for another 37 days…Hope you bought tickets for the right weekend…..
(Heh! I think if I listen closely, I can hear Amy screaming…Krap!…KRAAAAPPPPPP!!!!!!!)
Laura
Amy, thanks for cracking me up again. Forget being a lawyer…how about standup comedy?
Naw, if it turns out he’s taking a stage in the area and that I’m not just hearing hopeful rumor …
I’ll have the tickets covered !!
And don’t ask or offer any speculation as to how !! 🙂
*snicker* *snicker*
EXCELLENTE sis…I’ll have to buy his music so that I can yell out stuff like “FREEBURDDDD!!!””
Do ya think we need tix in advance?
I’m talkin to laura t’night so…let me know…
mwaaaa!!!!
M
Isn’t he ‘Kenna ?? Way kute !! Not that I’m stalking him or anything, but there’s a possibility he might have a show sorta, kinda in your neck of the woods the weekend when Laura and I will be passing out, ummm, I mean … sleeping like angels, on your floor. If that’s the case … we’ve got plans on Thursday night !!! 🙂 (Yes people, when The New Three Stooges assemble, it’s just like college, weekends start on Thursday.)
OMG !!! Look who came out of the wood work !! 🙂
the idating thing…hmm…most of us are waaayyy too busy to deal with getting out there to “meet” someone. Its not a bad device to see who’s looking…
but…I would like the real world experience more…
Howie=KEEEUUTTEEE!!!
‘kenna
Dear Amy — Why would you even assume that ALL “Asscar” (real cute, NOT!) NASCAR-loving people are overweight, out-of-shape buttheads. I guess I’ll never get you to change your mind about racing. Too bad. There are some (in your words) phreaking way kute drivers out there. Your loss.
Hey Amy – The fake rescue calls thing is quite good, although I’d have to admit, it seems a bit excessive (cost wise), if you’ve got a really good friend (Shaft) then they’ll bail you out when and if you need bailing out – why resort to using a service where 5 people with doctorates in linguistics dream up excuses – hell, I know folks that couldn’t string two sentences together but are pretty damn good at it…you don’t need a PhD in Linguistics to make up excuses – girls have been doing this for years and I’d say they’ve got it nailed down to a T.
As for Howie Day – he gets my vote, if he can play acoustic guitar and sing…..what more do you need…..as for lyrics….Clapton was right up there on the ‘where in d hell did that lyric come from’ – White Room being a prime example…of course he was prolly out of his head on coke at the time….I guess we can ask any Doctors out there what part of the brain becomes so stimulated by the use of recreational drugs that a musician can come up with very strange / funny lyrics…I don’t think it’s all down to being right hemisphere dominated either (but hey, what would I know)..
Hmmm Internet dating. Two words OHMI GAWD – what are you thinking…..lets be honest, the whole Internet dating thing…lets see (cynical analysis) I would postulate that when you put your information into the on-line questionnaire (purported to ascertain your vital stats, hobbies, interests, profession, blah, blah, blah with a view to getting your ideal date) the process by which you are matched with your IDEAL date would look something like this:
Is she heterosexual?
Yes
………………………
Yeah, yeah I know you’ve stated that it matches you up with people who have a similar personality to yours but…..a computer is never going to know how ‘you’ feel, it’s never going to understand what makes ‘you’ tick. It can only match based on the answers given and that of someone else following the above question. I guess it gets into the whole philosophical / existentialistic argument…..I think, therefore I am….sure, it’s nice to be with someone who shares the same value system etc….but there does have to be something that challenges both of you – life’s experiences are different, regardless of your commonalities and as Sarte once wrote *and IÓ¶e changed the pronoun usage*:
Woman simply is. Not that she is simply what she conceives herself to be, but she is what she wills, and as she conceives herself after already existing × as she wills to be after that leap towards existence. Woman is nothing else but that which she makes of herself. That is the first principle of existentialism. And this is what people call its Ô³ubjectivity,Ô using the word as a reproach against us. But what do we mean to say by this, but that woman is of a greater dignity than a stone or a table? For we mean to say that woman primarily exists × that woman is, before all else, something which propels itself towards a future and is aware that it is doing so. Woman is, indeed, a project which possesses a subjective life, instead of being a kind of moss, or a fungus or a cauliflower. Before that projection of the self nothing exists; not even in the heaven of intelligence: woman will only attain existence when she is what she purposes to be. Ask yourself are you wasting your time doing this – after all, you’re a very smart woman who based on looks alone would have no issues whatsoever finding an engaging soul mate when ‘you’ are ready…..when you find that someone who shares your value system like family, integrity and loyalty yet….doesn’t hamper Amy in becoming self-defined – drop a line to the rest of us b’cos we might want to get his brothers details 🙂
Bottom line: Don’t be a cauliflower 🙂
c.