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05 August, 2003 at 09:32 AM by Ren | Permalink

For lack of a better post, (yes, I know it's been years, fuck you too) I'm going to list a few things that always make me smile, so screw you if it gets too saccharine.

1. Hearing my little brother say "hi squirrel" when I say "hey nut!"
2. Krysdol at work, when she hangs up the phone and says bye, always sounds like she's about to bust out laughing
3. Rollermog, when he says that he loves crack (oh crack? I didn't know!)
4. Printing something on the Tektronix Laser Printer; that thing rocks
5. Scaring the pants off MALICE when she thinks I'm after her job; she's half right, I'm just trying to get her fired
6. JReese when he gets really, really drunk
7. Making fun of JKD to his face and he doesn't even realize it
Man, I'm bitter and evil, aren't I?
8. listening to Fostin's crazy stories about life in Prague
9. Hearing that retarded giggle that Wonderbread does when he says something inadvertently funny that makes him laugh too
10. Knowing Brunette Wonderbread has gotten over the whole axe murderer thing
11. Spending time trying to figure out a nickname for Blythe on this site
12. Hearing Freaky say anything with an extra "ur" or "er" story (like organize, marcus, or uh...morning)
13. Getting to work on time
14. No slow moving cotton trucks on the road
15. Flat Dr. Pepper
16. Romulan Ale
17. Getting to the Country Luau and getting a Shiner Bock without even having to ask for it
18. Sleeping in, til like 4 in the afternoon after a long night out
19. Putting La Corn Chip (now renamed to Slim Jim) in his place
20. Breakfast on a Bun from Whataburger. Best thing to eat when you're piss drunk
21. Figuring out how to do some layout trick with Cascading Style Sheets (yes, I am a web nerd)
22. Jedi, especially Obi-Wan and Anakin
23. Matty D shirtless, well actually naked would be better, but then again, we're just talking about what makes me smile...not what makes me...nevermind.
24. Good Saturday Night Live skits (they come few and far between, yo)
25. Anything remixed by Thunderpuss

I think that's enough for right now. I did say just a few. Now I have to go back to work because I'm busy.

Friday

08 August, 2003 at 11:05 AM by Ren | Permalink

Seeing as how it's Friday and I haven't had much to say this week (I've been busy, yo. Cut me some slack!) I'm going to cop out again, and do a Friday Five.

1. What's the last place you traveled to, outside your own home state/country?
   I had to think about this one because it would be really pathetic if I haven't left the state in years...but then I realized that the last place I travelled to outside Texas was Sunland Park, New Mexico in Late February, 2003. We went to the casino there. There, so not only did I leave the state recently, but we went to go gamble...well technically I didn't gamble, since the thought of playing slot machines gets old real fast (at least to me). So I stayed outside with my baby brother, Nut. But we still left the state!
2. What's the most bizarre/unusual thing that's ever happened to you while traveling?
   Well, it's not really that unusual, since things get killed on the highway all the time, but one time on I-10 on the way to El Paso we saw a gruesome killing. A stag ran out into the highway and apparently got destroyed by a semi. Here's the weird part: on the shoulder we saw the hindquarters and the disemboweled entrails of said stag splattered. No big deal, right? Well, the truck apparently took this stag's body down the road with him, because leading from the bloody entrails for about half a mile was a huge red mark all over the highway. At the end of this half mile of carnage, there was the poor stag's front half, right in between both lanes of traffic, motionless and still as "deer-in-the-headlights" as it could possibly be. Quite tragic, indeed. But also sickeningly funny when you think about it. Come on, you know we all revel in the misfortunes of others...why else do we love it when celebrities break up?
3. If you could take off to anywhere, money and time being no object, where would you go?
   Australia. It just seems like somewhere where I would love to visit. Plus Koalas and Kangaroos. And where else can you ask someone if their baby was ever abducted by a dingo? Too right, lad. I wanna go there.
4. Do you prefer traveling by plane, train or car?
   I go almost everywhere by car, never been anywhere on train (although I really want to) and I fly whenever I can afford it. I'd have to say that so far I prefer traveling by car despite the long travel time. Planes make me wicked nervous.
5. What's the next place on your list to visit?
   Your mother's bed, baby. YEAH. SEXY SEXY!

Algunas Cosas

13 August, 2003 at 10:29 AM by Ren | Permalink

Goddammit. I had this awesome post ready to go and then my f'n browser killed it.

!@#$%$#^$%*#!@#$!@#$!^$%&*%(^(%^^!!!

Anyway, a few things.

First off, my life is a sitcom. Seriously. All I need is the jaunty theme song and live studio audience. This morning I was late (we all know this is a common occurrence, but I had a legit reason today!) because I got out to my car and noticed something was slightly amiss. I couldnt' figure out right away, but something wasn't quite right. Then it dawned on me. My front license plate was missing. Clean off. Just gone. Two holes where the screws held it in.

In true comic fashion, I crouched under Ronessa to see if it was there. No luck. I looked under all the cars around me. Nothing. Then I paced the parking lot in the vain hopes that it would be there somewhere. Not a thing. So after this twenty minute excursion through the wilds of the parking lot I realize that I'm late for work and get in Ronessa and start the drive.

Only I'm going slow the whole way. Why? Well duh, isn't it obvious? I'm looking for my stupid license plate all over the highway to Kingsville. No luck. Stupid car.

I guess it's oK though. Because my registration is up in September, so if I need to get new plates, I can get them then. It won't be an added expense.

Ronessa: Oh well, it's all for the best Ren.
Ren: how do you figure?
Ronessa: Well, I hated that thing all up in my grill anyway.
Ren: I think it was slimming. After all...you know how much junk is in your trunk...
Ronessa: What? Bitch. NO you di'n't. The ONLY reason there be any junk up in my trunk is 'cuz yo' lazy ass to lazy to take it out. Bitch. That's right. I called you a bitch, bitch. You know why? Cuz who takes you home every night? That's right. I do. Who takes you everywhere you need to go? mmmhmmm, I do. And who's gonna take you home when I decide I'm too good for all that mess? thasswhatithought. No one. So you my bitch now, bitch.
Ren: uh, sorry?
Ronessa: It's all good. I just had to get the attitude out. You haven't been mentioning me lately, and I know I got fans. They all about the Janet Ronessa Black.
Seriously though, Ren. You are my bitch.

In other news, I have new guilty pleasure. The O.C. Shut up. It's good. Seriously. Shut up. Come on, prime time soap operas are everyone's guilty pleasure. Melrose Place, anyone? Anyway, this show is fairly decent two episodes in. Plus, CWBs in wifebeaters. Hello, nurse! Also, they recap it on TWoP, so you know it can't be THAT bad. Oh God. I'm justifying my behavior. That's not good. But CWBs in wifebeaters. Hello! I can smell the HoYay already. And the bad slash can't be far behind. Oh no. Never mind. The bad slash is already here.

One point of contention though. Tate Donovan as a father? Seriously. Has it been *that* long since Love Potion No. 9? He's not THAT old is he? Tate, how did you get cast as a father? How?! Just a mere 7 years ago you were the voice of the strongest man alive! And now, a father on a soap opera. The humanity of it all.

Right. Well. Now that I've thouroughly embarrassed myself. I need to go. And no Rollermog. I'm not going to read any of that slash.

Sorry, I had to

15 August, 2003 at 01:37 PM by Ren | Permalink

This Friday Five is so me!

1. How much time do you spend online each day?
   Uh. Seriously. Like, every waking moment. I work on the web for a living. And since I have no time for an outside life anymore, I spend all that time here too. But I'm actually away from my computer a lot too. So just leave a message. Ita Dita Hi Ho and all that.
2. What is your browser homepage set to?
   At home, my personal website, Tastawerk Central; at work, my life's passion Texas A&M University-Kingsville. Don't judge the uni. site though. I'm going to redesign it in my own image soon enough.
3. Do you use any instant messaging programs? If so, which one(s)?
   Uh, yeah. I use all of them. AIM, ICQ, MSN, Y!, and IRC. Thank you very much.
4. Where was your first webpage located?
   I still remember the address. It was www.geocities.com/BourbonStreet/1701, and it had FRAMES! The humanity of it all. That was way back in 1996 (hence the tagline on this website 'Nearly entertaining since 1996').
5. How long have you had your current website?
   Since I technically haven't ever stopped working on my website, it just moves from host to host (like a Xenomorph Alien, yo), I would say I've had my current website since 1996, so that means it's uh...7 years. Holy crap. I'm lame. I've had a website for 7 years. If you count how long I've had the tastawerk.net domain, that would only be 3 years.

Anyway, I have to get going, 'Storm's a comin' annie!' Yeah. Another hurricane. Can you believe it? It was a total shocker to me too. I got home from work last night and all of a sudden they're all "Tropical Storm Erika!" Had to be a latina, right? All that saucy attitude. She's probably from Cuba, and a bitch. I'll tell you all about the flooding soon enough.

Love, Peace and Afro-grease, y'all.

What a waste

16 August, 2003 at 05:12 PM by Ren | Permalink

Dude, another f'n Tropical Storm heads this way and weenies out at the last minute.

Where's the rain? Where's the thunder? Where's the wind?

Not here, apparently. It's f'n bright as all get out today. Funk dat. This is lame. I'm so over the storm already. Stupid storm, getting my hopes up for rain, and then copping out like that. WEAK.

F'n weak.

uh

22 August, 2003 at 12:10 PM by Ren | Permalink

Yeah, so another week has gone by without me posting anything of note. Um. Sorry. Nothing interesting has happened to me. I've been so busy with work that I haven't had time to concoct any interesting stories for you to read about. It's oK though, only five people read this f'n thing anyway.

Wednesday was Nut (that's my baby brother's)'s birthday. He's 8. Yeah. I have an 8 year old brother. I have to find his happy ass a gift at some point today. Lord only knows what I'll get him. I'll have to think about it. Any suggestions? and no rollermog. No Porn.

That's next year.

Surprisingly enough, Wonderbread called me last night for the first time in I'd say...a month. Yeah. I was pretty fucking shocked too. It wasn't exactly a month, but it was pretty goddamn close. It was a decent conversation; though most of it was me talking about the weirdest shit I could think of. Crazy.

Today's Friday Five is a big hunk of crap, so I'm not doing this week in protest or something.

Oh yeah. My computer at work died yesterday. Fucking virus. It's back, though I've just spent the last hour and a half downloading patches and shit for Windoze. Oh well, my own fault really for not keeping on top of the "critical" updates.

Learned that lesson the hard way.

I think that's about it. Everything else is pretty good otherwise. Going to San Antonio tomorrow for parties for Nut and whatnot, so I'll ttyl.

heh

25 August, 2003 at 09:25 AM by Ren | Permalink

I was going to do this long, drawn out entry on how depressed I got this weekend, but instead, something comical happened to me on Sunday, so I figured I'd write about that instead. Besides, who really wants to hear me bitch some more about the same old thing? And really? do you want to hear about Nut's birthday, or how much I dislike mom's potsmoking boyfriend? Or how I'm totally confused about Wonderbread? Probably not. My misfortunes are a lot more fun than that. So here we go:

Sunday. I got hungry, right? But I didn't feel like going all out and cooking like mad, so I looked in my pantry to see what kind of low-maintenance food I could prepare. "Oooh, pasta!" I thought to myself, while I was looking at the prep times. Rock on.

I boil the water and whatnot, and uh this is where the madcap zaniness occurs. See, those little silver things under the burners that ostensibly catch grease and detritus from your cooking endeavours? Yeah, well I hadn't cleaned mine in a while. It sort of caught fire. By sort of, I mean, engulf my stove in flames. The sad part is, when my stove caught fire, I just laughed at how ridiculously silly this all was. Then I realized I had fire in my house. I threw water on my burning stove and stamped it out with the towel that remains in my kitchen for just such an emergency, giggling madly about how stupid I really am.

Anyway, I finished making the pasta on another, much cleaner burner, cursing myself because I have to buy new shiny things for my stove. On the upside, I can probably find them at Linens 'N Things, so it's not like no good came from this.

It sort of smells like burning in my house now, though.

All this during Sex and the City! Well, at least I wasn't without entertainment last night.

!!!

25 August, 2003 at 09:53 AM by Ren | Permalink

These guys are after my own heart.

Possibly Rollermog's too.

PNG!

26 August, 2003 at 08:47 AM by Ren | Permalink

Howcome no one ever told me about the transparent goodness of PNGs? Why? Oh GOD WHY? I LOVE THEM!!! THEYRE LIKE CRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK.

It's like, transparency to the Gods. Better than GIFs. I LOVE IT!

Right. Ok. We're playing nice today even though I really feel like venting.

So where do I start?

28 August, 2003 at 05:05 AM by Ren | Permalink

So where do I start?

Tonight ended something that was really special in my life. Yeah, I know, that was the same last year too. But you know what? This time it's sticking. I made my line in the sand, he refused to cross it, and that was that. I said you either get me or you don't and he chose don't. I can't refuse that. I really should be a lot sadder than I am, but I can't help but feel that this is over. Seriously over.

Fuck him (or rather, I should say, everyone else gets to fuck him EXCEPT me) and his lack of vision for not seeing what a good thing that it would have been. That sounds a lot more bitter than I really am. I'm really not feeling anything except for numb. I made my case clear and he chose the path without me. It's his choice to make, not mine.

I'm not sure I want to do anything on my birthday which is coming up on Monday; I suppose I'll cross that bridge when I get there. Don't expect any favors from me for a while. Everyone that owes me money better pony up soon. I'll be calling those in right quick. Or maybe not, I don't know.

It's a weird time and I don't know what I should be feeling. It's like I just ended the biggest relationship in my life and it wasn't ever a real relationship. No titles, no nothing.

I told him to call me when he grows up which will probably be in 2055 when I'm 21. heh. It's your loss, not mine, pal. I think that's all I have to say.

I turned off the comments post, so if you have something to say email me. G'nite.

uh

28 August, 2003 at 10:58 AM by Ren | Permalink

blah blah blah, confused today, blah blah blah, thinking about doing stupid things, blah blah blah, don't involve OxyContin though, blah blah blah, that's a plus.

yadda yadda can't make up mind, yadda yadda, very pensive, yadda yadda, don't know what to do.

blah blah blah, think I might leave work early, blah blah blah, up til 5 this morning, blah blah blah, tired and need rest.

yadda yadda, anyone have birthday ideas? yadda yadda I don't. yadda yadda think its going to be a lonely birthday.

blah blah blah you suck blah blah blah and not who you think i'm talking about blah blah blah i'm very hungry.

going to lunch now, yadda yadda.

They left out how I like to cane!

28 August, 2003 at 01:37 PM by Ren | Permalink

I'm not sure I agree with this ruling. Parts are accurate, but the thing that totally got left out is how as Singapore, everyone deserves a good caning!

You're Singapore!
You're small but well-built and people are a little afraid of you.  You might even walk with a cane that people find somewhat menacing, rather than seeing it as an aid to your mobility.  You like an urban lifestyle, with little time for nature or the more rural pleasures of life.  This fast-paced lifestyle suits you, and you wish everyone around you would just shape up.
Take the Country Quiz at the Blue Pyramid

blah blah blah i'm old!

29 August, 2003 at 09:51 AM by Ren | Permalink

well not yet, but we're getting there fast. Anyway, yesterday was surprisingly good. Go me for being mega-resilient! +5 and stuff.

I dont' feel like forming independent thought this morning, so we're Friday Fiving.

1. Are you going to school this year?
   Nope. But I work at one!
2. If yes, where are you going (high school, college, etc.)? If no, when did you graduate?
   I graduated from Mary Carroll High School in 1994 (Yes. 1994) and Texas A&M University-Kingsville in May, 2000. There is nothing wrong with taking 6 years to graduate from college. Shut up. Dad took 20. My grenmo didn't do it until she was 65. So there.
3. What are/were your favorite school subjects?
   Band. Duh, I'm a music major. I was also pretty good at history. In college, I thought sociology was pretty neat too. In grade school I was an exemplary reader. I can still tear through a book in a day or so. I'm a terrific speller (just ask anyone I know when I correct their IMs or emails) and I pretend I like english. I am a horrific writer though. Can't write to save my life as is clearly evidenced by this web journal. I have this underlying desire for biology too, but don't tell anyone. I pretend I'm not scientific at all!
4. What are/were your least favorite school subjects?
   Math. Oh God, MATH. I sucked at all forms of arithmetic. Except word problems. I kicked ass at those, go figure.
5. Have you ever had a favorite teacher? Why was he/she a favorite?
   Anne Bartram. My 6th, 7th and 8th grade science teacher. She was super cool. And she made me like sciences and stuff. Great teacher. Everyone should have one of those

Right. Wish me a happy birthday, it's on Monday.

Yay Blue October!

31 August, 2003 at 12:18 PM by Ren | Permalink

Went to the Blue October/Vertical Horizon show last night at Concrete Street. Dude, Blue October rocked just like always, and Freaky and I even saw the two cute girls we met at the last show. So they made space for us up at the front. How much does that rock?

One down point about the concert, No Breakfast After Ten. What the frick is up with that? That's the song that made those f'rs. Plus, it's close enough to my birthday for them to give me something special for it! Bastards!

High point of the concert: They got rid of Dwayne the bassist...you know, the one who replaced my boyfriend Matt. They replaced him with this ultra-hot chick named Piper. I'd so do her. And we all know my rules about girls! She's freaking hot, and she can slap the shit out of that bass. She rules like none other. I love it!

Afterwards, Freaky and I went to Bennigans to grab something to eat. Nice time last night. I got a little depressed during BO's song, Amazing. Mostly because I am that amazing, but I would love to pretend someone else is just as amazing. He's so ridiculously close, but so far all the same. Almost there. Almost there. Hopefully when he gets there, he'll remember just how wonderful I really am (i know that sounds so remarkably conceited, but it's really not. I just came to the realization the other day that I really am the good person I have always wanted to be) and we'll *finally* try. Lord knows the deal we have is much stronger than broken promises and stupid things like "growing up."

Ok, so my paw is coming to visit in a few hours with Nut, so I have to make myself pretty. I'll write more later.