Hair Follicy
Got a haircut yesterday. Took a shower. Took too much shampoo in my hand.
Rookie Mistake!
Early Morning Leak
Was brushing my teeth this morning and I heard my landline ring, a little before 7:30AM. Who the hell would be calling me this early? And, why the hell would they be calling me? Everybody I know, knows that I’m anti-phone calls (text/email only please). I shrugged it off and continued my (safe this time!) dental hygiene practices.
I just listened to the voicemail left for me. It was from an older sounding lady who lives downtown asking some other guy to take a look at the leak underneath her sink that she mentioned yesterday (supposedly). I have two thoughts in the matter… 1) It’s either a real leak under her sink or 2) I’m way out of touch with sexual inuendos that are being used these days.
Off to work…
Floss Whiplash
Yesterday morning, that’s when it happened. Woke up normally at the crack of 1pm. Checked my email. Went into the bathroom, got out my floss and started the regular routine of Jiffy Lubing my teeth. That’s when I felt a pinch in the back of my neck.
Dude, think I actually pinched a nerve back there… again! This happened about a year ago. Last time I blamed it on new pillows, which I did have and it was in my lower back, but this time, flossing? What the hell?
So, obviously, my sleep sucked… horribly. This time I didn’t wake up in the middle of the night because of the pain, gasping and sweating because of a wrong turn I made while asleep.
I feel a lot better now, here’s hoping it doesn’t get worse. Gonna go running tonight as usual, fingers crossed.
Non-Alcoholic
Yesterday I left work a bit early, hiked over to Whole Foods Market near Central Square and waited in line for a little more than an hour. What did I do a few minutes before waiting? I bought a couple bottles of wine from Caduceus Cellars of the Merkin Vineyard in Arizona.
Why would I do that? Because I got those bottles of wine signed by Maynard James Keenan! That’s correct, Maynard effin James effing Keenan, only one of the greatest vocalists to exist. My world would not be the same if not for Tool and A Perfect Circle.
Met him face-to-face, finally, up close, no more staring at the stage. Total eye contact and word exchanges. I wanted to say all this stuff to him about his music, his lyrics, and the way they’ve molded so much of me. In the end I said a couple words and tried not to look like a dork (which I’m sure I failed at brilliantly).
I just hope he didn’t recognize me as a non-drinker… probably would’ve bitten my head off. I wonder how long these wines are good for or when they’ll peak.
Valedicborian
Got back last night from my sister’s high school graduation. Realized when I got home that I hadn’t been home since Thanksgiving. That’s a while. What’s changed since I was gone? Well my sister absconded my nice attic room, I have been relocated into the basement. Not that big of a deal, but.. it was my room! Like it matters, she’s going off to college in a couple months anyway, ha.
Her graduation was good, for the first 10 minutes, after her name was called I was bored outta my mind. I just tried to concentrate on what I was reading. It was tough, families just wouldn’t stop yelling like idiots when their child’s name was called, even though they were told specifically not to. Oh well, people are idiots wherever you go. Also, there were three valedictorians, two of them gave speeches. And just because you’re smart enough to be valedictorian, it doesn’t necessarily mean you’re smart enough to write a good speech and speak well in public. (But then again, I’m dumb and can’t write well either, I should probably keep my mouth shut).
Was there two days and two nights… got three slurpess altogether, it was awesome. Much easier to find a 7-11 in Virginia than Massachusetts by the way.
The time I was there, the Internet and TV was down. An hour before I left, the Comcast guy came and fixed it all up (lightning storm a few days ago, house shook with the close-by lightning strike, Internet/TV went down right after). I had to tether my phone to the home PC so that I could get my Internet fix. Thank gawd for my unlimited data plan and Bluetooth modem knowledge.
Got home and now my cable and Internet are down. What the hell? Stupid RCN. The cable guy is coming today, between 2pm-5pm. So I have to leave work early (group lead was totally cool with me taking a half day, even asked me to take a long lunch with the guys, I love my job, but I skipped lunch anyway). If this problem happens again, I’m switching back to Comcast, nuts to saving ~$40/ month by keeping RCN. Unless it was the all the rain up here, then I will forgive, but I’ve got a feeling that lightning isn’t going to strike twice for me.
Bosnia, I Yearn For Thee
Anybody know of any places to eat in/around Boston that serve Bosnian food? I’ve got a friend in Columbus, OH that won’t shut up about all this amazing Bosnian food there. Yeah, Columbus effing Ohio. Bosnian desserts too, so help me out oh great Gods of the Interweb!
RCNCast
It looks like this past week my apartment building’s Comcast lease expired or at least the part that required the building to only stick to Comcast. Since last week to yesterday, I have received three flyers/letters from RCN with some great deals to switch over to subscribing to TV and Internet through them. Finally, effing capitalism is working.
The cable guy is coming to my place later today, here’s hoping things just “work”, I really don’t want any hassle with Internet/TV, which I’ve had every time, except for this last time when I signed up with Comcast two years ago. I even called Comcast, saying RCN is giving me an amazing deal, please match it or even come close to what they’re offering. I think they shaved off $6/month from my bill for the next 6 months.
Called RCN yesterday, set up an appointment for today, and will now be saving ~$30/month. The only slight bummer? My download speed will go from 12Mbps to 10Mbps (big whoop) and my upload from 2Mbps to 1Mbps (this one kinda hurts). Guess I’ll just have to use a more stringent QoS setting in my router now for my VoIP landline, which I don’t mind if it saves me from Comcast’s raping prices.
I hate monopolies.
Verizon needs to get on the ball, they’re deploying their sexy FiOS outside of Boston, only in the suburbs. What the hell? Boston is a tech hub and Verizon is being a dick about not expanding within the city. Supposedly the city has repeatedly asked for deployment negotiations as well.
Twoflower’s Company
Dealing with insurance companies is such a pain and so is dealing with hospital billing departments. Lets see, how many different departments did I call…
- MIT Dental
- MIT Accounts
- MGH Oral Surgery
- MGH Billing
- MGH Patient Services
- Blue Cross Claims
- Delta Dental Claims
I’ll find out in 30-45 days if all my phone calls actually did something. By something I mean my doctor sending the right information to the right insurance company which then accepts that claim so that I don’t have to fork over cash for something that I’ve been paying premiums on for a long while.
Oh yeah, I’m not even counting the dealing with the pharmacy and my prescription coverage.
Stolen Wisdom
My wisdom tooth was ripped out in twelve pieces this past Friday. My face hurt like hell the entire weekend, ibuprofen barely works and vicodin takes forever to kick in. Now I’m at work, popping Advil in a tic-tacs sort of way.
This sucks, it looks like I’m holding a basketball inside my mouth.
Hurry up and heal, stupid body.
Non-Kosher Flu
A co-worker just went home early because his 2 year old daughter had to be taken to the emergency room, maybe because she has the swine flu. First of all, I really hope she gets better, apparently she was sick all weekend. Second… crap on me.
All of us around here converse a lot and have lunch together and we’ve been working around each other a lot today, so all of us here may be screwed.
If I die… bury me with my iPod, Kindle, and comic books.