People Are Funny Sometimes…
So our flight outta Boston was delayed this morning and there were a ton of people on it who were getting connecting flights to places like St. Thomas, Montego Bay, Antigua, etc etc…
As soon as we landed, the cell phones were flipped out and they were on the phone with US Air to find out about re-booking or what they were going to do to fix the problem etc etc etc…
Geez people, why not wait til we at least park at the gate and you find out if your flights have actually left already? Are you not aware that there is always a ripple effect and they will delay flights leaving if there are a large number of people on another flight which is delayed in getting there. We are not the only flight, there are lots of other flights.
Relax, you are on a vacation! Stop stressing out!
but yeah… it is 12:30, I arrived in Philly at 10:30 and I am leaving on an 8:30 flight.
I would go rent a car and drive to Westfield, PA(Middle of F’in nowhere by the way) but that will take me 6 hours, and not like i would be able to actually do any work once I get there, so screw it…. I will sit here, eat my free dinner later on and surf the web….
Good Ole Bentley…
Posted by nedster in Entertainment, Fun, Movies, Stuff on 2007/02/17
Kinda funny video by a kid at Bentley…
Humor… Radio in MN…
Posted by nedster in Entertainment, Opinion, Stuff, Travel on 2007/02/15
That accent you heard in Fargo, yeah, totally represents things out here.
Not to say that people do not make fun of the Boston accent, but to listen to 3 or 4 people talking about things on the radio and hearing that inflection and phrase….
“ohhh yaaaa” repeatedly over and over again while discussing pop stars and Hollywood is rather humorous to listen to, and then you throw in some uber christian sub content to it and you have a grand old time.
ALMOST!!! I Almost Let It Happen…
I almost let laziness and desperation allow me to completely abandon my personal standards for dinner and food…. There is absolutely NOTHING around here to eat for dinner, fast food is basically it! Not even a Chili’s or Applebee’s around here!
So yeah… I ended up getting a Little Caesars pizza and some crazy bread…..
However, I almost let my standards drop due to curiosity… similar to last week when I pulled into the wrong parking lot and almost ate at a Red Lobster instead of going to the correct parking lot, tonight, I almost went to a Long John Silvers tonight.
My God I am from NEW ENGLAND, I have always refused to eat at a seafood fast food restaurant chain, and I almost let myself… I was strong though… I resisted the laziness and found something else… not exactly healthy… but something that does not compromise my own personal standards of places to eat….
I couldn’t even find a local place to eat that did not look totally rat or cockroach infested or cost $50 a plate for dinner.
RIDICULOUS!
The Mystery and Addiction of Certain Movies…
Posted by nedster in Entertainment, Movies, Personal, Review on 2007/02/12
While it may have been midnight when I rolled into the Holiday Inn here in the lube state, I turned on the television for background noise while I set the room up and was going to head to be since I needed to be up in 7 hours to get ready for work….
but the channel was not on that generic auto-reset station shilling the pay movies for the hotel… it was on something else… I actually have no idea what the actual station is, but it has one of those movies… you know the ones… you stumble across them all the time while skimming through the stations and they take hold of you and they have some mystical ability to draw you in and make you watch it no matter what the situation… you may own the movie on DVD and it is sitting on a shelf 15 feet away, but you sit and watch it on TV anyway… you sit through the commercials and the edited out words and any other inappropriate things… and you watch… religiously every time… not sure why since you know the movie inside and out… every line… every scene… the ending… and everything…
Tonight it was “The Natural”, but another movie that does it to me is the Shawshank Redemption, as well as Scent of a Woman, Happy Gilmore, Evolution and a couple others that I cannot remember off the top of my head… What is it about these movies? I have no idea.. but I wish I knew….
How Do You Start Off a Crappy Day?
Go down to breakfast, get a nice big heaping plate of fresh sliced fruit and some yogurt and a fresh made waffle with strawberries on it.
Then, on the way to your table, trip and drop the waffle on the floor with the strawberries and whipped cream down, and then when you get to the table with the fruit, you take a nice big bite and there is the very strong flavor of dirt on the fruit, the cantaloupe, the honeydew, the pineapple, and the strawberries.
and the OJ had waaay too much pulp, some pulp is ok, but when you need to chew your OJ because of the volume of pulp… that is just wrong and gross.
but the danish that I took with me out the door was tasty at least, so that slightly made up for it all.
I Saw The Best License Plate!
“I KNOW”
that was it!
I think it would be perfect for me!!
Crack Den Red Roof Inn
So I am in a crack den Red Roof Inn, although since this is the midwest right now, it is probably more likely a meth den more than a crack den.
The door to my room has previously been busted in by the cops or the DEA or someone since I can tell by the mark where the battering ram hit the door…..
I am pleasantly surprised at the time though, it only took me 9 hours to get here from Boston, and that included 2 stops for gas, and dropping off a kid in Hartford on my way.
That being said, i am pretty disappointed in the PT Cruiser I have as a rental, while it was excellent at doing donuts in the parking lot of the Red Roof Inn, it is very poor on gas, 2.5 tanks of gas to get here. I know my car could have done it in probably 1.5 tanks, this thing only gets about 23 or 24 MPG, pretty pathetic if you ask me!
I drove through PA on 84, and then 80 to get here. PA is pretty damn depressing to drive through in the winter. I hope it is better during the summer, otherwise I have pity on it.
ummmmm oh yeah… I felt kind bad for the girl at Subway in some PA town where I stopped for gas and got a sub for dinner, she was short and cute but you could totally tell she was pissed off at the two girls who were working the gas station register partially because they were doing basically nothing, and partially because you could tell they were the “popular girls” in terms of a high school type of thing, but that was only because they were probably ho’s, they looked like ho’s, and they had all the sleazy looking “gangsta” guys stopping by to say high and flirt with them.
I so wish I had a black light to check this bed out before I go to sleep in it… although it is probably best that I do not have that otherwise I would probably not sleep!
Changing on a Dime… or Nickel… or Penny Even…
So yeah.. not driving to Allentown, PA today… instead I am driving to Cleveland and then doing an install tomorrow and then going to Allentown for Wed and part of Thurs and then to Birdsboro, PA for part of Thurs and Fri and then driving home….
YAH!!!
ROAD TRIP!!!
At least they increased the mileage reimbursement at the start of the year…..
So I Got a Corporate Award…
This was supposed to be presented to me at the meeting I was supposed to be at in AZ a couple weeks ago but I ended up out at a customer site in CA instead.
Now, I know what it is supposed to look like, but the first thought that came to my mind was….
“wow, this looks just like a really funky dildo”
“Ned ****** – Winner’s Circle 2007”
Any suggestions on where to keep this to best collect the dust that will accumulate on it?