Life in 3D

Apartment hunting blues

So, because of some really bad advice that I was stupid enough to listen to we decided against the apartment that we liked in San Francisco and started looking for a new one because we were under the impression that the place we had locked up at the beginning of August wasn’t safe.   

Now we find out that the advice we were give was totally wrong and we gave up a perfectly good place to live for no reason except that the person who gave us the advice thinks that everyone should live in the city for “the experience of it” and now we still don’t have a place to live when we have to be out there at the beginning of the month!! 

Can you say “Major stress”??  I knew you could. 

So, I now have to contact the apartment we were all set to move into in the first place and pray that they still have an apartment available.   That’s what I get for listening to someone who kept trying to convince me that living anywhere but in San Francisco was crazy because “the commute is sooo far from outside the city”.  It’s a thirty minute bus ride for pete’s sake, that isn’t very far as commutes go and since I’m not driving I can just read a book for that half hour. 

Now everyone keeps saying “You should try Craig’s list”, which I did until every apartment I found that would allow cats wanted a $1500 to $3000 deposit for a little piece of crap hole in the wall. 

Yay for freaking Craig’s list… whatever. 

I’m beginning to hate San Francisco and I’m not even out of Ohio yet. 

I want this shirt for my first day of school.

YouTube Smackdown

OK, so I saw this posting on Rachel Lucas’ website back in July, but since I didn’t have a blog then I couldn’t pass it on to the two people that probably look at this little spot in cyberspace.

Essentially, this is what is going on, Terrorist’s, Jihadist’s, fucking pieces of shit, whatever you want to call them are posting videos of attacks on our troops on YouTube and it’s bullshit.  They are using the internet to spew their pathetic hate and it’s up to people like you and me to put a stop to it.  As Munnin put it:

Jihad has come to the Internet. And YouTube is helping them. We’re not saying they set out to, but that’s the result. Jihadist videos have found a home there. Our enemies are using that website, and others, to spread propaganda and recruit new terrorists. YouTube allows anyone to post anything and doesn’t take it down unless someone objects, at which point they might take it down. 

Well, we object. We object to YouTube making a profit hosting videos celebrating the death of Coalition Soldiers (and pretty much everyone else) while washing their own hands of any responsibility. We’re out to smack those videos down, and maybe shake a little sense into YouTube in the process.

How, you ask, can I help stop these little piece-of-turd terrorists??

Simple, says I.  All you have to do is this:

1. Create an account on YouTube so that you are able to flag videos for deletion for hate speech and violence
2. Go to the Operation: You Tube Smackdown website to view the list of terrorist videos they have found.
3. Go to the video and mark it as hate speech.
4. Rinse and repeat as often as necessary.

If we the people don’t stand up in whatever way we can to these monsters posing as humans, then we will eventually be crushed under by their hate.

As is often attributed to Edmund Burke ‘The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.’

The Giant Cream Puff

I just had some of the best food EVER this afternoon, I am not kidding. The wife and I went to lunch with a friend of ours from work who had suggested we eat at a place in German Village she knows about called Schmidt’s.  I had never heard of it because I never get around German Village all that often since I am on the other side of town, and now I am ashamed of myself for not going over there more.

They have absolutely the best German food I have ever tried.   I have been to Germany and Austria so it’s not like I haven’t had any from the source and if you like polka music you can go over on Thursdays and enjoy the music with your food.

The restaurant has been in the family since it opened in 1886 and they make all their own sausages and deserts there (a lot of places will order their deserts from a desert company I found out). 

The creampuff that the wife and I shared was at least half a pound, I swear it’s true.  It was so good we ordered a second one and brought it home for later – it’s in the fridge now and it’s taking all of my iron will to leave it there. 

OK, so this is a ‘guess what happened today’ post, but their food was SOOOOOO good I had to write about it.  And even better, they have a website that you can use to order your food for delivery!!!

Think before you speak

Can I put into words how happy I am to be leaving the world of office cubicles and going back to art? Probably not, but I’ll try.  I am so happy I could just piss myself with joy and the main reason is some of the stupid crap I have to hear on the other side of the wall from me. The girl that sits over there has 15 minute conversations about her cell phone’s ring tones… WTF??

Not only does she talk non-stop, but every time she coughs she sounds like she is hacking up a hairball and then – because she is stupid – she says “Bless me”.

HELLO!! That’s what people are supposed to say TO you when you sneeze! Not when you COUGH! Some people are so stupid.

**UPDATE**

Just heard her on the phone talking to some employer about their injured worker “Can you tell me the exact approximate date they returned to work?”